Hello,

I was suspended again tonight for something I drew several years ago. This time it was a fan request for a character named "Tabaluga" who, I guess is maybe underage or maybe 800 years old. Having never seen the show, the character's intended age is ambiguous to me but I was given one last chance to avoid a permanent ban. I asked a mod a question to the effect of, "I have 1,002 pictures in my gallery, can you scrutinize them and flag which characters are underage so I can avoid a ban?" And their answer was, "Well no, we can not do that, you will have to use your own judgment." So to that end, I have employed my own judgment to try and avoid a ban.

The issue is, I have been posting art here since 2005. I have drawn characters from TV shows I have never watched, video games I have never played, OCs for people whom I have never met. I don't know anything about these characters other than what I can google. But, with 1,002 pictures, even if I make a mistake 0.1% of the time -- well, that is 1 picture, and that is all it takes to get me banned now. It is trivial for someone to dig back through my old art and find, "Oh you drew drum bunker dragon back in 2013, he is canonically 16, ha ha ha, now you are banned."

So, to avoid a permanent ban, I have removed all pictures from my gallery featuring alien hominid, ashchu, bal dragon, bubble bobble, chibisuke, deku link, hamsters, iidx aliens, ishihi and noshihi from zorori, jake long, klonoa, land before time, nibbler, puchikoon, small mice, sparkster, specter (from ape escape), spyro the dragon, teemo, tony tony chopper, wonder boy and zabivaka. Some of these characters (e.g sparkster and spyro) are canonically underage, some (e.g wonder boy and klonoa) are ambiguously underage but seem like they might be kids. Some (e.g nibbler, tabaluga) have proportions or mannerisms which make them look like children, even if they're canonically mature.

I have also removed pictures featuring charmander, sandshrew, veemon, and riolu in some contexts. Specifically in contexts featuring their evolved forms, which sort of encouraged the idea of age difference and made things seem iffy.

This list is not comprehensive and I may remove more art in the future. Specifically, I might remove more art including koopalings. Maybe koopalings are underage. Canonically I think they are underage, but they have not gotten me in trouble in the past for some reason. I might also remove art featuring Ratchet. I guess Ratchet was 17 in his first game, but he is 18 now. Will the mods think I was drawing Ratchet from the first game or the newest game? Some of the art was drawn before the newest game came out. Maybe I will get in trouble.

I will upload less art here now. If you are interested in seeing more of my art I encourage you to follow me on Twitter, Inkbunny, Tumblr, or FurryNetwork.

Hopefully these steps are enough to avoid a ban. Sorry, I know this sucks. Have a taco. I am not doing this to punish FurAffinity or to rile up an angry mob. I love FurAffinity, it has been my home for 13 years and I just want to stay here. I have worked hard to play by the rules. They used to warn me, "You can't upload Bowser Jr. here," and they'd delete my picture and I wouldn't upload Bowser Jr. anymore. But, now they do not want to do that. They just want to ban me. That is too bad. I will work really, really, really hard to not be banned.

Wish me luck

Edit: I have removed all koopaling pictures from my gallery too, sorry. I was really on the fence about it. But I was banned from Weasyl for Koopalings. They are Bowser's "kids" and have high-pitched voices in the show. Their ages are ambiguous, but many web sites list them as being as young as 6 or as old as 17. None put them over 18 years of age. I am just trying to avoid trouble.