Ever notice how you get the most fans during periods of inactivity? Well, at least that's how it is for me. Whenever I didn't upload something for a long time I'd end up getting followers more often than when I was uploading stuff. I got close to 150 more fans after my activity decrease announcement, and I had only uploaded four pictures since then. It's pretty much the opposite of what someone would expect.

I've been running dry on ideas for stuff to draw for the last few months. I decided I should probably decrease my activity. I'm not stopping altogether, I'll just be posting stuff considerably less often.

Sorry if I've been a bit moody sometimes.

Around the middle of last year I announced that I'd be deactivating my account on DeviantArt at the end of the year. Now that it's the next year and I've left DeviantArt, I may have to find another place to have my stuff available. Have any new DeviantArt alternatives appeared since the last time I asked? Preferably sites that are good for hobbyists to do their own thing, without abusive flaggers and an incompetent bot staff.

I know different softwares are good with different styles of animation, and I wasn't sure which would work well with my art style. Anyone have any recommendations on a program or animation style that would look good for short animations?

Don't just list a bunch of programs or tell me some personal experience story. I'm looking for actual recommendations based on my art style. I don't want to have wasted work on something and then get negative feedback because my art style didn't go well with the animation style I chose.

I decided to go back and make some small changes to some of my NSFW anthro bug pics. It's nothing major, but someone might notice.

After some rearrangements done in my house, the scanner I use got misplaced by someone. Now I don't have access to it and cannot scan new drawings to the computer. That really stinks, since I had a set of Touch Detective pics I was ready to scan. So I'll just have to work on the drawings I had already scanned. If the scanner isn't brought back before I finish them all, I'll end up having to go inactive until it is. So if you see that I'm not submitting anything for a long time, you'll know what's up.

Looks like I got another art portal invitation. I'll be able to submit new pictures again. At least until something else happens, anyway.

It's been close to two months since a chain reaction kicked me out of the art portal. Since I already have over 200 submissions I'm not allowed to submit anything else unless I get scouted again. Oddly enough, I'm still getting a few new fans, even though I haven't been able to submit a thing since April 10. Oddballs like me aren't popular, so no one was gonna scout me again anytime soon. I'm sorry for the inactivity, but there's nothing I can really do about it.

Something happened to someone somewhere, and I'm not in the art portal anymore...again. Oh well, since I can't submit anything else until I get scouted again, I'll just have to take an indefinite vacation from Newgrounds.

Even though I'm not doing requests, I am open to suggestions on what to draw. They might give me some ideas on what I can do next, so feel free to leave one if you have any.

As many of you already know, DeviantArt isn't a very good place to host your art. If you thought it was bad before, it's gotten much worse now.

So a few months ago, DeviantArt decided that they'd be more like Google and have certain parts of the site run by bots. One of those parts is handling and responding to the flagging of submissions. A boneheadedly hazardous move, as many people on YouTube would know. DeviantArt also has this group of troublemakers that purposely go around flagging submissions that trigger them. Known as "Special Snowflakes", they're a bunch of social justice wannabes that flag anything they find with mature content (or what they "think" is mature content).

Before the big automation, these guys would just get in trouble and their flags would be dismissed. Now DeviantArt's bot may decide to delete submissions or even ban users because of these flags, regardless of the rules. So submissions (including some of mine) are getting wrongfully removed left and right and people are getting banned, because these "special snowflake" trolls are abusing DeviantArt's bot. Even worse is how you can't get any help with this, because the help desk is ALSO run by a bot. It only replies with pre-typed phrases and paragraphs from the FAQs section.

So if anyone was thinking about doing anything on DeviantArt, I'd advise you to be careful.