Very Important (and Final) Post!!!

Okay everyone, after spending all yesterday dealing with the new suck from Google, I have relocated this blog to https://degradeddamsels.wordpress.com/. All future posts will be there, so be sure and change any bookmarks/favorite links to the new site.

See You All On The Other Side! (Click Above for New Blog Home)

I've also set up a new tumblr page, but I'm probably only going to use it as a backup. Tumblr shrinks my caps and even with Disqus enabled, the commenting functions are lacking. Plus tracking visits is very wonky, and I'm not sure how I feel about reblogs.

My main reason for choosing wordpress is that it let me import most of the important posts from this blog, as well as all of your wonderful comments, going back to the very beginning. So that's a nice feature over Tumblr as well. I'm still figuring out how it all works, but think I can replace/rebuild most of the widgets and blog lists I have on this site. Once I figure it out a bit more, I'll be relocating Humbled Harlots, though I might actually buy a private domain address to create a more permanent location for my writing blog. We'll see once everything has settled back down.

As far as the new site goes, the only things I seem to have lost are my tags -which I'll start adding back to old posts a few at a time- and my Sorority Prank War page, which I can also rebuild as time allows. Otherwise, I think this entire blog can neatly and completely relocate to the new home without much more fuss. Which is a huuuuuge relief to me!

Plus the new site has working emoticons, which is great! ;-)

- B-Rex

See you all at the new home!

VERY URGENT: New Google (Blogger) Content Policy

UPDATE BELOW:

Hello everyone, this is a shitty way to start off the week, especially after finally getting past my bronchitis, but now it seems Blogger has decided to kill off its adult-oriented blogs at long last. Here's the email I got this morning:

"Dear Blogger User,
We're writing to tell you about an upcoming change to the Blogger Content Policy that may affect your account.
In the coming weeks, we'll no longer allow blogs that contain sexually explicit or graphic nude images or video. We'll still allow nudity presented in artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts, or where there are other substantial benefits to the public from not taking action on the content.
The new policy will go into effect on the 23rd of March 2015. After this policy goes into effect, Google will restrict access to any blog identified as being in violation of our revised policy. No content will be deleted, but only blog authors and those with whom they have expressly shared the blog will be able to see the content we've made private.
Our records indicate that your account may be affected by this policy change. Please refrain from creating new content that would violate this policy. Also, we ask that you make any necessary changes to your existing blog to comply as soon as possible, so that you won't experience any interruptions in service. You may also choose to create an archive of your content via Google Takeout (https://www.google.com/settings/takeout/custom/blogger).
For more information, please read here (https://support.google.com/blogger?p=policy_update).
Sincerely,
The Blogger Team
(c) 2015 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043"

This will certainly adversely affect Degraded Damsels, though I'm less certain of what it will mean for the sister blog, Humbled Harlots. DD is obviously filled with sexually-explicit visual content, while HH is mostly text. The new Blogger content rules specify only images and video, not adult-oriented text. So HH may be able to survive, we'll just have to see. I'll remove all the cover images, just to be sure, though that might not matter to Google, despite what their email claims.

As for Degraded Damsels, it looks likely that this is the end. I'm very open to any suggestions from you all. Tumblr is probably the most obvious place to relocate, as I hate what Yahoo has done with its groups, but Tumblr isn't very workable as far as commenting goes and I'm not very familiar with it's functions.

If anyone knows of anywhere else that might serve my blog needs better than Tumblr, please let me know. I'm going to be doing a lot of research over the next few days.

Until I've decided what I'm going to do, I'm reaccepting members in my Absurd Tales yahoo group. There isn't any content there, but it will allow us all a way of communicating in the advent that Google deletes/blocks Degraded Damsels. When you join Absurd Tales, please leave a message that mentions Degraded Damsels, so I know you aren't a spambot. Yahoo is overflowing with spambots.

Otherwise, I'm going to be very busy for the next few weeks, trying to save and relocate everything. Please let me know if you have any suggestions, thank you. More to come in the near future.

- B-Rex

UPDATE: Alright, I've set up a basic Tumblr page here: http://degradeddamsels.tumblr.com/

Check it out and let me know what you think. I've only uploaded a few pics, but it looks like tumblr is shrinking my caps by about 20% for some reason. I'll keep working on it.

Censored

Hello everyone, happy humpday!

I want to think everyone who responded to my last post. I never expected so much feedback from you all. :-D Your comments are a huge help in keeping me inspired, and figuring out what to work on next.

I've got several sequel caps in the works, and I'm starting work on a big pussyface-virus series I thought up months ago. Now that I know there are quite a few of you interested in seeing more of that sort of bizarre stuff, I'm finally starting to work on completing it.

I'm also going to make another caption contest for people to participate in. I'd like to hear your preferences on a theme for the contest. Bondage, Extreme Modifications, Chastity Belts, Age Regression, etc. Maybe it could even be Midnight Surgeon themed caps?

Anyway, today's new caption is very short and sort of silly, but I like how it turned out. And hopefully you'll all enjoy it too. :-)

Thanks again, to all of you! I've really enjoyed reading all of your comments this past week. It's been a very nice birthday present for me. Thank you all! :-D

- B-Rex

A Quick Ebook Update

I'm hard at work on a new caption (honest!), but I wanted to mention that I have resubmitted my ebook, The Doll, to Amazon a few minutes ago. Now it is entitled The Living Doll, and has a different cover.

As much as I love the old boob-oriented cover, I think it got the story flagged by Amazon's sales-killing adult filter. I've noticed that, despite being brand new this month, it wasn't showing up in my searches on Amazon. The adult filter hides stories from the main search; to see the filtered stories, you have to actively select the Kindle Store in the search bar. Which most people don't seem to know, yet.

I have also successfully gotten Angela's Last Resort 1 back on Amazon. I still need to get Angela's Last Resort 2 back up, but for right now I'm going to focus on making a few new captions for you all. Thanks again for being patient while I deal with all this. :-)

- B-Rex

Update on Amazon Ebook Censorship

(UPDATE: Yay, it went through! Angela's Last Resort 1 is up again on Amazon! Now just to get ALR2 up and running. 

I'm also thinking of resubmitting The Doll, but with a new cover and title. Amazon seems to be blocking it behind its Adult filter suddenly, which has totally ruined my experiment with higher prices. How very annoying!

Sorry for all the boring Amazon-related crap, everybody. I promise to get some new captions up tomorrow, so just bear with me for a bit longer. :-) )

As mentioned in my last post, Amazon has blocked two of my ebooks, Angela's Last Resort and Angela's Last Resort 2, with no explanation as to why. I want to give a huge, HUGE thank you to all of you for sending me your sympathies and being patient as I deal with this whole mess.

I've spent most of the past thirty hours altering synopsis and tags, and even removing the occasional nipple, from all of my other ebooks still published on Amazon. It has been a lot of work. Hopefully I have finally removed whatever is causing them to arbitrarily censor my books, before they get around to messing with the rest. Fingers crossed, folks.

The most altered book is my Pledge Week Revenge: Sissy Makeover story, from last June. I have made a totally new cover, and changed the title to Panty Raiders' Punishment, which seems like a better title all around to me anyway. The book has never sold particularly well, though I have always been rather fond of it myself. I was worried that the original cover, which shows a girl's bottom with a tight red thong, would raise some more flags. The new cover shows only three shocked girls' faces, so shouldn't bother anyone. I hope.

The content of Panty Raiders and all my other stories has not been altered, beyond some basic spelling error removal, and such. Everything I have read on the Kindleboards forums has largely pointed to title and synopsis and tags as the usual source of censorship issues, as opposed to the actual story content.

But most importantly, late last night I sent Amazon an email asking to have them set to draft status, so that I could possibly edit them to remove whatever is catching the censor's eye, and they sent me another form letter in response. Which is totally useless, as usual.

However, it did mention that I could resubmit my blocked ebooks, but only with the content altered to fit their non-existent guidelines, etc. I suspect just removing a single word from each synopsis - forced - would actually be enough to satisfy them, but I also spent a good two hours rewriting parts of the first third of Angela's Last Resort. Most of my changes are very small, just a few words here or there, but some parts have new paragraphs, and whole sentences excised.

The basic story remains the exact same, but I have toned down the opening abduction scene a bit, and added in lots of humiliating, but consensual orgasms for Angela. God knows she needed them. :-)

I also added in a line wherein Angela, realizing her treatment is awakening her own long secret sexual fantasies, vows to at least act like she's not totally happy with her treatment at the hands of the Slave Island Resort staff. So really, now the whole story is consensual, even when she pretends it isn't. Oddly enough, none of this really alters the dynamic of the story itself. I kind of wish I had just written it that way from the beginning.

Anyway, I have also changed the title to Angela's Last Resort 1 (real clever, I know) and have now submitted the altered story back to Amazon. I'll wait and see if it passes muster and gets accepted. If it does, I will work on remaking Angela's Last Resort 2, as well.

So if all goes well, in a few days both of my books will be back for sale on Amazon, and if I'm really lucky, all my changes to the rest of my catalog will prevent anymore of these scary and annoying Amazon Censorship crises.

And then I might finally be able to get back to captioning and finishing my next ebook, which just so happens to be a sort-of origin story for the Midnight Surgeon. :-)

- B-Rex.

P.S. Oh yeah, and I might have finally found an ebook commerce site that won't censor my stories, ever again. Details coming soon. 

Another Amazon Censorship Crisis

Ugh. I've been super busy the past few days with Real-Life issues; first I had a minor surgery a few days ago, then I spent all day Friday driving across my home state, and now when I finally get home, I find out that Amazon has blocked two more of my ebooks.

All the times before they only suspended my ebooks, which meant I could still edit them, and maybe fix whatever it was that was ticking off their censors. But now they've outright blocked Angela's Last Resort 1 & 2, pretty much ruining my series, at least on their site. And since they are now blocked entirely, I can't edit them and fix the issue.

I'm not really sure what to do at the moment; if I resubmit them, with a different synopsis they might accept them, or they might get annoyed and block my whole account. Impossible to know. Both have been up on the site for months now, and suddenly they aren't good enough for Amazon. (Not that Amazon is offering to return the +30% they took from each sale, of course.)

Until I figure out what to do, I can't really mentally focus on captions or writing. Sorry. I'll try to keep this hiatus short. Hopefully I'll figure something out. For now though, if you want to purchase these blocked ebooks, they are still available at the following links:

Angela's Last Resort

Barnes & Noble

Smashwords

Kobo

Angela's Last Resort 2

Barnes & Noble

Smashwords

Kobo

For now though, I'm going to bed; I'm too tired to think about all this right now. See you all later, hopefully soon.

- B-Rex, aka Tabitha Kohls