Hello all.

Unfortunately due to many factors like health, business, lack of free time, and just general Life Things, I've made the decision to discontinue operation of my species, and curation of the masterlist.

This also means that I am officially retiring my TwoRealms species (Mantelbeasts, Rascalbeasts, and Hoodbeasts).

It is probably no surprise to everyone that I have fallen off completely with the creation of my TwoRealms species, engagement with the community, and Lore/worldbuilding. Despite my continuing love for the species and worlds I've made, I just do not have the time and energy to continue cultivating and managing the species as an active community.

For that I am truly sorry. I know a lot of people were upset when I retired Huo Hy-am, and I do not doubt there are people that will be upset and disappointed that I am retiring TwoRealms as well.

However, unlike Hy-am, I am not disallowing the continued creation of TwoRealms species! I am making them all Open Species, like I did for Hoodbeasts. The current lore that is publicly available will still be available to everyone to use if they choose to make TwoRealms characters. I'll also hopefully be working on a site that will hold the reference for my species, as a while ago I did a purge on my personal dA.

So yes, there it is. Thank you all. My experience as a species creator was fun, but species ownership and management just proved to be too difficult for me.

If anyone is interested in my other work, I invite you to follow me on twitter https://twitter.com/BattyTangFang where I post art almost every week and make one-off designs!

I also am an admin for my dear friend's species CCCats, which is really the only species community I am active in anymore https://www.deviantart.com/cccats

I will be keeping this discord server open for another month or so but eventually it will be closed! If you're interested in learning about my species still, keep an eye out for my site hub, I'll make another journal for it when it's ready!

Until then, thank you.

edit: i genuinely understand the reason behind changing over to eclipse. the old site was outdated, the coding and format was 20 years old and hard to work with. still, it doesn't change that they could have made an effort to copy the old design onto an up-to-date version. fix whats broken, yes, but dont change what isn't broken.

I really had hoped that eclipse wouldnt be so bad, but fr unless the team gets their act together and makes the site actually functionally superior to the old one, Idk how much longer I can survive on here.

it hurts me to say that bc like many others, I loved deviantart and I had built a great presence here and have many people I love interacting with. But it just... sucks so bad now. They've gotten rid of all the features I enjoyed and the navigation is batshit

I already have been losing my will to update here very much, and have all but fully moved to twitter ( twitter.com/battytangfang , twitter.com/spockirkcoy )

Most likely I wont be doing much here anymore except my admin duties for CCCats, the occasional commissions journal, and maybe??? updating Bulletproof here?? idk. Im trying to see what my options are for displaying that project.

It's the end of an era, friends.

Guess I'll see yall when I see yall