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Dragoneer
a year ago
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Dragoneer's recent death, or anyone's death for that matter, since I always turn everything into a joke. I also didn't know the guy very well. We spoke maybe twice through a note and I think he left a comment on one of my food posts, but besides that I only ever knew him as "The guy who created FA." Still, it came at quite a shock reading the words "Dragoneer Has Passed Away" below my banner. I had skimmed through his recent health journals the following weeks thinking, "Eh I'm sure he'll be fine." Not aware of how serious it actually was. In dealing many times with medical problems myself, I can easily tell you how infuriating the American healthcare system is. It basically goes like this; "Are you dying? No? Okay, well then fuck off and come back when you're dying! We're all on our lunch break right now! That'll be $30,000.00, please!"
I've read many journals now touching on the subject stating that FA feels like a second home to them. And to that I say, FA does not feel like a second home to me... because it IS my home. I ironically joined this site shortly after my family and I lost my childhood home that I lived in until I was 20. I've moved 6 or 7 times since then, so no place feels like home to me. Just a temporary location to store all my stuff in. But FA has always been there for me. It's stood the test of time for better or worse. All these other sites furs keep saying they're jumping ship to. Well the ship never sunk. And every other site just completely SUCKS to post art to. Can't post porn on Instagram. Twitter gets worse every day and just gets lost in Doomscrolling. Tumblr is dead. Facebook is fucking worthless. And Deviant Art should change it's name to AI Art. Weasyl, inkbunny, Itaku, Pillowfort, Bluesky. All garbage!
Honestly I'm not sure what I'm going to do if FA finally goes down. This is the only site I feel at home. I can post almost anything I want which is more then I can say for half of the sites I mentioned. Even though I've thought about giving up on art altogether, there was never a point in which I wanted to "leave FA forevers!" as I've seen some people do. I will say I'm not too worried about it since the site has already had multiple "This is the end" scares. Especially when IMVU bought it to legally steal artwork. I actually wasn't trying to make this journal all about myself so I'll move on. :/
It especially sucks that humans have collectively all agreed throughout history that the only appropriate time to honor someone is after they're no longer alive. Dragoneer seemed like a good dude to me and one of the only website owners to actually care about their community instead of money. Do you really think Elon Musk gives a flying fuck about Twitter users? And Fuckerturd screwed his best friend over. If he's willing to fuck over his best friend where the hell does anyone else stand!? Also, can we all finally admit that it wasn't Neer's fault for how terrible some of the mods turned out to be? I doubt that when he was hiring them that they just led in with, "Oh by the way, I also love grooming women and fucking my own dog."
RIP Dragoneer. You were one of the good ones in my book.
Dragoneer's recent death, or anyone's death for that matter, since I always turn everything into a joke. I also didn't know the guy very well. We spoke maybe twice through a note and I think he left a comment on one of my food posts, but besides that I only ever knew him as "The guy who created FA." Still, it came at quite a shock reading the words "Dragoneer Has Passed Away" below my banner. I had skimmed through his recent health journals the following weeks thinking, "Eh I'm sure he'll be fine." Not aware of how serious it actually was. In dealing many times with medical problems myself, I can easily tell you how infuriating the American healthcare system is. It basically goes like this; "Are you dying? No? Okay, well then fuck off and come back when you're dying! We're all on our lunch break right now! That'll be $30,000.00, please!"I've read many journals now touching on the subject stating that FA feels like a second home to them. And to that I say, FA does not feel like a second home to me... because it IS my home. I ironically joined this site shortly after my family and I lost my childhood home that I lived in until I was 20. I've moved 6 or 7 times since then, so no place feels like home to me. Just a temporary location to store all my stuff in. But FA has always been there for me. It's stood the test of time for better or worse. All these other sites furs keep saying they're jumping ship to. Well the ship never sunk. And every other site just completely SUCKS to post art to. Can't post porn on Instagram. Twitter gets worse every day and just gets lost in Doomscrolling. Tumblr is dead. Facebook is fucking worthless. And Deviant Art should change it's name to AI Art. Weasyl, inkbunny, Itaku, Pillowfort, Bluesky. All garbage!
Honestly I'm not sure what I'm going to do if FA finally goes down. This is the only site I feel at home. I can post almost anything I want which is more then I can say for half of the sites I mentioned. Even though I've thought about giving up on art altogether, there was never a point in which I wanted to "leave FA forevers!" as I've seen some people do. I will say I'm not too worried about it since the site has already had multiple "This is the end" scares. Especially when IMVU bought it to legally steal artwork. I actually wasn't trying to make this journal all about myself so I'll move on. :/
It especially sucks that humans have collectively all agreed throughout history that the only appropriate time to honor someone is after they're no longer alive. Dragoneer seemed like a good dude to me and one of the only website owners to actually care about their community instead of money. Do you really think Elon Musk gives a flying fuck about Twitter users? And Fuckerturd screwed his best friend over. If he's willing to fuck over his best friend where the hell does anyone else stand!? Also, can we all finally admit that it wasn't Neer's fault for how terrible some of the mods turned out to be? I doubt that when he was hiring them that they just led in with, "Oh by the way, I also love grooming women and fucking my own dog."
RIP Dragoneer. You were one of the good ones in my book.
O.o just click the link it should relieve ya nerves
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