Hiya! A big big thank you to old and new followers! Tumblr has a special place in my heart, but the weight this old blog has put on me stops me from freely enjoying the platform.
Because of this, I’ve decided to start fresh on new secondary blogs! :))
MULTI-FANDOM ARTBLOG:
i can tell deltarune sans is quite a bit younger than the sans we meet in undertale because he hasn't fully grown into his trollying act yet. he's good at it, don't get me wrong, but he still has a long way to go. divorced man swaggers pathetically in his general direction and he cringes so hard he has to look away. "like in that one movie..."? please. a 15 year old gives him a box of chocolates and he spends... what, half a minute sputtering before he finds a good response?
"i befriended your mom last night" and the hotline prank were good, but then he goes "idiot babies compete with my sociological niche" and it makes me want to push him into a locker. i can still smell the college dorm room soap on him, put this man back in the oven he's not done cooking yet
The follow up to my Guide For Reporting Stolen Artwork and Get Consent, Kids
If you haven’t heard by now, I’m just someone who hates stolen artwork and those who do the thieving, literally has run out of fucks to give, and knows a thing or two about copyright law and will fight you on this.
NOTE: THIS ALSO WILL CONTAIN A FEW HELPFUL TIPS FOR ARTISTS WHO GIVE PERMISSION TO DUB!
In the weeks I’ve been reporting stolen artwork to artists, it’s really broken my heart to realize just how many of them didn’t know what rights they have when it comes to their artwork simply because it’s fanart. Like…nooo…
For the sake of conciseness, I will only be referencing traditional/digital art throughout this post.
No one can use your artwork without your permission. Even fanart cannot be used by the company/creators of the show WITHOUT YOUR EXPLICIT CONSENT. Otherwise, it’s theft. YOU OWN THE ART. YOU MAY NOT OWN THE CHARACTERS BUT THAT PICTURE IS YOURS. YOU DECIDE WHERE IT GOES, WHO CAN USE IT, HOW, AND WHEN.
Note: selling fanart is a different monster altogether and that’s not what this is about. I’m not even gonna go there.
You have three options:
DMCA stands for Digital Media Copyright Act. Also known as a copyright claim. In short, if you’ve ever used something that was copyrighted and got told to take it down by the website or had it removed by the website, then you’ve been slapped by a DMCA report. Those are legal actions and should be respected and obeyed.
If you’ve ever flagged a video for having your content, reported stolen artwork on tumblr or anything else, odds are you were filing a DMCA takedown.
Personally, I would always recommend DMCA. If you wanna go route 2 that’s fine, I won’t judge you. From my point of view, however, that person didn’t have the fucking courtesy to even ASK YOU. Why should they be allowed to reap the benefits of your hard work?
I stole a doll from a thrift store when I was 3 and my mama sent me right back inside, crying, to apologize, and give it back. From then on, I knew that taking things from the store was wrong. You’re never too young to learn right from wrong.
A DMCA might be just the thing to teach that whippersnapper not to steal artowrk. Especially if they’re already refusing to cooperate.
They stole from you. They started it.
Yeah, probably. But this is a legal action…so why are you surprised?
Many people on the internet want a degree of anonymity, I understand that. The internet is a dangerous place. But DMCA take downs are legal actions. Companies need to do everything they can to ensure honesty. If there’s a dispute, they might need to contact you for further info. If things end up getting heated, someone needs to be able step up and own up to the claims–though I’ve never heard of it getting this far for stolen artwork on youtube. Otherwise, people would flag videos left and right just because they don’t like them. I mean, they already try, but DMCA is much more serious and they’re forms are intimidating enough to scare off the filthy casuals.
DMCA is one of the only weapons you have to defend your rights. Take it or leave it.
That’s okay! Most websites where your stuff could be reposted ARE based in the USA and, therefore, are under the jurisdiction of USA copyright laws.
For any other websites, just google the website name plus DMCA.
IF YOU ARE A DUBBER, LIKE ME, AND ONE OF YOUR DUBS GOT STOLEN, WORK WITH THE ARTIST AND THE VOICE ACTORS TO REPORT IT. ALL OF YOU CAN FILE A COPYRIGHT CLAIM ON IT. You as the editor, the artist obviously, and the voice actors since they “appear in the video without their consent” ;) you’re welcome.
If someone reposts a song cover or an amv you made, you can DMCA those as well even though you don’t hold copyright to the original material. You made the video. You have some rights to it still. …But if the original content owners say something to you, shut up and listen your ass might end up in court.
Rule 1 in my field: ALWAYS COVER YOUR ASS!
…kay wait. I think “wrap your cables properly” is rule one. Rule 2 then. But it’s a good rule and it applies everywhere.
If someone comes to you asking to dub your work, this is what you should do:
By giving them consent, you are basically entering a contract together. Screenshots are your evidence of the contract just in case the original is lost. Failure to comply with your terms is a breach of this contract and you can take action against them.
In summary: YOU HAVE RIGHTS. People can be little shitheads who steal and you have the power to kick their ass legally. The law is on your side. Also, COVER YOUR ASS.
Recently discovered Arson is My Middle Name by @ samseaa on wattpad and ao3
I simped way too long for william, I promised myself I wouldn’t simp for his son too, despite all the hype on tiktok— I was dOING SO WELL TOO 😭😭😭
Ig this is my life now.
Also I haven’t drawn in so long I’ve sorta forgotten how to draw men oops
👏🏾Education 👏🏾is 👏🏾a 👏🏾right,👏🏾 not👏🏾 a👏🏾 service 👏🏾
Pass along and use the shit out of them
No one should own knowledge, and the pursuit of knowledge should be guarenteed.
Tell me he isn’t tumblr sexyman material. Go on, I dare you.
Oh and, have a sketch as I slowly drown in a sea of school-research work lol
Not me trading away copies of my masterpieces for spikes, rares, and random stuff I want
Never have I ever realized before the sheer power that artists have in AJ’s economy ✨
Security breach sketches because I suck
Also, I wanted to try drawing greghorl and chica
Also added some closeups because why not
Had some time to do some sketches to experiment on how I wanted to draw our favorite ✨fazdad✨
still not too sure about it but eh
I genuinely can’t remember the last time I was able to go w/o references (for most of the time after the first sketch) and just go messy on my sketchbook so this was super fun🥺💜
Ignore the shakyness, I’ve been animating non stop for 3 days straight :’)) I think it’s getting to me HAHAHAHAHHAH
I probably should have done this bEFORE 2022, but eh. I’ve always been a last-minute kind of person, anyways hahaha
2021 sucked for me, and I don’t want to jinx anything so— I’m happy with whatever 2022 may bring uwu
✨Que será, será✨
First of all, dang, the endings are strangely anticlimactic. Like, I don’t know how to describe it— but they just are. It’s a neat stylistic choice, with most endings with the comic book style and the true ending being in 3d, but I think the build up to them just wasn’t polished enough. I feel like if the pacing was polished and if the game actually GAVE the player instructions as to what the hell they’re supposed to do, then it would have made the endings feel like endings.
SB could have given clearer instructions both story-wise, and mechanics-wise.
I get that the game is free-roam, and that character dialogue and the fazwatch messages give a lot of hints as to where you’re meant to go, but it just wasn’t clear enough. I feel like the fazwatch ‘messages’ section could have been better integrated into showing the player a clear path for the main, non-ending-exclusive, missions. The side-quests could have even been separated, because it just gets confusing. Giving a clear goal would still allow the player to roam around, but still have an ultimate end point. Take Mark’s laundry room incident, had it said something around the lines of ‘find an exit in the laundry room/ or just find an exit, period, instead of letting the player wander aimlessly, not knowing if they’re supposed to find an exit or find some generator or press a button.
As for mechanics-wise, there’s just so much un-explained. There’s plenty of moments where it felt like many would not have understood what was supposed to be done with what they were given. Take the fazerblaster mechanic, for example. How it’s used with the regular animatronics and the S.T.A.F.F bots is vastly different. It’s not as picky with the main animatronics, so you’d assume it would be with the staff bots, as well. At the end of the game (true ending,) the use of Chica’s voice box is also unexplained. There were no visual prompts, instructions from the game or freddy, nothing. Freddy’s instructions are misleading, if anything. “Hide!” Doesn’t exactly easily translate to, ‘hide INSIDE me and do SOMETHING.’ It also does not help that the something we’re meant to do is a mechanic we have never needed. Even then, it was never introduced to us as a manually-used weapon outside of it being automatically used on the Chica doors. I also feel that the first part of the game when there were still pretty clear objectives were less buggy.
Lastly, the saves. The relevance of the multiple save slots are also not explained, so it’s pretty easy to end up with no extra save slots, which would be inconvenient. It’s totally okay for a game to remove saves at some point in the game— what’s not ok is that it takes it away at such a bad time, especially without explanation of how to manage gameplay from then on out. I’m no gamer, so I can’t exactly go in-depth with this part, but I do know that it is unreasonable with a good large chunk of the game still left. I also think it’s pretty odd for a free-roam game?
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love this game, the characters, and the extension of the fnaf universe it gives, with a passion. It’s also good to note that because it was so out of tune with the rest of the fnaf games’ ‘formula,’ there was a lot of expectations to it. Personally, I avoided absolutely everything sb before its release, so I was pretty excited to discover that it was free-roam. I’m not sure if Scott was still a part of the production of the entirety of the game, so that might have also played a part with the game’s polish?
Overall, SB is an ambitious game with great potential— it was a step in an entirely new direction, a direction the community loved. It was more character-driven than most of the other fnaf games, which was such an experience. I believe that the one thing that made parts of the game underwhelming was it’s lack of polish.
Welp, thanks for coming to my ted talk. I don’t usually do these, but with the possibility of sb being our last fnaf game looming over the fandom, I thought that I might as well. I’ll probably watch other youtubers’ gameplays now, to gain a bit more perspective haha.
(Do excuse any grammar/spelling errors— this was pretty spontaneous lol)
Here’s a sketchy of my ghorl Olivia ✨ (she got a slight redesign, mostly around the lower part of her design)
I did not intend for it to blow up like thi- how- what in- what did I do??
PEOPLE— HOW HAVE I NOT NOTICED THIS BEFORE…
Hai— meet an old undertale OC, Ivanovich! “Iva,” for short :’))
This is also a pretty old drawing, but I’m still really proud of it.
“GR Freddy is daddy 🥺”
“GR Freddy is daddy~ 🥴”
It’s damn chaotic istg
