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I'm sorry if that's the case, but since you already know I respect you it should be clear that I'm not referring to you. How could you possibly be insulted? Because I didn't specifically exclude you from a blanket statement?Quote:
Originally Posted by Felicia Katt
~BB~
Maybe so, but you have antagonized the people you want to influence. GG Sharon Mitchell founded AIM Healthcare. TG Meghan Chavalier created Stop the Hate website. Tell us about your activism.Quote:
Originally Posted by BellaBellucci
Seanchai has been more of an activist than you: http://www.stoppingthehate.com/News-..._Chavalier.htm
Oh yeah, so all of the political work I've done since I was 12 means nothing because it wasn't trans related? I think at last count I was involved with 7, maybe 8 campaigns for social liberals from the local to national level, increasing in importance with each. Come on with that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peacetalks
Just because I don't brag about my altruism doesn't mean I don't have any. People don't get to be as headstrong as I am by doing nothing in the face of adversity.
But oh, that's right, you feel my anger comes from a place of personal pride. Please. I think WAY bigger than that.
~BB~
I don't think I agree with this. You can't really depend on the producers to tell you what to do all the time or how to look better or how to model.Quote:
Originally Posted by BellaBellucci
There are many great examples of development with TS models. Just to name a few...Holly Sweet, Celeste, Danielle Foxx, and even myself. There are tons more. Just look at their old photos on yum and how they have evolved. You can do that on yum by the way because they are one of the few sites that does shoot a girl who is evolving and starting out.
Speaking for myself, I can tell you that after I did my first shoot with yum and it came out bad, I went back to the drawing board all by myself and came back and have had success since then and continue to work with Grooby who started me out and even gave me a second chance.
Interestingly enough, the two most destructive deadly sins.Quote:
Originally Posted by BellaBellucci
This is like a trainwreck in slow motion.
Vicki Richter's advice to me was (paraphrasing, mostly), "Don't trust your webmaster to retouch your photos. Do it yourself. They'll never have the emotional investment in those photos that you do." That sums up what I'm about to say.
Bella, find a good shooter who will work for... whatever. Use your imagination here, if you're short on petty cash. lol ... and build your own site. This is all about content/product, not politics/morals. If the average shemale porn lover isn't ready to call this niche, "transgender porn", there's nothing any of us can do. The phenomenon simply isn't ripe on the vine.
Sure, if you want to be a martyr, no one here will stop you. We may suggest that you back off, and stop wasting your time. We aren't happy to see you fail at porn or crusading. But you're getting pretty valuable advice and solid wisdom on this thread, and you seem against taking it. But you're just like lots of people. I've noticed that most people are actually pretty bad about taking advice. They always do what they want, even when they nod their heads. I know I do. And it keeps life interesting. ;)
For instance, who in their right mind would've thought that photographs of women with penises would have made $? Not my parents, I can assure you. lol Back then? Gay people were getting EST and lobotomies. But when the time was right, and the social climate allowed for it, it happened. But you could've never forced a thing like that on people, or you would've been... Well, "dead", actually. lol
But it's an exciting time to be alive and chicks with dicks are not only pulling up the rear, but they're fucking it cross-eyed too. However, if you get too far ahead, and step too far out of pace? If foresight and altruism fail you? Don't be pissed at anyone. It won't like we were hoping you'd waste your time. But by the same token, you can't expect us to waste too much time pointing out that you're wasting too much of your time.
Baby girl, the fans', subscribers', or porn buyers' hard dicks don't do much thinking. And Seanchai has no emotional investment in who succeeds or fails in this industry. Don't for a hot red second think he does. I know he's not that dumb. He puts ALL of us out on Main St, and some of us werk it out and some don't.
Get a shooter, get your content together, get a site, make some mistakes, learn from them, move forward, enjoy your life, and carve a NEW niche with a NEW name. And I'll even, secretly, be routing for you. ;)
Ok. Rant over. Night night.
Producers don't have the time to sit there and photoshop every photo set they shoot, let alone go through each 100-200 photo set to intentionally pick out the bad ones. Personally I don't retouch any of the work I shoot for Shemale-club, nor do I retouch my own content on my own solo site. Fuck em if they don't like my look on any particular scene. I fuck for the sport of it, not for the glamor. And, fuck photoshop. Ask my chicago girls morgan bailey, kelly shore and many others...
Take Buddy Wood for example. He's one of the most creative film makers and a darn productive producer. He probably barely has time to shoot the hot models he has available to him in LA. So his work likely gets sent to an editor who then does whatever they do with the content. You are a brand and there's a team of people following a business model to put out the best work that business model allows. Strokers and Grooby sites seem to be successful site, they probably have a good idea of what sells and what doesnt.
When I shoot a set of a model for shemale-club for example, sometimes ill let the model go through the set and ill delete the ones she really hates. However that becomes tricky since most models focus on what they see as flaws, and not what sells. So its a pain in the ass for a producer to give that creative control to the model. They'll be making money off your set for years. You just got paid several hundered dollars and you're done making money on that one.
You want to control your image? Stop whining like a victim and start producing your own content your way. You will either sell or you won't. If you look at girls like the Shemale-club solo site girls or girls like grooby's hazel tucker and amy daly and whoever else I do not know but, they control part of their image. Their content, their way with the help of a very talented producer (buddy wood)
Producers and models (in the porn industry) arguing over stupid shit like genetic female women (the bleeding type). It's as interesting as a donkeys ass
Thanks for the advice girls. I always kind of knew the score so I already had ideas with which to hatch a new career plan and I'm already starting to put it together with some new people who I trust.
'Trust' - maybe the biggest 5-letter word in the entire dictionary! :lol:
~BB~
Trust your heart. Trust yourself. You can't trust hard dicks. They have no conscience and never have, and they're the mother and father of all businesses, and always have been. And they, ultimately, make the rules everywhere you look.Quote:
Originally Posted by BellaBellucci
But I still think that's kinda sad; you giving up because you wanna "hatch a new career plan" now. Why not shoot your own content while you're doing that? What could it hurt? If anything, maybe the people you'd like to sway to your way of seeing things will trust you more. All it takes is a barter with a decent shooter, and the content will "hatch"; YOUR content. You already escort, so what wrong with a trade?
Anyway...