Character art by Hey-Stardust
Hello everyone! This account has outlived its usefulness so over the next few months it will be going through a revamp effort to reorganize and repurpose it into an archive for my roleplay based deviations. dA failed to warn me that the name I had in mind for it was too long, so expect a tidier name change in late February :')
Non-group stories like Christy's comics and my PSMD art work will also remain up, but I will most likely be uploading them in other spaces too so people can continue to enjoy them without having to visit the account I've left behind.
My newest (and hopefully last) deviantART account is one made solely for my dA based rp groups. Aside from this, I have found new platforms for the rest of my art via spaces like toyhouse and others-- so if you're interested in continuing to follow my things, just shoot me a note or a chat. I'll try to pay weekly visits to this account until its final name change next year.
We are not going to see eye to eye on this. So I'm just gonna leave you to it.
If you want to see this as some kind of parasocial incident then by all means, but I don't like seeing lgbtq people hurt, and people were. That's all.
No one is obligated to be okay with queerbaiting just because of where it's coming from.
Yeah people definitely have the right to make inside jokes with each other and of course the audience isn't owed an explanation, but when the language around the prank is clearly designed to bamboozle viewers, the "none ya business" argument doesn't really hold up.
I love all these content creators and there's absolutely no denying the good they have done for LGBTQ readers and the community in general, from kind messages to charity runs, like, I know they're good people! But that doesn't change my disagreement on the stance that's been taken. There's a big difference between silly ideas like a leopard seal/penguin romance and a comic concept just grounded enough for people to believe it, and also completely outside of holidays like April Fools. I might not have been so bothered by it if one of these prank drawings didn't actively acknowledge that this isn't a story idea you see everyday. The only ongoing equine webcomics I'm familiar with don't have LGBTQ representation, to my knowledge. At least not at this time.