[ SECRET POST #4387 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4387 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I know! I have seen some really annoying fanartist who do shit like that.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe you're not seeing the full context and the artist is tired to hell of 50 people telling them the same joke over and over.

Similar artist gripe is when someone doesn't recognize the characters in the art and, instead of reading the description, proceeds to call/tag the characters as something else entirely.

Art means a lot to the person who made it, man. Even if it's fanart.

[(Anonymous)]

As long as the comments are light-hearted jokes and not shitting on anything (for example a veiled dig at a character or ship), I agree with OP though. It's easy enough to ignore comments from other people. My take on it is that my fanart means a lot to me, and if it means a lot to another person in a way I didn't intend I'm still happy they found something in it to relate to.

[(Anonymous)]

So you never get annoyed when you hear the fiftieth or hundredth joke the same time? Let me put it like this.

You work retail. Something doesn't scan. "Guess it's free, then!" I heard this joke a million times. It's not funny. It's the same thing. Of course they don't mean it, it's just a joke. But it's heard so often, even if it's light-hearted, you've still heard it a lot.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT I'm sorry to hear about your experiences on retail, but we're talking about online interactions here. If people irl say something to my face I have no choice but to listen, but comments on tumblr/AO3/instagram or whatever place it is that people post their fanart on? I can choose not to read them.

[(Anonymous)]

I can sympathize. Also irritating af: artists who complain about only getting likes rather than reblogs (stfu and be grateful, asshole, nobody is required to reblog anything or even fucking LIKE it), and artists who complain that no one wants to buy their work (maybe you want too much money! maybe we don't have extra money to spend on it! maybe your work just plain sucks!).

[(Anonymous)]

oh, mood. ppl especially like to complain how rude it is to say an oc reminds you of another character.
like i'm sorry, but nothing you shit out is going to be original, it's all been done before, if you hinge your esteem as an artist on how unique your characters are you're going to have a bad time. people are trying to give you a compliment by saying your thing reminds them of another cool thing.
i've seen people say it about their shepards and it's like... the character creator only has so many options, "reminds my of my shepard" is not the grave insult to your creativity you feel it is.



also: likes are worthless to artists only reblogs count if you truly appreciate the art!!!

[(Anonymous)]

this. i'm in a fandom with a character who not only looks similar to a character from another fandom, they share a voice actor too, so even the creators have gotten in on the "yeah these characters look similar" jokes. there are only so many character designs out there and unless you try to be like, yu-gi-oh levels of unique, your character is going to look like some other character that already exists.

[(Anonymous)]

What's a shepard? Sounds like a some sort of biblesona but I feel like I'm way off mark.

[meredith44]

I'm (obviously) NAYRT, but I'm guessing that Shepard is the main character in the Mass Effect video games. As that works with the "character creator" part of the comment.

[(Anonymous)]

this yes sry. sometimes i forget that not everyone is absolutely obsessed with that game eheh

[(Anonymous)]

i can understand how it might get annoying to get a lot of comments about how the character in your fanart looks like some other character, especially if the artist doesn't care for the other character's canon. like it would be annoying but it's not really something to throw a huge fit over.

[(Anonymous)]

"Oh, that thing didn't scan? Guess it's free!"

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, as a fanartist (but one who doesn't get a lot of attention, so maybe I just haven't experienced enough of the world to get it), here are things I've seen fanartists complain about that I don't get:

- Tagging their platonic A+B art as shippy A/B, or vice versa (...but the tags are for the person and their journal, not you...?)
- Otherkin tags on their fanart (I mean... otherkin are weird but I don't get having this much of an issue with what they do that I'd rather they not reblog my art at all??)
- Tagging their art with "I don't like this character/ship, but..." (Okay, this one I halfway agree with because it always sucks when people hate your fave characters/pairings and seeing people do that a lot is enough to send my fan!heart into a rage... but my artist!heart is impressed that someone who normally doesn't like the character liked my art enough to reblog it. I usually already know that character/ship is unpopular, and if I could change that fact about fandom I would have, but I can't so I'm not going to let it bother me more than it already does. And again, the tags are for their followers, not for me.)

[stelleappese]

Same. I honestly could never understand why people would be annoyed with "I don't like this character/I don't ship this/I'm not in this fandom, but this fanart is great!" comments.
I've been a fanwriter for fifteen years, and every time someone told me "I don't know who these people are, but I really enjoyed your fic!" I was PUMPED. Like, someone with no emotional attachment to the characters thinking my stuff is good on its own? What's cooler than that?

[(Anonymous)]

I get it when someone with OCs says "don't tag as kin" because wtf but with fanart.... eh. I think Otherkin people are fucking weird and cringey but a fanartist doesn't own the character so whatever.

The only version of your last point that sucks would be "I like this fanart but it would be better with xyz(insert other character/ship here)" - this happens a lot in the Dragon Age fandom and it's pretty annoying.

[(Anonymous)]

As a fanartist, the first point doesn't bother me unless the characters I'm drawing are related. It makes me really uncomfortable to know people are reading incest (and presenting me as someone who's into incest to their followers) into something I meant to be innocent, especially if it involves parents and children.