The Weird Zone

Hi I'm lux a she/her (trans) 34yo poly lesbian and an aspie I Had a lot info here tumblr erased it (fuckers). Search my tagged about me or personal to find out more. .

[cheaphalloweencostume]

I remembered newspaper comics existed and googled Ziggy to laugh at how shitty it is and this caught me so off guard I nearly threw up

[punchsportsandpunchlines-deacti]

I worked at a small town newspaper at a time we changed our syndicate service so we stopped running ziggy and a woman came in to yell at us about how important ziggy is because it “really has its finger on the pulse of things”

[newtypezaku]

Maybe we need to go back to email

[moth-grrrl-mavis]

So Science SARU are a bunch of cowards?

[themainspoon]

A quick update for all my fellow r/196 migrants about how things are going back in the motherland. A saga has unfolded:

It began with a basic hornypost, and a comment under said post:

So, the fatal BreadSlice was getting clowned on in the replies, until:

So yeah, the more things change the more they stay the same I guess.

[elveny]

If your business can only be reached and all info about it only be accessed via Facebook or Instagram, know that it isn’t reachable or accessible AT ALL.

The whole metaverse can no longer be properly viewed without an account and I am definitely not making one just to see your contact info or opening hours.

Get a fucking WEBSITE. It can be just a static landing page with the relevant information. But get off the metaverse!

[lux-xxix]

[lux-xxix]

Visit Original Link

some new vaporwave  coming at you.

[where-is-my-man]

rebloging to my side blog

[the-big-mood]

[kaijuno]

[lux-xxix]

It's so funny to seeing ppl trying to bring this zombie back to life

[yourlocaladhder]

Like or reblog if 2025 was rough for you personally. I'm tryina see something.

[ankle-beez]

absolute wonder woman #15

[segamascott]

[excellentblurrecognition]

(@unwastelandunbaby)

[theforesteldritch]

‘We need more loud, unashamed queers’ yes but some of you can’t even seem to handle a bisexual woman liking men.

[theforesteldritch]

some of you can’t even handle not treating bi people as punching bags because you think our bisexuality makes us less queer than you.

[theforesteldritch]

’bi people center men’ well no, you’re perpetuating the idea that bi men are really just gay and bi women are really just straight. And also maybe hot take it’s not a bad thing for a person to be attracted to and love men and it doesn’t make said person’s love for and attraction to women any lesser. You just see bisexuals as tainted and dirty.

[valeriehalla]

what we lose when we reject porn

let me paraphrase an exchange that you’ve almost certainly seen play out many times by now:

“We can’t let the platforms we use bow to the pressure to ban porn, because conservatives consider queer existence itself to be inherently pornographic. They’ll use it as an excuse to ban all queer content.”

“That’s true, but don’t forget: porn is art, and art has a right to exist even if it is unwholesome smut.”

i agree completely with both of these points, for the record. they’re not mutually exclusive, and they are both relevant, persuasive reasons to support porn. they’re the only reasons you need, honestly. these points alone suffice for a robust defense of pornography!

i want to talk about something else, though.

i want to tell you what gets me about all this.

every time we create and enforce restrictions on pornography, we reify the idea of “pornography” as a meaningful and obligatory category. we are forced to say, for any given work of art, whether it is or isn’t pornography. if it is, we restrict it: we hide it away, we place odious limitations on where it can be seen and sold, and we never, ever talk about it in polite company.

but what about art that doesn’t fit neatly into one of these two boxes?

well, the answer is that, for the most part... it doesn’t get made! it’s just too risky. the benefits of making art in the public sphere are too huge to risk incorporating content or themes that might get your art labeled pornographic. and if you’ve decided from the get-go that you are making adult content, then there’s less than no incentive to waste your time and energy creating art that doesn’t fit cleanly into the box of “pornography”, because your opportunities to reach people outside of that box are so limited.

this sucks ass!!!

eroticism by and for itself is great. but art can be anything. art can be erotic among other things. imagine if you were only allowed to eat frosting straight out of the packet. imagine if you never got to taste a cake, because there’s massive financial disincentives to combine bread and frosting into one foodstuff!

anyone who’s into romance can tell you exactly how cathartic a real, explicit sex scene can be in a story, even when that story is not necessarily about sex. indeed, romance is just about the only genre that gets away with this forbidden combination at scale. but only to a limited extent, in limited contexts, and not without its own share of heavy policing from sales platforms.

sex and sexuality are unavoidable parts of the human experience. horniness is one of the primary colors in the spectrum of human emotions. to restrict the use of sex as a storytelling tool is to make artists forever paint with a limited palette. sure, there is lots of great, sexless art out there. for that matter, there’s tons of full-on porn that is likewise great art. but there is SUCH a huge space of possibility in between these two extremes.

and we can’t have it!

because pornography exists as a category in all of our minds, and because we are compelled to reify that category at monetary gunpoint by the jesus freaks upstairs, art must only ever at most orbit the pornographic: if it touches the event horizon, there is no going back.

we don’t just need to fight back against the censorship of pornography. we need to fight aggressively to normalize the existence of pornography. we need to make pornography mundane.

finally: it goes without saying, but there are, in fact, people who are making the kind of art i’m talking about. including me! that’s one of the great things about the internet: it democratized art for a lot of people in a lot of ways. for all its faults, the internet has enabled a golden age of horny queer art that’s allowed to be anything it wants. that’s why many of us are so distraught by the recent waves of censorship at steam and itch.io. if you’ve read this far, please take a moment to consider giving the payment processors responsible a phone call to let them know how you feel about it.

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[lux-xxix]

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