fuzzy post-it

to clarify, it is totally derision

observe how the software is designed:

title by name.  this submission is copyright.

this is not the phrasing of “by you or for you”.  this is the phrasing of “by you”.  so by uploading something you didn’t actually create, the website is already lying on your behalf, a mere quarter-inch away from the work.  it drives me up the wall every time i bumble across cool artwork and go to see what else the person has done and it’s all fucking commissions.

but really it’s just immensely disrespectful to treat “i made this” and “i paid someone else to make this” as interchangeable.  forty bucks and a paragraph are a hell of a lot easier to come by than however many years the artist spent practicing so they could draw it for you.  show it off all you want, but maybe an art website designed for artists to show off their art is an inappropriate place for that?

especially since you are detracting attention from the artist by duplicating their work on the same website.  you can say “fav and comment on the original!!” all you want, but ultimately why would people bother to click on a link to see the same picture again?

here’s a question: why is it limited to “for you”?  why can’t i upload whatever freely-licensed work i want?  you might say “well because you had no hand in it,” but what about gift art?  what about gift art that is of something you like, but didn’t come up with yourself?  that’s allowed, right?  why is the line drawn at mere intentions?

it’s almost like the furry community as a whole sees artists as faceless art machines whose work they are inexplicably entitled to, and this rule is just in place to keep them present and pacified.  almost.

it does suck that these websites don’t actually support cross-linking in any meaningful way; you’d think that after ten years, FA would’ve found the time to make this a real feature.  i’m sorely disappointed that weasyl decided to appease the masses and go the same route, and it’s a large part of why mel never had any presence there.

might i suggest just getting a tumblr, where at least there’s a standard way to indicate the source for something you didn’t make?  or, hey, learn to draw?

ahaha thank you; they still look painfully off to me, especially living with pearl and knowing what she should look like

i guess i could stand to do some still-lifes, especially with a pencil where i can try to draw the lighting as well

i still have no idea how to doodle a cat from scratch though omg

i’ve written a lot of code so that’s kind of a broad question

i often start a neat architectural thing but don’t figure out how to finish it so it stays in a sort of half-baked state for a long time with a lot of TODOs sprinkled around

as time goes on i become increasingly convinced that being an ironic asshole (in the way 0r0 appears to be) is even worse

a regular old asshole, ok, you hate people who aren’t like you, have fun over there i guess

an ironic asshole is disingenuous and nigh manipulative.  not only do they not actually care about people who aren’t like them, but because they only do it ✨ironically✨, they think it’s still cool to hang around the people they use as the butts of their jokes.  if you’re one of those people, and you don’t like being used for teenage humor this way, it’s your fault for not being cool and playing along with the joke

basically fuck this guy

uhhhhhhhh wow that fucking blows, sorry  :(

and, yeah, i don’t know what the hell anything on tumblr does.  like i just finally realized that if you go to “edit appearance” which looks like this:

and you click on the button, you get this:

which is why i keep losing all the formatting in my header — because changing my avatar from here also re-saves the header, without the formatting!  note that it’s full of links in the first image but plain text when i’m editing in the second.

so instead you have to go to the whole blog theme editor thing, which also lets you change your avatar, for some reason

it is a huge clusterfuck

i mean, props to tumblr for actually supporting something vaguely resembling multiple logins at all, but…  wow

buy a lot of fans

pay $500/mo in power bills

don’t go outside

have a pool (you can go outside to go in the pool)

they are pretty slick, avoid callback hell, and are probably the best thing you can have short of dedicated syntax

oh sure i have no problem with reblogs

there is a secret $69 tier on my patreon

lots of fans, not a lot of clothes

“comfortably” might be pushing it though

also i lived in this same desert for a while as a kid so it’s not new

you are vastly over-estimating how many dicks i draw

no i think that’s a stock image

wow i didn’t even notice.  maybe i’m using the full post instead of the summary or something

there you go

only a decade?  pretty sure it dates back to moose und squirrel