Wow my first journal I've ever posted on this account, in 18 years...

I've been drawing for a while, since about 2003 or so. Back in that time, mostly we shared our art in person. Sometimes we would fax it to one another, but that was quite expensive. In that time period, a scanner was a very rare piece of tech, along with a computer. The internet was limited to mostly online hubs like AOL, Search engines wouldn't come into usefulness for a little while. In the years that followed that, peer-to-peer file sharing became possible in that era of open internet- a lot of artists would compile all of their digital art files into folders to be shared on Kazaa, limewire, ect. I met and found many artists that way... DeviantArt came around that time, and was notoriously furry unfriendly- as was most of the internet in the 2000s.

And then in 2005 came furaffinity. Furaffinity was made by a group of my friends, all of which were kink furry artists by the way... If you look at the very first submission ever here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/1/ You will see that quite plainly. Furaffinity has been a big success, and though Dragoneer is gone now, Alkora and Dax are still around... though they are both in poor health. I wish them the best, they still don't really realize the impact that they had on so many.

Furaffinity is a very unique place, there isn't another place like this online. When you think about websites, and how they have changed, how they have evolved. How they have disappeared. This one remains... This website is over 20 years old, and it has been online basically all that time. The thing that had enabled this was the support of artists and their donations, alongside burning a mountain of money to keep this place online. When hardware went down, people stepped up. Dragoneer was deeply in debt when he passed away, because he had given all that he had to this website. He had leveraged his house, he had left a very successful job to do so. I still feel sad when I think about it... But that brings me to my point.

I hope that you keep drawing, and even if you haven't started, I hope you will give it a try some day. Times have changed a lot, and we live in a world now where you can look around and see that art is under an attack that it has never seen before. They would burn this world to the ground just to try and emulate what you can do naturally with your imagination. Artists are so important to the world, but especially porn artists...

The people who do the stuff that's "weird" the people who do the stuff that others don't, and that others can't. To show and share with people experiences and feelings that indulge... that thrill and inspire. That make people blush. To be able to be genuine with yourself and what you create, is a rare and beautiful gift. I have been lucky to be around for so long, and to see personally with my own eyes the effect my art had on a new generation of artists... The comradery that it instilled in people who thought that they were alone in the kinky thoughts, and the understanding and comfort that it brought to know there was a community of people like them.

I'm happy I have been open about what I do, and what I like. Doing this art and posting it has been a joy for me, and perhaps I enjoy it more now than I ever did before. I hoped to show people that I do live a life just like anyone else, and part of my life is that I enjoy making pornography. The people around me have accepted this, it hasn't cost me opportunity- but it opened a whole world of discovery and friendship. There isn't a second that I regret making and posting my art, but I think very regretfully about how life would have been without it.

I hope if you read this... whoever you are. That you will keep drawing too. What you make, no one else will. And that might be more important that you think n.n