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here's a cute little Aya for my good friend @cookieg122's recent birthday!!!! was a little bit late with finishing the pic but I just had to draw this precious girl to celebrate! yay! :'D

tbh, I was really nervous about going over this pic with ink, but I REALLY wanted to do the wings with white gel pen so that overrode my fear of ruining the picture with the ink haha. fortunately, no major mistakes were made and I'm quite happy with this result! A bit challenging, sure, but still a lot of fun ;u;

(oh also! special shoutout to my friend @pixlokita, btw - who was kind enough to offer to draw a wing design for me some time ago, since I was struggling to figure out how fairy wings work, lol. her design was soooo perfect tho so I mimicked it to the best of my ability!! :'0)

Aya Armas belongs to @cookieg122. please do not remove caption or repost. also on deviantart

#aya's wings can transform into a cape btw #so that's why we usually end up drawing her with a cape instead of the wings #but this wing design is sooo pretty and it fits aya so well;;; #was really glad i was able to draw it and actually make it look decent haha #also i haven't worked with ink in over a year #so that was interesting lol #im just glad it didn't turn out to be a disaster xD #but yEAH #love being able to draw birthday art when i can #it doesn't always work out but it's so nice when it does ;o; #oc #aya armas #cookieg122 #primordial smp

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wakeniahten

#first nations #indigenous pride #oh btw do not repost or remove caption.

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All right Tumblr, let’s talk about art theft in PowerPoint format, because I’m hearing a lot of complaints, and some artists I know have literally stopped putting out art to the public because of rampant theft of their art.

[Transcription:  The story of art and art theft goes hand in hand with the history of copyright.  So why does that exist, anyway?  Whose genius idea was copyright law??

In the beginning there was no such thing as copyright. 

Books and artwork had to be carefully produced by hand.

Each new copy of a book took the same amount of time to produce, no matter how many copies you wanted, so there weren’t a lot of copies of books that weren’t religious text (like the Vedas or the Bible).

Because it took so long to write and bind a new copy of a book, an author’s livelihood wasn’t affected by other people making a copy.

Gutenberg changed everything

The invention of the movable-type printing press was HUGE, y’all.

You didn’t have to write really slowly to make each letter neat and legible; the type blocks were already made before you produced a book.

Once you’d set up a page, you could make as many exact copies of that page as you wanted, which meant you could print hundreds of copies of a book at a time.

Because it was easier to print a lot of books, you didn’t have to charge as much, so lots more people could afford to buy your books!

(Image of people using an early printing press with the caption, “These guys are printing 240 pages per hour.  So much faster than fancy handwriting!”)

There was just one problem...When it’s easy to publish and print lots of copies of your books, other people can also print lots of copies of your books.  And make money off them.  And if their copies are cheaper than yours, you lose sales, which means you don’t make money and could become a starving artist.  (Or author.  Whatever.)

But that’s not all.  That other printing house?  Doesn’t give nearly as much of a shit about your book as you do.  They’re printing out the bargain-basement version of your book, after all, so it doesn’t have to be as nice as your Super Official Version.  So they’re gonna make a lot more printing errors than the official copy that you originally ordered.

Oh, and if they don’t like the ending?  They could just fucking change it, and then people don’t know which ending is the real one that you wrote.

So in addition to not making that sweet, sweet sales money, your reputation takes a hit.  Ouch.

Copyright was the solution, but it wasn’t perfect.  On the one hand, an author got to choose which printers had the right to make copies of their books, and nobody else would get to print copies for 14 years after the original print date.  So you could control the quality and sales of your books, and actually make enough money to support you while you wrote a second book.

BUT without those cheap, shitty bootlegs, books got a bit more expensive again, so fewer of the unwashed masses could afford books.  It’s a tradeoff.

Why 14 years?  Because it was assumed that most of the people who were gonna buy your book, would buy it within that amount of time.  Sure, some people would buy it later than that, but not enough for you to really rely on those later sales.

Wait, only 14 years?

That’s right.  In 1710, when England and Scotland created the first copyright laws, your copyright expired after just 14 years.  Copyright law has been changed several times over the centuries to make that period last longer.

The most recent change to US copyright law, for instance, was the Sonny Bono law in 1996 (yes, that Sonny Bono).  This is why there were a lot of companies selling VHS tapes of popular cartoons before 1996, but when DVDs became mainstream a few years later, there were no DVD versions made--those cartoons had their copyright renewed right after the Sonny Bono Law passed, so it wasn’t legal for those other video producers to make and sell unlicensed copies of those cartoons anymore.

(Picture of VHS tapes with cheap, off-model images of Mighty Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, and Daffy Duck on the covers.)

That’s right, the tapes on this slide, that look like cheap bootlegs, were legally produced.  Because the old cartoons on them were, at that time, in the public domain. And they’re not anymore.

So what does this have to do with online art?

Copyright law still applies to art.  Yes, even if it’s made on a computer.  Yes, even if the artist chooses to post that art on the Internet.

Because the artist gets to choose how their art is distributed, an artist can say “Do not repost to other websites, and do not reblog without this caption,” and it is legally binding.

If an artist wants to sell prints of their own art, they can legally do that.  But you can’t sell or distribute prints (or digital copies!) of their art without their express permission.

Because we currently live in a capitalistic society, artists need to make money off of their art in order to be able to produce art full-time.  If they can’t make money off of it (say, because some asshole is off posting hi-res copies of it on other websites without permission and without giving the artist credit), then they have to get another job and don’t have as much time to produce art.  Which means you get less art.

Small-time artists aren’t like major corporations.  When you make a bootleg of a Disney Movie, or Disney’s promotional art (for legal reasons, I wish to point out that you should not do this because it’s illegal and Disney can and will sue you into the poorhouse), you’re preventing a massive, multinational corporation (which has unethically devoured hundreds of other corporations, btw), with already earns billions of dollars in profits every year, from making $20.  That’s a drop in the bucket.

But when you make illegal copies of a small-time artist’s art, that’s just a regular, not-ludicrously-wealthy  person, who relies on sales and commissions to earn a living.  That money could be the difference between them buying groceries next week, or having to have a glass of water for dinner for a few days.

The moral of the story:

Support small artists and small businesses!

The only viable replacement for copyright laws that both allows artists to spend time Making Art and also allows you to make all the copies you want, is socialism.  You just can’t have it both ways under capitalism.  It doesn’t work.

This, by the way, is also a reason I support a Universal Basic Income:  so that art theft doesn’t prevent independent artists from being able to do what they love full time, because their survival doesn’t depend on selling prints or drawing commissions for That One Guy who wants art of his unusual, weirdly-specific fetish that the artist REALLY isn’t into but hey, he’s shelling out $300 for it and money is money.

Also, if you remove an artist’s watermark to repost their art somewhere else, you’re both an art thief and a huge asshole.  Don’t do that.

End of transcription.]

#art theft #copyright

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how do u make friends and become a "personality" on tumblr? i dont mean being tumblr famous, im just pretty lonely. asking u since u seem to have a few

oh gosh i’m surprised you think of me as havin friends n bein a tumblr personality! that’s kinda a compliment so ty! tho lol i might not be as popular as u think tbh? tho i guess i have an okay number of followers and the ppl i’m close to on here are SO AWESOME n i love them? BUT OKAY! i’ll tell u how i went about makin friends on tumblr! btw don’t be afraid to dm me like i’ll be your friend! i’m super shy but like rly friendly so?? ANYWAYS here’s what i did:1. be yourself even if you think ppl won’t like you. you rly shouldn’t care about the ppl who don’t like u bc they’d prob never like you? and being urself helps you feel good about yourself and is REALLY attractive to ppl who might end up following you. be real. it’s your blog, so don’t, for example, let some mean anon tell u how to run your blog.2. that doesn’t mean being insensitive tho! i’m constantly tryin to be as fuckin nice as i can within reason. and oh yeah tag stuff like “flashing” or “nsfw” or “gore” etc even if you use custom tags (i use “h” for nsfw bc i don’t wanna get flagged lol). and don’t repost stuff on here without direct permission. it’s like stealing. and don’t delete captions off of original art (but u can remove a rebloggers captions all day).3. post your own “content” whether it be text posts or pictures u took or art u make or edits or finds off other sites! even if u think it’s too dumb, i promise u there’ll be a buncha ppl who will like it. i thought my gifs were trash and then one day one wound up on tumblr’s “radar’ (or whatev it used to be called). MAKE SURE U TAG YOUR POSTS. it’s fine to not tag reblogs unless they’re something ppl are sensitive about (flashing,gore). it’s fine to just reblog other’s stuff btw like ppl still love blogs like that (that’s most of tumblr tbh).4. your follower count doesn’t matter. the number of notes on posts you make don’t matter. it’s so easy to fall into viewing those numbers as a sign of “how cool u are/how much ppl like you”. don’t start posting things u don’t care about just bc u notice ppl like it. just be yourself. ppl will come anyways.5. talk to people. write little comments on ppls posts. respond to ppl. take the risk and direct message someone (be considerate tho. like if u have a crush on someone don’t open with “i wanna fuck u” lol). if you want friends, be friendly.6. THIS IS IMPORTANT THO. tumblr is easily the shyest community i’ve ever encountered. and this is coming from someone who has agoraphobia (or rather a fear of people). even if someone follows you back and likes all your posts… they might not respond to you. THAT DOESN’T MEAN THEY HATE U OR DON’T CARE. a lot of them just… can’t? ur msg very easily made them really happy. sometimes ppl like that just need time. i won’t lie, of the hundreds of ppl i’ve tried to start conv with? maybe only 10% of them even replied. if you’re like me the voice in ur head will tell you “oh they hate you you weirded them out ur awful”. ignore that dumbass voice. that 10% who responded? or responded later? are some of my best friends on here. IT’S ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT.take the risk. talk to people. rejection can hurt, but it’s just like a little scratch compared to the gushing wound we cause ourselves by not trying. see, look at this stupid long unintelligible post i just wrote. and i somehow still have a bunch of friends and followers? i’m a huge idiot, but turns out that everybody else is too thank god. so just be yourself and have fun!oh and it takes time btw. like i’ve been active on here since 2012 lol. give people time to find u and respond to you. hope it helped even if it was just a little!

#anon #reply #ty for asking #dont worry you'll make friends fine! #long #sorry i mighta gave way too much info but hope this helps??? #Anonymous

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Btw they've changed their url to lijgirl25

Yeah, probably.

I appreciate the heads-up nonners, honest & truly I do, thank you for bein' on the side of right and true.  But I'm working on being zen about it tbh.  What I wanted to do and was excited to do tonight was work on some lil clothes for my Tana bear, but what I ended up doing was stewing in anxiety and rage bc some grown-ass woman never learned not to steal ppl's creative content & claim it as her own.  

There's shit-all I can do that'd convince her to admit she stole those gifs/captions from me and I don't think I can grieve it w/ Instagram either.  She obviously thrives on attention and loves acting like an innocent victim of baseless persecution.  So yeah.  I mean I could message her followers and defenders with the indisputable evidence, I could burn up energy and time trying to get the posts removed, I could knock myself out trying to right a blatant wrong, I could hunt her down and tattoo "plagiarist" on her lily white forehead (assuming those pics were actually her, of course!  Can't trust anything a thief posts!), but  but the thing is...

I can't control what she stole from me.  She took my work and my words & pretended both were hers.  She probably will again.  If not from me than from some other poor soul.  I can't prevent it.  But I can prevent her from stealing my time and balance and peace of mind and recovery.  She knows exactly what she did - nobody saves gifs and the caption that accompanied them and ~forgets~ where they came from.  She even said "I found it on tumblr," so this isn't an innocent mistake, it's a deliberate act...she stole them for attention and keeping on giving her attention is clearly what she wants, so...fuck her tbh.  Shrug emoji.  It sucks and it's not what I want - I've actually had ppl repost stuff in error cos they found it stolen elsewhere - some are friends now!  Cos I ain't unreasonable and I get that shit happens sometimes when you'e down a google hole or w/e.  I get that I have a hair trigger temper in a few things and this is definitely one of them, oh my god I was seeing red all day.

But some people have absolutely no shame about ripping ppl off, and we clearly have one here...so all I'm doing is staying pissed about one more shitty thing out of my control.  And that isn't gonna get Tana-bear his pants sewn!

So I'm trying to be zen.  I really am.  I dunno that I'ma succeed in that regard, but I am trying.

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I made a PSA.  I hereby give you permission to post it wherever.  (Again, you can do this because I, the creator of these images, specifically have given you that permission.)  Please support independent artists.  A transcription is at the bottom of the post for those who need it.

Transcription:

Digital Art Theft:  What it is, and why you should care The story of art and art theft goes hand in hand with the history of copyright.  So why does that exist, anyway?

Whose genius idea was copyright law??

In the beginning, there was no such thing as copyright. ⦁ Books and artwork had to be carefully produced by hand. ⦁ Each new copy of a book took the same amount of time to produce, no matter how many copies you wanted, so there weren’t a lot of copies of books that weren’t religious texts (like the Vedas or the Bible). ⦁ Because it took so long to write and bind a new copy of a book, an author’s livelihood wasn’t affected by other people making a copy.

Gutenberg Changed Everything

The invention of the movable-type printing press was HUGE, y’all. ⦁ You didn’t have to write really slowly to make each letter neat and legible; the type blocks were already made before you produced a book. ⦁ Once you’d set up a page, you could make as many exact copies of that page as you wanted, which meant you could print hundreds of copies of a book at a time. ⦁ Because it was easier to print a lot of books, you didn’t have to charge as much, so lots more people could afford to buy your books!

There was just one problem. ⦁ When it’s easy to publish and print lots of copies of your books, other people can also print lots of copies of YOUR books.  And make money off them.  And if their copies are cheaper than yours, you lose sales, which means YOU DON’T MAKE MONEY and could become a STARVING ARTIST.  (Or author. Whatever.) ⦁ But that’s not all.  That other printing house?  Doesn’t give nearly as much of a shit about your book as you do.  They’re printing out the bargain-basement version of your book, after all, so it doesn’t have to be as nice as your Super Official Version.  So they’re gonna make a lot more printing errors than the official copy that you originally ordered. ⦁ Oh, and if they don’t like the ending?  They could just fucking change it, and then people don’t know which ending is the real one that you wrote. ⦁ So in addition to not making that sweet, sweet sales money, your reputation takes a hit.  Ouch.

Copyright was the solution, but it wasn't perfect. ⦁ On the one hand, an author got to choose which printers had the right to make copies of their books, and nobody else would get to print copies for 14 years after the original print date.  So you could control the quality and sales of your books, and actually make enough money to support you while you wrote a second book. ⦁ BUT without those cheap, shitty bootlegs, books got a bit more expensive again, so fewer of the unwashed masses could afford books.  It’s a tradeoff. ⦁ Why 14 years?  Because it was assumed that most of the people who were gonna buy your book, would buy it within that amount of time.  Sure, some people would buy it later than that, but not enough for you to really rely on those later sales.

Wait, only 14 years? ⦁ That’s right.  In 1710, when England and Scotland created the first copyright laws, your copyright expired after just 14 years. ⦁ Copyright law has been changed several times over the centuries to make that period last longer. ⦁ The most recent change to US copyright law, for instance, was the Sonny Bono law in 1996 (yes, that Sonny Bono).  This is why there were a lot of companies selling VHS tapes of popular cartoons before 1996, but when DVDs became mainstream a few years later, there were no DVD versions made—those cartoons had their copyright renewed right after the Sonny Bono Law passed, so it wasn’t legal for those other video producers to make and sell unlicensed copies of those cartoons anymore. ⦁ That’s right, the tapes in the photos on this slide, that look like cheap bootlegs, were LEGALLY PRODUCED.  Because the old cartoons on them were, at that time, in the public domain.  And they’re not anymore.

So what does this have to do with online art? ⦁ Copyright law still applies to art.  Yes, even if it’s made on a computer.  Yes, even if the artist chooses to post that art on the Internet. ⦁ Because the artist gets to choose how their art is distributed, an artist can say “Do not repost to other websites, and do not reblog without this caption,” and it is legally binding. ⦁ If an artist wants to sell prints of their own art, they can legally do that.  But you can’t sell or distribute prints (or digital copies!!) of their art without their express permission. ⦁ Because we currently live in a capitalistic society, ARTISTS NEED TO MAKE MONEY OFF OF THEIR ART IN ORDER TO BE ABLE TO PRODUCE ART FULL-TIME.  If they can’t make money off of it (say, because some asshole is off posting hi-res copies of it on other websites without permission and without giving the artist credit), then THEY HAVE TO GET ANOTHER JOB AND DON’T HAVE AS MUCH TIME TO PRODUCE ART.  Which means you get less art.

Small-time artists aren't like major corporations. ⦁ When you make a bootleg of a Disney movie, or Disney’s promotional art (for legal reasons, I wish to point out that you SHOULD NOT DO THIS because it’s ILLEGAL and DISNEY CAN AND WILL SUE YOU INTO THE POORHOUSE), you’re preventing a massive, multinational corporation (which has unethically devoured hundreds of other corporations, btw), which already earns billions of dollars in profits every year, from making $20.  That’s a drop in the bucket. ⦁ But when you make illegal copies of a small-time artist’s art, that’s just a regular, not-ludicrously-wealthy person, who relies on sales and commissions to earn a living.  That money could be the difference between them buying groceries next week, or having to have a glass of water for dinner for a few days.

The moral of the story: ⦁ Support small artists and small businesses! ⦁ The only viable replacement for copyright laws that both allows artists to spend time Making Art and also allows you to make all the copies you want, is SOCIALISM.  You just can’t have it both ways under capitalism.  It doesn’t work. ⦁ This, by the way, is also a reason I support a Universal Basic Income:  so that art theft doesn’t prevent independent artists from being able to do what they love full time, because their survival doesn’t depend on selling prints or drawing commissions for That One Guy who wants art of his unusual, weirdly-specific fetish that the artist REALLY isn’t into but hey, he’s shelling out $300 for it and money is money.

⦁ Also, if you remove an artist’s watermark to repost their art somewhere else, you’re both an art thief and a HUGE asshole.  DON’T DO THAT.

#art theft #copyright #PSA #piracy