Howdy, making another quick journal as a follow-up to the last, this time hopefully more coherent and with more details.

To recap from the last journal, itch.io - under pressure from Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, and Paypal - has deindexed all its adult games following some manner of review. ( https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content ) This means that a large portion of my income, as well as the income of others that rely on content creation for a living, is now at threat. I had been moving towards game development over commissions for a while - since commissions started slowing after Helene hit. This has the potentially to yet again upend things in my life, and I am not alone in that.

This is not something to put blame on itch.io for, and certainly not something to lobby blame towards the game singled out by 'collective shout' for - this is solely the fault of the payment processors. Something like this is a vile overreach of their power, and there needs to be push-back against this. Supposedly 1000 calls were enough to get them to do this (though evidence suggests they were planning on trying it anyhow) - and so we should apply pressure in the other direction. I have twice as many followers on here than the number of calls that they claim they got. If you enjoy my content, and especially enjoy my games and look forward to more in the future, then I ask that you please consider helping to fight back against this. Void has an excellent thread on this on bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/voiddebris...../3lupqc2p7jk2n

The thread also includes a link to the ACLU petition I mentioned in the last journal, numbers and emails for the payment processors, a template to follow, and other advice.

I have already contacted the processors I could get ahold of, my livelihood is once again on the line and I am certainly not going to take that silently.

In the meantime, I have a Subscribestar ( https://subscribestar.adult/lapsa ) where you can get access to all my games -and- support future work and a bluesky ( https://bsky.app/profile/lapsa.bsky.social ) where I am trying to be more active. Censorship will not stop me from making art as long as there are people whose support can facilitate me doing so. If you can, please share this, or at least the thread I linked, around - show support for the content creators whose content you love and help make sure we can continue to earn a living.