Relax
We’re back. I think.
And don’t worry, Morphians wasn’t suspended for having pics of hot teen boys. So you can sit back and relax
You’ll continue to be able to see lots of them here. Assuming, that is, I can keep from having glitches in the site operations overload the system, which is what caused the shutdown this week. I’ve added some protections that I think should keep that from happening. And I’ve turned off some of the features that we’ve had to see if I can isolate any that were causing problems.
So, sorry for the downtime, but we’re rolling again and the next piece from Boys-R-Us will be up in a couple hours.
Mostly Fixed
I think the site is back to running smoothly again. And since I had to change a bunch of stuff as part of the upgrade, I decided to try out a new look. Lemme know what you think, or if it’s having any problems. I’ll probly be posting some new pics this evening.
Da Boyz of Summer
Well, I’ve got a new little series started that I want to talk some about.
But first I want to talk about my life. It’s been a busy week – and my family has expanded and I have a new mouth to feed. In a few other posts I’ve talked about Sam – he’s the tres sexy boy my brother Alex started hanging out with at the first of year. Since then, Alex and Sam have gotten more and more close – in fact Alex, Sam, me, and John, my BF, all have been getting closer lately.
You may remember that Alex moved in with me and John at the end of last summer, when our parents finally went from marriage to mayhem. Now, or I should say for the past few months, as things have been heating up between Alex and Sam, it seems like Sam has sorta been living with us too. As of 2 weeks ago, though, “sorta” is over and it’s become “for real.”
Back at the beginning of the summer Sam’s mom found out she was getting transferred for work to Denver. That news sent Sam, and Alex, into star-crossed lovers overdrive – they both we’re spending most of their time wailing about how they’d die if they couldn’t be together. I couldn’t stand seeing them in such agony, so being the Prince that I am, I decided to try and fix things for them.
I went to have a serious talk with Sam’s mom; she’s a single parent – Sam’s dad died years ago. Fortunately, Sam came out to her last year and she knows all about Sam and Alex being a couple. So I could be pretty straight with her – well not actually straight – about the whole thing. There’s a law here for the “emancipation” of minors once they turn 16. If they can show the court that they are All American Heroes and can be self sufficient and all, they can be set free and allowed to live, and pretty much run their lives, away from their parents. It’s how John was able to move in with me when his parents moved away 3 years ago. My dad handled the whole process that time and it goes pretty smooth if the kid’s not on obvious outlaw, especially if his parents agree.
So, since Sam was about to turn 16, I pitched the idea to Sam’s mom – He could live with us in a “stable” environment under my “adult” supervision, he could finish high school here instead of having to start midway through in a whole new school, he and Alex could stay hooked up and not end up taking a lovers’ leap off some mountain, and it would be way easier for her to get settled into a new job and new home without having to worry about Sam melting down. Miracle – Miracle – She went for it (she thinks I’m a “top-notch role model”).
Sam had his birthday the middle of July – we had a party – my dad got the whole thing to sail through court smoothly – Sam Independence Day can now be celebrated every year on July 23rd (which is also the anniversary of the discovery of the ice cream cone and is Slash’s birthday) -and last week we helped Sam’s mom get her stuff all packed up into a van, drove her up to Denver, and helped her get moved into her new place. We hung out up there for a few days (to thank us, she’d bought us tickets to a couple great concerts). Now we’re back home with an officially new family member. So soon we’ll have an even bigger party.
Now, with my family saga out of the way, I want to say something about the new set of pics I’m posting. It’s something way different for me. I discovered some new models that seemed sooooo cute that I really wanted to do some sexy stuff with them. But, the stuff will be pretty shota. For anyone who doesn’t know the term, it’s part of the yaoi universe that involves boy on boy sex where the boys look way younger than puberty.
I’ve pretty much stayed away from doing shota artwork before. But the characters I’m doing are so obviously cartoony, with some impossibly exaggerated parts, and the pics will only be boys with boys – no adults. So what I’m doing with them doesn’t seem to cross whatever line I’ve had drawn in my heads about shota . For me, the pics I’m doing seem more humorous than hot and I guess that makes them okay for me.
But they may not be okay for some people. So, if you are, or think you might be, one of those people who is turned off by shota, you probably shouldn’t go any further into the Da Boyz galleries. This first set is pretty vanilla and is just to let people meet some of the Boyz. But I think you can assume things won’t stay this tame.
I’d really appreciate any feedback on whether anyone thinks this experiment goes over the line or detracts from the overall tone of the site. Unless I get a strong negative reaction, things will probably go further with Da Boyz.
Anyway, for those who want to check it out, click here or on the pic below for a look at two of the Boyz, Tommy and Willy, at the beginning of a playground adventure. Willy’s being sort of a tease and a show-off – until Tommy gives him something to be surprised about.
We’ve Been Hit a Nifty 250
250 … Thousand.
That’s right – this morning the page views for the site went to over 250,000.
“Wait a minute,” I can hear you saying. “It was just over a month ago that you were crowing about passing 120,000 hits. Are you shitting us that you’ve more than doubled that number since then?”
Well, my answer is, “I’m not makin’ it up!!!” As of March 29th we had 120,000 page views, that’s an average of about 13,000 a month in the 9 months the site had been up. Since March 29th, we’ve had more than 130,000 hits, and over 2,000 new visitors. And the main reason is - (drum roll) …. Nifty. On March 28th, I started posting the text only version of my story “The Problem with Seth” on the Nifty Erotic Stories Archives website, with an intro saying that an illustrated version is available here. Wow. A lot of you Nifty readers must have wanted to see the pics, cuz on March 29th and 30th we had a combined total of 50,000 page views.
So, here’s a big thank you to all the new Nifty visitors, we hope you all keep cumming. And a continuing thanks to all of you who been regulars since before last month:
I can’t even begin to express how thrilled, and how grateful, I am that so many people seem to like what I’m doing here. It’s been a great adventure for me, and I look forward to it continuing, and to all of you cumming along for the ride.
So, I send my Thanks, and Love to You All,
Evan
Thanks for over 120,000 Hits
Wow!!
This past weekend the site passed the 120,000 hits mark. So some of the boys wanted to show their appreciation with a little banner. But of course they thought that having it say “120,000″ would be boring, so we picked something more unique. And we really do thank all the people who have visited the site, with a special thanks to those of you who leave comments.
I started this little project and got the website up and running last summer. At the time, I hoped it would be a place that I could share my artwork and my thoughts with a few people who would drop by from time time. I had no idea it would attract sooo many. Or that so many of the pages with my stuff on them would be looked at. I’m blown away.
In the 9 months the site has been active, we’ve now had almost 6,000 visitors (i.e., visits from unique ISP’s) and almost 130,000 page views. I hope most all of the visitors have enjoyed what’s here as much as I’ve enjoyed creating and posting it. I plan to keep on doing it for as long as people keep visiting. And I have a few things that I’d like to be doing better in the future.
My main regret about how the site is going is that I’ve left so many little series things at loose ends. I hafta plead ADD and bipolarity and beg indulgence. It seems that new ideas pop into my head and grab my attention faster than I can follow thru on things I’ve already started. In the next few months, I’ll be trying to do some catch-up on some unfinished series.
My second remorse is that I haven’t done more to improve the site – with better navigation, some links to places I like, more bells and whistles, etc. I don’t seem to be techie enough to plow through or endure the complications I encounter when I try to do some things like that. My brother Alex has tried to help some, but lately he seems to be way too deep into his sexpades with Saul to bother with mundane things like websites – or school – or eating – or …… Which means I’ll also be trying to get a handle on some technical improvements in the months to come.
So, I’m going to be working hard to make the site a place for all of you to keep on cumming.
Love and Kisses,
Evan
Rainbow Guardians
Being Gay can be rough.
Being a Teenager can be agonizing.
Being a Gay Teenager can be both.
Being a Gay Teenager in a High School where homophobic losers are allowed to prowl the halls and attempt to prove their macho-ness by bullying Gay Teenagers is Hell. And it’s been going on for way too long.
The ugliness hit me personally this week. On Tuesday, my brother Alex and a classmate were attacked at school by 3 gay bashers. Fortunately, it ended up being the 3 bullies who got bashed – Alex and Saul are fine. I’ll write about the details of that adventure soon.
While Alex and Saul are okay – partly because they were prepared for this kind of thing happening – millions of other gay kids don’t fare so well. All of which makes me fucking furious. I’m going to rant some about it later in this post. But one of my ways of dealing with my anger is channeling it into some art. One result of doing that this time was to imagine a world where there are magical Rainbow Guardians who stand behind gay kids and help protect them from the shit that gets slung at them in this Land of the Free and Home of the Brave. So here’s my image of a Rainbow Guardian. Below it is my rant, which I hope some of you will read.
Why do we need Rainbow Guardians? Here are some of the reasons why:
The Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, a national organization that helps promote the physical safety and emotional health of GLBT kids in public schools, does a national survey every 2 years about the “School Climate” those kids have to deal with. The results of the 2007 Survey of over 6000 high school and middle school students were released last year. Part of what it found was that:
86.2% of LGBT students reported being verbally harassed, 44.1% reported being physically harassed and 22.1% reported being physically assaulted at school in the past year because of their sexual orientation.
That’s almost fucking half of the kids surveyed who were pushed or shoved, had things “accidentally” spilled on them, or had their belongings damaged - just because they don’t fit into a Straight American Kid box. For our society to allow that kind of regular abuse of some of its most vulnerable citizens to go on and on is a sign of how really sick it is.
And while the harassment itself is awful, the spillover effects are tragic. The survey also found that:
- More than half (60.8%) of students reported that they felt unsafe in school because of their sexual orientation:
- 31.7% of LGBT students missed a class and 32.7% missed a day of school in the past month because of feeling unsafe, compared to only 5.5% and 4.5%, respectively, of a national sample of secondary school students: and
- The reported grade point average of students who were more frequently harassed because of their sexual orientation or gender expression was almost half a grade lower than for students who were less often harassed (2.8 versus 2.4).
That means millions of kids have to wake up every day and make the choice of either skipping school or going there to face a hostile environment in which they don’t feel safe. Sick!!
It’d be nice to at least be able to say that things are getting better in the schools – but it doesn’t look that way. The results from GLSEN’s 2005 survey were that 37.8% of students experienced physical harassment at school and 17.6%of students had been physically assaulted because of their sexual orientation. In GLSEN’s first survey in 1999, 14% of the students reported having been physically assaulted and 40% felt unsafe at school. So the number that had been physically harassed went from 38% in 2005 to 44% in 2007 – and the number who’d been assaulted went from 14% in 1999 to 18% in 2005 and to 22% in 2007.
When you look at those numbers, it’s not surprising the number of GLBT kids who feel unsafe a school has gone from 40% in 1999 to 60% in 2007. If our schools and our country gave a shit, those numbers should be moving, rapidly, in the other direction. But in 2005 only 9 states had Safe Schools laws that specifically address bullying and harassment on the basis of sexual orientation. By 2007, that number had only increased to 11 states (and my state isn’t one of them) and efforts to pass such laws were defeated in several states. Guess why.
Right now there’s a Safe School law covering sexual orientation being considered in North Carolina. A recent poll of N.C voters found about 70% support the bill while only 30% oppose it. You’d think that means the law has a pretty good chance of passing. We’ll see. A similar proposal had about the same public support last year but was narrowly defeated in the legislature. Maybe that’s because the right wing hate group Focus on the Family launched a campaign against the law, spewing out garbage like this:
The Christian Action League is asking people on its mailing list to tell legislators to oppose it, and the N.C. Family Policy Council has written extensively on its view that homosexual rights groups are using school safety issues to promote a social agenda.
“This is a watershed issue, and if ‘sexual orientation’ is enacted into North Carolina law through HB 1366, it will serve as the basis for affirming deviant sexual behaviors throughout our state statutes,”
I wish James Dobson and all his good Christian sheep would try to convince Lawrence King of this. But they can’t – because Lawrence King is dead. Last February, Larry, a 15-year old middle schooler, who was flamboyantly open about being gay or transgendered, was sitting in his computer class with 20 other students. The kid sitting behind him, Brandon McInerney, was a 14 year old who idolized Adolph Hitler, was training to be a Young Marine, and had been the leader of a group of kids who regularly harassed Larry as a “faggott,” etc. The harassment had intensified in the preceding weeks and several students had heard Brandon threaten to kill Larry. Part way through class that day, Adolph Jr. pulled out a pistol and shot Lawrence in the back. When Lawrence fell onto the floor bleeding, McInerney got up from his seat and calmly shot him again – this time fatally in the back of the head. Then he pulled up his hoody, and strutted proudly out of the classroom.
Brandon was quickly picked up by the cops and for the past year has been in jail awaiting trial, as an adult, for murder and the commission of a premeditated hate crime. A pre-trial hearing in the case had been scheduled to take place this week, but had to be postponed – because when someone went to pick up Brandon’s father to drive him to court on the morning of the hearing they found him dead on his living room floor. The father had a history of alcohol abuse (and other abuse – he was convicted of shooting Brandon’s mother back in the 90′s and had recently been arrested for waving around a gun threatening to kill his sister). He apparently got very drunk the night before his son’s hearing, stumbled, and hit his head – real hard – on something.
What a sad story -full of the poison brewed from a lethal mix of domestic violence, alcohol, handguns, homophobia, fear, and hate.
Why can’t more be done to try and create happier stories for us all?
My Thanks, and my Apologies
Hey, All, here’s a Thank You:
We’re all stoked that we’ve had that many page views in the time the site’s been active. And we hope we’ll have lots more. (The boys in the Thank You are part of the Warehouse Gang – we may see more of them before long.)
Which leads to my Apology. I realize that nothing new has been posted here for almost a month. My Bad.
I can chalk it up to a bunch of things: an unplanned trip to visit my BF’s parents in Hawaii over the Holidays, a blown PSU on my computer that kept it out of action for a week or so, over immersion in The Last Remnant (the XBox 360 JRPG that John is forcing me to play with him), family hassles, a slide into the lower reaches of my Bi-Polarity, etc. But, bottom line, I feel like I’ve been letting down the fans here, and I’m sorry about that.
So, I promise to try and do better. For a start, I’m doing a new little series about a boy king – I’m calling him Andrew – and the two new boy toys given to him as a Christmas present by his loyal subjects. I’m hoping he’ll have fun playing with them. Here’s a look at Andrew on the throne with his new toys asking him to play. Marcus, the toy Andrew got for Christmas last year, sits at his side, not overwhelming happy about the King’s new playthings. Will everyone play together nicely? We’ll see.
Criminalizing Cartoons?
Y- Gallery beware. The ugly arms of the law that reach out to choke artistic freedom appear to have stretched all the way into the cartoon world. Last week, a United States Court of Appeals ruled that downloading anime depicting “minors” engaged in sexual activity could be a crime under U.S. law. Yes, anime – with pictures of obvious cartoon characters, not real people.
The decision, U.S. v. Whorley, has prompted lots of commentary and concern on the web. It’s also gotten me involved in discussions in some of my communications classes at school and with the Constitutional Law guru I’m friends with at the law firm where I work part-time. (He’s been my “consultant” in the past when I’ve looked at whether the CGI images I post here are legal under child porn laws.)
So, all in all, I think I’ve gotten pretty well informed about the issues involved in the case. A lot of the outcry about the decision is based on a misunderstanding of the difference between “pornography” and “obscenity” under the various laws involved. But, even when the case is put in its proper context, it paints a pretty ugly picture about the future of artistic freedom of expression for those of us involved in the creation and/or consumption of any work – visual or textual – involving fictional “minors” and sex.
Lawyers have a saying: “Bad facts make for bad law.” It’s totally true in this case. The defendant was a previously convicted sex-offender who was caught using a computer at some government office for job hunters to download a bunch of stuff, including: 15 actual photographs of naked children in lascivious poses; 20 Japanese anime pictures graphically showing prepubescent cartoon girls engaging in intercourse, masturbation, and oral sex, some of it coerced, with adults; and 20 e-mails between him and a friend that described “sexually explicit conduct involving children, including incest and molestation by doctors.” Downloading the 15 photographs would probably been enough to get him convicted under the basic U.S. child porn statute. But, it only applies to images with real live minors or figures that are “virtually indistinguishable from” real people, and it expressly doesn’t apply to “drawings, cartoons, sculptures, and paintings.” Not satisfied with nailing him for the photos, in a stunning example of prosecutorial overkill, the government also charged him with separate violations of other U.S. laws for downloading the cartoons and the emails.
Here’s where the “obscenity” distinction comes into play. Generally, under U.S. law the creation, distribution, or possession of “pornographic” pictures and writings depicting sexual activity are protected under the 1st Amendment. But it is illegal to import or distribute “obscene” material – which you can think of as “pornography plus” or something like that – it’s porn that fails a 3 part test developed by the Supreme Court 35 years ago. Under this standard, which has become virtually impossible to apply in the area of adult porn, material is obscene if it appeals “to a prurient interest,” shows “patently offensive sexual conduct” , and lacks “serious artistic, literary, political, or scientific value.” It’s up to a jury, applying local community standards, to decide whether a picture or writing fails this test and violates U.S. obscenity laws. Historically, U.S. law prohibited the production, importation, or distribution of obscene materials – but mere possession of them was not illegal. The internet changed the playing field some on that because the law was amended in 1996 to make it unlawful to “take or receive” obscene material using the internet. Remember, though, were talking here about “obscene” porn, not just everyday stuff.
When it comes to minors, though, U.S. law has been more strict. Pictures of minors engaged in sexual activity don’t have to be obscene to be illegal. The Supreme Court has frequently said that the reason any pornographic pictures of minors are illegal is because of the importance of protecting minors from the “abuse” involved in being the subjects of pornographic pictures. That seems to be a justification that makes sense up to the point where the law arbitrarily defines the “minors” being protected as anyone under 18, despite the fact that the age of consent for minors to engage in sex with each other, or with adults, is 16 or younger in most states.
In 1996, the U.S. tried to respond to cyber porn and toughen up its law by redefining child porn to include not just pictures of actual minors but also images that contained people that “appeared” to be minors engaged in sexual activity. In 2002, the Supreme Court ruled this law unconstitutional. It said that the First Amendment’s protection of mere pornography extended to things like drawings or computer generated 3D images of what just appeared to be minors engaged in sexual activity. Since no children were actually involved in the creation of such images, the rationale used to make pornographic pictures of actual minors illegal didn’t apply.
Orrin Hatch – a powerful, right-wing Mormon Senator from Utah- didn’t like this ruling, so he spearheaded the drive for some new laws to push back against it. One of them added a new section to the obscenity statute with the misleading title saying it applied to “Obscene visual representations of the sexual abuse of children.” In fact, at least according to the court in the Whorley case, it went much further than that. It makes it illegal to knowingly produce, distribute, receive, or possess any “visual depiction of any kind, including a drawing, cartoon, sculpture, or painting”,that depicts a minor, or what appears to be a minor, engaging in sexual activity and is “obscene.” And the statute does not require that the minor depicted actually exists.
So now the question of whether a cartoon or 3D rendering with a character that “appears to be a minor” comes down to whether a jury decides that the image fails the old obscenity test. And the major unknown in that arena is whether images that wouldn’t be considered obscene if they depicted adults can be deemed obscene if they depict characters that are or “appear to be” minors – neither the statute nor the court of appeals specify whether the statute is confined to human minors or extends to various fantasy species that may need to be protected from sexual abuse.
Apparently in the Whorley case the standards were different. Drawings of “coerced” sex among adults normally wouldn’t be considered obscene, but the jury found that the anime drawings of young girls were. And that’s what makes the current state of the law so scary. Who knows where a jury might draw the line between a drawing or CGI that is merely pornographic, and therefore lawful, and one that is “obscene”? How much does that depend on the activity portrayed or the “apparent” age of the characters, or their gender?
I don’t think that the images I do and post here would be considered “obscene” under existing legal standards. I am a little worried about it, though, and it intimidates the hell out of me. But some people probably should be real worried about some drawings and cartoons – like ones at Y-Gallery with pre-pubescent boys getting reamed by big hairy dudes.
And while I continue to be pissed that Y-G banned me for posting pretty tame CGI’s of teens while allowing hard-core shota drawings of little kids, I still think that any law that makes it illegal to create or own fanciful artwork that doesn’t involve any harm to any real people. I’ll be writing more about this soon.
Site Clean-Up
Alex and I are trying to do some reorganization and clean up of the links, etc. on the site. If you run into something that’s whack, let me know. I’ll kick Alex – and then try to et it fixed.
Thanks
P.S. – As part of that process, I’m going to start posting the Un-Seelie Sex series that I was doing on the Site-That-Must-Not-Be-Named before they booted me. It’s full of lots of kinky stuff. For example:
Obama 08
Sorry that I’ve not been posting as much the past couple of weeks. I got caught up in a MOVEMENT.
[WARNING: POLITICAL RANT TO FOLLOW]
This year is the first time I’ll be able to vote in a U.S. Presidential election and I’ve finally gotten psyched about it. It’s like I’ve known for years that I’d be voting against whoever the Repug crypto-fascists came up with to recycle Bush, but where I live I never really expected it would matter who I’d be voting FOR, cuz the Repugs would win anyway.
All of a sudden, though, this year it looks like my vote might matter. So even though Obama is way short of a radical’s wet dream, I’ve actually gotten excited about his campaign and I’ve been spending lots of time with campaign stuff.
I know, I know, runnin’ around trying to save the world is a pretty lame excuse for not being here at my PC makin’ porn, but that’s the deal. But I do miss messin’ with all the pretty boys here, so from now I’m gonna try to balance my time a little better between Obama and Morphians.
One plus of the campaining sidetrack has been discovering Connor, who we’ll be seing more of in the days ahead:
New Graphic Story – Summer Fun
Thanks to our subscriber Cutterman, we have a new a new feature here at Morphians – something I’m calling a
“Graphic Story.” Cutterman is a very prolific author of stories posted to the Nifty – Gay Male story archive. You can find them listed under “G Cutter” in the Nifty Prolific Authors Index.
He and I have decided to experiment with a new format – I’m creating scenes to go along with one of his stories. It’s not a comic, because the story will be told by Cutterman’s text, rather than with pictures. The pictures I do will just supply some imagery of the characters and some of the more “exciting” things that take place in the story.
The first of these we’ll be posting here, with a new segment every few days, is the story “Summer Fun.” You can find the first segment at Summer Fun – 1.
Here’s a sample from the first segment:
1 – Peter’s Story
I was twelve years old when I first met Joe and he was thirteen, a good age to make friends, even to make friendships that stand the test of time but I’m getting ahead of my story.
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I come from Weybridge in Surrey and my dad was pretty well off although not as rich as some of our neighbours. He had his own small building business so although we weren’t paupers we weren’t quite as well heeled as some of our pals down the road. They were mainly company executives, ad-men and up and coming yuppies, they probably thought we were ‘common; having builders vans parked in the driveway every now and then but my dad had to work for his money and work damn hard. My old man didn’t care about the aristos and my mum cared even less, the business was doing well and we, as a family that is, were looking good. As I’ve said I was twelve. Being a builder’s son didn’t make me a muscle man, in fact I was a bit weedy or at least I thought so. I suppose all in all I was a pretty average twelve year old kid.
I had long blonde hair which was my mum’s pride and joy and my dad’s despair. He used to say from the back I looked like a girl but there was no malice there, I knew he loved me and I loved him. As a family we were tight unusually so for this time and age or so I found out from my school mates.
We did have a secret hobby that put us apart from the rest just a teeny bit and that was that my mum and dad were naturists and so was I, not by choice I hasten to add. I was always embarrassed by my little dick but dad used to jolly me out of it and tell me that it’d grow.
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My secret shame was that the cause of the said squirting was an image of that Peter Pan kid, Jeremy Whatsit, I used to fancy Haley Joel Thingy so I supposed I was going through a phase or so I told myself. Girls didn’t do anything for me at all but at school they told us in Sex-Ed that at our tender age you can get turned on by all sorts of things. Thank God for pretty boy film stars, it could have been hamsters.
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Anyway, this story is about myself, Peter the Great and the friend I made on holiday over a long summer break my family spent in Crete. Since I’d been knee high to a grasshopper we’d been spending our summer breaks in naturist surroundings, some call them nudist camps but the phrase had dropped from favour recently … a trifle too military perhaps. I suppose when I was around ten my dad’s business had taken off and we’d promptly gone up market, no more draughty Swedish community halls and old mansions buried away in the woods we aimed for better things.
After a lot of deliberation on my parent’s part we settled on an all in exclusive three week package in a place at called Sitia which was on the northern coast of Crete, it was quite small but it was private and catered almost exclusively for nudists, naturists, sun worshipers, whatever you wanted to call us. It was very family oriented and the locals paid no heed at all.
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We hope you’ll check out the whole first segment and stay tuned as more are added in the days to come.
What Next? – Poll
In my typical Bi-Polar, ADD fashion, I seem to have a shit load of series I’ve been doing that are part way along, but have a lot more scenes I plan to add to them. Some of you have asked about particular ones, so I’m gonna try to focus my attention on some of those – What? ME focus? HA!
But as further guidance, I thought I’d try to get some opinions about what to work on next. So here’s a little poll. Below it are reminder scenes and a link to the gallery for each series that has one, in case you’ve forgotten what’s in any of them.
Pool Party
Camping
Something Else
We’re Back
So, the site was sorta screwed-up for the past few days. It seems the problem was that my web host did some server upgrades that fucked with how my site software works = a mess. We finally got it figured out, though, and I think most things are working now.
It took me awhile to get on it though cuz I got distracted with getting going in school and watching the Dem convention. Obama’s acceptance speech was masterful. There’s at least some hope that if he wins we might be able to save this country from being totally taken over by the fascist fundies. The end of last year, I read this awesome article in the Atlantic written by Andrew Sullivan about Obama. The theme was that: “Unlike any of the other candidates, he could take America—finally—past the debilitating, self-perpetuating family quarrel of the Baby Boom generation.” Let’s hope so.
Anyway, now that the site seems to be working again, I’ll be getting back to posting some more artwork. For a start here’s my version of Bastian, the boy I went crazy over on my camping trip last week:
Gymnastics
My favorite Olympics event has always been gymnastics – primarily men’s gymnastics. Gee, I wonder why? Altho some of the gymnasts are kinda over-bulked in the shoulders for my taste, there are others that definitely light my torch. This year, I’ve gone beyond lit – I’ve fallen in love. His name is Uchimura Kohei. He’s 19, from Nagasaki, and beautiful:
He’s also good – He won the Silver Medal in the Men’s Individual All-Around. He’ll be competing Sunday in the Men’s Floor event, in which he placed 4th in the qualifying rounds.
Here’s a video clip I found with some of his earlier performances an other candids :
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And here are the first of some gymnastics scenes I’m doing as a tribute to Kohei:
Controversy Sells
I’m disgusted by Fox Spin (a/k/a Fox News) and all the right-wing radio talk-show hate-mongers. But they for sure do have one thing right – stir up controversy about something and people will watch and/or listen.
I think maybe that’s what’s going on here at Morphians. In the past 3 days the site has had almost 4500 page views. In comparison, I first got it up (I mean the site, gutter brain) and going the end of May and for the whole month of June there were a total of 3100 page views. Quite a difference.
Now, during those same past 3 days, I’d been having my latest run-in with The Site That Shall Not Be Named, which has been commented on some at TSTSNBN. I think there’s probably some correlation between these two things. So I have to send out a big thank-you to Icebreaker, wherever you are, for helping get my site and my work seen by lots more people.
And since Riki was sort of the star, but also the victim, of that whole debacle, I’m posting a little cartoony thing I did of Riki being … mmm … playful:
Why I Got Banned
For those who don’t follow threads of comments on other posts, I want to pass along that the person who reported my piece on Yaoi Gallery, Icehacker, posted a comment to my Banned Again post explaining to me the reasons why the piece was reported – “You could see thigh, for fuck sake” – and why it had to be banned – “under US law 3D images of nude minors are illegal” (I’m paraphrasing that a little). From that. we’ve had an interesting exchange of comments. I pointed out to Icehacker that what US law actually says is that 3D images of characters that are “virtually indistinguishable” from actual minors are illegal if they show the minors engaged in sexual activity. The term “sexual activity” is defined in the law and doesn’t include revealing a thigh – it doesn’t even include just being nude. Nope. To be illegal because of nudity the image would have to show “graphic or simulated lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area.”
Anyway, I pointed that out to Icehacker and then explained that I’d posted questions on GSR several times about what the term “sexually themed” in the TOS about 3D images means. And from the responses I’d gotten, I honestly thought it applied to full frontal nudity, not to a picture of a shirtless elf – even one where you can see thigh for fuck sake. Unfortunately, my comments have now caused me to be labeled as not only a miscreant but a bitcher and whiner as well. So much for honest discourse.
In addition to the comments Icehacker posted here about why I was reported and should be shot at sunrise, he/she also has posted a long fascinating journal entry at YG about their escapade. It’s quite revealing as to their mix of self righteous and sadistic motives:
“If you piss me off, I’ll make a run right over to your gallery and start looking over every piece you have to see if you have something up that violates the ToS. …
I don’t report to make people’s lives harder, I do it if their is a genuine violation and using those cases, I’ll learn what is and what isn’t allowed.
… and now for the why this makes me a BITCH part.
I LOVE to watch what happens next. It appeals to both sides of my nature.
I’ll FOLLOW those people to their other sites and if I’m involved in what has happened (usually I’ll be the person reporting the piece) I’ll usually tell them why their piece was reported!
… okay, I’ll do this if other people I know were the reporters too.
But I do it in the hopes that if the person is suspended, they don’t make the same mistake twice.
… I try to be a saint… but end up being a bitch in a latex nun’s habit…
The other reason I do it… especially in the cases of people that are banned from y!gallery… is to just… torment them if they go from understanding and trying to learn to being well… “YOU’RE JEALOUS OF MY TALENT!”
Interesting glimpses into a truly warped mind. Unfortunately, though, the piece is quite inaccurate in what it says about the way I’ve supposedly responded to being banned. So much for honest reporting.
At least, though, I now know that I’m not alone. Icehacker has filed abuse reports 122 times, which makes me want to say – Get a Life. Also, thanks to a dare Icehacker made in one of his/her comments, I now have a picture of my brother naked from the waist up.
So, that’s pretty much the end of the YG saga for me. I IM’ed Snover last night to try and talk about it, but he ignored me. Now that Icehacker has enlightened me about how I’m completely in the wrong and how the mods agree with him/her, I think I’ll go find some other wall to uselessly bang my head against. (I also know now from Icehacker’s journal entry that when someone responds to one of his/her TOS raids with the “ignore it and go on method” it drives him/her insane.)
Banned Again from Yaoi Gallery
They must have really wanted to get rid of me over there. I’ve just been permanently banned for posting this pic 2 nights ago:
They decided it is “adult in nature” and therefore a violation of their rules. Curiously, those same rules say that “tasteful nude” drawings – ones with full frontal nudity but no sexual activity – don’t need to be flagged as “adult imagery.” Odd, isn’t it?
I’m going out now to get smashed. More later.
The Morphians Graphic Novel Is Underway
Well, finally. I’ve posted the first few pages of the graphic novel/comic thing that was the original impetus for this site. I want to find a display format for it that’s different from what’s up now. But at least it’s a start.
Here’s the cover:
You can find all of it here: The Morphians
REINSTATED at Yaoi Gallery
HOORAY!!
I was able to show the YG site admin where I had gotten pre-approval for the characters they banned me for.
So I’ll be posting there again real soon. But no sex – I’ve sworn off sex scenes there – creates too much anxiety.
Well …. maybe … when I get over the whole banishment trauma … maybe I might do a little sex scene there every once in awhile – but only using old men, with wrinkles, and pot-bellies, and beards. Yeah, beards will be good – long gray scraggly ones.
BANNED at Yaoi Gallery
Well, I’ve been banned from Yaoi Gallery – you know, the site with all the boy on boy drawings and fictions and such.
Never mind
20, 000 Page Views at Yaoi Gallery
I’m amazed. I’ve been submitting my 3D CGI things as postings at Yaoi Gallery for about 6 weeks now. And yesterday I hit 20,000 in the number of page-views there have been of my submissions.
So I did a thank you piece to post there:
