S.G. Croup's Blog, page 193
July 21, 2015
nakedwarriors:
…if anyone else was disappointed by the PG-13...
…if anyone else was disappointed by the PG-13 nudity in Terminator Genisys: here’s the real deal
forever-breezyy:
soupgoblin:
On a whim, Maryn and
I started...
On a whim, Maryn and
I started rewatching Gargoyles today and, oh boy, this is gonna be fun.
We’re both huge fans of the show and can talk about it all day. We’re
even thinking of doing a combination erotic art/story auction with
gargoyles once she clears her current commission list!
Where are you watching it??
We have the DVDs.
Also, I think the whole series is up on youtube!
July 20, 2015
redspkscott:
badmonkey94:
STEAMY stuff from Tropixxx
This is...
STEAMY stuff from Tropixxx
This is my favorite OTK hand-only spanking scene out there. Real hard swats, hot bully top (my favorite kind of top), nice round butt. I have it on a VCR tape somewhere. Probably should get a digital version of it. Haven’t seen it in years.
Edit: If you ever want to look up this video, I believe it’s called “Lunch Money.”
I can verify that this video is super-duper hot. I only wish the bully had gotten a proper spanking too towards the end.
planet-bara:
gaymanga:
Dear Editor of the Tumblr...
Dear Editor of the Tumblr ********-bara,
Thank you for getting in touch with me, it’s good to start a
dialogue. I’ve seen your site before and felt immense sadness and frustration that
many of my favorite artists’ bodies of work are available on your Tumblr for
free. I had decided to let it go (because what can I really do? I’m powerless to
stop this in any meaningful sense), but the fact that you’re reaching out to me
indicates that you haven’t quite thought through the ethical ramifications of
what you’re doing. So if you’ll humor me for a minute, I’d like to walk you
through it. You messaged me to ask where you can find a book that you’d like to
buy (a single copy of), scan, and then disseminate for free. How are you okay
with that?Is it because it’s erotic art that you feel entitled to do
this? Or, do you think the creator of said book (Go Fujimoto) makes so much
money that he doesn’t need any more? Because he’s famous to you, do you picture
him like Rick Ross, driving a Maybach around Okinawa and making it rain at the
gay bar? I’m sorry to say that’s not even remotely the case. It would be
amazing if gay mangaka were rewarded so handsomely for their incredible stories,
their rarified artistic skills, their brazen courage to create homoerotic
fantasies in the face of censorship and social stigma—that they didn’t have to
worry about things like making the rent and keeping the heat on. I WISH a
career in gay manga could pay artists the same amount of money that their more
famous, heterosexual mangaka counterparts make.Or even beyond that, imagine if Gengoroh Tagame or Jiraiya
were rewarded for their labors – their hundreds of hours of work every month – with
the kind of money that renowned contemporary artists make. I’m talking Jeff
Koons, Damien Hirst money. Those fools make hundreds of millions of dollars for
gold-plated, diamond-bedazzled turds churned out by anonymous assistants.
Wouldn’t it be nice if all the artists we loved and respected made that kind of
money? If Damien Hirst ever makes a comic book, by all means, you should
bootleg that shit.Unfortunately, Seizoh Ebisubashi does not have enough money
to buy a small island. In fact, I’m not totally sure he has enough money for a vacation
to a small island. But he works hard every day to keep churning out the artwork
you love. He even posts free excerpts and work in progress on Tumblr. And then when he finishes a manga, he humbly
posts a link to where you can spend a few dollars to legally download the work
he spent weeks putting together. That’s apparently not enough for you. You have
posted entire long-form works by him that took months or years for him to make,
but are instantly devalued their free availability on Tumblr. Why buy the book
when they’re right there on the screen?Someone asked you recently how long you’ve been making this “amazing
work.” Maybe they were confused because they’d never seen it before, and their
only point of access to the life’s work of Gengoroh Tagame, Jiraiya, Seizoh
Ebisubashi, Satoru Sugajima, Takeshi Matsu, and the others you’ve pirated, came
through the filter of your bootleg scans. You responded: “Oh, Although I am an
artist I haven’t posted any of my art work on my tumblr. The credit for the
Manga that i post goes to the respected artist who I put in the description and
the hastags.” The artists are not benefiting in any way from you “crediting”
them in the hashtags. You’re only making it easier for their work to be found
on Google and through Tumblr, be reblogged, and further devalue the worth of
their books.If you care about these artists as much as it seems like you
do, because you spend a lot of time neatly organizing and sharing their work,
you’ll stop what you’re doing. Remove the hundreds of unauthorized images of
their work from your Tumblr. I encourage you to read the book I co-edited, Massive: Gay Erotic Manga and the Men Who
Make It, and listen to the voices of the artists you’re bootlegging describe
with passion and frustration how difficult it is to continue on with their
careers in a world where their work is consistently devalued by sites like
yours. (Also, they don’t use the term “bara” to describe their work, but that’s
a whole other can of worms).I’m not saying things are perfect – there are hundreds of
gay manga out there that need to be made more readily available through
authorized translations not only in English, but many other languages as well.
It’s slow work, but we’re making incremental progress and soon we’ll be walking
instead of crawling, and then we’ll be running instead of walking. I know
that’s frustrating when everything can (and sometimes seems like it should) be
made instantly accessible with a few clicks. But that’s a shortcut that harms
the artists and the fragile industry that supports them.If you like gay manga and want to see more of it, there’s a
simple way you can help that happen. You don’t even need to spend any money—Just
don’t reblog. It’s as simple as that. Don’t post and don’t repost the bootleg
manga you will inevitably come across on this endlessly expansive Internet, and
you’ll become part of the solution instead of part of the problem. I know this
may involve some cognitive dissonance, but you’re going to have to divorce in
your mind the act of bootlegging a Michael Bay blockbuster or a Taylor Swift
album from the act of bootlegging a gay manga made by an artist struggling to
meet deadlines in a one room apartment. At MASSIVE, we’re trying to foster an
environment that can support the creation of new works, that can reward the
artists the way they deserve to be rewarded. You can be a part of building that,
too, simply by doing nothing! And that’s what you’ll do if you care about this
work at all.With love and respect,
GrahamP.S. How about instead, you post your own artwork that you
mentioned? It seems like you have good taste, so maybe people who like what you’re
bootlegging will appreciate the work you’re actually making. And then some day
you can put it in a book! And hopefully people will buy it and you can
make a living off your art. Wouldn’t you like to live in a world where that’s
possible?
To be honest as an artist I already knew posting stuff online like this wasn’t a “nice” thing to do but what this blog is not is not what it started out as. It was just me online storaging the Manga I had found online so i could view it faster and from any of my devices. I didn’t expect to get any followers much less the 2.2k I have now and after a while the notes i was getting started getting to my head. I took a lot of time organizing them because i felt really guilty about the whole thing. It will take me a while but buy 5 pm today all of the gay manga that I have posted will be removed. If you ever see Seizoh Ebisubashi tell him i apologize to him the most for i have really posted a lot of his work. And in the end I’d still like to know where to find that book by Go Fujimoto because I’d still like to buy it.
P.s. I may be an artist but I do not regard myself highly I was thinking of posting my own work but not until I am comfortable with it. I doubt that anyone would buy what i have to offer right now. But when i do i hope you look at it and tell me if you like it or not.
P.s.s I already knew that i shouldn’t call it “bara.” It was manly to make my blog easier to find as it is one of the more widely used terms. when I found that out i started adding gay manga as well as bara to my hashtags. I was going to call my blog gay manga but someone already took that name
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As for my followers, obviously I’m going to lose a lot of you over this but if you still like to stick around this sinking ship id like to show you my own work which i always planned to do.
In the mean time visit http://www.massive-goods.com/ they have some great manga there. Its not free but they have most of the artists I’ve posted and some more with great titles buy them I have used them and I’ve got to say they are great.
gaymanga:
Add me on Facebook if you really want to read my...
Add me on Facebook if you really want to read my heartfelt posts on racism, misogyny,
transphobia, war, cops, income inequality, and guns! For this blog I try to keep my diatribes on topic.It makes me sad that gay erotic manga is so often looked down upon, sometimes by the very people who read and enjoy it, as disposable garbage for “fucked up people to get off to.” It bums me out that you feel that way about yourself.
To me this work is actually more valuable and important than the art capitalism values the most. It has the crucial function of validating the identities and desires of some of society’s most disenfranchised people (those fucked up ones you mentioned). Because the mainstream art world mostly dismisses gay manga, it’s up to the fans to show it respect. Therefore I feel the need to implore the scattered individuals who do understand its value to prop up the people who make it rather than drag them down.
Your idea that people will necessarily buy things if they can't get them for free is nonsense, as is the likewise idea that people don't and won't buy things from creators they can get for free.
I’m just going off of what I’ve been told directly from the artists in question.
Sometimes if you Google these artists’ names, the majority of the results are bootleg scans. They have no way of combating that.
Gengoroh Tagame explained that when an Italian publisher was interested in publishing a translation, they told him they didn’t want any existing work because it’s all already available online. So he would have had to create an original work entirely on spec, which is pretty much impossible because then he wouldn’t be able to meet his deadlines for the manga magazines that employ him.
We’ve helped him and other artists put out plenty of books that are already online for free, and you’re right, people still bought them– sometimes even if they’d seen the scans. But I’ve also been at plenty of sales events where people come up to the table, pick up a book, and say “I’ve already read this one online” and then don’t buy it.
Supply and demand, it’s real!
Do you have any idea how much I am loving your Sabin art. DO YOU EVEN
i think we should start a campaign for more sabin fanart because im very serious there are about 9 drawings of him ever made and thats a really embarassing number so we should dedicate a week to everyone just drawing him and how great he is
To me and to other guys, advertising as a gay men's (men who love other men, and only men) magazine and then having female (women who are not men) artists and curators kind of defeats the entire purpose and turns me away instantly. If this was magazine tha
Hello!
Actually, having women contribute alongside gay, bi, and straight men was our goal. I know what you’re thinking, “bara is made by men for men that are men”! But Burl&Fur is a fanzine dedicated to and inspired by bara; it is not bara itself. And we love that bara is read and appreciated by a wide range of consumers, so we chose artists who would do interesting and new takes on the genre.
You might be disappointed to find that our female contributors did some extraordinary, sexy work for the zine. I’m about to reblog one such piece - you may wish to avert your eyes! And adding fake insult to your ridiculous injury, many of our contributors also chose to include MOC and a couple trans characters as well. You’ll survive, anon. Be strong.
But thank you for reaching out! We also appreciate your patience as we get this big project together and launch our Kickstarter!
– Kevin
(P.S. don’t ever tell Irene what she can or cannot do)
While waiting for that flow of prospective commissioners to flood my inbox! who’s up for a TMI...
While waiting for that flow of prospective commissioners to flood my inbox! who’s up for a TMI Monday?
