Heyo, it's Bracket again.

Since a mistake I made here in late August towards rating my art appropriately, I've been hesitant to post my work on Newgrounds. These worries of mine aren't new as I almost always felt unfit for this place, especially when I started. However, that error of mine really did sink most of the use I had on here. Doesn't help that I have no clue how NG judges content on a broader level, at least with approving artists into the portal. I already know that my bad move of posting more NSFW adjacent art onto this, while not rating all of them properly, was a factor in why I was kicked off of it. I have felt unmotivated to post basically anything as a result, especially with worries of some regular material being seen as too suggestive by moderators. After all, it's very vague with how that's defined and I'm certain is full of bias.

Part of me wants to return to posting some again here, but I've felt so disconnected from the culture on here that I have essentially abandoned it, or at least only post rarely. I'm not exactly a very active artist anyways, so that might not be helping matters.

Might be taking a risk by commenting about this here, but seems that something negative's happened with my Newgrounds profile. Embarrassingly, it's definitely for justifiable reasons. When submitting my latest drawing earlier today, I had noticed that my work was kicked from the art portal. When I noticed that, I got concerned. Went to check the wiki detailing rules about scouting and such, and it seems that I definitely fell into one of the criteria that would warrant such a removal.

Some of my recent art posted here has fallen more onto the suggestive and NSFW side of things, especially so for two recent pieces posted yesterday. In hindsight, those two posts at least should've definitely been given the Adult rating right out of the gate rather than an M, since they were both more sexually charged by their standards. I was foolish to assume that wouldn't be an issue, and I'm now thinking that posting that stuff on this account was a mistake in itself. I apologize for not rating my stuff properly and if that's caused any discomfort. Shall be more careful about this stuff so I don't repeat the same mistake. Was already cautious as is, but sometimes my judgement is faulty. I hold total responsibility for this error on my part and accept whatever punishment's come from it.

Still have plans to keep posting here even if my potential reach has been limited. I was never in it to get popular anyway, and I was rather obscure beforehand. However, I have been thinking about making a separate profile for the more NSFW stuff anyway, and if I do that's where it'll end up and existing ones will be removed from this profile. Again, this was probably something I should've done from the start, but my bad. I'm sorry for being this foolish. Anyways, thanks for reading this and hopefully all goes well.

Recently, I've been considering posting some mild NSFW art here, nothing too explicit though. This is something that I've been thinking of branching out to since late last year, though I've really only shared this sort of thing privately. I have posted some suggestive drawings in the past which I was mildly worried about sharing publicly. Much of those have been marked with at least a T rating since while I don't find them bad enough to be truly mature content, they still carry suggestive themes. I've grown more comfortable with sharing such interests lately, although this may remain the only place I'll post this kind of thing to the open. That's primarily due to this site's rating system allowing users to filter sensitive/NSFW content they don't want to see. It's not that in depth, but it's more precise than a simple sensitive/mature content tag most social media avenues use. That's not a luxury many other sites have, even places which do allow it. Granted, most of that stuff's likely still gonna be suggestive or mild kink stuff at worst, although I'm still mostly secretive about the latter so that may not be shared initially. Depending on how I feel, I might still hold off from this idea at least temporarily. Still, this serves as a warning I'm giving out ahead of time in case I do post that stuff here.

Would like to give a special thanks to some wonderful pals who had made gift art for my birthday yesterday. You made my day feel truly special, and I appreciated every moment.

As of late, this site or my browser keeps on forcing me to re-enter a captcha every few days just to continue onto this site. Most recently today, the captcha gods decided that I needed to fill out two within only about two hours between them. Is there a logical explanation for this, because this appears to have been a problem I've had for weeks. It's gotten to the point where it's beyond annoying, it's infuriating. There's no good reason for why a site would require me to fill-out captchas this frequently unless somehow they don't even keep track.

Requested my lizard dude Jay for this a couple days ago, and Dingo did an amazing job it. Cannot thank him enough, honestly. Please check out the rest of his work too, he deserves a lot more recognition.

Somehow I didn't visit this place yesterday, which is a shame since my birthday was yesterday. Was probably the best I've had in a couple years. The sense of community was great on that day, and I'm very grateful for all the birthday wishes I got elsewhere.

Sometimes I do feel rather unsure if I want to stay on this platform consistently. I feel my work doesn't fit an audience which appeals to that many. Doesn't help that as of late I feel like I've been basically been invisible even for my followers. As great of a place this platform is, part of me thinks I don't really belong. I don't do my work to appeal to a specific audience, more I just make what I like doing. Pandering to a broader audience is something I want to avoid doing as an artist. Guess amateurish cartoony stuff doesn't fly a lot of the time.

I've heard Twitter's trying to phase out artists from their platform, for some reason I don't know. That makes my decision to be more active on here again rather fitting. In fact, I'll more than likely post certain artwork here first as some form of protest. They'll also be posted to my dA before I post them to Twitter, if I decide to do so that is. Hopefully my journey as an up-and-coming artist on this platform goes smoothly.

Even though I have a decent amount of work available to me, I don't think it fits this site's landscape all too well. It's not really as polished as a lot of the work here, and it's obvious I'm still an amateur. Not to mention, this site is mostly used by those who want to watch little fan animations and play flash games; which is all well and good, I've got nothing against that. I just don't think I mesh well to this site's culture. That said, I may post again here soon.