Kryptid

There is a group of anti-vaxxers running around on DeviantArt that have been stirring up trouble wherever they go. There were originally three of them, but it seems that one of them was recently banned. Still, the two left are enough to cause significant problems. I don't think I can give names, due to DeviantArt rules (but you know who you are).

They like to hunt down deviations or journals that talk about the COVID pandemic or the COVID vaccines, then proceed to post misinformation (sometimes a flood of misinformation) in order to discourage people from getting vaccinated, to sow mistrust in medical and government officials and just increase the divide that is troubling the world right now. If you try to debate with them, they jump to insults.

They are not here for the reason that DeviantArt was set up. The only "art" they upload consists of screenshots from other websites (which is against the rules, as it isn't their property), or simple pictures of text speaking out against vaccines. Their galleries and journals are choked with misinformation. They are here to cause trouble, plain and simple.

So if you see someone leave anti-vax comments (and insulting comments in particular) on your profile, deviations or journal entries, my advice is to mark the comment as spam.

At least part of the reason that I've been so inactive on this account is that I've been quite busy drawing a webcomic that I have named "Moonclash". Set in a fantasy world of eternal night, monsters are the dominant species and the story focuses around their interactions. It will have some combination of action, drama and comedy. Unusually for a story featuring monsters, there aren't any humans! I've just finished the first chapter. If anyone wants to check it out, it can be found here:

https://www.deviantart.com/moonclashcomic

Does this mean that I'm done with my main account? Probably not, but you can expect uploads here to be pretty infrequent (which, admittedly, they already were). Regardless, I'll still regularly check-in to view my messages.

The user known as redballbomb (https://www.deviantart.com/redballbomb) has stolen eeveelution artwork from ChrisJ-Alejo (https://www.deviantart.com/chrisj-alejo) . However, the person who had their art stolen does not seem to have been on deviantART in a long time. I did find them on tumblr, but I do not have an account there myself so I cannot tell them directly. This is a link to their account: https://chrisjalejo.tumblr.com/

I warned the thief twice that they were breaking the rules, but they hid both of my comments. That pretty much proves they know they what they are doing is wrong.

Could someone who has a tumblr account alert ChrisJ-Alejo to the theft?

He has also stolen artwork from Kona1025. His upload:

The original artist: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/54984035

Another upload from him:

The original artist is Vird-Gi: https://derpibooru.org/images/2245653

For anyone who can spare some money, it would be appreciated if you can help out a mother in need: https://www.ketto.org/stories/savemadivalappa?payment=form

Having a mother who was recently diagnosed with cancer myself has made this even more important to me. So get out there and help if you can. But only if you can. Don't force yourself out of money that you need for your own family.

I plan on making a comic using a drawing tablet and I need to know of a good program to use with it. I normally use Paint.NET, but it doesn't create nice, smooth lines when you try to draw free-hand with it. I used Inkscape to make the first page and it works well for getting the smooth look I was going for, but it's really bad about bogging down once the artwork starts getting complicated. It's a vector-drawing program, so I'm thinking that might be why it consumes so much computer memory and thus ends up going so slow.

I estimate that this comic is going to be approximately 1,000 pages in length, so I need to be able to draw quickly without sacrificing quality. Do any of you have suggestions for such a program?