One of the least realistic things in the Fallout series of games is the idea that any current buildings will still be standing in 200 years, even without being within miles of an atomic bomb. Current construction methods last decades, not centuries.
It's time for the 2024 Comics Worker Survey for US workers! Pay transparency is crucial to uncovering patterns in pay inequity & learning what publishers and clients can ACTUALLY pay us.
Submit your info and encourage your peers to do the same!
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(art by Phil McAndrew)
I want to use BackerKit for my next crowdfund, but with the state of social media right now, I feel like I won't succeed without the attention I can get on Kickstarter. I'm not sure what to do. Especially as it's an erotic work and no website wants me on it anymore.
seeing furries & smut online is like seeing bees outside, it’s a sign of a healthy ecosystem, and when they go away it means something Bad is happening
People keep asking me what this is in reference to, and the answer is not some singular event. It's been decades of political and cultural pressure to erode the right to free speech. None of this is new. Hell, it's been a step by step reenactment of Weimar Berlin from 100 years ago.
I know smut may seem like a frivolous thing to be upset about, but crushing it is part of fascism. Controlling all forms of sexual expression is fascism. Only allowing certain kinds is fascism. Smut peddlers are always canaries in the coal mines.
Like this is where Karen energy is needed. You need to be on that “can I speak to your manager” shit. Act like you’ve been double charged for your salad and need a refund.
I know smut may seem like a frivolous thing to be upset about, but crushing it is part of fascism. Controlling all forms of sexual expression is fascism. Only allowing certain kinds is fascism. Smut peddlers are always canaries in the coal mines.
My spouse co-organizes the annual Sick and Disabled Fair, a free virtual event by and for disabled artists, crafters, and zinesters. Costs to run the event are higher than expected this year, and organizers need help to make the SAD Fair as accessible and successful as possible.
ATTENTION FELLOW SPOONIES! It's the start of disability pride month and I've got some gear for those of us with chronic pain. Button ups, different cuts of tees, dresses, and hankies for when your chronic allergies kick up. Get it at rosalarian.com
Pride BEGAN during a time of anti-sodomy laws. The first Pride was a riot against those laws. Pride is celebrated around the world in places where it is much more dangerous to be queer than here. Pride is not dependent on being ALLOWED to be who we are, it’s a promise that we WILL be no matter what
ATTENTION FELLOW SPOONIES! It's the start of disability pride month and I've got some gear for those of us with chronic pain. Button ups, different cuts of tees, dresses, and hankies for when your chronic allergies kick up. Get it at rosalarian.com
A conversation on our Discord has prompted me to say again: remember, y'all, what really sells books is not the author talking about their work, but *readers* talking about it. Word of mouth drives far more sales than advertising or any other engine. So if you loved a book, tell your friends!
The problem with telling people to "just Google it" is that I'm watching a fight unfold between two camps who both insist their position is correct because they googled it.
Tell anybody who was forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy that fascism isn't here yet. Tell anybody who was forced to detransition that fascism isn't here yet. Tell every librarian who lost their job that fascism isn't here yet. And after you're done icing your black eye, come talk to me.
I think the thing that gets me about "vote for Biden or else we'll have fascism" is that fascism is already here, and has been happening under Biden. It just might not have happened to YOU yet. But for a lot of us, it's been here.
I think the thing that gets me about "vote for Biden or else we'll have fascism" is that fascism is already here, and has been happening under Biden. It just might not have happened to YOU yet. But for a lot of us, it's been here.
What's so frustrating about not being able to make my smut art hardly anywhere it's that I have an audience that loves it and wants to see it! It's wild to get offstage, audience going wild, fives and tens in my hands, then the venue owner tells me to never come back.
I'm extra freaking out right now because I've been working on the crowdfunding page for my next smut book and I have no idea how I'm going to promote it when the whole world has to pretend we're being actively watched by a five year old at all times.
