@ShangXian 'Dice shaming' reminds me of something an old friend used to do when they rolled poorly: The dice got thrown into boiling water - it was supposed to work both a torture for the dice and to move the center of mass around. (According to their storyteller, the latter did not actually work and their rolls were still pretty normal. Don't cook your dice, folks. Worst case scenario: You get into trouble with your storyteller/GM/DM and have to buy new ones.)
As for Twitter/"X": I am actually pretty certain that that is the reason. It's a 'culture of hate' - by design. It's comparable to a prison.
Of course this is completely anecdotal, but members of the 'complainer crowd' in NG's Artist News usually have an account over there as well... (You know the ones... The ones who lie like elementary schoolers: "I did nothing wrong.", "Bad things happened to me "for no reason"!", etc.)
Yatsufusa
The first two drawings remind me a lot of 'The Secret of NIMH' (1982): They have a lot of character despite merely having a beak and eyes to emote with. People underestimate how hard it is to depict expressions without a humanoid face, mouth, arms and hands, shoulders... The entire body composition is so vastly different that it's hard to relate to for humans. And that goes double for still images!
Also greatly enjoyed the cute snakes. All of them look so attentive. :3
I immediately recognized the NGE-crossover but had to read the text to make sure. And I would not even describe that angel as particularly memorable. (I only watched the original NGE back when dragons still ruled the twilight sky and the stars were bright and numerous.)
(I'm too scared to look up "gem shaming". I already had my fill of 'human insanity' for today.)
On the other hand: That people would retire their accounts on the cesspool that is the right-wing platform Twitter/"X"/"Xwitter" because of too much hate does not surprise me for a second. I 'do' feel for artists who put all their eggs in one basket by mainly focusing on pleasing bots that keep the numbers up over there, but by getting out of there they can channel their energy into building a presence on greener pastures, where people actually care and their voice matters 'at least a little bit'. Staying on a platform that actively encourages abuse makes no sense. (Unless of course, you're really into abusing people. ;p )
ShangXian
You are not the first one to compare my corvids to The Secret of NIMH and I am very honoured to hear that because Bluth's style is one of things that inspire me when it comes to Western-animation/drawing style. I agree non-human animals can be challenging if you are not used to them. I think a good start might be watching documentaries and see the animal basic behaviour, then using Disney/Don Bluth's works for the facial expressions and combine them with the expressions animals use when showing their emotions.
To me this has always been easy since I started drawing them at age 4. Teachers told my parents that I gave life to my drawings and because of that I was often called by other teachers to draw on the blackboard during their lessons when they wanted to show the class a specific topic (usually animals).
I remember all NGE angels, their names and even the sources where those names come from. Since I was 15 I began to study Kabbalah in order to have a deeper grasp of those symbolism. Hanno said in an interview he put those symbols (Kabbalah, Renaissance Christian Kabbalah and Western mysticism) because they were cool. That was a period of intense study of this topic, I learned about Sephirotic tree and I could even read some Kabbalist texts (notably Sepher Yetzirah and Sepher ha Zohar). That period allowed to study Hebrew mysticism as well and see it under the historic lens of its development. I was also able to attend seminars with my best friend irl held by a Jewish scholar of Kabbalah.
Don't worry about the "gem shaming", if you know the dice shaming trend, it was a funny and silly experience. It was basically based on some bad or silly acts done by the Crystal Gems during the series.
dice shaming: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dice+shaming&iax=images&ia=images
another example of gem shaming: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-preview.redd.it%2FNe5uAZValvnlhasL_XbLnU3xsqc_qlJc9CR-fw_aW0E.jpg%3Fauto%3Dwebp%26s%3Dce27be686edc86e7d8061c456e13f2e0cbf3846d
"Staying on a platform that actively encourages abuse makes no sense. (Unless of course, you're really into abusing people. ;p )"
I fear some people might actually do it for this reason D: