That sounds like a pretty cool place to hang around online, the kind of thing we rarely see nowadays. A hub for art, fiction, tutorials, a forum... Of course you couldn't have a neat website without a forum! I didn't know Elfwood myself but reading your post gave me this nice sense of nostalgia for the web of that time. I do miss that.
The strict moderation isn't all that surprising, though. It makes me think of how fanzines were made and how editors had to carefully choose what would or wouldn't make it into a given volume. The site didn't need to think in terms of printing, of course, but image storing was always an (expensive) annoyance so I understand why they'd want to control what was posted or not, at least if we look at it through that angle... Cutting out art you made just because you had used a picture reference was certainly a strange decision, though. A little too restrictive!
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Date: 2025-05-01 07:38 pm (UTC)The strict moderation isn't all that surprising, though. It makes me think of how fanzines were made and how editors had to carefully choose what would or wouldn't make it into a given volume. The site didn't need to think in terms of printing, of course, but image storing was always an (expensive) annoyance so I understand why they'd want to control what was posted or not, at least if we look at it through that angle... Cutting out art you made just because you had used a picture reference was certainly a strange decision, though. A little too restrictive!