#i’m breaking this blogs hiatus to reblog this bc WHY.
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Hi! I was wondering about your Lost Guardian au from ages ago, do you think you’ll ever plan on updating it and if not, could someone else take up the fic?
So heres the thing. If someone wants to write a fic *inspired* by The Lost Guardian, i’m not gonna stop them, and i’d probably feel super honored so long as the inspiration was correctly credited!
As for ‘taking up the fic,’ the short answer is no.
I have active drafts and the rest of the story already planned out to its finish, notes, even a branch-off fic set post-story that will likely go up on my nsfw blog if i ever get around to editing it. The Lost Guardian hasn’t been abandoned, it’s simply on hiatus. (And yes, i recognize 3 almost 4 years so far is a really fucking long hiatus. The Chapter 9 draft doc was made in december of 2020, and last edited in July 2022)
I started writing that fic whilst still in highschool, a time where I was 17 and didnt have to worry yet about getting my license or maintaining a part time job, i had an over abundance of freetime even partially to my detriment, the fandom was booming and I had plenty of feedback, and this fic was (and still *is*) a story im proud of.
But i’m 22 now, working a full time job to pay rent and account for a number of minor ‘disabilities’(best word i have for them atm) that I cant ignore or push to the side nor treat poorly, from the lasting effects on my body of stunted growth to celiac/glutent intolerance to adhere to that directly determines how easily my body functions for the week, to dealing with glasses i cannot afford to break and taking care of teeth i cannot afford to fix, taking care of my mental health and using the free time i have to do what brings me the most joy at that time.
The sanders sides fandom has heavily quieted down with the season finale hiatus and I’d like to think I did pretty well for going six long years dedicated solely to that without cracking under the silence, because *I knew* when I caved to something else it’d be a long while before I had the drive to come back with any sort of resolution to my active works. Thats just how my hyper fixations work. I cannot focus on multiple at once, it’s too much to process simultaneously and takes away my enjoyment bc I tend to watch/consume things repeatedly to catch every little detail i missed. And it doesn’t help when one loses steam because their content barely breaks 100 notes(80% of which are likes, 15% are reblogs with the occasional comment, and 5% are self-reblogs) when back in the height of it all, a few thousand notes was pretty average interaction. This blog still has about 11.5k followers, almost all of which came from the height of the fandom period. So for now i’ve moved onto the FNAF DCA fandom, bc it is fresh and new to me.
I know you didn’t mean to poke the bear here, I get it, but like.. C’mon. Any other fic of mine likely wouldn’t have gotten the same reaction in full but, still. I’ve had to answer this question a handful of times over the years at the point, which might be why this response feels so charged, and i’m sorry.
I don’t mean to come off as snippy or rude, but it *is* kind of invasive to offer to finish one’s creative work when it’s taking too long and theres very little payback for it. I’ve got adhd, delayed satisfaction isn’t a thing I experience. Just guilt that it wasn’t finished in a way for me to post it in time before I broke and lost all motivation to share it.
In my head, TLG has been long finished and held the ending for years, theres just been no energy to put in the effort of finish writing it for others to read. I’m still trying to get my life together to change that, don’t get me wrong, but the American economy is literally in shambles so who knows how or even if i’ll manage that. Call me selfish for being content with only mentally having my creative story’s ending and a collection of rambles and notes to show for it, but at the end of the day, it’s still my story, and i dont feel comfortable with people trying to ‘take up the mantle’ to finish it, when they don’t know how it ends.
I’m glad you like it enough to want to, though, I really *really* am. I’m just sorry I haven’t been able to finish it for you all. And i just don’t know when that will be, I just know that I *want* to do so, however long it takes.
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hey guys update time. this was honestly coming pretty soon, but not being on tumblr the past couple of days made me realize that i need another break. this was actually probably going to happen some time this month anyway due to this week being hella busy and also bc i’ll be starting school again.
i also really just want to write without much distraction and tumblr has become just that without it meaning to. so i’ll probably be less active for a while and post infrequently. edit: it’s the 22nd now so I’ll be able to post a bit but still like it says before this, just infrequently.
i’ll go on with some more explanation under the cut as i have a couple others things to say but it’ll get pretty long, so this is the tldr! :D i hope you guys all stay well and i’ll miss you guys and checking in regularly, but know that my inbox is still open even if i’m less active although i don’t think it’ll have a ton of messages or anything haha alright take care for now!! <33 i will be back keep that in mind !!
navi
so one of the other main reasons that i’m taking time off from tumblr is that it really overwhelmed as i mentioned in a prev vent post. if you didn’t read it i basically said that seeing the (for me) overwhelming amount of support and understanding of the struggle for interacting with ccs actually did the opposite for me and overwhelmed me along with making me feel supported. it began to be too much as it was the ONLY THING BEING REBLOGGED ON MY BLOG. none of my fics were even noticed anymore and recently they’ve only gotten likes anyway, since deleting that post to ease my anxiety, none of my fics have been reblogged (literally, there has been zero reblogs in my notifs). it all became too much to the point i deleted tumblr off my phone. i know to some of you this may be a silly reason to be overwhelmed but for me it caused me a lot of stress and anxiety and made me overall feel really weird about my whole blog for a moment. like “should i keep writing these fics?” or “why am i posting at all?” and i hated feeling like that. so i had to put a hard stop on everything.
in the end it was the best thing for me and so i know that taking a break from here is also a much needed thing in my life right now. i just want to write my stories in peace and just enjoy them without the worry of the effects of social media and so on and so forth.
as for any fic updates. i will still occasionally come on here to update my wip trackers as that is a personal thing i’m doing for myself. you can check my wip trackers in my navi if you’re curious about them. my main focus is to write my remaining collabs that you should expect to see posted in october for halloween, and the next part of gold and silver is also a priority of mine. as for tenth feather and dragon dahlia (my other two wip trackers) those will be done in time as well as they are not my focus tho you may not see them till the end of the year or so. my updates with fics will be slower right now so please do not expect anything. i am considering opening requests as a way to celebrate the blogs 2 year anniversary but that is not guaranteed, it’ll all depend on how i gauge my business for this semester.
i think that’s really everything this time haha so if you’ve made it all the way down here congrats thank you for reading. for mutuals, you know where to find me if you wanna talk, and i’ll see you all when i’m back. i’ll make another post at some point to let people know i’ll be active again, but for now this is a hiatus i’m going
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#( 𝑻&𝑪 📓. )
** please read, i will know if you’ve read them or not. RULES ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE UNDER A CHANGE OF OPINION.
( 𝐆𝐄𝐍. 𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐄𝐒 📒. )
꒰ ﾒᵎᵎ ꒱ this is a nsfw + [heavy] dc blog. ppl who do not like dc—i do advise you to BLOCK EVERY TW/CW TAG you can think of. most common ones on my blog would be;
tw omegaverse / cw omegaverse
hybrids… etc. / cw hybrids… etc.
꒰ ✦ ꒱ INTERACT with my works/writings IF you’re going to spam like me. REBLOG OR COMMENT. it does not matter, do either one if ur gonna like 3+ posts in a row. if you like them enough to spam, spread it.
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꒰ 𓂃ᵎᵎ ꒱ i don't support minors reading smut, please try to be discreet about it without letting me know if u do read it. minors can interact with me on this blog [I'd prefer it since it's my main], but if I catch u reading my hard-nsfw smuts then it's a block.
꒰ 𓂃ᵎᵎ ꒱ AGE IN BIO!!!!! PFPLESS + BLANK BLOGS = BLOCKED from now on. I'm not gonna sift through my followers but if I catch you, it's a block on the spot!
꒰ 𓂃ᵎᵎ ꒱ DO NOT DO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING WITHOUT MY PERMISSION. IF CAUGHT, PLEASE INFORM ME IMMEDIATELY. THE LIST BELOW INCLUDES:
reposting on a different platform (i only post on tumblr).
plagiarism/plagiarizing my works/writings.
claim my hard written works as your own.
translate into a different language w/out my permission.
( 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒 🎀. )
꒰ ✦ ꒱ INTS; come by my ask box and chat with me! please feel free to send as much asks as you want, it makes me giddy knowing the fact that you wanna talk to me and it won't feel like you're bothering me, so don't worry abt that <3 go ahead and send anything! tiktoks, links—mention me in posts you think i'd like and other stuff :).
be RESPECTFUL and use kind words when interacting with one another.
i will have unhinged behavior so try to match the energy!!
do not break any of the blogs boundaries.
i’ll gladly accept — chats;thoughts;rambles;brain riots;suggestions;thirsts !!!
my ask box is open for VENTING/RANTING not trauma dumping. tell me abt your day and i’ll tell you mines :))!
꒰ ✦ ꒱ FOR MUTUALS; i would absolutely love to be moots with you! just know that i will unfollow/unmoot you if ive noticed that youve unfollowed me for a day or two. if you happen to think it's a glitch, please refollow so that i can do the same (will take a couple of hours for me to refollow).
if you want to be mooties, please send an ask via the ask box! i will check out your blog to see your interactions (if u have none i’ll assume ur nice) and see if you’re someone who isn’t rude or disrespectful. DONT ASK VIA DMS. i will not respond. don’t subpost abt me if you have a problem with me. take it straight to the dms. hard block to break the moot or dm me to break the mutual, do not leave me as a follower.
please spam my inbox with shit u wanna talk abt! send/tag me in stuff that you'd think i'd like <3
꒰ ✦ ꒱ FOR ANONS; same goes for anons! i would absolutely love to chat with you guys <3 but if you wanna be held in the secrecy of this blog, go ahead and give yourself something to identify yourself with; ie. emojis, characters/letters, etc..!
your anon identity will be added to my mutuals/anons list as soon as i answer and confirm your ask.
your anon identity will be removed from my mutuals/anons list if you suddenly stop interacting with me out of the blue. the only reason why I'm doing this is to give others the chance to use the identity they like! however, if you've stated that you're going on hiatus or something, then i will not remove your anon identity.
( 𝐃𝐍𝐈 + 𝐁𝐘𝐈(𝐅) 📋. )
꒰ ﾒ ꒱ DNI if you fit the basic criteria: racist, homophobic, xenophobic, zionist (support israel & russia), transphobic, shota(loli)con lovers, sexist, minors who can't respect the spaces of adults (& vice versa), etc...
꒰ ﾒ ꒱ you associate yourself with someone HEAVILY problematic. slightly problematic is fine, but not someone who literally everyone has beef with/hates with burning passion. listen, i couldn't give yall a double doggy style damn if you subpost abt people. i skim over the tags anyways, but i don't recommend doing it if you preach 'drama free blog'.
꒰ ﾒ ꒱ HARD dni if ur the type to make callout posts—or you say/preach drama free blog/space and then have the audacity to make callout posts. sorry, i don't do drama, and will accept the block if i make you uncomfortable. want to tell me the reason why? my dms are open for a discussion, and ill be open to your reasons.
꒰ ✦ ꒱ i am severely guilty of ask hoarding unfortunately. it's mostly due to the fact i run out of social battery and don't wanna answer people dryly, so i wait until im able to answer people without sounding like i don't wanna talk to them <3
꒰ ✦ ꒱ LATE RESPONSES TO EVERYTHING: asks, comments, mentions, and i barely answer dms so i wouldn’t recommend communicating with me through there unless we’re close/it’s VV important. my core responsive time is: spontaneous.
꒰ ✦ ꒱ i shit post a lot, and i’m a hyper person by heart. so expect me to ABUSE the hell out of the emojis whenever we’re chatting <3 ask anyone who follows me, and they’ll tell you that you won’t need a tone indicator to know i’m joking around lmao. i’ll try to be a kaomoji girl on my sfw blog tho😭..
꒰ ✦ ꒱ i am a chronic ghoster :( it’s why i don’t recommend chatting w/me through dms as i have a VERY low social battery despite being text loud. only chat through dms if it’s serious, all casual chatter are to be through asks (unless i feel like answering your dm. remember, i am not obligated to answer even if it seems rude).
꒰ 𓂃ᵎᵎ ꒱ MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES : my mental health is in a huge decline (when isn't it?). i WILL do/say something impulsive and bounce back like nothing has happened. this behavior has been something that concerned me when i was younger, but i didnt/dont have the money to check it out. be warned. you're dealing with someone who's;
emotionally unstable/overly emotional.
is really impulsive and do/posts things that'll make me regret it later.
craves validation and attention.
gets envious over things easily (nothing personal abt you, just a me thing).
( 𝐖𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐑𝐔𝐋𝐄𝐒 🗒️. )
꒰ ﾒ ꒱ NO REQUESTS. i’ve stopped taking requests simply bc i’m busy and get too overwhelmed. i’m not someone who easily commits to their projects/fics so expect a lot of drafted abandoned ones. i 100% take suggestions/thirsts/brain riots/thoughts abt something u wanna talk abt!
꒰ ✦ ꒱ send all your suggestions and rambles via the ASK BOX. not through my dms please <3.
꒰ ✦ ꒱ NO CONSISTENT SCHEDULE. i’m a sporadic writer—write and post so irregularly, i might not post for days or even weeks on end.
꒰ ✦ ꒱ AUTOMATIC FEM/AFAB if the readers gender isn’t specified in your ask. im a female, born a female, so i will write whatever feel’s most comfortable to write for me. ofc i also write for: male/amab readers, trans readers & gn/nb readers!
꒰ ✦ ꒱ i hate proofreading/editing my nsfw works, but I'll proofread/edit my sfw works :)
꒰ ✦ ꒱ i make constant grammar mistakes/errors simply bc i don’t check or proofread/edit my shit. if that bothers you, please feel free to point it out—i might not respond to it and just fix the mistake quietly, but if i do, it’s most likely gonna be a positive response :)! don’t bash me or word it rudely though. i may just keep the error there to spite you.
꒰ ✦ ꒱ i write mostly abt/for chuuya (and dazai). i’m literally a chuuya centric blog atp, with a drizzle of dazai and sprinkles of other charas.
꒰ 𓂃ᵎᵎ ꒱ this blog will consist of the dirtiest smut ever. short and of multiple charas of my choice <3
WILL NOT WRITE: scat, snowball play, raceplay, watersports, piss kink, pegging (JUST NO. ok.) loli/shotacon, minor + adult (pedophilia is fucking weirder than weird..) wound fucking or anything like it (probably will write it for april fools day though).
WILL WRITE: pretty much everything else <3 (genders, kinks, and all!)
𓂃ⵌ ©ʀᴜꜱᴍɪɪ 2ᴋ24 :: don't steal, plagiarize/copy, steal my works, or feed it to ai (¬`‸´¬)
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**still depressed about everything that’s been happening around my writing and this blog but the timing is pretty good bc after my day off tomorrow I’m working almost a full week straight so I won’t have a lot of time or energy
**ive slowed my dash down a lot by unfollowing a lot of people and it’s definitely made me like... Calmer. I feel less stressed and angry. Idk what that means for me moving forward.
**basically I think for the time being I’m going to be really selective with what I respond to and I’m gonna take a break from sending in memes or reblogging them. “But bones how will you write” great question I have no idea
**I dunno I just feel like the people who I actually feel comfortable with rn is so so so small and I’m trying to understand why my experience has been so negative lately
**between getting the anon hate and almost everyone going on some sort of hiatus it’s just sort of like I’m circling the drain but at the place I’m at with my life I need a dumb little hobby to keep my days occupied so I’m not just laying in bed all the time
**im moving in two months. A big move. Like. A life altering massive move that will mean major changes in my entire life. I’ll have to work harder than I ever have had to do, and I likely won’t have time for this silly hobby anymore, at least not until I stabilize in my new location. I guess I just don’t wanna have to quit before I have to
**i love my muses and I’ve worked so hard on them and the fact of the matter is as soon as I’m not writing mha stuff anymore?? They’re done. Like, they can’t live on in other media. They’re too deep in the MHA pot. And I guess over the past few months they’ve just been so comforting to me to fall back on them after a few years... I went through some personal turmoil that involved me severing all interest in MHA. It had to do with toxic and failed friendships and getting my heart busted by some dude- in any case I forced myself to hate something that made me so happy and coming back to it after going through some pretty intense stuff in the last fandom I was like coming home after a long day
**I guess I’m not ready to give it up yet
**so I guess I’m not going anywhere for now
**and of course with my mood swings I could snap and delete tomorrow- but I’m hoping that I can pull it together and find joy in the little things I’m able to do with my muses
**idk why i wrote this I’m so friggen tired rn
**... anyway tldr I think I wanna work on re-establishing friendships and connections and just working my way up to writing threads again
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what makes you stop following someone?
ahhh so every couple of months or so (ideally), I go through my follows and check for inactives? I usually unfollow if the person hasn’t been active in 50+ days (unless they’re on hiatus/semi-hiatus). I do keep an active queue on my main blog, and I run four other fairly busy side blogs, so having people who regularly put content (original or otherwise) on my dash is kind of a must. Also, there’s a fine line between an active dash and an unholy chaos I can barely navigate, so I try and keep my follow count relatively low in the first place (there are people whose blogs I check regularly for new content regardless of mutual status)
other than that, I don’t think I’ve ever broken a mutual first? I don’t mind when people unfollow me, and that will never affect my engagement with their original content, but if you break a mutual, chances are I’m gonna move on lol. as far as content goes, while there are fandoms/ships/subjects I don’t particularly like seeing on my dash all the time, this has never really been a deal breaker, bc as long as the person tags their content so I can blacklist, I can then choose how/when/if I wish to engage
also, if we’re side-blog mutuals (which is the case with A LOT of people bc everyone seems to have a cql/mdzs side-blog lol) it’s possible I’ve unfollowed because I lost track of your main, but this is pretty rare bc, like I said, I keep my follow count fairly low, so I’m familiar with most of my mutuals
that said, although I make myself sound pretty organized, I’m really not, and it’s entirely possible I just hit an unfollow button by mistake while trying to reblog something
It doesn’t bother me if people reach out and ask why I’ve unfollowed, the few times they have, it’s usually been a mistake on my part (and if it’s not a mistake, I don’t have a problem saying why)
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let’s talk
hi guys <3
I love you all so so much first and foremost, and I’m really sorry if you’re upset at what I need to do, but I’ve decided to go on indefinite hiatus ( a real one this time, not me giving up after a day bc i miss it ) of writing. I’ll still be active on here and in any discord servers I’m in, but it’s no longer wise for my mental health to keep writing. here’s why:
priorities
i’ve noticed over the past three or so months that I’ve started prioritising writing over actual things in my life that need time and attention. whether it’s study, exercise, socialising, all of these things are taking a hit because I tell myself that I’m obligated to finish works within certain deadlines, and it is getting to a point where I can’t stop worrying about the fact that I’m wasting my time. I love making these stories for you guys, but at the end of the day this is a hobby and it’s not wise for me to put my real life on a hold because of this.
notes
I hate it, but I’m starting to worry too much about followers, notes, reblogs, and that’s not healthy. I always told myself that those don’t matter, that it’s about the joy of writing and sharing it with you guys for the love of it, but I think I’ve lost that somewhere along the way, and if I want to continue writing I need to rediscover that first.
For a while, I kept thinking ‘if only I could write a quick pwp that passed 1k notes and then it would cheer me up to keep writing again’ and that’s such a wrong attitude to have. Because there was a time when I was getting 1k, 2k, 3k on fics, I started to feel like I was doing something wrong or people stopped caring because my notes were barely getting past 500 at best. The reason I’m telling you this is to be transparent. I can wax poetic about how this isn’t about notes, it’s about the passion for the craft et cetera et cetera but the reality is that this is what my heart won’t stop thinking. I’m not begging for notes; rather, I’m trying to accept that this is a negative thought pattern. I’m so grateful for what I do get, especially the written feedback you take the time to write, and I feel like I’m betraying you guys by not being satisfied. So I need to step back in the hopes that I can drop this mindset.
future
I personally am so proud of the works I write, and so I think I’m just really confused why the readership has dropped so suddenly and never recovered. Comparing yourself to other writers is never wise but comparing yourself to yourself hurts just as much too.
I can’t help but think to myself that this doesn’t really have a criteria for success. I used to think I was a successful writer because of the numbers I would get for fics, but that’s silly. Numbers don’t equal quality. And besides, there really is no type of real success in fanfiction because at the end of the day, unless you rework a fanfic into an actual novel to sell to the general public, you’re never going to get actual success from fanfic writing. Now, that’s not inherently bad. I knew full well I was writing for the love of it and sharing it to you all for free because I wanted to. And I think that’s where fanfic thrives: passion and community.
But since I’ve lost that spark due to several reasons, it’s really not healthy for me to keep writing because I don’t want these negative thoughts to get worse.
what’s next?
I won’t be deleting honeymoonjin. I won’t be disappearing. For now, I’m indefinitely stopping writing for the reasons listed above, but I will still be around because I love this community so so much. You are my friends, my family, my supporters and beautiful individuals. I just might not be a content creator anymore.
When I do choose to start writing again, it’ll probably be a new blog. This was suggested to me by my good friend nell, and I think it will be a really positive way to return. I can still reblog my works onto honeymoonjin, and I’ll be open about the fact that the new blog is me, but it’ll give me a fresh start.
I’m hoping that it’ll help me forget about the numbers. I’ve heard many content creators speak about the intermittent urge to just delete, to just get rid of all the pressure that comes with having a following, and I finally understand. I think it would be best for me if I started writing without any expectation of reception, just writing because it’s a passion of mine. For now, I’ve lost that passion in the noise of everything, but if/when it returns, that’s what I’ll do.
thank you
I want to thank all of you once more. those of you that take the time to read my works, whether you give feedback or not, are so valued, because it’s always special to me knowing i’m being heard, and that my works might have an impact on someone. it’s a beautiful thing and an honour. for those that have ever written feedback, thank you even more. i can’t count the times i’ve felt like giving up, and every time i think of you and your words and it propels me forward. i hope you don’t feel disappointed that i’m leaving, because you were the ones that helped me stay so long.
to @jamaisjoons, you’re an inspiration. i admired you long before we were friends, and i admire you even more now. thank you for your words of advice, no matter whether it’s a writing crisis, a break-up, or the trauma of having a spider crawl where a spider should not be. it means the world to have you at my side.
to @hobisbeautifulass, my winter bear. you’re stronger than you know, and i’m so lucky and grateful that you reached out to me. my life is far brighter with you in it, and i hope it will be long in the future. love you to the moon and back xx
there are so many more people i admire, love, and am grateful for, and i wanna thank you all for how much you’ve positively impacted me in so many different ways. you are the stars that make up my mikrokosmos here and i hope you know how much i appreciate you:
@spookitokki @honey-boyyoongi @holyfluffly @ddaenggtan @jhspetitegf @franklytae @solarjeon @jungtaeyoongles @sonyeonsideupsmile @joopiterjoon @bloodpotato @multycoloredtaco @kookiesspacebuns @gguksgalaxy @ironicarmy @sunkoos @prisczero @koyacult @joonsrack @strawbxxymilk @outroshooky @hungline (i’m so sorry if i’ve forgotten someone! i love you all !)
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I never experienced art theft until one of my works became unexpectedly popular- since then, I've found my work reposted, redrawn, and used as reference for cosplays. It's been exhausting, both seeing it, and not knowing WHERE I should stand on the issue. I've let redraws slide (with credit), but I plan on not allowing future ones from occurring. How do you deal with art theft? How do you continue drawing without thinking about the disrespect thrown at you during bad/failed confrontations?
I am so, so incredibly sorry this happened to you, and empathize very strongly with you. Art theft SUCKS, few things can be quite as demotivating as a creator than having something you’ve worked your ass off on swiped by someone else. And unfortunately, given the current internet culture, if you continue as an online artist it’s inevitable that it’ll happen at one point or another.
Because sure, of course part of the reason why we create is because we want to, but a large part of the motivation for sharing it is to hopefully get some response that people like it, whether it be in the form of likes, reblogs, comments, asks, tags, or anything else. That is the tangible PROOF that our work touched someone, and for someone who put in zero effort and has no idea how we felt while creating to receive all of that instead of us…sucks.
I think where you stand on the issue is up to you, and it’s okay for it to change. YOU always have the right to decide how you’re comfortable with people sharing your art, and your feelings are valid regardless of how they change.
Ironically enough, I just had another art theft on Instagram (my Anniversary post) super recently, so I was like HAH when I got this orz
This rant got a bit long, so the rest beneath cut but here’s a rundown about how my feelings towards art theft have evolved over the years.
For example, over the years I’ve gotten much, MUCH stricter. My earliest online art, I just put it up, no url, oftentimes no signature, no warnings in the comments or my blog bio. Admittedly I was starting out and didn’t have much viewers anyway, but the point was I still had Trust at the time.
Then the art thefts began. I started adding my url to all my illustrations, even if it was just small in the corner, as this’d let people at least find my website. Most people are too lazy to type out a url though, and I’ve seen people asking “Who drew this??” on art theft comments EVEN WHEN THE URL IS LITERALLY RIGHT THERE…
And then people started cropping my watermarks. I made my url bigger, and started adding an additional “DO NOT REPOST” to the image itself. I used to allow reposts with credits on platforms I’m not on, like fb, until I realized that people were then reposting from THOSE communities without credit and putting them into their videos and fics and I just…decided it wasn’t worth it.
I switched to no reposts PERIOD. I have lengthy disclaimers on all of my art that leads to an even lengthier FAQ post that, should people wish to look, leads to even an even more detailed post about WHY art theft sucks, as I’m explaining now.
(EDIT: ALSO, reduce the quality of the images you upload, and NEVER upload the full resolution, and try to keep you unmerged original files. This is for several reasons: no matter how much an art thief reposts your work, they’ll never have access to the higher resolution, and if they ever decide to try to print to sell for profit it’ll be shitty quality compared to anything you make with the original. ALSO, you having the maximum resolution with no watermarking with additional unmerged psd files will be proof that you are the true creator should you need to prove it, which I’ve heard is sometimes necessary to show when your art is stolen at say, an artist alley)
I also used to bother trying to talk to art reposters. I’d comment on the post, try to send messages, etc. It’s fucking exhausting, and while there are some exceptions, the VAST majority of art thiefs will feel attacked and immediately get rude and defensive. (the failed confrontations and disrespect you mentioned orz) If it’s a large community, they may even try to gang up on you. I’ve unfortunately experienced this most frequently in communities centered around other languages (mainly Spanish) because of different mainstream attitudes towards art reposting etiquette combined with a language barrier.
You will, and no doubt already have, encountered people who will argue with you, like the people I describe above. “You should be grateful for the bigger audience!” “We just want to appreciate your art, how can you be so horrible?” “We’re all fans together!” “This is fanart and doesn’t belong to you anyway!” Etc. etc. etc. It’s exhausting, it’s repetitive, it’s neverending, and you already felt awful before it even began and the stress just continues to build.
So I personally have just begun reporting people, if the service allows it. Use DMCA takedown request forms (and YES, even if it’s fanart it’s still yours if you drew it). This is stressful too because it sends your real name + info to the reposter (and wow I clearly can’t trust these people to begin with, why would I want them to have that???) but most sites (facebook, instagram, certainly tumblr, twitter) are very efficient and responsive, and in the end the relief of receiving that email that the art has been taken down is worth it. Especially with facebook, they also send a scary official warning email to the reposters which I sincerely hope will help educate them and discourage future art thefts.
I try to avoid posting public urls because yes I’m aware how mob mentality Tumblr can get, but sometimes it’s just too much. There’s no convenient form of getting my content removed (perhaps bc it’s in a compilation with a ton of other content), or for some reason my attempts to communicate have failed. In those times I have occasionally asked my followers to help, with a reminder to PLEASE always be polite and respectful, regardless of the offense. Y’all have been amazing, and this has saved me many nights of crying in the past.
I will sometimes also write lengthy posts (like this one!) to help educate. Because I do feel that art theft will continue so long as people don’t understand what it does to artists, and it’s up to the community as a whole to make that change, which also depends heavily on the consumers not just creators. A lot of art theft really isn’t intentionally meant to harm, but IS super ignorant.
But in the end, all I’ve ranted about so far is how I’ve dealt with actually removing/dealing with the shit. But the emotional pain, it builds. Sometimes, when it’s too frequent and the stolen art gets way more attention than my original that I worked my ass off on that basically flunked on my own platforms, I feel a bit of me break.
And in the end, it’s up to you what that threshold is, where posting art and feeling good about it is overwhelmed by the pain, fear, and anxiety of art theft. I’ve crossed my own threshold too many times, and once had to take an art hiatus because of it (fandom was BH6). This lead to a break in my productivity and motivation and my eventual complete departure form the fandom. I’ve seen many other artists just stop posting art entirely or moving everything to private. It’s terrible, but my feelings are with these artists, and I feel so, so sorry that they were hurt so much to the extent they had to do this.
With my current fandom and followers, I feel that regardless of how niche an audience my content tends to be geared for, I have a community that is really satisfying for me to create for, one that is responsive to me and gives me tons of feedback. This is the number one reason why i continue to feel motivated to post a ton of online content despite the risks.
The takeaway form this long meandering post: Posting online is a hobby, it’s for fun, and I don’t make any money off my public audience (unless they come to Patreon! LOL!), so I’m a firm believer that once the anxiety + misery starts outweighing anything positive you personally may get from sharing online, which for me heavily depends on my audience and their responsiveness, there’s no reason to subject yourself to that anymore and you are in no way obligated to stay. There are various methods to more efficiently get rid of art thefts without dealing with them in person which is stressful AF, and also ways of marking up your content in ways that may look less aesthetically pleasing, but will hopefully discourage art thefts, and at the very least give them very little leg to stand on should they do it anyway. How forgiving you are in art thefts also depends on you, but the more forgiving you are, the more it can get away from you. And in the end, YOU as a human are more important than any complaints about art looking less pleasing or the feelings of art thefts who don’t get to do what they want with YOUR hard work.
Sorry this was so disjointed and literally just me spewing at you, but I hope some of it was helpful ^ ^; Please let me know if I can give you any other advice, and I’m sorry again that you have to deal with this ;_;
(and to respond to your second ask, I do try to respond to most of my asks, but sometimes it takes a while (sometimes even months orz), especially if it’s one that requires a lengthy detailed answer like this one ^ ^; thank you for your patience!)
#YukiPri replies#Anonymous#art theft#I hope this was helpful ^ ^;#started getting really distressed myself writing this haha#in general i'm okay with my art getting little to no attention#i just asked that i don't get hurt for the trouble of posting which i feel should be fair#and sometime yeah it does get to be too much#hopefully won't happen in the near future for this fandom but#we'll see sigh#another reason i like drawing niche hyper specific content LOL#fewer people tend to want to reblog/share it#but fewer reposters are also interested in it haha#long post#longpost
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I was tagged by @beatricebavdelaire thank you!! <3
Rules: Tag 20 blogs you’d like to get to know better.
Nickname(s): Inos, Inu
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Height: 170 cm :)
Last thing you Googled: 'cet’ bc I wasn’t sure if that was the european time or not
Favourite music artists: ehhhhh idk?
Song stuck in your head: I’m listening to ‘courtyard apocalypse’ from the hp score, but today take a break from hamilton was stuck in my head, and I’ve been singing the hanging tree too
Last movie you watched: ummm I don’t even remember? beauty and the beast in cinemas?
What are you wearing right now: the clothes I wore to school today but I changed to sweatpants instead of jeans
Why did you choose your URL: oh!! in the hiatus I was saving some cute urls, including niyllah, and I loved it so much but wasn’t sure if niylah would return in season 4, so I changed my url to bellamyshugs, but then I saw the trailer and was like !!! my wifey will return. I waited for the moment she really was in an episode to change my url, and then one week later I get a message from Cody telling me she has the url niylah saved, if I would want it. I was kinda screaming but yeah *shrugs* that’s the story of my amazing url I don’t deserve
Do you have any other blogs: yes!! I promised to stop reblogging that self-promo post but since you asked: @butterflyingdreams (I need to change that url but I have no idea into what) is my aesthetic sideblog :) I’m also part of some networks and I have some other blogs to save reference posts
What did your last relationship teach you: I’ve never been in a relationship before so um
Religious or spiritual: religious
Favourite colour: purple
Average hours of sleep: around 8, less when I have school but more in weekends and holidays
Lucky number: ? 13 I guess
Favourite characters: qmlsdkjf impossibly to choose ugh, so let me just promote the graceling trilogy again which has some of the best characters ever
How many blankets do you sleep with: one duvet
Dream job: pls don’t ask I’m gonna cry
20 people I want to get to know better: @magnusass, @mythicalbellamy, @bringyourflowerhat, @bl-ake, @keep-peeta-alive, @bellarkekomlovekru
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