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David Mariotte

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Writer of Transformers Wreckers: Tread & Circuits, TF/Terminator, etc! Prev at IDW, BOOM! Studios. He/Him. Icon by my husband, @beccabeean aka Rebecca Ann! For more, including contact, davidmariotte.com!

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    David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social

    Reply to iamdavidbrothers.com

    My counter question that doesn't have clear data: how many of the people buying Watchmen then go on to buy more comics? Like, I know so many folks who picked it up in college as required reading, but who then didn't really continue to engage with the medium. Not the book's fault at all, but I wonder

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    Unwinnable @unwinnable.com

    "[T]his article is in revolt against the puritanical notions of pornography as a monolithic evil, a space of degeneration and moral rot."

    An anonymous contributor affirms the value of NSFW content in a world that's increasingly becoming more hostile to it: unwinnable.com/2025/08/11/t...

    logos for online game distributors itch dot i o and Steam, with itch in pink on the left and steam in dark blue on the right
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    David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social

    Reply to davidmariotte.bsky.social

    This has picked up some steam, so as a reminder, here's how you can also contact credit card companies and payment processors and get on their case about restrictions to platforms like itch, Steam, Patreon, Fansly, and more!

    Rewards for a good job: bsky.app/profile/dies... bsky.app/profile/duke...

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    David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social

    Reply to schiff.senate.gov

    Cool, now do something about it, bro. Love that you come on here for vaguely inspirational (?) posts and then make yourself unavailable to constituents, repeatedly make bad votes, meet with war criminals. Like, actually do something or resign and make room for someone who will fight for us.

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    Bean Sídhe & Crow 🐦‍⬛ @dairelawlor.bsky.social

    I would like to recommend @cartoonist.coop initiative against censorship of adult content cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...

    Making comics better for everyone!

    The Cartoonist Cooperative

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    Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.net

    “She was not the only developer who reported the company singling out yuri content.”

    Games journalists really dropped the ball on itchio targeting yuri content, both SFW and NSFW

    The censorship of Toxic Yuri Game Jam hasn’t gotten any coverage from the games press

    'We're not safe here' In the immediate days after, creators have found themselves at a loss of what to do. Game developer krispycat, also known as ButterflyLatte, reports that her NSFW game demo, known as "The Seventh Bride," was deindexed, and is only shown when specifically searched for. It wasn't just this game, either. "On a whim, I tried to search up my SFW games as well - Wendy, warm, Like Seafoam. These games are fairly innocent and wholesome; 'warm' and 'Wendy' star children. However, they don't appear in the suggestions either - I suspect it's because they're yuri games," she recounted, describing a genre of fiction which depicts romance between two female characters and has no inherent sexual elements.Some creators report that an entire game jam - or collection of games developed in a short period to build community - was affected. The Toxic Yuri Game Jam, consisting of over 200 different games, saw significant hits, with over half of the games delisted and several being completely removed from the site. One user, known as Kastel, describes how a joke game they made was delisted squarely for having the tag "erotic." They mention how this jam was filled with first time developers, and how the occurrence of these bans led to mass panic, watching a happy community turn into people feeling completely doomed. "I've done a bunch of these game jams, so I'm giving them advice. And then I'm looking at all this and it's just... what do I even say? This is a pretty bad situation. I can't pretend that this is good. This isn't a wonderful thing we can all survive. It's pretty rough. I feel bad for everyone, especially because it's their first wave of censorship."
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    Zoe Tunnell @zoewithasword.bsky.social

    I am staring at every single goddamn LGB without the T shithead and liberal who told trans people to calm down and that we were being dramatic over how bad things would get with an intensity and cold, hard fury that would make a disappointed parent go "jesus christ"

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