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Dragoneer, thank you for everything...
a year ago
*beep boop* Starting Journalistic OS...
TL;DR: 'Neer is gone, but not forgotten, and while this site has seen it's rough bumps while I have been here, I still wanted to pay my respects for him, even if I never saw him in person.
This journal is dedicated to Dragoneer, who has passed away recently, and while it sucks that it happened, I wanted to write this journal, as a little piece of self-reflection, and why I decided to join this fandom in first place.
I don't know how I stumbled across this website, but I hazard to guess it was from DeviantArt, who linked their profile to FA, and then... rest is history, why I'm here. Maybe the idea that I get to see Pokémon characters being fat was too tempting to check this site out, and then, I decided to join here, maybe not so much as an artist, but as a lurker, if you catch my drift.
Is this site perfect? No, of course not. I still remember when part of the fandom revolted against one of the changes they made in regards to underage characters, and that of course led one of the artists which I have a Telegram contact for, leaving this site for good. But no matter what, there will always be hardcore users of this site, that will keep using this, even if these changes ended up doing more harm than good. Call it Enshittification if you want, but regardless of circumstances, there will be people using this site, unfazed from these changes they have made. I even made couple of journals ragging about these changes, but on hindsight, it kinda makes me cringe...
I have contemplated to open up shop on other websites, and while I have a profile on Weasyl, I have not been using that as much as I would have liked, so I haven't bothered to link it on my profile. I originally thought about opening up on Mastodon, but when I heard that the growth has stalled in place, it made me wonder if I can even expand my reach if people are not joining the service (Mastodon stans, I don't want to hear your excuses why the service is superior to Twitter, if people are not migrating to it). And that led me to BlueSky, since their beta period is over, and I could give it a shot, to share my feelings, art that I have commissioned from others, as long as I'll get the permission to do so, and other silly/shitposting stuff, that I would not feel comfortable doing over here.
While I mainly have commissioned art from other clients, I have also dabbled into Blender to create scenes in 3D, but even then that would fall firmly into shitposting tier, so here's this, why I'll be opening up shop on BlueSky, for this reason alone.
Whatever will happen next to FA, now that the 'Neer is gone, at least I hope that maintainers of this website will not start changing things to their own accord, because at the end of the day, you need to listen to demands from users what they want to see (MP4 video playback, for one), and not alienating users for your own gains/goals.
This journal is dedicated to Dragoneer, who has passed away recently, and while it sucks that it happened, I wanted to write this journal, as a little piece of self-reflection, and why I decided to join this fandom in first place.
I don't know how I stumbled across this website, but I hazard to guess it was from DeviantArt, who linked their profile to FA, and then... rest is history, why I'm here. Maybe the idea that I get to see Pokémon characters being fat was too tempting to check this site out, and then, I decided to join here, maybe not so much as an artist, but as a lurker, if you catch my drift.
Is this site perfect? No, of course not. I still remember when part of the fandom revolted against one of the changes they made in regards to underage characters, and that of course led one of the artists which I have a Telegram contact for, leaving this site for good. But no matter what, there will always be hardcore users of this site, that will keep using this, even if these changes ended up doing more harm than good. Call it Enshittification if you want, but regardless of circumstances, there will be people using this site, unfazed from these changes they have made. I even made couple of journals ragging about these changes, but on hindsight, it kinda makes me cringe...
I have contemplated to open up shop on other websites, and while I have a profile on Weasyl, I have not been using that as much as I would have liked, so I haven't bothered to link it on my profile. I originally thought about opening up on Mastodon, but when I heard that the growth has stalled in place, it made me wonder if I can even expand my reach if people are not joining the service (Mastodon stans, I don't want to hear your excuses why the service is superior to Twitter, if people are not migrating to it). And that led me to BlueSky, since their beta period is over, and I could give it a shot, to share my feelings, art that I have commissioned from others, as long as I'll get the permission to do so, and other silly/shitposting stuff, that I would not feel comfortable doing over here.
While I mainly have commissioned art from other clients, I have also dabbled into Blender to create scenes in 3D, but even then that would fall firmly into shitposting tier, so here's this, why I'll be opening up shop on BlueSky, for this reason alone.
Whatever will happen next to FA, now that the 'Neer is gone, at least I hope that maintainers of this website will not start changing things to their own accord, because at the end of the day, you need to listen to demands from users what they want to see (MP4 video playback, for one), and not alienating users for your own gains/goals.
