foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open)
@foxyoreos.bsky.social
Furry vore artist, very NSFW. Censors disposal. Horny comments welcome, but not about me (I'm aroace) Support: https://subscribestar.adult/foxyoreos Commissions: https://foxyoreos.netlify.app Mastodon: https://gulp.cafe/@foxyoreos #furry #artist #vore
created October 24, 2024
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foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
I'm live on https://piczel.tv/watch/foxyoreos and https://picarto.tv/foxyoreos Doing a bunch of shorter commissions: expect some fatal vore and watersports >w< #vore #furry #FurryStream #LiveStream #FurryArtist #Piczel #Picarto
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
"Funding the Forest" is a thing I set up where multiple critters can help fund original comics/art in ongoing settings like the Forest, and Max the Eevee. Contributors don't get any input into how the stories go, but they do get early access to WIPs while I'm drawing them <3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
Thanks to @emonoswitch.bsky.social and Moejoe01, "Fucked Up" is now fully funded! I'm not gonna lie, I'm pretty excited to work on this comic. Some cute Swallow shenanigans incoming :3c #vore #FurryVore
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
People really be out here trying to "cure" autism, and yet when I try to forceably change everypony into dinosaurs, suddenly that's not okay and I'm the villain?!?!?
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I love that your approach to art is that you want to draw fun little kobolds doing things and that they have a mood and that when I see them, I can tell you drew them. It's a really healthy, good way to make art. The skill - the hard part of art - is doing that stuff. <3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
People care about art when it makes them see something or feel something about the world that they care about, or when they can tell that the artist is seeing something that they care about. Everything else is incidental. So I really appreciate you having a style and putting up fun pictures.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Nopony reads an essay and thinks, "fuck, that's some good grammar in that essay. They used very big words." Nopony looks at a piece of art and thinks, "fuck, that line work is so steady. I gotta hang that on my wall, have you seen how clean the lines are?" It's just not the point of art.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
The hard part of my job as a commission artist is not the technical part, it's figuring out how to represent an idea. Art is communicative and technical skill can help with that, in the same way that grammar can help with communicating in an essay, but it's not the point of the essay.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I really appreciate you posting them. Going to keep myself from going on a giant oversharing tangent, but I think a lot of critters have a really fundamentally broken and incorrect view of what art even is and what makes it hard. Technical skill is at best a means to an end.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
I'm live on https://piczel.tv/watch/foxyoreos and https://picarto.tv/foxyoreos Bunch of commission work :3 Some Digimon vore, and some Pokemon vore/disposal :3 #vore #furry #FurryStream #LiveStream #FurryArtist #Piczel #Picarto
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Swallow has shown up in a few comics, most recently "Don't Fuck This Up" where he and Pebble attempt to not freak each other out, and one of them does a better job than the other X3 The sequel to that, "Fucked Up" is only $45 away from getting funded! I pawmiss it has very wholesome shenanigans :3c
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Want a commission? Check out https://foxyoreos.netlify.app or fill out a form at https://tally.so/r/n0axQQ. Want to see art early? Check out https://subscribestar.adult/foxyoreos to get weekly early access to art, monthly doodles, and other stuff! <3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
I love him so frickin much <3 Featuring Swallow, a safe pred from the Forest. He's a derpy fox that's terrible at interacting with prey, but means well (and is ultimately pretty harmless :3) #furry #FurryArt #SafePred
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
I'll be putting up the remaining 6 pages of the "Leveling" Pokemon vore comic this Sunday on Subscribestar, but in the meantime I published them to the supporter feed, so if you have access you can actually read them right now! foxyoreos.netlify.app/feed/
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I would not call this a "secret weapon" because I'm not being secretive about it and I'm trying to get it merged into Krita proper. But this is enabling me to set up a coloring workflow for fast sketches that would not be otherwise possible to do in Krita.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
A few ideas that I'm mulling over that I may try to add to my local Krita build are: "interpolate alpha", which would smoothly lerp the alpha channel towards the stroke, but otherwise color normally. And a "greater erase" which would subtract alpha, but only to a certain point based on pressure.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm actually inspired enough by this that I would not be surprised if I end up copying and pasting this code and making other alpha blend modes to use, because now that I'm using this for colors, I'm able to visualize more clearly other stuff I want.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
Continuing to advocate that a basic version of this get merged: krita-artists.org/t/wet-alpha-... I've been using this for a little over a week, and it is changing my sketch-style coloring process in a very positive way. This has already been a major boon to me for coloring speed/quality. #krita
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Which is weird since according to "it's only banned because there's so many chargebacks", subscribestar[.]adult should be swimming in fraud, and yet somehow it's able to offer prices that are lower than Patreon. I guess it's either a miracle.. or the "chargeback" excuse is bullshit. Who can tell?
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh hell, I thought that the 10% was their *high* price, not the founders plan. If their cut for new accounts is higher than 10% then this isn't even a contest, Subscribestar is just cheaper.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
This came out really well <3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
This includes screenshots. Tag screenshots and memes please. Or even better, use alt text and then it'll most likely get caught by my mute words.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I will straight up not visit this site for 2 weeks if that's the only way to avoid spoilers.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I will mute the word "game" if I have to.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
I'm going extreme, I have now muted "hornet" and "bug" for the next 7 days at least. Please, please tag if you're going to talk about things.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
You did good! Now you get to do some recovering and slow down a little bit <3
koda (@nulloffset.bsky.social) reposted
latenight stream! picarto.tv/NullOffset
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
I'm live on https://piczel.tv/watch/foxyoreos and https://picarto.tv/foxyoreos Shorter stream tonight since I'll be trying to stream Monday too >w< #vore #furry #FurryStream #LiveStream #FurryArtist #Piczel #Picarto
Renezuo (@renezuo.bsky.social) reposted
I'm looking to get into contact with someone in the adult industry, namely someone running cons, to discuss the possibility of opening Adult Artist Alleys at such events. If you know someone, hook me up. Please repost for maximum coverage.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
It is genuinely possible for this space to be better, but it *can't* improve until the payment processors get sorted out.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
If Stripe (not that Stripe is ethical, but.. you know what I mean) - if Stripe got enough pressure that it got rid of its NSFW clause - I would drop everything at the earliest opportunity and immediately set up a system for direct credit card payments for supporters. The ecosystem would explode <3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
The problem isn't that Patreon took over everything, the problem is that everything is subject to the whims of payment processor censorship, and until that gets solved, there won't be ethical platforms that pop up; they won't be allowed to exist. In the meantime, we make do with what we have.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Also to be clear, sometimes the reason why there are no ethical choices is because some giant company bought everything and consolidated it, and that's also like.. not really what's happened here? We are systematically excluded by platforms and payment processors from every other space.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
"Not ethical choices under Capitalism", sure, but also like.. this is an area where there *could* be more ethical choices. Not fully ethical, but better. There used to be more choices, and they went away. It's a big part of why NSFW artists have been emphasizing calling and pushing back.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Basically. Like I'm willing to inconvenience myself to have more ethical choices, I'm even willing to put in a ton of work to build better options - and I've tried to organize movements to better sites in the past. This is an area where there is nothing I can do unless payment processors buckle.
Julia L (@calenmir.bsky.social) reposted
Reposting with alt text. The links alluded to in the alt text are 1) The link for finding your US representative: congress.gov/members/find-your-member 2) The link for finding your US state representative: www.usa.gov/elected-offi...
tamm - return to the comic mines (@tammdraws.bsky.social) reposted
This isn't like the average online petition btw, this is one of those things where if it gets enough signatures, the HOC absolutely must bring it to the floor for discussion. Incredibly important to get on this if you're Canadian.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I've never done the full-on math to try and figure it out to be sure, but Patreon's base take is 10% plus paypro fees, right? I think that's more than Subscribestar takes. It's at least very close.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Another thing I'll point out (I always need to double-check this lol): I am pretty sure that unless an artist kept their plan on an old account, new accounts on Patreon have a higher platform revenue share than Subscribestar. It's not *much*, but I *think* Subscribestar is actually cheaper.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
The moment a Bluesky or a Mastodon equivalent to Subscribestar exists that is safe for NSFW artists to take payments on - I'll start using it. Promise. But it needs to exist. I can't take payments on an imaginary platform.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I can't even build my own Subscribestar alternative, because I can't work with payment processors or banks directly. Like, there is *zero* safe option for NSFW artists trying to do subscription revenue right now other than Subscribestar. That is the problem to fix if you don't like the site.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
But right now, if you tell somepony that the *only* platform that is safe to use shouldn't be used, what you are telling them is that they shouldn't have a platform at all. This is part of the consequence of platforms squeezing out NSFW artists. They go to platforms that will take them.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm not married to Subscribestar, there's plenty I hate about the site, including lax moderation of bigots and fascists. But this is not like Twitter vs Bluesky, or Substack vs Ghost. There is no alternative. I'm happy to use one, once it exists.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Want a commission? Check out https://foxyoreos.netlify.app or fill out a form at https://tally.so/r/n0axQQ. Want to see art early? Check out https://subscribestar.adult/foxyoreos to get weekly early access to art, monthly doodles, and other stuff! <3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
(I don't do a *ton* of watersports, so it might catch you off guard occasionally. Remember to mute #watersports if you want to avoid seeing it <3)
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
Silly gift doodle I did for @percytechnic.bsky.social a little while ago :3 Also I don't actually know Italian, so hopefully I haven't butchered the translation. >w< #furry #FurryVore #BladderVore #endo #EndoVore #watersports #urine #NonFatalVore
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
I absolutely can't start playing Silk Song right now, so that might be the excuse I need to stay off of Bluesky for a little while and also minimize a bit of my doomscrolling while I catch up on commission queues.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Blushy nervous prey getting treated gentle-like by a really big and forceful but ultimately careful pred is one of my favorite vore tropes <3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I have a feeling that comments under this one will stray into fatal territory so I tagged it that way so nopony will be caught off guard - but there's nothing about the picture itself that has to be fatal. You could just as easily imagine that it *is* an anthro going to their new home :3c
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Supporters on Subscribestar (https://subscribestar.adult/foxyoreos) can get early access to all of my artwork, plus other goodies <3 Want a commission? Check out details at https://foxyoreos.netlify.app and/or fill out a form at https://tally.so/r/n0axQQ <3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Want to see more? The supporter feed has two new pieces of Fox noticing a bowl of micros and then.. dealing with them~ https://foxyoreos.netlify.app/feed/?pic=acc65ad6-b29c-40fb-8f5e-a4a68ad4d363 https://foxyoreos.netlify.app/feed/?pic=67ac4ddd-663a-4c30-a021-36c8c3abee14
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
Looks like a cozy place to be.. Why don't you inspect it more closely? :3c Another short commission for @foxes-but-furrier.bsky.social of an Anthro looking into the doorway of their new home~ #vore #VoreArt #furry #FurryArt #FurryVore #MawShot #FatalVore #FoxPred
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I've beaten this challenge with both characters btw.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
You sure? It's really no trouble, I'm happy to draw one up quickly.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
This is technically done (for now), but I haven't taken it down yet, and I'm not going to turn down somepony who does reach out, so if you send proof, I'm happy to do a quick one for you <3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
There shouldn't be any identifying info on the screenshot, but you can block out anything that does show up.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Send me a screenshot of the call log (just who you called and the time) - if you don't have a way to link it in messages and don't feel comfortable posting it publicly, you can send it through this form: tally.so/r/3yaRjp.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh hey, I know you :3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Critters who contribute any money to Forest comics get early access to the WIPs as I draw them - WIPs that I typically don't ever release publicly :3c The last comic that got funded this way was Fren <3 I'd love to figure out ways to fund more of this stuff :3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
There's a pretty good mixture of wholesome and cruel stuff that happens in the Forest. Fucked Up is (I think) going to be a really sweet comic with some fun fox/bunny shenanigans. Hide and Seek is a shorter comic with some *much* crueler outcomes. And Infomercial is.. well, you can go read that X3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
The Forest foxes tend to be really popular whenever I release them, but I've had a lot of trouble getting any of it funded or monetized. If you're a fan of some of my lighter stuff, reminder that the sequel to Don't Fuck this Up is still only $45 away from being funded. #furry #FurryArt #FurryVore
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
The article is so encouraging and the comments are so unbelievably depressing.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
This is not my area of expertise, but it is something I'm starting to research. I'd welcome more (and better) organizers than me. I'm really open about the fact that I am fucking BAD at all of this. But I want to start compiling email contacts for various press outlets and encouraging more mail.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
In general on a lot of political topics, as Progressives we're not really good at getting the press to work with us. Look at coverage of the last No Kings demonstration. It's important that we start to change this and figure out how to get press coverage. We need to start expanding in smart ways.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I think the big challenge we're going to face moving forward is how to keep relevant stories in the news and how to break them out of sites like Bluesky and gaming forums and into a wider audience. And so I'm very slowly starting to figure out other sources to email and other places to post.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
Re-upping this again to make it more explicit. If you have contacts or are members on a news site or subscribe to news sources, I want you to literally email them and post in their forums and ask why they're not covering this. Literally, I want you to directly ask sites to cover it.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I'm joking of course, a modern tech reporter would never ask a CEO those questions.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Reporter: "Well, but what if it was put online for reasons other than being scraped by an AI?" AI CEO: "Oh most of it is! I'm just saying, it's not the data that we want in the model. They're sabotaging us." Reporter: "But it's not for the model." AI CEO: "I don't understand what you're saying."
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
AI CEOs scraping the entire Internet for more data: "See the problem is that sometimes people put data online that's bad for the models to ingest." Reporter: "So surely you shouldn't be scraping all that data then." AI CEO: "That's what I'm saying, they're poisoning the data. It's malicious."
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Remember, just like with Bitcoin: the LLM can never fail you, you can only fail the LLM.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
The employees are not sabotaging the company - they're sabotaging the company's "AI strategy." Their betrayal is not that they're costing the company money, or hurting its output, or not doing their jobs - their betrayal is that they're not enthusiastically increasing AI adoption.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
There's something deeply revealing about the fact that the goal is not "make the business successful", it's "integrate the AI." Doing work without the AI is seen as a betrayal because the point of all of this is not to *do work* - the point is to use the AI. #AIBullshit
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
"Hey, workers, how do you like the new AI tools?" "I don't know if they work that well.." "WHY ARE YOU SABOTAGING ME!?!"
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Somepony dug into the initial study and found out that one of the things they counted as "sabotage" in their statistics were: - reporting that the AI wasn't useful on company feedback forms about the AI. #AIBullshit
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
"Just do what comes naturally" ...blacks out for 4 hours, wakes up, gagged, tied to a bed inside of sex dungeon. "Did.. did I build this!?"
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I keep saying, reformation is seriously underrated in vore with cruel preds. If cruel/unwilling vore is partially about being *claimed* by the pred, reformation allows that to happen in so many deeper ways.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
X3 hah, that's a good pun.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
X3 yeah, it is a little bit silly. But anything I do like this will only be temporary :3 I'll swap out the censored versions for the full versions after a little while <3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
I kind of want to do some (temporary) censored art on Furaffinity/Aryion/etc to raise awareness of the payment processor issues, but I'm not sure that I'm willing to do it with commissioned work. I need to finish up my commission queue so I have time to draw my own stuff so that I can censor it lol
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Ahhh I fucking missed the tags on this. >< Sorry, will add them here but fuck I wish this site had editing. Luckily this is pretty mild so I don't think it'll be anything triggering to anypony. #vore #VoreArt #furry #FurryArt #ImminentVore #VorePeril #Micro #FoxPred
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Want a commission? Check out https://foxyoreos.netlify.app or fill out a form at https://tally.so/r/n0axQQ. Want to see art early? Check out https://subscribestar.adult/foxyoreos to get weekly early access to art, monthly doodles, and other stuff! <3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
This is going to end well~ Commission for @foxes-but-furrier.bsky.social of an anthro discovering that they really should have brought a bigger sword to this fight >:3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
Possibly of relevance to critters who like my artwork :3c Content warning that I expect this will be pretty graphic (and might feature disposal, I don't know what the plans are).
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
This will likely be the last of the payment processor YCHs for a while - not because calls aren't still needed, but just because I don't have the time/resources to keep doing them at the same rate. There might be more stuff in the future though, so do keep calling <3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Sizzle's body converts pain to pleasure; the more that the acid fills the hornier he gets~ But his fate is still the same >:3 (Remember to mute #GraphicDigestion if you'd like to avoid seeing this stuff <3) #vore #GraphicDigestion #FatalVore #digestion #PainfulDigestion #furry #FurryVore #VoreArt
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
When critters look at crypto I think they tend to imagine an ecosystem that is a lot more capable than it actually is. And like.. I dunno, I'm sure that the county that has floated banning VPNs would definitely not blacklist coins that went through a mixer /sarcasm.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Bitcoin is a lot easier to track than most critters realize - and it has an obvious censorship point of attack - exchanges. There are privacy-oriented coins, but.. they're not nearly as widespread (not that any of them are in a position to be feasibly used as an alternative right now).
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I've seen two cases so far. I don't know the country for the first, for the one I've linked above the poster says that they're in England. I kind of doubt Paypal is making these decisions based on the country of origin for each person/critter, but it does affect what options they have.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
(squinty fox eyes) If he wakes up like that, the only way that you're the first thing that he sees is if you were standing over him and waiting. Just sayin ;3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
That's one of the goodest things a dog can do <3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
You're a good dog <3
🏳️⚧️ Nɯvꝡɩɛl 🏳️⚧️ (@nuvy-iel.bsky.social) reposted
Very important thread, read through the whole thing! We gotta keep up the pressure. I'll admit I get scared about calling because I'm very autistic and it's intimidating but the goal is to clog up their call lines and cost them money so the more people we get participating in this the better.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
And you're right - every call helps, even if you stammer through it or have trouble with it. They know why we're protesting already, our job now with calling is to annoy them <3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Ideally for any social movement, we'd have division of labor - making phone calls is super-important but not everypony will be well suited for them. But I'm really grateful that critters with anxiety have been helping out even though it's stressful <3 <3
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I think 3rd-party coverage from papers/sites is going to be really important, and might be a *really* effective way for critters with anxiety to help without needing to make phone calls. But I'm very much not an expert, so I want to figure out what advice I should be giving before I give it.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I don't have enough knowledge about this yet to make recommendations and I'm wary of giving bad advice, but I want to do research on the most effective way to email journalists.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
Challenge mode, try to survive with only one character: - Partner must be eaten as soon as possible. - You can only rescue them if they're going to be immediately eaten again. - They can't use any actions other than to take damage or get eaten (including potions).
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social)
Boosting this again, it's a really fun project <3 Give it a play! You can get eaten by a snake! :3c
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
And it'll potentially make Stripe nervous about ramping up enforcement.
foxyoreos (they/them, commissions open) (@foxyoreos.bsky.social) reply parent
I guess I shouldn't discourage it at all. Let's say that Paypal is doing this because Visa/Mastercard asked them to. It's kind of uncomplicatedly good if Paypal sees consequences and it gets them to start fighting with Visa/Mastercard and blaming them.