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[redheartzone]

I can do whatever I want forever

RED. I'm over 21 years old and do art for funsies. I may make art about suggestive and/or sexual themes because eroticism is an important part of my human experience. If that makes you uncomfortable, that's fine, you can leave or blacklist it.

[kradeelav]

i know things are hella grim in the nsfw/kink art circles especially in the last year --

but I'm hearing there's a NSFW-friendly ko-fi alternative built on atproto that's actively in the works, and being vetted by lawyers right now. as torrent-princess (OP) says, you should be able to swap out payment processors while keeping your account intact. this matters since even if stripe removes support, you'll still have a shop and all of your links intact. (ATproto is an infrastructure that bsky is built on, but is far bigger than bsky with far more opportunities.)

additionally, the Free Speech Coalition is working on a credit union specifically for adult work (including kink art) - here's the link so you can add your interest & support. Since this will be built by sex workers, there'll be far less risk of being debanked for spurious and puritanical reasons.

on a domain TLD level, there's an initiative here for a .furry domain built from the ground up by seasoned furries; it's unclear whether they'll support NSFW, but it's yet another promising turn of events for a group that's been similarly affected by censorship.

there are friends and allies out there helping to build a working parallel infrastructure. keep being vocal, keep supporting these initiatives when it's possible, and keep supporting your nsfw/kink artists. ♥

[starlitsecrets]

Remember when joining fandom as a younger person meant lurking for a bit and figuring out the vibe and etiquette instead of coming in on day one and calling people weirdos for liking weirdo shit in the weirdo factory.

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be apart of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[glacierclear]

hey so it's a really long story but basically all you need to know is clark in a cowkini

[huffslove]

This is safe, right?

[that-derriere-stare]

[lepusrufus]

Happy pride belagrace nation

[wingdingle]

attention to all dashcon attendees

someone urinated into the ballpit while it was empty and posted it in the tag

stay out of the ballpit

[wingdingle]

there are people who think this is a joke

this is not a joke

please stay out of the ballpit for the safety of your health

[defunctblog1]

Ancient scribes detailing horrible events

[thetyrannosaur]

[creatingblackcharacters]

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀👀 nonblack America might lose their shit... But me personally... I would like to see the vision 👀👀👀👀👀

[bluedudeguyman]

Isn’t this a giant slap in the face to Jewish people?

[creatingblackcharacters]

I mean, Black people can be Jewish too. And were also victims of the Holocaust as well as other events in Africa committed by Germany that don't really get talked about because the Carving of Africa by European countries gets treated as a footnote at best. So like... He could stay Jewish. That doesn't have to change.

[bluedudeguyman]

I did not consider that. Thank you for providing another perspective.

[creatingblackcharacters]

You're welcome 👍🏾

[the-king-of-beans-offical]

[xxacidnekoxx]

[starlitsecrets]

Remember when joining fandom as a younger person meant lurking for a bit and figuring out the vibe and etiquette instead of coming in on day one and calling people weirdos for liking weirdo shit in the weirdo factory.

[squeakitties]

Oleander showing off her modified body ! Transparent rubber panels on her suit show off her restructured (formerly) human anatomy :3c Drawn by faengelic!!

[pineappical]

i've always wondered what human speech would look like visually in the POV of eridians in the same way eridian speech is written as music notes in the book and my favorite version of it i've seen in fics is when words are written as phonetics in rocky's POV :-) oh and also that one post about rocky and grace figuring out random words they can say in the other's language

[penny-anna]

anyway been writing omegaverse this week for the first time in uhh *checks notes* 11 years and have to say something i find interesting about it is that it's this like. frankly very normal fetish thing that's just breached containtment to a bizarre degree?

[penny-anna]

on 2 separate occasions i've had conversations with people where they've mentioned something they don't Get about omegaverse and I've been like 'well it's like that bcos it's a fetish thing' and they've been like 'it's a what??'

it gets treated as this like stock fandom AU and i'll see people like 'i don't understand why anyone wants to read this' and i'm like yes that's bcos it's pretty intense* fetish content & you don't have the right assortment of fetishes for it? there's a bunch of other similar Stock Settings that just haven't breached containment.

*intense as in like, Density of fetish content involved rather than intensity of fetish if that makes sense?

[beesechurger1909]

im alright with fetish ideas 'breaching containment' because then its less stigmatized but like its still fetish content and its a little perplexing how people could read omegaverse stuff and not realize its fetish content?

[penny-anna]

SO i think i've observed 2 separate but related things going on:

firstly the aforementioned demographic of people who have somehow genuinely failed to clock that it's a kink thing

but also a second demographic of people who seem to have taken its like. prominence in fandom spaces as a sign that they're somehow 'expected' to like it? i've not really seen this attitude with any other kink.

ppl will talk about it the way they might talk about say high school/college AUs or coffee shop AUs which are very common and i guess are sometimes presented as things that everyone finds fluffy & relatable? when in reality it's more like idk. piss kink. it'd be pretty weird to read a piss kink fic and go 'ewww why does the author expect me to find piss sexy??' well they don't. they expect people who already think piss is sexy to read the fic.

[penny-anna]

In the name of historical accuracy here is the actual origin point on omegaverse:

Obviously there was a process of development leading up to it but this kink meme prompt led to whats generally accepted as the OG. Ultimately the brain child of this anonymous poster. Have they ever identified themselves??

[penny-anna]

An important thing to remember here is that while I appreciate why some people find world building heavy omegaverse puzzling or irritating, the fact that someone is writing primarily or exclusively SFW social commentary w world building omegaverse does NOT mean it's not a kink thing for them. Maybe world building is their kink. You don't know.

[penny-anna]

this post is going around again so have an additional Thought:

the omegaverse belongs to an genre i have mentally dubbed 'speculative kink'. there are various other types of speculative kink; a well known example in fanfiction spaces is the dom/sub AU, a kind of precursor to omegaverse where the premise is 'what if everyone was biologically a dom or a sub'.

however: there various other shared speculative kink settings out there. unfortunately I cannot get into this too much without discussing some uhhh Devils Sacraments I have attended so you will have to trust me. but I'm aware of several other demographics out there doing speculative kink worldbuilding.

a major difference between omegaverse and the other speculative kink settings I'm aware of is that omegaverse takes itself much more seriously. omegaverse works are often aiming to be understood as serious commentary on gender roles with legitimate worldbuilding. in contrast other speculative kink is typically very open about the fact that the worldbuilding is complete nonsense that exists in service of getting to the kink as soon as possible.

this is something that I think really adds to the Confusion around it! to be clear I do not think it's a bad thing and the fact is, yes you can use kink to explore social themes. but there is sometimes an apparent contradiction between the implied aims of an omegaverse work (to comment on gender roles) and the basics of the setting (Turbo Gender Roles).

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

also even if someone’s writing sfw social commentary without it being kink despite it being originally kink if you’ve been around any sort of erotica fandom for long enough you'll see that happen fairly commonly. “I don’t find this hot but I find this interesting” is a normal reaction as is “I find this hot to explore and also want to make social commentary” “I just find this hot and want to write sex” or “this isn’t hot and therefore I personally don’t like it nor am I expected to”. though people would probably be weird there if they also broke containment lol.

[penny-anna]

#would love to see a list of speculative kinks #a genre I find really interesting to look at #I've seen people make their own one off ones but I've never seen anything with as much of a community around it like the omegaverse #I have seen a couple half of the population are littles or have similar trauma based identities and some people are caretakers #but I think that was less kink and more exploration of trauma at least for the people I follow #not that you can't have both #ohhhh would giant/tiny count as this?? that seems like a big one #lots of vore worlds out there with varying rules #like the predator prey beastar knockoffs that probably counts #humans as pets probably another one #anything set in space exploring kink is gonna have some interesting logic

I've also encountered Little AUs and its a weird one bcos it does kind of have the vibes of speculative kink but yeah it does seem that for at least some people it's firmly not a kink thing.

Giant/tiny is an interesting case - I would say it's similar to the Furry Fandom. it's not not a kink thing but there's a demographic of people who are into it in a way that's fully non-sexual but involves a level of interest that edges into fixation or fetish territory? I think it's an intriguing study in how the line between being sexually aroused by something and just really enjoying it can be a bit blurry.

Omegaverse might be edging into similar territory to the above in recent years, now that there's people who wanna use the setting for stuff like platonic pack bonding.

[squeakitties]

rubbermon custom for sammyshaska on bsky :3

[hyliaschosenloser]

UHHHH SOMETHING SOMETHING BLACK HAT HUMANIZED DISGUISE

Took me like two days to settle on a design and many horrible, awful, fugly ass attempts but I landed on Old Man Genderqueer Vampire Swag