A concept sketch for the King in Yellow’s design that developed into a portrait.
[ID/ A digital drawing of the King in Yellow, with wood block texturing to the shading. He is in three quarters profile, looking towards the left, on a dark reddish brown background. The drawing cuts off at his shoulders, with his chest shown in a deep V, bust style. Instead of a face, there is smooth white chitin. Many insect legs poke out of his shirt collar, and curl around his chin. The King is wearing a hooded robe in glowing golden amber, thrown over a mellow tan shirt. The edges of the robe and shirt are slightly tattered, with small holes. On his head is a glowing crown, with tall angular spikes in the same pale yellow. This crown wraps around the sides and back of his head, but leaves his forehead bare. Behind the King’s head is a cracked circle of a lighter brown outlined in gold, mimicking a halo. The edge behind him has shattered, leaving shards exploding towards the right. At the bottom, the artist’s signature is written in gold. “Tyrastafr - Krakaheimr”. /End]
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ao3 is facing a ddos attack from an overseas right-wing anonymous group because it contains “degeneracy and disgusting things like LGBT and NSFW”.
they’re not the only right-wing group that is attacking fanfiction sites because of queer & nsfw content. the Heritage foundation, the US right wing think tank that writes laws for republicans, wrote an article about how “big tech turns kids trans” in which they’re advocating for the Kid’s Online Safety Act to pass because it will give state attorney generals power to sue websites for “potentially harmful content towards minors”. in this article they point out websites like wattpad, tumblr, tiktok, twitter as sites that GOP attorney generals can and will target for censorship if this bill passes. all places where fandom, that’s mostly queer, hangs out.
if you think this bill has no chance of passing because of all the red flags it poses, think again. it currently has 38 cosponsors in the senate, and is being pushed by the democrats as a “protecting the children!!” type bill.
there are left-aligned orgs in congress rn lobbying for this bill to pass. july is extremely decisive, because if KOSA goes through to markup it’ll be bundled with the Earn It act, Restrict, and all the other bad internet bills and passed as a package, completely censoring the internet forever.
if you want to learn more about the bill, go here. also sign the open letter against it here
it’s ESSENTIAL that you call your members of congress, specifically Maria Cantwell (you can call from out of state) and tell them DO NOT PASS KOSA. this site here connects you to your members of congress and gives you a short simple script to read off of! super easy and doesn’t take much out of your day! please do this now!!
“no one really takes it seriously, we’re just having fun” -> “okay so people take it seriously but they’re right to take it seriously because it’s such a good tool for understanding yourself” -> “okay so it might cause you to make bad predictions about people based on the month they were born in and might foreclose on important life opportunities but it’s not like it can cause structural harm” -> “okay so sometimes astrology leads to ungrounded discrimination in housing, dating, and employment but those people would be assholes anyway” -> “okay so i have no way of showing that and it does give people conceptual resources to justify certain forms of discrimination and more widespread cultural buy-in would make that problem worse but i like it” -> “shut the fuck up redditor and let people have fun”
