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It's been a while, hasn't it? Ho boy. I'm still here, but I don't really have much in the way of art at the moment.
I'm posting this to say that I intend to go through my gallery in the coming days and clean out some of my pieces. I haven't decided yet which ones will go, but mostly things I don't think are worth keeping, things like sketches and simple vectors.
I'm currently undecided about what to do with my fiction here on dA. I haven't really posted any of my new stories here for a long time, now that I post it all on FiMFiction instead, and some of the stories left here on dA have since become a little outdated. Should I get rid of them while I'm at it? Should I update the ones I have here? Should I submit the ones I haven't submitted before? dA isn't a very good place for fiction, but if there's enough interest in it, who knows?
Have a great summer (or winter, for the other half of the globe)! It sure is sweltering where I am.
I'm posting this to say that I intend to go through my gallery in the coming days and clean out some of my pieces. I haven't decided yet which ones will go, but mostly things I don't think are worth keeping, things like sketches and simple vectors.
I'm currently undecided about what to do with my fiction here on dA. I haven't really posted any of my new stories here for a long time, now that I post it all on FiMFiction instead, and some of the stories left here on dA have since become a little outdated. Should I get rid of them while I'm at it? Should I update the ones I have here? Should I submit the ones I haven't submitted before? dA isn't a very good place for fiction, but if there's enough interest in it, who knows?
Have a great summer (or winter, for the other half of the globe)! It sure is sweltering where I am.
Cleaning up and turning off the lights
Hola! Been so long, hasn't it?
Let's get straight to the point, and the bad news: I've decided to retire this account. I'll likely leave a few pieces of my art here, the ones I'm most proud of, but likely that's it. Whatever art I make in the future will be different and will get a different home. Mostly I intend to focus on writing, which dA was never a very good place for anyway.
There's some strong nostalgia here for me. This is where I posted my first crude attempt at pony art and my first fanfic, Fillystata. Both the art and the stories took off beyond any expectation and almost made me sort of horse famous for a little while there. No
5 years (and 3 days) ago ...
... is when I first published my story Fillystata here on dA. It was the first real piece of fiction I ever finished writing, led to both a sequel and a prequel, and generally got me started writing ... even if it was only silly horse stories. It still ended up being more than half a million words of it over the next three years, which is still half a million more words than most people ever write.
A few years ago, some of you may recall I updated both Fillystata and Mare in the Mirror slightly (nothing too major though), and wrote a little bonus chapter for each of them. However, this update only appeared on FiMFiction.
Until now.
That's
PSA: dA policy on underage characters
Just learned that dA removed one of my drawings today, a humanized picture of Scootaloo, for violating one of their rules about depictions of people and characters under the age of 18. The picture in question wasn't explicit or anything, but perhaps some people would find it mildly suggestive, and that's enough for dA as it turns out. It doesn't matter if the character is older in the picture, as long as they are under 18 in the original context (and Scootaloo is in the show, of course)
Here's the rule in question, if you need details.
I didn't have any great attachment to the picture they removed, it wasn't one of my best or anything, so I
Cans of worms and excrements
There's a document about sexism in the fandom making the rounds. It's 27 pages, so a bit of a read. I'm not going to talk about the document at all, instead I'll just give you my own view on the matter. I'm sure lots of people will do their worst to make me regret it, but so be it, that won't stop me.
I'm a straight white guy. When I post something on the Internet, be it a picture, story or blog post, no one ever brings up my gender, color or sexual orientation. No one ever goes to my profile, sees that I'm a guy, and decides to hit on me or ask me intimate stuff. If any complete stranger, man or woman, decided to start hitting on me out of
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If you're not gonna post new fic, at least link 'em from here. 