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Gallery purge and where else to find me
2 years ago
With the whole UP 2.7 fiasco still burning and with a few days left till deadline, I have been backing up my gallery for the last few days and now that I am done, there are a few things that will happen to my gallery.
The first matter will be about all my Pokémon and Digimon art: As you may or may not know, I have a big disclaimer on the front page of my gallery where all the characters in my gallery are depicted as being of 18 years or older. I have my stance against child porn will always have it. That is why all my Pokémorphs have been always anthromorphic, with exception of the new version of Flare who remains a non-anthro Treecko, but is stated to be an adult in his form.
However, in the UP, the written age is COMPLETELY IGNORED in favor of body proportions, as well as blanket banning 'baby Pokémon' like Pichus and Togepi.. and even several unevolved Pokémon like Torchic and so forth. And there is also the uncertainty of which other Pokémon and Digimon are banned or not, such as the Renamon debacle that is currently in full swing.
Because of this uncertainty, I will be doing the hard decision to semi-purge my gallery of all Pokémorphs and Digimorphs, no matter if they were to be 'legal' under the new UP or not. FA has been my home for a very long time, I cannot honestly afford to lose it. And seeing the general trust to FA is essentially broken in pieces, I rather be completely sure that I wont get the damned banhammer in the future over some random Pokémorph pic that was considered 'okay' by the written UP, only to change by the mood of the mod/admin that sees it... thus sadly I must do this act, even if many of the Pokémorphs in my gallery are some of my most used characters.
As for what I mean by 'semi-purge'? It is more like a major full censor of all offending art with a simple pic and the information in submission text redacted down to reasons the pictures being censored.
This semi-purge/censoring wont start right away, instead it will start on next Monday, so people can have a chance to save the pictures they want to save, or seek out the original authors and favorite the picture there instead, if they exist.
Secondly: The Full-size alt pics in my Scraps will be fully deleted, as resizing submission pictures is a possible thing these days, so they are redundant at this point.
Thirdly: My LLNI text files will fully poof, as they are old and outdated. I did intend to keep them up in my gallery as old versions people to look at. But seeing they do mention Pokémon in passing, they too must disappear.
Keep in mind that the LLNI were created by my Godly Snivy self, who is a Snivy in appearance and easily over 20+ years old. But written text does not matter to the UP as said, so thus even he must poof away as he is an unevolved Pokémon, thus considered a 'child Pokémon' in the eyes of the new UP.
A new CODEX of my LLNI is in the works, but whatever I will post it up here or not is still undecided as I want my Godly Snivy self to be their creator, but the new UP throws this into pure uncertainty.
I am fairly certain my decision is gonna upset some or a lot people, if not outright piss them off. And honestly I do not care at this point. I have sat through multiple days for the last week backing up my works and been through an emotional roller coaster for it.
FA has been my home. And I know many artists I wish to commission here. If I want to stay here? Well, no other choice than to bite that fucking bullet and weep while it explodes in my mouth and blow my lower jaw off, damned how I feel, for the will of FA staff stand above everything else, including common sense and reason apparently.
Hope you are happy FA staff. Hope you are fucking happy... -_-** Because I sure as hell am not.
Where to find me elsewhere: You can find me on Weasyl, though I haven't posted any pics there yet: https://www.weasyl.com/~flardan I will start uploading there soon, once I am done purging my gallery here.
And I plan on opening up an Itaku gallery someone soon, both incase migrating to Weasyl isn't as smooth as I thought, and from the fact that I heard from friends that Itaku is pretty good alternative at this point.
The first matter will be about all my Pokémon and Digimon art: As you may or may not know, I have a big disclaimer on the front page of my gallery where all the characters in my gallery are depicted as being of 18 years or older. I have my stance against child porn will always have it. That is why all my Pokémorphs have been always anthromorphic, with exception of the new version of Flare who remains a non-anthro Treecko, but is stated to be an adult in his form.
However, in the UP, the written age is COMPLETELY IGNORED in favor of body proportions, as well as blanket banning 'baby Pokémon' like Pichus and Togepi.. and even several unevolved Pokémon like Torchic and so forth. And there is also the uncertainty of which other Pokémon and Digimon are banned or not, such as the Renamon debacle that is currently in full swing.
Because of this uncertainty, I will be doing the hard decision to semi-purge my gallery of all Pokémorphs and Digimorphs, no matter if they were to be 'legal' under the new UP or not. FA has been my home for a very long time, I cannot honestly afford to lose it. And seeing the general trust to FA is essentially broken in pieces, I rather be completely sure that I wont get the damned banhammer in the future over some random Pokémorph pic that was considered 'okay' by the written UP, only to change by the mood of the mod/admin that sees it... thus sadly I must do this act, even if many of the Pokémorphs in my gallery are some of my most used characters.
As for what I mean by 'semi-purge'? It is more like a major full censor of all offending art with a simple pic and the information in submission text redacted down to reasons the pictures being censored.
This semi-purge/censoring wont start right away, instead it will start on next Monday, so people can have a chance to save the pictures they want to save, or seek out the original authors and favorite the picture there instead, if they exist.
Secondly: The Full-size alt pics in my Scraps will be fully deleted, as resizing submission pictures is a possible thing these days, so they are redundant at this point.
Thirdly: My LLNI text files will fully poof, as they are old and outdated. I did intend to keep them up in my gallery as old versions people to look at. But seeing they do mention Pokémon in passing, they too must disappear.
Keep in mind that the LLNI were created by my Godly Snivy self, who is a Snivy in appearance and easily over 20+ years old. But written text does not matter to the UP as said, so thus even he must poof away as he is an unevolved Pokémon, thus considered a 'child Pokémon' in the eyes of the new UP.
A new CODEX of my LLNI is in the works, but whatever I will post it up here or not is still undecided as I want my Godly Snivy self to be their creator, but the new UP throws this into pure uncertainty.
I am fairly certain my decision is gonna upset some or a lot people, if not outright piss them off. And honestly I do not care at this point. I have sat through multiple days for the last week backing up my works and been through an emotional roller coaster for it.
FA has been my home. And I know many artists I wish to commission here. If I want to stay here? Well, no other choice than to bite that fucking bullet and weep while it explodes in my mouth and blow my lower jaw off, damned how I feel, for the will of FA staff stand above everything else, including common sense and reason apparently.
Hope you are happy FA staff. Hope you are fucking happy... -_-** Because I sure as hell am not.
Where to find me elsewhere: You can find me on Weasyl, though I haven't posted any pics there yet: https://www.weasyl.com/~flardan I will start uploading there soon, once I am done purging my gallery here.
And I plan on opening up an Itaku gallery someone soon, both incase migrating to Weasyl isn't as smooth as I thought, and from the fact that I heard from friends that Itaku is pretty good alternative at this point.
I remember being there when half of the art forums on the internet were melting down because they believed that the Fair Use Clause would allow corporations to steal their OCs and use them without paying. I was also there when the PayPal fall updates scared people into thinking that PayPal was going full anti-furry Puritan when they were mostly just closing a tax evasion loophole. I'm not entirely sure that this policy update will really be the fascist revolution that many people are saying it is. Sure, in past cases, people weren't going to the FA Discord and getting the worst official takes imaginable, but the site's social media staff aren't the people you should be looking at for official answers, they're just normal joes without much professional experience who are mostly focused on damage control. The real decisions aren't being made by leaked out-of-context snatches of developing dialogue and strawman memes, they're being made by a group of people who aren't perfect and can be prone to mistakes just like the rest of us. I'll see what happens when the timer runs out, observe how they choose to implement policy enforcement moving forward, and go from there. Diving headlong into hysteria just because everyone else is doing it seems like a poor move to me.
However, these are not normal circumstances. FA staff has done many things that has not inspired any amount of trust and competency on their part. The fact they went from they wouldn't blanket ban any Pokémon, to blanket banning all 'baby Pokémon' and many unevolved Pokémon forms, including Torchics, Cubones, etc.. I feel that I have no choice than to do this in order to protect my gallery.
I am not doing this choice lightly nor hastily Slick, I am doing this because I feel there is no choice. I am not going to take the risk of keeping my art up in, then get banned upon the UP policy update going into effect, as there is some technicality to the UP changes that could lead to me getting banned for having a sizable number of violating submissions in my gallery, aka Pokémon and Digimon art according to the new UP.
Keep in mind that they have decided to ignore the written age part in favor for purely judging pics by body proportions. Even if most of my gallery has anthromorphs in it of clearly adult depiction, I fear that I will get slammed for keeping this up. You may keep your art up if you wish, but I have had FA as my home since 2005, I am not about to risk my ability to stay here in any capacity. This has been a place where I can contact artists for commissions and I want to keep that ability thank you very much.
Plus, I will repost all the art I have in this gallery to my Weasyl, and then later on Itaku.
So sadly my Pokémorph and Digimorph pics will be censored here until the upcoming UP is either retracted or reworked so I do not need to fear being banned for having Pokémorph art of unevolved Pokémon, even if they are of age and having 'proper' body proportions.