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Kolobok, Russian fairy tale. Russia, 1962

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another adoptable is ready! this one's a sushi dragon ^^

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goddess of victory herself

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Source: Go with the Clouds, North by Northwest Hokuhokusei ni Kumo to Ike 北北西に曇と往け

by Aki Irie

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Breaking waves in purple, green bottle and sand tones. By Jeanne Rosier Smith.

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things I would do if you're a nsfw/kink creative now because I've been eerily prescient about every single wave:

a) get a personal site with your own domain you own. now. not a carrd or third party squarespace. not next week. now. get it online with ugly-ass html but get your links there.

b) if you have the money: join one or multiple of eff.org / cbldf.org / freespeechcoalition.com

partly because they're actively fighting this, partly because they have members-only Lawyers You Might Need. Hint. Hint. Canary.

c) Write Down Those Lawyer Contact Numbers in meatspace. phone number of a real human being especially on paper, On You.

I have been in contact with lawyers for a few months now as my doujin circle knows. this should be telling you Many Things.

d) www.ecrater.com is where i'm going to be tentatively testing a shop because i like the fact you can *not* have payment processes and order digital/physical products via purely mail order.

(... be prepared for this to fall through too in the next 1-6 months.)

e) friends and followers of nsfw artists who earn most of their income through it: now's the time to support them. they're going to need the grace and financial flexibility especially mental health wise. domain/shop transfer/refund/therapy bills ain't free.

check in on them, and often.

f) get a VPN, use it daily to acclimatize, have them on your hard drive, several VPN's preferable. this is for the age verification laws coming. Start reading up on secure, privacy-focused infrastructure (prioritize email > website > shop in that order).

eff.org has a *ton* of resources.

g) prepare for discord and tumblr to be hit in the next wave. have alternatives *and actively start using them* if they're mission critical platforms for you.

I've played with matrix though I quite fancy IRC. if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

I say these things not to fearmonger but to give yourself the maximum amount of time to prepare. the pendulum *will* swing back. it did with the 80's moral panic. it will for this too.

you just have to outlast the bastards.

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Ivory spiked woodlice, Laureola sp., Armadillidae

Photos by Nicky Bay // Website // Facebook

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

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WIP

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simply unbelievable eggplant my mother grew

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Love this excellent article about SDCC 2025 TVL The Vampire Lestat panel.

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mayor at work

acrylic on canvas, 24×36in

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worst part about getting angry is how much it makes you want to be mean

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this scene is so fucking funny the english dub of this show is so good