Quote - "Faeriewylde is what you're speaking of. OTOH, their forum/gallery servers are located in California, and their store is on a separate domain and site completely."

I can only go by what the WHOIS lookup tells me, and that reports faeriewylde.com as registered in Nashville.

Only because that's where Thorne lives. ;)

Quote - As for the separate store hosted on another domain, that is something all the other sites could have easily done, too.

It could, but you forget a vital component of a site: Brand Recognition. Thorne can pull it off because the point of Faeriewylde isn't to drive sales, and vice-versa.

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Quote - peng, thanks for the link to thorne's site. is the gallery the one at the attached link, or is there another?

The Gallery is at Faeriewylde, in the Faerie Friends topic. :)

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Quote - Protestants and puritans don't have a lock on censorship.  The man in the photo was a pagan.

Oh, that's nothing - Stalin, Lenin, and the current Chinese leadership are all atheists... religion has frig-all to do with the desire to censor and control. Power OTOH, and the desire to maintain it, does.

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