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My Dracula fanfic WIP calls to me again but I gotta reread Dracula so I can get the right voice for one particular scene

It's a story of 'hey what if Jonathan Harker had been infected with vampirism the whole time and was completely unaware of it right up until a pivotal moment in the plot' OvO

Werewolf on Main 🔞 @lunarprinx.bsky.social · 4h

Both designs are very fun, but Bathory wins for me

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🔞AnemoneArt @anemoneart.bsky.social · 6h

Oh heck it I'll just post both witches, it's not like I don't have to draw like 5 more.
Twice.
Plus extras.
You better be overtly enthusiastic with your reactions, i'm expecting questions, reposts, and demands to have your insides turned outsides in the name of toxic witch activitiy.

A hot pink witch with a layer of iron sand clumping in blue/black spots on zir chest, abs, legs, arms and face, and also forming a tail. Zir hair is done in two massive buns turning frayed and winglike on the edges. Both zir left arm and right leg have turned into blades.

A lanky, long limbed underwater witch with yellow-red skin similar to a lionfish, covered in octopus-like balck tentacles that also stand for her hair.

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Werewolf on Main 🔞 @lunarprinx.bsky.social · 4h

Oooh hell yes

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marilokh @marilokh.bsky.social · 5h

what if solid snakes sneaking suit was actually a bodysuit underneath pants. #mgs

a digital drawing of three staggered panels of solid snake, each in a bodysuit. in the first panel, he's seen from the back, pulling on or pulling off a pair of pants to reveal that he's wearing a bodysuit underneath, cut high at the waist and into a thong at the back. in the second panel, he's seen from the front with a cigarette in his mouth, puling on his gloves, strips of skin visible at his waist between his pants and the bodysuit. in the third panel, he's posing with a gun, vest and gear on, only he's not wearing pants over the bodysuit, revealing his hairy thighs. the background of the panels are in progressively darker pink.

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Rob MacWolf, Werewolf Hitchhiker @robmacwolf.thevoice.dog · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 1d

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 1d

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3d

All of these organizations should just give Palestinians in Gaza the money. It was meant for them.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3d

"We've seen a significant increase in donations, unlike we've ever seen before," said Steve Sosebee, president of the U.S.-based Palestine Children's Relief Fund...."the fund, which usually has an annual budget of around $12 million, had raised $15 million in just 10 days."

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3d

It's not just UNRWA, every organization has received a record amount of donations they haven't been able to give to Palestinians in Gaza
www.reuters.com/world/us/pal...

Palestinian Americans fundraise for Gaza, as aid groups receive record donations

Palestinian Americans and aid groups in the United States are raising funds for Gaza, which faces a deepening humanitarian crisis as the Israel-Hamas war enters its fourth week - but they have as yet limited ability to get supplies into the besieged enclave.

www.reuters.com

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 3d

People gave a record amount of money to multiple organizations for the people of Gaza and all this money just sat there for the past 2 years because Israel blocked it. I hope this money gets distributed quickly now so that the people of Gaza don't have to beg anymore
news.un.org/en/story/202...

Private donations boost UN support for war-torn Gaza

From celebrities to civil society, a growing number of people around the world are providing unprecedented support for UNRWA, the UN agency supplying a lifeline to two million Palestinians trapped in ...

news.un.org

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Werewolf on Main 🔞 @lunarprinx.bsky.social · 1d

My Ao3: archiveofourown.org/users/FangsS...
My games: fangsscalesskin.itch.io
My FA: www.furaffinity.net/user/stairs/

FangsScalesSkin | Archive of Our Own

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

archiveofourown.org

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Lesbi-an Gaib 🏳️‍⚧️ @tehsamantha.bsky.social · 2d

HRT being treated like a Class 2 is too normalised and it's wild. Even allies look at it as purely "try and fund stuff so the wait time goes down" and not, "maybe the system is bad?"

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Werewolf on Main 🔞 @lunarprinx.bsky.social · 1d

Unfortunately under capitalism life-saving and life-improving medical care is more accessible to people who are able to pay for it, and pharmaceutical companies use it as a way to make profit (especially w patents on medication), but that doesn't mean medical care itself is bourgeois

Werewolf on Main 🔞 @lunarprinx.bsky.social · 1d

I was about to say the next step in discourse poisoning would be to say getting vaccinated is bourgeois, but then I remembered that there are transphobes who genuinely believe transness is a plot by big pharma to make more money off of HRT. It's already adjacent to antivaxxer logic about vaccines.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

standing together makes us strong. standing with labor makes us strong. standing with leftists and revolutionaries and the oppressed around the world takes a billion struggling workers and makes them an army which can push the course of history toward peace and justice.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

we are not cannon fodder for "revolutionary fantasies" any more than sylvia rivera was cannon fodder for queer liberation. we are its beating heart. every trans person is proof that humanity can know itself better, can express its joy, can live authentically and with intent. we ARE a revolution.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

liberalism has no solutions, only empty rhetoric and a policy of adopting the ways and means of their nominal opponents until they themselves are an ineffective shadow of the monsters currently stripping the american carcass. it will not save you. it will not save us.

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

do not listen to pundits, even trans pundits, who have given up in their hearts on the dream of liberation, who have preemptively sold out in hopes of becoming part of a world which is already dead and rotting

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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 1d

Transness is not bourgeois. This is a wedge idea dreamed up by some gleefully amoral think tank lobotomite to split trans people and make us fight each other. That we relay on modern medicine doesn't make us any more bourgeois than someone who needs antidepressants or cleft palate repair.

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Erika Moen @erikamoen.bsky.social · 1d

LOLLL This reminds me of when Amazon shut down @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social's affiliate account with them and refused to give us the money we had made because they they deemed our site as "porn" (citing specific comics), while THEY WERE SELLING OUR BOOKS WHICH CONTAINED THOSE EXACT SAME COMICS 😂

Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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The Transfeminine Review @thetransfemininereview.com · 1d

"You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you."

- Miss Major, 2023 💔

One of the things I hear with some younger trans people I know is they feel, "I'm gonna get this surgery, and I'm gonna learn that way of speaking, and I'm gonna be done." You're never done. If you're a straight, cisgender person, you're never done. Things are always happening that have the potential to change you. So all I am today is not who I'm gonna be tomorrow, because of the things that happened to me today and later tonight. People forget that. "Oh, after I transition, I'm gonna be through." Well, good luck with that. 'Cause if you're through, then it's time to leave, you know, and I don't wanna go anywhere yet.
I'm in my seventies. Why didn't I stop? Number one is community. My gurls. I've had moments of thinking about stopping, but I didn't. I made sure I would step back, reju- venate myself, and then got back out there, and that's how you make a way. Our stories are not all the same, but the destination is: to get some place where we have some peace and harmony, and we can be at ease with ourselves and the people around us. You make the best of it all and hope you can help make it a little better for the gurl after you.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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
3 hr. ago
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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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