acetylene eyes

smart smut + transgressive media

Procedural Update

I’ve begun migrating Acetylene Eyes to WordPress. (I will post relevant details once things are fully up and running.)

This is a nowhere near ideal stop gap to keep the archive up and publicly available without interruption.

As best as I can tell there is no good option w/r/t keeping the project running long term on any available platform.

At this point, the best option appears to be for me to host images on Mastodon and then link to text posts on WordPress.

I’m still at a loss as to how I’m supposed to continue to find new content to post but that’s not something I can do anything about if the blog doesn’t live on somewhere other than Tumblr first.

I’ll keep everyone posted.

And on an unrelated, more personal note: I finished my first semester of grad school. Unless I’m mistaken, I’ll have earned straight A-s for the first time in my life. I’ve made some of the best work in my life… some of which I’m considering sharing in a more public fashion.

I’m also so far beyond exhausted I can hardly see straight.

Which is all to say: bear with me, please; I’m doing my best to address things in a timely manner but I also have next to nothing left after everything I’ve been juggling in the last 45 days.

The Future (Cont’d)

First–I want to thank everyone who has reached out about how much this project has meant to them. (I’ve only not responded because I am in the midst of finals and am only just barely keeping my head above water with school stuff.)

Second–I have exported all my data from this project. Both via Tumblr and someone I got to know through here was a real mensch and sent me an external (what I presume is a python web archive). So everything prior to the announcement last week is backed up.

Third–I am going to port to another platform. I’m not sure which one just yet. (Of those who have reached out it seems most folks I’ve actually interacted semi-regularly seem to be favoring Ello, most of the smut blogs seem to be favoring Pillowfort–unfortunately, I wouldn’t be able to onboard there until after the 17th, due to their setup protocol.)

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therealkatiewest: “ Not only will my entire tumblr now basically be an archive available to only myself, but my number one source of masturbation material will disappear. SEX IS NOT BAD. NO ONE NEEDS TO BE PROTECTED FROM SEX. FUCK SHAME. WHERE DO I...

therealkatiewest:

Not only will my entire tumblr now basically be an archive available to only myself, but my number one source of masturbation material will disappear. 

SEX IS NOT BAD. NO ONE NEEDS TO BE PROTECTED FROM SEX. FUCK SHAME.

WHERE DO I POST MY NUDES??????????????????????????????????????

The best take on this fustercluck…

The Future

It appears that Tumblr is effectively banning adult content as of the 17th.

I am not sure this project will still be here after that point.

I’d like to at least port somewhere 3rd party to preserve what’s here. Any leads

Sakuraway - Untitled from Basic Instinct II series (201X) Sakuraway is a Chinese image maker based in Shanghai. He’s a bit like what you’d get if you put equal parts Shae Detar, Ren Hang, Maxime Imbert and Ryan McGinley and shake them vigorously. He...

Sakuraway - Untitled from Basic Instinct II series (201X)

Sakuraway is a Chinese image maker based in Shanghai.

He’s a bit like what you’d get if you put equal parts Shae Detar, Ren Hang, Maxime Imbert and Ryan McGinley and shake them vigorously.

He is–quite frankly–trash at editing his own work (far too much work that emphasizes a quantity over quality approach). But there is definitely some great finds amidst the surfeit of dreck and he has a charmingly idiosyncratic eye for color.

Source unknown - Title unknown (201X) The ubiquity of built in flash systems (point and shoot devices, smart phones, prosumer dSLRs, et al.) has fostered an understanding of the flash as a tool to increase illumination in low-light situations. A...

Source unknown - Title unknown (201X)

The ubiquity of built in flash systems (point and shoot devices, smart phones, prosumer dSLRs, et al.) has fostered an understanding of the flash as a tool to increase illumination in low-light situations.

A clearer way of putting it might be to say that a flash is increasingly treated as a key light thus relegating ambient light to the function of a fill light.

This is in keeping with magnesium flash lamps of the late 19th century and the flashbulbs of the early-to-mid 20th century. Slowly, studio photography appropriated the flash in service of painstakingly orchestrated lighting design. There are and will continue to be outliers–Diane Arbus, for example, used a flash in a great deal of her exterior shots as a means of separating the subject from the background.

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