Finally I'm in a position to start answering my 200+ messages. I've just inherited an upgraded computer with a graphics card that makes everything load faster and ever so thankfully makes my internet connection run as fast as it's supposed to. Prior to my new computer it would take me literally days to answer messages if I let them build up for more than a week or two so I just stopped doing it. I have neither the time nor the patience to sit watching a computer grind away at the speed of a tranq'd snail.

But now that I am able to answer messages I'm questioning whether it's actually necessary to individually thank each and every deviant for each and every and/or . I've read a few things around devArt that pound thanking into the ground as being annoying and egotistical self-serving self-promotion. Personally I think it's polite to thank people. (I'm big on manners.) I can see that it's also shameless self-promotion but isn't self-promotion clever if I want to get my photos and therefore anti-fat discrimination and body self-acceptance message out there in the big wide world ? Isn't it more pro-active to self-promote and network rather than sit back quietly and hope that people will somehow notice and pay attention to the fact that all men and women need to stop hating their bodies and begin loving themselves ?

Anyways ... I'm gonna start answering comments because I don't care what anyone says ... to not answer comments is the height of rudeness, and hopefully by the time I get through those I'll have some feedback re. the whole thanking people for 's and 's question.