I'm done. (Commission requirement update.)
3 years ago
I'm not leaving or anything. But I'm changing things up around here.
After my current pieces that I'm working on I'm no longer going to draw diapers on any characters that are not infants (2 heads tall)
Characters will be clothed or standard furry clotheless. Anything else is no longer up for consideration.
I'm ABSOLUTELY done with people fetishizing my SFW art and accusing me of drawing CP or content "for pedophiles".**
I don't draw minors in kink. But if kinky adults (or adults who think even AB/DL kink is icky!!!) apply this intent to my art? Then the art they're fetishizing is stopping. I know its not kink BECAUSE I DREW IT but people are out here making gross implications. I didn't consent to it. I feel used and disgusted.
If you are an AB/DL kinkster and making my art fuel for your fetish? Fuck you. Go somewhere else.
I'm also sick and tired of DL fetish accounts following my SFW accounts on twitter when its plastered EVERYWHERE that I dont want openly fetish/kink accounts following my SFW accounts because I dont wnt to be assuemd to be a fetish/kink artist by association BECAUSE CHILDREN CANNOT CONSENT TO KINK OR FETISH SHIT.
I AM DRAWING MINORS. KIDS CANNOT CONSENT.
This is less of an issue on FA where we have filters unlike Twitter which are just. Fucking terrible tbqh. BUT STILL I'D PREFER SFW ACCOUNTS ONLY. But im not nearly as anal about it on here because, again, we have 3 levels of ADULT CONTENT filters.
I understand that many kinks can form in early childhood for some, and for many "babyfur" art can be a mix of both theraputic/nostalgic in their day to day headspace, and possibly a kink (ABDL) (sexual or not or even not a kink at all) when in a different headspace and your average person is sane and knows theres a time, place, and age requirement for kink.
But our average member of society does not. We're in an environment where heteronormative cis/hetero/allo people are the majority. People who apply meaning and intent that are disgusting to pieces of mine. I'm not enabling it anymore.
One bad apple ruins the bunch. So I'm tossing the whole batch.
Minors can't consent to kink.
Fictional or otherwise.
** First off, that's cruel: comparing my drawing fucking SFW furry art to someone else's genuinely traumatizing experience that has/does hurt a REAL HUMAN BEING.Watering it down to a buzzword like the internet has done to "triggered" for those of us with PTSD or other related issues. But this is a tangent. If you want my full opinion on the problem that is NSFW illustrations depicting minors, and actual CSEM involving real-life human beings, ask away (spoiler: they're both horrible) and I'll drop a massive text wall down in the comments to openly share my views on the topic because it's nuanced and not BLACK AND WHITE 1 size fits all solution like the internet and society wants it to be. That said, drawing/involving minors in nsfw, ficitonal or not is NOT OKAY. Duh.
The rest of this is just me rambling very very angrily.
I'm sick of the fact that FA has a single babyfur tag that houses ADULT CONTENT and SFW ART DEPICTING MINORS in the SAME TAG. BLURRING THE LINES BETWEEN SFW/NSFW resulting in all "Babyfur" pieces being interpreted as inherently sexual because a MAJORITY of content is ABDL which is KINK. Causing associations.
THIS ACCOUNT WAS MADE FOR ME AND OTHERS LIKE ME Who want to see cute art and not have to dig through fetish and kink shit to find it. To not have to see diaper fetish art and PORN.
I want SFW content depicting happy childhoods because mine was FUCKED UP. I want to draw things that make me HAPPY. That can share and show that children aren't SUB HUMAN little droids you boss around. That kids aren't fucking stupid and "wont remember this and get over it because theyre 2" as if we as children has mashed potatoes for brains.
Childhood has PROFOUND LONG LASTING EFFECTS on us as individuals. I want to draw, and represent and share HEALTHY HAPPY CHILDHOODS THAT EVERY CHILD HAS A RIGHT TO AND DESERVES.
I. ACTIVELY. DISLIKE. AB/DL. But someone else's kinks aren't my business. It's betwen consenting adults. I'm not consenting to it so I SHOULDNT BE INVOLVED. I have learned about this community because I HAVE TO. BECAUSE FA FUSES SFW AND KINK. Because furries are generally LGBTQ+ or other minorities outside of cisgender/heterosexual/allosexual norms.
I HAVE TO SIFT THROUGH PORN OR KINK to see simple "kids being happy" art. SO YEAH. I threw myself down the gauntlet to understand this shit. Sexuality. Kinks. Whatever.
"Ohh it's so icky! So it MUST BE BAD" a lot of this pushback stems from purity/christianity shit and the same stuff that makes "being gay is evil omg" LGBT and kink at pride and shit are linked. I can't do anything about it. Minorities are minorities. I'm not going deep into this topic and I figure someone will twist my words to be "omg Mofuwan compared pedophillia to being gay!!!" or something.
Pedophiles:
1. Need help if they have not offended
2. Need punishments if they have offended
3. Need to be kept away from children
and so on. Not just "pull em out back and shoot em in the head". No man have some empathy thats fucked up.
If theyre in jail then absolutely beat the fucking shit out of them. If theyve ever hurt a child? Sure. But I'm not God or the law or whatever. I have no right to pass ULTIMATE judgement. Just my own judgement.
And that'd be "idk death penalty? Sure but if they've ruined someone's life and changed it forever I think it's fair if theirs is also changed forever, rather than letting them have the easy release of death."
it's nuanced. not black and white. My response to each pedophile would be different. But the first coat of paint will always be "you are a piece of shit for ever even thinking of harming a child and you deserve any bad things coming your way as a result."
Children are to be protected. Children have a RIGHT to be protected. To be safe. To be given attention, help, food, shelter, and allowed to thrive. If anyone makes a child suffer, they deserve suffering tenfold, or for their adult child to say "you fucked up and now I'm going no contact because of what you did to me."
Kids don't owe parents. Parents and adults owe kids the world. They brought them into it. They're the ones in control of their lives. Kids are not stupid mushbrains who wont remember or not be affected by childhood abuse.
We remember.
And even if we can't or don't rememer it visually it has life long effects.
Dont you DARE imply I'm even REMOTELY okay with ANY form of harm that can come to a child just because you're too lazy to think critically or look into anything "icky" like kink.
Call people drawing CUB PORN and LOLI SHOTA SHIT porn artists.
I'm here drawing only what I think could be published in a children's book FOR children.
Grow up.
But remember what it's like to be a kid.
Because remembering how it felt to be a kid can help protect and enrich their lives more than those who forgot.
Remind their parents that they're experiencing new things every day for the first few times, and not to belittle their fears, sadness or anger.
I will never have a child because I know I'd fuck up as a parent. I know I don't have what it takes.
But I'll tell my sister, a mom, to phrase her words fueled by anger more carefully, so her daughter doesnt resent her parent(s) or have a complicated relationship with them like we do with ours.
My mom fucked up. And it damaged us beyond repair. Learn from that and don't continue the cycle of abuse.
After my current pieces that I'm working on I'm no longer going to draw diapers on any characters that are not infants (2 heads tall)
Characters will be clothed or standard furry clotheless. Anything else is no longer up for consideration.
I'm ABSOLUTELY done with people fetishizing my SFW art and accusing me of drawing CP or content "for pedophiles".**
I don't draw minors in kink. But if kinky adults (or adults who think even AB/DL kink is icky!!!) apply this intent to my art? Then the art they're fetishizing is stopping. I know its not kink BECAUSE I DREW IT but people are out here making gross implications. I didn't consent to it. I feel used and disgusted.
If you are an AB/DL kinkster and making my art fuel for your fetish? Fuck you. Go somewhere else.
I'm also sick and tired of DL fetish accounts following my SFW accounts on twitter when its plastered EVERYWHERE that I dont want openly fetish/kink accounts following my SFW accounts because I dont wnt to be assuemd to be a fetish/kink artist by association BECAUSE CHILDREN CANNOT CONSENT TO KINK OR FETISH SHIT.
I AM DRAWING MINORS. KIDS CANNOT CONSENT.
This is less of an issue on FA where we have filters unlike Twitter which are just. Fucking terrible tbqh. BUT STILL I'D PREFER SFW ACCOUNTS ONLY. But im not nearly as anal about it on here because, again, we have 3 levels of ADULT CONTENT filters.
I understand that many kinks can form in early childhood for some, and for many "babyfur" art can be a mix of both theraputic/nostalgic in their day to day headspace, and possibly a kink (ABDL) (sexual or not or even not a kink at all) when in a different headspace and your average person is sane and knows theres a time, place, and age requirement for kink.
But our average member of society does not. We're in an environment where heteronormative cis/hetero/allo people are the majority. People who apply meaning and intent that are disgusting to pieces of mine. I'm not enabling it anymore.
One bad apple ruins the bunch. So I'm tossing the whole batch.
Minors can't consent to kink.
Fictional or otherwise.
** First off, that's cruel: comparing my drawing fucking SFW furry art to someone else's genuinely traumatizing experience that has/does hurt a REAL HUMAN BEING.Watering it down to a buzzword like the internet has done to "triggered" for those of us with PTSD or other related issues. But this is a tangent. If you want my full opinion on the problem that is NSFW illustrations depicting minors, and actual CSEM involving real-life human beings, ask away (spoiler: they're both horrible) and I'll drop a massive text wall down in the comments to openly share my views on the topic because it's nuanced and not BLACK AND WHITE 1 size fits all solution like the internet and society wants it to be. That said, drawing/involving minors in nsfw, ficitonal or not is NOT OKAY. Duh.
The rest of this is just me rambling very very angrily.
I'm sick of the fact that FA has a single babyfur tag that houses ADULT CONTENT and SFW ART DEPICTING MINORS in the SAME TAG. BLURRING THE LINES BETWEEN SFW/NSFW resulting in all "Babyfur" pieces being interpreted as inherently sexual because a MAJORITY of content is ABDL which is KINK. Causing associations.
THIS ACCOUNT WAS MADE FOR ME AND OTHERS LIKE ME Who want to see cute art and not have to dig through fetish and kink shit to find it. To not have to see diaper fetish art and PORN.
I want SFW content depicting happy childhoods because mine was FUCKED UP. I want to draw things that make me HAPPY. That can share and show that children aren't SUB HUMAN little droids you boss around. That kids aren't fucking stupid and "wont remember this and get over it because theyre 2" as if we as children has mashed potatoes for brains.
Childhood has PROFOUND LONG LASTING EFFECTS on us as individuals. I want to draw, and represent and share HEALTHY HAPPY CHILDHOODS THAT EVERY CHILD HAS A RIGHT TO AND DESERVES.
I. ACTIVELY. DISLIKE. AB/DL. But someone else's kinks aren't my business. It's betwen consenting adults. I'm not consenting to it so I SHOULDNT BE INVOLVED. I have learned about this community because I HAVE TO. BECAUSE FA FUSES SFW AND KINK. Because furries are generally LGBTQ+ or other minorities outside of cisgender/heterosexual/allosexual norms.
I HAVE TO SIFT THROUGH PORN OR KINK to see simple "kids being happy" art. SO YEAH. I threw myself down the gauntlet to understand this shit. Sexuality. Kinks. Whatever.
"Ohh it's so icky! So it MUST BE BAD" a lot of this pushback stems from purity/christianity shit and the same stuff that makes "being gay is evil omg" LGBT and kink at pride and shit are linked. I can't do anything about it. Minorities are minorities. I'm not going deep into this topic and I figure someone will twist my words to be "omg Mofuwan compared pedophillia to being gay!!!" or something.
Pedophiles:
1. Need help if they have not offended
2. Need punishments if they have offended
3. Need to be kept away from children
and so on. Not just "pull em out back and shoot em in the head". No man have some empathy thats fucked up.
If theyre in jail then absolutely beat the fucking shit out of them. If theyve ever hurt a child? Sure. But I'm not God or the law or whatever. I have no right to pass ULTIMATE judgement. Just my own judgement.
And that'd be "idk death penalty? Sure but if they've ruined someone's life and changed it forever I think it's fair if theirs is also changed forever, rather than letting them have the easy release of death."
it's nuanced. not black and white. My response to each pedophile would be different. But the first coat of paint will always be "you are a piece of shit for ever even thinking of harming a child and you deserve any bad things coming your way as a result."
Children are to be protected. Children have a RIGHT to be protected. To be safe. To be given attention, help, food, shelter, and allowed to thrive. If anyone makes a child suffer, they deserve suffering tenfold, or for their adult child to say "you fucked up and now I'm going no contact because of what you did to me."
Kids don't owe parents. Parents and adults owe kids the world. They brought them into it. They're the ones in control of their lives. Kids are not stupid mushbrains who wont remember or not be affected by childhood abuse.
We remember.
And even if we can't or don't rememer it visually it has life long effects.
Dont you DARE imply I'm even REMOTELY okay with ANY form of harm that can come to a child just because you're too lazy to think critically or look into anything "icky" like kink.
Call people drawing CUB PORN and LOLI SHOTA SHIT porn artists.
I'm here drawing only what I think could be published in a children's book FOR children.
Grow up.
But remember what it's like to be a kid.
Because remembering how it felt to be a kid can help protect and enrich their lives more than those who forgot.
Remind their parents that they're experiencing new things every day for the first few times, and not to belittle their fears, sadness or anger.
I will never have a child because I know I'd fuck up as a parent. I know I don't have what it takes.
But I'll tell my sister, a mom, to phrase her words fueled by anger more carefully, so her daughter doesnt resent her parent(s) or have a complicated relationship with them like we do with ours.
My mom fucked up. And it damaged us beyond repair. Learn from that and don't continue the cycle of abuse.
I hate that some of these people exist that sexualize everything. It's just annoying.
I'd like to have separate categories as well, find something to put my littlefur stuff, which is strictly non-sexual.
(and yes I do have some pictures of an older crinkle Bearkitty and I would like to put it in another category as well.. even if those pictures are as well strictly non.sexual for me)
Nothing wrong with kinky stuff between consenting adults.... but for babies and littles, I don't wanna see any of that.
Uhm... please don't see it as guilty tripping, it is not meant to be that in any way and I want to make that clear and it goes without question to respect your decision.
It's just.. sad because I do like the adorable way that you draw innocent kids and babies, crinkly or not (which why I always love to commission you).. but seeing you pushed into the current situation just sucks and I'm very sorry to hear that in your journal :/
Not sure what else to say... I just wish this didn't happen to you.
It's just a shame that some kinksters really have to make things so awkward for those of us who don't have any interest int he kink side of things.
A separate category would be amaaaazing. But I also think most of them are specificalyl categories FOR fetish or kink stuff so. I guess I don't know why I expect something custom for not fetish or kink stuff. That's too advanced even for 2020 discussions about sexuality right now. People still assume everyone is allosexual lmao.
We're not quite THAT galaxybrain yet, alas.
Even if someone has a sona and they draw of commission AB/DL NSFW of them as an adult, but get SFW pieces of them as a child...
That's the "time and place" thing. We have different headspaces for different times.
We know not to be raunchy around kids because it's inappropriate. But if a pair like to get absurdly raunchy when theyre together and both consent to it... that's perfectly health and an acceptable time and place.
I'm sure there are some people who blur the time and place things between their sonas as an adult ans minor with how often we've seen people secretly commission or draw NSFW of their character as a minor. We just need to stress that that really is not acceptable and to change the behavior before people make things weirder for others.
I lost my train of thought so Ill just end this sentence like that now. Hopefully reading it back won't sound too unhinged lmao.
BUT yeah. Adults can consent to do whatever crazy stuff they want to as long as it's safe and consensual and they won't get hurt emotionally or physically, etc. That's all it really comes down to. And the fact that minors cannot consent. There;s like physical differences in our brains between the time we're kids and when we're adults and stuff.
For me, even on art I’ve done of baby furs in diapers I still get comments which ick me. A lot of the time I’ll be browsing cute bab art and there’s always someone going a little too far in the comments and it’s just near impossible to get away from it fully.
I’ve been drawing less diapers in general lately because I’m just realising that I’m probably never going to be fully comfortable here until I’m back drawing general cute kid stuff that doesn’t focus around diapers.
That said I’m totally fine with ABDL stuff, not my bag, but idc whatever consenting adults get up to tbh. But people here are generally dumb when it comes to objectively moderating the separation of their kink and just cute inner child art.
And I agree that FA needs an ABDL and babyfur separation. Apparently it’s been suggested to them a lot but they haven’t actioned it.
There's no heckin reason why adult ABDL and literal toddler art should be in the same damn tag.
It's sickening.
I figure drawing an infant with a diaper is acceptable, because I've assumed the main issue was depictions of older children wearing them. The kids that are "too old" for them.
Despite there being real life kids who need them or had to use them for various reasons. I never experienced that, but I didnt want to belittle the potential comfort in representation of my clients by flat out saying "no i wont do that just because that wasn't my case growing up so therefor this is wrong and incorrect."
And also a lot of it early on was just, my outright inability to properly draw a true "baby" but what I categorize as a "baby" in my head is like, an INFANT. I struggled with drawing them and have realized I've basically started by drawing smaller adults with big heads. And have tried to do more variety in body shapes and sizes to better depict different ages. I stopped doing more babyfur centric work when I got into FFXIV in 2015, where I started FA comms in general in 2013 including baby furries. Only picking back up on non-ffxiv comms when i made this account because I missed drawing cute kid stuff but didn't want to squick my new audience of FFXIV clients because of how quickly you hit ABDL/fetish when seeing baby furry characters. As early as 2013-14 i was startign to get hesitant about the diaper focus on things, and threw myself into research about the AB/DL community to kind of make sure I wasnt unintentionally drawing something attracting the wrong crowd.
I've tried to curate my followers by not uploading pieces or putting disclaimers but that's not really how it works. I have to change what I'm drawing if I'm getting weird vibes and it's just come to a head when someone literally told a mutual that my gallery was "disturbing" or picked out a piece and said "this is cp this is disgusting" and it was just a bunny kid doin a cartwheel, but he had a diaper on. So I'm like. Yup. It's the diaper. It's always the dang diapers.
They mean nothing to me so I dont really think much of it when drawing pieces usually I'm just like
"Theres literally nothing inappropriate going on. My mom could have snapped a photo of me as a kid doing the exact same thing and put it in the photo album."
But that's because I'm not a creep. It's when you realize a creepy uncle is eyeballing it a little too hard and long or makes a comment and you realize. "OH." That's where I'm at now.
So now I'm just removign anythign like that from my theoretical photo album: my gallery.
And yeah there's always that occasional comment where someone's a little too hyperfixated on the diaper or something which just screams "this is a kink of mine, sexual or not"
I was opting to just. Go through accounts that follow me, and block or softblock ones that felt NSFW or too inappropriate to be associated with me comfortably, but since moving out, I have less tiem to actually do that. Ive put disclaimers galore but I figure unless I put it as a watermark in the middle of my image, esp. on twitter, nobody is really paying attention, and most art is kinda glanced at real quick, hit 'like' or 'retweet' and move on. So I have to accept that.
This will mean less income and I already struggle as is, and I REALYL just want to people please ALL the time, it gives me serotonin, but. I can't. It might end up causing weirdness so I have to learn to just set boundaries and STICK to them. It'll be tough but I'm gonna try and not cave. I'm easily swayed by kindness, as the world has not been kind to me. So when anyone is kind, I go above and beyond and it bites me in the arse sometimes. I gotta not do that.
I've also thought about banning diapers in their entirety since like, 2015 tbh. Having someone use my gallery as an example of pornography and me actually hearing about it is the absolute final straw for me to truly pu tmy foot down.
I've drawn things in the past I wasn't really keen on but. "customer's always right" and I wasn't gonna look a gift horse in the mouth if they were paying me reasonably for my time, so early on in some of my comms I've drawn diaper equivalents of "panty shots" I quickly realized I did not like it and it attracted the less savory types of the DL crowd who are a little too friendly in the comments or open about the reason they favorited the piece.
So FOR NOW. I'm sticking with infants as OK for diapers as
1. I draw very few
2. Most clients characters are regularly not-quite-infants/toddlers or older ( i forget terms bc I do not want a child lmao)
3. If I still get sus vibes, I just add infants to the no-go list.
I'm perfectly okay with AB/DL. It's kink. Kink inherently cannot allow minors.
I don't LIKE AB/DL but if I were to make a NSFW account and draw NSFW because that's ALSO good money for a desperate little near-disabled artist like me, if a client asked if I could do it? I'd give it the good old college try. I'll draw a dang AB/DL piece if not just because Im personally more comfortable if bits are covered, and IDGAF what covers them. And any adult content would be in a space where it specifically is explicitally AIMED AT and FOR an adult audience, away from where minors can mingle. Like, a heckin patreon or something locked behind a paywall idk.
I know I'm in a weird funky minority that I'd rather draw a grown ass adult in an adult diaper than draw heteronormative PIV sex. (because there is a difference in how an adult diaper looks and technically funcitons in that setting, which also shows "this is an adult piece using items made specifically for adults and children or minors are NOT allowed to be involved in ANY way.)
Probably because I have issues with sex as a semi sex-repulsed asexual and just a general fan of not-seeing-naked-bodies-or-genitals. But that's an entirely different space. And my own reasoning, etc. I just DO NOT want ANY blur of NSFW/KINK on this account surrounding MINORS. If I make some nsfw account ok w abdl that shit is nowhere near this account because like.
No. That's like oil and water. Just no.
This is just how my brain works. I want my SFW and NSFW categorized with clear boundaries. No guessing. You know?
But. Frankly I don't really like drawing NSFW. And I would be scared to be cancelled because people are very YAY-OR-NAY about AB/DL things. It's not really a personal interest of mine iether so. I have little reason to enage with it. If I do, it'd put me into it even further and since I don't even like it I probably shouldnt do much of it or Ill get stuck in that niche.
But yeah it's very VERY possible all diapers will be banned from this account. For now, I'm starting with anyone that is "too old" for them and up after I finish pieces that depict these.
Because I need the money, frankly and cant afford to refund spontaneously, and I know that the clients I am specifically working with aren't being a gross freak about it, and it's a very personal piece coming from a similar place that caused me to make and draw appy kids beign happy in the first place. (so usually trauma or shit)
I remember when I found your page and I actually sent it to my friends saying "Look, someone who actually draws wholesome kid content!" because honestly there's very few pages in this website (at least that I have seen) that draw SFW baby/kid art exclusively, and it's disheartening to see it go down because people cannot simply go look somewhere else for their kinks and/or simply read that the artist does not like that.
Ultimately, I agree with you, FA should absolutely separate these categories, makes absolutely no sense...
BUT YES I specifically MADE this page because I want wholesome stuff that is not attached to kink. I'm just frustrated and bummed people assume it's kink when it's not.
If people apply kink stuff to it, that's THEIR problem. My intent with every piece is always from a childhood nostalgia.
I just wanna draw happy cute friends havin a good day.
Or even sad if they're sad because feelings for us as children are INTENSE. I vividly remember how some things felt so VISCERAL to me as a child and I think most of us forget that when we're adults.
And if I can represent that and comment on it in my art to maybe remind a parent or adult to remember that kids are the same as us, just with way less experience in handling situations the world throws at us, that might just make us go.
"Wow. Dropping that ice cream is no big deal for me. I've seen way worse shit. But for this little dude, it's like his world is ending. Maybe I shouldn't just yell at him to 'get the fuck over it' and belittle his feelings. Maybe I'll help himthrough it instead."
But even replace that ice cream example with other things, like helping them through losing a friend, or getting upset. Kids deserve to be steered towards healthy coping methods and stuff to help better their lives. Parents OWE them that kind of care and help, and it's fantastic if we remember how it feels so we can address things with empathy and not belittle or ignore major stuff for others just because they're smaller human beings that are newer to the whole "existing" gimmick.
The more we learn from our own experiences the more we can share with those just starting to go through things, and similar stuff.
Also growing up sucks and adulthood is full of stress so let kids have as cool and fun a childhood as possible to BE a kid, before our aging and experiences rip away that unfiltered AWE about new things and crap. Because THAT unfun bit is inevitable so. YOLO it and have as much childhood goodness as you can. It sets the foundation for a fulfilling life. Sounds rad as heck.
Something I always say to people about the furry community is that if someone manages to constantly get commissioned only with SFW to the point of getting a living out of it, then that person is an absolute LEGEND, because it's honestly so hard to do so, and it even translates in views and faves, anytime I try to do wholesome stuff it does *terrible* so I'm always forced to making lewd YCH because unfortunately that's what sells... Heck, sometimes even the lewd stuff doesn't sell, it's really confusing sometimes.
But regarding content: I myself, and several of my friends, have several characters that have siblings and the idea of drawing them as children having fun appealed so much to me, but it honestly scared me for this precise reason, because you can't draw a picture of children having fun without getting several baby fur kinks following you... You can get a picture of a family with a pregnant character in a wholesome family picture without pregnant kink furries swarming your page, you can draw a Pokémon without the whole Pokémon furry community swarming you wanting to see more Pokémon with giant breasts.
Honestly I've grown somewhat desensitized to some of the stuff here, to the point I only favorite stuff due to liking the render/art style and not to what it's shown (some hard exceptions on some kinks...), but it's still incredibly hard with some stuff... I just wish people were able to make the distinct separation ie: I like the stupid rabbit Pokémon because I think it's cute and adorable, not because I want to dick it!
But honestly, I don't think you should stop, your art is too good and if you do you're letting them win... There has to be a way you can continue drawing what you love to draw without indulging these uninvited people... Perhaps if you stopped posting the results and kept only to private commissions, selecting your clients very carefully?
I've been awar of the babyfur tag on this sit since 2013 because I've always had like this "littlespace" kind of vibe. Though I hesitate to even use that term because it's like. Not like I regress or anything. I just. "Aw MAN kid me wouldve LOVED this. I've gotta buy that." or "Aww man kid me always wanted a rocking horse. I'm gonna draw a little furry dude on a rocking horse and it makes me feel so happy, like little kid me if I actually got to have a rocking horse. OMG I'm full of so much serotonin and warm sappy vibes I could just CRY."
I've been drawing "little" art since I WAS pretty little. It's never been kink or sexual for me so I was honestly VERY surprised to discover there was kind of a group of people and words for it,... and that there was like this NSFW end of it all.
"WOW omg someone else is drawing their OC playing with blocks being a happy little kid omg! I'm not a freak? So its ok for me to draw an OC kid like this even though I'm 'too old' and like 19 now? wow!"
/browse galleries and start to get a feeling theres more to it than that for other people
"Ah. so Iguess it's a sexual thing for some people. Okay... UH. not me. UHHH."
/avoid it as best I can but it's FurAffinity so it's inevitable even with General filters you see some light kink stuff
/years pass
"Ah. More AB/DL kink art. Hey wait. This is not my kink at all but jesus christ look at the rendering of the fur, that is gorgeous. Oh my god. ART GOALS."
So on my main account I've faved like, a fat-furry? inflation? Very-impossibly-obese-or-otherwise-large-character piece because it was like. "This is the perfect example of The Shading Sphere™ and it's gorgeous but it's in the form of an absolute unit of a furry fox woman. Okay. Not my kink but I absolutely want to try and mimic that shading later."
I'd never stop drawing what I love. So no worries there.
Which is the equivalent of children's book imagery/themes. Just with a furry coat of paint. Because. It's NOT kink or hurting anyone. People can cry wolf all they want but they won't ever find some secret folder of cub porn on any hard drives I posses. Just conveniently cropped or censored NSFW art like that chunky fox lady, if I even bother to save it outside of my favorites lmao.
I'll just stop drawing anything people try to take out of context, and happily so if it means it prevents any harm to other people or children. Absolutely. Sometimes we do things in ignorance that unintentionally harm others. If I do that then I'd hope someone tells me what I'm doing is a problem, and how. I'm very open to hearing a how/why if there's any actual argument in what someone has to say that isn't just a kneejerk reaction of "this is babyfur which is a kink. this drawing is SFW but babyfur inherently is. so it's like. SFW that's secretly NSFW." because that's just a very misinformed perspective on what is a very complex issue that is "babyfur" thanks to how most of the community has hung around on, and come from FurAffinity where we don't have these words or labels that are widely used that differentiate the SFW "littelsspace" "agere"?? I think? kind of aspects from the "I'm really into being made to wear a diaper and being humiliated as a fetish" half of things.
It's like saying all furry art is inherently sexual like people used to do in the 2010s. IT really isnt. There are sexual furries sure. But that doesnt mean all furries are sexual about it.
Like the anime community isn't just "every single anime fan is into shota/lolicon and hentai"
it's just easier to paint as horrible because people want to protect kids (from sex at least but maybe slack on the emotional abuse and turn the other way because that'd be "overstepping" and theyre not hte parent /salty).
It's a good issue to be very adamant about protecting kids on.
But when its only adults involved and its just kink, let people be. Unless theyre being bad kinksters. etc.
I don't usually speak up when it comes to such things, but you know what? My limit is reached, so here I go!
This is why I am anti-kink full throttle. These freaks will jump through so many hoops to rationalize and justify their twisted fantasies: "Oh, get over it, they're fictional." "If it bothers you, don't look." "Minors shouldn't be on this site in the first place!" To all these excuses...Just SHUT UP! Because it's getting old and such excuses are weak rhetoric to avoid responsibility for being the source of stress, or even trauma for those who stumble upon such "art". And Furries wonder why they are so openly reviled...
I just want you to know that when I found your page that I was and still am on board with your policies. You have your standards and won't let anyone change them for the sake of "fitting in". And shame on the losers who INSIST on fetishizing your work and characters despite you being EXTREMELY clear that is NOT what you desire. For those kinds of people, I will hate with every fiber of my being. I personally despise "Adult" work, and will always have eyebrows raised towards those who indulge in it...
It's such a crying shame that noble-minded, truly talented artists are being driven away due o these kinds of people. I truly hope that the community's problems are cured one day. I hope that one day folks like you can find their safe havens without having to worry about being swamped with unpleasant crap Furries are so in love with...
I have no issue with kinksters at all, UNLESS theyre problem people who are pushing their kink into spaces where someone has expressed theyre uncomfortable, or where it is inappropriate.
I personally wouldnt want to "overcorrect" and go FULL BLAST anti-kink because I also have a few mutuals who DO have kinks like AB/DL or some other things, even if theyre off my radar and weird to me. And they are very respectful. THAT is the true kink community. Safe, Sane, Consensual, and in the right time and place. I understand horny brain might lower our capacity to think about that somtimes, so I give a little leeway. But I will block if it's too nasty or openly NSFW.
But I REALLY dont like people who won't even give us non-kinksters the time of day and just write us off as kinky too. Or just say "ABDL is inherently pedophillia" full stop and don't even bother to learn about it or talk to someone. Because it's not.
Like BDSM isnt inherently abuse. There are people who are stupid and USE it as an excuse to manipulate people and abuse them and I guarantee there are people like that in the ABDL community who channel pedo vibes and manipulate or are absolute creeps. And any sane kink community kicks them out.
Though for FA it's all VERY niche so I imagine everyone tolerates things to a higher degree based in how neurotypical we are, what we're used to, our experiences, but most wont stand for anyone being an active pedo. Unles theyre ALSO a pedo. And THATS who we need to call out.
I grew up with the "dont like dont look" age of the internet, and I agree. That's why I don't look at or engage with kink unless it's like, me doing research because I'm on a neverending quest to destigmatize the brainwashing I was forced through with asbstinence only sex "education". So I may be curious about what people do, or how it works. But I'm also ace and dont want to be involved at all myself. I want to know why allosexuals are so fascinated by sex or why kinks appeal to people because learning and hearing about other's experiences and opinions, even if I don't agree, is fun. Like brain stretches.
I'm certainly not being driven away though, just setting boundaries to try and fend off this stupid idea that aperfectly SFW artist is making content for pedophiles, If it feels that way? Good, thanks for telling me, MAYBE TELL ME DIRECTLY NEXT TIME in a mature conversation, and I'd love to make to be as sure as reasonably possible, that I'm enabling as few nutjobs as possible.
If people want to cancel me, they can go right ahead and try. I only draw what I think could be published in a children's book. (Just with furry characters because I love and enjoy the creativity of this community. I joined the community because I wanted to try art commissions, and it was either "Sell out doing fanart and potentially get DMCAd or a bunch of people telling you how illegal it is" (even if some companies are explicity ok with it) or "Join this community with fun OCs and original art and stuff I can draw for instead because I love OCs and would rather draw those. Guess I better learn how to draw dogs."
So here I am almost an entire decade later. Drawing happy kid furries. And trying not to be as big of a people pleaser and drawing things that may be no-bueno.
I just want to draw happy kid art for nostalgia and personal gives-my-fuzzy-warm-feelings reasoning.
I will never draw a kid in kink or nsfw intentionally. if I do it unintentionalyl SOMEHOW, i would hope someone says "HEY THATS SUS."
I address it. Like this journal. And change accordingly. I just want everyone to be comfy, and to draw hapy fun things.
If me drawing happy fun things contributes to harming anyone, tell me, let me know how and why so I can make sure to not do it anymore.
Dont jus tbe like
"ur drawing CP" and fuck off. because im not.
Maybe they even are like "this guy says hes not drawing CP and sure it's not sexual but people make it that way" like it'd be... my fault?
They linked a specific piece I had up here and after seeing it with that in mind, yeah I understand what they might see in it. So after that I've decided to remove it. If they think it can be fetishy for a fetishist then by all means, I'll happily remove it. I don't want anyone fetishizing MY art of MINORS in MY gallery.
So it's not like there's some ACTIVE ONGOING DRAMA. Nobody has said anything to me, I just was used as an example in a drive by "ur mutual is icky!!!" comment and that's enough for me to get real riled because I KNOW babyfur art is like playing with fire. Like, this exact tweet: https://twitter.com/AssignedMale/st.....14671987036160
(please for the love of god I hope the artist of this isn't problematic or anything idk anything about them this just is literally the situation SFW artists are put into and that's the fastest easiest way to share the whole situation lmao)
I do everything I can to try and make sure people can't be gross on my art but I'm just a funky little guy who draws pictures and stares at them for hours on end hwile working. I see lines and colors at the end of the day if anyone sees anything possibly sus absolutely HMU so I can prevent that from happening.
Ijust wanna draw fun happy things that make my clients happy and others around us happy too. C:
I was afraid Tumblr would instantly be like super against my kinda stuff... Because Furry or something. Or like. The fact that I'm chill with ABDL people as long as they're not shoving kink in my face. Like it'd be assumed like everywhere ELSE that it IS inherently kink and I'd always seem Tumblr dreams n stuff but.
I mean if they're ok with me drawing cute kid art and not just posting AESTHETIC images then dang. Tumblr here I come!
Shoot. I'm gonna go make a blog for myself over there now, hot DANG.
Cause heck, "little space"?? Kidcore vibes are Not kink for me. But still a huge part of my entire being? Existence?
Sounds like that's the place for me.
But ye, it'll take a bit to start up obvi but I got a few likes for some bluey stuff and commissions, two of which were adults in diapers (sfw of course) and they all got something within a day or two. Bigger artists seem to get more so I'm sure you'll get up there too lol.
Very highkey my gf was about to drop out (she was my CT) bc we started to feel uncomfortable on twitter due to all of the fandom made "restrictions" and anyone getting cancelled for breakin em but she's also happier on tumbles so she might be willing to try again lol.
Like the stuff I post here has yet to get removed on Tumblr, but to be fair, it's mostly babies and toddlers. Only like 3 or 4 are adults in diapers because we only draw that when commissioned.