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Why does Weasyl seem like the only writer friendly art site? by Pyra Jya-Luquay

Like...it's the only place where I can direct link to Docs or upload a PDF and people will see it, as opposed to FurAffinity, DeviantArt, Inkbunny, SoFurry, etc. that force you to copy-paste things. I take this personally because I actually know how to format my work so that it looks presentable or in such as way to where it's not just a long string of endless text and/or have boxy looking double-spacing from having to hit enter twice after every new paragraph. I was actually taught the proper way to write stories in college and haven't forgotten the importance of formatting things so they're presentable, but my time on the internet has forced me to get into bad writing habits I really don't like being in because websites don't let you just upload PDFs all the time or even direct link Docs published links. You have no idea how much time that saves instead of having to manually "adapt" things to accommodate sites that only allow for copy/paste or crappy .txt files that look horrible...

Why does Weasyl seem like the only writer friendly art site?

Pyra Jya-Luquay

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    what's your concern?

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      Basically uploading this: https://www.deviantart.com/incinermyn/art/Sylveon-Suiting-973943461

      Versus having to be forced to upload like this: https://www.deviantart.com/incinermyn/art/New-Toys-Quincy-s-Story-973765252

      The latter formatting looks atrocious and unprofessional because it has to be manually spaced.

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        and you don't like to post that on the site because for that reason?

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          Pretty much. I only just figured out that I could post PDFs on DA, so that kinda nerfs the issue, but...that's assuming people actually click on the link and not just favorite the thumbnails, lol! XD

          FA is worse. It still forces you to upload a .txt file if you want it to be "readable." Nothing else shows up, so you have to copy/paste your story into the description box if you want people to read it without clicking the download button, which they generally won't do because of the risk of it being a virus or malware link.

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            i can see. i don't use FA anymore. i had problems there and i lost a friend i appreciated

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              FA's crap! I mean, it was always crap, but it's actually gone WAY downhill after the "internal policy" update.

              I was literally told that my SFW artwork makes my 18+y.o. characters look WAY UNDERAGE and that because some of my content with them is considered fetish that it's actually NSFW by default... (That's a bannable offense now.) ._.

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                yeah, i can imagine that! im so glad i left the site and moved into DA and inkbunny and weasyl too

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                  Inkbunny is a good site function-wise. My only criticisms are that its uploader is a bit outdated to where you have do one-thing-at-a-time (issue for me having to post via smartphone since Postybirb doesn't work on mobile) and only .txt files autoformat like on FA. However, I can upload several pics in the same submission and they actually have a separate text box for story uploads from the description box, which is still cumbersome but nowhere near as obnoxious as FA where there's no text box at all! XD

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                    i can see! not all pages can be as good as we think

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        Also i followed you on DA