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A retraction, an apology, and TROLL'S REMORSE
14 years ago
Every once in a while, someone asks me if I'm ever going to clean up any of my old CYD material and put it back up on Vivisector. The answer is that I might put some things back up, but there's some material I can't stand to look at, and other things I am downright ashamed of.
As you are probably aware, Vivisector is descended from Crush Yiff Destroy!, a site founded in 2003 to catalog and discuss the excesses, bizarreness and scandals of the furry subculture. It served as a dumping ground for the atrocity tourism movement's discussions relating to furries, which at the time threatened to drown out discussions of other, equally valuable weirdness on the internet.
Thing is, CYD launched with an article that came down hard on Eric Schwartz for doing not much more than drawing porn under an alias and trying to hide it. This is something every other furry on the planet now does, and in retrospect it was kind of pointless to rant on about it. He just didn't deserve the bile that I threw at him. Later versions of this article tried to soften the blow and turn it into good-natured ribbing, but were still kind of pointlessly shrill.
This article is not coming back. It sounded like something some kid on Encyclopedia Dramatica would write, and I feel bad about writing it. It's kind of almost a decade too late, but I'd like to apologize for it nonetheless.
As you are probably aware, Vivisector is descended from Crush Yiff Destroy!, a site founded in 2003 to catalog and discuss the excesses, bizarreness and scandals of the furry subculture. It served as a dumping ground for the atrocity tourism movement's discussions relating to furries, which at the time threatened to drown out discussions of other, equally valuable weirdness on the internet.
Thing is, CYD launched with an article that came down hard on Eric Schwartz for doing not much more than drawing porn under an alias and trying to hide it. This is something every other furry on the planet now does, and in retrospect it was kind of pointless to rant on about it. He just didn't deserve the bile that I threw at him. Later versions of this article tried to soften the blow and turn it into good-natured ribbing, but were still kind of pointlessly shrill.
This article is not coming back. It sounded like something some kid on Encyclopedia Dramatica would write, and I feel bad about writing it. It's kind of almost a decade too late, but I'd like to apologize for it nonetheless.
It takes years of hard work and effort (or of course, connections) to land a job in the pro comics/animation field, and most will not get in regardless. In that case, it's better to just do something you like instead of propping yourself up for a break that may never come.