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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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WHEELS & WOMEN OF A BYGONE AGE.

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the 1977 Ford E-150 custom "TransAmVan" that used to tour the show car circuit in the late 70s, and, hey, a pretty girl alongside it, too. 📸: ❓

Source: www.pinterest.com/pin/225250418842024443.

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bekah-reading · 10 months

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74/120

4/5

I wanted an extreme horror and so I went on Kindle and found one. I needed a break from the other book I’m reading Sick Fux, I was crying and I’m on my period so it just made everything worse and just blergh. So I wanted something else.

For something super super short- I was not expecting a warning halfway through this. In fact, I’ve never had a book stop and give a warning page. It certainly was jarring, and not expected.

This was crass, and disgusting. I’ve read some people say that this was a senseless SA and incest filled story. But I also think that was a bit of commentary on those very subjects. But I did find that it wasn’t the most subtle and so every scene was just more akin to a hammer being banged over your head. This was gratuitous in its SA but that is the horror of this story, way more than the gore.

I don’t like reading SA much, but after Hogg a few days ago (or so it feels) I enjoyed this A LOT more than that disgusting filth. Even though it was short (less than 100 pages) this took me all day, I found I just couldn’t get fully immersed and it couldn’t hold my attention for it to be a one sitting type of book.

#booklr #booktok #reading #reading challenge #horrorbooks #2023 reading #2023 reading challenge #extreme horror #extreme horror books #no one rides for free #Judith sonnet

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authorjacobfloyd · 5 months

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NO ONE RIDES FOR FREE by Judith Sonnet

I read the afterword, which discusses that which inspired Sonnet to write this book. She listed many films, but I couldn’t help but get the Richard Laymon vibe off this one. The hideousness of the villain – not just his repulsive appearance, but the way he reveled in tormenting his victims – is what really set the book for me. Nearly from the start, the tense atmosphere is set and promises…

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anec-reads · 10 months

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#reading #book review #review #storygraph #no one rides for free #judith sonnet #horror

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letslovebooks · 11 months

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No One Rides for Free (A book review)

started: 6.25.2023. finished: DNF (FOR REASONS!!!!) completion rate: 70%

TW TW TW: SA, INCEST, BODY HORROR, GRAPHIC VIOLENCE, R*PE

Okay yo, dude??? what the FUCK is up with this goddamn book?? I literally wish I could scrub my eyes and brain after reading this, and I didn't even finish it. This book is marketed as extreme horror, and that it absolutely is! But I thought "fuck yeah, I'm tough I can do this shit! I love horror!" Oh boy I was wrong! The whole story is centered around a mother and her two adult kids traveling to return to their college campus. After stopping at a gas station to get some snacks and use the restroom, Jodi (the mother) returns to find a man in the backseat with her two children. The Man asks her and her children to commit various depraved acts, in graphic detail. So graphic in fact, it made me physically ill to read. I knew I couldn't finish this with the way it was making me feel. I feel traumatised just by reading it like lowkeyyyy!!! I so badly wanted to know what happened, and who makes it out alive, and if The Man meets his ultimate demise, but there was no way I could make it to the end of the book.

CURRENTLY READING A HAPPY LITTLE BOOK ABOUT A BAKER BC OF THIS HAHAHHAHA!

#no one rides for free #judith sonnet #books #book review #extreme horror #splatterpunk #horror

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zhouxiangs · 1 month

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TOPTEN SUPAKORN as Sonic in PIT BABE (2023)

#pit babe #pit babe the series #topten supakorn #pitbabeedit #sasa gifs #my blorbo from the hot wheels omegaverse #my most belovedest gremlin #and his five necklaces #also north's free ride on his bf's gifset #not a sonicnorth gifset but still somehow a sonicnorth gifset #pretty sure this is only missing that one time he wore the team tshirt with green pants btw #so accidental outfit post kinda #minus most of his pants...#i don't know what order to put these in that isn't chronological so whatever here it goes 😭

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oatbugs · 28 days

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last night i got home kind of tipsy and very much in tears and my mother told me the force you exert to keep someone in your life is proportional to the force with which they will leave your life. if you have to fight tooth and claw to keep them, their leaving will be just as hard, just as harsh, and just as definite.

#she said it like a law. its just momentum.#also she told me to get a therapist and start archery ASAP bc i need to get it together #and also she said even granting that this person u were in love w was So Special . as in hot motorcycle-riding iranian masc lesbian in ldn #they arent the only one on earth and that once i start my proper adult life outside of studies etc etc i will probably no longer live in th #UK. she said most non straight iranians u would like have left the country anyway . where do you think they went? theyre out there #and also she asked me to imagine how many hot gay iranians there may be in italy or amsterdam or smth and i was like ok points 😭 maybe #ur right. anyway i was having a feeling of dread bc crying into the arms of ur strict asian mother while buzzed usually results in #death chaos destruction etc in the next few days but actually i think maybe she has genuinely changed as a person and the fear is #unwarranted #anyway i need to eat breakfast and study w the date person i met yesterday #they are so nice ??? genuinely so so sweet i dont feel attracted to them at all omg i genuinely think i have a thing for hot evil ppl 😭#but we could b besties . theyre a lot more romantic than the ex situationship person too like generally . ugh they should be perfect but #alas it appears i am shallow as fuck or potentially a lesbian actually #OH THEY MIGHT ALSO BE POTENTIALLY A LESBIAN BTW #i think i just tend to not date cis ppl entirely by accident #....feel free to rb if u want btw sorry for the rant

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ghost-bxrd · 5 months

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Prompt:

Dick stumbles upon Jason while he’s at his most deranged and sawing heads off people to stuff them into a duffle bag and deliver it gift wrapped to the GCPD.

Dick is sick to his stomach. How can one person be capable of something so atrocious and laugh while doing it!? He needs to get back to the cave. He needs to warn Batman and Robin. This new player isn’t just dangerous, he’s evidently trying to rival his namesake in blood and violence alone and he’s succeeding.

(If Dick hadn’t been too busy keeping his late dinner inside his stomach, he may have noticed the warning creaks of the support beam.

As it is, the chains holding the beam in place snap and Dick goes down. Tumbling straight into the gory mess giving himself a concussion to boot at the Red Hood’s feet.

Shit.)

#Jason is a bit maniacal #and still riding a Lazarus pit high #but then Nightwing pretty much falls from the ceiling #and Jason says #free real estate #he didn’t plan on this happening but there’s no better way to rule up Bruce than to kidnap his favorite bird right?#after all #the Original Boy Wonder #is so much better to have at his mercy than just the little cuckoo bird #Bruce is sure to do anything to get him back #Jason will have his revenge #one way or another #dick didn’t exactly treat him WELL when he was alive #so you know what they say about two birds and one stone #sadly he did NOT plan on Dick being so depressive and mopey and lowkey burnt out #Jason’s mother hen instincts are coming through strong and he doesn’t like it #the pit’s got no chance #jason todd #batfamily #batfam #dick grayson #robin #red hood #Nightwing #dick and Jason #bruce wayne #tim drake #prompts #fic #angst

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wlw-cryptid · 1 year

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#having a real one #why. the hell. would one school 2 states away give me a 13k grant for being smart. but the one an hour away. wants me to pay them 13k #after grants.#i would like. to know #i just. i hate it here #she speaks #i dont want to move two states away. thats horrifying. im a wheelchair user. like. are you insane #but. it would be a free ride and id probably get to live w my childhood best friend #but also. id have to apply for state insurance again and id be stranded away from my parents and have to find a real caretaker there #id be away from all my doctors appointments and My Bed and it feels like no one appreciates how fucking risky and scary it would be #greatest hits

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onlyhuis · 1 year

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need to ride jun's abs so bad this isn't funny anymore . 💤

i soooo get you but also... what if you were riding jun's cock and right before you're about to cum he lifts your hips off of him and ruins your orgasm and instead makes you ride his abs and you have to cum from that before he'll let you have his cock again. honestly i think he would be just as into ab riding as you are, if not more (and trust me i am very into ab riding). it gives him a rush knowing you can easily get off merely by grinding against his stomach. he would hold onto your hips so tightly and drag your pussy back and forth, making sure your clit touches every single ridge of his toned abs. he would tense the muscles so it would give you something nice and hard to grind against and the entire time he would be praising you at how well you ride him (but also at the same time lowkey bragging about how good his abs are; we've seen his lives lolol and we know he loves to tease us about his abs). "does that feel good, sweetheart? which do you like more, riding my abs or riding my cock? silly question- i know it's a tough choice, baby. you want both. and i'll let you have both, if you keep being such a good girl and cum all over my abs. then you can have my cock, hm?" and then when you do finally cum, he'd make you move so you can see the trail of wetness you've left all over his body and he'd coo about how you're always so wet and beautiful and desperate for him. and only then he would let you ride his cock again

#[📮] — jun hard thots #[💌] — asks #💤 anon #junhui smut #jun smut #svt smut #seventeen smut #went a little feral with this one. because i am feral #riding juns cock and/or abs is not a want its a need its a necessity its a requirement to live #i need him carnally biblically lasciviously violently #if u have more ideas about ab riding please feel free to send more asks btw #bc i almost kept this one to write a full thing about but also i needed to say this right now #i am actually very very normal about this (lying) (rivaling pinocchio rn with how much im lying)

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floccinaucinihilipilificationa · 2 years

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Are you still active on tumblr?

YES I am!! Sorry friends for dropping off the face of the earth, I got a job and I had to move and it was a lot. But I am less stressed now and I hope I can get back to posting more regularly!! I really missed it (ﾉ^ヮ^)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧

I will never leave tumblr because there is no other place on the internet where I can tell people that 80% of the time when I try to introduce myself to someone in the office that I haven’t met yet I get so focused on smiling and holding eye contact that I forget the part where I actually have to introduce myself (°□°)

#HELLO FRIENDS #how are you!! I missed you! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ #I hope you all had a good summer!!#mine was very nice even though there was a lot of stress and new things happening #suddenly there were so many adult things in my life that at the end of the day I just sat on the couch and watched decorating shows #I love decorating shows but today they showed this decorating competition and one woman had to decorate her whole bedroom coral #and then I knew it was time to go back #friends I've done so many new things the past few weeks!! I've really underestimated what this new chapter of my life would be like #it's very nice and I'm glad but I've never thought about things like insurance and taxes and parallel parking before #and I'm in a new apartment and everything!! ✧⁺⸜(●′▾‵●)⸝⁺✧#it is a very good apartment but the landlord left us so many of their chairs #this does not sound like a problem but we also owned chairs before #so our chair number is doubled now #the kitchen is full of chairs the balcony is full of chairs #I've hidden two chairs behind the TV but I can still see their chair heads and then I feel bad because they do not deserve this #they should be roaming free #also rode a BIKE #they say you never forget how to ride a bike #but my secret is that I never really knew how to ride one #in Germany all students have to do a bicyle test in fourth grade and I was so bad that my teacher asked me #afterwards if I had tried to confuse the other students #I just said 'uh yes' and then he said ok and I passed with the worst bicyle grade of the whole school #I hade made 8 bicyle mistakes #I hope you're doing well friends!! see you soon!!#have a nice day :)

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 2 months

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"IF THERE'S ONE THING ABOUT TRUCKIN' WE LIKE, IT'S THE RELAXED ATMOSPHERE..."

PIC(S) INFO: Spotlight on the Dodge girls and vanning culture of San Jose, CA, USA, undated, c. mid to late '70s. 📸: Fred Enke.

Double the Dodge ladies for your viewing pleasure, even if it is the same "Bizi-Bodi" babe from NorCal. Wonder where she is now?

Sources: www.flickr.com/photos/pleasureprogrammed/201326194 (Flickr 2x) & Pinterest (2x).

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sysig · 8 months

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for requestober !! can i ask for a crossover of vargas and tsp ? something like , stanley being edgar and scriabin being the narrator:3

Day 1 - Destruction

#My art #Requestober #Vargas #Scriabin #Edgar #The Stanley Parable #Watch out - I'm doing cool stuff with transparency again #And this time it actually presents cleanly on the dash hells yeah >:3c #Quick first thing that stands out to you about style stuff!#I've been feeling gums lately teeth and gums but especially gums #They are good for big expression work and they are also weird :)#I'm not used to it yet! But I think I like it! In like a mixed way lol #Very good for expression work I just fjdksalfjd they are very strange #Anyhow!#Been a while since I dipped into the Vargas/TSP well :3c #I decided to go with one of the tag-dialogue I had set aside for myself in the original doodle post haha #It's a good bit of dialogue ♪ Definitely one of my favourites it rides around in my head rent free #Just leaving it as their void untouched with such an emphasis on how wrecked the place is tho #That wouldn't do would it ♪#What did you do Edgar?#Went and found a beasty who tore the walls apart haha #Either that or Scriabin did it and he's blaming Edgar - standard fare #It feels so odd! So strange to be drawing them digitally again!#I mean I've been drawing them traditionally all this time so that's not strange #And really it hasn't been That long since I drew them digitally it just feels like it #I'll just have to get back into the swing of it haha #A good start to the season :) Thank you! :D

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manitapaleta · 1 year

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back from vacation, here’s a little nark i drew on the drive home! (they are sad, as usual)

#nark #dungeons and daddies #dndads #dndads s2 #dndaddies #dndaddies s2 #dndads fanart #dndaddies fanart #lark oak garcia #nick foster #nick close #nicholas foster #nicholas close #my art #nark nation #so excited to draw on my computer again ooooo wheeeee #i only brought a sketch book to draw in bc i knew i wasn’t gonna have much free time and i only ever used it this one time on the ride home #time to torment the dndads tumblr fandom again hehehehehehehehehhehehehehehehehehheehhehehe

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genericpuff · 7 months

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on the closure of MochaJump, and why we're our own worst enemies in this industry.

"MochaJump? What was that?" is probably your first question, and I'm gonna simply respond with, "Exactly."

MochaJump was a small startup platform made by /u/nunojay2 and a second site engineer (whose name I am not informed of) on reddit. It wasn't anything extraordinary, just a startup site that aimed to offer a more viable alternative to Webtoons and Tapas, with a focus on offering equal visibility to creators, focused recommendation algorithms, loosened restrictions on NSFW content, and bigger cuts for creators on their generated revenue.

Of course, such promises are a tall order, but the creator did their best to host regular discussions with creators in art and webtoon communities to get feedback on what creators really wanted out of their platforms, and they researched what they would need to make in order to keep the site afloat (it came out pretty low at $2 per user per month). Hopes were high and the site launched with a small but eager userbase.

It stayed small. The site shut down in November 2022, just 6 months after launching in May 2022.

Now, I'm not gonna sit here on some soapbox and blame anyone for the site closing down. I unfortunately didn't get much chance to use the site myself so there's surely more I could have done on my own part to help it gain traction. But this is a regular occurrence for start-ups like this, especially in an industry that's as notoriously unprofitable as webcomics. We've seen titans such as SmackJeeves and Inkblazers fall, and MochaJump was merely an infant by comparison.

But it makes me think of how we view and treat these startups as a whole. How we as readers and creators alike have become so trained to exclusively use corporate platforms like Webtoons and Tapas on the promise of "bigger gains". Unlike these bigger companies, platforms like MochaJump depend on building a strong userbase as quickly as possible, and need to find ways to generate revenue to keep things running, otherwise it's only a matter of time before they close down. They don't have a massive conglomerate like Naver or Kakao to pad their pockets through their failures. They don't have the money or reach to inject themselves into society through bus terminal ads and convention sponsorships. They don't have the investors to sink money into their platform until it becomes profitable in return.

So we don't use them. Readers don't use them because we don't see the point in using a platform that has no content... and thus creators don't use them because we don't see the point in publishing our content on a platform with no userbase. Creators seek a place that's "tight knit" and "easy to get seen", but will only post to places that come pre-loaded with massive audiences; because it's not enough anymore to have a couple hundred followers, we're in 2023 now, in the year of consumer bloat, where we expect to now pull in thousands if not millions to be considered a "success". And readers seek a place that offers high-quality high-amount content at the tip of their fingertips, but don't want to pay for the access to these works, and in the case of apps like WT, have given up in trying to support these creators through the platforms themselves because they know that those artists they want to support will likely never see a dime.

The fact of this problem is simple, yet many people seem to ignore it - we cannot expect to have a platform that is tight knit, profitable, and sustainable. These places do not exist, not so long as we continue to raise the bar on what makes a "successful" subscriber count, not so long as we continue to patronize platforms that exploit their artists and writers, and not so long as we keep chasing the dragon of "what these websites used to be". These platforms never used to 'be' anything, they merely existed in one point of time that is now long gone, when owning a smartphone was a luxury and not a need, when online video content wasn't being tethered together by ads, and when the Internet wasn't owned and entirely managed by the same three corporations, the likes of which we haven't seen since cable TV.

Platforms like Tapas and Webtoons are - besides unsustainable - unable to exist and profit in the way they do without undercutting someone along the way. Whether it's underpaying their creators, undercutting their communities, or underexposing the works that have been buried, someone will get the shit hand in the deal and that someone is usually ALWAYS someone who will rarely ever stand to gain anything in the long run from using these platforms despite their issues. The 1% got theirs, and the 10% are barely getting by, while the remaining 89% are pushing onwards, because they have faith in the systemic online enshittification that demands conformity to a single formula for "success".

We are our own worst enemies in this industry. Webcomics are one of the few online mediums that still truly belong to the people - anyone can make them, anyone can find joy in them, but we're letting platforms like Webtoons and Tapas and all the other massive corporate apps rob us of that joy and accessibility in the pursuit of "success" and profiting. Webtoons was never the sole way to profit off this medium and yet I still see people every day who underestimate the existence of legitimate publishing houses and self-publishing, who think that publishing on Webtoons and landing an Originals deal is the only way to find success in this industry. This is meant to be the era of creators, of self-starting and self-actualization, and yet we're still handing all of that control over to corporations that only seek to exploit our art, bodies, and labor, while convincing ourselves that this will somehow all be worth it. We stick with Webtoons, despite the numerous controversies it's been involved in and the lack of support it's given even its own hired creators. We stick with Tapas, despite the undercutting of its most core components such as its community and the outlier genres it used to be known for hosting. We find new ways to justify using platforms that are steadily going downhill - Patreon, Twitter/X, Youtube, Instagram, Facebook - because we've been convinced that these are the routes to success, so if we acknowledge their failures, then "success" can no longer exist.

Because we need to pay rent. Because we need to eat. Because we need to survive. Because it's a lot more complicated than just "stepping away". Because the startups just don't have any of the surface level potential for us to immediately identify and get on board with, so we don't give them a chance.

I realize this post got very existential and depressing. I've been creating comics for well over a decade now, largely unnoticed, and I've fallen victim to these same limiting mindsets that we have to stick to one way, one "formula" for success - a formula that changes with the wind and only works for those who get in on the ground floor. It's been slowly killing me from the very beginning, robbing me of my joy to create, of my reason to even do this in the first place - to tell and share stories with others, to express myself creatively, to live my life surrounded by art and stories and creations made by and for others. It's made me tired and miserable, and I can tell it's done the same to those who have shared that boat with me.

But there's one silver lining I can always be sure of, and it's one I was reminded of after realizing I was still in the MochaJump Discord, with one announcement post that I hadn't yet read.

Webcomics are one of the few online mediums that still truly belong to the people. Corporations are trying their hardest to take that power away. Let's not continue to let them.

If you want to help sustain, patronize, and contribute to the growth of sites that are still being operated by small teams (or even one man armies), please, consider checking out the following websites, some of which serve as platforms or publishers, others which operate as link directories for independent sites run by creators.

ComicFury GlobalComix TopWebcomics The Webcomic List The Webcomic Library Hiveworks SpiderForest SmackJeeves Archive Inkblot.art And whoever wants to use the GitHub source code used for MochaJump (RIP)

Let's do our part to decentralize webcomics again. We may not be able to leave the platforms that weakly sustain us, but we can still support those that strengthen and support us.

#also bonus: if you're willing to pay like $10/year for the domain name you can get free hosting on comicfury #essay post #decentralize the internet #decentralize webcomics #fuck webtoons #support small platforms #don't be a coward #use the sites that only net you 20 readers #it costs you literally nothing but a little extra time #i guarantee most of these sites come with more features and more supportive userbases than webtoons #webtoons doesn't even have a fucking TAGGING SYSTEM #why did we allow ourselves to be convinced that webtoons is setting some industry standard ?? they're PISS #WT is literally persephone #riding off daddy warbucks' money while being a big stinking failure of an entity who no one likes but still calls a hero #no wonder WT loves LO so much it's literally an autobiography at this point

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ohshi-kaboom · 1 month

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What if i made a MD bikers AU hmm?

What then?

#this funky idea lives rent free on my mind and i do not plan on charging rent #because i like its company #picture this: Mechanic Uzi AND rider N #uzi repairs Ns bike and in change he teaches her how to ride one #i am gonna make a couple of doodles and a bigger and more detailed post abt it #i am. normal #murder drones #murder drones fandom #murder drones uzi #md uzi #md n #md nuzi #muder drones n #murder drones au #md au #sooo normal yep mhm normal abt this

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