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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 28m

("no, no, you see, you should be engaged with my OC's sprawling world and detailed lore, not merely hornily looking at the occasional art of them getting dicked down, which is the only part of this which will ever exist outside my own head—!")

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 28m

(Possibly this is a thing where certain online artist spaces are really, really About the "OC" — which has approximately the relationship to the occasional art of them getting dicked down as the 10-page overwrought backstory does to playing a D&D character: none, but Somebody won't shut up about it)

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 44m

Particularly if you're not...how shall I put this...saying anywhere public that you're anything but straight, and you've pointedly brought it up before that *Um Actually* Not All Your Characters Are Queer, "say why you like my OCs, LESBIANS ISN'T A REASON" starts to look A Way

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 44m

I feel like if you're a visual artist, the bulk of whose output is "elves having lesbian sex in their cozy domestic everyday life," it's maybe understandable if you'd like some validation sometimes that's not "lesbians!!!!" but holy shit there are more bad ways to phrase that than good

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 2h

Sent an old friend a quick "happy birthday, how are you doing" and got a casual "oh, nearly died twice last Tuesday, touched my shoe after a day out and spent 8 hours in hospital for anaphylaxis"

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st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · 15h

please feel free to spread the word lol. i am very much dependent on SNAP and i very much have no means of replacing the $300 they provide me every month for food, all the money i make otherwise goes towards bills and rent, quite literally rn i won't be able to eat w/o it

bsky.app/profile/ae25...

st ajora says trans rights @ae2501maeth.bsky.social · Sep 11

venmo: account.venmo.com/u/Tara-Hillegeist
ko-fi: ko-fi.com/tarawrist
itch: tarawrist.itch.io
patreon: patreon.com/tarawrist

i am basically always happy to receive money, for food, or for other things, i would like to have more opportunities/options to do things like ... have fun, for example,

Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · Sep 11

you should buy your trans friends coffee or something today

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 16h

The Head of Empire (XIII) #writing#SpaceOpera#Starship

The Head of Empire (XIII)

By the time the Empress boards Timni’s little ship, stalking in through the airlock as though she owns it, fully wrapped back into her wandering-henry garb...

brain-implant.tech

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Spicymancer @spicymancer.bsky.social · 20h

#bonktober69 catch up: Day 13, Get Lucky!

One man's treasure...

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 21h

now I desperately want to say to someone, serious-faced, in my best earnest Discourse voice: We Live In A Snuff Basement,

Dr. Vivi "vivisection" Section @ars-synthetica.bsky.social · 22h

I guess I'm interested in the latter for this line of thought. Understanding and extrapolating.

What is society if not one large snuff basement

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 21h

how the fuck do you write alt text for a picture and factually misdescribe a scene YOU DREW

new frontiers in "what the fuck do you even think you're doing"

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 23h

Cozy boy

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 23h

...I was killing time in a campus library with an academic text wildly unrelated to my little STEM nerd course load about 25 years ago; I cannot even begin to guess at the source

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

Now for another day of reading people on the internet blithely laughing that trans girls are, like, WEIRDLY prevalently into fucked-up shit amirite,

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

One of the saddest, most human, fucked-up facts I ever read was that, in post-WWII New York, there was a distinct market for the services of pro dommes willing to don SS uniforms

...and the clients for those services were Jewish men who'd survived the concentration camps.

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

Weird, innit, that the ChatGPT tech fascist, flailing around for plausible use cases to keep the bubble from popping just a lil' longer, can outright go "yeah it's for porn now" and yet Mastercard doesn't debank him 🤔

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

of course what the cat's actually doing is "CAUGHT THIS! Now to lay it down where I can grab it, if it tries to wriggle away while I have this easily-accessible non-running-away food — WHERE D'YA THINK YOU'RE GOING, PREYBITCH—"

so what I'm saying, fingers evilly steepled, is: dollgirl tea party,

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

ad at first glance it's, yeah, reminiscent of a small kid with a plushie going MR. STUFFY'S EATING DINNER TOO NYAM NYAM

and I nodded and went, mhm, something something dollgirls tea party, whatever, back burner, what was I doing—

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

So there's this video doing the rounds, of a cat carrying its toy snake over to its camera-equipped feeder (hello, IoT security nightmare device) and propping the snake's head end in the food bowl as the cat eats — repeatedly, as it keeps slipping off

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

You know the saying about the impossibility of getting a guy to understand something, when his job relies on not getting it?

Nerds are like that, only instead of getting paid, they're endlessly, enthusiastically *paying* to do it

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

Real easy to tell which comic artists on your feed are cis; they're they ones cheerily boosting official Batman art wthout a qualm

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 1d

The Head of Empire (XII) #writing#SpaceOpera#Starship

The Head of Empire (XII)

Her Effulgence, Axle of Authority, the Worth of Coin, the Weight of Justice, true and rightful Empress of all known space, seethes like a water-splashed cat...

brain-implant.tech

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 2d

The answer is the identical resounding whine of "but I don't wannaaaaaaaaa"

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 2d

"It's time to cancel your Spotify account. Because of the ICE ads"

This is about the thirty billionth Reason It's Time To Cancel Your Spotify Account; saying so is as futile as telling middle-aged cis women to stop throwing money at Harry Potter

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 2d

oooh, no, AO3 fanfic, ten *feet* tall is an impractically imposing interior door, you uh — you don't mean ten metres.

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Caffeinated Otter @caffeinatedotter.bsky.social · 2d

Basically, that chart a guy on Twitter made a few years back, which diagrams the fact that all editorial-level jobs across all British media are filled by an incestuously tight-knit circle of hard-right nepo babies (with massive overlap with British politics)? explains British TV comedy entirely

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