Well, thank you, but why are you apologizing to me? I’m not the one you wronged here.
I really do appreciate that you’re trying to make amends–but apologizing to the person who calls you on your shit instead of the person you were rude to is not the way to go. It comes off like you’re less interested in actually making up for the fact that you tried to gaslight a new artist into making fetish artwork for you and more interested in not getting yelled at for doing so. And like, I’m sure that’s not actually the case at all. But it’s kind of a bad look and it’s not very helpful overall.
And I know it probably seems like I’m being hard on you here, but you’ve been going around posting this stuff constantly, and some of it is pretty bad.
You have made literally dozens of posts that are pretty much word for word “Is the foal just spazzing out or is it trying to get away please tell me it’s trying to get away I love watching them try to get away oooh” and more unpleasantly “why isn’t the fluffy trying to get away you should make it try to get away I would like to see it try to get away”.
The most egregious ones are when you tell creators “Hey you should maybe make the fluffy squirm and fight back in a really detailed way in this particular scene, I think that would make this particular scene perfect, just making some friendly constructive criticism”. It legitimately comes off like you’re trying to conceal some weird fetish behind a facade of good intentions.
Here’s just 3 posts out of like five or six dozen that you’ve made in this same vein:
Like, it’s one thing if you want to ask or commission someone to draw what you want to see. That’s completely fine. FC is full of people with strange interests and you’re certainly not alone among them, and lots of artists will indulge you.
But camouflaging your attempts to request fetish artwork as “constructive criticism” is manipulative and disrespectful towards the artists. Constructive criticism, and criticism in general, is something that creators use to improve their work. When someone criticizes an artist’s work, that artist takes that criticism seriously and weighs the value of it against the other factors in play. It’s meant to benefit the person being given the criticism, not the person giving the criticism; and it’s certainly not a mechanism to convince the artist to draw the thing you want to look at.
The constant barrage of “Is the foal struggling???” posts is weird and sort of annoying, but it’s not harmful (although you really should stop if you don’t want to be labeled “that dude who jerks off to squirming foals” any more than you already have). This, though, is extremely inappropriate.
So yeah, you should be apologizing to the artists, not me.