Help Me Out? · 11:16am Oct 18th, 2013
So here's the deal.
FiMFiction took down the cover image for Wonders of Anthropomorphism for being NSFW.
I hold nothing against them, but now my first and most popular story is naked...
That's where you come in.
I need a new cover, something that will still give the message without coming across as NSFW. It seems they're cracking down on this, so I'd like to be cautious.
Any help you guys can give me would be great. Thanks!
EDIT: I've asked, and here's the list of things they said was wrong with my original:
Nips, camel toe, excessive cleavage, humanized in heavily implied sexual situations, poorly cropped porn, explicit sexual situations, etc.
Day-um... was it really that bad? Hell, I thought that thing was TAME compared to a lot of what I see around here!
Hmm...
*checks various favorites galleries*
Sorry! Looks like pretty much all the Anthro I've got is porn!
I did find a couple of possible candidates amongst the smut, however...
d.facdn.net/art/avante92/1349403514.avante92_paul_s_commission_1.png
This one might be a bit hard to get permission for, seeing as it was a commission for someone else.
d.facdn.net/art/sssonic2/1362464375.sssonic2_mlp_anim.jpg
This one will probably be easier on the permission front, but it's not really as close to the "Wonders" around which your story revolves.
I'm sure there's better art out there, but that's what I came up with.
By the way, what was the reason given for having to junk your old cover art?
camel toe?!
Was it
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All the reason they gave was that it was simply NSFW. I honestly don't have the picture in my files any more, so I can't check to see what could be wrong. Nothing showed except maybe a bit of cleavage, and I don't THINK there was any of that. From what I can tell, they're just getting stricter about this sort of thing. Which makes it harder to find good pictures...
1437244
Okay, I've asked, and here's the explanation:
Holy shit...
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I think I remember the picture you were using, and only the first three hold up under any scrutiny. Not only is it one of the best cropping jobs I've seen, but any "sexual" overtones are vague at best and they would have had to purposefully seek out the nude version to find anything "explicit" about it. There isn't even any visible groping, for crying out loud! It's just a bunch of friends in swimsuits posing for a picture.
But yes, you can see hints of camel toe on all six and the outlines of nipples on at least four, and AJ's cleavage goes from top to bottom. Honestly, that's all kinda the point of bikinis and only a prude would call it Not Safe for Work, but one need only look at the "Derpy" indecent to see what kinds of problems people can find when they're actively looking to get offended.
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Yep, that's the one. Meh...