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feotakahari ([personal profile] feotakahari) wrote2025-08-08 12:36 am

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Sometimes I want my arms and legs and head to pop off my torso and fall onto my bed, because it feels like that way I could actually get some sleep.
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feotakahari ([personal profile] feotakahari) wrote2025-08-07 08:55 am

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Hold up. Miley Cyrus is pansexual and nonbinary? I get why the Gaylors wouldn’t care about, say, Lady Gaga, but Cyrus is pretty much the same style and still putting out some good music. Why not obsess over her instead of scrutinizing everything Swift says?
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feotakahari ([personal profile] feotakahari) wrote2025-08-07 08:06 am

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I’m reading old webcomics, and I don’t miss the art style that goes “I like watching anime but never took an art class, and I’m never going to do any kind of lighting or depth or be at all realistic about how character’s lips move.”
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lb_lee ([personal profile] lb_lee) wrote2025-08-06 09:06 pm

Our Brain On Tufte

Mori: man, what a crummy brain day.

Brain: x_x what will you do to nourish me?

Mori: organize magazines at the sci-fi library, of course! What could be more soul-nurturing than that?!

Brain: you’re right, absolutely nothing!

Mori: man, I can’t help but notice how racy these chainmail bikini babes are and how they’re all over the place, even in nonporny things, while the actual porn we buy these days is way, way tamer in their cover art. These old geeks get to have jiggling nipples everywhere while Rogan can barely buy gay porn comics with a shirtless guy on the cover.

Brain: Hmm... could we make a soul-nurturing activity out of this??? @_@

Mori: I want to go through our entire bookshelf for all the nudity and horny covers and then arrange them into real-life bar graphs charting them by year, content, and couplings.

Brain: HUZZAH! That’s the way to use me! I feel better already!

(And then we made photo graphs and photographs.)
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feotakahari ([personal profile] feotakahari) wrote2025-08-05 02:48 pm

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A realization: The Stupendium is the elevated, semi-dignified form of The Bloodhound Gang. They both have the ability to generate loosely connected rants made of unexpected rhymes, but The Stupendium does stuff like:

Now the ads have got the traffic
And we've grabbed your demographic
So you're packing up your basket
'Cause your dad has gotta have it
He'll be sad if you don’t wrap it with a tag, it'll be tragic
So you're manically grabbing at the shelves amid the panic

And The Bloodhound Gang does stuff like:

Love, the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket
Like the lost catacombs of Egypt, only God knows where we stuck it
Hieroglyphics, let me be Pacific, I wanna be down in your South Seas
But I got this notion that the motion of your ocean
Means small craft advisory
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feotakahari ([personal profile] feotakahari) wrote2025-08-05 01:31 pm

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Even if the Israeli government is genocidal, it feels uncomfortable to refer to them as “Nazis.”
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lb_lee ([personal profile] lb_lee) wrote2025-08-04 09:28 pm
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Bob’s Birthday Ice Cream

Bob: my birthday’s in two weeks, and Rogan asked what I wanted. My response? All the food I am not allowed to eat in my old, bad-heart body. Fried food, desserts, fat and sweets and flavors.

Today, he was at the ice cream shop, and one of the specials was Xtabentun coffee ice cream with anise/honey liqueur. Coffee and booze: my favorite combination! (And wasted on these kids; Falcon is the only one in this place who appreciates a decent cup of coffee asides from me.)

I staked my birthday claim early. I got my ice cream. Oh, it was an experience to be savored, for sure! Best ice cream I’ve ever had... and their body can take it no problem.

Happy early birthday to me!
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lb_lee ([personal profile] lb_lee) wrote2025-08-03 11:45 am

Somerville Yart Sale (Saturday, Aug. 9)

I made the listing of AllFam invisible except to me and previous buyers. The takedown notice is still publicly accessible, but at least it won't be scaring off any potential customers. (And I've now finally accepted the inevitable and created the "pedojacket" tag so I can have an easy way to track shit like this happening to me.)

In better news, we're going to be a part of the Somerville YART Sale event with Joshua Porterfield! We'll have a table of art, zines, books, and FORBIDDEN OBJECTS in front of 68 Bonair At., Somerville, MA 02145.

Event Date: Saturday, August 9th, 12–6 PM (weather date Sunday, August 10th)
Event Map:   https://somervilleartscouncil.org/yart-sale/yart/ (check out more people selling art as yard sales!)
More info anytime at: www.somervilleartscouncil.org/yart-sale

I have also updated my Events Page, which I just realized a lot of people may not know the existence of. (Didn't help that I myself neglected it a lot during the early years of COVID.)
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lb_lee ([personal profile] lb_lee) wrote2025-08-01 10:48 pm
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Wow, I hate this.

Today I just realized that All in the Family ISN'T just plain invisible or "Error 404" when people reach it. People see the takedown notice and since I very obviously don't do photorealistic art, kinda the only conclusion to draw is that my work is "Content glorifying sexual violence" or "minors, minor-presenting, or suggested minors in a sexual context."

This is incredibly degrading. This might be more humiliating than getting shadowbanned from Gumroad for Cultiples, and that was pretty damn crummy.

I make mental health work about sexual trauma. It's bad for business to have "minors in a sexual context" as code for "child pornography" anywhere near me professionally, even if you ignore that this is, again, a memoir about how incest fucked me up. The whole point is that it's awful! Josie Riesman called it "one of the most brutal and engaging comics I’ve ever read." Tarun Athmika did a whole fucking paper on the politics of implication in (among other things) All in the Family, and how bans of discussion of oppression supports that oppression! Holy shit, he couldn't have been more prescient had he tried!

I've still heard nothing from itch.io. I ordered my payout a week ago and it's still "in review." I don't know if I'm going to get paid. The idea that I might get pedojacketed, AGAIN, for totally nonsense reasons is...

I don't know what it is.

This never used to happen to me until 2023, and now it's becoming normal to me. This is just life to me now. And I feel stupidly naive that it took this long to happen; it feels like it was always going to.

At least I can take comfort that the Banned Book Sale is going well. But god, I would've way rathered never throwing one.
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feotakahari ([personal profile] feotakahari) wrote2025-08-01 07:38 pm

Still reading Cybersix

The main difference between the comic and the show is that the show wiped off the grime. The city’s less filthy, the people aren’t as ugly (Yashimoto’s horrible overbite actually blends in with the comic characters), Cybersix is relatively less angsty, the villains aren’t as awful, and Fixed Ideas no longer bleed when killed.

Those green vials that just show up in the cartoon when a Fixed Idea dies? In the comic, Cybersix drinks the stuff straight from their necks. Both Lucas and Yashimoto initially think she’s a vampire.

Comic Cybersix is actually more restrained in her violence. Even the Fixed Ideas usually survive.

I thought that weird military march Jose does in the cartoon was supposed to show that he’d had military discipline rigorously ground into him. It’s a Nazi march. Von Reichter is a Nazi. (Really, I should have guessed from the name.)

A lot of these events went straight into the cartoon but got toned down. The bit where Lori thinks Adrian is dating Cybersix? In the comic, she eventually concludes he must be having sex with the panther.

The school is explicitly for troubled teens.

Jose seduces Lori? Giant flaming :rolleyes:

Yashimoto got a gigantic competence boost in the cartoon.

Lori tries to rape Yashimoto at gunpoint? I don’t have a :rolleyes: big enough.

The compilation I’m reading only goes to the end of the Yashimoto arc. I’d just as soon quit here. Ugh.
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lb_lee ([personal profile] lb_lee) wrote2025-08-01 05:59 pm
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2025 August Fan Poll

Heads up, y'all; on account of having my psychological murder memoir banned as child pornography, I am throwing a Banned Book Sale to help compensate for the loss! Enjoy! And now for the usual poll announcement:

Hey everybody, it's that time again: time to vote for which stuff gets the LiberaPay/Patreon money this month!

As always, anyone can vote (please do!), but LiberaPay and Patreon patrons get double weight for their votes.  (Due to Patreon's porn purges, I really encourage you to use LiberaPay, if you get a choice.) If you want to see the blurbs for any of these works, those are here!  (You can also leave your requests there; requesting a story or essay is always free!) If you don't have a DW and so can't do the poll, that's okay; just leave your vote in the comments below; anon comments are turned on.

Which works gets the money, and thus posted this month?  YOU CHOOSE, readers!
Poll #33450 2025 August Fan Poll
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 24


Did you toss LiberaPay/Patreon money my way last month?

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Yes (my votes count double)
4 (100.0%)

What writing gets posted this month?

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Infinity Smashed: Born Lucky
2 (8.3%)

Reverend Alpert: the Traveling Exorcist
2 (8.3%)

Henchwench for Hire (F/F supervillainy)
2 (8.3%)

Rutless (trans omegaverse porno)
2 (8.3%)

Flights of Reality (the Cursed City)
0 (0.0%)

Anatomy of a Dance (essay)
4 (16.7%)

The Boy Whose Heart Is Home (teen hardship)
4 (16.7%)

The Battleaxe and the Blood-Eater (pseudo Greco-Roman gladiators)
3 (12.5%)

LB Economics (essay)
7 (29.2%)

Cultiples #1 Afterword (essay made of AAAAAAH)
5 (20.8%)

Aphantasia and Headspace (essay)
11 (45.8%)

two apocalyptic micro-stories
1 (4.2%)

What art/comic/zine gets posted this month?

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Cult Comix
4 (17.4%)

Death Watch
5 (21.7%)

How it Was, How It Is
6 (26.1%)

2012 hospital sketchbook
1 (4.3%)

2013 Homeless Year sketchbook
4 (17.4%)

2014 AllFam sketchbook
7 (30.4%)

Blushing and Scent (Mori/Rawlin fluff)
9 (39.1%)

2015 early Biff sketchbook
5 (21.7%)

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feotakahari ([personal profile] feotakahari) wrote2025-08-01 02:47 pm

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I’m reading the Cybersix comics, and one thing I think the cartoon improved on is Jose. Neither version of him has any redeeming qualities, but cartoon Jose feels like a product of his father’s abuse, taking whatever action is necessary to conquer the city and make his father proud. He’s the tool that Cybersix was meant to be, the path she’d have gone down if she stayed. Comic Jose is intensely unpleasant in ways that don’t even further his goals, like trying to kill a cat with a baseball bat or tripping an old woman down a staircase.
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lb_lee ([personal profile] lb_lee) wrote2025-07-31 06:36 pm
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the Hands of a Dozen Strangers: My Experience at a Compassionate Touch Workshop

The Hands of a Dozen Strangers: My Experience at a Compassionate Touch Workshop
Summary: “Loving, consensual touch can be a deliberate religious practice.” —Christine Hoff Kraemer, Eros and Touch from a Pagan Perspective, pg. 122.
Series: Essay
Word Count: 2700
Notes: Winner of the LiberaPay/Patreon fan poll! A lot of these ideas I originally got from Eros and Touch from a Pagan Perspective, especially chapters 1: “Divided for Love’s Sake: An Erotic Cosmology” and 4: “the Sacrament of Touch.” The author has generously uploaded it to archive.org; check it out!

Unsurprisingly to anyone familiar with my history, I (Rogan of LB) have trouble being physically close to people. So what was I doing going to a compassionate touch workshop in a mysterious half-renovated warehouse with a dozen strangers, most of them men? Well, I wanted a change. I wanted to change.

Read more... )
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lb_lee ([personal profile] lb_lee) wrote2025-07-30 01:56 pm

Where to buy the AllFam Ebook in the meantime

Thank you again to everyone who's contributed to the Banned Book Sale; I didn't expect the response and am deeply grateful. I've sold like a dozen books in a week, which is super-unusual for me. Thank you!

Until I hash things out with itch.io (no response yet), you can buy the AllFam ebook (and the script version) on Payhip. I am slowly uploading all my ebooks there, starting with the stuff most likely to be banned. I have everything copied over now except for the Megapack which is... by far the largest and may take a bit.

EDIT: okay, Megapack should be up now too. Whew.
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feotakahari ([personal profile] feotakahari) wrote2025-07-30 12:34 pm

I’m playing Yoru ga Kuru

Judging by the release dates, Persona 3 is “we have Yoru ga Kuru at home.”

There’s this terrible idea some older games have, where characters get leaked experience as soon as they join you, but they don’t get their levels adjusted if you’re overleveled when you get them, so they’ll be lower-level than your older characters for the whole damn game.

Speaking of which, I am so overleveled and I’m barely even trying. I was beating holy hell out of a boss who did about 2% of my HP with each attack, and then the fight ended after enough turns had passed, because narratively, he massively outclassed me.

I have no idea how long it takes to fill up a bond meter, so it feels hard to justify using the male characters who don’t get bond meters.

Wait, this is also older than Fate? Because one of these villains looks distractingly like Kotomine Kirei.

I definitely feel some sort of way about the implication that the succubus-themed villain is actually a psychic projection by a little girl.

I like that there is a massive monster-fighting organization besides the teen heroes, fighting monsters in big cities all over the world. The reason the heroes are fighting is because the massive organization doesn’t give a shit about rural areas where the monsters only have a few people to kill.

The serial rapist villain (apparently?) died first, so now all we’re left with are villains who seem to have reasons for their actions. One of them just agreed to stop killing people, so I’m curious how the rest of this plays out. From the genre and the time period, I can’t imagine any of them will still be alive in the end.
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feotakahari ([personal profile] feotakahari) wrote2025-07-30 12:12 pm
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Looking through a blog mostly full of pictures I find cute, hoping the point I stop is somewhere before the point a guro pic shows up.
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lb_lee ([personal profile] lb_lee) wrote2025-07-30 01:07 pm

Comic: Red Tape Hell, 2015

Wow, y'all really stepped up for the banned book sale. Y'all sure showed me! Much gratitude to all y'all; with fans like you, I am truly blessed.

This was the winner of the fan poll and paid for by supporters at LiberaPay and Patreon! Originally printed in 2015 for the floppy copies of All In the Family #3, they were cut from the final paperback version. Now they live again!

Text-only transcript in the comments below!

every legally disabled person has a story like this )
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feotakahari ([personal profile] feotakahari) wrote2025-07-30 05:22 am

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New York Times article says African-American soldiers will be disproportionately affected by the new shaving rules, because they’re more likely to have curly facial hair that causes skin irritation when shaved. I got to thinking about how that must affect actors as well. I mean, how often do you see an African-American actor in a role where he isn’t clean-shaven?
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lb_lee ([personal profile] lb_lee) wrote2025-07-29 05:29 pm

Perfect Victims (and the guys who made the cash register)

Okay, so to quickly explain what's going on with itch.io (and Fansly, and Steam, and Patreon, and OnlyFans, and and and...)

So, when you buy something from a website, there's you (the customer), the creator of the thing (the maker), and the website you buy it on (the shop). But then there's the payment processor. The payment processor is a middle-man between you and the shopkeeper.

The metaphor I use is: imagine you go to a store and decide to buy a cookie. You go to the shopkeeper to give them your money, and suddenly a guy jumps out of the bushes and tells you, "NO! You are only allowed to buy pure, clean, HEALTHY food with your cash!"

You say, "Who the fuck are you, a cop?"

"No."

"A politician? Are cookies illegal now?"

"No."

"Are you involved with the shop? The cookie makers?"

"No! We made the cash register!"

further explanation, but I am not a banker nor all that educated about payment processors )
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feotakahari ([personal profile] feotakahari) wrote2025-07-29 03:40 pm

I’m pissed off on the Steam forums

Copying something I posted at the tail end of a thread I started about a certain game:

“I don’t think I’m making unclear statements here? The villain says time travel to undo suffering is good. The hero says time travel to undo suffering is bad. I say the villain’s statement is generally right.

“Some commenters say the villain doesn’t actually want to prevent suffering. That’s true, but that’s a different statement from “time travel to prevent suffering is bad.” Some commenters say the mechanics of time travel in this setting would prevent the villain from succeeding even if he was honest. That’s true, but that’s a different statement from “time travel to prevent suffering is bad.” I disagree with the person who said “If you time travel to prevent suffering, you’ll make the same mistakes all over again,” but at least that’s a response to what I said, not a response to some other thing I didn’t say.”