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Ro Salarian@rosalarian.bsky.social |
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Comic artist, novel writer, burlesque performer, queer icon, creator and destroyer of worlds. They/them.
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Ro Salarian
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The same way there's no such thing as safe sex, only safER sex, there's no such thing as safe spaces, only safER spaces. There's no such thing as safe art, only safER art. And even safe WORDS don't guarantee safety. One must continue to be on guard at least a little bit.
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There's a bar in my town that I love, that people consider a "safe space," and they let their guard down while they're there. But it's a public space, and the bouncers can't predict the future. Things happen, and people get angrier than when those same things happen more regularly at other bars.
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Triggers are very often innocuous things. A smell. A pattern. A touch. I have triggers like a specific shade of a color, certain buildings, a type of haircut. No one could ever warn me for those things in art. I get triggered sometimes. It sucks, but it's my cross to bear.
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I don't use trigger warnings in my work because 1: triggers don't work like that and 2: creating an expectation of safety only makes people *more* hurt when you cant keep them safe. If you tell people they can let their guard down and then they get hurt? Now they're hurt and MAD.
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I wish more people understood that they can't expect art to be comforting or safe. They can *want* that, but they can't demand it or expect it. Art, as a whole, never *should* be a safe space. You cannot tell the truth and be perfectly safe because the truth often isn't safe.
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Ordering a meal is not the same as eating a meal. In art, it's okay to not show somebody flagging down a waiter, giving them the order, and waiting for their food. It's okay to just show them eating. It's okay to just show them fucking, even if that fucking is dangerous or harmful.
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I argue that reading kink is in itself a kinky act, in that, like kink, the person engaging in it can imagine being in danger or harm, while having an escape hatch. The story is itself a scene, and safe words exist outside the scene.
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In the introduction for The Lady Eudora Henley, I mention to the reader that the safe word is closing the book.
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Ro Salarian
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I want to use BackerKit for my next crowdfund, but with the state of social media right now, I feel like I won't succeed without the attention I can get on Kickstarter. I'm not sure what to do. Especially as it's an erotic work and no website wants me on it anymore.
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Ro Salarian
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That's not a great standard as they attempt to illegalize things like being queer or trans. That's the whole point of my post, to fight against these laws. Legal and moral are not the same thing.
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Ro Salarian
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My yard is full of local pollinators instead of boring grass. Rip up your lawn today!
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Hermes Pissmegistus
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seeing furries & smut online is like seeing bees outside, it’s a sign of a healthy ecosystem, and when they go away it means something Bad is happening
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Ro Salarian
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I want to say that if you think this is new, you haven't been paying attention, but the real response is that if you think this is new, the powerful have done a very successful job of keeping you in the dark.
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Ro Salarian
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People keep asking me what this is in reference to, and the answer is not some singular event. It's been decades of political and cultural pressure to erode the right to free speech. None of this is new. Hell, it's been a step by step reenactment of Weimar Berlin from 100 years ago.
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Ro Salarian
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*gestures at the entire internet*
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Ro Salarian
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*gestures at my entire career*
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Ro Salarian
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Re: calling your representative and showing up to city council meetings as a leftist
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I so wish I could afford it right now. It's absolutely a fair price for such a beautiful piece and if I had money, it would be mine.
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Ro Salarian
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Always has been.
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Ro Salarian
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You have some excellent advice on a panel at a convention like 15 years ago that I still think about to this day.
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Pan
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Hey mature content creators! Don't forget to inform your followers to turn on their settings so they can view your work!
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Lin
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💚💚💚
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clover
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You do art? I love you for it. It's a gift for the world!
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Soren Spicknall
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My spouse co-organizes the annual Sick and Disabled Fair, a free virtual event by and for disabled artists, crafters, and zinesters. Costs to run the event are higher than expected this year, and organizers need help to make the SAD Fair as accessible and successful as possible.
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Ro Salarian
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ATTENTION FELLOW SPOONIES! It's the start of disability pride month and I've got some gear for those of us with chronic pain. Button ups, different cuts of tees, dresses, and hankies for when your chronic allergies kick up. Get it at rosalarian.com
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Ro Salarian
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The chest hair!!!!! 💖
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Pride BEGAN during a time of anti-sodomy laws. The first Pride was a riot against those laws. Pride is celebrated around the world in places where it is much more dangerous to be queer than here. Pride is not dependent on being ALLOWED to be who we are, it’s a promise that we WILL be no matter what
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ATTENTION FELLOW SPOONIES! It's the start of disability pride month and I've got some gear for those of us with chronic pain. Button ups, different cuts of tees, dresses, and hankies for when your chronic allergies kick up. Get it at rosalarian.com
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Ro Salarian
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Matching overalls? Y'all are earning extra credit in lesbianism huh
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A conversation on our Discord has prompted me to say again: remember, y'all, what really sells books is not the author talking about their work, but *readers* talking about it. Word of mouth drives far more sales than advertising or any other engine. So if you loved a book, tell your friends!
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Ro Salarian
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What's your trick for posting this kinda stuff without getting auto flagged?
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Ro Salarian
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How disgusting!
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Ro Salarian
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As a polyamorous person, this kind of vigilante action always terrifies me. You don't know the terms of someone's relationship and maybe you've just forced someone out of the closet which sucks so bad.
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Ro Salarian
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What's your favorite kind of blue?
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Ro Salarian
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The problem with telling people to "just Google it" is that I'm watching a fight unfold between two camps who both insist their position is correct because they googled it.
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Ro Salarian
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Oh, me either, but I know other people see it that way.
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I wish people were honest about the choice. It's not that he's just okay or neutral. He will make our lives worse, just as a slightly slower rate.
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Things have gotten worse for me under Biden. I don't think they would have been better under Trump. My point is that the main selling point for Biden is "he can stop fascism" or at least keep things from getting worse, but he didn't. Things got worse.
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Tell anybody who was forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy that fascism isn't here yet. Tell anybody who was forced to detransition that fascism isn't here yet. Tell every librarian who lost their job that fascism isn't here yet. And after you're done icing your black eye, come talk to me.
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I think the thing that gets me about "vote for Biden or else we'll have fascism" is that fascism is already here, and has been happening under Biden. It just might not have happened to YOU yet. But for a lot of us, it's been here.
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Ro Salarian
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Decided to do some gardening tonight because plants don't care how dirty you are! In fact, they rather like it.
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Ro Salarian
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This is exactly it. It's a cartoon IRL basically.
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Ro Salarian
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I'm off work now so I'm smoking weed until my outfit looks even more fascinating.
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It was a queer venue that banned me. (Well, a gay venue. To me, "queer" implies at least a little bit of "fuck the system" but that's just me.) Even LGBT spaces censor queer art in the name of "respectability."
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Ro Salarian
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Except I didn't even have the giant fist or speculum this time around because I had no time to set the props. So it was TAMER than usual! Oh but the clit lights up now. That's a new feature!
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Ro Salarian
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Well, the particular piece that got me banned this time is this:
youtu.be/LtWiyOrfTE0?...
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Ro Salarian
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Wild to be an adult artist in the Internet who has helped popularize so many social networks only for them to kill me work for having a suggestion of sexuality when the people who follow me do it on purpose because they want to see my work!
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Ro Salarian
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What's so frustrating about not being able to make my smut art hardly anywhere it's that I have an audience that loves it and wants to see it! It's wild to get offstage, audience going wild, fives and tens in my hands, then the venue owner tells me to never come back.
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Ro Salarian
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Sexual assault material isn't porn anyway.
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The bane of my existence for 15+ years.
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