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A Diapered Duckling's Dilemma
12 months ago
Hamha!
The most recent news of people being banned on FA for their content in relation to Baby Fur, Little, Age Regression, etc. has me quite worried. The biggest issue at play is how many of my friends have either left FA or have been banned from the site.
I've seen how many of those I follow are moving to other sites to continue their creative efforts. However, being 100% blind, makes this difficult for me to do so since a lot of sites, like 'Deviant Art' and 'Ink Bunny' are very difficult to navigate using non-visual tools.
'Babyfur.me' claims to have "Accessibility", but I don't see many of my friends flocking to the site. As it would take me a long time to figure out, if it is even possible to do so, a different site for sharing and discussing creative content, I am looking for advice on where may be best for me to take the time to attempt to learn how to interact with everyone outside of Fur Affinity'?
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Everything I have done here over the past 16 years has never been meant to be anything more than finding a way to better accept, understand, and empower myself within a community of people who share similar interests. First impressions may make some believe some of my work is illicit, but that has never been my intention. Yosh, my OC, has always been a character designed to represent my adult self trying to better understand why I like diapers and cute, diapered cartoon animals. My ex-wife shamed me for sharing this interest and I struggled to feel at peace with myself as, for as far back as I can remember, diapers and diapered, cartoon animals have always been a point of interest. I never asked, nor wanted, to be this way. I'm even more sure that others never just woke up one day and said, "I want to do things that make people think I'm scum!". Nobody wants to feel they are too weird, taboo, etc. to deserve acceptance, understanding, empowerment, and a sense of community with others. The bans, sadly, only make those who struggle with who and what they are harder for individuals who, without doing harm to themselves and/or others, are just trying to better figure out why they are the way that they are while seeing how they are worthy of being loved and appreciated.
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If anyone has any good ideas as to where I would best try to create a new account, please let me know. I don't want to lose contact with any of my friends and I definitely don't want to miss out on making new ones.
Your Pal,
---Yosh E. O'Ducky ;)
The most recent news of people being banned on FA for their content in relation to Baby Fur, Little, Age Regression, etc. has me quite worried. The biggest issue at play is how many of my friends have either left FA or have been banned from the site.
I've seen how many of those I follow are moving to other sites to continue their creative efforts. However, being 100% blind, makes this difficult for me to do so since a lot of sites, like 'Deviant Art' and 'Ink Bunny' are very difficult to navigate using non-visual tools.
'Babyfur.me' claims to have "Accessibility", but I don't see many of my friends flocking to the site. As it would take me a long time to figure out, if it is even possible to do so, a different site for sharing and discussing creative content, I am looking for advice on where may be best for me to take the time to attempt to learn how to interact with everyone outside of Fur Affinity'?
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Everything I have done here over the past 16 years has never been meant to be anything more than finding a way to better accept, understand, and empower myself within a community of people who share similar interests. First impressions may make some believe some of my work is illicit, but that has never been my intention. Yosh, my OC, has always been a character designed to represent my adult self trying to better understand why I like diapers and cute, diapered cartoon animals. My ex-wife shamed me for sharing this interest and I struggled to feel at peace with myself as, for as far back as I can remember, diapers and diapered, cartoon animals have always been a point of interest. I never asked, nor wanted, to be this way. I'm even more sure that others never just woke up one day and said, "I want to do things that make people think I'm scum!". Nobody wants to feel they are too weird, taboo, etc. to deserve acceptance, understanding, empowerment, and a sense of community with others. The bans, sadly, only make those who struggle with who and what they are harder for individuals who, without doing harm to themselves and/or others, are just trying to better figure out why they are the way that they are while seeing how they are worthy of being loved and appreciated.
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If anyone has any good ideas as to where I would best try to create a new account, please let me know. I don't want to lose contact with any of my friends and I definitely don't want to miss out on making new ones.
Your Pal,
---Yosh E. O'Ducky ;)
Discord is good too
As for 'Discord', I may be able to figure it out. I have it on my phone and on my laptop. Perhaps, if I keep it in [Voice Chat], I can manage it best? (Keeping up with everyone's typed text can be a real pain in the rump when using a screen reader.).
*Snugs* Thanks for the suggestions. I really appreciate it.
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I hope you have been doing well. We haven't talked in a long time and I apologize for how I've fallen out of communication with you, along with others, as a result of real life stress that has been going on this year. :(
I'll stick to here until itis my turn to be sent away, but I'll also be looking into best possible alternatives in the meantime that could work to ensure I don't lose track of you, or any of our friends. :)
Also, may I recommend joining Gus's channel?
https://discord.com/invite/rjKNuXn77t
Sometimes I even voice chat with a few others on there c:
Thanks, Lanny. Extra thanks for the invite as, if I can get things to work out better with 'Discord', I would be happy to join in on the fun. :)
C:
I haven't heard of itaku as of yet. Is it a new creativity-focused, social networking site?
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Thank you for your insights and for sharing with me more options for how, if FA boots me, I still have a chance to keep up with good pals, like you. :)
What do you mean by "Scapegoating"? Are you referring to my concern over what to do if I am to be forcefully removed from fA? Or, perhaps, you are referring to how everyone is reacting to the Baby Fur bans that have been going on over the past year?
For me, and I know for others, our characters are simply meant as avatars that allow us to explore topics of interest. Yosh may be often seen and written as a little kid, but he is just the creation of an adult who is trying to explore and better understand parts of himself that I could not do outside of this community.
I've been on FA for over 16 years and have never strived to do anything more than make friends, better understand who and what I am, and find joy in sharing the creative arts. The arts, in my opinion, are a great way for us all to find 'acceptance', 'understanding', 'empowerment', and 'community' in a world that often makes misjudgments based upon first impressions and preconceived beliefs. To be seen for your talent over your disability is a wonderful thing that I know has helped a lot in our community. It's just a shame some folks want to ruin this safe haven by stereotyping those of us who do nothing more than explore and share ourselves through our posts in ways that do no harm to ourselves and/or others.
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My many thanks for your time in sharing all the places you frequent, Ozzie. I do hope we can catch up more once the dust settles from whatever FA decides to do to those, like us, who have been around for ages and are, just in the past year, being suspended, or banned, for what had been okie-dokie-lokie from prior to 2008 up through 2022.
You're welcome. ^!^ If you want to add me on Telegram or Discord, just send me a note on here for that info. I want to keep in touch with you.
What's nice is that, from what I can tell, there are a LOT of options for us to find friendship and happiness out there. The trick is finding the best places that will allow us to continue our friendships while making brand new ones.
I'll DM you mine. :)
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'Ink Bunny' was not all that accessible when I last tried to use it a few years ago. However, given how I am seeing a pattern of my friends going to IB, I think it will be where I put my most effort if / when I am forcefully removed from FA.
Thanks for your insights, Wayward. They are always appreciated. :)
*Snugs* Thanks for always being such a great pal, Tacki.
Right now, FA and Twitter work the best. However, to be fair, I've had time to learn FA from before I went 100% blind and Twitter is doable if I do some things with the phone app and others with the web-site itself. So, guaranteed, Twitter will be where I will be when / if FA decides that my time has come to be banned for my content.
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I hope that you have been doing well, Asher. I'm hoping to get back to doing some more Adventures In Sunnybrook Park in the near future. Those stories I wrote with our characters are, quite surprisingly, some of the most viewed content in my gallery. (This is definitely a happy surprise and one I hope to continue to make fun for our characters as my inspiration to write continues to return to me.).
And yeah I've been pretty okay as well! I, myself are also working on some new pics, including a Poppy pic (that granted is taking a while) that I'm excited to finish :) I'm really happy to hear all those cute stories between our characters are doing so well, and I'm looking forward to seeing more eventually!!
I restarted my writing about my diapered Fursona, G'Tyrr the Caitian on ADISC in their story section.
On ADISC, I am "caitianx".
You know, I didn't know that ADISC was a site you could go to as a writer. I have seen it with discussion forums, but never saw it was a good place for writers who specialize in those creative themes we write about. I'll definitely keep it in mind. :)
Thank you for sharing where you've gone along with another possible option for me to go once FA has decided to be rid of me, too.