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Kris Dobbins @krisdobbinsart.bsky.social · 7h

The only reason games aren't "forever" is because they refuse to preserve them. I can buy a film from 1939 in 4K but fuck me if I wanna play Twilight Princess on my Switch.

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Cargie's House of Mild Frights @cargie.baby · 1d

this is one thing i've seen pop up over and over when you are an artist. if you get known for something, and then you want to draw something else, people who only liked that first thing can get mad at you. DO NOT DO THAT TO AN ARTIST. EVER EVER EVER. NEVER DO THAT. if you do that you are a villain

SPiNDLE @aidenr0.bsky.social · 1d

getting real tired of some people's entitlement

an image of a DM on bsky, "Why do you draw hetero? kinda gross coming from a great sapphic artist"

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Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

“Fuck AI”

— Guillermo del Toro

🎥 Vanity Fair

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Andrea Marie Johnson @authorandimarie.bsky.social · 2d

For #sludgepit I'm offering up enby pixie wip. I love this dark little fantasy romance so much.

🧚 changeling as a trans metaphor
🧚 assassination attempts
🧚 praise kink
🧚 everyone is bi
🧚 MMXF why choose
🧚 soulmates
🧚 forced proximity or die
🧚 hurt/comfort

#W #DF #R

Pixie art by me 😊

Background: black with green designs like blood splatters, poison bottle, rapier, heart in a cage. There is an illustration of a purple person with giant purple swallowtail wings and sparkly magic

Text reads:
Sludgepit
Max: human, heir apparent, forced to give up birthright to satisfy a centuries long peace treaty with the fae.
Except, it turns out they're not so human and if the Seelie prince finds out, that could spark a war. Max does to do whatever they can to keep this secret and preserve peace. They'll take their life if they have to.
When the Raven King shows up in their new cage of a bedroom to kidnap them, they go willingly. Even if it means trading one prison for another.
ENBY PIXIE WIP

Background: black with green designs like blood splatters, poison bottle, rapier, heart in a cage. There is a 3x3 aesthetic. Pictures left to right in the first row are: gothic arched ceiling, crying statue, Gothic castle. Pictures left to right in the 2nd row are: book and glasses on desk, rows and rows of 2 story bookcases, desk covered in books. Pictures left to right in 3rd row: misty pine forest, forest from ground level, close-up of mushrooms.

Text reads:
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No matter how much mother deluded herself, I'm not a woman who wears dresses. I'm not a woman period.
ENBY PIXIE WIP

Background: black with green designs like blood splatters, poison bottle, rapier, heart in a cage.

Text reads:
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“My King, you cannot come until our little flower does. That’s your punishment for earlier.”
“E-earlier?” Éan asks, moaning the word as I go back to stroking and sucking.
“When you came while we were playing our game.” Kaelith tsks. “Naughty boy.”
“I didn’t mean to, sir,” he says, his voice tight, his rising shame sour against my skin.
“It’s okay, my King. If you’re a good boy, I’ll let you have a taste of me.” Out of the corner of my eye I see Kaelith jerk his hand over his cock, once, twice, three times.
Éan’s eyes watch the movement with rapt attention. He licks his lips. “Yes, sir. I’ll be a good boy for you.”
“I know you will,” Kaelith croons.
ENBY PIXIE WIP

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Revon M. Castillo 🏳️‍⚧️💖 Writing !! @themythiclibrary.bsky.social · 2d

ALLIGATOR BOY

[ a bloody & queer erotica coming 2026. ]

🐊 latino trans man with agoraphobia
🐊 south carolina swamps might be sentient & equipped w/ a god
🐊 hea achieved thru eating your enemies
🐊 sloppy swamp sex

thank u @wolfehorror.itch.io for the templates!!

#sludgepit #wip #erotica #e #h #r

A trope map made for sludgepit. An edited photo of a pile of alligators gathered together, blurred and colour changed, makes up the background. The forefront contains SLUDGEPIT at the top with large letters. Glowing at the bottom is the words, 'ALLIGATOR BOY BY REVON M. CASTILLO'. In the middle is the placeholder cover of Alligator Boy, which is the ghost of a man imposed on the image of a greyed out cypress swamp. From top to bottom, left to right, in clockwise direction, the trope map reads: Revenge Against Abusers, Alligator Swamp God, Lots of Kinky Sex, Transition Through Monstrous Means, Bloody Happily Ever After, Queer Rage x Queer Gore, Overcoming Agoraphobia, Trans Man MC x Cis(?) Gay Man.

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Anton ☾ @antonarcana.gay · 2d

Ideal conditions for starting your passion project will never come. You will never feel skilled enough to make it. There will never be a moment where you stop being scared to start. Do it anyway. Do it badly. Do it scared. Just make that thing that’s clawing at the door of your soul; It wants out.

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Evan @evanchayka.bsky.social · 2d

TECHNOPHILIA for #sludgepit #DR #WIP

✨ cis father x trans son x non-binary AI
💿 dark erotic horromance
✨ AI stalker with dubiously dark morality
💿 secret workshop sex
✨ alternate near-future sci-fi setting

A bright green and black trope map of Technophilia by Evan Chayka for #sludgepit.

Tropes include: trans man protagonist
stalking
mirror sex
verbal humiliation
size difference
sentient ai x father x son
dub-con incest

A bright green and black image of the summary of Technophilia by Evan Chayka.

sci-fi x smut

Verthandi Technologies. The brain-child of Dr. Marcus Brandt, and home of ANSELM, the world's first, and only, fully sentient Artificial Intelligence.

Cassian isn't interested in the technological advancements of VTech. He only cares about its founder — his unknowing father. He's been watching Dr. Brandt from a distance his whole life, hateful and envious of the billionaire genius who has no idea that he exists.

So when he finally gets hired at VTech, he has only one goal — get close to its CEO, and get his revenge.

He doesn't account for Anselm.

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Maxime Jaz🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @maximejaz.bsky.social · 2d

It's #SLUDGEPIT day!
As ever, I'm back with my minotaur retelling, which is still work in progress... but hopefully soon...
🐂blood-thirsty minotaur
👨arrogant idiot Theseus
🍆💦very much dubcon hate sex
🍆🥵getting addicted to giant minotaur cock
🩸💀blood and gore
🐂❤️‍🔥👨man and monster or monster and man?

On black background with green letters and motives top Sludgepit, under it a moodboard: top left a man's blue eye, middle a statue of Theseus fighting the minotaur, top right a bull's eye, bottom a bull's head, skulls, bottom left a warrior with a dagger. a red string goes over the pics. Quote in the middle: "You hate me? Let me give you something to hate me more." Maxime Jaz. Captions on the pic Minotaur cock, monster fuckery, hot hate fucks, humans as dinner, WIP

sludgepit monster fuckery
quote: His jaw clenched, just a breath as the monster pushed in, hard. Thinking he would split, Theseus swallowed a moan, trembling, still, because he could not help that. He braced himself a bit on his forearms, to let his forehead rest on that cool stone, breathe against it as the monster slammed into him, those merciless thrusts not leaving him time to think, cutting almost his breath too. Both of them, drenched in hate, that hate mirrored in his mute, stubborn breathing and in the monster’s thrusts. That hate, warm, flooding their bodies with sweat. Sharp breaths, mouth and nostrils wide open. A grunt from the monster as he came deep inside of Theseus, again. Pulling out, careless, that whack on his ass reverberating in that large hall.
Theseus could not move, not for a while, riding that ache, but somewhere deep, also feeling empty… Fuck.
Maxime Jaz

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 4d

LIMINAL, my monster noncon gangbang erotic horror is a year old today. Get it 50% off until midnight.

Only available through my website, hellostarshinepub.com

Happy 1-year anniversary [Cover of Liminal by Achilles King] Regularly $5.00, today only $2.49

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 5d

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 · 5d

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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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 5d

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 5d

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

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 6d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 6d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 7d

Art is going to be so bad when only privileged wealthy people can afford to make it.

Georgina Kiersten @ingloriousgigi.bsky.social · 8d

You should be concerned about the rate of authors leaving publishing. Especially from marginalized communities. This year I have seen so many authors just pack it up and go. And it's only getting worse.

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Coach Gowron @coachgowron.com · 27d

Do not underestimate the soft spoken, the kind, the gentle. It takes strength to be those things, sometimes more than you will ever know. If you look closely at someone who conducts themselves honorably, you will find something fierce inside.

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Chris Shehan_Comic Art @chrisshehanart.bsky.social · Sep 3

Every artist I’ve ever known has this itch to create that won’t go away until they create. They have to do it.

It’s why I know the “finally, someone like me can make art” AI users are full of shit. What they really mean is “finally, a way to get social media likes without hard work”.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · Sep 17

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

Racheline Maltese @racheline.bsky.social · Sep 17

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · Sep 16

This would make it illegal for any site that has trans content--not just porn, but everything from trans people posting selfies to essays to comics and stories featuring trans characters--illegal in the state.

You've seen how fast the Age Restriction shit spread.

Don't pretend this isn't possible

Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · Sep 16

it was always coming to exactly this www.404media.co/michigan-por...

Michigan Lawmakers Are Attempting to Ban Porn Entirely

The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act" proposes a total ban on porn in the state, and also targets the existence of trans people online, content like erotic ASMR, and selling VPNs in the state.

www.404media.co

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Dave Holmes @daveholmes.bsky.social · Sep 17

Read and share. And lay off trans people, you weirdos.

Helen 🏳️‍⚧️✊🏻💕 @mimmymum.bsky.social · Sep 15

“Anti-trans harassment and violence is all the rage. Trans people are afraid to leave the country, let alone leave their houses. The right-wing ecosystem has gladly spent years creating these conditions, while Democrats have by turns avoided saying anything about them at all” 😞

👉🏻 archive.ph/ewBhT

THE CUT

They Want the Shooter to Be Trans
By Lex McMenamin, a writer and editor at Teen Vogue.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Sep 16

#SaveSpeech
the 'STOP CSAM Act of 2025' [S.1829] is currently estimated to be 56% likely to pass according to Govtrack

This bill will undermine services offering end-to-end encryption and force internet companies to take down lawful user content

tell reps to OPPOSE
www.congress.gov/members/find...

Oppose STOP CSAM: Protecting Kids Shouldn’t Mean Breaking the Tools That Keep Us Safe

A Senate bill re-introduced this week threatens security and free speech on the internet. EFF urges Congress to reject the STOP CSAM Act of 2025 (S. 1829), which would undermine services offering end-...

www.eff.org

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skybound 🍑 mappa levi's chubby cheeks cult @ackerbound.bsky.social · Sep 10

when ur constantly thinking abt a ship and running detailed visual simulations of scenarios in ur head but none of it comes out as writing or drawing. only, like. constant, overwhelming yearning for the concept

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Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · Sep 11

I don't think you even have to like Gretchen to recognize that she, as a best-selling horror writer with an active following, was a get for DC comic. A DC comic was not a get for Gretchen Felker Martin

The Ken in Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · Sep 11

I think DC has it exactly backwards on who was doing who a favor by making this comic

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · Sep 11

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

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🔞⚔️Lumen @churchofpossum.bsky.social · Aug 28

CW // Teratophilia

Catch of the Day

An illustration of a pleasantly surprised seaman on his back being pressed against the rock by his catch, a much bigger merman wearing an old divers helmet. The sun is cutting through the fog, illuminating the mermans translucent dick.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Sep 10

The truth of the matter is that if anyone but Charlie Kirk had been killed at today’s shooting, then Charlie Kirk would be out there right now using the shooting as pretext to deliver arguments designed to make sure that the next shooting would happen, and the next one, and the next, and the next.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · Sep 10

This sounds wacky but it is backed up by science.

rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · Sep 10

3. If you see content that disturbs you, immediately (or as fast as possible) go and play 20-30 minutes of Tetris (or any other fast-paced game with your eyes sweeping over the visual field that has caused visual artifacts to linger when you close your eyes for you in the past).

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