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THIS

Pardon the burner account, but I refuse to do this from my main as to avoid actual harassment from the gaggle of individuals participating in this nonsense.

The Situation.

@hlghlycorroslve , @catfire13, and co. have been childishly publicly vaguing and hounding @lyss-butterscotch for a "stolen Unparalelled Innocence design." After claiming they "attempted to resolve this privately" they took to making a public callout post, linked here.

I'd like to also preface this with the statement that I don't know Lyss. I don't even follow her. I am not her friend, or her, doing this. I am also not associated with anyone who has made any public comments about this situation. Do not implicate ANYONE in the name of this blog. I am someone who has seen your actions from afar and found you rude, alienating, and overall just bizarre.

The Design.

Everything about these two designs are almost entirely different. Yes, they both wear ponchos. But when half of the iterator population wears ponchos, you cannot act like you're entitled to your design wearing a poncho. Especially when they have significant design differences, and the entirety of the rest of the outfits are completely and wildly different. Yes, Hicor originally made their UI purple long before the concept of purple UI became dubiously canon, but even the concept of a pale purple belonging to Hicor and Hicor ONLY is just not true.

The concept that Lyss stole Hicor's color palette also just doesn't hold true. Yes, they are similar by virtue of both being purple, but again, purple UI is especially not exclusive to any one person after Downpour.

Lyss commonly uses desaturated and/or pastel colors for her designs. It makes complete and total sense for Lyss to have desaturated the bright neon purple on the new overseer to match the rest of her designs palettes.

Admittedly, the antennae are the only part of this argument that holds any weight. Yes, they share similarities, like the fact that they both have three points. That is about where the similarities end. The silhouette, color, and everything about the antennae is completely different. The only thing they share is that there is 3 of them. This argument completely loses all of its weight when you put these two designs side by side and realize just how actually different they are. There are more differences between both designs than similarities.

Rain World is a very art oriented game and community. Especially when it comes to a character with no canon defining characteristics, it's normal and common that artists are going to find inspiration in their fellow peers. Inspiration is not a crime. The inspiration is derivative enough that it's not theft. None of this is theft.

The Conversation + Posts.

In the callout post, catfire13 shares screenshots from their private messages with Lyss concerning the situation. After approaching the situation by immediately claiming that Lyss was stealing someone's design, catfire is still intentionally vague about the entire situation even when trying to directly communicate with Lyss. Previously, catfire and co. had spent the past day making vague posts about Lyss, spam-reblogging them, and going into a popular Rain World fan-community server to vague and badmouth Lyss even before having contacted her.

(Although this is a public server, I am censoring those responding to catfire unless they are directly involved in this situation. There is no reason to include these people by name in this conversation.)

Catfire also made a post about this situation on their OC sideblog about the situation BEFORE they ever contacted Lyss. This screenshot was taken after Catfire had finally contacted Lyss, but the original post was made before.

While not directly saying Lyss's name, this is still a public callout. You are still publicly vaguing and calling someone out, even without saying their name. As well as being completely wrong in your final comment, by the way! Lyss has never once stolen art. Why you decide to paint Lyss as an art thief specifically is beyond me, because that is a straight up lie. Catfire, Hicor, and their gaggle of friends all spam reblogged this post, and other vague posts, multiple times while leaving cruel comments in the tags.

You were having people in your inbox leaving threatening messages to Lyss without even knowing the entire situation, which now that you have made a public callout post that paints Lyss in a highly negative light for no reason, I wonder where these threatening messages are going to end up?

This image from the callout post highlights so much, but says so little. You are demonizing Lyss for not knowing what design she was supposedly stealing from before you gave her a single hint as to what you were talking about, of course anyone would be confused in this situation. You use Lyss's initial confusion turned confession into being inspired as if she confessed to committing a federal crime. You hold onto her phrasing of "color shift" so hard because you have no arguments without it.

You also rag on Lyss for the redesign "not being good enough" and as far as we're aware, you made no further contact with Lyss to express your dissatisfaction with the redesign. May I remind you, in your OWN screenshots, that Lyss makes a comment about changing the design until it's separate enough. There was nothing stopping you from approaching Lyss again and stating that you still felt like they were too similar, but you didn't do that. You resorted to making a public callout that makes you look incredibly entitled and foolish.

Conclusion.

You do better. You and your friends want to talk about respecting artists and what they make but you clearly have no respect for Lyss, or a majority of Rain World artists anyways. You point out that Lyss is a "post-downpour" artist for no reason, and many of this groups blogs are filled to the brim with posts and tags about how much they detest new Rain World fans, how they don't respect them, or how they even flat-out dislike them. You are not entitled to anything because you've been a Rain World fan longer than other people. Stop going on the Fandom website and complaining when there's Fandom.

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I left it, I fucking hate it and stay to myself

I've gotten into Friday Night Funkin'

Has been 3 months I this fandom and I'm already trash XD

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RE: ''The Situation''

@highlycorrosive @lyss-butterscotch Let's settle this, let's truly look at these designs and break down how they look. Is this theft?? Well, let's take a good look.

(I've had to redo this several times due to my broken keyboard, so-) The accused theft, told by @highlycorrosive:

My thoughts:

These also apply to @lyss-butterscotch's updated design as well, as the white detailing still makes the poncho entirely different. Their color palettes:

@highlycorrosive's palette (above). Below is @lyss-butterscotch's palette:

To conclude because my laptop is ass and broken, this is not theft. It is merely similar, if barely that. There is no theft here. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

#this shit is so stupid #just own your fuck up corrosive #we know you were just mad and created a stink for nothing

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@transgenderfivepebbles aw baby, did you delete the nasty comments who called you out? Did you forget these were there?

Might wanna recheck yourself, stop trying to attack someone over nothing

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LMAO IMAGINE CALLING SOMEONE OUT FOR ART THEFT AND BEING WRONG, THEN DELETING COMMENTS AGAINST YOUR PERSPECTIVE

https://www.tumblr.com/transgenderfivepebbles/716158266356400128?source=share

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Eyyyy, we reinvented bby ✌✌

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I've gotten into Friday Night Funkin'

Has been 3 months I this fandom and I'm already trash XD

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Rewrite the Stars ~

I wanted to try a lipsync animation, and I happened to be listening to Rewrite the Stars when the inspiration struck! I listen to this song most often when I’m drawing Outertale stuff, and personally, I think James Arthur’s voice suited Grillby better. After listening to this one audio clip on loop, it is very hard to imagine him with any other voice. This is probably the most ambitious animation I’ve made to date, and I kind of regret not doing a practice/study animation of Grillby’s flames before going into this :,) The perfectionist in me came out a lot during the process, but overall, I’m super happy with how this came out! Apologies if the quality of this is kind of grainy, I’m still figuring out the best video programs to use and all that jazz. I can’t wait to dabble with more animation stuff in the future 0v0

#reblog

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my favorite minor moomin characters are the “bad language” that are personified into funny little creatures

I call this one “piss shit”

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The recent doodles you posted, what game are those screenshots of slim from?

Is a dating simulation game that made by @manusiakecil

 you can find more here

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welcome to my symbiote maid cafe au

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venom booping eddie’s nose when they first talk face to face reblog if u agree

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My favorite dynamic:

Person A: this person was mean to me

Person B:

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That’s mean!!!!!

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the only Venom+Spider-Man movie I will accept is if Eddie gets abducted, somehow leaving Venom behind, so Venom chooses to merge with Peter since Spider-Man is his only chance of finding his boyfriend. at first Peter is reluctant but after he realizes Venom is just trying to save his boyfriend, he just goes along with it and helps out. also I want Deadpool in it too

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right, so. 

regardless of the merits of this particular story, there is a larger point to be made.

this? this is a cisgender man and a nonbinary alien in a sexual/romantic relationship.

a queer relationship. a relationship that is queer and canon. 

there is, quite simply, no other interpretation on the table. they fuck. they’re fucking. other questions are still up in the air but they are definitely, 150% fucking.

so when (not if, sadly) some smug fanboy rolls his dead, soulless little eyes at all the stupid womenfolk and queers on tumblr who want Eddie Brock and the symbiote to be a couple lol those sad horny freaks

that fanboy is wrong.

he’s just wrong. he’s as wrong as a guy telling you that Dr Doom is white or that Batwoman isn’t a lesbian. he’s wrong. that’s all. that’s it. he’s a wrong guy being wrong. know this and, in the wake of all Cates-like entities to come, draw comfort from it my friends.

#reblog

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(☞ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)☞

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