sensitive topics; discussions about rule 7just received an interesting email, so let me put this out here:
rule 7 is mainly for the safety of this server, and it's also meant to ensure there's 0 questioning what the intent of this instance is.
MAP flag iconography, regardless of what you want to believe or not, is primarily used by people who illicit intent on harming real-world children. i've had to remote suspend a user from baraag who draws art w/ those flags, in which they also had a verifiable alt-account on a now dead instance which promoted pro-contact (read: wants to harm children) content.
to be clear: i am in support of paraphiles, they can not help their attractions, and frankly the way society treats them is horrific. but with that said, paraphiles who decide to act on their urges, thinking there's nothing wrong with that, are not good people. and those are not the kind of people who will ever be allowed near this instance. those people are the primary bearers of the MAP flag, and are definitely the loudest with it. no matter how hard you try, you can not separate this crowd, so to depict it in your art is to depict a flag used by real-world child abusers.
there is a lot of nuance with discussion like this, and i'm aware there's not a whole lot of it here, but the main point is that flag iconography representing paraphilias are almost always used to represent harmful ideals, even if it's intent by someone else is to just show they have this paraphilia and do not wish to ennact real-world harm.
i do desperately wish there were more fediverse spaces that don't promote horrible ideals about consent while still allowing for paraphiles. but i'm not setting this instance up for that. this instance is for freaky art made by queers, and that's that. if you want that kind of space, make it yourself.
you do not get to demand people bow to your whim about the spaces they make at their expense. if you have a problem with this, again, i implore you make your own space.
and just as an aside, saying you want my instance to be more like ATF in the same breath you're putting into question this instance being a safe space? that is extremely laughable, in the face of that website being extremely queerphobic.
sorry if this was rambly, i'm recovering from a technology-induced migraine.
and ngl if it weren't for cub porn i would have a lot less of an understanding for anatomy in general, it helps me push the envelope for interesting poses to draw... which requires me to learn a thing or two about how to actually draw arms and legs in particular x3
and sometimes hands, but i avoid hands as much as possible. as most artists do, tbh
all my art pieces from this year in particular i am proud of at least -w-
i know my art skills have gotten better and better, as i challenge myself more
i'm a very slow learner for art, but it's only because i don't do practice drawings or whatever. i just learn as i draw completed pieces, i don't really have any pieces i don't post, outside of the few duds i have that i don't think anyone would like, which is really rare tbh
i'm very much not for the conventions of art, i guess you could say lol. but i make it work out in the end,
"oh yeah gee i'll draw this image i'm sure won't get much attention"
it gets more attention than art i later draw that i'm sure would get more attention
i don't know my audiences tastes clearly
(just to be clear i don't draw for "the audience", but it is something at the back of my mind sometimes, so it's funny when i'm wrong about it sometimes lol)
i have too much of a headache tonight to deal with technical fuckery, i'm not about to learn how to verify iceshrimp.net backups when my brain feels like it's being crushed by the weight of the sun
cub art shown, nothing new from me don't get your hopes up lolnormal possum activities: installing openBSD in a virtual machine, with cub porn in the background to motivate me
