I should have done this eons ago. After years of self-filtering, fighting flags, deboosts, weaponized moderation, straight-up censorship, and animosity in some way for my nudes on every platform, I’ve finally carved out a private space on Patreon: the Inner Sanctum.

Everything I’ve held back is going there now: my full archive of nude artwork which includes glitch remixes, nude paintings, AI-work trained on my own paintings and soon to be body, the erotic stories I’ve been too nervous to write or publish anywhere, and soon voiced readings of those stories in my voice. No more toning it down. Just the raw, unfiltered Empress Trash transmissions.

I’m tired of begging platforms to let me exist as I am and collectors to buy my work (even though I appreciate them). Additionally, with recent platform closures like Nifty Gateway, Rodeo (which was where I was sharing my NSFW stuff occassionally), and Foundations change of ownership, the instability of the crypto art market can't be ignored.

I have sustained myself for almost 5 years as a crypto artist, and have no intention to stop, but I need more stability than what the speculative platforms offer (even though I think the blockchains and art will endure and in the end even crypto things be integrated into places like Patreon).

While Patreon is web2 and has had some issues with demonetizing NSFW creators due to credit card processing companies pressuring to demonetize adult content, it's overall a stable platform for which I can build with support for artists like me who aren't quite porn, but ruffle vanilla feathers because boobs. I was thinking of focusing gaining subscribers on X because I have gotten a few naturally, but they have been demonetizing people who focus on nude art. While X allows adult content, their monetization policy explicitely says no, making for a grey area where I could be demonetized.

I'm tired of building to be rugged and the whiplash and uncertainity that comes with it.

Patreon has been genuinely supportive in this process: they did extra hand holding to help me navigate policies (nsfw behind paywall and links to art on blockchain can be shared for interlinking but no shilling), and onboarded me quickly. So I’m focused on building this for a few.

I like to dream maybe to support their NSFW creators Patreon will allow for crypto payouts to avoid the credit card companies trying to overreach in content moderation and then I could have my cake and eat it too.

If you’ve love my work but wanted the deeper, uncensored layers, this is where that will live now. I still will be working with crypto, making art, writing here, posting on all the social medias, doing all the things I already do, but I need more sustainable predicatible income to continue any of my work and an outlet for my 18+ themes.

For my Paragraph subscribers, I have a 10% discount code for the first month: PARAGRAPH10 which you can use to subscribe as my thank you. It's valid until the end of Feb.

Subscribe her: https://www.patreon.com/empresstrash

Thank you for being here through all the chaos. I hope this next chapter is fun for everyone.

See you in the Sanctum. 🖤🔥