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Tip: How to back up (download) someone's FA gallery
Posted 2 years agoAugust 2024 update: Since the writing of this journal I've been made aware of https://furarchiver.net/, which is probably the more user-friendly option if you want to grab something off of FurAffinity. The gallery-dl option described below is still worth knowing about, though, as it allows you to archive galleries not just from FA, but other sites as well.
Given that the recent FA policy change announcement has raised a lot of concerns about entire artists' galleries being purged, I just wanted to point out that it's easy to create a local archive of your own, or someone else's, gallery by using the gallery-dl command-line tool.
It takes a couple of minutes to set up and understand (you'll want to check out the Authentication section on the Readme file to get it to work with FA), but after that it's as easy as writing
gallery-dl --destination 'D:\gallery-dl' --write-metadata --write-info-json 'https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/Phon/';
in a shell prompt, and it'll download all images and metadata (description and whatnot) from someone's gallery. (Obviously you'll want to adjust the URL, destination path, and other parameters as you see fit.)
Works for plenty of other sites, too! Give it a shot sometime (soon, while the content's still there).
Given that the recent FA policy change announcement has raised a lot of concerns about entire artists' galleries being purged, I just wanted to point out that it's easy to create a local archive of your own, or someone else's, gallery by using the gallery-dl command-line tool.
It takes a couple of minutes to set up and understand (you'll want to check out the Authentication section on the Readme file to get it to work with FA), but after that it's as easy as writing
gallery-dl --destination 'D:\gallery-dl' --write-metadata --write-info-json 'https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/Phon/';
in a shell prompt, and it'll download all images and metadata (description and whatnot) from someone's gallery. (Obviously you'll want to adjust the URL, destination path, and other parameters as you see fit.)
Works for plenty of other sites, too! Give it a shot sometime (soon, while the content's still there).
Disregard previous; art is back on the menu
Posted 4 years agoAgainst all expectations, my ban appeal actually led to me getting unbanned. Which means I'll be commissioning art of my OCs again! Hooray!
Forced retirement from RP; Consequences for my FA gallery
Posted 4 years agotl;dr: no more new commissioned artwork in the future, probably
Recently, I was permanently banned from F-List for posting a link in chat to what I have been told by F-List staff is """underage content""". That link probably sounds scary to click on given the unfortunate choice of terminology forced upon it, but I assure you that it is 100%, absolutely, no-doubt-about-it, safe-for-work-and-church – it's just a decade-old, blurry four-second clip of someone jumping on a skateboard on a trampoline – , which is why receiving a one-strike-and-you're-out ban is all the more frustrating after 8 years of being a heavy, near-daily user of the website. I certainly had deemed the link not to violate F-List's Code of Conduct before I shared it, but not only did the moderator who issued my ban think otherwise but also made it clear that they would hear no argument to the contrary. Oh well. Let that be a lesson to those of you still on F-List, I suppose.
What this means for the lot of you who are watching me on FA is that unfortunately I'm much less likely to commission artwork of my characters in the future, I'm sorry to have to say. The artwork I did commission of my characters in the past has always been (for the most part) a means to polish up their respective F-List profiles, and to facilitate RP on F-Chat. I don't suspect I'll be doing much RP at all in the future now that I've been barred from accessing F-List, and thus my main incentive for commissioning artwork has frankly poofed in one fell swoop.
I appreciate the interest my characters have received, but don't expect to see much more of them anytime soon. Wish it weren't so, but there's not much I can do — I'll appeal the ban, but given that during our brief conversation the moderator who issued my ban painted me as an incorrigible menace to society, and that I expect F-List administration is more likely to side with its own staff members than a random user, I doubt my appeal will see much success.
Thanks for all your watches, faves and comments. Peace.
Recently, I was permanently banned from F-List for posting a link in chat to what I have been told by F-List staff is """underage content""". That link probably sounds scary to click on given the unfortunate choice of terminology forced upon it, but I assure you that it is 100%, absolutely, no-doubt-about-it, safe-for-work-and-church – it's just a decade-old, blurry four-second clip of someone jumping on a skateboard on a trampoline – , which is why receiving a one-strike-and-you're-out ban is all the more frustrating after 8 years of being a heavy, near-daily user of the website. I certainly had deemed the link not to violate F-List's Code of Conduct before I shared it, but not only did the moderator who issued my ban think otherwise but also made it clear that they would hear no argument to the contrary. Oh well. Let that be a lesson to those of you still on F-List, I suppose.
What this means for the lot of you who are watching me on FA is that unfortunately I'm much less likely to commission artwork of my characters in the future, I'm sorry to have to say. The artwork I did commission of my characters in the past has always been (for the most part) a means to polish up their respective F-List profiles, and to facilitate RP on F-Chat. I don't suspect I'll be doing much RP at all in the future now that I've been barred from accessing F-List, and thus my main incentive for commissioning artwork has frankly poofed in one fell swoop.
I appreciate the interest my characters have received, but don't expect to see much more of them anytime soon. Wish it weren't so, but there's not much I can do — I'll appeal the ban, but given that during our brief conversation the moderator who issued my ban painted me as an incorrigible menace to society, and that I expect F-List administration is more likely to side with its own staff members than a random user, I doubt my appeal will see much success.
Thanks for all your watches, faves and comments. Peace.
Artists, credit your clients.
Posted 4 years agoShould clients credit the artist when posting artwork they commissioned? Yes. Of course.
Should artists credit the client when posting artwork of their OC the client commissioned? Also yes. Yet I see this reciprocity all too often (conveniently?) forgotten.
(The obvious exception to the above is if either the artist or the client asked to remain anonymous.)
Artists, it costs you nothing to namedrop the client when posting a commission. And besides, you wouldn't want the client to *not* credit you when sharing your art on their own feed, right?
Personally, I remember which artists linked back to me when they shared the artwork I commissioned from them. I also remember those who did not. The former I am likely to commission again. I can't say the same for the latter.
Sorry for the rant, but this one's been bugging me lately and I had to get it out of my system. 😤
Should artists credit the client when posting artwork of their OC the client commissioned? Also yes. Yet I see this reciprocity all too often (conveniently?) forgotten.
(The obvious exception to the above is if either the artist or the client asked to remain anonymous.)
Artists, it costs you nothing to namedrop the client when posting a commission. And besides, you wouldn't want the client to *not* credit you when sharing your art on their own feed, right?
Personally, I remember which artists linked back to me when they shared the artwork I commissioned from them. I also remember those who did not. The former I am likely to commission again. I can't say the same for the latter.
Sorry for the rant, but this one's been bugging me lately and I had to get it out of my system. 😤
Reminder: I am not an artist.
Posted 4 years agoI generally don't do my own art. Most submissions you see in my gallery I paid someone else to draw. I may have "designed" my OCs myself, but someone else did the real work of putting them to (digital) paper.
I've always been careful and diligent about giving artist credit where credit is due, both in the title of the submission as well as its description, and linking back to the original artist's submission wherever such a link is possible, and I will continue to do so.
That's just being a good internet citizen.
I've always been careful and diligent about giving artist credit where credit is due, both in the title of the submission as well as its description, and linking back to the original artist's submission wherever such a link is possible, and I will continue to do so.
That's just being a good internet citizen.
Happy New Year! 🎉
Posted 4 years agoThat is all. Let's make 2021 a good one!
Calling out deadbeat artists: yea or nay?
Posted 4 years agoLet's say that over a year ago, you commissioned an artist for an artwork piece. Not just a simple doodle, but a fully colored-and-shaded-with-background, all-the-bells-and-whistles, top-dollar kind of piece. Both of you agreed on the terms, and you paid for the commission in advance, and in full. The artist suggested that delivery would likely take a few weeks, up to a month at the most.
More than a year later, you haven't even seen a sketch or other work-in-progress. When you politely ask the artist for an update on the situation, they respond with silence. They haven't completely disappeared from the internet — you still see them tweeting or posting online somewhere every now and then. Their gallery page still screams "COMMISSIONS OPEN" in a big font, unchanged from over a year ago, even though they haven't posted a single commission piece since that time.
You've asked for an update once, twice, thrice, yet were ignored every time. They haven't addressed the issue in any way. What else do you do? What can you do?
You could call them out on their deadbeat behavior, publically. You don't have a huge following, so your message probably won't have a large reach, but at least your bad experience will be on public record. Maybe that will do something. You could tweet, blog, write a journal, whatever-your-platform-offers about it. You could even go to artistsbeware.info, which despite its name isn't just a platform for reporting troublesome clients, but irresponsible artists as well.
But is calling the artist out the correct thing to do? Surely, you're owed for the money you paid, so you'd be in the moral right to do so.
I find myself in that situation. Still, the thought of "going public" with the issue doesn't sit right with me. This isn't like leaving a 1-star review on Amazon because your mass-produced, made-in-China fidget spinner arrived with a different color than the image on the product page showed. This is a real human person, someone who is likely only drawing furry art as a hobby, whose reputation you would be negatively affecting — even if you are justified in doing so. Maybe they're struggling, emotionally, financially, or in some other way? Is it worth hurting someone just to "be right" online?*
I don't know. What I do know is that I'm probably overthinking it. And also, that it's taught me to be more careful with who I give my money to.
* (Reading this over again made me realize I'm starting to sound like that "My Bike Got Stolen Recently" (aka "bike cuck") meme comic, wow.)
More than a year later, you haven't even seen a sketch or other work-in-progress. When you politely ask the artist for an update on the situation, they respond with silence. They haven't completely disappeared from the internet — you still see them tweeting or posting online somewhere every now and then. Their gallery page still screams "COMMISSIONS OPEN" in a big font, unchanged from over a year ago, even though they haven't posted a single commission piece since that time.
You've asked for an update once, twice, thrice, yet were ignored every time. They haven't addressed the issue in any way. What else do you do? What can you do?
You could call them out on their deadbeat behavior, publically. You don't have a huge following, so your message probably won't have a large reach, but at least your bad experience will be on public record. Maybe that will do something. You could tweet, blog, write a journal, whatever-your-platform-offers about it. You could even go to artistsbeware.info, which despite its name isn't just a platform for reporting troublesome clients, but irresponsible artists as well.
But is calling the artist out the correct thing to do? Surely, you're owed for the money you paid, so you'd be in the moral right to do so.
I find myself in that situation. Still, the thought of "going public" with the issue doesn't sit right with me. This isn't like leaving a 1-star review on Amazon because your mass-produced, made-in-China fidget spinner arrived with a different color than the image on the product page showed. This is a real human person, someone who is likely only drawing furry art as a hobby, whose reputation you would be negatively affecting — even if you are justified in doing so. Maybe they're struggling, emotionally, financially, or in some other way? Is it worth hurting someone just to "be right" online?*
I don't know. What I do know is that I'm probably overthinking it. And also, that it's taught me to be more careful with who I give my money to.
* (Reading this over again made me realize I'm starting to sound like that "My Bike Got Stolen Recently" (aka "bike cuck") meme comic, wow.)
Furs & Telegram: what gives?
Posted 6 years agoSomeone explain to me why Telegram is so huge in the furry community, please?
The last time I checked out Telegram, it didn't (officially) let you run multiple profiles simultaneously, or otherwise support multi-pseudonymity in any way. So you can't be both BigGayFurryDragon420 and Charlie Smith on your phone on Telegram, you have to commit to one of those identities.
Which ultimately means that for most furs, you can choose to use Telegram on your phone for chatting with your normie meatspace friends, or your horny internet friends, but not both.
That seems like it *should* be a knock-out criterion that prevents adoption of Telegram inside of fetish communities, but yet I see furs touting their Telegram handles all the time. I don't get it, and I wish someone would explain it to me.
The last time I checked out Telegram, it didn't (officially) let you run multiple profiles simultaneously, or otherwise support multi-pseudonymity in any way. So you can't be both BigGayFurryDragon420 and Charlie Smith on your phone on Telegram, you have to commit to one of those identities.
Which ultimately means that for most furs, you can choose to use Telegram on your phone for chatting with your normie meatspace friends, or your horny internet friends, but not both.
That seems like it *should* be a knock-out criterion that prevents adoption of Telegram inside of fetish communities, but yet I see furs touting their Telegram handles all the time. I don't get it, and I wish someone would explain it to me.
Split a commission with me? (You + Al in a YCH) (Closed)
Posted 6 years agoI'm looking for someone to split a 2-character YCH piece with. This one: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/31660297/
I'd be looking to include my big hare, Al, in either slot. Probably slot #1, just because of Al's size, but frankly if you're even bigger than him (or think you should be) I don't mind going for #2 either.
Send me a note or comment on this journal post if you're interested. Thanks!
I'm good, thanks!
