Leaving Substack, Joining Buttondown
Second Verse, Same as the First
Notice anything different? Sure you do: this email doesn't look like all previous missives, and it's coming from a different source.
That's right, I've divested from Substack and transferred to Buttondown. I like this service because it's run by one person (like Masto.host, who hosts my Mastodon instance), and he has responded quickly to any issue I've come up with.
Primarily that issue was "what's your policy on adult content?" I was shopping around for other newsletter platforms, and Beehiiv has a policy against pornography, which is of course never clearly defined. Ghost.io is on vacation, and they're based in Singapore, so I won't hear from them for a while. Buttondown is cool with whatever's legal, as far as I understand. And WordPress even offers a newsletter function. However, Ghost, Buttondown, and WordPress all use Stripe for online financial transactions, and Stripe has suspended me for adult content.
But Buttondown pointed out that if my newsletter's free, which it is, there's no reason to involve Stripe at all. So here we are.
I hope this works out. It seems like a great service, the interface I'm writing this in is nice and oldskool—it seems like I'm riding a wave of technological regression, between this, my webring, and Neocities—and if you're reading this, then the transition was smooth and easy. In fact, all the old Substack newsletters are archived here, so nothing has truly been lost!
And here, I won't leave you bereft of giantess content. Amid the flurry of "giantess is the most popular video search term" comes a new article of interest, or rather a podcast. Dublin news podcast Moncrieff (NewsTalk) interviewed dominatrix and sex educator Clarity Mills about the increase of the giantess in public imagination. Her answers are her personal opinion (I think she's misinformed about the interest of women in Size Fantasy) but interesting nonetheless. We know that PornHub reported a 1021% increase in searching for "giantess" (2015) and Clips4Sale said searches for "giantess" have gone up 1000% (2023), but Domina Clarity says that searches for "giantess" on Google have increased by 1900% over the last five years. At least!
PinkNews repeated the material we already know, but Bustle described how to do the "giant woman" TikTok trend of last October, if one's into such things. See? It's becoming more and more popular, and soon it'll be as vanilla as whips-n-chains, whipped cream and candles.
Thanks for reading! Feel free to unsubscribe if you were willing to help out with Substack but now it's getting to be a bit too much. Have a great (restful, quiet) holiday season, and always watch the skies... for some beguiling stranger the size of a skyscraper.
In Her Shadow,
Aborigen
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