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This Just In: Local dumbass gets extended character profile on Patreon

As promised, I posted Blaze's extended profile last night! Sixteen questions, sixteen answers! It's nice to have a character who answers questions honestly for once... *ahem, DOTU crew*

Go read it!

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Get a guy who can do both (CRY, and CRY)

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Get a guy who can do both (CRY, and CRY)

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Last month was another awesome month on Tapas, and the Creator Bonus Program really helped keep me afloat! Big thanks to everyone who's been reading my series for free!

Right now Into the Smoke posts weekly, and Demon of the Underground posts 2x weekly! DOTU pages are getting very close to catching up with the home site's public pages, which means we'll have NEW FREE PAGES soon!!

Whichever series you read, you're helping me get paid! (Psst: read both! :D)

Read Into the Smoke on Tapas at: https://tapas.io/series/Into-the-Smoke

Read Demon of the Underground on Tapas at: https://tapas.io/series/demonoftheunderground

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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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at long last

after years

and years

and YEARS...

YOU CAN NOW PAY ME FOR MY SHITPOSTS

and FOR $10/MONTH I WILL HONK IN YOUR DMs!

Pledge to Planet Honk to support my dumb little minicomics and tumblr art about bitterns and butter and stuff!

--

Okay, real, actual pitch: I'm a full-time artist, and I'm super lucky that many people support me on Patreon to make highly labor-intensive queer supernatural fantasy webcomics. I stay afloat, but times are tight.

I've ALSO been making funny little minicomics and art for years and years, and I've never even allowed people to support me for it. So now I have an all-ages Patreon specifically for art and comics about Little Guys and silly stuff. If you enjoy this category of my art but haven't wanted to pledge to my very "serious" queer webcomic Patreon, you can now pledge at Planet Honk and help me keep sharing my little comics about little guys!

Planet Honk is mostly a tip jar for the stuff I'm already posting here. (Or maybe it's more like a swear jar? Throw in a dollar every time you honk?) The posts are almost all free. But you get it all in one centralized place, with email notifications, my famous :honk: Discord emoji, and yes, I also honk in your DMs for $10.

I'm gradually posting my full portfolio of Honk and related materials there. (Bittern at the grocery store! Pigeon fire pit! b... butter...) Just 2-3 posts per month so you don't get flooded, but it's a fun little thing in your inbox!

Join Planet Honk on Patreon

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I worry that kids these days are growing up without knowing what phone numbers sound like.

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Temperatures were hovering right at freezing for several days, and you know what that means: It's Jesus Geese season!!

I wasn't fast enough with my camera, but the local pond looked exactly like this.

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Their new album drops next week

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People who glanced at the preview: "Yep, just a routine post, nothing to see here..."

People who read the episode:

Into the Smoke chapter 2 episode 14 is up!

Ohh we've got some REVELATIONS in spirit therapy today!! 👀

Into the Smoke is my free webcomic about a gay, ghost-loving medium who binds himself to an evil spirit to solve a murder.

Read the episode here, start from the beginning at intothesmokecomic.com, or share to help ITS find more readers!

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He's so good at his job

Into the Smoke chapter 2 episode 14 is up!

Ohh we've got some REVELATIONS in spirit therapy today!! 👀

Into the Smoke is my free webcomic about a gay, ghost-loving medium who binds himself to an evil spirit to solve a murder.

Read the episode here, start from the beginning at intothesmokecomic.com, or share to help ITS find more readers!

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Into the Smoke chapter 2 episode 14 is up!

Ohh we've got some REVELATIONS in spirit therapy today!! 👀

Into the Smoke is my free webcomic about a gay, ghost-loving medium who binds himself to an evil spirit to solve a murder.

Read the episode here, start from the beginning at intothesmokecomic.com, or share to help ITS find more readers!

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I've been supporting my local NPR station for a while, but last year I canceled my other streaming service and started supporting PBS instead, and I'm very happy I did!

A PBS Passport subscription is MUCH cheaper than any other streaming, and also you get tons of stuff including the NATURE series!!!!

Please watch the Stork Sisters episode; it's SO GOOD!!

By the end of the episode, I was fully sold on this beautiful stork.

I watched a lot of Nature episodes while recovering from gallbladder surgery, and one memorable moment was when I fell asleep during footage about secretary birds, and my brain continued to process all the audio and narration of the episode, but it envisioned the visuals as random office guys communicating with bird noises.

You too can have this experience if you support PBS!!

Hey instead of just canceling your Paramount plus subscription, put that money you were spending to good use by donating to npr and pbs

Only about $1.60 per tax paying us citizen was being spent on public broadcasting per year.

Donating $1.60 per month would make up for the loss of budget from 12 taxpayers. If you donate your paramount plus subscription of $7.99 you are making up for the money spent on it from 60 tax payers per year!

If you had the 12.99 subscription? You are making up for the loss of budget that would have come from nearly 100 people.

If just ten people do a donation of 12.99 per month, that makes up for the taxes of 900+ people. Imagine if 100 people did monthly donations? And that's JUST if you do 12.99$ a month.

Consider donating.

Hell npr has a special bonus service if you do 8$ a month^^^^

Cancel some subscriptions you don't use and do this instead.

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Omg some of you are really pledging! <3 <3 <3

I am speechless

at long last

after years

and years

and YEARS...

YOU CAN NOW PAY ME FOR MY SHITPOSTS

and FOR $10/MONTH I WILL HONK IN YOUR DMs!

Pledge to Planet Honk to support my dumb little minicomics and tumblr art about bitterns and butter and stuff!

--

Okay, real, actual pitch: I'm a full-time artist, and I'm super lucky that many people support me on Patreon to make highly labor-intensive queer supernatural fantasy webcomics. I stay afloat, but times are tight.

I've ALSO been making funny little minicomics and art for years and years, and I've never even allowed people to support me for it. So now I have an all-ages Patreon specifically for art and comics about Little Guys and silly stuff. If you enjoy this category of my art but haven't wanted to pledge to my very "serious" queer webcomic Patreon, you can now pledge at Planet Honk and help me keep sharing my little comics about little guys!

Planet Honk is mostly a tip jar for the stuff I'm already posting here. (Or maybe it's more like a swear jar? Throw in a dollar every time you honk?) The posts are almost all free. But you get it all in one centralized place, with email notifications, my famous :honk: Discord emoji, and yes, I also honk in your DMs for $10.

I'm gradually posting my full portfolio of Honk and related materials there. (Bittern at the grocery store! Pigeon fire pit! b... butter...) Just 2-3 posts per month so you don't get flooded, but it's a fun little thing in your inbox!

Join Planet Honk on Patreon

[bob-artist]

at long last

after years

and years

and YEARS...

YOU CAN NOW PAY ME FOR MY SHITPOSTS

and FOR $10/MONTH I WILL HONK IN YOUR DMs!

Pledge to Planet Honk to support my dumb little minicomics and tumblr art about bitterns and butter and stuff!

--

Okay, real, actual pitch: I'm a full-time artist, and I'm super lucky that many people support me on Patreon to make highly labor-intensive queer supernatural fantasy webcomics. I stay afloat, but times are tight.

I've ALSO been making funny little minicomics and art for years and years, and I've never even allowed people to support me for it. So now I have an all-ages Patreon specifically for art and comics about Little Guys and silly stuff. If you enjoy this category of my art but haven't wanted to pledge to my very "serious" queer webcomic Patreon, you can now pledge at Planet Honk and help me keep sharing my little comics about little guys!

Planet Honk is mostly a tip jar for the stuff I'm already posting here. (Or maybe it's more like a swear jar? Throw in a dollar every time you honk?) The posts are almost all free. But you get it all in one centralized place, with email notifications, my famous :honk: Discord emoji, and yes, I also honk in your DMs for $10.

I'm gradually posting my full portfolio of Honk and related materials there. (Bittern at the grocery store! Pigeon fire pit! b... butter...) Just 2-3 posts per month so you don't get flooded, but it's a fun little thing in your inbox!

Join Planet Honk on Patreon

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Their new album drops next week

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I was looking through my past October inking challenges, and I completely memory-holed what I did in 2023 post-surgery. 😆

Anyway, I didn't get to 31, but here's my Birds with Iconic Hairstyles.

Shoebill with Beyoncé’s high ponytail

Bittern with Farrah Fawcett waves

Blue-footed booby with the Rachel

Cassowary with hi-top fade

Emu with faux hawk

Ostrich with Britney Spears pigtails

Budgie with Snookie poof

Amazon parrot with 1960’s flip

Blue and gold macaw with George Clooney gentleman’s cut

Cape vulture with Marilyn Monroe waves

Immature Cooper’s hawk with Bieber swoosh

Bald eagle with 1980s crimped hair

Australian white ibis with Lance Bass frosted tips

Gull with 1980s mullet

Canada goose with Karen cut

Goldfinch with 1920s Eton crop

Cardinal with 1990s heartthrob hair

Mourning dove with man bun