D. Sadie's Stories and Blog

Current State for January 2026

2026-01-09T06:00:00Z

The short version: I'm still working on this. I hoped I would have it by the end of 2025 but now it looks like February 2026 for a bare-bones implementation.

It's been a while since changes in the legal landscape caused me to lock down my various websites. If you want a little more context, the following links might be useful.

During that time, I got quite a few emails encouraging me, giving their sympathies and understanding, but also a lot of “is it up yet?” Now that we are through the holiday season and we passed the date I gave, I owe everyone a status.

First of all, I'm still working toward opening up my sites. It might be a few more months but I'm seeing rapid progress now.

I wanted to code something that worked. And I tried for quite a few months but got overwhelmed. It was frustrating because while I'm a fairly good coder, I'm also going through a lot of crap with Fluffy, Spawn, and Fork (medical issues, so many F grades, therapy, and other struggles) not to mention family drama, a prescription that creatively knocked me out for three months, and my day job basically taking me hard without even a hint of foreplay.

Somewhere near the beginning of December, I realized I couldn't do it. I keep looking to see if someone else has the right combination of age verification, geo blocking, linking to various patronage sites, and linking to static websites and haven't found one (imagine that).

Fortunately, I have a “not really a friend but an associate” that is a better coder than me and is willing to put the effort into writing something I need for my sites. For the low cost of writing them a private novel, they are going blow their free time and write what I obviously can't. Fortunately, writing porn is something I can do and hopefully I'll be able to post the results to subscribers.

It is promising that after two weeks, they are already way past how far I've gotten. So I think we are on track on getting my sites worked on, but there are going to be a couple rough points along the way. Also, they are a bazaar-style coder whereas I'm more cathedral, so that means changes are coming out faster than my effort to do everything at once. As it currently stands, the initial version will be:

There will be a dedicated site under curiouscabbit.com where you'll be able to sign up. It will be something creative like “members.curiouscabbit.com” but it doesn't exist yet.
From there, you should be able to link your subscriber with your account. That is going to let me use Patreon and SubscribeStar act as the age verification to start with and covers my bases there.
The site will use your IP address to figure out where you are. If you are in a state that requires hourly reverification, you won't be able to use it but you'll be told before you link the patronage site. I understand if you unsubscribe or disable subscriptions until that changes.
My sites are going to switch back to basic authentication (the dialog box from 2-3 years ago) for login instead of the form. On the membership site, you'll be able to pick your password (which will be different than the one you log into the membership site itself).
With an hour, your user name and chosen password will work on my websites.

It isn't pretty but we're going to focus on getting “something” working first, then work on polish. In specific, there are a couple caveats:

Rodo will require subscribers to access until we can implement a separate age verification.
Email and verifications aren't going to be working, so chances are, if you lose your password, you're going to have to email me from the email you have on the subscriber site to change your password. It will not be a pretty one, something closer to “n68gpbcdB3g8Hx&ATjII6lO.”
Any geo blocks will be based on location of every IP request in the last thirty days.

Clearly, there is a lot more work after this to make it easier to create accounts directly from the subscriber sites, implement the hourly reverification, and generally making it easier to use. It's also going to be rough, but it looks like it will cover my ass from most reasonable legal threats, give the auditing and backing to do so, and lets us introduce more usable features over time.

On the writing side, I did get a trio of commissions (including the one for barter). So I'm going to work on those over the next month or so when I do unlock the subscriber sites again, they will have fresh content queued up for weekly posting.

Some of this is complicated by Patreon who really hates pausing subscriptions. I can only disable billing for a month and they give no notice of when they turn it billing back on, but I can't also extend by a month without it being open again. Which means occasionally someone slips in, subscribes, and gets charged when I'm trying to get things done. There is also a lot of red tape involved with getting APIs set up, but I do have a manual alternative if that doesn't work.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me or post on the various subscriber sites.

I know that this optimal, but it's the best way I have of getting you back to my stories at the moment.

At the moment, it looks like I should have the minimal, duct-taped version working by the end of February 2026. I'll post again at the end of the month with where we are with this.

And thank you.

Please Wait

2025-08-13T05:00:00Z

I said I would give patrons enough time to download an archive of my stories before I closed the doors for a while. I've done that, so when this post goes up, the secret link to the archives is going away.

That isn't to say I'm closing up shop. I have some plans on how to make age verification work for me, at least to the point I'm comfortable I'm following the letter of the law (and, for the most part, the spirit). It's going to take me a while and I'm going to guess it's going to take me to the end of the year to see if it works.

I don't want to commit any details and there are a few folks out there who are doing much of the same thing, so I'm going to see we can work together and come up with something. Hopefully I'll have more useful news in the future.

If life was easier, I would have started on them already but… I had a couple family obligations to manage also, which means I've been chomping at the gag to start playing but haven't been able to until next week.

A Fork in the Road

2025-07-15T05:00:00Z

In the last two weeks, I realized I'm at a fork in the road.

The recent SCOTUS decision opened a flood gates of possibilities and even since my last post, I'm seeing multiple states (including the one I live in) racing to come up with the most restrictive and unreasonable “reasonable” they can come up with regards to porn sites. It doesn't help that I was looking into my options and seeing what was already there. That includes Tennessee with the “you must do an age check every hour” or South Dakota's a year in prison for the first offense and a felony for the second for even a single reference to a nipple or genitalia. I didn't mind Texas' verification that much (though it is neither reasonable or financially possible at my level), but the more recent ones are pushing the limit of what is acceptable as the various conservative governments.

Many of these laws are set up to use the bounty pattern than Texas used for the anti-abortion bills, intentionally set up to allow anyone to sue anyone in the union and drag the lawsuit back to the state is more favorable for getting rid of porn. That way, they can crowd-source the anti-porn movement to folks looking to cash in on a quick buck. Naturally, there are law firms that are more than willing to advertise that like ambulance chasing injury firms.

What that means is that there is a proliferation of laws in states that each have their own rules and I have to now worry about every single one. Some of them say a third of the site has to be porn (mine is well over that) and other say even a single sentence about a woman's nipple is enough to be corrupting the youth and grounds for lawsuits or felonies (Ohio, South Dakota).

None of this makes me feel safe. All I wanted to do is turn people on. I don't make much for it, but it is something I've enjoyed doing since the early nineties. Most of my writing is free, at least in terms of words, and I love posting it.

But now I feel unsafe.

That is point. These laws are a war on porn and designed to scare people like me away.

And it's going to work, at least for a little while.

I don't have a lot of faith that the US is going see that I'm not hurting anyone. I don't think I can hope it changes soon. Too many people are already on a rampage for hurting as many others as possible, as long as they aren't white and male and straight. There are going to be a lot of tears because they clearly don't care about collateral damage and they get off on knowing that they've ruined people's lives.

So that leads me to the fork in the road. Right now, I don't feel safe. There is a non-zero chance someone is going to decide to make a quick $50k dollars (Texas) by claiming their kid read my stuff.

That means I'm going to suspend my patronage and I'm going to lock the doors. I don't intend on stop writing, but until I can come up with a safe way of sharing it, I need to be safe. I need not to have nightmares or worry about every time someone rings the doorbell. I'm not being brave here, but I'm not giving up. Of course, it feels like that and the future will tell if I do fold, but I need to not be exposed as much as I am. At least not while things are moving so fast in the middle of a massacre that we're currently in (I'm including trans, brown- and black-skinned folks, and fascism in this because it's all the same thing).

My intent is this, I'm going to put Patron and SubscribeStar both on vacation mode (or whatever they call it). I'll let folks join in but they aren't going to be charged.

I'm going to create a zip archive of my stories, at least the PDFs and EPUBs I've generated, and I'm going to give my patrons a link to those. That way, they get a single point in time of every story I've published.

Two weeks after that, I'm going to lock the passwords to the sites. The chapters will still be there, the password pages will remain, but no one is going to have the keys. There will still be links to the physical books, the rest of Curious Cabbit. My contact page will still be there in case you do want to chat. Basically, all the bling without the naughty content.

I will probably lock out categories on the discussion forum or shut it down, I don't know. I don't want to lose the story ideas but Discourse is a pig when it comes to resources.

Then, I'm going to work toward making it safe for me. I don't know the form or method that will be. I don't know how long will take. The laws in the US may gain some sanity, the administration may change over and politics will swing the other way, or the US may come up with a unified system of age verification that allows me to post.

If I can find a safe way to publish from another country, I'll look into that. If I find a system that only works for one region, I'll make that work and keep working toward opening everything for every adult who finds my writing appealing.

(Immigrating out of the US really isn't a choice for me, though I wished it was.)

I'm sorry I'm not brave enough. I'm sorry that my own personal anxieties and fears have pushed me to this. I'm sorry that I'm cowering in my cave.

When it safe again, I'll come back. I'll bring porn, erotica, and iced tea (I don't drink alcohol).

Until then, be good to each other and please don't hate me too much.

Age Verification

2025-07-02T05:00:00Z

Well, this is something I didn't want to do. At the end of June 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States made a ruling in favor of Texas' Age Verification law. At the same time, we have various other countries (UK comes to mind) has been steadily moving forward on limiting the access of pornography (erotica or whatever you want to call what I write).

There is a lot of issues with the law, but I have to follow the laws of the country and failured to abide by them is expensive. In more generic terms, I bring in an average of $80/month from subscribers. The fee for failing to lock adult content is $10,000/day or roughly 125 month of subscribers per day that access is given. And, if you read the laws, even having a Patron or SubscribeStar link could qualify as a “commercial site”.

(I would need a lawyer to find out, but since most of them start at $300/hour to talk, we are saying 4-12 months of subscriptions just to find out if I quality.)

So, I'm going to cover my ass. To do that, I need to age verification on readers of erotic content. Since a proper age verification service costs money per viewer, I can't really afford to stand up a service of my own. Not to mention, it is extra maintenance to keep that going.

(If you can't guess, money coming in verses money to conform to these laws is a major thing. This is the aspect I hate the most about these laws. They might be “reasonable” to large places like PornHub or larger places, I'm a tiny little fish in a very big ocean. And these laws are specifically designed to take out small shops, the mommy and daddy sites like mine.)

I'm going to “fake” age verification. Both Patreon and SubscribeStar both have age verification of their own, and you can't subscribe without passing that. Which means, I can comfortably assume if you are a member, then you are of age and that gives me the defense I need to say I'm obeying the law. It isn't a great solution and I hate it, mainly because I don't want to know who you are. I don't want to know what turns you on, only that it does. But, we are in a place where I have to do something if I want to keep this site alive.

What's Going to Happen

The blogs, table of contents, and series pages will remain free. There will be a little user icon (much like the lock and key icons) that indicate when you'll have to log in. To do that, go to the applicable subscription page, sign up, and look at the latest email. At the bottom, you'll see something like:

This also means the EPUB downloads are going to disappear again until I can find a way of filtering those out. Which also means the OPML feed for getting the books.

Alternatives

The alternative is I tear everything down and just disappear. I'd rather not do that.

It does mean that Rodo is going away. I haven't been really maintaining it for a while now, and the site has bit-rotted, but I'll try to bring it up later once I figure out a good solution. Ethically, I can't use my subscription for that site since it is specifically everyone but me.

Book Downloads

2025-02-18T06:00:00Z

I'm not going to say I make posts very often, but it has been almost eighteen months since my last post. In my defense, I do post chapters once or twice a month, just not formal thoughts like this.

For those who remember my old site, I used to have downloads for EPUB and PDF versions of my stories. Recently, I was requested to put them back so here they are. I'm only doing this for the stories that are completed and entirely public, that way I don't have to figure out how to secure the books for the different tiers.

Later, I'll see about creating an OPDS feed so readers can subscribe to that and get a list of every story direct to their tablets (or whatever). But not for today.

Fork Me

2023-09-10T05:00:00Z

D. Sadie is the “vanilla” byline of t'Sade which is known for far more extreme writing and fetishes. The byline came from a request online many years ago for a website and name that could be linked that didn't have dangers of stumbling into things that were suited for an 80s horror movie or erotic horror anime like Legend of the Overfiend.

I created this site years ago, but it languished for a decade because the late 2010s and the early 2020s were about a century long. It was also hard to maintain two sites at the same time. Then, I managed to stumble into a way of getting paid for writing and things got convoluted.

Now, it's time to make the distinction more obvious so this site has been revamped and reorganized. It only has a few token links to the other site, so it is safe to wander through here and you won't find anything more extreme than you'd find on Penthouse except with a bit more sci-fi and fantasy thrown in.