profoundlyentangled

Hey y'all. Like the title says, I unfortunately won't be sharing a folder of new fakes for this month like usual. Partially due to my offline schedule getting a little tighter and mostly because of some hardware issues, I wasn't able to put together any new images last month. However, I'm pleased to report that the hardware problem has been solved and then some, and I'll have a special surprise image to share with you all in the next couple of days as a thank-you for your patience👀 Regular updates will resume next month. Thanks for watching🖤

So, after getting fed up with the persistent jankiness of BDSMLR and ending up only sharing my last few projects in a couple of places on Discord, I've realized that I'm kind of exhausted with uploading everything I post to multiple platforms, to be met with only marginal interest across all of them.

I'm not going to lie, I've been a bit disillusioned with the so-called bondage faking community for a while now. Over the last few years the focus of what most people create and consume has shifted overwhelmingly toward content that isn't so much 'bondage fakes' as 'tape on mouth fakes.' The number of artists that pay any mind to creative photo compositing or things like narrative and atmosphere is smaller than ever, and the people churning out scores of celebrity glamour shots/social media posts/screencaptures with a gag PNG added and no further alterations tend to get the lion's share of attention from the community at any rate. For many this all seems to have morphed into more of a nerdy hobby than any kind of engagement with sexuality or kink. And really, that's fine! People are gonna like whatever they like and create whatever they're gonna create. But the problem for me is that as someone whose involvement in faking is very driven by being a kinkster online and off and having a thorough fascination with more dramatic and narrativized damsel-in-distress scenarios in line with things like old detective magazines and exploitation movies, I'm finding that both the community and audience for my particular lane of faking is rapidly disappearing. I get that part of this is because of my age; I've been faking for 14 years now and I've been part of the community for even longer--my engagement with this goes back to when it was all Tripod domains and grainy low-res fakes of the women from Buffy or Charmed😂 These days, upon seeing that there's another account on DeviantArt that doesn't even post fakes; just side-by-side images of celebrities with professional bondage photos with captions added, and that account drew over twice as many followers in 5 months than mine has in 5 years, I've realized the community has changed, and I don't really belong in it any more.

I'm not going to quit making fakes--I still love doing it, and I never did it for the attention or recognition. But I think I'm done trying to engage with a mostly indifferent community that my interests don't fit into. For the time being, I'm going to be setting up a Google Drive folder as a repository for my past, present, and future work. I'll share the link with anyone interested when it's ready. I may also toy with the idea of creating a Discord server focused on my type of content, but honestly, that landscape right now seems so oversaturated with different people's faking servers that I might not bother with it just to get lost in the shuffle. If I go that route, I'll also share the link.

So that's the state of things. I know that there are still people who appreciate my work, and I'm still so appreciative of all your support🖤 But it's time for me to let go of things that no longer serve me.