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Ben Mehlos

@benmehlos.bsky.social

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🌼 Comics, illustration & sad boys of various rudeness 🌼 patreon.com/benmehlos 🌼 benmehlos.itch.io 🌼 Content usually 18+; you should be, too 🌼 Adult comics at filthyfigments.com

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · Apr 22

Print versions of Just Right (which was formerly only available at cons as a black and white zine off my home printer but was so popular I reprinted it in color!) and Honey are now both available in my shop, along with Positive Feedback, Leatherbound, and more!

benmehlos.storenvy.com

"Honey" cover; a bee boy reclining with an overflowing jar of Honey, human hands around his wrists

"Just Right" cover; a reclining adventurer surrounded by ravenous looking bears

"Positive Feedback" cover; two men in jocks and harnesses; lightning sparks between their fingers

"Leatherbound" cover; a riso printed image of a man walking past a bookstore with a backward glance

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 9h

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 12h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 2d

Kinktober Day 8: Humble

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Kinktober Day 7: Other 🪟

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 5d

Kinktober Day 6: Open 🕳️

(Consensual af, btw~~)

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 6d

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Kinktober Day 5: Fishnet 🪢

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 7d

Riso! All those colors are riso-able!

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 8d

Kinktober Day 4: Natural 🦦

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 9d

A good recharge probably

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 9d

(Some of the Kinktobers are gonna have to be effort compromises if I’m to catch up/hit every day lol)

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 9d

Kinktober Day 3: Leak 💦

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 12d

Kinktober Day 2: Innocent 🥺

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 13d

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Kinktober Day 1: ⚫️ Distance ⚫️

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Filthy Figments 🔞🏳️‍🌈 @filthyfigments.bsky.social · 14d

⭐ Astronomy-liker Mickey drives to a secluded rural dog park in hopes of a dark enough sky to behold an unprecedented aurora borealis event ... and finds his chosen spot a hub for a different sort of enthusiast. 🍆

🔞 Read Chevy Cruise at FilthyFigments.com

#LGBTQ+ #NSFW #Transgender #TM4M

Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 18d

Chevy Cruise debuts at @filthyfigments.bsky.social on Tuesday, 9/30 🩵💜

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 18d

Chevy Cruise debuts at @filthyfigments.bsky.social on Tuesday, 9/30 🩵💜

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 20d

It’s like the FFVI World of Ruin

Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 20d

I’ll have physical copies of trans smut anthology Transfixed as well as the usual filth!

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 20d

Come see me if you’re around the greater MKE area Saturday!

MILK Comics Fest @milkcomicfest.bsky.social · Sep 8

Greetings, earthlings✌️

The fourth annual MILK Fest hosted by Milwaukee Indie Local Comics is less than three weeks away!

Join us at 3rd St Market Hall on 9/27 with over 60+ artists and cartoonists from across the Midwest 👽

MILK Fest is free to attend and all ages 🐮

#milkfest2025

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 20d

My greatest joy on this website is remembering and following someone I used to follow on the old website after randomly finding them arguing in the replies of the same shitposts I’m seeing

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 25d

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · 25d

September's calendar illustration is up for Patrons 🍁 www.patreon.com/posts/139277...

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Ben Mehlos @benmehlos.bsky.social · Sep 13

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