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joining the war on kids reading any book they want on the side of kids reading any book they want. simply you will be fine. it's even good to be confronted with things you don't understand and even find upsetting, uncomfortable and difficult. it's a surprise tool that will help you later.

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oh my god this is just smuppets again. the nature of humanity is such that etc etc

looking at the labubu subreddit out of curiosity/peoplewatching and i;m crying. people are giving them BBLs

this is fucking destroying me. their laboobooties

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new one

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ideal living situation is what i call the 'sitcom special' : having all your closest friends live in the same apartment building or neighborhood where you each have your own space but can wander in and out of eachothers homes at will, seemingly always welcome and never at bad times. and also all of you only have jobs when its important to the plot.

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ten years since lesbians were real... what a life it's been...

TEN YEARS SINCE TEREZI: REMEM8ER

how is it possible it's been a whole decade aughhhhh

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donnie yen actually beat the shit out of those stunt guys in real life and honestly there's no arguing with results

Donnie Yen - John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023)

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Video Game Night: Lars discovers Sadie has already been with someone and cries in front of her for the first time. Here I was writing for Steven Universe's "Joking Victim" and trying to peg down their dynamic behind-the-scenes of Steven's more child-like world.

This was never meant to be "on screen" but its the dark matter that informs the rest of the actions we see taking place in Joking Victim.

I have a Patreon if anyone's interested in keeping up more closely with my art. Access to the Discord too which is growing into a great little community:

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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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but im a cheerleader reunion!

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golly gee it is ACTUALLY SNOWING out there

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The EVIL QUEEROTICA BUNDLE That Kills You

me n my buddies were about to do an EVIL curated itchio bundle a couple days ago, but it took us a few to set this up instead. theres no payment involved now, just promoting EVIL scary sexy games

click the link for a full description and get your hands on all the deleted games

thanks. like and share and subscribe and ring the bell icon so we may ensure EVIL always prevails

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I did a bunch of testing and analysis of the current itchio shadowban crisis over on the fediverse:

but the upshot seems to be:

works tagged with certain tags like "adult" or "erotic" or "nsfw" (I don't know the full list) are all now removed from search entirely

if you add "adult" to a work, it will instantly be removed from search. if you remove the tag again, it will STILL be removed from search, so maybe DON'T TEST THIS unless you don't mind your thing not being indexed ever again.

if you check the box in the metadata section for a work marking it as adult... it... does nothing. the work will still be visible. apparently itchio just does not look at this, at least for this blacklist. wild.

a bunch of works are being taken down, some with specific kinks, but others are still up, and some random other works without those kinks seem to be removed too, so maybe this is also tag based? it's very haphazard rn.

fuck.

this sucks.