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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad

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🔞 33. he/him. m/m (dark) erotica ft. trans men. big awful meanie and kinky freak. don't like, don't read. #hssthreadfic no minors, no ai, no soliciting. denouement is now available: https://hellostarshine.carrd.co/#de 💉27/01/20 🔪 13/09/21 🍁

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · Jul 24

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 20h

This is "debanking", and its a problem that has plagued sex workers for decades. It isnt right when its targetting sex workers and its not right when its targetting game devs and creators either.

Give paypros and your givt reps your grievances and demand that debanking of adult content stop

Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · 20h

Per Reddit: Steam adult developer in the UK is sitting on a USD equivalent of six figures, can’t find a bank to take his money because the developer creates adult games

www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonal...

r/UKPersonalFinance
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I develop adult video games on Steam. I can't find a bank that will actually let me withdraw my money from Steam. Can I get some advice?
Game has sold quite well on Steam. I've got almost £90,000 ready to withdraw after Steam's cut + VAT taken off.

However, it's been 2 months now and I can't find ANY bank in the UK who will let me withdraw my money from Steam.

I've been banned/refused/unable to get a business account with:

Wise
Revolut
Monzo
Monese
Chase
Starling
Nationwide
Halifax
Barclays
Lloyds
RBS

It always comes down to, "Where did you get this money from?"

"It's coming from games I sell on Steam."

"Can we see the store page?"

"Sure."

"I'm sorry, we can't do business with you at this time."

It keeps coming down to a commercial decision purely because I make adult content.

What the hell am I supposed to do? I've pretty much exhausted the whole banking system. I just want to be able to be paid for products I've sold.

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Johannes T. Evans @johannestevans.bsky.social · 14h

Just some questions to consider when writing the Accessibility notes for your event or your venue!

white text on a blue background, with an icon of a person in a wheelchair beside the heading "accessibility at your events".

the body text reads, "Some things to consider adding to your Accessibility section for your event and/or your venue, from a disabled man.

“The venue is semi-wheelchair accessible” is a good place to start, but when planning a night out, more information is better than less!

Accessibility is the most basic thing I look for in a venue, especially for events."

$white text on a blue background, with an icon of a cane beside the heading "accessibility at your events". Firstly, not all wheelchairs look the same. Motorised and power chairs might be wider, longer, or heavier than lighter chars without a motor - these chairs may need more space to go through doorways. Secondly, wheelchair-users are only a fraction of disabled people who may have additional access requirements - some people use canes, crutches, frames, rollators. Some may be photosensitive or use hearing aids, etc.$

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Carmine Pen Press @carminepenpress.bsky.social · 16h

#CallForSubmissions Flash fiction & essays relating to neurodivergent sexuality.

Authors will be paid 4¢ per word.

carminepen.com/submissions/fiction-nonfiction/

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 16h

a villain of that flavour is what i would call "a sympathetic villain." we understand they're evil and we understand why they're evil and we understand how they became evil.

but in fact not every villain should be one we sympathize WITH.

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 16h

i think people often confuse "a villain you should sympathize with" and "a sympathetic villain." by this i mean that a villain should have reason and we should be made to understand those reasons. it should be possible to follow the line of logic, even if that line of logic is utterly reprehensible.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 18h

the protagonist isn't always the hero. they are just the person the book is about. sometimes authors write books about people who are bad and it does not mean that the author is bad

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 17h

unhinged aspect successfully accomplished, i suppose.

✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 19h

i see no point in talking to you about this if you can not refrain from insulting a complete stranger. you know absolutely nothing about me, and your decision to be unkind towards me does absolutely nothing but prove my point. i'm sorry you've clearly been hurt, but being mean to me won't fix that.

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Kelly Mangan (She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈💖💜💙 @kellyamangan.bsky.social · 1d

In case you aren’t aware, any video you see with the label “Sora” is A.I. generated. It’s fake.

Do NOT make or share #AI videos. It contributes to misinformation, and to a larger culture of disrespect for truth and disregard of reality.

Plus it enriches capitalist techbros raping the planet.

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 21h

and i dont mean love in the romantic sense, or even in the sense of positive. sometimes we love things hatefully. sometime we love things so much we put our agony for their loss to paper. sometimes the ache of loss is the love. or maybe its carnal desire. its all equal.

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 21h

no genre is inherently better or worse than any other. mindless smut is not less literary, nor does it have less value, than a war and peace or hamlet. all stories written with love and passion have inherent and equal value.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 21h

objective quality is fake and most people are really just judging how much they enjoyed something instead of how well it accomplished the thing it was setting out to do, because answering that question requires being curious about what it was trying to do

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
"
Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 1d

you did this to spite me specifically (/silly)

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 23d

reminder that corporations rely on you going "well its not like me not shopping there/using their service will make a difference, so why should i stop?" they rely on you getting exasperated and fed up looking for alternatives. they make everything more expensive so you'll use them instead.

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 17d

the puritanical christofascist hatred of queer sex and intimacy is really, really sad. i am sorry that you have not been able to find satisfaction in sex or intimacy. i am sorry you are so scared and ashamed.

i am not. and i will never be.

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 14d

denouement is out today as part of the hot wet queer summer dash hosted by @monstermanor.org find out where to grab your copy here hellostarshine.carrd.co#de

alternatively, you MAY be able to request it from your local library! can't hurt to try! :)

cover of denouement by achilles king - available now: direct, smashwords, and more - the word "preview" with an arrow pointing right

The train whines loudly, breaks squealing as it comes into the above-ground station and lurches uneasily to a stop. It’s one of the older trains, boxy with a scuffed, white exterior, painted with blue and yellow lines. The doors rattle as they come open, the gentle, robotic voice of the female announcer an unintelligible buzz of background noise between the noises of people and machinery.

Luckily, Anwei could ride the train in his sleep. He steps on and makes his way to one of the uncomfortable seats, sinking down into it and hunching his shoulders, slumping in the chair as he looks through his phone, pretending to check his email as the doors shudder closed and the train begins to move, lurching and rattling under him.

He reviews the one new email that he has and then just sits, staring at it and zoning out as people filter in and out of the train. It’s pretty quiet, other than the odd person who’s talking too loudly into their phone or watching a video without headphones, and Anwei lets his mind drift to his evening plans.

He seriously considers trying Grindr again, trying to convince himself that he definitely won’t chicken out this time, but he knows himself, and that’s a pretty hard sell. As convenient as Grindr would be, Anwei would really rather get to know a guy a little before sleeping with him, and that means going somewhere that people go to meet each other.

He knows there’s a ton of local pride events, mostly at bars and clubs. There’s also a ton of drag events, but Anwei is deathly afraid of clowns, and that crazy drag makeup seems to trigger the same base fear for whatever reason, so a drag show is definitely not an option, either.

He decides to peruse some local pubs, looking through multiple sites before eventually finding a pub praised for its laidback atmosphere and bear nights, and decides that after work today, that’s where he’ll be.

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Michael Dashow @mdashow.bsky.social · Aug 19

Warning to anyone who has their art on Spreadshirt.com: They now have a feature where anyone can remix your art and it's impossible to opt out unless you just leave the site altogether.

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/19/s...

Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI

Spreadshirt is an online print-on-demand store. You can sell T-shirts and mugs and so on. My wife Arkady Rose is an artist as well as a musician, and had a pile of designs on Spreadshirt and Redbub…

pivot-to-ai.com

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 1d

fucking gorgeous

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Key (Commissions Open) @systmiki.bsky.social · 1d

A little piece i made for a zine but he didnt make it in. But im still real happy with him.

#transart #queerart #nudeart

A plus-size trans person sits happily rubbing their belly. They are fully nude with loced hair pulled back. The border around them is of flowers and leaves inspired by Swedish motifs

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 2d

i just need to wait for my editor to have more time bc he has a lot on his plate including two other drafts from me LOL.

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 2d

there's some phoenix wright stage adaptations like this and they were some of the funniest shit i have EVER seen

✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 2d

HELLO HI WOW GOLLY UM HELLO

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Coey! @coeykuhn.bsky.social · 2d

Unnamed Beast. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) A humble offering is required, what will you give? 💦💋👌

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✨ achilles king | denouement won't make you sad @hellostarshine.bsky.social · 2d

to be clear, NOT part of tail fairytales. this is a dark romance i started a full 6 months before tail fairytales.

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