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So... um... yeeeeah.
I haven't uploaded anything since December of 2014 and its downright pathetic of me, I know. I have a stack of stuff to post, too... I just need to sit down and DO IT. I'm sorry, guys, really I am. So no, I haven't stopped illustrating and creating. My hands are still attached, fully functioning, and create-able. My brain is still functioning in the same create-able capacity reasonably well, too.
I guess I dropped off of dA for awhile out of being just... completely disgusted with it? Policy changes, the general atmosphere of disrespect from the admins toward all of us deviants, the ridiculous lengths and contortions they've gone through to justify NOT doing their basic JOBS (i.e. theft reports), the price gouging for the stupid CORE membership, etc. I will not fork over that much money for so little benefit, so I won't be a premium member again unless it's gifted to me for some reason or they have a good sale on memberships that's equivalent of what the price used to be.
Policy changes and the admin disrespect are directly connected with the third party theft reporting policy specifically. As usual dA tried to make this whole legitimate legal reasoning for their pisspoor response to theft reports (read: none), and most all of it just comes across as dA thinking we're a bunch of oblivious yes men idiots. For one thing, according to them there IS no such thing as art theft online because — get this — there is no physical thing being stolen. For real. Seriously. They've also basically said they won't really do anything about jacked fanart even if it's the original artist who is reporting it. Why? Because we don't own the copyright for the source material. Again, for real. Seriously.
And their reasoning for not allowing third party copyright reports? It circumvents the original artist's right to do nothing about it. I shit thee negative. An admin told me and several other people that in the comments for the "legal reasoning" admin journal post (which was all basically "these are the ridiculous reasons we've come up with to avoid doing our jobs that we're paid for as admins").
So any of you wonderful people out there who have reported stolen posts of my work over the years? You can't do that any longer here on dA because it robs me of my right to do absolutely nothing about it and let the thief continue to claim it as their own. In 12 years of being here that takes the cake for the most absolutely asinine thing the admins have ever tried to pedal to us. Because apparently they think we're all blithering idiots who couldn't find our way out of a wet paper bag. That one is STILL boggling me. Who the hell would want to do NOTHING about their own work being stolen?! I just can't with that level of stoopid.
BUT ANYWAY.
I am still around, and I am going to TRY to actually keep this place current as far as actually posting the stuff I'm doing! I may post another journal in the next few days to tell y'all about some personal and professional stuffs that've been going on for me lately (and hopefully there are still some of you around who actually care about it lol) because some of it is pretty damn cool if I do say so myself.
Which I do.
I haven't uploaded anything since December of 2014 and its downright pathetic of me, I know. I have a stack of stuff to post, too... I just need to sit down and DO IT. I'm sorry, guys, really I am. So no, I haven't stopped illustrating and creating. My hands are still attached, fully functioning, and create-able. My brain is still functioning in the same create-able capacity reasonably well, too.
I guess I dropped off of dA for awhile out of being just... completely disgusted with it? Policy changes, the general atmosphere of disrespect from the admins toward all of us deviants, the ridiculous lengths and contortions they've gone through to justify NOT doing their basic JOBS (i.e. theft reports), the price gouging for the stupid CORE membership, etc. I will not fork over that much money for so little benefit, so I won't be a premium member again unless it's gifted to me for some reason or they have a good sale on memberships that's equivalent of what the price used to be.
Policy changes and the admin disrespect are directly connected with the third party theft reporting policy specifically. As usual dA tried to make this whole legitimate legal reasoning for their pisspoor response to theft reports (read: none), and most all of it just comes across as dA thinking we're a bunch of oblivious yes men idiots. For one thing, according to them there IS no such thing as art theft online because — get this — there is no physical thing being stolen. For real. Seriously. They've also basically said they won't really do anything about jacked fanart even if it's the original artist who is reporting it. Why? Because we don't own the copyright for the source material. Again, for real. Seriously.
And their reasoning for not allowing third party copyright reports? It circumvents the original artist's right to do nothing about it. I shit thee negative. An admin told me and several other people that in the comments for the "legal reasoning" admin journal post (which was all basically "these are the ridiculous reasons we've come up with to avoid doing our jobs that we're paid for as admins").
So any of you wonderful people out there who have reported stolen posts of my work over the years? You can't do that any longer here on dA because it robs me of my right to do absolutely nothing about it and let the thief continue to claim it as their own. In 12 years of being here that takes the cake for the most absolutely asinine thing the admins have ever tried to pedal to us. Because apparently they think we're all blithering idiots who couldn't find our way out of a wet paper bag. That one is STILL boggling me. Who the hell would want to do NOTHING about their own work being stolen?! I just can't with that level of stoopid.
BUT ANYWAY.
I am still around, and I am going to TRY to actually keep this place current as far as actually posting the stuff I'm doing! I may post another journal in the next few days to tell y'all about some personal and professional stuffs that've been going on for me lately (and hopefully there are still some of you around who actually care about it lol) because some of it is pretty damn cool if I do say so myself.
Which I do.
A New Thorn and DeviantART Protection
Yes, I'm still alive. 2021 was far more kind to me than 2020 was, but that's not saying much. Blah blah blah, my mental health has been in the toilet, blah blah blah, y'all likely aren't interested in that. lol As for the new thorn? NFTs. From the moment I first heard about online artists having their work taken and minted/stolen without their consent to be sold on NFT marketplaces like OpenSea, I knew I would eventually get hit. I just didn't anticipate it happening so soon. A few days before Christmas I was notified by one of my very longtime followers over on Insta that two of my old Inuyasha pieces, Can't Take it In -- Colored and Winter Gift, had been stolen and listed on OpenSea. Then on Christmas Eve I was informed that a third piece, Midnight Moon: Renji, was also stolen. I found out about that one because of deviantART Protect. I know I've bitched and complained about CORE ever since it was instated for it not being worth the price tag (and I still don't really think it
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I just had to get that old entry off of my front page since it was over a year old.
My life isn't a hellscape anymore.
I'll type something more significant later. lol
Surgeries, tragedies, why I'm not at A-Kon 2018
I've gotten a few inquiries from people about whether or not I'm at A-Kon right now because they couldn't find my table, and the unfortunate answer is no, I am not there. I had to withdraw. For the first time in 13 years. And it is killing me softly.
As I've said in my last two journal entries here, I'm far more active on tumblr now. If you follow me over there then you probably know about this stuff, but for those who don't, my personal life has been a hellscape since October 2017. At the beginning of October I blew out one of the discs in my lower back and had to suffer through six solid weeks of level 11+ pain before I was finally able to
Heeeey another year with no journal. Also: Tumblr.
But there's been art! Lots of figure skating art! Yeah!
If you're not into Yuri on Ice, though... sorry. Can't help ya.
And I'm not really sorry.
The main point of this post is to remind anybody who still watches me here on dA that I have a tumblr account where I am far more active. It's right here, also as KrisCynical.
I'm going to be uploading the old InuKag artwork that dA axed all those years ago due to their asinine "epilogues don't count" witch hunt policy very soon. So if you're not into Yuri on Ice -- which is what my blog is primarily about along with some politics -- there will be some Inuyasha thrown in there as well. All of my
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I find it horrible and annoying. I had one person steal a Jasmine sketch I did...but I remember it being removed not sure why.
It was like forever ago and on an old profile I had at the time.
I agree with you, it's my work fan art or not. One thing that REALLY worries me is my own characters in my own stories.
Fanart being stolen is bad enough but if someone tried to claim...what really belongs to me that's just not cool. I just don't understand hwo DA does nothing. IF I could I would find another website to go to but...I duno I just don't know what to do.
I have Tumbler but no idea how to invite people on it from DA... so it's like what do I do?
Any suggestions on artist websites that are better than this one?
Michelle
It was like forever ago and on an old profile I had at the time.
I agree with you, it's my work fan art or not. One thing that REALLY worries me is my own characters in my own stories.
Fanart being stolen is bad enough but if someone tried to claim...what really belongs to me that's just not cool. I just don't understand hwo DA does nothing. IF I could I would find another website to go to but...I duno I just don't know what to do.
I have Tumbler but no idea how to invite people on it from DA... so it's like what do I do?
Any suggestions on artist websites that are better than this one?
Michelle