no

I wish FA had a functional blacklist too, and sometimes it's hard to see what things actually are from a thumbnail alone. Depends on the tag you use to search, and man I was not prepared for what I saw.

I was definitely uncomfortable with the subject matter presented.

But scrolling down to comments and seeing someone basically say "the artist should apologize" unironically? That made me smile. Made me a little mad too. I don't know what else you could call that mindset other than "entitled." And I basically said as much. Doesn't matter how upsetting the image I saw was, thinking you're entitled to an apology over something that wasn't even made for you or I is more upsetting to me personally.

I don't have my side of the interaction up anymore because I wanted to kick the urge to continue it, and me and the other individual resolved things peacefully anyways. I hope they're doing well.

It was still kind of funny though.

ohhh ughhg oghooo hooo ghhooo guhh uhhhauahhh ohh my head oohhh

I am noticing rumors that kobold art is getting kicked off under the new guidelines despite being previously assured our scaly short friends and shortstacks would be left alone.

imagine my shock

anyways if this continues to get worse and doesn't end up reversed I'm not only gonna jump ship, I'm gonna leave a mess for them to clean up.

You wanna come shit in my lawn? That's cool. I'm coming over later and you and I are gonna eat it from a bowl whether you want to or not.

I will be uploading my kobolds as planned. And I will be checking to see if they pass the new shit-sorry, sniff test. I will probably prod on why some people lost their kobolds so I can avoid these reasons.

Would be nice to just have told us publicly overall.

Or maybe have just not enacted this policy change, I'm just saying

hell maybe just leave the loophole intact at this rate and get rid of the policy, it's doing more harm than good.

the clarification was much needed. That and it's good to have it outright stated shorter characters are safe. Kobolds keep winning

I still don't like how this can potentially harm people of a lower art sill and are still learning stuff like body proportions. Not sure what the whole "yoshis aren't koser" shit from that one ticket handler was about, be nice to know if I can still post my brnngg ha boys taking it up the booty or if I'm better off just not posting.

This still doesn't change my complaint that FA is working on removing cub/underage loopholes as best they can yet the one site that allows such things has

-Name changing
-A functioning blacklist

Sure plugging any holes is great but these last two things have been coming soon™ for how long now?

Also I've lost track of how many times staff has posted a policy change where not all members of the team were aware of said change and also wrote it in a vagueass way before later having to clarify

Here's a tip since this seems to be recurring: If you think it's obvious, write it down anyway

It's a site policy, you literally can't be too detailed unless it turns into the length of a frickin novel.

One one hand I've semi regularly reported people on the site that have tagged their stuff cub loli w/e on inkbunny and then posted the same stuff here on FA and go "oh nono they're just petite!"
like bruh, it looked obvious, I checked your username on inkbunny, found your ass, and whoops there's the same image tagged cub

So that's mostly who the rule is aimed after

Which still makes zero sense because the issue is people lying about it just to get away with posting cub on FA. You didn't need to go "oh okay so we're gonna look at body types now which can be subjective but don't worry about that"
I have no horse in this race. I will never be affected unless some staff member has a brain fart and still thinks any of my upcoming kobolds are kids despite their massive dumpies. I'm still gonna call out a dumbshit policy when I see it. And this is just dumb as shit. Had this rule change come about years ago when I was a lower art skill, then I'd probably be in trouble. And that's what ticks me off the most.

I know some try to pass off their cub shit as "oh it's just my style" but for some people it really is just that.

What, you're gonna ban their FA account just to force them to relearn how to draw? What about people that aren't as good with anatomy yet? I've seen people complain that this is too vague but I personally think this is something that should've never been touched. You already banned cub, cool, I don't care, not really my thing all that much, it's whatever. All this smells like to me is the braindead "if you like flat you're a pedo" argument I saw floating around a couple years ago.

I know what the response is. "Oh staff will know it'll be fine"

Staff isn't even on the same page. I was gonna post some Yoshis later this month and FA' twitter says "yeah they're cool, the ticket handler is saying "no they're kids"
Nevermind they're literally just as if not taller than Mario in some games and we know what a baby yoshi actually looks like but okay buddy, lol
Staff can't even come to a conclusion how pokemon and digimon evolutions are gonna work now. Like no shit some of them are obvious but ya'll can't even agree on whether to do it case by case or just blanket ban.

One staff member posted a proportions guide in the discord that wouldn't allow something like the Disney Robin Hood, but don't worry the Canonically 17 year old Beastars cast passes

"Context will be important"

I'd trust the fucking youtube alogrithm to be more fair in those judgement calls than furries.

Oh and of course the replies to the actual policy update journal are locked, as per usual. Nice, very corporate of you. I don't even like Inkbunny and I'm half wishing there's a mass exodus over there from FA's remaining userbase. It'd be more stable that twitter, actual name changes, hell there's even a blacklist so you can easily avoid all the cub

Oh yeah these are also all features people have been asking for on FA for years.

on god gonna be both howling with laughter and frothing mad if they do the same vagueposting with a feral centered policy update.
It's easy to do with cub cause they're basically blanketed as the boogieman of the fandom. Ferals? Sure some people will be happy to no longer see fido doing it on the front page, but I also know just as many people who aren't into that and would lose their minds if their feral dragons got blanket banned.

Oh but I'm sure context with whether or not the character can talk will come into play and never, EVER be abused.

but hey, since the big twitter artist explosion I've also been saying for a while now with how easy it is to get content nuked on twitter, people need to move to an actual art centered site, or make one. One that's not here or DA
Maybe this'll be the push, maybe it'll be the next dumb policy people hate. A green can dream.

I made a post last friday it was my birthday and only a week later I forgot to make a journal
lol
lmao even

So I've been pretty damn radio silent for the past two years. Before it was mostly just a slowdown and burnout, but this year I had intended to change that and get back into regularly making art.

Obviously that hasn't happened.

The day I had chosen to sit down, and start working on something on Krita, was the same day a officer came to my house to inform me that my father had passed away.
He died by his own choosing, no longer wanting to constantly fight with his alcohol addiction. It's a common myth that people most of the time plan out their suicides long in advance, and while that's usually not true, this was one of those times where it was. He had long already gotten his arrangements in order, everything was left on a table for whoever found him and the cops.

This was months ago.

I would be outright lying if I said I was devastated. By no means was my father a bad man. Hell as far as drunks go, he was certainly never physical, a bit of a dickhead but one who thought he was being the class clown instead of the clown's ass. Off the sauce he was a genuinely decent guy. One who I already had known had dealt with lifelong depression, and had attempted suicide years prior. One who, years before I was even aware of the former and before the latter ever happened, I had already made myself come to terms with the fact all my family members will, in all likelihood, die before me simply from age differences alone.

That's how it usually goes, the offspring outlives the parents, after all.
So I wasn't devastated, I had already prepared for something. And I wasn't surprised.
But boy was I stunned. Because at the end of the day you still never expect to have something like that happen in the moments. "Oh maybe someday, but surely not today!"

I had basically forgotten I was ever even something of an artist in the following time, focusing more on college work, modding Zener into Spyro Reignited, going on an Elder Scrolls Online binge.

And not much else.

Well, besides major revisions to a setting no one on this site has really even seen yet. And that brings us to now.
This journal sure as hell isn't a message saying "I'm back" because I'm not. Soon sure, but right now? No. Not until I know how rusty I am. General drawing hasn't changed, and funny enough my anatomy seems to have improved slightly like the last time I took a hiatus. My painting skills have suffered hard though, especially with hair. The brush I used to use ain't cutting it, I can't remember how I applied it before in the past and most attempts with painting hairs looks hideous. So I'm likely just gonna go back to multiple brush strokes around edges again to create the same effect, less of a pain in my ass that way.
Definitely need to practice before I start working on anything postable again.

And yes, I am doing fine as far as my dad's death is concerned. I'm kinda surprised how well I took it, but like I said before I had already prepared before.
so yeah, ain't that a kick in the head.

Everything runs worse now lol

we commit art in this house again now

Pen and tablet have both been broken.

Pen has been replaced. Only just realized tablet was also damaged. No idea when I'll be able to replace it.