PhoenixMystery

Hope everyone's doing ok! I haven't been very active here lately, but I have not by any means stopped creating art. Since the whole AI thing launched, I've lost all interest to post on this website. It's been blow after blow the last years, with eclipse, weird nft things and...the AI thing was the last straw. Even though my largest audience is here (and I apologize in advance to anyone that uses only dA) and this will hurt me...I just can't, in good conscience, post here anymore. Are other art websites safer? No, absolutely not. But at least they don't lie to my face time after time. I won't disable my account, since there are people I care about that I still want to support. But I won't post my new art here anymore. Gradually, I plan on deleting the majority of the existing art as well. Commissioned art and gifts will be the exception though. Anyway, if you'd still like to follow me elsewhere, I am active on the following places: https://www.tumblr.com/panteraignis

I'm not leaving dA, but with all that has happened and since a lot of people are leaving, here is a list of other places that you can find me. Twitter: https://twitter.com/PanteraIgnis Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/panteraignis/ Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/panteraignis Furaffinity: https://www.furaffinity.net/user/niranilionheart/ Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/panteraignis I'm most active on twitter(for as long as that will last) and instagram at the moment. My tumblr is brand new, so I'm posting older art, but once I catch up, I will post regularly my new art as well. Thanks for reading!

It's great to be reminded again and again and again and again and again and again and again. AND AGAIN. How underappreciated artists are. How their work and effort don't matter. What a dystopian path we are all treading. And when it happens by social media bought by a millionaire manchild thug, that's all good and well, and not all that surprising. But from a website meant to build a community to support artists? Gee thank you ever so much dA, for delivering yet another blow to a community that needed you. I wish artists could actually AFFORD to stop producing their art for a week, a month, a year. See how much more depressing the world would turn. Maybe make the rest of the world realise how much art is NEEDED in daily life. To make it more bearable. When there's no song to get you through the day, a nice movie or series to forget your worries, a good piece of art or a book to give your heart some warmth. An ugly grey city all around you, with blocks for buildings. What does it