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10 years ago
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FA +watchers, Twitter followers and friends:
I want to talk to you about something really important, which is drama, obviously. Duh. When there are furries, there is drama. When furries gather together in one place at one point in time, drama will be there; it's simply impossible to avoid. There are times when, yes, even I am susceptible to it and let my emotions get the better of me. Last year, I actually mocked a young female FA user who kept writing "ew [insert fetish] is gross" under one of my friend's submissions when she could have easily not clicked on the submission thumb or bothered to comment at all. I was frustrated that people continue to express how they dislike seeing a certain type of submission on the actual submission -- as if the artist is going to say, "You know what, random user I don't know? I like the cut of your jib, so I'm going to stop creating art you personally don't like, therefore depriving myself of creative expression." That's a load of horseshit, and I mocked this person quite severely. The user complained, and Dragoneer pulled me aside. He told me I went over the top. He was right. He was absolutely right. I didn't want to admit to it at first because I was upset, but he was right. I fed into the drama without taking into consideration how everyone else felt about it.
Fast forward to tonight: I see on my Twitter feed a bunch of tweets from someone claiming that a person they spoke to on Skype had accused him of faking his mental illness. Everyone has one, whether it's real or completely imaginary like the leprechaun that told me to write this journal and burn down the nearest orphanage. But in all seriousness, mental health is one of those subjects that's difficult to talk about without offending someone involved in the conversation. But there it was: someone was accused of faking their mental illness and was supposedly playing "victim" after being called out for bad behavior. So a lot of tweets were going back and forth. Tonight I saw some tweets that were rather threatening and violent; many of those tweets came from people I know and people who read my work. That's why I ultimately decided to pen this FA journal to say the following:
Knock it off.
Seriously.
Please? Step out of the drama. Step off.
Thank you.
LS
I want to talk to you about something really important, which is drama, obviously. Duh. When there are furries, there is drama. When furries gather together in one place at one point in time, drama will be there; it's simply impossible to avoid. There are times when, yes, even I am susceptible to it and let my emotions get the better of me. Last year, I actually mocked a young female FA user who kept writing "ew [insert fetish] is gross" under one of my friend's submissions when she could have easily not clicked on the submission thumb or bothered to comment at all. I was frustrated that people continue to express how they dislike seeing a certain type of submission on the actual submission -- as if the artist is going to say, "You know what, random user I don't know? I like the cut of your jib, so I'm going to stop creating art you personally don't like, therefore depriving myself of creative expression." That's a load of horseshit, and I mocked this person quite severely. The user complained, and Dragoneer pulled me aside. He told me I went over the top. He was right. He was absolutely right. I didn't want to admit to it at first because I was upset, but he was right. I fed into the drama without taking into consideration how everyone else felt about it.
Fast forward to tonight: I see on my Twitter feed a bunch of tweets from someone claiming that a person they spoke to on Skype had accused him of faking his mental illness. Everyone has one, whether it's real or completely imaginary like the leprechaun that told me to write this journal and burn down the nearest orphanage. But in all seriousness, mental health is one of those subjects that's difficult to talk about without offending someone involved in the conversation. But there it was: someone was accused of faking their mental illness and was supposedly playing "victim" after being called out for bad behavior. So a lot of tweets were going back and forth. Tonight I saw some tweets that were rather threatening and violent; many of those tweets came from people I know and people who read my work. That's why I ultimately decided to pen this FA journal to say the following:
Knock it off.
Seriously.
Please? Step out of the drama. Step off.
Thank you.
LS
