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

[dk323.livejournal.com]

That's so sad that she got banned from DA. I agree -- it's a shame that there aren't more places for artists that are like DA. I found an artist on DA whose work really impresses me and I'd be upset if he were banned.

[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.

[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

[itzcoatl.livejournal.com]

That's terrible, I'd been following Lenxen's work and I loved her stuff. She reminded me a bit of a modern Aubrey Beardsley.

The more sexual stuff of hers that I saw was always very beautifully drawn and always artistic, never crude.

You would think the mature filter would be enough. what on earth is the complainent doing clicking on something under a filter anyway, if they know they object to mature content?

Even if AO3 starts up an artist specific section, I assume you are going to run into the same problems of being banned for certain content. Really you need an independent site actually run by people who do art, and who realise sexual art isn't necessarily porn.

What happened on fanfic net? I didn't hear anything about that, did they start purging certain content or something?

[asya-ana.livejournal.com]

There is very clearly artistic merit in these images, most of which are not explicit. I'm really appalled!

[spacii.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

That sucks Reni, I'm sorry.
I swear sometimes it feels like certain sites just roll over and allow themselves to be censored by others. I freakin' hate that.

I used to moonlight on ff.net. My old account is still around too and has porn on it, which I find hilarious. What did they do this week though?

[chicago-ruth.livejournal.com]

I know it's not as great a substitute in terms of archiving, but Tumblr seems to not ban NSFW stuff (if all the porn blogs are any indication) and it's kind of more made for pictures than text?

But that is a fairly shitty situation. :/

And while AO3 does have plans to host art, I'm not sure that's a good thing right now... they haven't exactly fixed the code on the fanfic archive yet. -_-

[baenigma.livejournal.com]

What? D: