lqg guy who cannot handle having desires

even if AI had zero environmental impact and it wasn’t built on stolen work i would still reject the idea of making fanworks out of it. fanworks are made out of PASSION, by FANS, otherwise you missed the point.

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

thoughts to carry into the new year

my niece is building a notre dame lego model with one of her parents and she was like "the real one took 30 generations to build, and the set has 30 bags of legos, so whenever we start a new bag we pretend to be the children of the previous builders"

#svsss calling all svsss writers!! reply to this post with a fic you're proud of that you published in 2025! let's close the year out on a high <3 mine is this one (nsfw bingjiu!): archiveofourown.org/works/757736...

Happy new year to all the artists who haven't had time, energy, passion, or any other needed resource to draw enough personal stuff to join end-of-the-year memes in 2025. May we find more of all of the above in 2026, as well as compassion for ourselves if we don't!

I am very, very conscious of how it looks for me to be saying this, because I own and operate a direct competitor to LJ, but: I strongly suspect, from all these signals, that Sberbank is preparing to either sell the outside-Russia part of LJ if they can find a buyer, or shut it down if they can't.

--because of changes in Russian law since 2022 and the beginning of the "three day military operation" (soon to enter year five!), they haven't been able to accept payment from anyone outside Russia since then, and the only ads they can run pay almost nothing for outside-Russia views.

It is my considered opinion, from what I know of geopolitics, Russian politics, and the technical capabilities of LiveJournal, that the current owners are working to isolate any LJ user outside Russia from any LJ user inside Russia to the greatest extent possible --

People who don't have Cyrillic services enabled and aren't in Russia will be further isolated from Russian LJ: posts will not be visible and no one can comment across the divide. There's been no English language announcement of any of this.

they have to identify with one of the systems (payment or Sber ID), but those are all mostly not an option for anyone outside Russia (payment because of sanctions, Sber ID because you need a Russian phone number, which is now almost impossible to get outside Russia).

Users inside Russia who don't have Cyrillic services enabled have to turn them on. They will not be able to see any post that was made by someone not in the Cyrillic services after December 29. Users outside Russia with Cyrillic services enabled are in a bind:

I have gone through all the comments: LJ current management (remember, LJ is currently owned by Rambler, which is owned by Sberbank) is not giving out much information, but users have pieced together the following from how they see the changes behaving:

If you don't want to, the summary: to comply with Russian law (they didn't admit that part but I know that's why they had to do it), users with the "Cyrillic Services" turned on can no longer post or comment unless they are inside Russia and identified with their government identity.

On December 29, the current owners of LJ posted an announcement to the Russian language news community: ru-news.livejournal.com/80899.html You can drop that into Google Translate, it does pretty okay with Russian these days.

Okay, I will preface this with the GIGANTIC disclaimer that I promise I know how this looks, and I *swear* this is not personally motivated: If you have an old #LiveJournal account, and it has things you still care about in it, download it or import it to Dreamwidth SOON. Details:

i keep thinking about this one of him talking about binghe’s HAND. you are so gay (affectionate)

really admire sqq’s ability to wax poetic about beautiful men in life threatening situations

2026 is the year I’ll be KINDER to myself which is why my first drawing of the year is cute gay stuff and my second drawing is a dragon going down on a cute woman !!! 🫃🫃🫃 Everyone get more self indulgent in 2026 NOW!!!

manifesting: 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯 ai bubble 🕯 🕯 to pop disastrously 🕯 🕯 for all involved 🕯 🕯 🕯 🕯

My very first #Moshang doodles #svsss

If you use Poipiku to upload erotic drawings, you probably want to check the new guidelines especially regarding concealing genitalia: poipiku.com/GuideLinePcV... And if you're wondering why artist you support suddenly deleted everything there, it's most likely because of this!

Happy New Year! Let’s start it with some Bingliu smut chapter for my LQG’s OF fic ;) archiveofourown.org/works/566708...

In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.

Guess what!! ALL items in my Ko-Fi shop are now name your own price, you just pay the shipping! 📢 I have also created "bundles" so folks can get more for their money. I just want these items to have a good home before I move out of the US! ♥️ (Sadly only US buyers though.) ko-fi.com/theredofthet...

PLEASE tell all your friends and neighbours if you think they might be interested. Most of this is official merch! These items deserve to be with awesome fans who will love and cherish them. There is something for everyone!! #danmei #ff7 #ffxv #zhongli #childe #tgcf #mdzs #mxtx #thousandautumns

Sitting a stewing in frustration isn't nearly as cathartic as just designing a poster. Let's see how often I remember that in 2026.

“many angry posts should have been naps or little packets of crackers” is deep wisdom and you don’t need to reproduce to embrace it!

mini 2025 summary ✨ Got to direct a couple things, storyboard on 6 eps and a feature (!!), and animate on some dozen or so episodes and 2 movies! I think I did a lot of gaining EXP and learning, and I'm really grateful for the support ❤️ Here's to another year! Happy 2026, I hope!

bingqiu as honses #art #svsss #bingqiu

Happy new year! 🎇 #TGCF #花怜 #hualian

happy new year! here’s to drawing more bingqiu in 2026 🎊🎆🎋 #svsss #bingqiu #myart

One more BingQiu for 2025!!!! Onto many more for 2026!!!! Happy New Years everyone!!!!!!

everything went downhill when they took porn off tumblr

While I appreciate the women writing threads about M/M romance, I would love it if y'all stopped describing these readers and authors as "women (and women-adjacent)". Nonbinary folks aren't woman-adjacent or woman-lite. It's a huge umbrella with a lot of variation. We are our own thing.

[ #svsss ] . Starting of 2026 with Binghe and #bingqiu hhhh. Happy New Year, everyone ❤️ . #人渣反派自救系统 #luobinghe #shenqingqiu

To everyone who can openly declare that they are transgender, and to everyone who cannot yet come out to those around them🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 The world has not yet fully seen the dawn, but let’s continue to support one another. Chiitan is here with everyone’s hearts. Everyone is beautiful♡

jfc this entire essay feels like a primal scream from my very soul

2025 gave us the new extras!!! 2026 is gonna be another win for scummies!!!!! I feel it in my bones!!!! Any day now!!!

Happy New Year!

Over 275 authors, editors, critics and diehard readers came together over the last month to vote on their favorite transfeminine books of the year. It's my honor to present the 2025 TFR Reader's Choice Awards! Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who voted 🩷

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

my advice for getting the best out of bsky is if you like fanworks go on skyfeed, or some other such feed creator, make a feed with the input set to tags and add every tag you could possibly want (my example here has 80 tags), and then publish it and pin it on bsky so you can see all your faves

Cherry Blossom Moth Kittens [ #art #illustration #mothkittens ]