RunawayDanish

Imagine having the news broken to you by E621.net, a furry porn website. E621.net (click here to see furry porn lol) has a disclaimer covering today's topic: how the state of Arizona is balancing on a knife-edge as the Governor contemplates whether or not to Veto this ID Age Verification Bill. E621.net is an archive of furry porn that is fiercely moderated by its community of nerds who dedicate their spare time to finding, categorizing, and tagging countless pieces of furry porn for quick queries by potential consumers. Featuring a blacklist and virtually every possible type of furry and furry-adjacent pornography you can think of, E621.net is potentially the most "slice of the internet" a furry porn website can get, and its controversies are many.

You're gonna wanna read-on from here. I'll link the two relevant articles and a PDF I have about Arizona's current Bill and the broader problem here:

1. Yesterday April 1st 2024, Bill goes to Az State Governor
2. February 2023, Bill enters first drafts.
3. (edit)Project 2025, which is the GOP's Trump/Christian Nationalist Theocratic Agenda.
4. I'm watching for the next Media Release Kate Hobb's organizers put out online in a Legislative Action Update. The present bill HB2586 was not listed in her most recent action update.

• If you're a resident of Arizona, please consider writing in with opposition to HB2586.

CW's: U.S. Politics, Policy, Grim Portents and discussion of Pornography online. Also, SFW Content, NSFW Blog. Thanks, let's go.

^{[April 3rd 2024 Edits]: Small revisions for readability, extra linking, and clarification of my conclusion so that it's less "welp we're about to get murdered lol" and is actually what I meant to say... plan for websites you like to go offline.}

New bill on the floor in Kansas, also sitting waiting on a Governor Signature which introduces their state's ID Law. Same week. Similar Scenario. Not looking good.

I recommend you check out this article that covers the specifics, it includes a link to the bill's text too.

A funny thing happened today. Last night (well, more like early this morning but who is even counting anymore) I published the 7th chapter of my current project, Transliterated. Today, two different friends talked to me about how interesting a certain plot point was entirely unprompted. It was one that just kinda came naturally to me when writing and I didn't think twice about until it they highlighted it and got me thinking about how uncommon it really is.

The spoiler-free version of the scenario is that I wrote about an unwilling TF victim, you probably know the type. The hapless human who through no fault of their own (or perhaps some fault) ends up as something else and just has to cope. Usually it becomes the catalyst for a great improvement in their life and all manners of self discovery, even if they're grouchy about it at first.

What I did instead was write about an unwilling TF victim who would have been a willing TF beneficiary in any other story. You also probably know the type. The miserable human who just can't quite get a grip on what's wrong with them, only that they don't feel right in their own skin. Then they get the opportunity to become something else, or else have their subconscious wish granted, and it is a joyous and fulfilling experience for both character and reader.

So what you have is someone who yearns to be something other than human getting the monkey's paw version of that wish. They became something else with no regard to their own wishes or preferences, becoming a creature that in no way resembles their idealized self, but is still so distant from what they knew that they don't have human comforts to cling to either. What does one do in that scenario, when you still don't feel right in your own skin, only it's not your own skin, it's completely foreign on top of it all?

In retrospect, I shouldn't have been surprised that it stuck out to people, given all the fiction in the genre that I have already consumed. But it didn't strike me as weird at all.

Because I'd already lived that.

If I am understanding right, this is the first major company to intentionally stop using reddit from the API changes and the subsequent chaos and fallout of various subs protesting and/or posting NSFW material or just being chaos.

This means these "protests" are actually working and are scaring off larger companies or making others strongly reconsider using it. Minecraft, the still largest game in the world, stepping off the platform is probably going to signal the mass-exodus of other companies following suit, probably going back to bespoke forums rather then centralized hubs like Reddit.

I say good, screw reddit lmao