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If you read through this whole thread, thank you so much. I’ve thought about all of this since last night, and it feels good to express it, to get it off my chest. Very liberating.

Be naughty. Be a freak. Be so perverted it makes the fascist kink-police explode. And be excellent to one another.~ 🧡

You don’t have to look at or like taboo kink - you can find it disgusting! - but you do have to respect its right to exist and the rights of other adults to enjoy it. I understood this when I was a fucking teenager. The community would be a better place if that sentiment were more widespread.

The fact that artists who specialize in feral porn or R34 that might include *gasp* underaged cartoon characters are penalized more extensively by paypros over, say, the CSAM generator that is Twitter, is infuriating, as is the ostracizing such artists get from the “taboo kinkster = sex pest” crowd

I’m forever grateful that I developed hyperfixations on subjects like heavy metal and exploitation movies in my childhood and teens, and later got to explore my taboo kinks without judgment. They collectively inoculated me against this moralizing pearl clutching. It’s fiction, it’s fake, it’s *fun!*

I’m not joking when I say that those I know with the biggest commitments to stopping abuse and the most nuanced understandings of consent and healthy sexual self-expression have some of the darkest fantasies you’ve ever heard. It’s almost like you can enjoy a thing in fiction you find vile IRL!

I’ve reposted a lot of other folks’ good takes regarding extreme kink, its policing, and the rancid plague of paypro censorship tonight, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t add to that. Over the years, I’ve seen so much hate for creatives who have “bad kinks,” and I’m here to say that’s fucking stupid

Those into taboo kink are not your enemies. Noncon, incest, feral, guro, cub, lolisho, all of these extremes, in fantasy, in art, in play, are in a whole different universe compared to actual abuse. The freaks care way more about preventing sex crime than Republicans, CEOs, and fucking youth pastors

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I have opinions on this. One of them is that pretending to be nice often equates to just being nice. Signaling virtue is only bad when it’s all you do and you decline to put it into practice. And in that regard it’s not bad in itself, it is the inactivity which is the loss to community.

There are REAL pedophiles out there. Focus on what matters and not that random artist who happens to find enjoyment in drawing little anime boys or cub or incest or literally whatever. Grow the fuck up. Do something that actually helps, something that actually supports victims of real world abuse

If something makes you uncomfortable, block and move on. Block tags, block people, do what you need to but don't hurl real world accusations at folks over fictional content. No matter the theme

Don't have real proof of crimes? Walk away. Simple as that, man it's really not hard

If feral or fictional beastiality isn't real and doesn't automatically make someone a zoophile, how come lolisho is suddenly excluded to that reasoning?

Frankly as a victim of csa and cocsa it's insulting to insinuate that drawings or writing carry the same weight as what happened to me and others

Blocking people who conflate fiction with reality- or better yet cherry pick which fiction is passable, is self care

It's not worth keeping people around who would rather skirt the edge of agreeing with fascists than truly grow up and accept that nuance exists in things that make them uncomfy

Actually Mr. Fascist sir I'm not like those OTHER degenerates. When I drew that dog-person fucking that human I made sure his knees were facing the right way and he only walks on four legs when running at approximately 34 mph. I made sure his snout was not TOO realistic and I made this chart to sho-

Twitter be full of fake woke people because they only value representation when it's conventionally attractive and when you dare to give someone realistic things on bodies like cellulite or women who get facial hair and they'll call your art disgusting but they'll do it in a woke way so it's okay!

I ain't saying this for brownie points. I had met wonderful people in my life who are freaks. If supporting freaks is the hill I'll die on, it's the hill I'll die on.

The more I see this nonsense, the more I'm doubling down on supporting freaks. I have zero shame and don't care what others think.

The best thing you can do online right now is be overwhelmingly strange. Shake hands with the people modern society would call perverse. They are your friends.

In the wake of censorship & restrictions, the strongest move you can make is to protect the Weirdo Ecology. Defend our Freakosystem

Y'know, they aren't going to stop this institutionalized discrimination until all all queer/furry art is criminalized. We all might as well career pivot and exclusively make protest art at this point.

Getting censored by the Epstein class? What a sick joke.

I think people get bored or frustrated with furaffinity and mistake it for a dead website because they confuse favs for likes, when they really don't work remotely the same way.

People who "just want to ban one kind of kink art" ALWAYS have a longer list in mind and conceding in any way will just embolden them to go after more. They're fascists looking for the easiest target that will meet the least resistance.

There's no reason to accuse someone of something terrible over a kink, I would say there are exceptions- but so many people could take that in so many different ways.

Smthn smthin they went after [kink] I hate so its ok
Then they came for [my kink]
We need to stick together despite differences.

As I've gotten older I've cared less and less what people are into, especially as I grow more comfortable with things I was curious about but avoided due to it being taboo.

And if I'm not into it and don't want to see it? Mute accounts and just say not to post such things in my spaces.

If you look at someone drawing huge beefy guys with lats as wide as a doorway and biceps that pop open sleeves with the slightest flex, 99% of the time they do it because they think it's hot.

That's it. Fantasy is hot. Unrealistic proportions are hot. It means nothing deeper than that.

Some fuckers on the internet say things among the lines of "Bara artists deserve no rights!!!" and their justification usually boils down to puritanical "Men don't look like this in real life!" stuff.

Yeah, no shit. You won't see Von Lycaon with tits the size of yoga balls IRL. Why does it matter?

The time for active, community level engagement with the “less respectable” art we care about is now.

That means using our voices to shift the floor of acceptability. To contribute Word of Mouth appreciation, and yes, engaged, generous critique, for queer outsider erotic art.

I’ll give an example. If you’re a stranger with an indie book, and my moot makes a post gushing about how good it is, I’m going to consider buying your book. I’m picky, so it takes several posts from multiple credible people for me to give your book a chance.

That‘a how advertising works, but queer indie erotica creators, especially taboo creators, are discouraged from word of mouth campaigns. Our ability to network and advertise our own work is restricted. Right now, it’s mostly up to the community to decide whether art sinks or swims.