The campaign for MONSTEROTICA: TALES OF UNUSUAL COURTSHIP AND COUPLING is 5 days old and 74% funded! Today, we're sharing the first of 8 posts introducing the authors and their works. Visit our campaign update to read excerpts from Kitty Lee and MJ Kiwiana! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... 🌈📚

normalize name changes for anyone tbh. even if you're not trans, you should be able to just choose a name you feel good about and not have it be a big deal

crocbug nation rise up!!! [ #crocbug | #onepiece | #ellieart ]

"In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people" Great @truthdig.com piece on chips ->

Right, this event needs $1500 to happen. There are 600 participating bookstores & for most it’s their busiest sales day of the year, or is second only to Indie Bookstore Day / Small Business Saturday. Editors/publishers, this is a no-brainer of an opportunity for your imprint. Romancelandia: pls RT

This is the campaign from that post about how Stripe could unilaterally decide to cancel a finished campaign. If you like books that you, as an adult, can read, support those books! Also consider checking out Duck Prints' website as a secondary way of supporting them and/or yelling at Stripe.

Crowdfunding to fund our next erotic anthology, Monsterotica: Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling, is live on Kickstarter! 16 queer monsterfucking stories, gorgeous merch, and a steaming hot collection you won't want to miss. Check out our campaign today! www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... 🌈📚

Hi everyone! I posted my KobyLu zine piece, if you want to check it out. It's an OPLA Canon divergence AU featuring Strawhat! Koby. Enjoy! archiveofourown.org/works/732742...

COVER REVEAL! Delighted to share the gorgeous artwork by @siaobell.bsky.social for our next erotica anthology MONSTEROTICA: TALES OF UNUSUAL COURTSHIP AND COUPLING. It's queer monsterfucking. 🌈📚 Kickstarter launches later this month! Follow our pre-launch here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc...

GIVE IT UP FOR KATIA_ANYWAY 📢📢 They don't know much about the Beast Pirates but we're glad to have them on our team regardless! Go check them out! @katia-anyway.bsky.social ! Watch out for more BEASTLY crewmates! #onepiece #fanzine

🦋 Playground is complete! 🦋 The story has reached its ending: Part 4 is now available as a PDF! Thank you so much to everyone who supported me along the way – it’s been a wonderful journey, and I truly hope you’re happy with the ending! Available on itch 🌷 ▶️ ellenchain.itch.io/playground-p...

This is a BAD idea from a tactical pov all this means is an issue that bsky mods do NOT want controversy around will have NO posting about it for a full week a large number of people who come back from the "blackout" will likely not start up the complaints again it hamstrings the cause

I wonder how something that doesn't exist can consent to anything. 😅

sleeping citrus #art (wallpapers below!)

We're currently $29/month in backing from my being able to give our authors and artists a raise on pieces they make for Patreon. That's only 10 people backing at the $3/month level, or 6 at the $5, or 3 at the $10. That's like. hardly any people at all! So please help by sharing this. <3

FOOL THAT I AM I FORGOT TO UPLOAD ONE OF MY PREVIEWS ON TIME. MODS PLEASE FORGIVE 🙇‍♂️ I was able to provide both SFW spot art for one of our fantastic writers, as well as bring a bloody ton of art for the NSFW section of @oprarepair.bsky.social ! PLEASE LOOK FORWARD TO IT!

I refuse to accept that our future will be to live in puritan hell states. Keep calling!

They're actively targeting creators who call in & banning them, making it even more important to call if you're a customer & not a creator Tell them they shouldn't be dictating how you get to spend the money you put your blood, sweat, and tears into earning

same for artists. no artist is burnt out because their workload would be less with AI or their project managing software could be assisted by AI. we’re burnt out because our work is not respected enough. what we do is seen as disposable and replaceable, rather than valuable.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

Me: this is great, glad to see authors ripped off by AI getting their due. Me after using the search tool: I am one of these ripped off authors. Academics, it only takes a minute. Seven of my papers are in this and I had no idea.

here's my preview for @oprarepair.bsky.social !!! you're in for a lovely read 💫

A while ago, @oprarepair.bsky.social made readers choose their fave rare pair ship to be in the zine. I was honored to write the story for the winning ship: Nami/Tashigi. So here's a little preview! Also, watch out! @solgarmr.bsky.social illustrated this story and wants to show you their work too!

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🍽️ #farcille

The fog of war is lifting What we are learning is that these two parties are responsible for all of the censorship going on. Banks working with PayPal / Stripe, and card networks like MasterCard

THIS IS NOT THE TIME TO STOP!! We are winning, but we have not won fully!!! Keep calling!! stop-paypros.neocities.org

Visa says they're still drowning today! Payment processors think that we're not organized enough to keep this up but it's we either prove them wrong or submit to global censorship so it's. not much of a contest. Keep calling all 4!!

Since it’s in mastercards rules that content that is ”patently offensive and lacks serious artistic value”, I think all artists should all call in and politely ask for the definition of “patently offensive” and where we can find the comity responsible for determining “artistic value”

VIZ Media quietly added an AI-translated manga to their app and hoped no one would notice. We did. Manga deserves better than cheap, soulless automation. This is a betrayal of translators, fans, and the art form. We don't want your AI translations!

Keep calling. This issue can't die. It starts with delisting games, but the likely goal is to enact a new morality police that can silence marginal groups and anyone who speaks out against the status quo. The payment processors are feeling the squeeze! Let your voice be heard!

You deserve rest 💙 #art #comics

We're in the home stretch on our crowdfunding campaign! Learn more about the crowdfunding campaign for "Scholarly Pursuits: A Queer Anthology of Cozy Academia Stories" now: www.kickstarter.com/projects/duc... Alternative: signal boost this and be my hero. <3 🌈📚 📚💙

I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money. Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

I know lots of you have strong opinions on this topic, so I hope this will be of interest: "You are being asked to participate in a survey of romance authors and readers that is being conducted by Prof. Bridget Kies in the Film Studies and Production program at Oakland University."

I said it was gonna be smth quick so I used it as a warm up session more than a serious attempt #Yurijayvikweek but late 😩

Critically acclaimed games getting caught in the itch/steam censorship nonsense sucks but remember that we need to, on principle, defend every game getting censored even if they are “porn games” because if you say some censorship is ok it becomes the slipperiest of slopes to all censorship is ok

STAY TUNED FOR INFORMATION ON OUR AUGUST 4-8TH COMMENTFEST COMING THIS WEEK!!

Good morning! Visa is starting to hang up or refusing escalation when asked about censorship. If you get hung up on, call back to complain about it until you get an employee who will record your complaints. Make sure to leave that person a positive review!

Visa and MC are drowning in calls. Keep it up! But remember to hit PayPal and Stripe HARD. They're the ones who are holding @itch.io over a barrel. #TTRPG #Comics #Writing #Indie #IndieGames #IndieComics #LGBT #LGBTQ #Queer #TTRPGCommunity #WritingCommunity

🧡Support Censored Artists!🧡 Compiling a list of censored works that can be browsed and purchased with alternative means ⤵️ Submission form: airtable.com/appsH84vZqnS... Collection of works: airtable.com/appsH84vZqnS... this is a TEMPORARY SOLUTION to make sure artists keep getting paid!

We're almost 80% to our goal! In celebration, here's a little teaser of what you can expect from my story in this anthology!

Final Rumi design ✨️👊

Abobby? Bobbabby?? Boabby???

Damn you mean itch didn’t actually just abandon these creators but has been working hard with its limited resources to figure out how to continue supporting them? How surprising

if your use of paypal is primarily as a customer or otherwise are NOT somebody that makes a living off adult work, you are the best people to pressure paypal! there is a risk of retaliation for adult creators, but if you don't have that risk, please call!

Let's Keep Calling!