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Delicious queer & trans erotic comics, for people tired of crumbs. Core editor/producer Tab Kimpton & helped by lots of other good apples🍏 https://linktr.ee/tabkimpton

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Discord Comics @discordcomics.bsky.social · Aug 22

Don't mind me, just got something in my hundreds of eyes TTT_TTT

One hell of a finish everyone, I'm so thankful for all the support for Infernal Relations! Yesterday we ended with an eye watering £18,267, /three times/ the initial funding goal for this project. \o/

an angel and demon embrace while an office is on fire. a screen on it's side read 'warning emotional overload'

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Broken Frontier @brokenfrontier.bsky.social · 2d

Hey everyone! This amazing comic by @pigeonface.bsky.social really needs your help to get over the Kickstarter finish line. Kamila is one of the most exciting indie voices working in the UK and this totally deserves your support. Please back or spread the word! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pig...

The Ecstasy of Jenny D - New original comic by Pigeon!

Bridgerton meets the dancing plague in this surreal tale of sisterhood, repressed queerness and divine intervention.

www.kickstarter.com

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Fidi🔥 @fidisart.bsky.social · 2d

Share your couples art! ❤️💚

Redraw of Al Parker's "Ladies Journal" illustration titled "Safe in his arms". The painting shows an older gay couple (artist's ocs) in a tender embrace. The character in the foreground wears a deep green robe with purple butterflies and has long, grey hair. He's reclining his head on the other character behind him, who wears a simple white shirt and brown pants and is gently holding the other, a hand on his head, the other reaching around him.

Study of one of Leyendecker's "Dancing Couple" paintings, but with the artist's ocs. The woman is wearing a late victorian red dress, her dark brown hair is held in an elaborated updo. The man in a tux is guiding her and holding her waist.

Art of Stede Bonnet and Ed Teach from OFMD in the style of old romance covers. Ed is wearing the infamous green cake topper dress, hair loose, clean shaven, his eyes demeanor seductive and possessive, his eyes are piercing the observer. Stede is in full romantic hero mode, carrying Ed in the sunset and wearing a billowing white shirt. He also has a beard.

Queer redraw of McCauley Conner's art. The painting shows the creator's OCs, a vampire and his human boyfriend/bloodbag. They are both laying on red cushions, the vampire has just fed from his boyfriends neck, who's bleeding and bringing his hand on his forehead in a dramatic fainting gesture. With his other hand, he's embracing the vampire, who's smiling at the observer.

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Nova & Mali @novamali.bsky.social · 7d

Back it here:
www.kickstarter.com/projects/novaandmali/in-their-clutches-just-another-monsterfxcking-zine

In Their Clutches - just another monsterfxcking zine

Sexy, monstrous, gorgeous, and scary - check out our monster filled riso zine!

www.kickstarter.com

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Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · 9d

‼️🚨KICKSTARTER WORKERS ARE ON STRIKE🚨‼️

As of 8am this morning, the workers of Kickstarter United/OPEIU Local 153 are on strike.

WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR A BOYCOTT! Creators and allies, please continue using and supporting the platform.

Kickstarter United is on strike!
We are not asking for a boycott! Creators & Allies: Please continue to support & use the platform
swipe for ways to show your solidarity

Why We're Striking
A codified 4-day work week.
We simply want to protect the way we've been working for over 3.5 years. The 4dww has proven benefits, such as increased productivity and improved employee satisfaction. It's part of what makes Kickstarter a special, innovative place to work.
Fair pay for our lowest-paid workers.
We're fighting for livable minimum salaries for roles that are undervalued by the market but crucial to keeping Kickstarter running. We believe none of our workers should struggle to make ends meet.

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Jack Parker @mxjackparker.bsky.social · 6d

I'm tired of looking for stories from trans and intersex sex workers and finding far more instances of people speaking over us than instances where we get to speak for ourselves. We're 20% of the way to an anthology seeking to combat that!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mxj...

A picture of the Kickstarter page showing the project is £3251 funded out of £15700 with 77 backers and 27 days to go.

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Hannah Berry @streakofpith.bsky.social · Sep 5

🌟 IT LIVES! 🌟 The UK Comics Creator Survey is BACK, baby!

Here to gather up, analyse and disseminate your data to help uplift the comics world, like if Robin Hood was a statistician or something.

ukcomicscreators.org.uk

A promotional image for the survey, reading “we’ve got questions; we need answers. Who’s in?” Above a series of illustrated raised hands in various styles. At the bottom is the url ukcomicscreators.org.uk

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ShortBox Comics Fair @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social · 11d

It's that time: ShortBox Comics Fair is here!

Over 140+ all-new, original comics created by artists from around the world, gathered exclusively in one place -for October only!

And it's all online, with all digital comics: no shipping, no waiting, no travelling.

www.shortboxcomicsfair.com

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⚠️ eve g ⚠️ @evegwood.com · 12d

🎉 It's my birthday!! Please consider checking out my free webcomics visagecomic.com and inhibitcomic.com, or my shop evegwood.com/shop, or the publisher I run quindriepress.com! Or hire me, I'm looking for freelance lettering work evegwood.com/lettering 💛

Me standing in a field with my dog, smiling at the camera, one hand in my pocket. There are large trees behind me.

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 15d

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 16d

Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement

An investigation shared exclusively with Atmos and HEATED finds that 80% of anti-trans organizations receive fossil fuel funding.

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Filthy Figments 🔞🏳️‍🌈 @filthyfigments.bsky.social · 15d

Thirsty? Let us fill you up with our Hot & Spicy Anthologies. Get down and dirty with food, sports, and fairytales!

Print Editions: strawberrycomics.com/shop/
Digital Editions: strawberrycomics.itch.io

#NSFW #Fairytales #SportsComics #Comics #EroticComics

Cover art for all three of our erotic anthologies. Text reads: " CHECK OUT OUR PRINT ANTHOLOGIES. EACH BOOK CONTAINS OVER 200+ PAGES OF ORIGINAL COMICS EXCLUSIVE TO THESE COLLECTIONS. AVAILABLE IN PRINT & PDF!

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Discord Comics @discordcomics.bsky.social · 14d

Also those programs are all double entry bookkeeping software - it's a very different system to a spreadsheets! I had such a steep learning curve switching

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Hari Conner @haridraws.bsky.social · 18d

🩸 OUT TODAY 🥀
Disappear into a dark forest and get seduced, devoured, and perhaps escape your job for good, in NIGHT AT THE VAMPIRE CASTLE: A choose-your-own-romance for adult readers

✶ No experience needed
✶ Replayable
✶ Illustrated
& out now www.hari-illustration.com/natvc

Hari holding a copy of the book 'night at the vampire castle' while wearing a suitably vampiric shirt with a ruffly collar - the graphic reads 'out today!'

Photo of an open copy of the book 'night at the vampire castle' where you can see the text and an illustration of an ominous castle on a stormy night

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Discord Comics @discordcomics.bsky.social · 23d

Last chance!

Emilycottonbird-✨BACK MY KICKSTARTER✨ @ec-cotton.bsky.social · Aug 19

IT is LIVE! “Date with a Demon is a 100+ page, full color, NSFW graphic novel, detailing the romance of Ariel, our bratty witch protagonist, and Asmodeus, her morally grey, hot demon ex. GO CHECK IT OUT! www.kickstarter.com/projects/904...

Date with a Demon

An Erotic Graphic Novel

www.kickstarter.com

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Discord Comics @discordcomics.bsky.social · Sep 11

Truly grateful I noticed this, I've been living in the dark ages

Discord Comics @discordcomics.bsky.social · Sep 9

Their help section only has this other method mentioned, I have been complaining there wasn't an easier way for YEARS

support.clip-studio.com/en-us/faq/ar...

When you want to change font type and size of multiple texts. - Clip Studio Official Support

In Clip Studio Paint EX, the font settings of multiple texts can be changed simultaneously using the story editor. How to operate1. Select the text to

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Discord Comics @discordcomics.bsky.social · Sep 9

Doing a lot of lettering editing in clip studio paint? Well you may not know there's a tool setting that lets you change multiple bits of text all at once. (I didn't)

You need to have the tool option 'Selected Text' not 'new only' and it will alter all selected text layers for you!!

a screen shot of menu tool settings in CSP

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White Squirrel @whitesquirrel.com · Sep 3

Due to popular demand, we are setting up a heavily discounted fulfillment service for artists outside the US that are scrambling after the recent tariff / customs policy put in place for shipments to the USA.

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Loui Stonehill @louistonehill.bsky.social · Sep 2

Very interesting algorithm analysis, which explains the repeated problems with content moderation getting in the way of social justice

tldr: it's always good to block a TERF or a white supremacist or any other type of fascist

original post: www.tumblr.com/chiptrillino...

Screenshot of tumblr text post by fourohfourlifenotfound August 24 part 1/3:

"If we are ever going to stop this, then you guys need to start learning why this happens.
And it's not always because some executive made a decision to favor a TERF. It's because the technology is broken in a way TERFs have learned to use to their advantage.
So content moderation is a HUGE task. It is incredibly inefficient to manually monitor all user reports-- when you "flag" something as spam or inappropriate or 'inciting harm' (what Blueskye is saying the banned users had in their posts). So what actually happens is that the bulk of it is reviewed by machine. The precise "how" is a bit of a black box (if you say exactly, it makes it more vulnerable to being bypasses), but we generally know it's a bit of machine learning ("ai", but not he chatgpt kind) and a bit of automation. Generically this gets referred to as an "algorithm" (which is a meaningless word I don't have time to unpack here).
The TERFs have a formula. A battle plan, if you will. I've been watching them use it for almost a decade. And they play social media sites like a fiddle every single time."

Text post part 2/3:

"The way it works is that they coordinate attacks on targets they dislike. (Usually trans people, but ace discourse is a notable example of targets not necessarily fitting that demographic.) They send links to each other of posts to report. They'll flag it for whatever the nearest thing they can is. The blueskye users were wishing ill to JK Rowling, so "inciting harm" was the excuse selected. "Inappropriate or sexually explicit content" is a common selection for other trans content.
Then what happens is the content moderation "algorithm" sees a huge influx of reports for a certain post or user. And instead of making a human manually review all of that, it automatically initiates a ban or takedown. And if the "algorithm" has word censorship built in, it will begin to auto-flag for things containing words in posts frequently flagged, so it begins to auto-flag the word trans itself.
This has been happening for almost a decade. There was a trans youtuber who proved TERF hater group chats flagged his videos so much that it started auto-demonitizing identical videos with the word trans in the title, but leaving ones without the word alone. I strongly suspect this is why we see huge amounts of trans women banned for no reason on tumblr. And this is clearly what is happening now."

Text post part 3/3:

"How do we fix it? There's no easy solution. All the things about the "algorithm" that make moderation easier for the social media platforms are the exact reasons it's so difficult to defeat. It's hard to teach a machine what's a genuine flag and a malicious one. Again, it's been almost a decade since the issue was raised with youtube, and there has yet to be a solution for rooting out malicious coordinated flagging.
But here's one thing that can help: get TERFs off of social media. Stop letting them bait you into petty fights. Learn how to identify them. Block and report them. "

Response by drtanner:

"Blocking TERFs and other assorted bigots is especially effective on bsky, because the block function there is nuclear. In short, if you block someone, not only can they not view your account or any of your posts, but any replies they made on your posts will no longer be viewable by others, even if they haven't personally blocked that user themselves. If they quote you, you can even decouple your post from their quote. In short, blocking someone on bsky produces mutual hiding of content, and it's extremely effective at starving these cunts of oxygen. Bigots who can't convince people to fight with them and whose posts don't gain any traction because they're blocked by everyone and their dog leave the platform, i.e. Jesse Singal.
It works, people just need to remember to do it more. Preemptive blocking of dickheads before they start shit with you is the best way to prevent things like this from happening. "

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Discord Comics @discordcomics.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thank you!! It's still open to late backers if you'd like 😊

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Discord Comics @discordcomics.bsky.social · Sep 2

I just backed Black & Bloody on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/bla...

Black & Bloody

A Black Vampire anthology by Black Indie Comix Club

www.kickstarter.com

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Ana Valens | 🔞 | Comms Open @acvalens.net · Aug 30

PayPal user in the UK lost their account after buying adult ebooks “about monsters and milking,” “some dubcon stuff”

“My account got banned a couple of days ago for making purchases which violate the ToS. Upon querying w/ staff over the phone I've been told that it was ebooks that I've been buying”

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My account got banned a couple of days ago for making purchases which violate the terms of service.
Upon querying with staff over the phone l've been told that it was e-books that l've been buying.
I'm panicking a little bit right now. I haven't done anything illegal have I? The books were mostly stuff about monsters and milking. Some dub-con stuff.
If it is illegal, what do I need ot do to protect myself? Do I delete my e-books?
If the e-books aren't illegal then is the company really allowed to tell me how I'm allowed to spend my money?
Like, is this any different to Halifax or Nationwide forbidding me from buying cigarettes or alcohol at Tesocs?
I'm in England.
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Discord Comics @discordcomics.bsky.social · Aug 29

I might wait a week to see if other people have success posting into america, but after then I'll put my usa postage prices up a bit and then resume shipping as usual.

Discord Comics @discordcomics.bsky.social · Aug 29

UK to USA tariff update: Just checked with a faux parcel in royal mail click and drop and good news they recognise comic books as 0% fees automatically (with apparel/pins etc at 10%) though you do have to pay a 50p admin fee per parcel.

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Jasper @realbadjasper.bsky.social · Aug 26

👽💥ROBBER/ROBERT update!💥👽
Chapter 1 Epilogue: page 10, mature readers only! 🔞
Read for free: robber-robert.com

The second robber giving a fine example of that well-known narrative principal: Chekov's Shelves Full Of Dildos

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Discord Comics @discordcomics.bsky.social · Aug 29

Here for the fakku but for indie comics comment!!

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