Malachyte

Seconding this fix! I had to mess around with Windows Ink as well to get CSP set up right when I first got it (I also switched from SAI to CSP, though it was a long time ago now)

If I get the chance to name something on the back end while building my website, I hope I remember to call it "feral-worm-porn" as a funny treat for the few that stumble onto it

So where does all my feral worm porn go? What platform takes "no knees whatsoever"? Horny worms are aching to know.

Alright, I think that's all the important things that need reposting. Nothing like logging on for the day and finding out your entire house is on fire... again.

Stay strong, stay vigilant, and never forget to prioritize connecting with others, as much as you're able. We are each other's life boats.

Cohost died since I wrote this, so you can now read this on my site, linked below.

This article and the message it holds have been pretty much evergreen, but I genuinely wish it could've gotten left in the past.

RT if it'll help even one person currently dealing with this shit again.

You can find Part 2 here:
bsky.app/profile/the....

Introduction: Talking about when FA went down for weeks about 8 years ago, leading to me never trusting any single platform with my artwork ever again. It explains that this is an attempt to share my philosophy of being present online and try to encourage others to take from it. It features an illustration of a surreal looking rabbit, floating in a meditative pose, with six arms splayed out in a symmetrical way, surrounded by several orbs with various site logos inside each of them.

Preamble: Talking about this being a pet issue for me given my experiences, and how it's been happening for many years now. Capitalism's endeavors to give the cheapest viable product has ruined the Internet by going from being a haven into something to be exploited. This isn't about fishing for sympathy, but sharing a personal experience from over the years should illustrate this trend's effects. This trend will continue.

Anecdotes: Listing various sites' decisions leading to me both losing and having to spend a lot of time and energy to relocate myself. Tumblr being my best performing site before the porn ban; Patreon hinting at their policy change early on, leading to me leaving four years prior to the banwave last year; and FA suspending and serving me a final warning after almost 20 years of activity on the site.

Observations and Conclusion: Explaining how these experiences have led to me being extremely cautious, if not paranoid, about sites changing tack and deciding that I shouldn't be there any more. Centralized management in this Capitalist environment simply doesn't work any more, so we need to reclaim control where we can. I have an idea to try and help with this, but that will be shared in a later post.

Omnipresence, Revisited
Part 1/2: On Belonging Nowhere, As a Digital Kink Artist

Longform text: cohost.org/ChocoSune/po...

This is at least the fourth time that I've found myself uprooted from a place I've been operating from, so I got to thinking and writing.

Please read and share. Thank you. 💝

Years ago I remember a police commissioner reporting that they could deal with one big protest fine, what they struggled with was 10 simultaneous smaller protests at once.

Everyone having their own service is comparable. Become background noise. The guerilla warfare of smut distribution.

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

The infographic helps but uh. If you're looking for a simple way to do this, 5calls.org is my recommend.

It requires giving the website basic ZIP code info to find your reps, but automates finding their numbers and updates for current issues.

that first infographic was small cuz i posted it from my phone so here's a bigger one

Individual websites will not save us. Running from platform A to platform B will not work as payment processors and legislation will simply follow our trail

You have to speak out against censorship and surveillance legislation. Its the source of all of this.

Call your reps

SubscribeStar.adult | Prohibited Content and Use

Its been brought to my attention that SubscribeStar has updated its content policies and is now much, much more strict wrt the kinds of content it will host

subscribestar.adult/prohibited_c...

helpful infographic for the chronically online

Me, a white woman with glasses and short and brown hair wearing a pink Sailor Moon shirt, pink anime eye earrings, and a pink hairbow

Happy National Women's Day!

I'm a woman who runs her own business! That's something women only could do after the Women's Business Ownership Act of 1988.

I was 4!

It's a possibility that you won't make sales for a while, it's true! It takes time to build a customer base

There's no such thing as a skill threshold for selling art, it's only a matter of if you're ready to run a business in some capacity, and if you're prepared for turning a creative hobby into a job

I just had a full-day migraine yesterday myself, so I feel for you extra hard right now @.@

My recent favorite is pickled peppadew peppers! They're tangy-sweet with some spice, and they go well with rich/meaty toppings. I was able to find them at my local chain grocery store, so I think they won't be hard to find (hopefully!)

Finished streaming! Thanks for hanging out, and I hope y'all have a good weekend~

A chibi red panda sitting at a desk about to draw on some blank papers, looking happily determined.

#MalaHype

Streaming! Working on sketch orders and chipping at the backlog. Should be a variety of stuff drawn, nearly all NSFW but nothing too 'extreme' I don't think.

No mic today, just vibing and focusing on art while I listen to music ❤️

Art [NSFW] | Mic [Off] | Audio [On]
picarto.tv/Malachyte/

Pet pic spam signal, ACTIVATE. @asivilezee.bsky.social is a sweetheart and having a rough time, she could use some cuteness.

A photo of a cat on a bed wearing a medical cone and looking annoyed. The cat is white with orange spots, and his neck is so long.

This is meant to be a traced sketch of a photo of a cat in a medical cone, but instead it looks like a seal having an existential crisis.

What a coincidence, I was just sharing this sketch of my late beloved cat (Jelly) with someone else, so I have it on hand. I tried to trace over a photo of him wearing a cone and hating it, and when I removed the photo layer... wowzers 😂

Best wishes for you while you get through this!

Stop, I can only fit so many ideas in my head!!

one very basic research tip I have is if you're reading something that includes an interesting quote from another source, try and read the full context of that quote! There's usually way more good stuff surrounding it!!

Thank you for the birthday wishes yesterday! It was indeed a wonderful time, I read a lot of books and ate way too many tater tots.

I finally started reading Dune! I also skipped around to some other stuff just for fun yesterday, but Dune is the main focus currently. I'm liking it so far, it's a lot more sci-fi than I typically read!

It's me birfday~ (sort of; no leap year this year)

I worked really hard this week, so it feels extra good to get to relax and indulge a bit today! I'm going to have a lay about and read as many books as I please, I'm positively grinning in excitement 📚💕

I never even thought to question that about my license. I think my brain just expanded.

Doodled a quick thing between comms

Downside being that I've logged hundreds of ours and still never gotten to year 3... >w>;