Portrait of the Muse and the Artist (as a scarab b by purdon
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The Muse said. "I really like your arrow works, Why don't you do them any more?"
"Times change. Terms of service change," I waved my antenna. "Life is short. A site I know of destroyed 16 years of my images and stories without warning for allegedly violating terms of service, despite the fact that each image was was carefully constructed to avoid any terms of service violations. While the images remain as files on my hard drives, the stories are lost forever."
"That's terrible!"
"My own fault really. I should have never invested so much effort into that site."
Comments (2)
mazzam Online Now!
Fine image and pose.
purdon
Thank you very much!
perpetualrevision
Moral of the story: save all your own writing on your computer as well as your own images! It sucks when a site you've invested that much time into basically "disappears" all your hard work, with no opportunity for a backup. Sorry that happened :-( But cool scene!
purdon
Yes, that is the moral. Of course, for me the images were the point, the text was just a bit of fluff to give context and tie the images together. It's not like I was writing the next great American novel.
The odd thing was right before I was "disappeared" I got an almost simultaneous set of notifications about images being deleted for TOS violations. Many of the images were more than a year old. All were marked mature, strict and tagged as to why I thought they were mature (generally violence and/or nudity). I'm going to state, and you'll have to my word for it, that none were more violent or revealing than the average Game of Thrones episode. You'll also have to take my word that violence and nudity wasn't gratuitous, it was in the context of a story, and that it wasn't fetish related (but I suppose there are some folks that can make a fetish out of anything).
I suppose if I ever go in for stories again, I'll go the self-publishing route,