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17 years ago
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It has come to my attention that a particular image exists on this site depicting something beyond the pale:
Anthro-dragons gang-raping a young dragoness. Apparently this is the character "Cynder" from the "Spyro the Dragon" game series -- and is a kid. If you really want to see for yourself, the very-NSFW image is currently under the FA username of "winddragon" and can be seen if you have a registered account with filters off.
I don't want to showcase my work on the same site as such a thing. I don't demand that any such site be squeaky-clean. I knew there was pornography here. I justified joining FA on the grounds that it allows stories (unlike, say, ArtSpots), that I might get commissions and critiques (thanks to those who offered), and that several artists whose work I respect are here. (To name a few by FA username: XianJaguar, Kacey, MaryMouse, Hibbary.) But some things are just too much. Really, the fact that certain other material is on this site should probably have pushed me to protest sooner.
So, the users and managers of FA can decide whether they'd rather have my work on this site, or that sort of thing. On a related note, do you want this fandom to be one that openly tolerates very nasty stuff? The idea that we should tolerate each other's preferences and even fetishes is generally a good one, but that doesn't mean we're obligated to interact with and stand beside people whose work, in our opinion, goes beyond simply gross and into just plain wrong. Those people can go elsewhere to draw young dragon girls getting raped and the like... or they can stay here with you, and without me. I understand that I'm a small-time person on this site, and that it'll go on without me. So be it.
The site's fate is in your hands.
Anthro-dragons gang-raping a young dragoness. Apparently this is the character "Cynder" from the "Spyro the Dragon" game series -- and is a kid. If you really want to see for yourself, the very-NSFW image is currently under the FA username of "winddragon" and can be seen if you have a registered account with filters off.
I don't want to showcase my work on the same site as such a thing. I don't demand that any such site be squeaky-clean. I knew there was pornography here. I justified joining FA on the grounds that it allows stories (unlike, say, ArtSpots), that I might get commissions and critiques (thanks to those who offered), and that several artists whose work I respect are here. (To name a few by FA username: XianJaguar, Kacey, MaryMouse, Hibbary.) But some things are just too much. Really, the fact that certain other material is on this site should probably have pushed me to protest sooner.
So, the users and managers of FA can decide whether they'd rather have my work on this site, or that sort of thing. On a related note, do you want this fandom to be one that openly tolerates very nasty stuff? The idea that we should tolerate each other's preferences and even fetishes is generally a good one, but that doesn't mean we're obligated to interact with and stand beside people whose work, in our opinion, goes beyond simply gross and into just plain wrong. Those people can go elsewhere to draw young dragon girls getting raped and the like... or they can stay here with you, and without me. I understand that I'm a small-time person on this site, and that it'll go on without me. So be it.
The site's fate is in your hands.
And one would think at least a few of the creepy pedo artists would have been vanned by now. Apparently this site is too disgusting for even the FBI to watch for creeps.
Shame that such stuff has happened, i can understand your disgust.
There's a lot of stuff on FA I don't like or even necessarily agree with. There are policies I'm not crazy about. But it's a big site and a big fandom, and in both I prefer to carve out my own corner, do my own thing, and let others do theirs, even if it means having to look the other way sometimes at people's fantasies and preferences. Because quite simply, to do otherwise is to cut myself off from a lot of very good people and very good things on this site that I wouldn't have any other way. In the end, refusing to participate would hurt me far, far more than it would impact FA or anyone involved with its policies. FA isn't perfect, but no site is going to be (I noticed bestiality and incest stories posted on FurRag, for example), and right now just because of the sheer volume and diversity of people using FA, it's light-years ahead of any alternative, especially for those seeking a larger and broader audience for their work.
I'm sorry to see you go for this reason, but as I said, you have to do what you think is right.