#stock company

[dailyfigures]

Stocking Anarchy ; Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt ☆ Good Smile Company

[marzipanandminutiae]

Dear marzi, for reasons of trying not to give period characters too modern fetishes in my smut, may I have some recs as to where I may find some of that olde fetish content you've previously seen?

On the Wikipedia page for the "corset controversy," unfortunately!

Historians have been taking obvious tightlacing fetish letters seriously for...way too long. And sometimes still are. Confirmation bias is a hell of a thing. Of course, there's no way to 100% tell which letters are fetish fuel and which are real, but generally any that use particularly heightened language or common erotic tropes- or that seem to fly in the face of evidence from extant garments, unedited videos, stock and advertisements from real corset companies, etc. -are to be viewed with suspicion.

(The same is true for letters used now to claim that nipple piercing was a real Victorian trend- for, indeed, the only source is anonymous magazine letters and many of them fall into the same obvious patterns as the tightlacing letters. One DOES describe the alleged process in detail...but it's basically the same as the process for ear-piercing, a service jewelers did commonly offer back then. Just applied to nipples. So whether it's real or not is still uncertain, but it's highly doubtful that large numbers of Victorian women were running around with nipple piercings given that no extant nipple rings have been found, such piercings are never mentioned in letters or diaries or other more concrete sources, etc.)

Besides that, I've seen glimpses of most modern fetishes in various sources:

the Psychopathia Sexualis, a medical manual of "sexual mental illness" (in heavy quotes because things like homosexuality and gender variance are mentioned under that heading), talks about everything from a fetish for tight boots and gloves on women, to bloodplay (initiated by a woman, actually, who wanted to drink her husband's blood), to force-femming, to some very elaborate femdom scenarios that I hope the sex workers in question were paid well for. Of course, since the cases are anonymous, these are also difficult to confirm- but clearly someone had THOUGHT of them, since they're written into the book.

And I've seen at least some of them in other sources, too, including some of the magazines that published the nipple piercing and tightlacing letters. The Englishwomen's Domestic Magazine was notorious for its letters on tightlacing, tight gloves, spanking, etc.

Photographic porn was definitely a thing almost as soon as photography came into being. A lot of it is pretty vanilla, but I could swear I'd seen piss kink photos (with urine painted in after development) before the blog where they were hosted went defunct

James Joyce's letters to his wife get into farting and scat fetish territory. Yes, really.

Speaking of letters, there was one man living here in Boston who, in the late 19th century, wrote letters to his wife describing erotic dreams of her as a giantess who pissed on him and then ate him. I cannot remember his name and it's going to drive me insane all day, but he was the head of Boston's censorship organization, the Watch and Ward society and these letters were first released by his own children for an unauthorized biography written five years after his death. Guess there was little love lost there.

BDSM is old. Like, really old. Old, to quote the sacred texts, as balls. I'm pretty sure there are sexual flagellation texts going back to the Renaissance, but don't quote me on that.

Basically, Rule 34 can be back-applied, too. If it existed, there was a fetish for it, probably. Of course, things that specifically involve modern technology or properties are out, but beyond that...the sky is the limit

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Open source vs. closed doors: How China’s DeepSeek beat U.S. AI monopolies

By Gary Wilson

China’s DeepSeek AI has just dropped a bombshell in the tech world. While U.S. tech giants like OpenAI have been building expensive, closed-source AI models, DeepSeek has released an open-source AI that matches or outperforms U.S. models, costs 97% less to operate, and can be downloaded and used freely by anyone.

[elftwink]

to preface this post i am anti-advertising i think we should explode the entire industry but it's sooo funny when you people make posts like "and they don't even work!!" like. sorry to be the bearer of bad news but yes they do. that's why we have to put up with so many despite everyone hating them and thinking its annoying. because they actually work really well and make a shit load of money

[genericpuff]

lmao rachel that would all be well and good... if that was actually hades and persephone 💀😭

that's really the smoking gun here that rachel is 1.) always drawing H x P smut by default and can just put things in black and grey to make it look like any other character 2.) all of her characters suffer from so much same face syndrome that even she can't tell them apart and 3.) rachel doesn't even read her own comic anymore

[kabukeo]

store is open!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fazbear-ent-official]

sorry but we didn't have the time to prepare a valentines day event this year as mr. afton was busy with his divorce getting messy.

[eldarianduelist]

"Eh, employee pay? It's alright, bud. Nothing too crazy."

[lapdogchase]

i do not trust people who shop at shein i'm sorry like there's no excuse for it. i can understand amazon, i can understand a lot of fast fashion, but shein is uniquely awful. and their clothes fall apart in a week so you can't even keep them and mend them. "but i'm poor" okay and you don't need to buy from shein about it. "they sell shirts for $3" so does michael's check ur local craft store and make a design urself if u want. you cannot seriously tell me that you had no other option other than shein

[shirojikimattari]

Got called back into the mountains by my father but I am now back in the city with this shadowheart

I couldn't sleep until like 3am because I really wanted to draw this so here we are

[tfh-arts]

Do you think City businesses sell deceased fixer blood for their super wealthy and/or parasocial fans

[moonshynecybin]

is literally anyone happy with their management post ktm deal oh my god

[flying-cat]

no need to ban tiktok if meta is buying it. i'll just delete it myself lmfao

[waffulaa]

[wyn-n-tonic]

PUBLIC HEALTH PSA!!!!!!

If you are on Ozempic/Wegovy/Zepbound/Whatever, it is ILLEGAL to throw your pens away in the regular trash!!!! If you cannot handle biohazardous material and waste responsibly, you do not deserve to handle it at all! If your doctor is prescribing this medication to you and not teaching about your responsibility, they shouldn’t be prescribing it at all AND their fucking medical licensed should be evaluated.

And if you’re getting this from those unregulated third party companies who aren’t teaching you about your responsibility, they need to be shut the fuck down.

If you are on these medications, look up your county’s sharps disposal laws. A lot of places require sharps waste be kept in specialized disposal boxes that you can get from your doctor or the pharmacy. If you don’t have that, an old laundry detergent bottle will do as it is the same hard plastic material that is not impacted by UV light. Once that is full, you turn it into the county (and if it’s an old laundry detergent bottle, you have to duct tape it and label it). ONLY SURRENDER TO THE COUNTY, DO NOT THROW IT IN THE FUCKING TRASH!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

i really do love the chaldea breakroom, its so nice to actually get to see the thought behind the characters they make