Hello! Sorry for being so quiet lately. I've been back to work after the impromptu break I had to take... which means I'm busy drawing, so not really posting too much.

Anyway to make sure everyone gets to see ALL of my art NO MATTER WHAT there is now a supporter's Discord! Polls will now be held on the Discord, in the #polls channel! This will prevent poll ties!

A few of you have already figured out how to join, but for those of you who haven't... see the second image! If you're already in the server, check the pinned post on the #subscribestar-welcome channel for a handy link to the second part of this image set!

Enjoy!

This post is not paysite exclusive, and will be uploaded to public platforms very soon!

Hey, sorry for radio silence. I'm putting out another stupid text post so you know where I'm at.

I took the last few days off since I really really didn't want to draw. I was busy at dayjob all day, and when I clocked out after 11 hours I just could not bring myself to draw with the way I was feeling. lol. I did feel as though things were over. Maybe they still are.

As of right now, I'm going back to working on all content. I will only be posting content that is not prohibited. This means anything that doesn't depict certain familial bonds. If that's a dealbreaker for you, I'm really sorry. If you're someone who prefers Patreon then, for now, maybe switch to there, since Patreon will be getting the same content. There will hopefully be more parity between Patreon and Substar as a result of these changes. (Small prize...)

Substar removed the awful anti-furry guidelines (check for yourself here) so Part 2 of the Stella set is back on. I'm waiting for them to drop the "all fanart needs to be of characters who turned towards the camera and said 'I am a legal adult in my universe'" rule. Ridiculous. I know we're all blaming credit card processors, and fuck them, but I find it hard to believe that Mastercard or Visa said "you can't draw cartoon characters unless the cartoon has an 18th birthday episode." They removed the furry stuff, so clearly some of this is their own design.

To save myself from being nuked, I'm going to have to nuke those posts.

Unrelatedly, I recommend you back up anything you see online that you like, granted it is legal for you to do so. I have a lot of my favourite youtube videos and drawings saved on my hard drive, so I could see them in the event they were taken down. You should follow my example!

All retroactively banned content will be removed this time next week, granted it isn't auto deleted by moderation. This is to give everyone time to download. Don't say I didn't warn you, because I'm sending this out to everyone in a mass DM. Hello!

Posts will continue to trickle out to Twitter/Bsky/Newgrounds for free at the normal schedule for as long as they will host that type of content. So if you're worried you missed out, it'll go up eventually.

Parts 4 and 5 of the Holidays set is on indefinite hiatus. 

Entirely unrelated to anything else, I've wondered about opening a Discord. Should I do that? Would you guys be interested in that? I always said I never would, but it'd make it a lot easier to clean up offending posts on TOS changes, if everything was hosted in one place instead of spread around. What do you guys think? The TIDDYBAA Discord... I'll put a poll here, and on Patreon too. Please also hit the comments!

This is yet another public post with no art. Next time I post, it'll be art.

Thank you all again for supporting me and being kind.

TD

Hey guys. Didn't think I'd be posting about this again, but here I am.

Subscribestar has just now updated their prohibited content guidelines. It is unclear why they did this, since they've been super good this whole time about artistic freedom, but they have done it, and it's going to include something from just about every type of NSFW artwork in the world. So IDK how long it'll last, since it's going to drive literally everyone off the platform...

But that doesn't matter. There's important stuff I need to address with you.

All incest content is now banned, even in fictional and clearly fake depictions. See attached image 1.

The current legislation in the UK doesn't even cover this, btw, requiring it to be realistic enough that people would mistake it for real life. 

I can no longer upload the content that, I assume, the majority of you are here for. Please  locally back up any of the content you would like to keep, since you paid for it.

All content including a character that is not 18 in the source material is now banned. It no longer matters if you age them up. See attached image 2.

There is no law mandating this, this is just something they're doing. Even the strictest laws regarding pseudo images of children require them to look like/be depicted as children. This will prevent pornography of a lot of things. It shouldn't impact anything with Meg Griffin, since she's canonically 18, but there are still seasons of Family Guy before she turns 18, so what about her? What about Noelle Holiday, who's age isn't canon? I wrote that she was 19 in one of my pictures, but who knows. 

I can no longer upload content that includes probably 90% of the stuff we all know (cartoons, video games, anime) because in the show itself the character doesn't show their age as adult. Please locally back up any of the content you would like to keep, since you paid for it. 

All content including a furry on a human is banned. See attached image 3.

Again, there is no law on this. Who knows why they're doing this. 

I haven't drawn any of this on Substar, but I was going to. I now don't know what to do about that. I guess Toy Chica may now count? I don't know.

I would suggest complaining to Substar directly. These content restrictions literally kill the platform lol. This is more neutered than Patreon, who is famously restrictive. 

Substar was THE platform for people burned by Patreon, and creators have lined this company's pockets with content that falls under these restrictions. I don't know what outside pressure this is coming from, but again, this is going beyond all laws that I'm aware of. 

Download what you can, whilst you can. 

I don't know.

I'd love to say I'll just keep going since I got so much support so quickly, reaching 50% of my first goal within a couple of months, but I don't know if I can. I haven't even withdrawn any of the money lol. I wanted to save that for the day I could finally quit, and be self sufficient on here. Do one big celebratory payout, film it, go out for a meal or watch a movie. Lol. I've requested what I can request now. Hopefully they give me it, instead of locking my account and keeping it. That would suck. I wouldn't be able to do anything about that.

These changes completely kill the recent Deltarune posts for obvious reasons, and also kills what would have been Stella part 2 (an Anon X Stella piece) since that would fall under human on furry, which is prohibited. More importantly, these changes completely kill the platform, Patreon doesn't allow for 90% of the things people want to see, and I didn't fill my commission quota. (I was aiming for 10 comms per month every month this year, I hit 5 in the first 3 months)

The support on here and Twitter has been great, and I really did feel like there was a snowball's chance in hell that I was going to be able to do this full time. I no longer feel even that, and I don't know if I can keep neglecting my other options to focus on what is now seeming like a total pipe dream.

I'll continue to post what I can on Patreon and here. I'll continue to do commissions where I can. I'll probably keep posting art on Twitter for the time being. I'll do my dayjob, which I hate, and daydream about doing anything else with my time. 

If substar goes back on this, which I really hope they do, business will continue as usual.

No TL;DR on this one. I can't summarise this. Sorry.

Thanks for everything.

TD

I don't plan on filling your feeds with long posts every day of the week, but I think it's necessary for me to put out some sort of statement on this, especially here where you guys are directly supporting me.

I'm sure if you're a follower of mine you've seen the recent news about my awesome government's push for more censorship. It seems that every stupid snark article writer in the country is cheering for the banning of this Horrific porn (wherein two consenting adults have normal sex but pretend to call each other big bro and step sister) and are deciding not to spend even 1 second thinking about how bolstering Obscenity Laws and letting our very consistent parliament decide what kinks should and shouldn't exist would maybe not be a good idea. 

Whilst the bill hasn't passed, I'll be continuing as normal.

The bill itself is not yet law, and I'm keeping an eye on it as best as I can. It also doesn't cover cartoons, from the looks of things. It explicitly states that it's an offence IF "a reasonable person looking at the image would think that A and B were real,"  which should cover me. You can see that section linked above, or pictured below. I'll be talking to a solicitor (what we call lawyers) if/when the bill passes so that I can be more assured that I'm not going to be jailed for 5 years over a cartoon.

Now if it turns out that it's too unsafe for me to continue with that kind of content, I will have to stop. I would suggest that, if you like the content I'm posting and you live in an area wherein it is legal for you to do so, that you download anything you would like to keep because if I am unable to do this safely, I am going to DELETE everything relevant to that topic to avoid being retroactively punished. And I mean EVERYTHING. Even things that don't break the absolute word of the law! So anything with "mommy" or whatever in the post that doesn't outright  explicitly explain that the POV isn't the character's son or daughter or whatever. That might seem like an overreaction to you, but I really don't trust the police to be super nitpicky about enforcing a stupid vague law, and even if I don't go to prison, I really don't like the idea of going through a lengthy court process just to prove that my cartoons aren't actually real life. I will then continue posting all non-incest related artwork.

If it turns out that I'm fine I will continue posting as I have been, but more cautiously. This may mean I'll have to pump the brakes on certain content, dialogue, or scenarios.

Either way I'm writing to my MP, as I would encourage any other UK resident to, to express my extreme dissatisfaction with the bill. Here is a very easy to edit letter for you to use. I would also recommend looking into the nearby opposition, and vote for whoever is outright promising to not vote for this, or any other draconian internet control law. I am becoming a single issue voter on internet freedoms at this point. The worst part is I can't even move out, since everywhere else is trying to repeat what we're doing!

The only other thing I can say is, if you're in the UK, do your best to support Backlash and Myles Jackman (if either of them ever return, since they both seem to be MIA despite this being the kind of law that Jackman has successfully argued against in the past) and also ORG. If you're in the US you're probably spoiled for choice regarding organizations that hate censorship and Digital ID. Support those.