Last week, I was issued a seven day suspension for one of the pieces in my Gallery. As you can see in the screenshot, the submission's removal was considered a final warning, with a permanent ban threatened for future violations.

The main intent of this Journal is to raise awareness that mods are now taking action on submissions. If you have content in your Gallery that doesn't meet their wonderful new guidelines, now is the time to clear it if you don't want your account to be at risk - especially if you're already been suspended before.

I also wanted to share how my experience with the Trouble Tickets went too, though. I waited over three months for a review of my Gallery to be made, only to finally be told that the mods don't have the resources to review full Galleries, followed by a request for me to link any submissions I wanted to be reviewed.

I don't know about you all, but I'm a fully grown adult with a full time job. To not only list the titles and numbers of any content I wanted reviewed, but link them all as well, would have been a massive undertaking. And an incredible waste of time, considering mods should have been able to tell at a glance from my Gallery what species/content would have been considered problematic in which series of submissions. Plus, I've seen at least one other user was told recently by a mod that they could only review up to twenty submissions, which is laughable. I'm really glad I didn't waste the time or effort linking the literal hundreds of submissions I wanted checked. It *is* funny to me though that mods took over three months to get back with me, then waited less than one week to ask me for an update when they knew what a time-consuming task it'd be for me to give them what they were asking for. I'm sure you can understand how I didn't even know what to say to that.

That said, I still have a lot on this account I can't risk losing, especially over a decade worth of DMs. As much as I would have liked to keep the rest of the Gallery up until I was banned, it simply wasn't an option for me.

I just got done clearing almost 300 submissions from my Gallery. While risking anything explicit remaining in my Gallery was not on the table - even if it was Pokemon that haven't been called out (yet?) - I tried to keep at least the starts of the TFTG sets in particular up. Though, some of them that had explicit content from the get-go did have to be removed as well.


It's surreal. I've been a registered user on FA for over 15 years at this point. I never, ever thought my account would be in jeopardy for the kind of content I quite literally joined the site for. It really feels like the end of an era. I can only hope the newer generations of furries raised on FA can be open-minded enough to realize that a Pokemon's evolutionary stage doesn't mean anything in relation to its age, and that people who enjoy content involving the smaller/base forms of Pokemon deserve to be treated with the same amount of respect as anyone else with the many unusual interests the community embraces.

Please refer to my previous Journal for where to find me. It will be a huge time sink to get my new galleries up elsewhere, but I do intend to make the effort to get them up and running before long. I've also added Blue Sky to the list of sites I'll be looking into.

Looking forward to new horizons with you all!