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Final FA policy whinge + politics (-) mention
2 years ago
The #FurAffinity discord locked the final thread and bans anyone talking about the policy in the chat. The only way to protest the policy change now is to submit a trouble ticket that will probably be ignored.
I thought about staying in there and trying to fight as long as I could, but it's kind of pointless. The rules of the discord actively discourage people talking policy and they have an "UwU no PaWoLoTiCs" rule.
The discord was never meant to actually be a way for us to give feedback like the forum was. Sure there's the feedback tickets, but judging by the responses I got, it's basically a paper shredder inside a box.
It's clearly going to be a case of people bowing down to puritanism and going against what the majority wants.
As I've watched how the world has changed in the last few years, it's felt more and more like there's no safe spaces to be a kinky queer adult. You have to live in this state of dread wondering if what you like will be the thing people come for next.
I want a world where as long as you're not harming someone* (unless consensual and not mentally damaging either) or some thing, you're free to do what you want. Even if that's dressing in drag, wearing a puphood at pride, or drawing your OC fucking a consenting adult eevee. Hell, I'd love to just go shopping au-naturel if I could.
FA was always kind of that place for me, it was the one stable 3rd space I had for my adult life. It out lived livejournal, tumblr, and now twitter. But it's most likely going to go down hill too. Maybe I'm wrong, but I doubt it. It's just been... depressing? Taxing? Emotionally draining?
I guess a lot of us are destined to be shoved to the margins of the margins eventually. You always forget the kinksters that pioneered a space before being shoved out.
I'mma gonna fight where I can, but some things just are failing battles. So I'm giving up on this. I'll still post here, but honestly? Interacting with the site is kind of a bummer now. I always fought for FA, I loved it here, but now it just feels like an open wound.
Here's all the other places you can find me, I added an inkbunny and I'm rezing my Weasyl and FN.
Itaku is shit for writers atm, so I'm not even gonna bother to make an account there. And A03 has had me in account limbo for months.
https://allmylinks.com/saintajax33
I thought about staying in there and trying to fight as long as I could, but it's kind of pointless. The rules of the discord actively discourage people talking policy and they have an "UwU no PaWoLoTiCs" rule.
The discord was never meant to actually be a way for us to give feedback like the forum was. Sure there's the feedback tickets, but judging by the responses I got, it's basically a paper shredder inside a box.
It's clearly going to be a case of people bowing down to puritanism and going against what the majority wants.
As I've watched how the world has changed in the last few years, it's felt more and more like there's no safe spaces to be a kinky queer adult. You have to live in this state of dread wondering if what you like will be the thing people come for next.
I want a world where as long as you're not harming someone* (unless consensual and not mentally damaging either) or some thing, you're free to do what you want. Even if that's dressing in drag, wearing a puphood at pride, or drawing your OC fucking a consenting adult eevee. Hell, I'd love to just go shopping au-naturel if I could.
FA was always kind of that place for me, it was the one stable 3rd space I had for my adult life. It out lived livejournal, tumblr, and now twitter. But it's most likely going to go down hill too. Maybe I'm wrong, but I doubt it. It's just been... depressing? Taxing? Emotionally draining?
I guess a lot of us are destined to be shoved to the margins of the margins eventually. You always forget the kinksters that pioneered a space before being shoved out.
I'mma gonna fight where I can, but some things just are failing battles. So I'm giving up on this. I'll still post here, but honestly? Interacting with the site is kind of a bummer now. I always fought for FA, I loved it here, but now it just feels like an open wound.
Here's all the other places you can find me, I added an inkbunny and I'm rezing my Weasyl and FN.
Itaku is shit for writers atm, so I'm not even gonna bother to make an account there. And A03 has had me in account limbo for months.
https://allmylinks.com/saintajax33
I dunno. Alls I can say is I also am not leaving either. We deserve a place to be ourselves and be weird and be furry.
I don't intend on leaving, at least in the immediate future, but it really does feel like this was a turning point and a major slap in the face.
I think I might drop FN though, it's... hella dead there. I have stuff that hasn't even gotten a single view.
It feels like there's barely any space for writers, so for that alone, I'm staying where I am. But man, do I not like the thought of this.
But FA has just disappointed me beyond belief. It also just seems like a good idea to be active more than one place, you never know when your account or the site will get nuked.