Dobes Zone

     The steady decline of twitter and the general toxicity and user-unfriendliness of large social media platforms has a lot of artists and other creators scrambling to find different websites. Adult artists are in an even stickier situation, since twitter, unlike instagram, tumblr, and facebook, is a place where erotic content is still allowed. There are of course, niche websites and fandom spaces, but a lot of modern artists still rely on social media to bridge the gap and direct paying customers to their work.     There's of course a lot of debate about where to go, what platforms to chose, and where to invest one's energy. The thing that I feel a lot of people fail to understand is that establishing your presence and your body of work on multiple websites is a lot of god damn effort . It's something of a job in and of itself- not just reposting your work, it's also a matter of getting acclimated and learning about a new website and its functions, find...

      Yayyyyy! Murders!  I generally do not like sharing openly about my interest in true crime stories and history- I don't want people to get the wrong idea, nor do I want to attract the wrong kind of audience to myself. That's because I feel like there's a handful of distinct outcomes for people who get deeply invested in learning about the material, and it ties into some serious issues we're experiencing in the digital age.  If you're like me, your curiosity leads you to learn about how much of violent crime is connected to inherent societal injustice. Serial killers get to prey on people largely due to police incompetence and the fact that they often choose victims that "won't be missed". Victims are in impoverished areas, they're sex workers, drug addicts, gay, trans, people of color, Native Americans, homeless, etc (and any combination and intersection of these things). There's a term for this- The Less Dead, because they're not view...