Aikea and Gelydh have their own site...

[calalily]

Thank you for that aikea guinea - that was insightful without being bitter.  I wish you (and thereby us) many more hours of happy enjoyable creating. 

[Tetsuo]

There's a lot of asserting dignity in your post.

Thank you so much, Aikea, and welcomed!

[Lilwen]

Welcome back to the art of creating just for pleasure,it was good to see a true insight into the working of TSR and thomas.

[Anouk]

It just angers me that people who have been there for such a long time and have put so much energy in that site are treated this way when they want to leave. You'd think they'd value the creators that like and trust TSR and have been there for years, but oh no. Leaving? OK go quietly, don't tell anyone why, and your stuff stays pay. It's like they've got what they wanted from you and when you become 'too difficult' you just need to go away without any support, a goodbye or even a thank you. I think it's also the state of TSR by the time you left. Dr Pixel had no problems getting his stuff free, Elmazz had no problems, etc. Treating you differently is just to annoy you because you aren't obedient or something. Very childish. Even people who have been there for years and years have no guarantee of being treated fairly after long years of creating and working.

I'm happy you decided to branch off on your own and not let yourself be stressed any longer. TSR is currently in a bad social state with distrust and stupid little games being played, wouldn't want to be somewhere like that either. In real life you don't stay at a job like that for very long either.

[dietofworms]

Thank you for your post, Danielle.  It is beautifully done.  I'm so glad you're out from under the weight of TSR. 
you're well rid of that lot.

[ValancySterling]

Thanks for you post Danielle.  It's horrible that TSR put you through all that, but it looks like you're in a much happier place now.

I know you said you didn't want to get involved in the whole paysite debate, but you're post actually is the best summary of why we do what we do here.   I admit, I think we're just as bad sometimes about getting into the whole "us vs. them" mentality.  But as you've seen, when someone goes free, we welcome them with open arms and give them all our support.

[Hecubus]

You go, girl!

:::hands Aikea some rum::::

What blows my mind is that Thomas thought that you two could just quietly fade away! I don't know numbers, but you had to be one of the top draws at TSR - I know people who subscribed just to get your stuff. How could we NOT notice?

Also, interesting about your more-risque-than-PG13 items - considering there are now porn stars on TSR, I can't imagine anything you do would be as bad as that. Ah, hypocricy, thy name is Thomas.

I hope you post here more often... we're awfully drunk fun.

[tIIsuggas]

This is why I love being a pirate,  the freedom to be able to frequent most forums without any fuss.

Aikea and hopefully Gelydh when/if you register, you must be feeling such a sense of relief.  It's great to see you here.  Have a party, let your hair down.  It's exhilerating to be able to post and not worry about upsetting the management.

It seems it's either, visit TSR forums and the BBS.  Or, sail around the world, and enjoy all the sites, sounds and smells.

Welcome aboard and enjoy the rum.

[FreeShitOnly]

I was very moved by your post Danielle.

The talent that i've seen of you and Raychael's work is almost unduplicated in this community in my humble opinion.
Your creations are perfectly textured, bump-mapped and all the other good things we look for in CC.
I'm so happy to hear you and your collegue have been liberated. This is cause for celebration!
I really enjoy the theme and content of your site, as well as it's name.

I wish you luck with your site and appreciate your joy of creation.
We appreciate the results of that joy.

It's unfortunate what you've gone through and I hope that more eyes open about the dirty deeds going on behind the scenes including the blatant disrespect and disregard for two of TSR's most valuable assets (that they now no longer have because of said disrespect and disregard).

Congrats to you and Raychael (I love the spelling of her name.. geez..).

Welcome to the Phorum.
And with that, I raise my glass of rum to you.




.. wait.. do pirates drink rum from glasses? 
or am I doing it wrong..

[Pooki]

Only on special occasions like these.  Of course the bottle could be considered a glass.

[FreeShitOnly]

Only on special occasions like these.  Of course the bottle could be considered a glass.

Excellent 

[Pooki]

Arrr.

[Bigtruckgirl]

Raychael said this over on GoS, and I felt it would end this fairly well: 

“So I suppose what I'm try to say is that I'd like you to give us the benefit of the doubt; we're not stuck-up, egotistical maniacs, just incredibly anti-social and somewhat uncomfortable with talking to people. We're really glad to see so much support over our decision to leave TSR, and it's greatly appreciated and has helped a lot (it's also a bit weird, we honestly didn't think people liked our stuff that much to care!).”

-Danielle/Aikea

I think you will find that now that you are outside of the TSR bubble, there are many out there who understand how you both feel in this respect and will welcome you with open arms. Aikea, your post was beautifully done, and all of it was well said, and the issues at TSR are pretty clear. Thank you for the wonderful explanation on how you both saw it, and welcome!

PS. BTW, your and Gelydh's creations are well sought after, have no fear about that.

[Jojoba]

Thank you for your post Aikea. Takes guts to post that here, where the TSR lot can see it fully Am glad that you and Gelydh (who have just noticed is online here *waves*) are out of it, and wish you best of luck with your site. Its fantastic to have you into the community again...espically over at GoS! Welcome and enjoy the freedom

[AW]

Thank you Aikea, for posting what happened.  I'm sorry that you and Gelydh have had to go through this.  I am really excited about your new site and love many of your creations.  Welcome and I hope that both of you will feel comfortable enough to post from time to time.

Have some rum and enjoy your new freedom!