bummed

[einahpets]

So bummed out.  Found out tonight that one of my favorite Merlin artists, Lenxen1984, got banned from DA.  My guess is she was reported for mature drawings and DA deemed it crude.  Anyway, I have a little more information about it on my recent roundup-recs post. 
Then again, this is also in line with the crap fanfiction.net just pulled this week. 
However, while writers have the choice to find another host site, social sites for artists to interact and share work is limited.  Sure you can use a photo bucket or scrapbook on LJ to host the art, but why isn't there an AO3 for us to host, share, find, and interact with new work?  I'm not the biggest porn girl, but I have a few that can be seen as m/m or bestiality.  If I woke up one day and found those pieces removed or my entire gallery restricted, I'd be very upset.   

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[alby-mangroves.livejournal.com]

WAAH :(

I had a story removed from FFn this week, and an email to say it violated their terms.

I've never laughed so hard in my life - they'd removed the one story with absolutely no smut or profanity.

I hope AO3 host images soon, but I'm pretty happy that at least we can include images in the posts, even if they are embedded.

[reni-m.livejournal.com]

I actually moonlighted as a crappy ass writer back in the day, and I decided to see if anything was taken down. I seemed to have survived, much to the relief of the few fans XD

It's nice they include embedding images, but if the host site decides to delete the source image, it's not very helpful in the long run.

[alby-mangroves.livejournal.com]

The fic they pulled has now been returned!! LOL Apparently it was removed in error. Ridiculous.

[reni-m.livejournal.com]

Love that they would rather delete then warn users.