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what YOU can do to fight KOSA

KOSA, or the Kids Online Safety Act, is back after failing to pass last year. If history has taught us anything, blanket censorship poses a very real danger to marginalized peoples including the LGBTQ+ community. Because it's never about the kids.

The best time to fight was yesterday; the second best time to fight is right fucking now. So I've scrounged like a stressed-out raccoon in an unattended garbage bin to dig up a few resources you'll hopefully consider to be helpful.

🪶 Contacting your representative is probably the most obvious step. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has made this easy as shit with a webpage that will message your rep for you. The page provides a template you can use as-is or edit freely, and a short form asking for your name, address, and contact information.

Not that you can't also reach out directly, which I do encourage because the whole process is pretty routine. To find out who to contact, you can look up your House Rep on the official govt site.

🪶 Consider also signing other petitions and supporting organizations dedicated to fighting for a free and open internet.

In addition to the ACLU, I highly recommend Fight for the Future...

... and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).

I've also seen the Stop KOSA petition floating around, if you'd like to throw your name into that hat as well.

Stay vigilant and keep fighting, internet enjoyers.

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Fulgrim The Starfire Phoenix. Favourite of the Dark Princess. [Final]🐦‍🔥✨

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fighting the problematic stereotype of 'only the bad guys are weird sex perverts' by making the good-hearted protagonist an even weirder sex pervert

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ALL MY STORIES AND WHERE TO GET THEM

Current as of 7/26/25

All stories feature trans masc MCs.

FRIEND OF THE DAMNED - A RUNNER OWEN SHORT STORY Gaslamp fantasy meets gothic horror in the first Runner Owen short story! Haunted by the events of the Glint Hall Hotel, Owen Rosedown writes a letter to the one person he knows will understand...

GET IT PWYW GET IT $3USD

LOCK THE LAST DOOR - A PHARAOH SYNDICATE INVESTIGATIONS SHORT STORY Hardboiled trouble waits in this Cthulhu Mythos short story. Searching for a runaway, private eye Lazarus Core finds himself locked in a tiny building, forced to solve the eldritch mystery within by his sworn enemy...book

GET IT PWYW GET IT $3USD

COMING SOON

The Smiling Skin - A Runner Owen short story Widow's Walk [Title TBD] - A Pharaoh Syndicate Investigations short story Punished by the Elf Princes - standalone high fantasy erotica m/m/m short story

Storygraph

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Hey, so itch.io just did a massive shadowban of all content marked NSFW, adult, and/or erotica. This has affected my books as well, and now Cream and Sugar, Springtime Sweetness, and The Mistress of Rosehorn Hall are all unsearchable.

If you want to read my works, they are all available for free on my Ream page.

I also have my books posted on Kobo and Smashwords through Draft2Digital:

Cream and Sugar UBL

Springtime Sweetness UBL

The Mistress of Rosehorn Hall UBL

Until this is resolved, I will not be posting any of my new works to Itch.io.

REMINDER: If you see my work on Amazon, no you didn't. None of my books will ever be available through Amazon or Kindle Unlimited.

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Victorian 15k Gold Opal, Ruby, and Diamond Heart Ring

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this man is facing a high chance of being homeless soon. he has a job, but had a medical emergency last month & issues with his transportation that kept him from being able to save up for moving like he planned. he has two cats to worry about as well.

anything you can do, sharing or donating, would be super helpful.

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Ok... I’ve done it... wormvermin patreon be upon ye!

There’s a $1 tip jar tier, and a new $3 tier with some various treats.

In the WYRMS tier, you will get:

One week early access to all future comics and projects

Thumbnails/comic process

Free PDF of my pin-up zine, Dungeon Capsule Collection, plus any future instalments

Occasional polls to vote on things I should draw, with the opportunity to suggest options (this won’t be monthly, just whenever I have the energy for it)

My thanks and gratitude ♥️

I don’t want anyone to feel pressured to join this—it’s just an alternate avenue to support me!

Thanks to those of you who already joined my tip jar tier, mwah mwah I rly appreciate it! ♥️

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Mastercard and visa have reported to a couple news outlets that they are currently being swamped with calls and complaints. Keep up the pressure and try to (politely) insist that you leave a complaint via phone instead of letting the rep direct you to emails. It's way easier to be overwhelmed by a much smaller number of calls so each one counts for a bit more!

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Hello! My books on Itch.io were delisted. They are Cream and Sugar, Springtime Sweetness, and The Mistress of Rosehorn Hall. I've zeroed out my payment share from Itch and made all of my books free. Everything is published under the name zackprincebooks.

Thank you for letting me know, and I'm so sorry this happened to you.

For everyone, links to books:

Cream and Sugar - cis male/transmasc character, fantasy

Sprimgtime Sweetness - nonbinary character/cis male, fantasy

The Mistress of Rosehorn Hall - trans woman/trans man, vampires

All three are meant for readers 18 and older.

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Testing out Payhip for my sfw fiction. Friend of the Damned is up, PWYW. I'm not sure what to expect from this site but if you want, you can follow me there.

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Stories by DyreWrites

DyreWrites is offering all of their stories for free in protest of itch.io's shadowbanning. Most of these are horror.

Can't You See Me? - horror short story, ghosts, lesbian character

Don't Look - horror short story, creepy house, gay character

In Fog - horror romance novella, supernatural, nonbinary character

The Portrait - horror short story, gothic, asexual character

There's also Snowblind and In the Marrow, but I can't confirm any queer characters for those two short stories.

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Tens of thousands of notes on a post claiming a bill introduced by the Republicans will make credit card companies support NSFW content, and only a handful going "hey maybe don't support this".

Let's look into how the bill is being reported elsewhere - in fact, from the Senator who introduced the Senate version of the Fair Access to Banking Act

"In recent years, prominent American banks have engaged in a discriminatory practice, referred to as debanking. Banks and financial institutions use their economic standing to categorically exclude law-abiding, legal industries by refusing to lend or provide services to them."

Hmm. What industries could he mean?

"This includes industries such as firearms, ammunition, crypto, federal prison contractors, as well as energy producers."

Wow. Who could've guessed that's what he meant

“When progressives failed at banning these entire industries, what they did instead is they turned to weaponizing banks as sort of a backdoor to carry out their activist goals..."

So it is, in fact, a bill around trying to stop left-wing activists from, say, going after oil and gas companies or private prisons or the arms industry

But - surely it would include NSFW bans too, right? It would overturn them, right? If you read the text of the bill, which is deliberately vague as you'd expect, it explicitly allows banks to deny payment based on "quantitative, impartial risk-based standards" - it only bans it for "political" or "reputational risk" considerations. And claims that the adult media industry is "high risk" is why payment processors drop it

But let's see who supports it!

"The Fair Access to Banking Act is endorsed by several organizations, including the National Shooting Sports Foundation, National Rifle Association, North Dakota Petroleum Council, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, The Digital Chamber, Blockchain Association, Independent Petroleum Association of America, Online Lenders Alliance, Day 1 Alliance, GEO Group, Lignite Energy Council, National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, National Mining Association, CoreCivic, and the National ATM Council."

Private prison companies, fossil fuel companies, blockchain companies, and the NRA. But surely...? SURELY a bill we're explicitly told again and again is about preventing left-wing activism against private industry, that's co-sponsored by fucking Lindsey Graham, and that certainly seems to include a carve-out specifically to let payment processors continue to deny adult content, but not deny conservative political causes...would secretly be pro-NSFW content?

This bill is all over the internet now, with viral pleas to GET IT PASSED and shutdowns of any criticism of a bill whose real intent is extremely overt. All of this is a simple search away and straight from the horse's mouth, and nobody wants to do even that modicum of research because they would prefer to take someone's word for it that a magic panacea is just a few phone calls away. If you make phone calls asking for this to pass, you're being played: tricked into supporting a bill crafted by the people leading the moral panic that harassed Itch into oblivion that would do nothing to help that, but that would ban any activism against payments for destructive fossil fuel extraction or gun lobbying. The guy who made it just told everyone that's what it's for! Does no one care to look? To read the bill? You can be the one to read it and say it's bad (being the only person to actually read an odious bill is called "Russ Feingold-ing")

Looking up the talk about this bill one theme I saw a lot was people dismissing anyone pointing out a Republican introduced it by saying "I don't care who introduced it! AS LONG AS SOMEBODY DOES SOMETHING!!!!" But you know what? If you saw that a Republican introduced the bill, and your reaction was to go "wow, so a Republican introduced a bill to protect adult content?" without even a pang of skepticism...I have no words tbh

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I hate to go through this all over again. On July 23rd, Itch.io, one of the most popular platforms for hosting queer and adult independent media, went through a large-scale crackdown on adult content.

This was primarily aimed at games, but novels and comics were hit in the process. Most adult content has been de-listed from the site's search, and some creators were banned without warning. Any funds banned creators have not been paid are currently being withheld by Itch.io.

This crackdown was done, as it always is, because of payment processors like Mastercard and Visa threatening to pull their services.

The payment processors caved to an influence campaign by Australian extremist anti-pornography group Collective Shout, who have been inundating Visa and Mastercard with calls to force video game platforms to stop hosting adult content - which, of course, includes anything queer.

Collective Shout claim to have sent in 1000 emails to get this result, but there are a WAY more than a thousand of us. We need as many people as possible to make as much noise as we can!

Below the cut are numbers and scripts, all you need to do is follow the step by step guide.

Graphic, contact info, alt text, and script by voiddebris on Bluesky, also available collected in a handy document:

Paypal:

Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161

Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050

Hours: 6am - 6pm PT

Online (for non-users or logged out - UK bc US site ONLY allows logged in users)

Mastercard:

Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372

Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111

Online form

Visa:

Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911

Non-US numbers

Online form

Script:

Customer Complaint Dept, This message is to lodge an official complaint about the ongoing rampant restrictions your company has placed on legal sales made by legitimate businesses. These restrictions are not only counter to the concept of freedom of speech and expression, but they harm consumers, businesses, and they harm your company’s bottom line. The following actions are absolutely necessary to protect the freedoms of your client base and the sustainability of legitimate business practices: 1. Remove from your Terms of Service any mention barring the use of your service for sale and purchase of legal products. 2. Contact Steam (Valve), Itch.io, and any other company you have previously put pressure on to retract your content restrictions. Put in place protections to prevent such restrictions from being put in place in the future without ample warning and time to contest them. If these changes aren't made then I, along with many others will be forced to seek other options for processing payments. Sincerely, A Concerned Customer

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OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO

Sign this petition from the ACLU:

Americans - contact your representatives about payment processors acting as censors! You can find your reps’ contact information on 5calls.org.

Script, from here:

Hello Representative/Senator [LAST NAME], -or- Hello office of Representative/Senator [LAST NAME], My name is [YOUR FIRST NAME/SCREEN NAME] and I am one of your constituents. I am calling today to express my concerns with technological censorship. Legal and legitimate adult entertainment is being banned in this country. These bans are not by legislators, but by payment processors like Mastercard and Visa. Mastercard and Visa are improperly creating legislation online through their user and merchant policies. They are banning creator and user access to content that is legal and legitimate. They are inciting fear and panic to encourage censorship. Please take a stand against this impermissible censorship. This is a direct attack on an adult's right to legal content. No one but the legislative branch should be allowed to create legislation. Please support the Federal Trade Commission in their stand against technological censorship to protect the first amendment. Thank you for taking the time to listen today.

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Because of the shadowbanning at itch.io...

I'm promoting shadowbanned free books today (and will prioritize them in the following days.) If you know of a free queer book (or comic, or zine) that was delisted from itch.io, please message me and I'll post it if I can find a link.

More details on what happened at itch.io are below.

In the last two days, itch.io delisted adult content from search results in response to pressure from MasterCard. For more information about what that means as well as ways to help reverse this, I recommend reading the article by @thetransfemininereview below.

Delisted books have not had their webpages removed yet. If you can find a direct link, then you can still download the shadowbanned content for now. I want to share free queer shadowbanned books here so that more people can find these books before/if itch.io removes them permanently.

If you have the time, I encourage checking out more of these authors' works! While I only post free books on this blog, many of the affected authors have paid books that have also been shadowbanned. Whatever you choose, I hope you find some cool books that you want to read - books that wouldn’t exist if the payment processors have their way.

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“[kink] is bad because [thing the kink is based on] is bad” is such a funny take. we’re acting. you hate theater. you’re standing up in the audience and mansplaining to lady macbeth that killing people is wrong

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Which of your OCs are you thinking about right now?