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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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    1. Choose an instance where the rules don’t forbid the content you want to post. If you’re looking for exposure of your own art, you’ll particularly want to avoid choosing an instance that has onerous rules. (One example of such a rule might be that porn needs to be posted as “unlisted” or followers-only.)
    2. Mark the media as sensitive. How you do this will depend on what interface/client you’re using.
    3. Use the “content warning” feature. This is not a place for a full description. Instead, imagine it from from the perspective of someone who would not want to see it. What keywords or descriptors would be useful to allow them to know that they shouldn’t click to show it? (A useful minimum would be something to indicate that it’s illustrated or RL, that it’s furry or feral or whatever, the apparent sexes of the characters, and any extreme fetishes depicted.)


  • Unfortunately, client-side keyword filters aren’t community or even server-specific. (Nor do they have context of when a post was made.) They’re a setting that’s global to everywhere. This makes reusing tags extremely problematic, especially when changing to drastically different meanings that are very likely to be on the opposite side of what someone might want to seek out versus avoid seeing.

    Consider the following cases: I do not want to see andromorphs or gynomorphs. However, I also really don’t want to risk filtering out gay content and I don’t want to filter ambiguous characters automatically either.

    I really don’t want to have to start swinging the block community hammer in order to filter out places that use G or A to mean things I absolutely do not want to see.

    I believe quite strongly in promoting common-ground communities and infrastructure based on people being able to filter out what they don’t want to see in a granular way. Inverting tag meanings undermines that to an extent that I think is not justifiable.



  • Of all the things I haven’t had time for in far too long, I miss ERP the most.

    However, I don’t know if ERP is really even the right term for me, because I’m basically never roleplaying a character that’s distinct from me. The collaboratively created setting and actions can be far more real to me than actual reality.

    My species dysphoria runs so strong that even when I’m having sex in real life, if I want to get off I have to focus on an imagined version of events where I’m in a more true form (feral). This is not from a disinterest in real-life sex, anything but! (It should say a lot that I never put PrEP on pause even during the height of the pandemic.) Rather, my point is that in a way, sex is kinda always ERP, at least to me inside my head.

    As for where: I miss the days before F-List went off the rails in a bizarrely anti-privacy way by permitting FFA to exist instead of banning it for enabling creepy/abusive record-keeping of otherwise ephemeral LFRP postings. I haven’t felt safe on that platform since that became a thing.

    I also dearly miss the days when just chatting with people would rather often naturally segue into ERP. (Am I crazy for blaming the decline of that on smartphones?)


  • With the right mods, Skyrim. I am dead serious.

    There is so damn much stuff out there that you can combine to make just about any kind of experience you want.

    Want 3080-meltingly pretty graphics and everyone to be furries, with the extent of sex being just the werewolves having bits and the ability to take off your underwear to see a nice canid sheath? You can do that.

    Want to live out fantasies of you and your companion getting used by the enemies as sex slaves if you’re defeated in combat? You can do that.

    Want to make wolves friendly to you and have orgies with them when you shapeshift into a werewolf? You can do that.

    Want to hire a sellsword and have fun with his “sword”? You can do that.

    Want to walk into a town, come across a guard getting fucked by a horse, and trade handies with your follower while you both watch? You can do that.

    Todd Howard was all “See that mountain? You can climb it.” Mods turn it into “See that? You can do that.”