So I've been using DeviantArt a lot recently for a personal project. This combined with my Snowflake Challenge musings (where I pondered what is now the best site for posting adult art in the wake of Twitter's struggles) inspired me to write up a long comparison of how DeviantArt and Tumblr compare as sites for posting fanart. n = 4546 words.

So morgandawn asked me to write up this guide as it may be helpful to people who:

• Create fan art that needs hosting before being able to post on ao3 or other places (images, videos, audio files etc)
• Need a place they can upload those media files that isn't youtube etc where take-downs are automated
• Is the cheapest trustworthy place I can find (like, for a lot of you this might be effectively free)
• Doesn't require training as a sysadmin to set it up
• Allows porn (backblaze just say nothing illegal, bunnyCDN specifically say they allow it as long as it's legal)