New video: Despite insistence that we shouldn't talk about it, that it isn't real, that because the right is worse (and it is) it doesn't matter, we do actually need to talk about and condemn leftwing antisemitism youtu.be/C4uepFyHvqM

Gay slop posting because I think this idea is hilarious (read: vaguely amusing)

New video🔗⏬ As usual, art, speech, and the internet are under attack from banks, credit card companies, payment processors, & conservative politicians/interest groups So let's talk about Steam, Itch.io, PayPal, Stripe, Visa, MasterCard, Collective Shout & more

Tuesdays, I've decided, are for poetry. So have this, about a TYA musical I wrote in college and a man who died. It's from my ekphrastic poetry collection A Museum of Art and Eggs www.amazon.com/dp/B0DNBRWBY9

Idk, I thought the gooning article was bad on multiple fronts, and I find the fawning over it to be highly pathetic. 🤷‍♂️

Ever thought, "Wow! I wish I could read an annotated absurdist short play about a man who thinks his piss is so hot, it ought to count as a superpower! It could only be made better if the playwright included some short essays about the play..." I've got just the thing for you!

Returning to Myself first listen ranking :) 1 - Church & State 2 - You Without Me 3 - Joni 4 - A Woman Oversees 5 - No One Knows Us 6 - A War with Time 7 - Returning to Myself 8 - A Long Goodbye 9 - Anniversary 10 - Human

Poem :3 (last stanza in the reply lol)

POV: a sleepy Italian is about to pull you down for a kiss or a cuddle

This is not the Nobel Peace Prize; it’s the Jarebear Peace Sign

New video: For many reasons, Senator Lindsey Graham sucks and he deserves to lose his upcoming election. Let's chat about it a little. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZe1...

Brat first listen ranking: 1 So I 2 I might say... 3 360 4 apple 5 365 6 B2b 7 girl so confusing 8 mean girls 9 Sympathy is a knife 10 Von dutch 11 rewind 12 Talk talk 13 Club classics 14 everything is romantic 15 i think about it...

New video: Been busy with other things, so this week's essay is a personal exploration about how frustrating it is be somewhere beautiful... and not experience the same awe everyone else does youtu.be/kToXt2WlRqQ

My initial ranking for no reason: 1 The Life of a Showgirl 2 Father Figure 3 Wood 4 Honey 5 Eldest Daughter 6 Wi$h Li$t 7 Actually Romantic 8 Ruin the Friendship 9 Cancelled 10 Elizabeth Taylor 11 The Fate of Ophelia 12 Opalite

Big ol sweater, big ol legs, big ol desire to take a nap

New video: Censorship 4 - The Death of Language Algospeak is incredibly annoying. Unalive, grape, corn star. It’s annoying, but worse than that, it represents something far more sinister: an attack on language itself. Yes, this is me talking about how TikTok and other are evil. youtu.be/kGqF7-Ilzfc

New video: Censorship 4 - The Death of Language Algospeak is incredibly annoying. Unalive, grape, corn star. It’s annoying, but worse than that, it represents something far more sinister: an attack on language itself. Yes, this is me talking about how TikTok and other are evil. youtu.be/kGqF7-Ilzfc

Eyes bright, hair fluffy Feel cute, but nose stuffy

New video essay out now on censorship that goes over some updates on the attacks on games, the difficulty with cleanly defining genre and mature themes, debanking, and the future of the internet itself www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6u9...

New video essay out now on censorship that goes over some updates on the attacks on games, the difficulty with cleanly defining genre and mature themes, debanking, and the future of the internet itself www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6u9...

Reminder that Project 2025 redefined pornography in its massive policy plan to include any media that includes trans people. They will use the attacks on erotic art as a pretext to go after queer people. The moves to sanitize and infantilize the internet are part of this assault on speech.

To disengage from the doom of social media for a moment: Between this, the attacks on speech from conservatives re: Kirk, the anger at ABC/Disney for capitulating, and more, we might be about to witness a massive pro-speech, pro-art movement. There is hope in that, and hope is important

I have an annoying habit of only ever listening to the same habit on repeat for months. In other words, I recently listened to The Fame Monster for the first time. It has been replayed probably... 20 times the past couple of weeks?

Jarebear 2: Return of the Big Ass Sweater

Sometimes I hope the two adult musicals I've written would become historical (meaning not that they became popular or anything but that they became irrelevant to the political moment). But unfortunately internet radicalization and gun violence seem here to stay for now

If you're interested in the rambling, perhaps confusing beliefs of a former high school valedictorian who got a 34 on the ACT, but you prefer your speakers to not be bloodthirsty monsters, I've got a new video essay out talking about being Italian (kind of) www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYNB...

New video: While I'm scripting some more essays on censorship and other topics, have a more traditional narrative essay focused on the entire concept of why one might be inclined to make video essays despite not seeing much "success" on the platform youtu.be/buLJKqbF0Go

Erotica is a lot harder to define than a lot of people think, but the people who clamor to censor it are incredibly aware of just how fuzzy "genre" as a categorization system really is. They do and will take advantage of this

New video: While I'm scripting some more essays on censorship and other topics, have a more traditional narrative essay focused on the entire concept of why one might be inclined to make video essays despite not seeing much "success" on the platform youtu.be/buLJKqbF0Go

I’ll be talking about it a bit more in an essay soon, but the specific use of “mature themes” rather than “erotic content” is… concerning (it’d be bad either way but that specific warning does not speak well for the future of non-erotic games)

Ngl, though I get it, I am incredibly disappointed in the many erotic artists (across disciplines) who have decided to stay silent in the midst of attacks on their art form. Even if you can’t bring yourself to defend art, at least be selfish enough to defend your wallet

Has anyone read or watched anything (short or long) over the recent censorship pushes re: erotic art that they found important/interesting/informative?

Sometimes someone leave a YouTube comment that you can’t help but enjoy

Oh, look at that. Remember when PayPal went after Smashwords a few years ago and almost destroyed the self-published erotica market? Seems like they're feeling emboldened by the recent attacks on erotic games to try their hand at this once more. #writers #selfpublishing #indieauthor #erotica

Big ass sweater? Hell yeah

Heavy Hearts dev Dammitbird received the following notice from Steam, noting “your app has failed our review because we're unable to support the Early Access model of development for a game with mature themes” This strikes me as overcompliance and censorious on Steam’s part

I want to stress the point in the QRT below I also think people need to become very comfortable, very quickly, with defending (non-bigoted) adult games from devs they might have disdain for. We are talking abt matters of principle in the face of censorship here bsky.app/profile/acva...

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Unless Visa has very recently changed their policies, this is a lie. Or perhaps Visa simply doesn't understand its own published rules. If you weren't aware of this already, random person reading this, here are some screenshots from the essay I wrote on all of this

New video: let’s be Gaylors (Actually, let’s talk about how fun analysis can be) Gaylor-ing Taylor Swift youtu.be/TuNXxVvY0AI

And the broad left needs to do even more of it! Listen, the Teneo Network, one of the sponsors of Project 2025, decided that the broad left was more effective at (subtle) propaganda & capturing culture than the right. They set out to even the scales. 1) please read into them. 2) propaganda works

To this point, here in Georgia, when Republicans signed their anti-trans surgery on minors bill, they specifically made carve outs on cosmetic genital surgery for two things: male circumcision and messing around with the genitals of intersex infants.

He's been on this nonsense since at least 2023 when he was chatting with Musk and specifically suggested Prozac is to blame. You demonize medication so less people talk about taking steps to address their mental health and these things return to the darkness. What an evil little man.

Out of curiosity for a book I'll get back to writing soon: do any you have (or find fascinating) any physically impossible kinks (ie vore, TF, omegaverse, micro/macro, etc)? Or any you find interesting to think about?

Good thread. These bans almost always reach far beyond their stated (bad) purposes of censoring erotica. This is in part because it's actually harder to define erotica and what even is erotic (these are not the same thing, btw) than you might think

You don't have to post NSFW yourself for it to negatively affect you. You don't have to, because these bans are not about NSFW content, or protecting kids, or making a site safer to use. Its ALWAYS about conservatives and agendas to push people back in the closet, and remove dissenters.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

New video: Let's talk about Barbarian I know, I know. Ever since you saw Weapons, you've been wondering if anyone would analyze Cregger's previous film in a way that briefly critiques NIMBYism. Luckily for you, I do that! www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoyW...