thaily

If you've noticed some missing work in your faves, it may well have been some of the almost 200 submissions I deleted.

I don't get much feedback on DA and am on an extended hiatus for taking commissions; I've never really gotten work off this site anyway. Just people stealing/reposting/deeplinking my work out of my gallery. 
As far as I can see there's no real benefit for maintaining a DA gallery anymore, it's not possible to get noticed much with all the low quality fetish material, the stolen work, the amateur porn, the random companies uploading stock photos for local services. So I may remove more from my gallery still. 

As a note, a lot of the stuff I deleted was vore/BDSM stuff people were favving a lot, but never commented on. Too bad. If you like something, tell the artist. Every single of one of us gets tired of throwing our work into the void after a while.

[name] has added The Hanged Wren to the collection Ref
Folder description "Pictures I'll use as reference for my next picture."

As a note, it's fine if my work inspires you to make NEW work. In fact that's better than fine, it's great!
But I will DMCA any traces/frankensteined work or close copies. 

Also, as an artist, it's better to reference from life wherever possible.
Then video and photos, and only then other drawn/painted artwork.

Might be of interest to British artists, or people in general who need to ship items, or have items shipped to them; I have a friend who ordered an Epson scanner, it arrived a day late and completely smashed and useless via Yodel shipping.

She's still trying to contact them, and I took a run at it on Twitter. They're active but ignoring me. Likely her as well. Apparently they have something of a reputation for doing this. So if you're in the UK, make sure you don't use Yodel to ship, and ask sellers which delivery service they use beforehand so you can avoid having your packages smashed by Yodel.

Photos here: twitter.com/Thaily/status/7807…

He's been at it a while, I might even have posted about him before. His DA name starts with 'ff'.

When I re-activate my Core membership I notice him visiting my page almost every day but he never +watches, comments or faves. He's been at it since at least 2012 and he does it to a lot of other people; when they come to his page and ask him what the deal is, he brushes them off or brags that people are getting upset at his stalkerish behavior. 

He claims to visit pages via some randomizer, but I've noticed something; when you change your gender to "male" or "other", he stops visiting. So his feigned innocence is certainly false, he's just creeping on female artists. So if you have this guy creeping on your page, you can change your listed gender and be rid of him. 

One day I'll be able to browse the new uploads on DA and not see a bunch of hairy scrotes. 

One day...