RE: https://is.nyxt.dev/notes/asm6s25r44qyermt
Sometimes I feel bad that I don't really know modern software development practices very well.
But mostly I feel like someone who slept in and watched the Titanic pull out of the harbor from a very comfy bed.
New story!
Help! The Ghoul is a Girl!
They can only meet once a year, but sometimes that's enough. A story about transition, love, and eating ghost pussy.
This started life as a shitpost and somehow morphed into a sapphic romance that's longer than any of my other works. I'm pretty proud of it and hope y'all enjoy it. <3
Also, I submitted this to Literotica's Halloween Contest, so even if you read this elsewhere, I would really appreciate it if you went over to Lit and gave this a rating! You don't need an account and it helps me out a ton! :neobot_bottom:
Literotica
Ao3My Site currently offline because PHP
Hey, y'all remember that book i frequently gush about, Sad Porn About the End of the World? Well @rambling_chantrix is on fedi now and you should go follow her.
And also go read her book, it's so good.
My desire to write a piece of trans erotica that earnestly engages with the tropes of a "coming back home to a small town and rediscovering the simple pleasures while falling for the high school crush" romcom, except the protagonist is all terf-brained and the high school crush is a trans woman now.
versus
My desire to set up that kind of story, only to have it descend deeper and deeper into a lovecraftian horror story.
versus
My desire to do both, mirroring the plot beats between them, and when discussing either, feign ignorance of the other's existence.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@jcoglan/117423413666424584
Just gonna tap my "the greatest benefit of AI is that it allows programmers to experience how artists have typically been treated by programmers" sign again.
RE: https://wandering.shop/@jepyang/117405453430602640
Unrelated but this should be our take on "harry potter made me feel seen as a queer person" going forward.
Reddit is bullshit but "updoot" is the objectively superior way to indicate to someone that you clicked on the little dopamine button under a post.
Updoot this toot if you agree. (Do we still call them toots?)
Writing pornography is part of my "get rich slow" scheme.
And it's working.
RE: https://anarres.family/@SymTrkl/117375523763592842
October Third is now up on Literotica!
I submitted it to the Halloween contest, so if you could go check out my short monsterfucking smut and give it a rating, I'd appreciate it!
(No account is needed to rate stories.)
oops late on a bill. not doing great, mentally, so you'll forgive me if i just drop the link and log off for the night to go cry into my pillow or smth
if you can help, i'd appreciate it, if not, no worries
@OctaviaConAmore consider yourself tagged about the new October story ;)
It's Halloween time again, pumpkinfuckers, and you know what that means: my annual October story where I make the "trans x gourd" meme sexy!
This year, it's the pumpkin's turn ;)
Read it on my website:
symtrkl.gay/erotica/?pag...
or on Ao3:
archiveofourown.org/works/93802281
Literotica coming soon!
fyi, I've muted this thread preemptively. The people who most need to hear this are the most likely to get spicy in the replies, and the ones who agree won't be doing anything but stroking my ego. So feel free to have a whole Discourse about this, but do so without me.
Tangential to a thread I just saw: Stop thinking about bad behavior as something you are and start thinking of it as something you do.
When you think of something as a fundamental aspect of a Bad Person, you are never going to recognize it in you and yours.
"I don't have any friends who are violent criminals."
"I could never be racist, I'm one of the good ones."
"I can't be transphobic, I have trans friends."
Do you see the trap yet? Everyone is the hero of their own story, nobody believes that they're a bad person. (Though there's also the correlary of negative self-image causing you to use this logic to define yourself as a Bad Person. How many times do you think my friends have had to sit through me crying that I'm bad and worthless because I'm "an addict" and not "someone who has grown beyond her substance abuse problems?" Because it's a lot.)
And the really insidious part is, when you're challenged on a bad behavior, this type of thinking becomes thought-terminating, because it's interpreted as an accusation of being that type of Bad Person. The behavior is never examined, much less addressed. It's perpetuated, and the defense becomes willful ignorance; they could never be a Bad Person, so of course their behavior isn't bad, q.e.d. This is how we get liberal trans "allies" who still have very serious concerns about womens' sports. And I promise that you are not immune. I've lost friends due to this, right here in this community.
And that's not to say that these bad behaviors can't be habitual, a pattern of bad behavior that does define someone as a Bad Person. But that's not what I'm talking about here, and I guarantee none of you are ready for the "they aren't a monster and it is still possible, however unlikely, for them to learn to be better" discussion anyhow. Those are your emotional support torches and pitchforks; you need them.
Still with me? Here's your homework: did you, when reading this post, reflexively think "that couldn't be me?" Did you address that thought, sit with it? Or did it become a shield, allowing you to read this post from the comfortable position of "she's talking about other people, I'm not like that?" Did you start rationalizing how this post made me a Bad Person because it meant that I was wrong and you didn't have to listen to what I'm saying? This is not a pass/fail assignment, but the material will be on the practical exam.
randomly annoyed that if I start saying "oh crumbs" instead of "aw beans" people will think it's a helluva boss reference and not a narbonic reference
this post brought to you by my bsky account having a label on it that just says "beans" :/
I'm still trying to fund the cost of taking the CompTIA Security+ certification test because the expense is not really compatible with my current job of selling my blood plasma for a hundred bucks a week.
https://ko-fi.com/symtrkl/goal?g=66
I am super grateful for all the help I've received so far. :3hearts:
#CrowdFund #CrowdFunding #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #TransMutualAid
I didn't use Tapas, but I get how folks might be scrambling with it shutting down, and a lot of y'all might not be in the position to just write some HTML and call it good. (It's not hard to pick up if you've got the spoons to learn something new, so don't be afraid to give it a shot!)
I can hard recommend Rarebit if you want a way to self-host a webcomic, it's a bit fiddly to get set up but it's designed to work on Neocities and other basic free hosts, it's what I still use for ATCB.
https://rarebit.neocities.org/
If you need a web page editor, I really like Bunnyroll, it seems like it works well and the HTML it generates is clean, like "written by an oldhead in Notepad" clean, and the resulting files will work on Neocities as well.
https://bunnyroll.plump.lv/
There are other options, you can get a basic WordPress server with automated installation/updates from Dreamhost for like $5~10 a month, and the site I rent my VPS from charges me €6 a month.
I can't speak to many of the other options for this stuff, I use Webtoon and Literotica to mirror some of my work, and I despise them both. But I can tell you that you will never regret having a website that you control for your art as well.
When you write a coding shitpost in Lua because you know a computer-toucher will see it. :neobot_floof_devil:
fedi over midi
is this anything?
Some of you might know about this, or have played a WIP version as far back as 2023, but it is finally done! Anxiously awaited by those who've been waiting anxiously, I'm proud to finally release Consenticles, an interactive fiction game about tentacle sex!
Play in your browser at SymTrkl dot Gay!
Download from itch.io!