The issue here is that it enables those who would make the actual CP to hide their work easier in the flood of generated content.

Animesque art is one thing, photorealistic is another. Neither actually harms an underaged person by existing, but photorealistic enables actual abusers to hide themselves easily. So IMO, photorealistic 'art' of this sort needs to be criminalized so that it can not be used as a mask for actual CP.

Normally I err on the side of 'art' being separated from actual pictures/recordings of abuse. It falls under the "I don't like what you have to say, but I will defend your right to say it" idea.

Photorealistic images of CP? I think that crosses the line, and needs to be treated as if it was actual CP as it essentially enables real CP to proliferate.

I wish I knew what to tell you. I am on Chrome with uBlock Origin, and I don't see YouTube ads. I'm logged into both Chrome and Google/YouTube

I think it's a good thing for me that I don't start from the flesh-out story end. I start out with 1+ characters and a scenario. Everything builds from there as I write. I don't know where it's going, so I don't feel as much pressure to get there.

That, and I am writing a Serial over on Royal Road, and have a handful of Patreons. This applies just enough 'expectations' pressure to help push me forward when I would otherwise slack more. :)

Doing Okay. I've gotten through my hyperfocus on leveling a new-to-me class in Final Fantasy XIV, so I am able to pull my brain back to writing more. I want to get two more chapters up on my Patreon before my next public chapter is released on Thursday.

The views are cumulative across all chapters, so 1k readers x 100 chapters would be 100k views, before getting into things like my editor-in-wife and I revisiting pages as we slowly clean up my early chapters.

But overall, I do feel very good about my story, and most of my other story ideas take place in the same world (if mostly on different continents), so each time I work on any of these ideas, I am fleshing out the world as a whole.

Well, for the story itself, it might just be easiest to quote my blurb:

An ancient, dreadfully powerful dungeon core that had once been sealed away to slowly fade into oblivion is revived by a chance encounter, though in a much-reduced state.

A temple monk on her way home for a vacation is distracted into exploring a newly born dungeon due to the cuteness of its rabbit monsters, leading to an entirely unexpected chain of events.

A kitsune whose death caused a goddess to pity her fate and revive her as a reincarnated dungeon.

These three quickly form bonds of necessity and convenience, but then have to navigate a complex relationship and build their own rules to live by.

And for my particular world-building, Living Dungeons have avatars, which is very important to the core story.

I'm writing over on Royal Road (And cross-posting to Ream right now, I may add scribblehub), so each chapter is being published on the website. This is not a direct income maker, the website is free, but Patreon for early chapters is getting me a small monthly amount and there is the possibility of getting a deal with something like Amazon Unlimited (I would prefer to avoid that specific publisher, but we will see what the future holds).

Anyway, I got drawn to RR thanks to a Reddit serial that linked there, and that was my introduction to the Living Dungeon concept. And after a few months of reading various stories on Royal Road, I felt the itch to write my own. :) I had at one point been intending for it to also be a trope-subverting 'harem' story where everyone had good cause to be involved in the relationship and were well-fleshed-out people, but the core relationship stabilized at a triad, and I dropped the harem idea. I would have had to force it in, it no longer fit.

Bonus though: That meant I got to drop the age of one of the future characters, which felt better for her general concept, and that in turn generated the opportunity to touch on another aspect of the world that I hadn't had reason to describe yet. And I get to have another woman get involved in a romance with interesting dynamics, though I am not quite there yet.

And I might as well link it:

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57517/no-need-for-a-core

I also have several more ideas waiting in the wings, but I am trying to get my backlog a bit more robust before I divert some of my attention to building those up.

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Well, we have a horror movie intro right in the article.

Mi first realized that the experiment had been successful when he saw the silkworm’s eyes turning red under the microscope.

Allow me to introduce my wife's ice cream recipe. Obviously, your base is going to be different, but I'll post the whole recipe here to make sure I don't miss anything.

Strawberry Ice Cream with Lemon and Mint Note: This is more than one batch worth of ice cream (approximately 1 ½ batch for the size ice cream maker I have at home). Fill your ice cream maker to the level recommended by your machine’s instructions. Don’t worry about your mix sitting in the fridge while waiting for your bowl to re-freeze, it just allows the flavors to meld more. Don’t worry about the berries getting too soft. It is ice cream, they will be slightly more firm than everything else, no matter how long it sits. Since my household likes lemon and mint, the below listed amounts are minimum, we tend to use more. Once your ice cream is ready, it finishes beautifully with a bit of huckleberry balsamic vinegar poured over the top when served.

Ingredients: Approximately 32 ounces by volume of fresh strawberries, washed and stems removed
3 tablespoons of lemon juice, more if lower quality(or to taste)
1 cup sugar, divided (into 0.25 cup and 0.75 cup)
1.5 cup heavy cream
0.5 cup whole milk
2 tablespoon fresh mint, minced (or to taste)
Pinch salt
3 large egg yolks
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
approximately 1 lemon’s worth of zest, finely grated (or to taste)

Directions:

1. In mixing bowl, blend approximately half the strawberries with a stick blender. Chop remaining strawberries (to slightly larger than chocolate chip, so that it does not clog the ice cream machine) and add to same mixing bowl. Add 0.25 cup sugar and lemon juice. Stir together. Set aside in fridge for at least an hour to macerate.

2. In a small saucepan, warm the dairy, 0.75 cup sugar, salt and mint. Warm the milk mixture, whisking to incorporate flavors.

3. Whisk egg yolks together with vanilla extract; then temper: when the milk mixture is warm, slowly spoon into the egg yolks, whisking to keep from cooking eggs. Repeat several times until eggs and milk mixture are approximately the same temperature, then whisk yolks into the mixture. On medium to medium-low heat, thicken mixture until it coats the back of a spoon. Let cool.

4. Combine milk mixture with strawberry mixture and lemon zest and mix well. Chill in fridge until cold enough for your ice cream maker (at least an hour).

5. Pour into ice cream maker and follow manufacturer instructions.

6. Serve immediately for soft serve, or place in Freezer for firmer texture.

(extremely loosely based off of “Strawberry Ice Cream Like Ben and Jerry’s”, and “Homemade Ice Cream: Perfect Custard Base”)

If it wasn't usually running something and was idling, it would be more so. But generally speaking, I have something occupying it.

Bingo, you've described my experience exactly. My computer is almost never off.

Being an ally doesn't need to be about showing it aggressively. I'm also cishet, and consider myself an ally, but I generally don't have any flags or such, because I don't do flags for anything. However, when I was streaming a lot, I specifically labeled my channel as being a safe space, I police my discord (or would, but there's been no need so far, so just a watchful presence. :) ), and in the serial I am writing, societies are very friendly to non-cishet individuals and partnerships. The only time gender in a couple has been an issue was in a conversation regarding a potential heir, and that was resolved simply by having the title pass through a sibling instead. There were some magic options available as well, but neither partner wanted to deal with the other issues there.