Rachael Arsenault

Fun fact: Draft2Digital requires you to list books with sex scenes as “erotica” or they won’t publish it, and now a number of sites are not accepting erotica, even though the library, for instance, which used Overdrive, clearly includes books with sex scenes.

Good times.

if you don't want some weirdo on the internet to accuse you of using AI, just STOP using em dashes, semicolons, ellipses, commas, long words, letters,

Experimenting with grammar and formatting and it's fuuun 💕

#JustWriterThings #WritingCommunity

YouTube video by Rachael Arsenault House of Night: Retrospectives and Redos - Houses of Night (aka the school system)

Next up in the Retrospectives & Redos series: Houses of Night, AKA the school system.

#BookSky 📚💙

Realistic embroidery of the upper half of a tabby cat with moujth open and eyes closed, on an orange shirt

Cat by Japanese embroidery artist Hiroko Kubota #womensart #InternationalCatDay ! 🐈

YouTube video by Rachael Arsenault House of Night: Retrospectives and Redos - Houses of Night (aka the school system)

Next up in the Retrospectives & Redos series: Houses of Night, AKA the school system.

#BookSky 📚💙

Two witches in a window. Pretty gay.

New art? In this economy?

Very cool that every year there will be droughts, wildfires & heat domes & people are going to keep using ChatGPT & ordering 7 times a week from Temu & supporting celebrity 5 minute private jet flights & Israel bombing refugee tents & anyone asking anything of them to mitigate it all is tyranny

Unfriendly reminder:

Close-up photo of yellow food packaging that reads, "pain - 12 grains."

Canadian packaging is always so fun

cactuscloudsart Today I discovered a woman called "Angie the ICE Chaser" on TikTok and she literally just follows ICE vehicles in her car. They become increasingly erratic in their attempts to lose her (breaking sooo many laws on camera) and they never do. She is single handedly striking terror into ICE agents across LA. She also follows them through neighborhoods honking her horn and shouting "THEY ARE ICE!" out her window. There is a GFM for gas money and the legal fees she is fully expecting to come around.

Hero

a poorly drawn cat licking its raised hind leg. the leg is exaggeratedly large, with an oversized paw featuring huge toe beans

a photo of a ginger and white cat sitting on a sidewalk under a sunny blue sky. the cat is mid-grooming, licking its leg while its paw is stretched toward the camera, making the paw look huge

beans

This is a great idea--citing headlines from mainstream outlets (Guardian, CBC radio) will put the fear of god in payment processors. Links

Guardian: www.theguardian.com/games/2025/j...
CBC: www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/s...

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

Visa says they're still drowning today! Payment processors think that we're not organized enough to keep this up but it's we either prove them wrong or submit to global censorship so it's. not much of a contest. Keep calling all 4!!

The Latin ‘statim’ means “immediately” or “without delay.”

This is why doctors say ‘stat!’

An image of a huge jackboot crushing a comic artist and a bunch of comic pages. The boot is marked by the logos for MasterCard, Visa, Paypal, and Stripe. Below the image there is text which reads: Don't let Payment Processors tell YOU what you can buy! It is not a payment processor's role to decide what kind of content you can or cannot spend money on, so long as it is a legal transaction. Fight back against the unjust policies hurting artists and creators online! https://yellat.money/ https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/

Let's Keep Calling!

the US profoundly needs a children's rights movement. children are not property... they deserve opportunity and learning and autonomy and security.... and our country just does not acknowledge this

Tsunami watch for Alaska, Canada’s BC, California - PTWC www.tsunami.gov

so when i was calling earlier, the mastercard supervisor mentioned something like, 8000 calls that they've gotten over the weekend. Just wanna say keep it up, keep up the good work, i'll continue to do my part. Let's make 2025 the year of not rolling over anymore

Apparently the UK adult verification thing has basically banned blind people from half of the internet because they can't use the verification system 🫣

This is settler ignorance. Magpies followed the bison, eating the ticks and bugs off of their backs. As the buffalo were systemically exterminated, magpies moved onto cows and then eventually into urban spaces. Settlers thought they were scavengers and pests and hunted them to near collapse.

A PayPal call center supervisor said they actually completely agree with me. They said that if enough people call PayPal they would be forced to take notice. I explained the Patreon/Itch/Steam situation and they said they're a creative themselves & that they hope the situation improves.

CALL THEM

And the third dragon is actually wearing a stolen dragon suit that’s powered by planet polluting, water guzzling machines that still can’t make it look like a real dragon no matter how many times it tells yeah, ‘I’m a real dragon now!’ And the first two dragons are just exhausted, fam.

Hello, Thank you for your feedback regarding sales restrictions, we appreciate you taking the time to share your concerns. As a payment processor, Stripe operates within a complex regulatory environment. Our policies are designed to comply with various laws and financial industry requirements across multiple jurisdictions. While we understand your frustration, we don't have the authority to change policies of other platforms or alter regulatory requirements. Our terms and list of prohibited/restricted businesses reflect our obligations as a financial service provider. We continuously review our policies to ensure they're fair while maintaining necessary compliance. For more information about our Service Agreement please refer to our documentation: https://stripe.com/legal/ssa Best, Alex

Stripe claims they don't have the power to change other platforms' policies or regulatory requirements. But Itch says they're the main pressure for the NSFW ban.

They also say that restricting businesses is part of their obligations as a financial service provider. So they CAN enforce restrictions?

Embroidery of an orange butterfly with black markings on yellow flowers and pink background

Emillie Ferris, contemporary English embroidery artist #womensart

I'm so stressed and tired that my brain hurts 😭

Hey so if you're looking to support some queer authors affected by this recent itchio stuff, might i suggest starting here?

go.bsky.app/LtrwERi

doodle of a crying cat lying on a puddle of its own tears, above it there’s a written text: “i’m just a girl”

just a girl in the world

I pray that one day there will be more consequences for the people who deny genocide than for the people who protest it.