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Raffles and policies and delays, oh my!
2 years ago
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Yip.
This is just a catch-all journal for things I need to, well, catch up on.
Firstly, I wanna apologize to anyone who reaches out to me or waits half a day at best for me to respond to a message. Some of you are already aware that I am notoriously slow because I work full-time in a retail environment and come home to take care of my real life partner. This means during the day I can sometimes glance at my phone and fav a pic or like a tweet that's sent my way, but usually don't have time to form a fully coherent and deserved response. I truly appreciate the friends willing to wait for this slow old fox to catch up, and thank every artist for their patience while waiting for feedback on commissions. <3
Secondly, about that new policy. Um, yeah. FA really dropped the ball on this one, and the worst part is that they really can't backtrack on it now without making things even worse. I can kinda see the good intentions behind what they may have been trying to do, but not only did they cause a lot of panic amongst feral artists, they practically doubled down on it in the attempts at clarification. This isn't even mentioning the absolutely poor timing of attempting to refine rules about minors, when certain states of the US are passing all sorts of draconian laws "for the protection of minors".
I could rant about it for a long while, but in the end there isn't a lot of good alternatives to FA and I already struggle to keep up with just this one site for uploading my commissions, so I won't be going anywhere just yet. From a glance, while I'm worried that smol fox may be a minor risk, there's nothing I have that can really be seen as ban-worthy (or at least that cannot be appealed to a hopefully less prejudiced moderator), so I'm likely in less danger of disappearing than other folks. I'll remove my FA+ though until such time as I'm convinced that my pokemon friends aren't getting banned simply for having a normal sized Eevee, and hope that anyone else who has one considers doing the same.
Lastly, I promised a raffle! Now that I'm settled into my new fox den, it's high time I get off my fluffy butt and find an artist for it. I'll sniff around to see who is available, but will absolutely welcome any suggestions for newer artists or people needing the funds. ^^
Thank y'all for putting up with fox shenanigans! <3
Firstly, I wanna apologize to anyone who reaches out to me or waits half a day at best for me to respond to a message. Some of you are already aware that I am notoriously slow because I work full-time in a retail environment and come home to take care of my real life partner. This means during the day I can sometimes glance at my phone and fav a pic or like a tweet that's sent my way, but usually don't have time to form a fully coherent and deserved response. I truly appreciate the friends willing to wait for this slow old fox to catch up, and thank every artist for their patience while waiting for feedback on commissions. <3
Secondly, about that new policy. Um, yeah. FA really dropped the ball on this one, and the worst part is that they really can't backtrack on it now without making things even worse. I can kinda see the good intentions behind what they may have been trying to do, but not only did they cause a lot of panic amongst feral artists, they practically doubled down on it in the attempts at clarification. This isn't even mentioning the absolutely poor timing of attempting to refine rules about minors, when certain states of the US are passing all sorts of draconian laws "for the protection of minors".
I could rant about it for a long while, but in the end there isn't a lot of good alternatives to FA and I already struggle to keep up with just this one site for uploading my commissions, so I won't be going anywhere just yet. From a glance, while I'm worried that smol fox may be a minor risk, there's nothing I have that can really be seen as ban-worthy (or at least that cannot be appealed to a hopefully less prejudiced moderator), so I'm likely in less danger of disappearing than other folks. I'll remove my FA+ though until such time as I'm convinced that my pokemon friends aren't getting banned simply for having a normal sized Eevee, and hope that anyone else who has one considers doing the same.
Lastly, I promised a raffle! Now that I'm settled into my new fox den, it's high time I get off my fluffy butt and find an artist for it. I'll sniff around to see who is available, but will absolutely welcome any suggestions for newer artists or people needing the funds. ^^
Thank y'all for putting up with fox shenanigans! <3
Dawn The Dragon
~silverthespirewolf
maybe look to smaller lesser known artists, this can help get them the exposure they need
