Armorbeast opened this issue on Mar 25, 2005 ยท 129 posts
Unicornst posted Fri, 25 March 2005 at 2:14 AM
JVRenderer....I do make faerie images. Most of my images are of those wonderful, mystical creatures. And I have been reading about them since I have known how to read. Funny thing, in 99% of those stories, the faeries were small, ageless and unclothed. But, there are people in the world who think this is not the right way to portray them. There are people who think nudity cannot be innocent and pure. And since we are creating images and posting them on a public website that is owned by others, we do have to follow the rules. This saddens me more than anyone will ever know. It's not having to put clothing on characters that look exceptionally young. I do that already. What saddens and angers me at the same time is the way this was brought about. I have some very good friends who are affected by this. Not because of any deliberate intention. But these friends have now been to feel as though they did something intentionally dirty and wrong and even criminal. One friend in particular feels as though she has been accused of a most horrible crime. And because she used a prop for a character that no one had ever made clothes for. This is wrong. These friends and ones like them that had no bad intention when they posted their images and should not be made to feel this way when it was done in innocence. You say this doesn't effect you because you don't use child models? I'm sorry. I disagree. This effects everyone that comes here whether to post, to buy, to sell or to lurk. That is the message Armorbeast is trying to get across.