Number one rule, never put your faith in ANY fandom.

Well, Tokusatsu fandom is very nicer and they don't need to get laid for obtain a henshin belt. That's one good point.

Small fandoms are more likely to be nicer than others. The bigger they are, the worse they can be. That's rule number two.

There would be an useful guide for surviving into the fandom or die in the trying.

Yep, but it's hard to catalog each fandom specifically. Good luck, though. Just breathe and shrug them off as retards.

I will. Is a thing I needed to throw out of my very conflictive mind.

This guy knows his stuff

Thank you. I try.

Sorry to hear that.

No worries. I said what I think about it and I feel calm now.

it'll be fine drama passes

but always comes back with something new.

and that too faids and most of the time after a few tries they move to bug someone else

*hugs you to comforts you*

awwwrrr...my bro *hugs* thank you. Sorry for not chat with you. I had a bad week.

Rick is right, partially. Why? The number one rule should be never put your faith in anything but yourself! Religion is where I got the biggest burn. I'm a recovering Catholic (though I'll say I like the new Pope. Pope Rat was terrible, was part of Hitler's Nazi youth, not personable in the least, covered up priest scandals when he was a cardinal, etc). I sometimes follow the usual traditions (no meat on Fridays during lent, for instance) out of respect for my Mom only, not because I'm a part of that religion. Again, I will participate in a mass out of respect for Mom, but not because I respect the religion. However, the huge amount of hypocrisy

Same with the fandom. You participate in it, out of respect for your art. You post your art, because you love it. It's like your family. You created it.

I may come off as obtuse, but sometimes many people in this fandom annoy the fuck out of me. I mean, okay, everybody gets depressed from time to time, but one thing that irritates me is the suicide threats. Not the real ones, but the ones by the "oh so dramatic" crybabies who do so to scare people, make people feel sorry for 'em, or even to seek attention. When I have a rant, I don't go "I'm gonna kill myself, WAH!" nor threaten but rather I get straight to the fucking point about what's on my mind. I often get pissed lately because nobody's fucking commissioning me.

Another thing that annoys me about the fandom are the wall-of-text rants about parents. No, not the rants about how parents are anti-gay or racist or prejudiced against something and real issues like that (and I've seen journals like that), but rather the crybaby rants about how someone's father made them wash the dishes. OH BOO HOO, YOU HAD TO SCRUB A FEW DISHES! xD (To be fair, people like that exist outside the fandom as well. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bc32Vb4Q0U ).

Those are just two examples of stupidity, and if you put your faith in a fandom like that (since there's more to it than the love of anthro animals and other such things), well, you'll get burned. :3 It's just like religion.

I see that point. 7 years (well, as I can remember) in this fandom and I'm still learning about the people into it.
These kind of journals about daily stuff or those creepy journals you mentioned before (Like the one in where a dude was faking brain tumors) are part of this too.
And by my opinions, I was blocked by several people, stupidiest than others. What pisses me off is the people who hide my comments because they're trying to defend their selfish point.
I'm not into religion too for that reason but I like some hollidays like holy week or christmas.

Oh I love holidays too. For instance, I do like getting some cotton tail around this time of year while thinking about laying with lions and lambs. xD

I HATE faked symptom journals and faked death journals! Especially since my first ex faked his death to get out of our relationship, and it not only impacted me, but my parents, and all our friends who then gained instant new outlooks on life it was that bad.

Wow, that's so gross! This happens because this kind of people are not able to deal the problems with sense. I had the same experience with my first relationship but in this case, I was catfished.

Catfished? *scratches head*

http://www.urbandictionary.com/defi.....p?term=catfish
There were 3 years of deception...untill I found love near to the town.

I was sorta catfished myself. The bastard turned out to be four years younger than he said he was, and I felt so disgusting and dirty and threw up. :|

In the old pope's defense, any German youth was in Hitler's Youth. It was mandatory.

Well that's true. I guess he can be forgiven for that youth group then. :) But, the paedophile cover ups, no excuse for that though. Don't think he was forced to do that. This new pope, Pope Francis, plans to clean house as far as a lot of the Vatican bullshit is concerned. Seems to be a humble man too. *shrugs* Then again, not my religion, not my problem. (I do get a kick out of Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons though. ^^ )

I think I know who that person is, but I won't mention any names. They just don't know that you are a generous person for actually offering to draw art for a low, low price. They just don't know what they're missing out on.

I'm sorry you had this happen to you. *hugs*

I guess is because I'm not totally recognized as a hardworker furry artist like WFA or others. Sometimes I see my message board with all those pieces of art and I say to myself "Why these people are not commissioning me?" or "why these people are paying more for that kind of art?". I have another issue with image packs: Someone releases a image pack with existent characters and is well paid. I release the samke kind of image pack and it seems nobody is interested but one yells in the crowd that I need to offer for free everything because my art sucks.
But well, the thing I need to convince myself is have pattience with all this crap and enjoy what I'm doing.
Thanks a lot for support me *hugs*

Not a hardworker furry artist?! What are you talking about? You seem to work very hard on your art! I mean, you're one of the few I've seen on here that can do traditional, and digital! Some people only stick to digital only! Plus you have a image pack, and a comic that you'ved worked on! It may be just your style is not for everyone, but that doesn't give anyone the right to say you should do stuff free because the art they say it's not up to their standards. Geez! People will pay up to $500 in auction for a pre-posed position in a picture, which you have no freedom to change the position and such, but can't pay for commissions that are less than $10! Cheap bastards! >:p

Also we have people who won't commission me because their fursonas are so special for being touched by "a not enough artist" like me. Later I found their fursonas have different things than their RL persons behind.

Like someone who specifically asked for people to commission. I recommended you, because he was looking to pay under $20, but he said he didn't like your style. *sighs* But he very much has a resemblence to his fursona unlike the others.

si vaya que ha cambiado. ya no es como antes. :/

Cuando inicié aqui la gente era más amable y ni hacian bardo por todo. Ahora llega este pop-fur que esconde mis comentarios solo por defender a alguien que se comportó horrible conmigo. Ni siquiera toman la decencia de preguntar el porqué.

bah que mamilas la verdad. te digo, parece que han entrado mas pubertos a revolver todo.

Niños que descubren que pueden ser grandes detrás del monitor. Una infancia perdida entre la pantalla de leds y una fursona.

y donde descargar sus traumas y complejos <_<

¿Por qué esa gente no se va con el psicologo en vez de creer que aqui van a encontrar la respuesta a todas sus patologias? ¿Asi de grave está el servicio de salud?

es que el internet apendeja XD jaja

*hugs tightly*

*hugs you* thank you.

I'm noticing that with people like this. Not all the furs who are popular act mischevious but sometimes manipulate their fanbase for do awful things. Sooner or later they will pay with karma.

Lo de perder la fe en el fandom, yo iba precisamente escribir el mismo titulo en un proximo journal xD por algo sera que coincidimos.

Bueno, me alegra saber que no soy el unico que está inconforme con este fandom.

Yo hace mucho que no lo estoy, otra de las varias razones por las que puede que deje el fandom

Bueno, yo antes de ser furry, era otaku. Estoy volviendo a ver anime y a dibujar humanos, que hace rato que no dibujo.

yo dibujaba humanos/manga antes tambien, pero no creo que vuelva a ello

Eso veo. Ultimamente me he dedicado más bien a realizar un cómic con personajes tanto humanos como antropomorfos. Si quieres checalo aqui  RhinoSlayer

ah eso de combinar humanos y antros tmabien lo hacia al principio hehe

Asi me pasó. Pero este cómic ha sido bastante conocido entre los que hacen cómic en mi pais (que son contados con los dedos de la mano). Asi que es un buen comienzo.

*hugs* I'm sorry to hear that you're being ruined by someone who thinks that your art style is not his style and badmouths you. I love commissioning you guys because you're damn good! You do better than I do.

*hugs* Thank you so much for your kind words. Things like this makes me sometimes wish to throw the towel and get off from the ring.

You guys deserve the words. I would hate to lose you as an artist. We lose so many that are absolutely amazing.

Sorry to hear that, but don't lose your faith. That's only a bad experience and I hope we can give you a better feeling with our comments here!)

Thank you! *hug* I'm better now but I'll be careful staying in this fandom.

OK, I think that's the best attitude, confidence combined with caution. *hugs back*

Can't say I blame you.

It's okay. I had an awful month with accidents, deaths and deals with stupid pop-furs.

Yeah. That'll do it. I hope it gets better for you.