Cynn

I don't know why but all I can think is 'Chi-chi'.

Reposting this-- Bluesky hides NSFW posts from you by default so you'll miss my work if you don't turn it on:

SETTINGS > MODERATION> Set toggle to Enabled

✨ Also be sure to turn on "sexually suggestive (cartoon)" setting:

SETTINGS > MODERATION > Bluesky Moderation Service > Set to "off"

CW: Somnophilia

MHA+Kirimina

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Notes on drawing the eyes in simple perspective part 1

Notes on drawing the eyes in simple perspective part 2

Notes on drawing the eyes in simple perspective part 3

ART TUTORIAL: Drawing the eyes using simple perspective

Thought I'd share the notes! Hope everything is legible!

#art #arttutorial

POV: you forgot to read him a bedtime story

[Brahms Heelshire / Female OC, full image on Patreon]

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Text: At the core of the porn business is one very unsexy factor: if you want to make money selling naked photos, you need a way to get money from your customer's bank accounts to yours. Image: Two simple icons of banks, one labeled BUYER and the other SELLER, with an arrow going from BUYER to SELLER

IMAGE: Drawing of a Visa credit card resting on top of a marionette control stick-thing with strings that connect to icons of Apple, PayPal, and Google. Text: Even services like PayPal or Apple Pay or Google Pay are really just a fancy way of using a credit card. And that gives credit card companies a tremendous amount of power. Image: An angry credit card stands on top of a blindfolded dollar bill. A human hand is recoiling from the credit card, which holds up a STOP hand (blocking the hand's attempted purchase), while the blindfolded dollar bill shrugs because it has no idea what it may have been used to buy. Text: Cash can't tell you what you can and can't use it for. But credit cards can.

Lux Alptraum peeks behind a curtain that is labeled with icons for NO BLOOD, NO ALCOHOL, NO FISTING. On the other side is an angry credit card person with their arms crossed. Lux: Even payment processors that do work with porn- like CCBill and Epoch, for instance - have strict rules about what you can and can't sell. Ever wonder why there's not much period porn out there? Payment processors will drop you as a client if they learn that you're selling it. People don't usually talk openly about it, but if you scratch the surface it's pretty clear that at the root of all of this is Visa, Mastercard, and their distaste for adult content.

Lux balances a personified credit card in one hand against a personified 18+ symbol that is posing for a sexy selfie as she says, "Read the rest of The Payment Processors vs. Porn by Lux Alptraum and Erika Moen https://thenib.com/payment-processors-vs-porn/

. @luxalptraum.com and @erikamoen.bsky.social made a comic for The Nib explaining the underlying barrier to NSFW content being hosted on major platforms: The Credit Card Companies. Read the much longer comic at thenib.com/payment-proc...

Screenshot showing the desired settings on the SkyFeed Builder page

Screenshot showing the new Feeds tab added to your profile, where your media tab will show up

🖼️ How to add a Media tab to your profile!

1) 🔑 Log into skyfeed.app with an App Password (generate in BlueSky Settings)
2) 🔨 Select Feed Builder
3) 🙋‍♂️ Change Input to Single User, and click Select Yourself
4) 📷 Change Remove If to Image Count and = 0
5) ❌ Remove the RegEx block
6) 📢 Publish the feed

Screenshot of the main PostyBirb desktop with four arrows indicating the main areas I use: Accounts: Go here to connect all your accounts (these are the ones I have connected) Submissions > File: Use this when you want to post a picture Submissions > Notification: Use this when you want a plaintext post Templates > Tag Groups: Make a thing that has the groups of tags you like to use ("Sombulus, webcomics, spiderforest" might be an update group, for example)

View of PostyBirb's File Submissions screen. Arrow indicate two areas: Top area: Click one of these things to get your pictures ready for a post to one or more platforms Bottom Area: Stuff that you have prepared but not posted yet will sit in a list down here

Screenshot of Postybirb's File Submisson screen with arrows indicating different areas with Delphina's commentary: Additional files: Sometimes I do this but you don't have a lot of control over how it formats multiple pictures, so be careful here Schedule: Set a date it goes live (prescheduling my beloved <3) Title: This will automatically default to your file name, might want to change it Rating: Don't skip this! It won't post until you give it a rating! Tags: These tags will get tossed into the "tag" field of the platform if it has one Description: Text of your post (you can add links or formatting, but they might get changed or nuked depending on your platform's support. Experiment!) Websites: When you click here, anything you've successfully hooked up in the Accounts tab will appear! Every website will have a panel where you can tailor your content to the platform if you choose. You don't HAVE to touch them (unless there's a red error indicator)

Screenshots of PostyBirb's Scheduled Submissions and Submissions Logs screens with Delphina's commentary: Scheduled: File Submissions scheduled tab my beloved <3 Pencil icon: Change the time Post now: Impatience button Edit: Wait I wanna say something else Unschedule: Go back to Submissions and think about what you've done Calendar: Month view of what's coming up! Logs: All the posts you've already made! Failed: Sometimes they fail if you get logged out somewhere Recreate Submission: If you're making nearly identical posts week after week to the same places with the same settings (like webcomic announcements), click this, go back to Submissions, edit the bits that need to change, and schedule again!)

Yaay, PostyBirb supports BlueSky now! Made a little PostyBirb tutorial for any folks who feel they are in TOO MANY PLACES and want a neat scheduling program! I've been using it for several months so I'm used to it, but the UI can be confusing!

You can download PostyBirb here: www.postybirb.com

charzilla 🔥

screenshot of Bluesky's moderation settings that include hiding, warning, or showing anything to do with sexual imagery, nudity, violent, hate group images, spam, or impersonation

anywho, welcome on in new Bluesky users! 💙☁️☀️

a helpful reminder so you can curate your space here

you can choose to filter or hide any sensitive images including NSFW/nudity, so it's on you if you would not like to witness us posting our birthday suits on main

also, be mindful & use alt text too!

A reminder to new/returning users:

IF YOU LIKE AN ARTISTS WORK, BOOST IT!

There isn't the same kind of algorithm as on Twitter. Engagement is the ONLY way to be seen and help the artists you love.

Boosts and comments help - liking custom feeds does, too!

Please talk to us! We LOVE comments!

Patreon, Squarespace, Gumroad. My hand slipped and I contacted the ACLU and the MA Bar Association for legal assistance. If you’ve been fucked over by draconian nsfw bans please join my Mastercard Injury Mailing List.

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An info-board summarising the difference between Twitter/X and Bluesky, and the potential advantages that come with the latter.

With all of us coming here to Bluesky, we are all essentially hitting a big reset button.

Twitter promoted a lot of toxic unhealthy traits in the pursuit for clout thanks to its awful algorithm.

Here, those toxic fucks don't have an algorithm to push their bullshit. This is a huge chance for us.

A screenshot of the side navigation menu showing the Lists link

A screenshot of the User Lists interface with an arrow pointing at the "New" button

A screenshot of a list with an arrow pointing at the "Add User" button

📢v1.56 release notes (1/5)

You can now create general User Lists!

For now, User Lists are public only. You can find them on your profile, and they’re shareable.

A chart of all the Art Feeds with corresponding hashtags.

I made a cheat sheet for the Art Feeds hashtags because I don't even remember them all yet. 😅 You can get any post into a feed by adding tags in a reply. Good for when you forgot to tag or want to give someone else a boost! #art

How to support an artist for free, comment, like, and repost. It helps us immensely.

I'm copying @geneljumalon.bsky.social 's Twitter post on this subject, but I made one for Bluesky because it's so important; these simple free actions are vital to an artist's success on this and any platform.

Artists and art posters! Until we get a gallery tab, you can create a Feed (check my profile out) to show all of your posted art.

Step1: make sure you post your art with a keyword, emoji, or hashtag.
Step2: see quoted post below to create a Feed that looks for your own posts with the keyword.

Hey mature content creators! Don't forget to inform your followers to turn on their settings so they can view your work!

A photo of a downspout that has a hole. The intact downspout represents an artist’s plans. The leak represents whoat they actually do. Th irony is the leak perfectly enters a crack in the downspout further down implying even though the artist’s work doesn’t follow the planned trajectory everything works out in this end.

Ripped this from FB because it perfectly describes my entire life,

If you losers don't use this and instead choose to bitch and complain about certain things you don't like, i hope you get blocked into the fucking void of space.