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Dragoneer, You Will Be Missed
a year ago
To say he was influential in the fandom would be a massive understatement. Back in 2005 when most people got their art from fchan, VCL, and DA, FurAffinity was born. It was a hacked together sad excuse for a website built off of phpBB, but it was our sad hacked together website.
Dragoneer always kept the fandom first and took care of furries. When other sites like Yerf started getting strict about not allowing yiff and DeviantArt cracked down on it, we really had no other place to go. Dragoneer put up his own private funds to start this site not for himself but for the community we all love.
He's had lots of controversies only because he was responsible for the most popular furry site for almost 20 years. He was constantly ridiculed for security, financial spending, and the seemingly horrible decision to sell the website to IMVU. I do not envy him and think me, and most, would have the same struggles, if not more. The fact is he kept the site up for so long even despite his health and honestly best interests. I've met the man in person at FA:United and he was nothing but gracious and courteous to me in making sure I had a dealer's table and registered.
Previously, around 2009, I was struggling to upload artwork to FA to the point I posted a journal shit talking and being exasperated. Dragoneer was the first person to reply and helpfully explained to me the issue and helped me fixed it. He could have just ignored me but he wanted to help. He always wanted to help other furs, especially us artists.
Despite countless Exoduses, people came back to Fur Affinity because it was THE furry site to be on. FA has always dwarfed every other social art site I'm on in followers, commissions, and comments. The thought that we might not have FA anymore is nearly heart stopping for me.
However, Dragoneer's death seemed sudden, but I bet he had plans in safe and FA will continue on under Frost Dragon Art LLC. LLCs are typically owned by several people and it is officially registered. I believe we will be okay. This LLC was formed under Ferrox Art LLC in 2008.
If anything does happen, I'm prominent on InkBunny too at https://inkbunny.net/tsaiwolf and I'll always have my links on https://tsaiwolf.com. I'm certainly not going anywhere.
I will not tolerate any negative talk on Dragoneer, especially anything in his personal life. It was never the time for that and it certainly isn't now.
As for my commissions, I'm still working through my queue, doing approximately four pinups a week (not including the variants). I saw my page used to say notes disabled and they weren't and I fixed that. Note me here or at commissions[at]tsaiwolf.com if you need a status update but please don't be surprised if it takes a few days for me to get back to you.
Thanks as always for your support, favs, watches, and well wishes.
~ Tsai
Dragoneer always kept the fandom first and took care of furries. When other sites like Yerf started getting strict about not allowing yiff and DeviantArt cracked down on it, we really had no other place to go. Dragoneer put up his own private funds to start this site not for himself but for the community we all love.
He's had lots of controversies only because he was responsible for the most popular furry site for almost 20 years. He was constantly ridiculed for security, financial spending, and the seemingly horrible decision to sell the website to IMVU. I do not envy him and think me, and most, would have the same struggles, if not more. The fact is he kept the site up for so long even despite his health and honestly best interests. I've met the man in person at FA:United and he was nothing but gracious and courteous to me in making sure I had a dealer's table and registered.
Previously, around 2009, I was struggling to upload artwork to FA to the point I posted a journal shit talking and being exasperated. Dragoneer was the first person to reply and helpfully explained to me the issue and helped me fixed it. He could have just ignored me but he wanted to help. He always wanted to help other furs, especially us artists.
Despite countless Exoduses, people came back to Fur Affinity because it was THE furry site to be on. FA has always dwarfed every other social art site I'm on in followers, commissions, and comments. The thought that we might not have FA anymore is nearly heart stopping for me.
However, Dragoneer's death seemed sudden, but I bet he had plans in safe and FA will continue on under Frost Dragon Art LLC. LLCs are typically owned by several people and it is officially registered. I believe we will be okay. This LLC was formed under Ferrox Art LLC in 2008.
If anything does happen, I'm prominent on InkBunny too at https://inkbunny.net/tsaiwolf and I'll always have my links on https://tsaiwolf.com. I'm certainly not going anywhere.
I will not tolerate any negative talk on Dragoneer, especially anything in his personal life. It was never the time for that and it certainly isn't now.
As for my commissions, I'm still working through my queue, doing approximately four pinups a week (not including the variants). I saw my page used to say notes disabled and they weren't and I fixed that. Note me here or at commissions[at]tsaiwolf.com if you need a status update but please don't be surprised if it takes a few days for me to get back to you.
Thanks as always for your support, favs, watches, and well wishes.
~ Tsai
RIP Drangoneer
Your note on the sites registration and not exclusively being run by Dragoneer is comforting, hopefully things will work out smoothly.
Without Dragoneer, and without fur affinity, I would not be in this fandom. I think a lot of people may not realize that for themselves too.
I just hope Dragoneer was able to see how many peoples lives he's changed. And how many people appreciated him.
His battle with these complications is a poignant reminder of the struggles many face within the USA healthcare system.