Okay, today's the day I start pulling all my artwork down. I hope you guys managed to save anything you wanted. One by one, throughout the day, it's all coming down.

In addition to FA, I've also started work on having my own website again. I'll post a new journal when that's up and running and delete the rest of the journals. My preferred journal of choice is still LiveJournal. I'll also look into Twitter and RSS feeds so you guys can continue to get the same kind of "update" for when I have new artwork posted. Otherwise, please bookmark the lancefoxx.com site when it becomes available.

To all the watchers and friends, it's been fun sharing artwork on here. I am by no means leaving anyone behind. I will continue to watch people here and occasionally comment. I am not leaving any sort of fandom. That is not what this is about. I will continue to be "Were," "Furry," and an artist.

All I am doing is taking content off DA because of my grievances with its administration.

To the DA admin, none of you will probably ever read this journal, and that's part of the problem. You don't care. You read my notes, only because you had to, and you treated my concerns as no big deal. They were a much bigger deal to me. Because you ignored certain issues that soon became detrimental to me staying here, you gave me the impression that all you cared about is financing your website and that an individual user is not worth caring for. For that, I am removing all content so that even with a "free" account, I will no longer be just another user that brings you web traffic.

I was being lazy all this time whole time. I should have been using my own website, especially since I am already paying for my own domain name. I just enjoyed the art community so much here that I didn't see the need right away. I trusted DA to manage things the way I thought they were supposed to. At the very least, I expected them to be able to stick to their own Terms of Service and correct issues that should have been addressed properly. At least with my own website, I can have the kind of control of the content I've been seeking and I will be able to handle things as I see fit. No more being lazy. It's time to bring [link] back...

Anyways... sorry to do this, guys, but... it's time for the artwork to go. It'll still be on the web and easy to find, but I will no longer be posting the artwork here on DA.

All right, here's what I'm going to do.

By August 4th, all the content of my account will be taken down. That means all the artwork and photographs in my gallery will be deleted, all scraps, all journals, the icon, my DA ID, etc...

I will not go into what happened. It's a long list of things, believe me. It's issues I've tried to keep to myself for years, but DA finally just upset me one last time. I can't bare to be here supporting them with content on my account any longer.

What will remain is the account name. I don't want anyone else taking my name and pretending to be me, so I'm not getting rid of the entire account all together. I will maintain a presence here.

In fact, the good news in this is that I'm not leaving entirely. Technically, I'm going to become a "lurker" on DA. In my mind, with all my stuff being pulled, it's like I've left DA, but I will not leave friends and watches behind. I'm sorry I didn't state this in the original "Leaving" journal. I was really upset and could barely think clearly.

What WILL remain is my name, my +Favs, and my +Watches.

That being said, I will need some help. Please read this carefully and try to help me out as best as you can...

For years, I have tried to keep up with artwork and messages on both DA and FA at the same time. There's a lot of people I watch that are on both DA and FA. Now...

I only want to watch people on DA that *ONLY* use DA.

For the group of people that use both DA and FA, I *ONLY* want to watch you on FA.

That means, for those of you who thought I was leaving you behind by leaving DA, I will still watch you, but only you, because this is the only place I can find you.

For those of you that have both a DA and FA account, this move shouldn't bother you as I'm probably watching you on FA already. However, you might notice me take you off my watchlist on DA. Do not be hurt by this. I'm still watching you on FA.

The reason I'm doing this should be easy to understand. This will dramatically cut down on messages in my inbox. Watching people on two accounts that post the same artwork and the same journals, has almost doubled my messages and made things that much harder to keep up with. This will help out in going through messages and will probably increase the likelihood that I will respond and possible +Fav more, since I will no longer feel rushed to go through so many messages.

So, guys, here's your chance. If you have an FA account, tell me. Either respond here or note me. Whichever you prefer. KNOW, however, that I will stop watching you on DA so I can focus on watching you on FA instead.

If you only have a DA account, you should be fine.

This is how I've decided to handle this.

I'm sorry to put a lot of you through the sudden shock of my gallery being pulled, but you can thank DA for continuously getting worse over the course of 5 to 6 years instead of getting better. It's years of upsets and disappoints that have caused this.

If you currently see nothing wrong with DA, then by all means, continue to post and be happy. I'm not going to try to campaign against DA and convince other people to join me in any sort of mass exodus. My issues with DA are simply that, opinions I have against the website and it's admin. There are things that I can simply no longer tolerate. The last thing I want to do is stir up drama by getting people to join me and convince others what I think is wrong.

Without siting anything, you guys can probably come up with a couple of things you think is wrong, and you'd probably be right. Some things are that obvious and so some of you may already have a good idea why I'm leaving. Some of you may have even wondered what took me so long to come to this conclusion. Well, like I have always said, I'm a very tolerate and patient person. You can only imagine how upset I am for DA to finally cross that threshold with me.

So, anyways, bad news is I'm still "leaving," but the good news is I'm technically "lurking."

Hook me up with your FA account please so I can better manage my DA and FA messages. This will hopefully put me in better contact with a lot of you.

Yes, I'm leaving DA.

By holding content on this website I know that I am supporting DA. That is something that I am no longer willing to do...

I do not want to type up a long explanation. However, I do want to make one thing clear. I am not leaving because of any user-to-user drama. There was no "incident" that happened that is causing me to leave. It may seem sudden, but in all truth this was a decision that has been 6 years in the making. Even though I have not been very vocal about it, there have been issues over the years and poor decisions that I have tolerated from DA's Admin. I cannot tolerate this website's Admin any longer.

The final straw for me was when they refused to abide by their own Terms of Service.

So, again, just to be clear, the reason for me leaving is because of the ADMIN of this website, not another user. There's no drama to go looking for.

I apologize only to my friends and watchers. I'm sorry to put you through this, but it's a decision I feel I have to make for my own sanity and a clear conscious. My frustration has been building for years and I just can't put up with DA's Admin any more. I'm done.

Save my artwork if you like it. I want to give you guys that chance. By August 4th, all content will be removed.

Otherwise, you may also continue to follow me on other websites, such as FA - FurAffinity.NET [link] (Warning: Contains Adult Artwork)