THANK YOU, you will make me cry even more, oh no...
I am using a tablet! I still literally can't draw a straight line, but I'm getting there. I'm hoping I'll get better as I continue to put in more hours.
I had considered the possibility of people thinking that I had reposted something from Pixiv, but I ultimately decided that the quality of the art was too mediocre. It seems almost delusional to think that people didn't like the piece because the art was too good (instead of the usual Zelda fandom shenanigans), but I am okay with being delusional. From here on out I'm going to use the tag "my art" instead of "lol art."
Scanning and posting dōjinshi covers is a morally gray area, but I have my reasons. Right after the big earthquake in 2011, I flew to Japan to help with disaster relief, and it was a mess. I mean, I know people are still talking about how bad it was, but words and pictures can't really convey how huge the mess actually was. Everything was totally destroyed, and there was water and mud everywhere. Mostly what I did was to help translate for doctors and relief workers, but in the evening I would sit with these old people and, like, help them try to scrape the mud off of their books and diaries and photos. Meanwhile, all of the earthquakes in Tokyo made it seem like maybe something awful was going to happen there too, and the reason I got on Tumblr back in 2011 was because I thought that someone should make a digital library of Final Fantasy dōjinshi just in case.
And also, Japanese artists didn't post the covers of their dōjinshi on their own websites. And also, at the time Japanese artists would create websites and then take them down a few months later. And also, people were posting poor quality scans with no attribution on image hosting sites like Zerochan. And also, people on LiveJournal were posting scanlations of entire dōjinshi with no attribution. I thought that, if I could create a small but properly labeled and indexed resource that would be searchable and freely available to anyone, maybe that might do some good in the world. Again, this is a morally gray area, and I've been gradually moving away from that sort of thing, but I still remember how the tsunami mud smelled, you know?
Uhhhhhhh you probably didn't want to know all that... sorry for rambling.
Anyway, thank you so much for liking and reblogging my fic posts! But you really don't have to, I'm totally sincere about that. I'm just dispirited because of the continuing dysfunction of the fandom and the prevailing culture on Tumblr in general. But what can you do? Situations like this are why the good lord invented vodka and ice cream.
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Date: 2017-09-25 12:31 pm (UTC)I am using a tablet! I still literally can't draw a straight line, but I'm getting there. I'm hoping I'll get better as I continue to put in more hours.
I had considered the possibility of people thinking that I had reposted something from Pixiv, but I ultimately decided that the quality of the art was too mediocre. It seems almost delusional to think that people didn't like the piece because the art was too good (instead of the usual Zelda fandom shenanigans), but I am okay with being delusional. From here on out I'm going to use the tag "my art" instead of "lol art."
Scanning and posting dōjinshi covers is a morally gray area, but I have my reasons. Right after the big earthquake in 2011, I flew to Japan to help with disaster relief, and it was a mess. I mean, I know people are still talking about how bad it was, but words and pictures can't really convey how huge the mess actually was. Everything was totally destroyed, and there was water and mud everywhere. Mostly what I did was to help translate for doctors and relief workers, but in the evening I would sit with these old people and, like, help them try to scrape the mud off of their books and diaries and photos. Meanwhile, all of the earthquakes in Tokyo made it seem like maybe something awful was going to happen there too, and the reason I got on Tumblr back in 2011 was because I thought that someone should make a digital library of Final Fantasy dōjinshi just in case.
And also, Japanese artists didn't post the covers of their dōjinshi on their own websites. And also, at the time Japanese artists would create websites and then take them down a few months later. And also, people were posting poor quality scans with no attribution on image hosting sites like Zerochan. And also, people on LiveJournal were posting scanlations of entire dōjinshi with no attribution. I thought that, if I could create a small but properly labeled and indexed resource that would be searchable and freely available to anyone, maybe that might do some good in the world. Again, this is a morally gray area, and I've been gradually moving away from that sort of thing, but I still remember how the tsunami mud smelled, you know?
Uhhhhhhh you probably didn't want to know all that... sorry for rambling.
Anyway, thank you so much for liking and reblogging my fic posts! But you really don't have to, I'm totally sincere about that. I'm just dispirited because of the continuing dysfunction of the fandom and the prevailing culture on Tumblr in general. But what can you do? Situations like this are why the good lord invented vodka and ice cream.