February erotica comms (2/5)! in these trying times…. I’m glad I get to draw queer bodies for people who care about artists……

patreon.com/hesste

I think the biggest damage to the art community was the obsolescence of gallery sites (y!, deviantart, etc) and the rise of scroll-by social media, like twitter and even tumblr. Art is not ''content'', you shouldnt need to post art every day (or every month!) to be relevant. This mindset sucks.

An illustration of my original character, Aleron. He has his back towards the viewer and is looking to the right with a slightly shocked and bashful expression on his face with a hand close to his lips. He has long dark blue hair with glowing cyan ends in a high ponytail. He is wearing a dark blue hanfu that has silver collars and a silver belt with a red ornament hanging from it. The inner sleeves are cyan. He has fair skin, blue eyes, elven ears with a gold sun earring and a gold ring on his ring finger. Behind him is a traditional chinese building and surrounding him are patches of all grass. The atmosphere is at night with moonlight shining down upon him but below him are warmly lit fireflies. In the right side of the illustration, some glowing red hair can be scene, belonging to Bhargavi who has walked ahead of him. It is snowing.

Having a bit of a bashful moment 🫢

#OC #ocsky #art

After another portrait session in the atelier

#ocs #ctccomic

Lamb #fanart

今年もよろしくお願いいたしまーす！

Word!

reposting with alt-text

no big deal

Puritanism

Am I your favourite artists favourite artist

Shyness

"̴̊ͅY̵̧̏o̴̥̚u̸̯̚'̵͉͝v̸̻̈́ë̷̹́ ̴̠̾m̵̘̂e̵͈̿t̴͖͘ ̷̖̈́w̶̲͋i̴̛̻ẗ̷͓h̶̙̀ ̸͚̓á̴̰ ̶̗͆t̶̻̚e̸͛ͅr̵̛̙r̷̰̂i̷͍͂b̷̔ͅl̵͚͐e̵͉͘ ̶̖̓f̷̈́ͅä̷͚́t̶͗͜e̶̙̽.̶͇́ ̵̟̌H̸̯͝a̵̖͗v̵̫̆ȇ̴̹ṋ̸̆'̵̜̚ẗ̴̢́ ̴̹͑y̷̹̓ǫ̴͗ü̴͖?̶̡͑"̴̻̍

#MajorasMask #TLOZ #Link

That Fall light through the window… Like bring on the pumpkin spice 🍂🎃

It's been a week, so I can post the comic I did for @ohjoysextoy.bsky.social !!
They have a ton more fantastic comics on their webpage:
www.ohjoysextoy.com

Primal play is one of my favorite ways to play.
Touch is a great intimacy language.💗
#nsfwart #comics #BDSM
CW biting and marks!
p1-3

as a fan of noncon, dubcon and under/non-negotiated cnc this is honestly one of the most straightforward explanations of this i've ever read?

as always, my fav trio just having fun 💛💚💗

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Being a butt slut on main again 🫣💦 (2/2)

Being a butt slut on main again 🫣 (1/2)

Excerpt from linked essay. Text reads "When you hear “adult games”, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? You might think of Steam, with dozens of hyper-specific fetish VNs released seemingly every minute. You might think of itch.io, with the top games feed flooded with asset flips and uncensored genitalia in thumbnails. To be brief, your first thought is probably not a harrowing deconstruction of sexual trauma, and instead Elf MILF Simulator 5000. This isn’t to insult the elf MILFs, or the devs hard at work bringing them into the world, but is a demonstration of the current existence of a specific sub-genre of adult games. Games that take adult themes and topics, sometimes including on-screen sex, and use them as tools of artistic expression. A tighter description, that these are games that happen to contain explicit content, rather than sexual gratification being the main draw for players, and are often presented as serious experiences. These games, however, often find themselves side-by-side with the thumbnails mentioned earlier. And often, someone looking for something to jerk off to is not also looking for a game that makes them contemplate their life choices. It begs the question: why are these games put next to ones that are apparently their antithesis, and is there a potential solution? Then, the next question from this arises: does that solution have consequences?"

Excerpt from linked essay. Text reads "The reason AAGs find themselves here, is a simple fact of how capitalism operates. Capitalism flattens artistic expression into marketable categories as a means to extract value. It does not care for intent or expression, and instead reduces media down to a checklist of content it does or does not include. If a game depicts sex, it goes in the adult category. It doesn’t consider why or how the sex is depicted, and if the player is or isn’t invited to jerk off to it. All that matters is that reputable marketers are not running their ads next to “female-presenting nipples”, or that four old white men aren’t reminded the money they move around was touched by a trans woman at some point. No matter how an AAG may depict its mature elements, or going in with open intent and subtext that its content is not intended to be pornographic, the simple act of depicting them immediately puts them under this labelling. In any attempt to elevate adult games to new artistic heights, AAGs find themselves, by marketer definition, “just porn” no matter how groundbreaking they could be, and in the direct company of pornographic games."

Excerpt from linked essay. Text reads "The desire for AAGs to be made distinct from porn games, and seeing wider respect as an art, however, is one that can only be applied as a double-edged sword. This will be intimately familiar to anyone who’s been on a platform that has undergone “porn bans” or attempted to restrict adult content. Often, these are supported by certain members of the userbase, usually under laws and rulings quoting the safety of children online. But, as is almost always the case, these categories don’t actually care about “protecting children”, only that marketers—arteries of capital—are not angered by arbitrary puritanical checkboxes that are in constant flux. Queer games in particular, adult or not, have been under constant pressure from all sides for the simple act of depicting queer experiences. The existence of queer bodies, particularly trans ones, are immediately classified as sexual by the ruling class of capital. To them, it doesn’t matter how the body is used, or even if the body is shown in an explicit manner, everything is “just porn” if it ticks the right boxes. By letting AAGs be defined solely by market categories, it risks handing over autonomy of what is and isn’t pornographic without questioning why those categories exist in the first place, as they only do for ever-changing standards of “marketability”."

Today on the blog we have Stanley Baxton's AAA3 essay "The Tension Between 'Artistic' Adult Games & Pornography, And How A Distinction Cannot Exist Under Capitalism". This one turned out to be, uh, substantially more prescient than anyone would have liked www.bpgamesinc.com/the-tension-...

Disability Pride Against Censorship We’re Disabled and Queer — Itch.io and the Payment Processors Are Starving Us.

We're disabled and queer. 🏳️🌈 We sell our writing to eat.

We launched two book sales — each has 20 books for $30. Itch bowed to conservative pressure, and hid them without warning.

Do you agree this is bullshit? Then help us make them pay.

disabilitypac.carrd.co

#MakeCensorshipCost #BookSky

My art, digital. Two gals having a jolly good time

My art, digital. A maiden and death

My art, digital. A knight and a werewolf

My art, digital. Two gals having a jolly good time

Share your couples art ❤️ ❤️

An actor back stage looking down in from of a mirror, rear view

“For the sad actor, there was never a moment to take off his mask.”
#art #illustration #queerartist

Motoko Kusanagi / Ghost in the Shell
#watercolor

Spicy simple color Commission for @/ Drackal

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Commissions at waitlist, can ask about slots and prices by inbox 🌿
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My art, digital. A shaman with lit candles on her head and decorative clothing. Two skeletons surround her in pink

The guiding light- 2024

Another Weapon

Fuck, this is real 😖