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14 years ago
As some of the more keen amongst you will know, I don't like Fur Affinity. In fact, I kinda resent it a little bit.
Don't get me wrong, the people I've met - although few - through this site are great peeps, and the layout of the site is good and all that...it's just.....
....well it's "too" furry. Don't get me wrong, I am a "fur" and I'm not ashamed of that. But I'm a fur in the same way I'm a Trekkie - ie, casually for funzies.
FA makes it not fun sometimes, with the dramatic whinging on journals, the endless drama over sod-bloody-all, and the endless endless porn (and the fact that if you don't draw porn on FA you're a bloody nobody and always will be)
Q1 - why don't I just not read the dramaz or lookit da pornz?
Well I could turn the adult filter off, but that personally would feel like I've sensored myself. And yes, I realise that in having the filter off I have little right to complain about explicit content. But it goes beyond my frigidity and to the deepest depths of what I think are the bad things about this fandom. Even IF I turn the adult filter on so I personally can't see the porn, I still know it's there and so does anyone that knows even remotely of FA.
Put it this way, I'll tell anyone about my Devient Art account....I'm ashamed of my FA account as just mentioning that I have one makes me sound seedy.
Q2 - why not just go back to Deviant Art if you love it there so much?
I do. Only problem with DA is that it's TOO big. Like, enormouse - you read right, it's a gigantic mouse. I currently follow about 50 people and most of the are peeps I know from other places so unfollowing them might seem like a slight even though I haven't commented on anyone elses art on DA in about 3 years. Also I can't upload music there.
Q3 - WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT THEN!?!
Well that's the thing. This may seem like a whiney semi-rant about bugger all, and "FA isn't for me wah-wah" but it goes much deeper than that. I just don't....click with FA. Don't click with DA anymore either and haven't since about 2008. So where else is there? I've heard ArtSpots is ok, if a little tumbleweedy (if you know what I mean) and I've heard InkBunny makes FA look like a children's site.
Whatever happens and wherever I decide to "go" artistically don't think that means I'm going to bugger off completely. I'm not one of those whiney bastards - although I am A whiney bastard - what deletes their account in a mard and fucks off into the night like they're making the shittest answer to a question no-one asked. I'll still post here, and I'll still respond to my comments just like I do on DA now - I just might not look at your art any more.
And to be fair, I don't think those people I follow would notice nor care. Indeed, they'd probably be glad to see the back of me.
Right, I'm off for a poo. Laters!
Don't get me wrong, the people I've met - although few - through this site are great peeps, and the layout of the site is good and all that...it's just.....
....well it's "too" furry. Don't get me wrong, I am a "fur" and I'm not ashamed of that. But I'm a fur in the same way I'm a Trekkie - ie, casually for funzies.
FA makes it not fun sometimes, with the dramatic whinging on journals, the endless drama over sod-bloody-all, and the endless endless porn (and the fact that if you don't draw porn on FA you're a bloody nobody and always will be)
Q1 - why don't I just not read the dramaz or lookit da pornz?
Well I could turn the adult filter off, but that personally would feel like I've sensored myself. And yes, I realise that in having the filter off I have little right to complain about explicit content. But it goes beyond my frigidity and to the deepest depths of what I think are the bad things about this fandom. Even IF I turn the adult filter on so I personally can't see the porn, I still know it's there and so does anyone that knows even remotely of FA.
Put it this way, I'll tell anyone about my Devient Art account....I'm ashamed of my FA account as just mentioning that I have one makes me sound seedy.
Q2 - why not just go back to Deviant Art if you love it there so much?
I do. Only problem with DA is that it's TOO big. Like, enormouse - you read right, it's a gigantic mouse. I currently follow about 50 people and most of the are peeps I know from other places so unfollowing them might seem like a slight even though I haven't commented on anyone elses art on DA in about 3 years. Also I can't upload music there.
Q3 - WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT THEN!?!
Well that's the thing. This may seem like a whiney semi-rant about bugger all, and "FA isn't for me wah-wah" but it goes much deeper than that. I just don't....click with FA. Don't click with DA anymore either and haven't since about 2008. So where else is there? I've heard ArtSpots is ok, if a little tumbleweedy (if you know what I mean) and I've heard InkBunny makes FA look like a children's site.
Whatever happens and wherever I decide to "go" artistically don't think that means I'm going to bugger off completely. I'm not one of those whiney bastards - although I am A whiney bastard - what deletes their account in a mard and fucks off into the night like they're making the shittest answer to a question no-one asked. I'll still post here, and I'll still respond to my comments just like I do on DA now - I just might not look at your art any more.
And to be fair, I don't think those people I follow would notice nor care. Indeed, they'd probably be glad to see the back of me.
Right, I'm off for a poo. Laters!
At some point I want to build my own art site that will interact with FA, DA, IB, etc etc. But time issues.
And just one slightly pedantic remark:
"(and the fact that if you don't draw porn on FA you're a bloody nobody and always will be)"
I think it's a misconception that popularity == worth, and moreover I think it's a bit of a shame that people keep perpetuating this myth, yknow?
Also, I like to think that my characters are somewhat memorable in personality - although I agree I'm crap at pulling emotional heartstrings given that I'm a charcoalhearted husk of a man. Every time I've thought about going "should I do this emotion-based strip?" I wind up with another voice going "naw, do the dick joke one instead".
I think it's all about doing what makes you happy...or something. I dunno :D
2 - DA is okay but like you said, too big. It also lacks any sense of warmth compared to some artists' pages on FA. Plus like you said, you can't load music there. It is also harder for me to meet other furs there too.
3 - For whatever it is worth I'm glad you're still around ^^