I can't believe it....

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I received a note from DA a few minutes ago telling me that they Deleted my Ariel: Bearer of the Trident www.zazzle.com/bearer_of_the_t… was in violation of their underage policy with the following note:


"The character depicted in this deviation is an established underage character (16). Underage characters cannot be displayed in a nude and/or erotic fashion as per our policies. If you have any questions please contact the helpdesk."

Now I'm pretty sure of a few things. 1.  It wasn't pornography, 2. That in the very detailed description I wrote I specifically wrote that the piece was depicting her at time in the future of where her official story took place, where she was suppose to be an adult.  I may not have said 18 specifically, but I thought it was pretty clear.  3. It was the only piece that I put the mature filter onto, would it have been fine without it?

I've put a disclaimer on the remainder of the pieces, I hope that will suffice, and keep others from being pulled.

With that being said, Ariel is now... gone. Tragically. I will put it back up with a disclaimer also later, but I'm hoping the help desk writes me back first.... otherwise well.. otherwise that sucks.

For those of you that saw it, have any of you ever felt that I was depicting underage nudity?

::UPDATE::
I've since heard back from the help desk, and I really believe that it's out of their hands.  Regardless of intent, and regardless of my portrayal, I put that Mature label on it (just to be safe) and I think it was then flagged.  There is unfortunately nothing that can be done.  With that said, it's ok, life goes on, this journal will stay up and no matter what happens I'll always provide a link to it somewhere.  Thank you all for the support, it really means a lot.  And if you haven't make sure you check out my Ariel replacement in the series.


EDIT****
Here's the piece for the fun of it.
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SunfireRanger's avatar
Both pieces are incredible, but to me, Bearer of the Trident is my favorite of the two. I can't believe it was considered inappropriate.  Tasteful nudity is a common thing for Mermaids (and you've mastered it!:-) ) and Ariel's bare bottom was seen briefly, as clear as day in The Little Mermaid.