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Posted 4 months ago2024 and me (+ Furvester notice)
Posted 8 months agoWith the year now slowly coming to an end, things also calm down for me over Christmas, before accelerating shortly after with lightspeed again, as I will attend my second furry convention (Furvester) from the 28th to the 3rd of January, just like I did last year for the first time! Really looking forward to it! My plushie, my husband, and I are ready to have a good time!
Is there anyone I might be able to meet there? :P
You'll certainly see me around because I am slightly over two meters (~6"8') tall IRL and will be running around with my Shadow plushie on my shoulder most of the time! So boop me if you see me!
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This year started pretty well for me overall, as I was already talking about in my Hatchday journal back in September. Yet, shortly after the year literally did everything to become a mere mediocre year, except for a few highlights still.
Shortly after my birthday, I almost got scammed by a dentist, telling me there was a lot to do, and trying to scare me with it. I tried out a new dentist since I didn't like my old one anymore, and being scared of dentists, I chose one that advertised as being friendly to anxiety patients. They were indeed kinda friendly, but what they mainly did was to fuel my anxiety even more, basically telling me that everything had to be worked on. While I know that my teeth aren't the nicest out there, mainly due to having braces as a child and due to my depression, I didn't expect that, because I didn't have any problems over the last four years at all.
This debacle threw me back into a hole because the dentist said they wouldn't work on it unless I was willing to spend around 3000€ to get it fixed but they suggested I visit a dentist university to ask if they could do it for cheaper. I couldn't believe my teeth were that bad, but before I could come up with enough confidence to visit yet another dentist to get another opinion, over two months passed.
Visiting a dentist that my parents told me to try after I had finally gained the confidence to go there again, I was pleasantly surprised back in the beginning of December. Not just because they were by far the best dentist I've ever visited in my life, but also because they told me the other dentist was blatantly lying and trying to scare people about their teeth, even if they are advertising as anxiety-patient friendly, probably to make money or to get a commission for every patient they refer to the uni or something. The new dentist told me, that things mostly look fine and that I don't have to worry a lot as long as I regularly visit them over the coming years. There are a few small areas that they will fix in mid-January, but I am glad I took the courage to get another opinion.
And because this wouldn't be enough to get a relatively good year to turn to mediocracy...
Our neighbors here in the house were absolutely uncaring with loud music, loud steps, and arguing. Not just one neighbor, literally three of them at the same time. One above and two on the sides of our apartment. Music blasted loudly from above, and the other neighbors seemed to do similarly loud things. While I usually completely understand such things if they happen once or twice, this was every day. They didn't care for rest periods, not even at night. They didn't change stuff when we told them about it. They continued to wake me up frequently in the morning when I had just a few hours of sleep (because I am a night owl usually). So we contacted our landlord and now I am doing a noise diary about it, so I hope things will change soon. These disturbances really robbed my sleep over the past 8 weeks occasionally and that on the other hand is fuel for depression.
I think I don't have to mention that I didn't like politics this year. Not just with the US election, but also shortly after, our government here in Germany slightly falling apart due to the election results in the US. I've been way too invested in the topic of the US election this time, but I also used this as a test for myself and my ongoing therapy to see how well I can deal with stressful situations that are beyond my control. And, despite the bad result, at least in my opinion (feel free to have a different opinion though!), I managed to get back on track relatively easy after. Where I needed months or even a year to calm down because of the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, I only needed a mere few days to calm down about the election stuff. Seems like I did in fact learn a thing or two about myself in the process of my therapy, which makes me proud to notice these things myself!
There were a few other things as well, that I will just shortly mention. Each of these would've been fine on their own, but in addition to lack of sleep and severe anger toward the neighbors, this was just adding to the whole pile of steaming shit.
- Our heater broke after maintenance, but it was easily fixed the next day, as the panel had a loose connection. Yet it was additional stress.
- When I tried to get a faster internet connection here with my ISP, they messed things up again and didn't notify us at all about the problems they discovered. At least the internet continued to function, albeit slow still.
- And now, just recently, cables in my husband's car were damaged by a marten, but the insurance and the auto repair shop did nice work on getting it fixed today, shortly before Christmas, and shortly before we head to Furvester on the weekend.
If it hadn't all happened in the last quarter of this year, things would've been better than all of these happening within the span of a few weeks, most of them even in a single week. This can become really stressful, but I've managed it like a champ, at least compared to how I managed things back when my depression was a lot stronger.
But this year also had good things in store!
- I finally rebuilt my home server, which crashed back in July and wouldn't turn back on again, as well as succumbing to mold, as the case that I was using rested in a basement for a few years prior. On investigation, the hardware doesn't seem to be too affected by the mold, so that wasn't the reason, yet there were a few specs of thermal paste in the CPU socket, which I tried to clean and it at least got back into the BIOS, so I guess that might've evolved into a problem over time and caused the crashes, but I will never know for sure.
- I've managed to work on my New Year's Resolutions for this year last minute, as I was able to get around to voice chat with
Scitiv last week! Before this, I've had my doubts about my spoken English and my ability to find words quickly enough and while it most certainly was far from perfect, I didn't have the feeling that there was anything that I couldn't understand or that I wasn't able to phrase understandably. My hurdle with talking to people had already been drastically lowered with last year's Furvester con, and it will probably sink even further with this year's Furvester as well, but it feels nice to basically jump over your own shadow (pun intended) to achieve some things that you've previously been procrastinating on.
- And as usual, despite my limited time toward the end of the year, it always feels nice to regain your motivation to write and work on a few things that you just pushed in front of you over the whole year.
Overall I've been getting a lot more confident in myself over the past year and it feels so good! I've also managed to find some ways to calm down when things get too stressful, so long periods of motivationlessness are hopefully a thing of the dark past!
And hey, who knows... Maybe I can get around to finally finishing one of the stories that I started writing back in 2020 and the following years~
TL;DR: Year good until Autumn, dentist bad, neighbors bad, politics bad, companies bad, people bad. Friends good, motivation good, self-confidence good. Year okay overall!
______________________
So yeah. Recapping the year feels weird for me, it always already did on my hatchdays. But at least it gives me an outlet to speak about some things unfiltered and to everyone at the same time, without having to worry about hitting a certain message limit or scaring anyone off with a wall of text in a chat. So if you've wondered what this grape-colored derg was up to when he didn't manage to get in contact with you over some time, you now at least know what's been going on!
Is there anyone I might be able to meet there? :P
You'll certainly see me around because I am slightly over two meters (~6"8') tall IRL and will be running around with my Shadow plushie on my shoulder most of the time! So boop me if you see me!
______________________
This year started pretty well for me overall, as I was already talking about in my Hatchday journal back in September. Yet, shortly after the year literally did everything to become a mere mediocre year, except for a few highlights still.
Shortly after my birthday, I almost got scammed by a dentist, telling me there was a lot to do, and trying to scare me with it. I tried out a new dentist since I didn't like my old one anymore, and being scared of dentists, I chose one that advertised as being friendly to anxiety patients. They were indeed kinda friendly, but what they mainly did was to fuel my anxiety even more, basically telling me that everything had to be worked on. While I know that my teeth aren't the nicest out there, mainly due to having braces as a child and due to my depression, I didn't expect that, because I didn't have any problems over the last four years at all.
This debacle threw me back into a hole because the dentist said they wouldn't work on it unless I was willing to spend around 3000€ to get it fixed but they suggested I visit a dentist university to ask if they could do it for cheaper. I couldn't believe my teeth were that bad, but before I could come up with enough confidence to visit yet another dentist to get another opinion, over two months passed.
Visiting a dentist that my parents told me to try after I had finally gained the confidence to go there again, I was pleasantly surprised back in the beginning of December. Not just because they were by far the best dentist I've ever visited in my life, but also because they told me the other dentist was blatantly lying and trying to scare people about their teeth, even if they are advertising as anxiety-patient friendly, probably to make money or to get a commission for every patient they refer to the uni or something. The new dentist told me, that things mostly look fine and that I don't have to worry a lot as long as I regularly visit them over the coming years. There are a few small areas that they will fix in mid-January, but I am glad I took the courage to get another opinion.
And because this wouldn't be enough to get a relatively good year to turn to mediocracy...
Our neighbors here in the house were absolutely uncaring with loud music, loud steps, and arguing. Not just one neighbor, literally three of them at the same time. One above and two on the sides of our apartment. Music blasted loudly from above, and the other neighbors seemed to do similarly loud things. While I usually completely understand such things if they happen once or twice, this was every day. They didn't care for rest periods, not even at night. They didn't change stuff when we told them about it. They continued to wake me up frequently in the morning when I had just a few hours of sleep (because I am a night owl usually). So we contacted our landlord and now I am doing a noise diary about it, so I hope things will change soon. These disturbances really robbed my sleep over the past 8 weeks occasionally and that on the other hand is fuel for depression.
I think I don't have to mention that I didn't like politics this year. Not just with the US election, but also shortly after, our government here in Germany slightly falling apart due to the election results in the US. I've been way too invested in the topic of the US election this time, but I also used this as a test for myself and my ongoing therapy to see how well I can deal with stressful situations that are beyond my control. And, despite the bad result, at least in my opinion (feel free to have a different opinion though!), I managed to get back on track relatively easy after. Where I needed months or even a year to calm down because of the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020, I only needed a mere few days to calm down about the election stuff. Seems like I did in fact learn a thing or two about myself in the process of my therapy, which makes me proud to notice these things myself!
There were a few other things as well, that I will just shortly mention. Each of these would've been fine on their own, but in addition to lack of sleep and severe anger toward the neighbors, this was just adding to the whole pile of steaming shit.
- Our heater broke after maintenance, but it was easily fixed the next day, as the panel had a loose connection. Yet it was additional stress.
- When I tried to get a faster internet connection here with my ISP, they messed things up again and didn't notify us at all about the problems they discovered. At least the internet continued to function, albeit slow still.
- And now, just recently, cables in my husband's car were damaged by a marten, but the insurance and the auto repair shop did nice work on getting it fixed today, shortly before Christmas, and shortly before we head to Furvester on the weekend.
If it hadn't all happened in the last quarter of this year, things would've been better than all of these happening within the span of a few weeks, most of them even in a single week. This can become really stressful, but I've managed it like a champ, at least compared to how I managed things back when my depression was a lot stronger.
But this year also had good things in store!
- I finally rebuilt my home server, which crashed back in July and wouldn't turn back on again, as well as succumbing to mold, as the case that I was using rested in a basement for a few years prior. On investigation, the hardware doesn't seem to be too affected by the mold, so that wasn't the reason, yet there were a few specs of thermal paste in the CPU socket, which I tried to clean and it at least got back into the BIOS, so I guess that might've evolved into a problem over time and caused the crashes, but I will never know for sure.
- I've managed to work on my New Year's Resolutions for this year last minute, as I was able to get around to voice chat with
Scitiv last week! Before this, I've had my doubts about my spoken English and my ability to find words quickly enough and while it most certainly was far from perfect, I didn't have the feeling that there was anything that I couldn't understand or that I wasn't able to phrase understandably. My hurdle with talking to people had already been drastically lowered with last year's Furvester con, and it will probably sink even further with this year's Furvester as well, but it feels nice to basically jump over your own shadow (pun intended) to achieve some things that you've previously been procrastinating on.- And as usual, despite my limited time toward the end of the year, it always feels nice to regain your motivation to write and work on a few things that you just pushed in front of you over the whole year.
Overall I've been getting a lot more confident in myself over the past year and it feels so good! I've also managed to find some ways to calm down when things get too stressful, so long periods of motivationlessness are hopefully a thing of the dark past!
And hey, who knows... Maybe I can get around to finally finishing one of the stories that I started writing back in 2020 and the following years~
TL;DR: Year good until Autumn, dentist bad, neighbors bad, politics bad, companies bad, people bad. Friends good, motivation good, self-confidence good. Year okay overall!
______________________
So yeah. Recapping the year feels weird for me, it always already did on my hatchdays. But at least it gives me an outlet to speak about some things unfiltered and to everyone at the same time, without having to worry about hitting a certain message limit or scaring anyone off with a wall of text in a chat. So if you've wondered what this grape-colored derg was up to when he didn't manage to get in contact with you over some time, you now at least know what's been going on!
Free Raffle
Posted 11 months ago🎂 Level 29 Reached - Approaching 'Doom'
Posted 12 months agoYet another year went by for me and I again collected and processed enough souls to level up to Level 29 today!
(Even if that means that I turn 30 next year x.=.x)
This year was even better than the last one for me, although not perfect, but if I learned one thing this year, then it is to value the positive moments in life far more often!
I still struggle with a few things but I am content on working on improving them over time.
One of these things is speaking (like voice chats) with native English speakers, or rather non-German speakers because even if I usually might not seem like this, I can be pretty shy when it comes to this IRL. German VCs are easy, but as soon as my brain has to switch over to English, I get all overwhelmed and shy. My first Furry Convention last New Year's Eve showed me, that I definitely can speak English well enough and once the shyness has settled, everything is mostly fine.
This isn't necessarily meant to be a search for people to help me practice to get better and more comfortable with it, but rather just a summary of my thoughts. I think this problem needs a gentle approach with people I know well enough already, no offense! If you want to help me though, we could see what we can do about that sooner or later, but no guarantees.
While I had a lot of motivation to chat with people and work on some of my planned stories lately, my keyboard decided to slowly break. Either literally or by making me very angry by adding several duplicated letters when I pressed the key once, causing me to lose a lot of this motivation again. So if you were wondering why I wasn't answering as much anymore recently, you now got your answer.
(Apart from always being busy around that time of the year, for no apparent reason. Time management is something I also REALLY have to work on still. I sometimes wish the day would last longer than 24 hours...)
TL;DR: Birfday. 29. Yaaaay! Soon 30. Doom~
(Even if that means that I turn 30 next year x.=.x)
This year was even better than the last one for me, although not perfect, but if I learned one thing this year, then it is to value the positive moments in life far more often!
I still struggle with a few things but I am content on working on improving them over time.
One of these things is speaking (like voice chats) with native English speakers, or rather non-German speakers because even if I usually might not seem like this, I can be pretty shy when it comes to this IRL. German VCs are easy, but as soon as my brain has to switch over to English, I get all overwhelmed and shy. My first Furry Convention last New Year's Eve showed me, that I definitely can speak English well enough and once the shyness has settled, everything is mostly fine.
This isn't necessarily meant to be a search for people to help me practice to get better and more comfortable with it, but rather just a summary of my thoughts. I think this problem needs a gentle approach with people I know well enough already, no offense! If you want to help me though, we could see what we can do about that sooner or later, but no guarantees.
While I had a lot of motivation to chat with people and work on some of my planned stories lately, my keyboard decided to slowly break. Either literally or by making me very angry by adding several duplicated letters when I pressed the key once, causing me to lose a lot of this motivation again. So if you were wondering why I wasn't answering as much anymore recently, you now got your answer.
(Apart from always being busy around that time of the year, for no apparent reason. Time management is something I also REALLY have to work on still. I sometimes wish the day would last longer than 24 hours...)
TL;DR: Birfday. 29. Yaaaay! Soon 30. Doom~
We are back!
Posted a year agoIt's been pretty eventful days and things didn't look good in between, but here we are!
Let's hope the bad actor gets what they deserve!
Now I can finally upload my stuff, that I wanted to upload the day things started to occur. But I promise, I am not at fault! :D
Even if I hope things will return to normal for a while now, in case anything bad should happen again, here's a list of other sites/messengers where you can find me:
http://shadowcloud.dragonbyte.me/
Let's hope the bad actor gets what they deserve!
Now I can finally upload my stuff, that I wanted to upload the day things started to occur. But I promise, I am not at fault! :D
Even if I hope things will return to normal for a while now, in case anything bad should happen again, here's a list of other sites/messengers where you can find me:
http://shadowcloud.dragonbyte.me/
Awesome artist in urgent need!
Posted a year ago
GhostOfLight's PC broke and they need money for the repairs. They offer $40 for Portraits and $80 for fullbodies. See more here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/57548628/
Level up to Lvl 28!
Posted 2 years agoAnother year is over, and I am still alive and gained enough XP to level up to 28 today!
The last year was better than the previous one for me! I've learned how to get back some motivation for the things I like to do and especially how to calm down in serious and harder situations, so that they don't manage to punch me in my face too much anymore to be able to carry on.
My psychologist really helps me to manage my daily life and problems very nicely so far and I hope I will make further improvements of myself over the coming months!
So TL;DR: This big dragon is now a year older again, continues to focus on getting well again and on improving himself even further!
P.S.: I still have to upload a commission that got finished a few days ago. Some might have seen parts of it in my profile pictures on the messengers. And I am also working on a story for it, but it is far from being finished, so that might come later after the image some day. But stay tuned~
The last year was better than the previous one for me! I've learned how to get back some motivation for the things I like to do and especially how to calm down in serious and harder situations, so that they don't manage to punch me in my face too much anymore to be able to carry on.
My psychologist really helps me to manage my daily life and problems very nicely so far and I hope I will make further improvements of myself over the coming months!
So TL;DR: This big dragon is now a year older again, continues to focus on getting well again and on improving himself even further!
P.S.: I still have to upload a commission that got finished a few days ago. Some might have seen parts of it in my profile pictures on the messengers. And I am also working on a story for it, but it is far from being finished, so that might come later after the image some day. But stay tuned~
Don't fall for this Discord scam!
Posted 2 years agoWhatever you do, don't fall for the scam on Discord with someone searching for someone to 'test a game'. I am seeing more and more of these Journals coming up recently.
This is almost 100% malware, which can steal your Discord account and other private data.
In some cases even browser cookies and sessions, which then enable access to most of your accounts without even needing your passwords or 2FA.
Depending on the scam/malware, it can even encrypt your data, steal it, or leak it. Every. Single. File.
I was approached by a guy on Telegram a while ago because he wanted to use my name "@Shadowcloud" on there for his 'business' of selling stolen data because he wanted to call it ShadowCloud (duh). He invited me to take a look at it, which I did under special precautions, even if it was still highly dangerous.
He shared 200-500MB zip files in his channel for free, and he also had a paid service. The zip files contained the country code of the country they were stolen from. Data ranged from simple stuff, like location, time zone, Windows profile name, etc., to uncensored screenshots, passwords, web cam images, and other account info in clear text as well as extracted browser cookies to use. To be fair, most of those screenshots showed some dumb RoBux scam, for free Roblox currency when I took a look at some samples, but that doesn't mean that those 'game developers' on Discord won't sell your data to such data-crawling malware sellers as well. I probably don't have to mention, that I didn't try to use any of the data I found, nor did I save any of the contained information.
From what I have seen, most of these scammers on Discord, try to lure you with 'free Nitro' or getting paid to test their game, but the reality is that they are either trying to steal your data or just simply your Discord account in order to scam more people. Report those people immediately! Don't click on any links!
EDIT: I am unsure what and if you can even do something if you already fell for it, but I am trying to see what can still be done.
Try to change ALL your passwords EVERYWHERE and activate "2 Factor Authentification" via "Google Authenticator" or "Authy" for example, even SMS is usually still fine.
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If you want more information about the topic, as well as a demonstration of what such a 'game' will do to your PC, data, and possibly your ordinary life, look here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLFuuxhx3RQ
So TL;DR: Don't fall for this scam. There are more and certainly different scams out there, but if it is too good to be true, then it probably isn't true! Think before you click links or run files! Activate 2FA where available and keep your passwords safe and complicated! Even if that sucks, but that's what password managers are for.
Please share this with your friends if you can. Especially those who aren't as tech savvy, because they are mostly endangered to fall for such things.
You can also ask me about a few things about this, but I am certainly not an expert in this field. However, I can give you general tech advice and suggestions with easy explanations if you need any help.
This is almost 100% malware, which can steal your Discord account and other private data.
In some cases even browser cookies and sessions, which then enable access to most of your accounts without even needing your passwords or 2FA.
Depending on the scam/malware, it can even encrypt your data, steal it, or leak it. Every. Single. File.
I was approached by a guy on Telegram a while ago because he wanted to use my name "@Shadowcloud" on there for his 'business' of selling stolen data because he wanted to call it ShadowCloud (duh). He invited me to take a look at it, which I did under special precautions, even if it was still highly dangerous.
He shared 200-500MB zip files in his channel for free, and he also had a paid service. The zip files contained the country code of the country they were stolen from. Data ranged from simple stuff, like location, time zone, Windows profile name, etc., to uncensored screenshots, passwords, web cam images, and other account info in clear text as well as extracted browser cookies to use. To be fair, most of those screenshots showed some dumb RoBux scam, for free Roblox currency when I took a look at some samples, but that doesn't mean that those 'game developers' on Discord won't sell your data to such data-crawling malware sellers as well. I probably don't have to mention, that I didn't try to use any of the data I found, nor did I save any of the contained information.
From what I have seen, most of these scammers on Discord, try to lure you with 'free Nitro' or getting paid to test their game, but the reality is that they are either trying to steal your data or just simply your Discord account in order to scam more people. Report those people immediately! Don't click on any links!
EDIT: I am unsure what and if you can even do something if you already fell for it, but I am trying to see what can still be done.
Try to change ALL your passwords EVERYWHERE and activate "2 Factor Authentification" via "Google Authenticator" or "Authy" for example, even SMS is usually still fine.
___________________________________________________
If you want more information about the topic, as well as a demonstration of what such a 'game' will do to your PC, data, and possibly your ordinary life, look here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLFuuxhx3RQ
So TL;DR: Don't fall for this scam. There are more and certainly different scams out there, but if it is too good to be true, then it probably isn't true! Think before you click links or run files! Activate 2FA where available and keep your passwords safe and complicated! Even if that sucks, but that's what password managers are for.
Please share this with your friends if you can. Especially those who aren't as tech savvy, because they are mostly endangered to fall for such things.
You can also ask me about a few things about this, but I am certainly not an expert in this field. However, I can give you general tech advice and suggestions with easy explanations if you need any help.
Regarding the Upload Policy changes...
Posted 2 years agoAlright, I know many people are freaking out on this right now and I'll be honest, I can understand both, the ones that are leaving and the ones that are staying for their own specific reasons.
For example, while I find it good that rules are being enforced and specified a little bit more, especially in regard to minors, I don't think that the approach they chose is the right one. How on earth should an artist who specialized in a specific art style change that art style to fit within the rules as of July 1st (or 90 Days after that, when they actually start to enforce that rule strictly)?
While I get that Pokemon and Digimon are technically underage at some stages, I don't think it is the right approach to ban these from the platform, especially for that reason. I mean, sure, you can change their appearance to look older, but doesn't that defeat the point of choosing a specific Pokemon/Digimon?
Then adding the specifics about how minors shouldn't be in any sexualized scene, but then allowing them to be in vore/TF scenes?! Those are fetishes as well and it probably isn't a big step from a general vore session to something more heated up after a while. So I don't think that this is a great idea either. Though I am not sure how to fix these issues either.
Personally, I am still split about these changes, but I don't plan to go anywhere forcedly. Nothing is going to change for me as of now luckily, though I am concerned with the people that I met on here leaving and splitting and fragmenting up to several sites, which surely will be hard to track in the process.
So while the debate goes on and more people are deciding to leave, I wanted to post my other accounts here, which I might or might not bring up-to-date sooner or later, in case anyone wants to follow me over there:
(All of these links are also listed on my website if you need a bigger or well organized list: >>> http://shadowcloud.dragonbyte.me <<<)
>>> BlueSky (New as of August 5th!)
>>> Twitter (mostly just retweets, but I might also post new art on there)
>>> Mastodon (same as twitter)
>>> SoFurry (100% mirrored with FA)
>>> Weasyl (100% mirrored with FA)
>>> FurryNetwork (100% mirrored with FA)
>>> DeviantArt (mirrored with FA, except NSFW for obvious reasons)
>>> F-List (not mirrored with FA, but still up to date for the most part. NSFW only)
>>> Inkbunny (not currently mirrored, but I plan on doing that in the future)
>>> Itaku (not sure yet if I will mirror my stuff here, but I'll see how it goes)
>>> CoHost (not sure if I even understand that site correctly as of now, but I'll look into that in the future)
If there are any more that I might consider getting an account on, I'll update that list. Feel free to suggest sites!
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Notes:
- I probably won't get an account on aryion.com, because the site heckin' confuses me, looks uncomfortable to use and there are way too many humans on there...
For example, while I find it good that rules are being enforced and specified a little bit more, especially in regard to minors, I don't think that the approach they chose is the right one. How on earth should an artist who specialized in a specific art style change that art style to fit within the rules as of July 1st (or 90 Days after that, when they actually start to enforce that rule strictly)?
While I get that Pokemon and Digimon are technically underage at some stages, I don't think it is the right approach to ban these from the platform, especially for that reason. I mean, sure, you can change their appearance to look older, but doesn't that defeat the point of choosing a specific Pokemon/Digimon?
Then adding the specifics about how minors shouldn't be in any sexualized scene, but then allowing them to be in vore/TF scenes?! Those are fetishes as well and it probably isn't a big step from a general vore session to something more heated up after a while. So I don't think that this is a great idea either. Though I am not sure how to fix these issues either.
Personally, I am still split about these changes, but I don't plan to go anywhere forcedly. Nothing is going to change for me as of now luckily, though I am concerned with the people that I met on here leaving and splitting and fragmenting up to several sites, which surely will be hard to track in the process.
So while the debate goes on and more people are deciding to leave, I wanted to post my other accounts here, which I might or might not bring up-to-date sooner or later, in case anyone wants to follow me over there:
(All of these links are also listed on my website if you need a bigger or well organized list: >>> http://shadowcloud.dragonbyte.me <<<)
>>> BlueSky (New as of August 5th!)
>>> Twitter (mostly just retweets, but I might also post new art on there)
>>> Mastodon (same as twitter)
>>> SoFurry (100% mirrored with FA)
>>> Weasyl (100% mirrored with FA)
>>> FurryNetwork (100% mirrored with FA)
>>> DeviantArt (mirrored with FA, except NSFW for obvious reasons)
>>> F-List (not mirrored with FA, but still up to date for the most part. NSFW only)
>>> Inkbunny (not currently mirrored, but I plan on doing that in the future)
>>> Itaku (not sure yet if I will mirror my stuff here, but I'll see how it goes)
>>> CoHost (not sure if I even understand that site correctly as of now, but I'll look into that in the future)
If there are any more that I might consider getting an account on, I'll update that list. Feel free to suggest sites!
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Notes:
- I probably won't get an account on aryion.com, because the site heckin' confuses me, looks uncomfortable to use and there are way too many humans on there...
Twitter is burning. This is fine.
Posted 2 years agoSince Twitter decided to outright censor not just Mastodon-related links, but also apparently a whole bunch of other social media platforms, such as Instagram and Facebook as well, they will be going to ban users violating these rules now. (That is if Musk doesn't yet again retreat from that idea...)
Since I do use my Mastodon profile link on there as my name, so that importer tools can find me there, and I posted my mastodon link in tweets several times now, even have it as my pinned tweet, I am definitely violating their TOS now and it will probably only be a matter of time until they close my account there.
So where else to find me:
Mastodon: https://macrofurs.social/@Shadowcloud
Telegram: https://t.me/shadowcloud
Discord: Shadowcloud#3761
Yes, I will continue to use FA of course. Yes, I will continue to use Twitter, as long as they allow it. Once they ban my account, I'll say farewell to Twitter and completely focus on Mastodon.
Since I do use my Mastodon profile link on there as my name, so that importer tools can find me there, and I posted my mastodon link in tweets several times now, even have it as my pinned tweet, I am definitely violating their TOS now and it will probably only be a matter of time until they close my account there.
So where else to find me:
Mastodon: https://macrofurs.social/@Shadowcloud
Telegram: https://t.me/shadowcloud
Discord: Shadowcloud#3761
>>> All platforms that I use are neatly organized in a clickable list on my website: http://shadowcloud.dragonbyte.me/ <<<
____________________________________________________________________________________________________Yes, I will continue to use FA of course. Yes, I will continue to use Twitter, as long as they allow it. Once they ban my account, I'll say farewell to Twitter and completely focus on Mastodon.
Achievement Unlocked: Reach Level 27 🎉
Posted 3 years agoAnother year has passed, and I am still alive and gained enough XP to level up to 27 today!
Sadly, the last year wasn't too nice for me, but at least a little better than the previous two. Still, new year, new challenges, I guess.
I've been struggling to motivate myself to do literally anything. I am glad that my close friends keep me and my mind busy most of the time and drag me into some games here and there, otherwise, I don't know what would've happened to me a few months ago. I've been stuck in a loop of depression and motivationlessness, plus things that made all of this worse. My parents helped me in the summer to find some professional help. Since then things are looking better and I am looking forward to starting therapy in October finally.
On a positive note: I've had a lot of time to think about everything. Do things I wanted to do in the past, but never came around to doing (at least if my motivation let me, which sadly wasn't too often). And enjoy the time with those who I like a lot. I really needed that.
There is a lot to do in the future for me. Personal things, minor things, major things. But all I need is time and a little nudge in the right direction. This nudge finally happened and I am glad it did! The next step is to advance on those smaller steps and make them huge again! 🐾
So yeah: TL;DR: This dragon is now 27 years old, faces some problems, and tries his best!
P.S.: For those waiting for me to answer them, I am sorry to let you wait, but I've still been struggling with motivation lately. I am glad that I still got some left, for gaming with close friends and occasional chatting, to get rid of the excessive amount of messages everywhere, that built up over the past couple of months. And even if I can't answer everyone today, at least for the wishes, I will try to get back to you whenever I feel better again and my motivation to write returns.
Sadly, the last year wasn't too nice for me, but at least a little better than the previous two. Still, new year, new challenges, I guess.
I've been struggling to motivate myself to do literally anything. I am glad that my close friends keep me and my mind busy most of the time and drag me into some games here and there, otherwise, I don't know what would've happened to me a few months ago. I've been stuck in a loop of depression and motivationlessness, plus things that made all of this worse. My parents helped me in the summer to find some professional help. Since then things are looking better and I am looking forward to starting therapy in October finally.
On a positive note: I've had a lot of time to think about everything. Do things I wanted to do in the past, but never came around to doing (at least if my motivation let me, which sadly wasn't too often). And enjoy the time with those who I like a lot. I really needed that.
There is a lot to do in the future for me. Personal things, minor things, major things. But all I need is time and a little nudge in the right direction. This nudge finally happened and I am glad it did! The next step is to advance on those smaller steps and make them huge again! 🐾
So yeah: TL;DR: This dragon is now 27 years old, faces some problems, and tries his best!
P.S.: For those waiting for me to answer them, I am sorry to let you wait, but I've still been struggling with motivation lately. I am glad that I still got some left, for gaming with close friends and occasional chatting, to get rid of the excessive amount of messages everywhere, that built up over the past couple of months. And even if I can't answer everyone today, at least for the wishes, I will try to get back to you whenever I feel better again and my motivation to write returns.
Telegram might be going to be banned in Germany soon
Posted 3 years agoI really hate to come up with politics in general, but since this one might affect me personally, I wanted to put my thoughts about it here and offer my help. If you don't want to read about the virus, politics, and radical idiots, then please don't read it. Thank you!
For everyone else, read along:
Due to racism, calls for violence, and agitation, also connected to corona-conspiracies, the German minister for inner affairs, Nancy Faeser (SPD), wants the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store to ban Telegram from its services, reminding the stores about their "social responsibility". While it's unclear what happens after that, other stores might be unaffected by this (such as the Huawei AppGallery or Aptoide)
Telegram has several other ways of being used/installed, one is to download the .apk file from their website directly, another one is to use it via Desktop or even the Web version.
So what exactly is the point in this?
This minister, well... the whole government, again doesn't know how the internet works or how any of this works. If they would want to ban Telegram, then a simple AppStore block will only affect a small number of people, plus there are tons of groups that are probably going rampage now, telling people to download the app from their Website directly, just spreading a lot more misinformation and radicalizing people to further hold a grudge against the government.
Then again if the ban actually makes people leave Telegram, there will be new ways for groups to share their nonsense and radicalize each other more and more. There are tons of other apps. So actually, this ban would make it harder to track down on them and to prevent crimes like the killing of Idar-Oberstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany from happening again. Back then a staff member of a gas station was shot because he reminded a customer to wear his mask. Of course, the more radical Covidiots pretty much celebrated this and since Telegram is their main platform for sharing such things, they polarize and radicalize each other in such groups.
The workaround of downloading the App from other services, of course, doesn't work for Apple iOS devices as far as I know, due to the lack of sideloading apps (Basically installing them from other sources than the official Apple Appstore.). At least not without a jailbreak.
The only option on Apple devices (as of now) is, to have the app installed when the ban should actually come and to use it until it stops working, but I'll have to further investigate that yet.
The minister also noted earlier, that there was the possibility of the services being DNS-blocked in Germany at some point, but most recent news doesn't comment on that. But as always there are ways to get around that (Proxies, Custom-DNS's or VPNs), but it might hit a bigger group of non-tech-savvy people.
What I want to say is, that while I really dislike what German Ministers are doing right now, I agree that it isn't good that people are radicalizing each other over a platform like Telegram up to the point of celebrating a murder, but to block the gathering spot of those people, just makes them spread and scatter more and they will find a new thing to abuse, while those, who genuinely want to use the service to just talk to people (like me) are being cut down in their ability to do so (if they don't know how to get around such a ban).
To this time right now, Telegram still exists in the Stores, but Telegram also doesn't react to the government's pleading of monitoring those radical groups and blocking them (just like they do with porn on iOS), so it is very likely that the German government might implement such a ban sooner or later.
(Sources:
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/net.....d-cfceadd2eb60
https://www.pcwelt.de/news/Telegram.....-11169423.html
https://www.heise.de/news/Innenmini.....n-6332582.html )
I might keep you updated about this ongoing debate, depending on the outcome, but just in case everything goes worse than expected, here is my Discord: Shadowcloud#3761
And as long as it works my Telegram: https://t.me/Shadowcloud or simply (@)Shadowcloud
If they decide to block it (or maybe you are already in a place that has already blocked this or other services) and you need help with getting around this ban, contact me on TG or Discord (or any other of my linked sites/messengers on my profile) and I'll try to help you. I've already sourced out a few options for TG and I'll help you implement them to your phone/desktop if you need it.
For everyone else, read along:
Due to racism, calls for violence, and agitation, also connected to corona-conspiracies, the German minister for inner affairs, Nancy Faeser (SPD), wants the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store to ban Telegram from its services, reminding the stores about their "social responsibility". While it's unclear what happens after that, other stores might be unaffected by this (such as the Huawei AppGallery or Aptoide)
Telegram has several other ways of being used/installed, one is to download the .apk file from their website directly, another one is to use it via Desktop or even the Web version.
So what exactly is the point in this?
This minister, well... the whole government, again doesn't know how the internet works or how any of this works. If they would want to ban Telegram, then a simple AppStore block will only affect a small number of people, plus there are tons of groups that are probably going rampage now, telling people to download the app from their Website directly, just spreading a lot more misinformation and radicalizing people to further hold a grudge against the government.
Then again if the ban actually makes people leave Telegram, there will be new ways for groups to share their nonsense and radicalize each other more and more. There are tons of other apps. So actually, this ban would make it harder to track down on them and to prevent crimes like the killing of Idar-Oberstein, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany from happening again. Back then a staff member of a gas station was shot because he reminded a customer to wear his mask. Of course, the more radical Covidiots pretty much celebrated this and since Telegram is their main platform for sharing such things, they polarize and radicalize each other in such groups.
The workaround of downloading the App from other services, of course, doesn't work for Apple iOS devices as far as I know, due to the lack of sideloading apps (Basically installing them from other sources than the official Apple Appstore.). At least not without a jailbreak.
The only option on Apple devices (as of now) is, to have the app installed when the ban should actually come and to use it until it stops working, but I'll have to further investigate that yet.
The minister also noted earlier, that there was the possibility of the services being DNS-blocked in Germany at some point, but most recent news doesn't comment on that. But as always there are ways to get around that (Proxies, Custom-DNS's or VPNs), but it might hit a bigger group of non-tech-savvy people.
What I want to say is, that while I really dislike what German Ministers are doing right now, I agree that it isn't good that people are radicalizing each other over a platform like Telegram up to the point of celebrating a murder, but to block the gathering spot of those people, just makes them spread and scatter more and they will find a new thing to abuse, while those, who genuinely want to use the service to just talk to people (like me) are being cut down in their ability to do so (if they don't know how to get around such a ban).
To this time right now, Telegram still exists in the Stores, but Telegram also doesn't react to the government's pleading of monitoring those radical groups and blocking them (just like they do with porn on iOS), so it is very likely that the German government might implement such a ban sooner or later.
(Sources:
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/net.....d-cfceadd2eb60
https://www.pcwelt.de/news/Telegram.....-11169423.html
https://www.heise.de/news/Innenmini.....n-6332582.html )
I might keep you updated about this ongoing debate, depending on the outcome, but just in case everything goes worse than expected, here is my Discord: Shadowcloud#3761
And as long as it works my Telegram: https://t.me/Shadowcloud or simply (@)Shadowcloud
If they decide to block it (or maybe you are already in a place that has already blocked this or other services) and you need help with getting around this ban, contact me on TG or Discord (or any other of my linked sites/messengers on my profile) and I'll try to help you. I've already sourced out a few options for TG and I'll help you implement them to your phone/desktop if you need it.
10 Years on FA
Posted 5 years agoWellllll...
Apparently today my account on here is 10 years old :O
Apparently today my account on here is 10 years old :O
This is just stupid! (FA Design Rant)
Posted 5 years agoJust a little FA Design rant, because it really drives me crazy!
It isn't the first time for me, to accidentally delete ALL my notifications, because I misclicked the buttons on the messages page.
Why are the buttons to clear a certain section of notifications on the top, when you read the normally notifications from top to bottom like a normal living being?!
I mean it doesn't make sense to me, and so when I today went through the journal notifications a few minutes ago after waking up, still being a bit sleepy, it happened again! I didn't click the 'Select All' and 'Remove Selected' Buttons at the top of the journals section, but the ones on the global selection right beneath the last journal thinking it was still that way around, deleting every single notification I had in there... I mean sure, it's my own fault for not paying attention when I'm still halfway asleep, but it's been like that for what?... The past 9 and a half years since I joined FA (most likely even longer) and suddenly it changes places in the most frustrating way imaginable. I'm not ranting against these updates completely, but it's just unintuitive and frustrating in the end.
I mean, WHY?! Why does it have to be that way around?!
Why not have a prompt coming up asking 'Are you really sure you want to delete ALL your SELECTED notifications?' instead of just deleting every one of them, Submissions, Watches, Faves, Comments and Journals, INSTANTLY?!?! Come on, it can't be that hard to implement that...
I am using the 'modern, dark' theme, btw. Which is good for usage both on Desktop and Mobile devices, but this problem bugs me a lot!
It isn't the first time for me, to accidentally delete ALL my notifications, because I misclicked the buttons on the messages page.
Why are the buttons to clear a certain section of notifications on the top, when you read the normally notifications from top to bottom like a normal living being?!
I mean it doesn't make sense to me, and so when I today went through the journal notifications a few minutes ago after waking up, still being a bit sleepy, it happened again! I didn't click the 'Select All' and 'Remove Selected' Buttons at the top of the journals section, but the ones on the global selection right beneath the last journal thinking it was still that way around, deleting every single notification I had in there... I mean sure, it's my own fault for not paying attention when I'm still halfway asleep, but it's been like that for what?... The past 9 and a half years since I joined FA (most likely even longer) and suddenly it changes places in the most frustrating way imaginable. I'm not ranting against these updates completely, but it's just unintuitive and frustrating in the end.
I mean, WHY?! Why does it have to be that way around?!
Why not have a prompt coming up asking 'Are you really sure you want to delete ALL your SELECTED notifications?' instead of just deleting every one of them, Submissions, Watches, Faves, Comments and Journals, INSTANTLY?!?! Come on, it can't be that hard to implement that...
I am using the 'modern, dark' theme, btw. Which is good for usage both on Desktop and Mobile devices, but this problem bugs me a lot!
[Beware] If you use facebook, block this person...
Posted 7 years agoI don't know if anyone of you still uses Facebook, but in fact, I still do.
I happened to have befriended a certain Dániel Molnár on there, who shared all my pictures, that were public.
Then he started a chat with me which I couldn't answer, so he began spamming me a lot.
Then he added me to a group, without asking.
And when I still didn't answer him he took my art, posted it to his profile and tagged me on it, so I would react on his messages.
When I said he should take it down he did and asking him why he did it, he just said that he wanted to RP with me.
Don't get me wrong, I like to RP, but I wasn't really in the mood to do so in the last few weeks.
He begged me and when I still refused to RP with him, he took another of my commissioned arts and used it as his profile picture. I again argued with him, and eventually he took it down the next day, promising to not do it again. I was shortly before blocking him, but on the other side I wanted to see if he still uses my pictures in the next days..
Today, like alf an hour ago, he probably went through my FA or F-List and took two NSFW pictures of me and again posted it to his wall. That was enough for me, I blocked him and reported his post for nudity :P
Still... that was the biggest kindergarten I've ever experienced... Like a child, doesn't getting what it wants from its parents so it starts to cry.
Not my first art thief though, but the other ones were far more understanding than him.
So please check your friendlist there and remove him, when you have him on there. It's just better for you and everyone probably.
He's caused me far more trouble than I'd liked to have...
~Shadowcloud out.
I happened to have befriended a certain Dániel Molnár on there, who shared all my pictures, that were public.
Then he started a chat with me which I couldn't answer, so he began spamming me a lot.
Then he added me to a group, without asking.
And when I still didn't answer him he took my art, posted it to his profile and tagged me on it, so I would react on his messages.
When I said he should take it down he did and asking him why he did it, he just said that he wanted to RP with me.
Don't get me wrong, I like to RP, but I wasn't really in the mood to do so in the last few weeks.
He begged me and when I still refused to RP with him, he took another of my commissioned arts and used it as his profile picture. I again argued with him, and eventually he took it down the next day, promising to not do it again. I was shortly before blocking him, but on the other side I wanted to see if he still uses my pictures in the next days..
Today, like alf an hour ago, he probably went through my FA or F-List and took two NSFW pictures of me and again posted it to his wall. That was enough for me, I blocked him and reported his post for nudity :P
Still... that was the biggest kindergarten I've ever experienced... Like a child, doesn't getting what it wants from its parents so it starts to cry.
Not my first art thief though, but the other ones were far more understanding than him.
So please check your friendlist there and remove him, when you have him on there. It's just better for you and everyone probably.
He's caused me far more trouble than I'd liked to have...
~Shadowcloud out.
