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[razielim]

Ok, this isn't the same as my wish that someone would put together vocals and lofi/triphop music to Tolkien's lyrics, but yeah, these lofi mixes of the LotR films' scores are nice.

I've been mostly offline for almost two weeks now, limiting myself to less than an hour of hurried email/dreamwidth/googling questions a day. Hoping for enlightenment to reach me, or at least find the time to pick up my bass again, but uh... maybe that happens on week three.

Also, Discord finally broke image links like they were threatening to do. I knew all new images were supposed to be unembeddable and unhotlinkable, but looks like they now also made it take effect retroactively on old images too. I only found out because my entire BruJay comic on Ao3 is broken now. Yikesies. Really need to figure out a good place to host fanart that allows adult content, specifically for Ao3 or DW posting. Can't do tumblr either anymore. Technically, even the company I use to host my portfolio website doesn't allow sexually explicit content, so it's not really an option to host my comic there on some hidden page. I don't want to hide stuff in dark corners and hope for the best. Open to suggestions.

Also (in further "ugh" developments, sorry), Google apparently cares if adults share a bit of written erotica with each other on gdocs? The hell is wrong with the corporatocracy?

So tired of "Sex Bad!!"

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[olivermoss]

I'd also love some more takes on Tolkien's songs, a lot of the high quality recordings lean to classical.

Good luck with staying offline. I am stupidly overdue for a social media break, a long one. I typically do them start of January but that hasn't happened in a bit.

Image hosting is a problem. I use DW for DW stuff, myself. I was using Discord for stuff where I didn't care about link rot, too bad that's going away.

[vriddy]

If there are no minors on your comics, Squidge Images is good for fannish art including NSFW. This is where we've been moving images with the artists I sometimes collaborate with :) (And you can follow squidgestatus right here for status updates!)

Hope the bass time/enlightenment reaches you soon :)

[razielim]

Okay, thank you! It looks like a great option, and I've heard of it before in passing. REALLY happy that when we were running the BBB, the Discord hosting news dropped before final submissions, and we were able to make everyone rehost somewhere else. I can barely make MYSELF rehost without a deadline, so making someone else (or 20 someone elses) do it to prevent linkrot on an event that's not even a year old would have been a nightmare. Thanks again!

[vriddy]

You're welcome, glad that helped! And congrats on seeing your event through to the end :) 🎉

[razielim]

OOOOOOOOOOOHH! Damn, what a great writeup and resource! Thank you so much. I won't know about squidge's filesize limits until I finally get around to rehosting, but this sounds great even to potentially not use squidge at all. Esp bc squidge is oriented to fanart, and maybe I just want to keep everyone in one place, fannish or not. (That's one of my biggest gripes about "Sex Bad" site policies honestly, lol. The not being able to neatly have everything in one place.)

Why do you say "used to"? Simply because you transitioned to hosting everything yourself now or did you encounter an issue?

[yarnofariadne]

This 'sex bad' push is really destroying so many resources and community spaces we had - which I know is the point. I hate this!!

[razielim]

Sigh. Yeah. Just gonna patiently wait for some "sex good" zeitgeist pendulum to swing back out of left field and create SO MANY resources and community spaces. :) (Don't disabuse me of this fantasy lol.)

[yarnofariadne]

Here's hoping!

[spiralicious]

I am also extremely tired of "sex bad."

Good luck with your offline time. May it bring enlightenment or bass playing soon.

So that is what happened to the images. I went to catch up reading a comic on AO3 last night and couldn't figure out what had happened. I was going to suggest squidge for hosting, but I see vriddy already has.

I've been afraid Google was going to start going after written erotica after they started going after erotic photo & video sharing a couple years ago.

[razielim]

Honestly, it would be a good idea for Ao3 to put out some newsletter or email about this so more creators are aware that their fanart/comics are down and they need to rehost. If only bc Ao3 is an "Archive" literally by name rather than some generic fic hosting site.

[spiralicious]

That would be great if they would do that.