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Twenty Years is a Long Time
General | Posted a year agoThere's a long wittering about this on my website here: https://darkoverord.info/2024/11/27/twenty/
But yeah, happy 20 years of me being a typo! I feel old. Today 20 years ago I registered to deviantART as an edgy teen with a broken keyboard and lack of will to reregister so kept the typo. I don't know if my life would've been different but, it possibly could have been.
But yeah, happy 20 years of me being a typo! I feel old. Today 20 years ago I registered to deviantART as an edgy teen with a broken keyboard and lack of will to reregister so kept the typo. I don't know if my life would've been different but, it possibly could have been.
Confuzzled 2024
General | Posted a year ago*SLAMS PREVIOUS JOURNAL OFF PAGE* Okay cool I can't believe I left that sitting there for five years.
I'm at CFz again this year, not dealing though! It was an experience I was glad to have in 2019 but it's absolutely not something for me. Gave me a lot more respect for those who can do it yearly and still be social and ???????
Anyway, maybe you'll see me! Maybe you won't?
It is a mystery.
I'm at CFz again this year, not dealing though! It was an experience I was glad to have in 2019 but it's absolutely not something for me. Gave me a lot more respect for those who can do it yearly and still be social and ???????
Anyway, maybe you'll see me! Maybe you won't?
It is a mystery.
Confuzzled 2019!
General | Posted 6 years agoSo honestly, I've been super quiet this month on art and I apologise. I have been very busy sorting things out for Confuzzled 'cus I'm a dealer this year!
There's been a lot of prep you never think of really. Signage, setting up sheets and etc. as such almost al my creative efforts are low this month. In fact May's had the least art output from me in many months. BUT hopefully after CFz I'll be back up and running with a lot more stuff here as I'm going to be doing doodle badges too!
And I'll still be doing little sketches as well in my book so hopefully I'll get stuff up there too. Here's hoping! I'll be posting what updates I can to my SFW art telegram channel as well so things won't get too buries along with my twitter.
Telegram: https://t.me/DOsSFWArt
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DarkOverord
See you there if you're going!
There's been a lot of prep you never think of really. Signage, setting up sheets and etc. as such almost al my creative efforts are low this month. In fact May's had the least art output from me in many months. BUT hopefully after CFz I'll be back up and running with a lot more stuff here as I'm going to be doing doodle badges too!
And I'll still be doing little sketches as well in my book so hopefully I'll get stuff up there too. Here's hoping! I'll be posting what updates I can to my SFW art telegram channel as well so things won't get too buries along with my twitter.
Telegram: https://t.me/DOsSFWArt
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DarkOverord
See you there if you're going!
2018, Tumblr, 365 challenges, 2019 and I
General | Posted 7 years ago(Also readable on my site: https://darkoverord.info/index.php/2019/01/01/2018-tumblr-365-challenges-2019-and-i/)β
So the end of 2018 has come, and 2019 has started. My last actual update on my website, that wasn't a personal project or plants, was setting up the site and not doing much other than tinker every month or so. However in 2018 I had other sites for "blogging" unlike 2019. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
2018 was a pretty eventful year for me. I quit my old job (as it was basically killing me), turned to art full time and started taking commissions again for the first time in five years.
Whether losing a formally stable form of income to go freelance was successful financially is a question that is probably already answerable by artists everywhere in the same situation: "Eeeeeehhh maybe???". However for my health, physical and mental, has improved massively, so on that front it's def been a success.
Productivity in 2018 was high all things considered, I typically had enough work per month to keep me going so I'm not going to complain! :B
In late 2018, Tumblr announced that they were changing their Acceptable Use and Terms of Service to no-longer allow explicit content. In the end this is up to those who run a site and I have no objections to a site removing NSFW content, contrary to what some people claimed my complaints about this change were.
No my problem is the implementation of this change. See a site like FA or Weasyl banning such content would be easy: Remove all content with a rating of 18+ or if we're being overzealous, 13+. Tumblr had no such age rating system however, there was no "18+" (although later you could mark your blog as such) and subsequently they had to turn to an algorithmic solution. People will say "Oh but they could've hired people to look at each post and check it's 18+ or not" to which I say "Are you mad?" as there are very few companies out there with the funds to do such a monumental task. Especially when the site had at least one post a second.
No the problem with these algorithmic solutions is they catch more than they intend on. You may say "Hey computer, take this dataset and ban anything that contains porn, then take this second dataset and delete posts that had similar content" and think that's a job well done. Except here's what will happen, a computer will go through that content and not only will it be indiscriminate, it'll also learn incorrectly. Suddenly posts about gay or lesbian health, racism faced by black or various PoC individuals and the resources that go with them or just furry content in general disappears. "Why?" you ask and the computer simply points out that based off the original dataset that contained terms such as "Gay porn, lesbian porn, black porn, Latino porn, furry porn" and so considered all such posts "porn" because of the frequency of these two combined terms.
No matter how much you claim it shouldn't and how the site will still accept artistic nudes (such as Michelangelo's David for example) you can't stop it from flagging up innocent things because they had the audacity to be tagged with something as simple as "furry".
As a result of this, I've made the decision to leave the site. Now in the end it's no skin off my back, for the past two years I've barely used the site as Yahoo, and then Verizon (under the guise of "Oath"), kinda dug the site so in the ground that I feel out of contact with the people who had me over there in the first place. This probably means I'll post more here as twitter and Mastodon are too short for long posts, and now other than "journals" on art sites I don't really have elsewhere to do that.
Art-A-Day 2018 was a success and I believe I didn't miss a single day this year (as in, no catchup days). I'm currently deciding the fate of my 365 blog, I might just port the month images over to this site so they at least exist in some form. The daily posts I'm not so sure of, I might chat to people about that to see what people would think.
However as successful as it was, it wasn't really compatible with commissions, when I'd want to only work on commissions I'd end up having to do an extra sketch just to fill my 365 quote unless I was posting the same day. While most the times this extra work got passed off as "warm-ups" sometimes it was just being done for the sake of adding one to the day tally. As a result I won't be doing this again. I would point out though that I have done the 365 challenge for three of the past four years (2015, 2016 and 2018) and the only reason I picked it up in 2015 was I previously drawing barely once a month.
Three years on and I really don't need that motivation any-more. 2015 got me in the habit of drawing daily because the challenge to myself meant I would post daily with a new sketch (it was sketch-a-day then). The pressure therefore was on to make sure I had something physical to show for, oh I don't know, the 3rd of April of that year. 2016 was to keep up the habit but I made it "art-a-day", meaning two days could be the same piece (E.g. Sketch one day and coloured the next). 2018 was to push back in to the habit after the year break in 2017 where I was drawing a little more infrequently.
In 2019 I don't have the reasons why my art output in 2017 wasn't as high as 2016 or 2018 (commutes, office location changes, and so on), especially now I take commissions, so tl;dr: I won't be doing another 365 challenge this year. I'll try can keep up sketching though.
And that leaves us with THE FUTURE. Unfortunately I'm not psychic (If I was I'd have won the Euromillions at least once by now) so I can only really talk about my intentions for the year.
The first obvious part is Commissions, I still have a couple left from last year (half partly because I've not been paid yet but I digress) so they're the 2018 remnants are the priority once I pick up on work again on the 3rd (or 4th depending on how I deal with the sedation from a medial procedure on 2nd). Once I've either cleared my 2018 commissions or they're stuck at a point I cannot proceed and so need to take on new work, I'll formally be opening again.
I will also be working on sketches to practice and drum up merch ideas for Confuzzled. I'm actually going to be dealing this year and it's only five months away so god I best get my ass in gear about that. My current ideas is to offer badge commissions in advance (probably opening in March to give 2-3 months to sketch, render, print and laminate), commission slots at the con and small sketch doodles. My plan here is between now and Confuzzled I'll be drawing on my surface as I got a surface pen in the Boxing day sales to retrain hand-eye coordination and offer them as Ko-fi doodles. I'll make more noise about that later in the month I'm sure.
I'll be trying to Stream more too. Currently I only stream once I'm out of videos on YouTube to watch and I have something to ink/colour (no really) so it's something that happens once or twice every other month or three. I make no guarantees for January, but I'll certainly be trying later.
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In all, 2019 is going to be a very different year for me, and I'll try to make sure you're all along for the ride too :B
So the end of 2018 has come, and 2019 has started. My last actual update on my website, that wasn't a personal project or plants, was setting up the site and not doing much other than tinker every month or so. However in 2018 I had other sites for "blogging" unlike 2019. But I'm getting ahead of myself.
2018
2018 was a pretty eventful year for me. I quit my old job (as it was basically killing me), turned to art full time and started taking commissions again for the first time in five years.
Whether losing a formally stable form of income to go freelance was successful financially is a question that is probably already answerable by artists everywhere in the same situation: "Eeeeeehhh maybe???". However for my health, physical and mental, has improved massively, so on that front it's def been a success.
Productivity in 2018 was high all things considered, I typically had enough work per month to keep me going so I'm not going to complain! :B
Tumblr
In late 2018, Tumblr announced that they were changing their Acceptable Use and Terms of Service to no-longer allow explicit content. In the end this is up to those who run a site and I have no objections to a site removing NSFW content, contrary to what some people claimed my complaints about this change were.
No my problem is the implementation of this change. See a site like FA or Weasyl banning such content would be easy: Remove all content with a rating of 18+ or if we're being overzealous, 13+. Tumblr had no such age rating system however, there was no "18+" (although later you could mark your blog as such) and subsequently they had to turn to an algorithmic solution. People will say "Oh but they could've hired people to look at each post and check it's 18+ or not" to which I say "Are you mad?" as there are very few companies out there with the funds to do such a monumental task. Especially when the site had at least one post a second.
No the problem with these algorithmic solutions is they catch more than they intend on. You may say "Hey computer, take this dataset and ban anything that contains porn, then take this second dataset and delete posts that had similar content" and think that's a job well done. Except here's what will happen, a computer will go through that content and not only will it be indiscriminate, it'll also learn incorrectly. Suddenly posts about gay or lesbian health, racism faced by black or various PoC individuals and the resources that go with them or just furry content in general disappears. "Why?" you ask and the computer simply points out that based off the original dataset that contained terms such as "Gay porn, lesbian porn, black porn, Latino porn, furry porn" and so considered all such posts "porn" because of the frequency of these two combined terms.
No matter how much you claim it shouldn't and how the site will still accept artistic nudes (such as Michelangelo's David for example) you can't stop it from flagging up innocent things because they had the audacity to be tagged with something as simple as "furry".
As a result of this, I've made the decision to leave the site. Now in the end it's no skin off my back, for the past two years I've barely used the site as Yahoo, and then Verizon (under the guise of "Oath"), kinda dug the site so in the ground that I feel out of contact with the people who had me over there in the first place. This probably means I'll post more here as twitter and Mastodon are too short for long posts, and now other than "journals" on art sites I don't really have elsewhere to do that.
365 challenges
Art-A-Day 2018 was a success and I believe I didn't miss a single day this year (as in, no catchup days). I'm currently deciding the fate of my 365 blog, I might just port the month images over to this site so they at least exist in some form. The daily posts I'm not so sure of, I might chat to people about that to see what people would think.
However as successful as it was, it wasn't really compatible with commissions, when I'd want to only work on commissions I'd end up having to do an extra sketch just to fill my 365 quote unless I was posting the same day. While most the times this extra work got passed off as "warm-ups" sometimes it was just being done for the sake of adding one to the day tally. As a result I won't be doing this again. I would point out though that I have done the 365 challenge for three of the past four years (2015, 2016 and 2018) and the only reason I picked it up in 2015 was I previously drawing barely once a month.
Three years on and I really don't need that motivation any-more. 2015 got me in the habit of drawing daily because the challenge to myself meant I would post daily with a new sketch (it was sketch-a-day then). The pressure therefore was on to make sure I had something physical to show for, oh I don't know, the 3rd of April of that year. 2016 was to keep up the habit but I made it "art-a-day", meaning two days could be the same piece (E.g. Sketch one day and coloured the next). 2018 was to push back in to the habit after the year break in 2017 where I was drawing a little more infrequently.
In 2019 I don't have the reasons why my art output in 2017 wasn't as high as 2016 or 2018 (commutes, office location changes, and so on), especially now I take commissions, so tl;dr: I won't be doing another 365 challenge this year. I'll try can keep up sketching though.
2019
And that leaves us with THE FUTURE. Unfortunately I'm not psychic (If I was I'd have won the Euromillions at least once by now) so I can only really talk about my intentions for the year.
The first obvious part is Commissions, I still have a couple left from last year (half partly because I've not been paid yet but I digress) so they're the 2018 remnants are the priority once I pick up on work again on the 3rd (or 4th depending on how I deal with the sedation from a medial procedure on 2nd). Once I've either cleared my 2018 commissions or they're stuck at a point I cannot proceed and so need to take on new work, I'll formally be opening again.
I will also be working on sketches to practice and drum up merch ideas for Confuzzled. I'm actually going to be dealing this year and it's only five months away so god I best get my ass in gear about that. My current ideas is to offer badge commissions in advance (probably opening in March to give 2-3 months to sketch, render, print and laminate), commission slots at the con and small sketch doodles. My plan here is between now and Confuzzled I'll be drawing on my surface as I got a surface pen in the Boxing day sales to retrain hand-eye coordination and offer them as Ko-fi doodles. I'll make more noise about that later in the month I'm sure.
I'll be trying to Stream more too. Currently I only stream once I'm out of videos on YouTube to watch and I have something to ink/colour (no really) so it's something that happens once or twice every other month or three. I make no guarantees for January, but I'll certainly be trying later.
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In all, 2019 is going to be a very different year for me, and I'll try to make sure you're all along for the ride too :B
An Early May Update
General | Posted 7 years agoNot much but still some items to address! I've finally gotten off my butt and set up an art only twitter account and telegram channel. Anyone that does follow me twitter will know that it's my personal account and there's a lot of junk in there that's not my art. No more! There is now an art-only twitter account and telegram channel, which will include all that junk I can't be bothering to post to galleries too!
SFW:-
---Twitter: https://twitter.com/DamnRedDragon/s.....04736107122688
---Telegram: https://t.me/DOsSFWArt
NSFW:-
---Twitter: https://twitter.com/DamnNSFWDragons.....05096481726464
---Telegram: https://t.me/DOsNSFWArt
I'll also be at Confuzzled so see you there I guess if peeps are going! :B
SFW:-
---Twitter: https://twitter.com/DamnRedDragon/s.....04736107122688
---Telegram: https://t.me/DOsSFWArt
NSFW:-
---Twitter: https://twitter.com/DamnNSFWDragons.....05096481726464
---Telegram: https://t.me/DOsNSFWArt
I'll also be at Confuzzled so see you there I guess if peeps are going! :B
Commissions!
General | Posted 8 years ago2016 - A Close
General | Posted 9 years agoWhoops not posted a journal in a year, it's almost like social media killed that need if you don't take commissions (I'm still not and have no plans to, sorry if there are still people interested, somehow.)
Links! Main Blog's Art Tag - http://darkoverord.tumblr.com/tagged/do's-art
2015 365/2016 366 Art Blog - http://darkoverord365.tumblr.com/
Art Blog - http://damnreddragon.tumblr.com/
Artwise I felt 2016 went really well! Also tanuki now.
Not really got much else to say Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
Links! Main Blog's Art Tag - http://darkoverord.tumblr.com/tagged/do's-art
2015 365/2016 366 Art Blog - http://darkoverord365.tumblr.com/
Art Blog - http://damnreddragon.tumblr.com/
Artwise I felt 2016 went really well! Also tanuki now.
Not really got much else to say Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
2015 - A Close
General | Posted 10 years agoWell given it's the end of the year and suchlike I feel it's only fitting to get something up to date on here. First of all, link reminders:
Main Blog's Art Tag - http://darkoverord.tumblr.com/tagged/do's-art
365 366 Art Blog - http://darkoverord365.tumblr.com/
Art Blog - http://damnreddragon.tumblr.com/
Phew, that out of the way we can focus on the year. To those following the 365 soon to be 366 blog you will know I've been pretty busy! To those that don't, well I recently posted the full 365 thumbnail image so you've got that. The 365 challenge was honestly a great thing for me and my attitudes to my art. I've stopped considering things "unfinished" as it were, which used to be a major hindrance.
How I used to operate was that I would draw a picture and attempt to see it out to a fully shaded picture. This ruined me. You might not think it, but it really did, I'd be reluctant to draw new things because I had this looming "Why? You've not finished X yet, or Y, or Z, or (n) yet" and I'd just guilt trip myself to laziness. With the 365 challenge, due to it's nature of just merely drawing one item a day be it sketch or fully shaded, meant I couldn't linger on past images.
Now this could be seen as a bad thing too, I've had people comment "Oh when will you finish this" and be rather disappointed when I respond "well I won't, it's just a sketch". It could also be seen as valuing quantity of quality (which is obviously not the case as I view my online galleries as places where I prefer to post items unlike my blogs where I'll post anything). So on and so forth.
But with it brought improvement, and if drawing a lot of shitty things is a bad thing then that's the price I'd rather pay. Except not really, drawing a is a skill, you need to keep at it to improve, even if you think it looks awful, the act of drawing regularly will improve you, it's basically a good price to pay :V
Which brings me to 2016. You'll notice I've already set up a 2016 folder, I'm going to be renaming my 365 blog to 366 (though the URL will stay the same because that's waaaaaaaaaaaay too many links to update). The plan for 2016 is to do an "update a day" instead of a drawing per day. 365 ate a lot of my time and I have some projects I'd like to do. So if I do a project (E.g. updating my ref sheets) I'll either post an update of that, or do a new drawing. This way I keep active artistically and I can do things I've been wanting to do for a while.
So yeah, woo lets step in to 2016 positively!
Main Blog's Art Tag - http://darkoverord.tumblr.com/tagged/do's-art
Art Blog - http://damnreddragon.tumblr.com/
Phew, that out of the way we can focus on the year. To those following the 365 soon to be 366 blog you will know I've been pretty busy! To those that don't, well I recently posted the full 365 thumbnail image so you've got that. The 365 challenge was honestly a great thing for me and my attitudes to my art. I've stopped considering things "unfinished" as it were, which used to be a major hindrance.
How I used to operate was that I would draw a picture and attempt to see it out to a fully shaded picture. This ruined me. You might not think it, but it really did, I'd be reluctant to draw new things because I had this looming "Why? You've not finished X yet, or Y, or Z, or (n) yet" and I'd just guilt trip myself to laziness. With the 365 challenge, due to it's nature of just merely drawing one item a day be it sketch or fully shaded, meant I couldn't linger on past images.
Now this could be seen as a bad thing too, I've had people comment "Oh when will you finish this" and be rather disappointed when I respond "well I won't, it's just a sketch". It could also be seen as valuing quantity of quality (which is obviously not the case as I view my online galleries as places where I prefer to post items unlike my blogs where I'll post anything). So on and so forth.
But with it brought improvement, and if drawing a lot of shitty things is a bad thing then that's the price I'd rather pay. Except not really, drawing a is a skill, you need to keep at it to improve, even if you think it looks awful, the act of drawing regularly will improve you, it's basically a good price to pay :V
Which brings me to 2016. You'll notice I've already set up a 2016 folder, I'm going to be renaming my 365 blog to 366 (though the URL will stay the same because that's waaaaaaaaaaaay too many links to update). The plan for 2016 is to do an "update a day" instead of a drawing per day. 365 ate a lot of my time and I have some projects I'd like to do. So if I do a project (E.g. updating my ref sheets) I'll either post an update of that, or do a new drawing. This way I keep active artistically and I can do things I've been wanting to do for a while.
So yeah, woo lets step in to 2016 positively!
Despite the current surge of activity
General | Posted 10 years agoMy week off work is over so I'll probably completely forget to update my online galleries. You may want to follow my art in the following locations:
Main Blog's Art Tag - http://darkoverord.tumblr.com/tagged/do's-art
365 Art Blog - http://darkoverord365.tumblr.com/
Art Blog - http://damnreddragon.tumblr.com/
My Art Blog and 365 blog don't have EVERYTHING but if you don't want to follow whatever the hell else is on my main blog then those blogs are for you :V
Main Blog's Art Tag - http://darkoverord.tumblr.com/tagged/do's-art
365 Art Blog - http://darkoverord365.tumblr.com/
Art Blog - http://damnreddragon.tumblr.com/
My Art Blog and 365 blog don't have EVERYTHING but if you don't want to follow whatever the hell else is on my main blog then those blogs are for you :V
Hold onto your inbox
General | Posted 11 years agoWhile I make decisions on what I need to post since October that I didn't :V
o/
General | Posted 11 years agoI do apoligise for complete inactivity and figured it was a good time to update my FA seen as I only do that like once every 4 months.
Thanks for all the watches (121 of them), comments and favourites (all 622 of them) too. It's genuinely surprising how large that number is for me. I remember when getting one new watcher was an amazing feat for me, I must be doing something right despite being super quiet :P
Thanks for all the watches (121 of them), comments and favourites (all 622 of them) too. It's genuinely surprising how large that number is for me. I remember when getting one new watcher was an amazing feat for me, I must be doing something right despite being super quiet :P
Journal Title Relating to Events Here
General | Posted 12 years agoS'not like anyone would read it even if it didn't have an actual title.
Before I get a potential stream of comments saying "nooooo don't leave", I'll outline this here, I'm not leaving. Yet. The unfortunate truth is that currently FA is where the majority of the community is, this is unlikely to change any time soon, unfortunately. However, I will not lie that the recent decisions made on this site are decisions I disagree with, however it is a private site and in the end they are entitled to these decisions. Again though, that doesn't mean I have to agree with them.
I will not lie that FA isn't my "home", "hub" whatever anyway, that's my tumblr (art only here), yes not even Weasyl as so many have been flocking to.
The idea however, that just because a specific issue doesn't affect someone specifically isn't a valid reason to leave a site is appalling. Hell, I'd argue the results of people being bothered by this and speaking out is more than enough reason for people to leave. Hell, what actually does bother me the most is the fact that so many are willing to turn a blind eye because "it doesn't affect them", but that's just humans for you I guess? Even I'm guilty of that.
Though then there's those of you who will openly, and almost harass users because they're leaving. "There goes another sheep", "It's just drama just ignore it", "It doesn't affect you, just stay and shut up", "Just remember where you made your friends" etc. There's a plethora of reasons why this site is toxic, yes I'd rather people leave by their own choice when not essentially prompter to because of another load of shit, but people like turning a blind eye as I said. "But you'll find them every site you go to" isn't exactly a good reason not to leave either. yes there's shitlords everywhere, who doesn't know that? Then there's those of you who seem to be under the impression the only way to improve matters would be to stick around and offer help, I know some it's sheer naivety. Some haven't been around over the years to see offers of help turned down or ignored, and haven't seen almost year after year broken promises from the staff.
I will be slowing down my uploads here, not that they weren't technically anyway, in favour of updating Weasyl more, not that any art community has ever been updated more than my main "hubs" before (Trust me, the last time an art site was my main location was 2005 :B). Again.
http://darkoverord.tumblr.com/
http://damnreddragon.tumblr.com/ (Art only)
https://www.weasyl.com/profile/darkoverord
And some various links to some tools people have been using 'cus that's always useful
http://projects.weasyl.com/soft/ <--- Manual FA to Weasyl watch checker. You still have to add people yourself, AND you'll have to make sure it's right. Use the Vouch function so that correct results appear higher in the list.
http://fa-exodus-database.tumblr.com/ <--- A tumblr set up to try to archive the locations of artists who left FA. I'm not exactly a fan of the name, but this catalogues people who have submitted their details to the blog and aren't all Weasyl exclusive
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5430602/ https://www.weasyl.com/journal/24296/welcome-to-weasyl <--- Aggro_Badger posted a huge link resource for people shifting to to at least setting up on Weasyl with more info.
Boop :V
Before I get a potential stream of comments saying "nooooo don't leave", I'll outline this here, I'm not leaving. Yet. The unfortunate truth is that currently FA is where the majority of the community is, this is unlikely to change any time soon, unfortunately. However, I will not lie that the recent decisions made on this site are decisions I disagree with, however it is a private site and in the end they are entitled to these decisions. Again though, that doesn't mean I have to agree with them.
I will not lie that FA isn't my "home", "hub" whatever anyway, that's my tumblr (art only here), yes not even Weasyl as so many have been flocking to.
The idea however, that just because a specific issue doesn't affect someone specifically isn't a valid reason to leave a site is appalling. Hell, I'd argue the results of people being bothered by this and speaking out is more than enough reason for people to leave. Hell, what actually does bother me the most is the fact that so many are willing to turn a blind eye because "it doesn't affect them", but that's just humans for you I guess? Even I'm guilty of that.
Though then there's those of you who will openly, and almost harass users because they're leaving. "There goes another sheep", "It's just drama just ignore it", "It doesn't affect you, just stay and shut up", "Just remember where you made your friends" etc. There's a plethora of reasons why this site is toxic, yes I'd rather people leave by their own choice when not essentially prompter to because of another load of shit, but people like turning a blind eye as I said. "But you'll find them every site you go to" isn't exactly a good reason not to leave either. yes there's shitlords everywhere, who doesn't know that? Then there's those of you who seem to be under the impression the only way to improve matters would be to stick around and offer help, I know some it's sheer naivety. Some haven't been around over the years to see offers of help turned down or ignored, and haven't seen almost year after year broken promises from the staff.
I will be slowing down my uploads here, not that they weren't technically anyway, in favour of updating Weasyl more, not that any art community has ever been updated more than my main "hubs" before (Trust me, the last time an art site was my main location was 2005 :B). Again.
http://darkoverord.tumblr.com/
http://damnreddragon.tumblr.com/ (Art only)
https://www.weasyl.com/profile/darkoverord
And some various links to some tools people have been using 'cus that's always useful
http://projects.weasyl.com/soft/ <--- Manual FA to Weasyl watch checker. You still have to add people yourself, AND you'll have to make sure it's right. Use the Vouch function so that correct results appear higher in the list.
http://fa-exodus-database.tumblr.com/ <--- A tumblr set up to try to archive the locations of artists who left FA. I'm not exactly a fan of the name, but this catalogues people who have submitted their details to the blog and aren't all Weasyl exclusive
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/5430602/ https://www.weasyl.com/journal/24296/welcome-to-weasyl <--- Aggro_Badger posted a huge link resource for people shifting to to at least setting up on Weasyl with more info.
Boop :V
