Never be afraid to draw badly!

It's a yellow bittern! They are very creechur.

junicorn

day 04

but I'm hearing there's a NSFW-friendly ko-fi alternative built on atproto that's actively in the works, and being vetted by lawyers right now. as torrent-princess (OP) says, you should be able to swap out payment processors while keeping your account intact. this matters since even if stripe removes support, you'll still have a shop and all of your links intact. (ATproto is an infrastructure that bsky is built on, but is far bigger than bsky with far more opportunities.)

additionally, the Free Speech Coalition is working on a credit union specifically for adult work (including kink art) - here's the link so you can add your interest & support. Since this will be built by sex workers, there'll be far less risk of being debanked for spurious and puritanical reasons.

on a domain TLD level, there's an initiative here for a .furry domain built from the ground up by seasoned furries; it's unclear whether they'll support NSFW, but it's yet another promising turn of events for a group that's been similarly affected by censorship.

can somebody wiser than me sniff out if this smells legit? it's definitely something I'm interested in- the existing OC-focused websites and spaces are too strongly anti for me to ever be comfortable

I'm not savvy enough or awake enough to determine if the FAQ has any red flags or not. it doesn't explicitly ban adult x minor, but it also doesn't say it's allowed. and one of my characters is 14 in a relationship with a 19 year old, that she THINKS is healthy (and it kind of is. or at least, it's healthier than all the other shit going on in her life, which isn't saying much)

so, obviously, needing to know if one of my flagship characters is ok to talk about is important. i could just ask, but I'm wary of being witch hunted lol. you guys scare me less, haha.

humans are the moms

compared to other species on earth, humans have a really outsized "protect baby" instinct. you give a human a thing and tell them it's actually a baby thing and many humans will suddenly develop a complete and total aversion to harming it, even if it's like, a writhing mass of slimy tentacles in no way reminiscent of human infants

cats domesticated us by figuring out that they could leave their kittens with us when they went out hunting and come back and probably still have the same number as before they left. there is a decent chance that wolves did the same thing

word gets around the less parenting-inclined species and they're just like, are you doing a long haul space voyage? going to have to lay some eggs in the course of the trip? take a few humans with you. yeah they'll just start training the young and keeping from them climbing into the machinery themselves you don't even have to find specialists. I know a guy who budded unexpectedly on a freight hauler halfway through a four year trip, and not only did the humans not eat his spawn, they set up this thing called "babysitting" where they'd take turns monitoring its survival and helping to teach it basic skills