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i miss seeing kinda badly done porn on e6, the deviantart vibes they gave, just unbridled horny not restrained by a lack of skill or practice, it was fun to see randos just wanting to do furry porn and see how they got progressively better at it, it just had such a nice vibe

the difference in styles and experimenting that was goin on there,,

it was inspiring actually, it got me to try doing art myself

now i see some dog's tits drawn with excruciating detail in that pixiv corporate anime illustration style all the damn time and feel nothing

sure the "quality" of furry porn has risen but at what cost man, at what cost

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As a furry who just started Armored Core 6:

"Time to get to work, 621."

Me: "UwU?! What did he call me?"

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e621-ler 🧍‍♂️ idea by @shimomcdragon

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what

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click the die🎲 and die a little inside

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they really need to make the difference between the 'reply' button and the 'report' button more obvious

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hey, uh, Firefox mobile? not to, uh, doubt your prowess, but, um...

I don't think that particular blue site is tumblr

I actually don't think tumblr has that kind of image anymore (unfortunately)

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"purity culture doesn't hurt real people!" porn is effectively banned in my state because websites that are clearly marked 18+ are "harmful to minors"

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If you live in the United States, particularly the state of Arizona, please call and email the appropriate representatives about this shit. It doesn’t help minors (or anyone) at all and it’s just killing off another major internet space

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I've recently been tracking the upload counts and rates for various characters on e621, just to sate my own curiosity. As of today, Loona (Helluva Boss) has surpassed Krystal (Star Fox) in total uploads to the site. Since I began tracking, Loona has had a higher upload rate than any other character.

(Also, I had to truncate a lot of MLP characters to make this fair, lol.)

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this was e621 in 2007. Earliest snapshot found.

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esix  💙 💛

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...TBH, while the nature of the site might make this sound silly, this should be a wakeup call that free speech online is in moral peril.

I've had at least one person I know (Specifically @reggiemess, who's really into free speech stuff) say in response to this that:

I legitimately think we're looking at the end of safe, anonymous clearweb porn within a few years. The number of states that are passing/have passed "id required for porn access" laws IS increasing. And people need to be aware of that. Atm I'd consider them in the 'testing phase' where they're waiting for legal challenges and testing logistics for enforcement. Currently I think they're not getting much attention because a) people who would oppose these laws don't care about red states b) vpns exist and are an effective way to get around websites blocking state access and c) currently it's being handled by websites blocking state access rather than suing or otherwise putting up a challenge.

But, let this not lead you to despair, but to action, given he also said:

To be clear while I do think that's where the current political trajectory is headed, I don't think it's irreversible and set in stone. Watch local legislation. This is something that's happening at the state level, which gives a false sense of security for people in blue states- if enough states make operation difficult/expensive, sites could be forced to comply or shut down.

So, yeah, do that. If you belong to any local orgs like the DSA, or hell even if you have a local friendgroup who you think might be organizable, try and get their asses on that issue, because it is important.

But also, focus on stopping the federal laws, which I've talked about a lot in terms of warning folks about them, but they're still a threat and still gonna be a threat all through this stupid election year.

So keep calling your damn senators about them, keep up with Fight For The Future and their badinternetbills.com project, and also if you can, there's a Discord server I belong to trying to organize folks to fight this at the federal level, so that's helpful too.

Like, this should not send you into despair, this should be a wakeup call, let's make sure they don't pass this like FOSTA/SESTA did, because y'all know what that did to Tumblr...

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You've caught her at a very inopportune time.

Art I commissioned with Vossie on twitter:

https://twitter.com/___vossie___

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hi. why is nobody talking about the porn ban in north carolina? the PAVE act is a bill that was passed back in september 2023 (came into law january 1st 2024) that effectively bans users from viewing websites hosting adult content without age verification. (link to the bill)

"-the act legally requires commercial ventures to verify users’ ages if a company “knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors on the internet from a website that contains a substantial portion of such material.”

In order to do so, North Carolina requires these sites to either use “a commercially available database that is regularly used by businesses or governmental entities for the purpose of age and identity verification,” or utilize “another commercially reasonable method of age and identity verification.” Companies are not allowed to hold records on any personally identifying information used to confirm users’ ages.

Additionally, North Carolina offers residents the right to a lawsuit if a site is found to record user identifying information, or if a minor’s parent or guardian finds that a website allowed their child to access a site purposefully hosting material “harmful to minors.”" obviously we don't want these websites having our IDs, but sites like e621 and pornhub just straight up aren't asking for them either- blocking their service to the state in it's entirety instead. even beyond the restriction of adult websites, obviously as the 'queerest place on the net' we can see how "material that is harmful to minors" is not just intentional vague wording, but a massive red flag. even if you dont care about the porn- which you should, this is a massive rights violation. how long until 'harmful material' is expanded to include transgender people? same-sex relationships? anything lgbtq? this is a serious fucking problem and it opens the door to hundreds of potentially worse bills that extrapolate on the same concept.

i have no idea what to do to fight it, but if someone smarter than me could add links to representatives or something, that would be awesome.

i'm also going to tag a few people to get this post out: @polyamorouspunk @safety-pin-punk @doggirlbreasts (i have no idea who else to tag, if any of you can think of someone who can help this post get out there, please tag them!)