Wish we could all collectively get over the prudishness that leads to art gallery sites banning some completely legal artwork. Part of the problem is that artists are a little too centralized around certain sites because it's their business network. Sites like FA slowly roll back what's allowed on the site for seemingly arbitrary reasons and in that particular case I'm thinking it's just the sheer peer pressure from antis going to Neer's head.
Part of me also wants to see the abolition of obscenity laws in the US just because they're predicated on what an "average person" might think about the fucked up content we generate. It doesn't have too much of a bearing on what we can actually get away with right now, and we seem well-insulated by our First Amendment and state rights, but the attitude is there in the law and leans towards criminalizing obscene works in any other environment. Good luck winning a case for repealing laws like that though, I guess. Criminalizing just about anything is usually not justice; it doesn't adress the core issue in virtually any context and mostly disadvantages people with little legal knowledge or resources, like the poor and disabled. People should be free to think and create works in the ways that please them without even so much as shame, nevermind legal pressure.
Anyways. Pondering on what will help people out here. In the perfect world people would have their own websites to host their galleries and journals and stories, if those can be made more accessible and appealing it would be ideal for hosting, I think. I'm seeing webcomics hosted exclusively on Twitter and thinking "oh, this is going to just go up in smoke someday," and even furry gallery sites depend on specialized work to archive content that would have otherwise been lost media today. Hosting your work on an open site and sharing it will really ensure it can be archived and treasured many years after you're done with it, and I wish I could convince more people of the utility of this as artworks from internet heritage sites that have stood for decades are now content that would be banned under gallery policy made within the last year.
