The Last Straw of Solidarity

Sorry this has taken so long to write, but you know that brevity has never been my strong suit.

I was/am completely disgusted by the bannings of :devnifference:, :devSurrealistic-Geek:, and :devCageyButterfly: months ago, so earlier this year, I left deviantART. I engaged "the proper use of the Delete function" over a hundred times to reclaim all my work.

Exactly what we fought for, but I sure never intended to use it. And losing my outlet and audience there certainly isn't doing my artistic motivation any good.

But if legitimate criticism is met with hostility and a perma-ban, then I have no place there. (By that standard, I found Paddy's ban most shocking.) That place has never pretended to be a democracy, and neither would I accuse it of tyranny (since we're free to leave now), but clearly the monarchs will not welcome any scrutiny of their conduct.

So obviously I can say no more about it, not even here, since I do not want to be banned myself. And I wouldn't put it past them.

Instead, I would prefer that the record of our community action remain in my journals there. (Be sure that they're been thoroughly backed up, and find me at justThorne.com if they disappear suddenly.)

And besides that, I'd like to pop up there from time to time, to let you know how I'm doing.

I'll never forget, all the ways that you and deviantART changed my life.

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