I'm sure, if you're reading this, you've already read, like, dozens of other journals by now talking about the same thing. So nothing I say is going to really matter. But, basically, I'm keeping every piece of artwork I have up, since all of them have been gifts over the years, each one is really special to me, and none of them have anyone 'childlike' in them. And, since I can't draw anyway, anything I post in the future would just be more of the same; just ones I have never gotten around to posting. If they seriously threaten to ban me or remove them, I'm done with the site. ESPECIALLY if they try to come for Josh (my Meowth). He's been my damn main OC for nearly 20 years. He means everything to me. I'm not changing him or making him look uglier just to look 'more adult'. Also, all my stories naturally can't really be taken down, since...how can you really prove how old someone is in a story...unless you read it...and who is seriously going to go through long, written stories to try and see how old everyone is? Plus, I've always been under the assumption that anyone I ever use in stories is over 18 anyway, so I'm not worried about my stories.

So, since I'm not an artist, and stories are easy to describe how old things are, this policy change seemingly won't affect me much...on paper. But, again, since they're targeting Pokemon, if they even DARE try to take down my precious gifts of Josh (or even the Littlest Pet Shop pets), I'm going to just put them back up in protest, and if I'm permanently banned, then I'll gladly go elsewhere. Nobody dictates what my life and my characters are, especially since nobody knows them better than myself.

I really hope they don't follow through with this stupid policy, but if they do, I guess we'll see if I stick around or not. If they don't touch any of my stuff, I'm staying. If they try to touch Josh or my LPS gifts, I'm gone.

Oh, and my own personal opinion on the policy? Duh, it's stupid as hell. Pictures of fictional characters angering people so heavily that they have to start cracking down on it, while there's a new shooting going on weekly in another part of America (or just the world in general) and nobody wants to do a thing about guns...yeah, is there any wonder why I don't care when/if I die? This world is making it harder and harder to WANT to keep on living. Yeesh.