Regarding Content Going Forward (Patreon)
Content
Recently I've had a big introspection over something I have been feeling off about for a long time. I personally do not feel that in a visual media the fictional ages of fictional characters make a big difference when it comes to 'underage' representations. I was always firmly against portraying characters that LOOKED or ACTED like children in their media in fetish material because this is visual art, and I handwaved a lot of content in the past. I have done art of characters that were in highshool (around the 16 age) but when I risked anything like that I tried to keep it from being too erogenous or did some change to the character to try to justify it.
Welp, no more.
I have never been 100% happy with that, it was a justification to get to draw some characters I wanted to and while I may not have meant it to be destructive or inconsiderate, it also had the potential of enabling the people who would, in real life, threaten children. I do not even want to tangentially support such a group. As such, I've removed a lot of the content that was underage (after researching to better understand some of them) and will not be drawing any more chars that are under 18 by the end of their media. 18 is my hard arbitrary cutoff and I'm sticking by it from now on.
'What is this going to change?' you might ask. The answer is: very little. Only a few pictures of mine were impacted by this and going forward I'll still be producing the same kinds of art just strictly with characters I'm comfortable drawing. I just wanted to explain why some things have been removed and others changed (like the runner up from last month).
Thanks for your understanding <3