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i don’t think this image will be well received by you guys

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i don’t want to alarm anyone, but right now there’s a skeleton inside you and it’s covered in blood.

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Skinamarink is the horror movie everyone's gonna be talking about for a while, pretty well done dread, no on screen violence but deeply unsettling phenomena. I can see and appreciate why some people find it viscerally terrifying even if it didn't affect me that way; I can also see why other people found it too slow and uneventful; you really have to pay close attention to it but most of it is ambiguous darkened scenes with sparse dialog, which was definitely a bit of a challenge for our ADHD. Absolutely do not watch if you're affected by bad stuff happening to little kids, it's easy for me to handle basically anything in fiction but some parts were still pretty rough. If you NEED to be spoiled (some people do before watching horror) I can add to this later under a cut

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Something that happens regularly is that a whole family will be taking up the middle of an aisle at a grocery store and the parents will get out of my way but then they’ll immediately snap at the littler kids for still being an obstacle. Sir/ma/am they’re not the ones who created the problem they were literally just following you

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Usually south park's relevancy feels very fake and surface level to me, but it's really something how trump and his base are actually, visibly much more enraged by this than they've been about any other criticism, any other show, any other enemy I've seen in the entire near-decade of his political career. Fucking South Park got to them more than the combined effort of a million other comedians, journalists, parodies, academic criticisms or protest efforts. Like it's BAD. Like they want the creators in prison and want to consider this a hate crime.

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I have laid out this, my least-confining basket, in an attempt to entice Vice into a birthday basket picture.

He does not like being in things.

Malice, on the other hand, is the queen of being in things.

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How is that tiara staying on?

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So the new itch.io guidelines are out and they are both predictably bad and also quite unpredictably bad. There's so much to go over here but here are some of the highlights:

First we have the broadly worded content restrictions. So much of this is just strictly bad for several reasons (for example, you cannot have a NSFW game that doesn't even fetishize rape but has rape be an important thematic element under these new rules) but my personal favorite is that these are so broad that huge swaths of content are just banned from itch.io. You like VNs of monster girls having sex? Sorry, but your favorite spider girl VN is animal-related, we cannot prove that you don't want to fuck spiders so its gone.

(a real problem anyone thinks about??????)

Game where you can transformed by magical artifacts and sometimes fucked? Sorry, that's non-consensual content. Banned. You cannot be transformed into a maid against your will. You also cannot have your protagonist call an older woman "mommy" because likeeeee that's incestual right?

"Minor-presenting" what the fuck does this mean. Genuinely. If a grown woman wears a fetish uniform is that minor presenting??? What the fuck are you talking about.

Also by the way if they feel your content is "too bad" for their platform, which includes a list of conditions incredibly broad to contain things like "a woman who likes being gagged during sex", they will just steal your revenue. No no no not just the revenue from the work in question. All of it. This makes any NSFW work a ticking timebomb, especially since itch.io doesn't have the fucking staff to deal with all of this! There's no second chances. You are not protected against fraudulent report or our dumb as fuck employees.

itch.io right now is just not a safe platform for NSFW content, and honestly, it really should be said, a fair swath of SFW content too. Don't use it, find alternative ways to survive in the market right now.

It's not going to be easy, but it's necessary. Here's a link to an article going over some solutions. I cannot personally vouch for any of these in particular but you need to do what you gotta.

Also, harass VISA and Mastercard. Phone calls over emails. Ruin their workflow. Do it for weeks, don't give up.

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I keep asking myself what’s wrong with me as if I don’t have a list

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I grew up listening to music that my dad listened to in school in the 1960s and 70s and sometimes you listen to music from then and now and you’re like huh the deeply American sense of loneliness and discontent with the state of this country that’s always just beneath the surface that wells up in you like a slow familiar but no less deadly flood when you’re alone at a bus station or driving alone at night on a country road has existed for a long time huh

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You see I too often sat in school classes and thought “when am I ever going to need this, I’m never going to be an engineer, I’m never gonna be a scientist, I’m never gonna be a linguist” and then I grew up and it turns out a lot of bigots and cults and scams and grifts hinge their entire business model on you just. Not knowing what a protein is or some shit

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You see I too often sat in school classes and thought “when am I ever going to need this, I’m never going to be an engineer, I’m never gonna be a scientist, I’m never gonna be a linguist” and then I grew up and it turns out a lot of bigots and cults and scams and grifts hinge their entire business model on you just. Not knowing what a protein is or some shit

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going up to a character i enjoy and being like "i'd like to award you the highest honour i can bestow" and the honours in question are like. bad at sex. undiagnosable mental anguish. loser's temperament. actual body horror shit. nicotine addiction.

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[while tied up] randomness and chaos as they're constructed in the popular imagination are actually quite predictable, doubly so if they're positioned as something desirable within a subculture or niche. it is an aesthetic of the unexpected, of transgression. real chaos is unremarkable and nearly invisible most of the time

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La isla de los dinosaurios | 1967