Sorry if this is a daft question, but I'm completely new here. My shtick is that I enjoy looking and drawing "soft fetish" stuff involving male WG and inflation, but I pretty much exclusively draw adult human and elven characters. I know this is a furry image board first and foremost, but I'm under the impression from reading other threads that moderators delete any uploads depicting human characters. Is this true, or have I got my wires crossed?

If so, does anyone know any other image boards that might be more suited to my tastes? A lot of the ones I've found in the wild are exclusively for female characters, or are entirely anime focused, neither of which are for me ^^'. I'm just looking for a space where my silli video game art will be welcome, and I'd feel a bit daft if I waited a week only to discover my drawings aren't welcome here...

You can post elves, as long as they have pointy ears that are discernible enough from human ears.

Human only though will be deleted. i know there are subreddits for lots of kinks perhaps look for one of those and see if they recommend any particular image board or site focused on wg/inflation that allows human stuff?

That's a shame. I do have elf art I could upload, but to be honest I don't really think this community is the right fit for me, so I can't really see myself coming back on the regular. I might deactivate the account at some point, but I would like to know what other options are available to me, preferably without having to go through Reddit first XD

Uploads that contain human characters are fine, as long as there's at least one clearly non-human character (and not extreme human focus, like just humans with a bird in the background).

Elves are allowed if the ears are shown, though it's an edge case and generally not well received.

squidjibo said:
Sorry if this is a daft question, but I'm completely new here. My shtick is that I enjoy looking and drawing "soft fetish" stuff involving male WG and inflation, but I pretty much exclusively draw adult human and elven characters. I know this is a furry image board first and foremost, but I'm under the impression from reading other threads that moderators delete any uploads depicting human characters. Is this true, or have I got my wires crossed?

Refer to our Uploading Guidelines, more specifically the section titled Humans and e621.

If your content is mostly human-only, it will get deleted.
If your content is depicts elven characters, make sure those elven features are visible or they will still be considered as "human" (see our Tag What You See policy).
If it is a human and an elf together, it may be allowed so long as we can visually see that they are together with an elf.

If so, does anyone know any other image boards that might be more suited to my tastes? A lot of the ones I've found in the wild are exclusively for female characters, or are entirely anime focused, neither of which are for me ^^'. I'm just looking for a space where my silli video game art will be welcome, and I'd feel a bit daft if I waited a week only to discover my drawings aren't welcome here...

Probably the various rule34 sites that are not furry-exclusive.
https://rule34.xxx/
https://rule34.paheal.net/

squidjibo said:
That's a shame. I do have elf art I could upload, but to be honest I don't really think this community is the right fit for me, so I can't really see myself coming back on the regular. I might deactivate the account at some point, but I would like to know what other options are available to me, preferably without having to go through Reddit first XD

just look around that's what I'd recommend. go to a search engine, look to see if there are image boards or sites dedicated to what you are looking for, maybe someone here will know a place, but i woudn't count on it.

i think bluesky has a pretty good variety of kink artist's but that's not really a gallery site.

If this is you, then I think only one piece would fall as non-human here so far. (Still far better than none!)

Thanks for the additional information, everyone, but the more I read, the less I actually feel welcome, despite everyone being very polite to me. Really, I’m looking for a community where I feel wanted rather than just vaguely tolerated, and being on an image board where I'm barely allowed to upload the things I draw isn’t really what I’m after.

I think of myself as a fetish freak (/pos or whatever the kids use) but as I said in the OP, I’m a “soft fetish” artist and I get nothing out of explicit stuff but occasional discomfort. While I’m happy to be in spaces alongside artists that like to go a bit further than me, the URL rule34.xxx is sending huge alarm bells as the wrong sorta place for me.😅

As for search engines, they’re completely hopeless in this day and age and it’s borderline impossible to search for anything without scrolling through waves of AI generated nonsense, let alone niche communities that probably don't want much publicity. That’s why I was hoping to get suggestions from a forum (that wasn’t Reddit XD)

Because of my very niche interests, I find it very hard to find places to fit in. I’m on Itaku but I don’t like any of the art there or how the moderators(?) censor fat tags with borderline fat-phobic language. I’m on Bsky but it’s hard to reach people on there and I’m tired of getting IRL belly photographs flooding my feed. For some reason, the people whose tastes align closest to my own are the Furry community, even though I don’t draw that kinda stuff. I thought this site would at least allow me to upload my human drawings like FurAffinity does, but clearly I didn’t read the rules carefully enough.

Sorry this post is pretty negative, but I want to stress that I am thankful to everyone that replied and that no-one was rude to me for my daft question. I’ll keep searching for home.

squidjibo said:
Thanks for the additional information, everyone, but the more I read, the less I actually feel welcome, despite everyone being very polite to me. Really, I’m looking for a community where I feel wanted rather than just vaguely tolerated, and being on an image board where I'm barely allowed to upload the things I draw isn’t really what I’m after.

I think of myself as a fetish freak (/pos or whatever the kids use) but as I said in the OP, I’m a “soft fetish” artist and I get nothing out of explicit stuff but occasional discomfort. While I’m happy to be in spaces alongside artists that like to go a bit further than me, the URL rule34.xxx is sending huge alarm bells as the wrong sorta place for me.😅

As for search engines, they’re completely hopeless in this day and age and it’s borderline impossible to search for anything without scrolling through waves of AI generated nonsense, let alone niche communities that probably don't want much publicity. That’s why I was hoping to get suggestions from a forum (that wasn’t Reddit XD)

Because of my very niche interests, I find it very hard to find places to fit in. I’m on Itaku but I don’t like any of the art there or how the moderators(?) censor fat tags with borderline fat-phobic language. I’m on Bsky but it’s hard to reach people on there and I’m tired of getting IRL belly photographs flooding my feed. For some reason, the people whose tastes align closest to my own are the Furry community, even though I don’t draw that kinda stuff. I thought this site would at least allow me to upload my human drawings like FurAffinity does, but clearly I didn’t read the rules carefully enough.

Sorry this post is pretty negative, but I want to stress that I am thankful to everyone that replied and that no-one was rude to me for my daft question. I’ll keep searching for home.

Newgrounds is a really cool website. They allow hentai and NSFW as well as soft fetish art, both furry and 100% human. And the amazing thing is that the moderation on NG is done by humans, so there is no risk of becoming a misfit of the algorithm. I recomment looking into it.

I really don't like the Newgrounds community. It seems to always foster edgelords with unpleasant art styles and unpleasant personalities. I used to be on there a long time ago under a different identity and I received nothing but hurtful comments. Much like Twitter, it's a place I never want to put my foot in again.

Edit: Sorry if this post came across as blunt and rude. Thanks for suggestion, even if it's not right for me.

My only other suggestion i can think of would be deviantart.

That's the other one that I'm trying to actively avoid, because the current owners are shilling AI art all over every page and would absolutely steal art for wicked purposes without hesitation. The internet really needs another place like 2000s Deviantart that isn't owned by a greedy cooperation right now, and that's what I've been trying to find.

idk what to tell you then other than good luck then.

Tumblr doesn't allow sex, but a quick scroll through your stuff didn't reveal anything the rules there would object to. I don't know what tags they use, but there's a number of fat fur artists on there.

It's a shame CoHost up and died, or I'd recommend it - I'm in a reasonably similar boat in what I make, and I was starting to get a decent amount of interaction on my more niche stuff over there right about the time the site went down. As it is, it does seem the best options are FA and Bsky (with gratuitous use of blocking/muting/filtering tools), and it don't hurt to post stuff that does manage to here even if it's not your "main" site.

regsmutt said:
Tumblr doesn't allow sex, but a quick scroll through your stuff didn't reveal anything the rules there would object to. I don't know what tags they use, but there's a number of fat fur artists on there.

Oh, I actually do have a Tumblr blog, ha ha! (My fault for not stating the websites I am on earlier in the thread ^^') I actually really enjoyed designing my blog, and I have had some fun out of it here and there. The main problem with that site is that the staff treats inflation art as the same level as "sex" and is trying to censor as many tags and art as possible. I'm basically on there in spite of them and I'm fully aware that someday they could get bored of me and nuke my account. Probably as a result of this purge, the remaining people in that sort of community that cling on to Tumblr either draw stuff that's actually too tame for my tastes, or are mainly in it to talk about an post photos of IRL feederism stuff, which isn't why I'm there (don't get me wrong, the staff want to censor that too, but do little about posts that promote dangerous eating disorders like anorexia 🤦). It's a blog that I'm going to keep running until I get banned, but it's hard to find the right community for me when it's so censored and so many people have left.

sloppyheadwind said:
It's a shame CoHost up and died, or I'd recommend it - I'm in a reasonably similar boat in what I make, and I was starting to get a decent amount of interaction on my more niche stuff over there right about the time the site went down. As it is, it does seem the best options are FA and Bsky (with gratuitous use of blocking/muting/filtering tools), and it don't hurt to post stuff that does manage to here even if it's not your "main" site.

I had no idea CoHost was being used for this sort of thing until very recently. Until now I thought people were using it just for journal-ling and reviewing stuff. It's probably for the best that I didn't know, because I would have been bummed out about it's death too ^^
As for my art here, the next piece I'm about to start is an Elf->Monster TF sequence. I don't know if any of you are interested in that but that might be one to cross-post on here in the future 👀

Human characters are allowed as long as there not underage and includes a furry character in the post. otherwise human only isnt allowed. hope that helps.

Not really, no. None of my art has furry characters in it, it's either human only, or elves. I do think the rules are a bit strict, to be honest.

squidjibo said:
I do think the rules are a bit strict, to be honest.

Well they have to be otherwise we get a bunch of human only art, when this is an archival site for furry art, and as mentioned previously elves are perfectly fine to post, you won’t have any issues posting elves here ^^

Just give em pointy ears or put a dog next to them.

regsmutt said:
Just give em pointy ears or put a dog next to them.

a dog next to them might still be extreme human focus.

squidjibo said:
I really don't like the Newgrounds community. It seems to always foster edgelords with unpleasant art styles and unpleasant personalities. I used to be on there a long time ago under a different identity and I received nothing but hurtful comments. Much like Twitter, it's a place I never want to put my foot in again.

Edit: Sorry if this post came across as blunt and rude. Thanks for suggestion, even if it's not right for me.

That used to be the case a long time ago. But over the years the NG community has changed. It's much more welcoming now. After the infamous NSFW purge on Tumblr, NG received a massive influx of furry, fetish and NSFW artists. Thus the edgelords would no longer be the overwhelming majority.

dba_afish said:
a dog next to them might still be extreme human focus.

True, it should at least be making a silly face.
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Newgrounds has changed a lot from the old days, a lot of artists now use it actively that were never there before
I believe they caught a lot of people during the exodus of Tumblr and continue pulling people escaping XTweetor

I might have been doing something wrong but the only fetish art I could find on Newgrounds when I looked just now was all female stuff, even when I told it add "male" as a required tag. Am I using the search wrong, is it really that broken, or is that really what all the art is over there? All the stuff I saw was very much not my jam.

I think I thought when I was starting this thread that there would be other more niche communities and image boards people here would know about, but so far, I'm only being given incredibly well known image websites. I was so sure there'd be others like this one out there but without the furry focus, but I guess not?

regsmutt said:
Just give em pointy ears or put a dog next to them.

I think this was meant as a joke, but the characters I draw are characters I really like or mean a lot to me, and I'm not making edits to change their species to attempt to bend a rule. And this might be sacrilege to say on here, but I hate dogs. Like IRL pet dogs. I am neutral about the furry kind :P

squidjibo said:
And this might be sacrilege to say on here, but I hate dogs. Like IRL pet dogs.

You what.

donovan_dmc said:
You what.

Sorry, they're a genuine phobia of mine, so I don't really have anything nice to say about pet dogs at all. You can all revoke my e621 license now if you like ;).
No problem with cute anthro dogs like your avatar though!

squidjibo said:
Sorry, they're a genuine phobia of mine, so I don't really have anything nice to say about pet dogs at all. You can all revoke my e621 license now if you like ;).
No problem with cute anthro dogs like your avatar though!

Relatable

squidjibo said:
Sorry, they're a genuine phobia of mine, so I don't really have anything nice to say about pet dogs at all. You can all revoke my e621 license now if you like ;).
No problem with cute anthro dogs like your avatar though!

that's kinda understandable. dogs, both large and small, tend to have kind of an overwhelming personality that can be off-putting or upsetting to people depending on their disposition.

squidjibo said:
Sorry, they're a genuine phobia of mine, so I don't really have anything nice to say about pet dogs at all. You can all revoke my e621 license now if you like ;).
No problem with cute anthro dogs like your avatar though!

That's perfectly fair. I personally draw a clear sharp line between anthro animal characters and IRL animals. Some people don't and usually they're the ones that'd throw the tired (and fallacious) furries are zoophiles cliché around. :P

Why is it so scary having my art stuck as "pending"? I feel as though I'm being judged by a panel as to whether I'm worthy of being here or not... 😖

squidjibo said:
Why is it so scary having my art stuck as "pending"? I feel as though I'm being judged by a panel as to whether I'm worthy of being here or not... 😖

It can take up to 30 days to be approved so don’t get worried yet!

squidjibo said:
Why is it so scary having my art stuck as "pending"? I feel as though I'm being judged by a panel as to whether I'm worthy of being here or not... 😖

Either the janitors are busy or your post is on the "grey area" of our quality standards.
If it is the latter, it means that no janitor has found the post to be "good enough" to be approved but also not "bad enough" to be outright rejected, so it gets passed around until someone makes a decision or automatically deleted in 30 days.

Well, it looks like my art was approved over night! I feel like I've passed some sort of test 😅

I guess you can expect to see my future elf art on here! This is for that one person that favourited instead of downvoting me ;) (Ha ha, I know my art is extremely subjective, especially as it's not furry related)

I was really sad to see this website has the exact same problem as Itaku with censoring the "fat" tag with something far worse though.

squidjibo said:
I was really sad to see this website has the exact same problem as Itaku with censoring the "fat" tag with something far worse though.

What do you mean by this?

ruppari said:
What do you mean by this?

fat is aliased to overweight, which I'd bet most people who are overweight which would prefer over outright being called fat
I know I'd prefer being called overweight rather than fat

I'm not sure why they're getting offended over us using a medical term rather than an ambiguous common term

donovan_dmc said:
fat is aliased to overweight, which I'd bet most people who are overweight which would prefer over outright being called fat
I know I'd prefer being called overweight rather than fat

I'm not sure why they're getting offended over us using a medical term rather than an ambiguous common term

Calling it as censoring is really strange.

ruppari said:
Calling it as censoring is really strange.

Seems pretty standard to me, it's conveying that they see it as offensive and sterilizing the language we're using
Which to a point it is, we want more neutral wording in our tags

I'm going to disagree on this one. Fat is a descriptive term and isn't inherently rude or derogatory unless someone's adding extra baggage or insults on top of it. The term overweight implies that there is a "correct standard weight" to be and being over that limit means you're too big or wrong and unhealthy. It's hardly neutral. I'm clearly in the minority here, but I find it quite offensive, and a bad word for describing people.

Edit: I just want to clarify I'm not trying to start an argument here, I'm just respectfully disagreeing, and sharing my personal disappointment with the use of the this term and the idea that it's "neutral wording". It's one of my least favourite things about itaku's tagging and I was annoyed to see it here too.

squidjibo said:
The term overweight implies that there is a "correct standard weight" to be and being over that limit means you're too big or wrong and unhealthy.

Because.. there is.. there isn't some objectively correct weight but unless you're a body builder with a ton of muscle being something like 300 pounds is absolutely unhealthy, I should know

At a point how much you weigh does affect your health and that is objectively unhealthy
You can argue semantics and exactly where the line should be drawn, but don't pretend like it doesn't exist at all

squidjibo said:
I'm going to disagree on this one. Fat is a descriptive term and isn't inherently rude or derogatory unless someone's adding extra baggage or insults on top of it. The term overweight implies that there is a "correct standard weight" to be and being over that limit means you're too big or wrong and unhealthy. It's hardly neutral. I'm clearly in the minority here, but I find it quite offensive, and a bad word for describing people.

Edit: I just want to clarify I'm not trying to start an argument here, I'm just respectfully disagreeing, and sharing my personal disappointment with the use of the this term and the idea that it's "neutral wording". It's one of my least favourite things about itaku's tagging and I was annoyed to see it here too.

I empathize, but from what I've seen the preferred term is an issue where you're going to get different answers depending on who you ask and when. The preference for 'fat' over 'overweight' is very far from universal. A lot of people DO have very personal, very negative associations with 'fat.' This is something that I don't think there's a good answer that will satisfy everyone.

regsmutt said:
I empathize, but from what I've seen the preferred term is an issue where you're going to get different answers depending on who you ask and when. The preference for 'fat' over 'overweight' is very far from universal. A lot of people DO have very personal, very negative associations with 'fat.' This is something that I don't think there's a good answer that will satisfy everyone.

I'll also argue that, from a neutral standpoint "fat" might be a slightly more ambiguous term than "overweight" since fat is also a noun in addition to it being an adjective. I mean, I don't know when someone's going to be tagging the concept of fat or bodyfat, but still... (gore situations, maybe?)

also personally, I feel like the line between slightly_chubby and overweight is a little bit easier to conceptualize than the line between slightly_chubby and fat.

dba_afish said:
I'll also argue that, from a neutral standpoint "fat" might be a slightly more ambiguous term than "overweight" since fat is also a noun in addition to it being an adjective. I mean, I don't know when someone's going to be tagging the concept of fat or bodyfat, but still... (gore situations, maybe?)

also personally, I feel like the line between slightly_chubby and overweight is a little bit easier to conceptualize than the line between slightly_chubby and fat.

Yeah, I do also agree with this. I didn't want to mention it because like. People who consider anything thicker than spaghetti 'fat' are shitty taggers who will be slapped no matter what the tag is called, but 'overweight' does make it more obviously an incorrect tag.

I still very much believe that fat is the nicer word and that overweight is not a more neutral tag and is a bit derogatory. But I also understand that language is subjective and sometimes one person's preference in words might make others uncomfortable. So to all those who don't get what I'm saying, we'll agree to disagree. That doesn't mean I won't be a little upset when I see my tags get altered in that way, though.

I'm glad that my comments prompted a civil discussion rather than a heated argument. The general friendly tone on this thread is the sole reason I decided to stay and try uploading art, so thank you everybody!

That said, if anyone does know of any other art website or board where my human art will be more welcome, I'd still love to know. I'm fully aware that on here, my art is just the brink of being barely tolerated, and I know that i'm mostly gonna keep getting downvotes no matter what I do. 😅

The concept of "overweight" and the "Body Mass Index" are misnomers conceived of by marketing firms. It's absolutely derogatory.

You can be perfectly healthy as a 5'3, 470 pound man but the Diet Industrial Complex tries to otherize fat bodies in order to sell more dietary products. Thankfully, American obesity rates are still increasing, so no one is paying attention to the propaganda.

oneohthrix said:
perfectly healthy as a 5'3, 470 pound man

kek