April 10th: The bill has been vetoed!
April 2nd: The politicians in Arizona are about to sign into law a bill that would mandate sites like e621 to either impose age verification on all users or be at a risk of lawsuits. Such system would be required to go through third party vendors, who in turn must go through a government database to verify every user's age. This is not only a major violation of privacy, but it also opens up a very real danger of identity theft through phishing schemes and other methods, not to mention that we would not be able to control any of that information to make sure it is permanently deleted after age verification is complete.
Unfortunately, Arizona is the state out of which e621 operates, which means that this law will almost certainly affect us if it is to pass. If want to help us ensure that this site can continue to serve you without being required to know who you are, please ask the Arizona governor to veto this bill.
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For some further information on what the bill does have a look at https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/bill/arizona-hb-2586/
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Dragon Whored
MemberI’M HELPING
aurum
MemberThe thing that bothers me about this YCH is that the artist kinda specifically said once that she doesn't like paring her OCs/Laura with stranger's characters and then proceeds to make an expensive YCH with a character that can be seamlessly removed from the image. The wolf is just floating here with no shadows on the image or deference to their surroundings. They are a layer away from totally disappearing and it just obvious to anyone who knows anything about digital art.
TheGlocc
MemberMore please :)
Yamaneko
MemberThere's probably a few layers for shading and such, but I get your point. As someone who likes to edit art on my free time, I can certainly tell he isn't as intricate as the others. Could at least have been consistent with the sheathed/erect pattern between the pictures.
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