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With CA2 aporching the 3rd act and seeing a mixed bag of responses, mostly positive, I thought I should take a moment and explain the purpose behind the header art and why I'm doing thing the way I am for this particular narative.

First off why CA2?
>People asked for it and I'm always willing to revuse and expand on a previous story.

Why are you using other peoples art?
> now this actually gets to the actual heart and soul of the project itself. While I do have a arc and meta narrative, i know in broad stroke s where thing will start, the road to get there, and the end game i wanted to use the story as a means of highlighting other creators here on DA who my circle of fans and groups might never had run across. So i started by compiling a list of pictures that spoke to me, find pothers to fill the gaps and then arranging them in a way that worked for the narrative.

>I often like to compare each chapter to an episode of something like Vatiwah's Mod Reviews on youtube, (ot alchestbreach, or Gopher, take your pick). With the art standing in for the mod and the meta narrative being what weaves them together. By drawing in readers with say chapter one featuring a picture from :icondoggirlkari: and then remaining invested as you move into a chapter with material from :icondead-robot: or :icondestinyblue: it is my hope that people who only tend to follow the mainlines in a particular genre will see art just and engaging from people they may have never even know existed and thus follow them now as well.

>I am well aware that some may view this is some form of art theft, which is why i try to only use a thumbnail instead of composing a caption style picture where half the composition is the image in full, it is also why after the narrative stinger i immediate list out the artist AND the source piece before getting into the link table, I want the artist acknowledge me to be one of the first things you see. I admit that this type of format is non-standard but that's sort of the point, if we aren't willing to step out of our comfort zone then how are we to find new marvels of design and their creators?

Thank you.

PS. Oh and if any of you content creators out there don't want me to feature your art in this project let me know in a comment or pm and I remove it as soon as I see it.

PPS. For those of you curious on what artists have been featured this far (as of chapter 16) here you go (check out their art, be as amazed as I was)
:icondoggirlkari::icondead-robot::iconquotidia::iconshel-yang::iconkarbo::iconrakugaki-otoko:

PPPS. And here are some featured creators to come in later chapters
:iconryukopron::icontoviorogers::iconbendzz::iconrushn::iconbbmbbf::iconkravenergeist:
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I've put up a merc store on one of my sites, and if any of you are aware of the Tokusatusy Series/Five year war series know that it's bundled with charities that even applies to the merch shirts, 50% of the profits of any shirt support one of 5 charities

fiveyearwar.com/shirts/
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Just uploaded a trio of discussion videos to Boobtube examining Toku and Power Rangers and asking questions about the genre like.

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Just saw this while window shopping and as a artist and toy customizer I always find artist manikins super helpful so figured id share

DX Male (mainly lots of acessories and a display base)
www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/pr…

DX Female (mainly lots of accessories and a display base)
www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/pr…

Regular Female
www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/pr…

Regular Male
www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/pr…

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