A Harpy In Trousers

🌟 It’s here it’s here it’s finally HERE 🌟

I launched my SubscribeStar at last. I’ve never done something like this before and I have no idea how it’ll go but I’m determined to see what it’s like!!

This comic of mine - an erotic story about pirates encountering mermaids for a magic pact - is going to be something fun and sexy and heartfelt, but I feel like I’ll need some extra support to make it happen. Of course there will be my regular NSFW art on there, so even if you’re not interested in the comic, there will be plenty of other things to check out! There is also a commission tier for those who would love some personalised art of their own.

Any kind of contribution would mean a lot to me, even if all you can do right now is share. I’m so excited to work on it all further.

I used to be *good* at search. It was a whole thing - I found people's "lost songs" or their unknown-source childhood stuffed toy or whatever from Google.

Now, you can't search for the exact brand/design name of something and get accurate answers. It drives me spare on Amazon - if I search for XYZ and you don't have any, or you only have 2, tell me that.

I used to be able to search for recipes and easily eliminate unwanted ingredients with a -. For example I'd look for low-carb desserts but without the zillions that use peanut butter simply by searching for something like:

low carb chocolate dessert recipe -peanut

And I'd get a slew of on-point suggestions. For some time now if you do -peanut Google ignores the - and assumes you want recipes stuffed with peanuts.

Where it's even worse now is now you get directed to sites full of bogus AI recipes that don't even make sense. But they have peanuts in them.

I used to be able to use reverse image searches to find out who made that awesome art so I could give credit in my share. They've removed that ability entirely and replaced it with Lens, which is AI BS just showing you more like what you looked for. (Rebecca Watson complained about this in her recent video about JD Vance jizz cup rumours and I apologise for that sentence but...yeah. Watson is great, go find her on Youtube and subscribe because she went into detail about how Google has become less and less useful for debunking.)

This isn't just about Google inserting shopping ads instead of what you wanted to learn about. That's bad. But the results now are just *broken*. The tools we used to have to make searches better have been removed. Google no longer wants us to find the answers we seek, but the answers they want us to have, and that's super creepy and dangerous.

And the alternatives are either using Google in the back end or have other significant barriers to use.