[ SECRET POST #248 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #248 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 06 pages, 143 secrets from Secret Submission Post #036.
Secrets Not Posted: 0 broken links, [ 1 2 3 ] not!secrets, 0 not!fandom, [ 1 2 3 ] personal attacks, [ 1 ] attempt at parody, [ 1 ] repeat.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 11th, 2007.
Current Secret Submission Post: here.
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Comments

Re: #29

[narugami.livejournal.com]

Thanks for replying to my very long comment! :)

a) Oh sure, I don't like huge watermarks either and I actually try to integrate the signature into the art in such a way that it fits in with the whole picture. But if someone is stressed enough about their pictures to make such a big watermark that it seriously impedes viewing, that's their problem and they'll likely get less visitors for it. I generally don't bother looking at art with such huge watermarks, anyway.

b) I don't mind people passing around pictures that they like, really I don't. Who doesn't like showing nice stuff to their friends? What I object to is the way some people - I'm not saying everybody - sort of industrialize the process and put up downloads of literally thousands of pictures and pass it around for icon use and completely divorce the picture from the person who made it. Or even worse, who get offended by people they call 'fanart Nazis' (I hate this term for so many reasons) and feel entitled to do whatever they want with pictures because it's 'only fanart' and the artist shouldn't have made it if they didn't want it used. How is that passing it to your friends? I don't think most people have several thousand friends! :/

I hate arguing and whenever I talk about this I tend to get flamed, but it really bothers me when people show such disrespect for others. Just because the person who makes the icons (or whatever) is a fanartist who doesn't care if their own art gets plastered all over, doesn't mean that the reactions of the people who do mind are invalid.

c) I have to disagree with you there; it's stealing the good reputation someone else deserves and claiming it for their own. It's dishonest and juvenile. On the net, a person's reputation is built on stuff like their posts and their icons and their fanfiction and their art. Taking any of these things and passing it off as theirs when it's actually not is theft, at least in ethical terms. I know the internet is serious business LOLZ and all that, but there's still another person at the other computer and I wish people could be more respectful.

...And hold hands and help little old ladies cross the street and never shoplift, but that's human nature for you. Oh well.

d) Oh yeah, I was exaggerating a little there. But you know, if someone draws something without love for the subject matter, that'll be visible in the picture, too. It'll be lifeless and flat. Like with my first point, they're just sabotaging themselves, so it's their own problem, not mine.

I mean, I tend to draw for relatively minor fandoms, so this year I went to a con and had exactly one customer. *sweatdrops* But if I were to draw Naruto, that doesn't mean I would have done any better, because there's so many other Naruto fanartists that the lack of enthusiasm in my picture would have been immediately apparent anyway.

That last comment wasn't really directed at you; I just think it's a an overly inflammatory phrase...