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.   

Comments

[phoenixacid.livejournal.com]

Ao3 IS working on an art gallery though. It's just taking some time. Hopefully we'll have one up soon! :D

[reni-m.livejournal.com]

We can only hope they move along on it. Though like any new feature they'll need some guinea pigs to work out the bugs. I'd be happy to help!

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

My heart is breaking for you reni and I feel so angry about the whole situation, that artists don't have a place like A03 to put their art. I wonder why A03 is being slow about it? It almost makes me wonder if they are planning a separate archive for visual media and another one for audio media? I wonder where fanvids would fall, in that case.

[reni-m.livejournal.com]

It's a bummer, because I think they have been saying they want to add image hosting but it's literally been years. The hope wanes after a while and when something like this happens, well it's disheartening.

[jelazakazone.livejournal.com]

Ok, I didn't realize they'd been talking about it for years. That is rather discouraging.

[reni-m.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and I know a lot of it is probably getting the coding and all the BTS stuff worked out. Takes time sadly.