I wish Elfwood Rants was still up.

[ellenmillion]

I have until the end of the month to 'clean up my galleries' or I'm getting like half my pieces removed.

What. The. Hell.

Some of the gems:

http://www.elfwood.com/art//m/i/million/crystalgatherer74.jpg.html

(non-genre. Because crystals grow on trees all the time.)

http://www.elfwood.com/libr/m/i/million3/dancingintherain.htm.html

(Too much white space at the end of the document.)

http://www.elfwood.com/art/m/i/million/amandafinished.jpg.html

(non-genre. Despite the description?)

http://www.elfwood.com/art//m/i/million/cuddly.jpeg.html

(They disapprove of the cropping and think there's too much white space to the left.)

http://www.elfwood.com/art//m/i/million/millionaurorabluegreen.jpg.html

(You tell me.)

It goes on like this for another 20 pieces.

I don't have TIME to 'fix' everything before the deadline. Bad week to poke the bear.

Comments

[brightling.livejournal.com]

That's really... quite painfully sad.

There's cleaning up galleries and then theres this.

I read someones summary of the situation awhile ago that struck me as being very accurate. Elfwood started out inclusive - anything that could be considered interpretable as fantasy was accepted. Now it has become exclusive - and anything that can be interpreted as not being fantasy will be strictly denied. Thats a lot of grey area that just shifted from perfectly acceptable (historical/fairy tale knights and princesses for example) to suddenly being taboo content.

It was that inclusive nature to the fantasy of Elfwood that I found so agreeable. I too have some distinct issues with where they are beginning to draw further lines in the sand. :/