I need to address something important.
I do not use any type of artificial intelligence in my working process, neither do I trace art. Everything I do is drawn by hand, digitally, with a Huion tablet, mostly in Clip Studio Paint but I've also worked with MSPaint (here's some of my speedpaints if curious).
I can understand that anyone could have induced the wrong idea from the last drawing I did as I didn't use my usual style but other people's style. That's why I am explicitly telling this :(
I enjoy exploring different art styles, studying the details on illustrations (for example the different types of lineart, eye shape, shadow and lighting style...) and just doing art. This meme was perfect for me to do that.
So just clarifying. I don't use AI and I will never use it for my work. Neither do I trace. That is not only harmful for other artists but it also takes all the fun away and this blog literally exists only for that purpose o_o
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Floraverse admin samaelbretondragon / Samael101 / Sunbe / Creator of So Sorry in Undertale is complicit in the sexual abuse of children and minors - and so is a lot of the fatfur community, frankly
This is a long requested post.
First off, yes, Samael is an admin of Floraverse, a cult that frequently engages in Zoophilia and Pedophilia acts and enables those within the community who are pedophiles and zoophiles.
You can learn more about it at : https://floraverseisacult.com
In case this post gets screenshotted without the links, I am not talking about drawn pedophilia or zoophilia.
I mean the cult's leader, Glitchedpuppet, has let their cat lick their genitalia, they also claim to have been forced to rape 2 dogs by their ex-husband and former writer of Floraverse Marl, Marl was also sexually abusing and making porn of the family dog Apollo and Glitchedpuppet was aware of it for a very long time before divorcing him, Glitchedpuppets current wife Eevee who lived with them at the time was likely also aware that Apollo was being sexually abused, Eevee also has her own history of arguing child porn made with actual children is ethical and that zoophilia is ethical, Marl had sexually abused minors and even tried to convince one to film themselves having sex with a dog for him to distribute, despite always having access to the truth and knowing Marl was sexually abusing Apollo before either these children spoke up, Glip would defend their then-husband for years, slander at least one the children who spoke out as a 'someone who lies to try and entrap men in a CP charge'.
I could go on about the children this group has hurt animals and children for a very, very, very, very long time. This is very well documented, and public information.
But this post is about Samael, a person who has joined this group, funded it, and is now an admin of it despite how well documented this is. I will point out she has two patreon roles and a commissioner role in addition to her admin role. According to Rina, a victim who left 2 years ago, Samael is a frequent commissioner to Glip.
On 4/9/2024 Samael's connection to this predator group was noted by the general public, and another fatfur by the name of Goth Gator decided to speak up about his experiences with Sameal on twitter. He has close friends and family who were groomed by Floraverse (A common experience) and when he spoke out about it, he was harassed and slandered within the fat fur community.
Because of twitter's recent api changes, creating archives of twitter posts are difficult if not impossible for around this time, so bear with me, as Gothgators thread was not able to be archived before he was run off the platform by Sameals supporters. So some reliance on screenshots will be necessary, and a lot of this has been deleted into the ether completely.
Because, yes, gothgator was again, slandered, sent graphic imagery, and sent transphobic remarks all in support of Samael, so he had to delete both his twitter and bluesky for his own safety. Very cool things that very innocent people need to do when someone speaks up about sexual abuse.
Some fatfurs like Deerfats and Pouchprints would argue that people should forgive pedophiles who are still actively hurting children because it just makes everyone more miserable if you don't just...let them keep doing it, I guess?
Pas / Roundrams would also argue that it's healthier to 'just cut the people off [and let them keep abusing children]'
Laura / Koboldium would also support Sameal, and would later argue that "It's still cruel harassment, and that's never good even if you think you're doing the right thing [by calling out abusers to protect others from being abused by them.]"
To be frank Laura, the evidence against Floraverse, Glip, and their orbiters is so publicly well documented and available that the assumption that you stand by Samael still is only because they "draw good art" is a kind assumption towards you and the others.
Because the only other alternative after looking at "both sides" is that you, roundrams, pouchprints, deerfats and adorablimp, all like Sameal, simply have no issue with pedophila and zoophila.
You know, for a 'woke witch' you sure do have some in common the alt-right when it comes to tolerance and enabling of the sexual exploitation of children. Might want to reconsider that title, Laura.
Actually, let me talk about this for a moment, roundrams, pouchprints, deerfats, koboldium all essentially argue that victims of sexual abuse should not talk about this because it causes some sort of "harm". That it's unhealthy for the victim, or those around them, and that's somehow worse then not talking about it. The goal of this argument, is obviously, to stop victims from speaking out.
How is this any different from right-wing politicians who try to take away sex education from minors because sex education gives minors the ability to speak out about being sexually abused?
I'll tell you how: It's not any different. It's two different arguments that achieve the same thing of allowing sexual predators to get away with sexually abusing others scot-free by guilting the victim into never speaking up or keeping the victim ignorant so they physically can't speak up.
Going along with the comparison to right-wing idealism argued here by Sameals supporters would most egregiously be Iggy or adorablimp would put out an entire transphobic thread arguing that Gothgator has to be lying because their cousin used different pronouns throughout the years and arguing that Floraverse was created too soon to have groomed his relative.....ignoring that the people who built Floraverse has been around for a long time and have been grooming children well before Floraverse even existed. I myself was groomed in their previous project, PMD-E.
Samael, for her part publicly, would only put out a single tweet about the controversy.
It was essentially a 'this isn't true' statement despite the mountain of documentation and other victims speaking up indicating otherwise.
Because to be clear, these are things the group is still doing. Right now. Said best by another victim of the group, Rina:
Of course, that was the things that were said publicly, privately the fatfur community ran goth_gator off the platform for uh, daring to speak up about known sexual abusers grooming his relative and close friends!
It would be pointed out a month later by a few other fatfurs, that things seemed to have returned to business as usual in the fatfur community. People pretend that Sameal isn't an admin in a known documented zoopedo cult, and people who had been pretending to be neutral in the entire situation are now buddying up with Sameal.
I put out this question to you, furry community, especially the fat fur community.
Where do you really stand when it comes to sexual abuse of children and animals?
Are you fine with it, willing to put out right-wing arguments that you would happily shoot down otherwise to support your favorite pedophile funding fat fur? Or are you not? Are you brave enough to take a stand against the sexual abuse of children and animals? Or would your rather passively ignore its presence in your community to keep some vague sense of peace?
I would hope you would make a choice you would be proud of.
In the meantime, you should consider financially supporting gothgator, he's financially struggling after being run off his social media accounts for speaking out against the sexual abuse of children by people in the fat fur community.
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I feel like everyone complaining about some of the characters being teenagers need to be reminded that they're not real! They are fictional characters! You can't harm them when they don't exist irl! Who cares that they're minors as long as they aren't young children, because again they are not real!
Exactly that's my whole philosophy now. At one point it was 18 and up only but I did come to the conclusion that these characters are not real. You cannot hurt them. It did take me some time to get there and I hope other people will realize this. I mostly put the 18 and up rule there because people say some weird stuff in the tags and comments and I was not prepared for it when I started. I'm used to it now
But how many of us started watching anime as young teenagers and developed our first anime crushes then. But would now go to jail if we started dating them because they don't age with us because they're not real. So as long as they're not children. That's why I say high school age and up. I'm okay with it.
But people also need to realize there's the opposite of this with characters that are drawn in the very moe style so it doesn't matter how old they are they look 12. I have one character that people like to request occasionally that I have to put their age in the pool as a disclaimer otherwise the comment section will turn into a dumpster fire and she's 28 as far as I can tell and I've done way too much research on this character. Again she may be 28 in the story, but the art style makes her look 12 but the art style makes everyone look 12
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How do you deal with being a radfem in the art world? In feel like I made a huge mistake in my younger years when I was drawn into queer art and now most of my art contacts are 'queer'. Not only is queer art getting worse and worse when it comes to quality and pretty void of intelect but I also feel if I say exactly what I want with my art, Ill be outcast forever. Not that I have loads of succes but everything would be over then : ( these days Im staying off feminist topics because I know, if I do something woman centric, people will not like it..... I feel like an idiot coward.
im currently switching to tech and continuing art on the side, to secure my wellbeing financlially at least. i think if i wasn't doing it, id be way less eager to talk about feminist topics...
i also feel like a coward sometimes, i know what you mean. for example for this exhibition/art residency i didnt outright tell im a radical feminist, i said im a "materialist feminist who goes to the root and re-mater-ializes female history" lol. i know i wouldnt be "allowed" to mention it at best (happened to another art piece about a radfem) and #cancelled at worse. i know other radfems who are more outspoken about this, i feel like a coward compared to them, but i also think being strategic wouldnt hurt. i think there are ways to present your work and yourself that wouldnt compromise it but also wouldnt completely erase what you want to say.
when we were working on this exhibtion, honestly i didnt even say anything when they were talking about certain topics cause that would be high risk, low reward. for others, id turn their own tactiques on them ("wow, this is something i only hear in the west! maybe i dont understand this cause im an immigrant", "wow thats crazy that there are so many different genders, in X language we only have the word for sex and we use the english word "gender"for sexist stereotypes") etc. It was VERY funny!
i had accusations of transphobia because i often depict vulvas in my work abt women, so i just mad fun of these accusations ("what, do i need to stick dicks everywhere then? im not interested"). a male artist with a piece about gay men which only depicted dick havers didnt (normal) have this criticism ofc.
i agree 100% with what you say about "queer" art. it's such a meaningless label today in the art world, it's anything but subversive. ime it's something these (western and middle+ class) artists use to mean "abnormal", but about ANYTHING! (ex. making art about your stay in a mental health clinic is "queer"). it's SO bigoted.
personally i have a "squeeze every opportunity" mindset. if TRAs want to infiltrate the art space (predominantly female at least in the beginning btw) and make everything about them, why cant we? we need to use every opportunity we can, because i can guarantee no one else is gonna make real feminist art. we need to be strategic about this, sure.
another thing (and thats just my opinion) sometimes we just need to present feminist work without marking them as radical. expressing radfem views and describing them as normal feminism is safer for us and makes the piece more accessible to others, and thats my ultimate goal. im not interested in arguing with cultists, im interested in making art for women.
finally i think its important to create our own spaces and opportunities. id love to make an exhbition or a book abt radfem art one day.
if you want to dm me to talk more, you're welcome, i'll respect your desire for safety
tldr i deal with this by humour + idgaf attitude + trolling + not depending on this financially + being strategic with what you say
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What's the reason you draw I'm sorry if it's kinda weird I love your art smmm and I wanna be able to draw like you one day but I can't find a good reason to draw anymore, I lose my motivation so I wanna ask.....
⭐️I don’t know if the answer can I be able to inspire you. To be honest, I still don’t think my art is enough to inspire people. Anyway, if you ask, I’ll be happy to answer you ;)
⭐️The reason I draw is that I’ve drawn what I think in my head and it’s what I’ve done best in my life. Besides, I also work in art as a career.
🔥Burnouts or art blocks often happen to me and it is very difficult to try to control myself so that I can draw at any time. The motivation or inspiration is necessary that I struggle to find it for myself. My solution to this problem is quite diverse. You may be able to choose to use it.
1. I tend to change the environment in my room, redecorate my room or workspace for a sense of novelty.
2. Going out, maybe near or far place.
3. Learn new skills from the art style of other artists, it will inspire me.
That’s all I can reply your question, thank you for asking, Hope you found your motivation soon!
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