Yes! The precious birb!

She really be casing all of Paris, eh?

The multicolored rings are nice too.

For me, I love either spirals or glazed over eyes.

Makes sense. A look at Kage's page on here shows his real beef is at the people upset at the presence of a nazi than at the nazi himself.

I think many have been looking for Kage to be mortified at Crusader Cat since 2009.

We'll see next year. I doubt Kage's friend was there by accident and I doubt he won't be back.

Kage comes to mind

Yep. Made that decision this year and, boy howdy, was I right.

That chat really does just have the worst of the fandom.

Man, this sucks. FA is run by genuinely awful people and I was hoping to migrate slowly to IB which I've lurked on for a while. I already had reservations due to the AI thing, but now with learning about this, I'm hoping for a good alternative.

Nah. Leave em open. Makes a good ban list

My conclusion? Don't trust FA yet, but keep an eye in case they can earn it back. I doubt it, but you never know.

A few issues also remain open that make me skeptical:
- The banning of artists over demonstrably false accusations of AI use by staff
- The banning of people just for being critical of FA staff both on the site and from the discord
- Support tickets that remain open for months now

FA has never had a mod team that acted in good faith with the fandom in its existence. I will be adopting a wait and see approach on if the new team is any different and hoping they are.

I'm still not sure whether to trust FA. Getting rid of the old mods was a good step 1. It's also nice to see that after radio silence and initial opposition, Sciggles seems to have changed tune and agreed to try to make amends. The thing is...

So, a new, new 2.7 is out. Going to re-read it when I'm not too tired but it seems the wording is a bit better now in terms of not targetting the ABDL and Diaperfur community. Wording's a bit vague but I think this is as specific as we'll get and I'm not sure how to word it better myself. However...

Yep. It really felt like just trying to get some of the heat off before pressing on with the same plan. Looking at the discord and with the mods (rightfully) gone, it seems possible she's come around to our side but I'll only believe it when I see it.

Heh, thank you!

Man, I leave for a month and come back to see Bluesky is doing the same thing as Furaffinity and just banning harmless (and disproportionately queer) artists left and right based on a vague new rule using a ban first, ask questions later approach. Disappointing to say the least.

Empty headed puppies are the best kind!

Excellent comm I got from Xing. First comm of my rabbit form and he definitely did him justice!

Fair enough. I'm not quite willing to trust sciggles yet, but we'll see. I think fa is starting to make small steps in the right direction now but since they've taken massive leaps in the wrong direction since the banwave first, it'll take a lot more.

That's correct. Some people are just overly cautious against IB for some reason.

Definitely too much to be a coincidence.

The mass resignations are a good start at least but, man, is it disappointing reading through this thread

Glad I'm unblocked but I didn't think I was combative against you. I wasn't trying to attack you, just show my distrust of FA.

You know what? I respect this. That post would have only stirred more divisions between babyfurs and fa. I've been very critical of how this entire situation has been handled but I respect this move.

Yep. Inkbunny is the best alternative were it not for draconian laws in some countries criminalizing harmless art