Day 4 Of 6: Gus

I think I want to switch back to Android, cus what the fuck is this shit?

FYI iPhone users!

TODAY IS THE ONLY DAY YOU CAN REBLOG THIS

Maids, cleaners, janitors, and sanitation workers are all the most important people of civilization by far. Even 12 hours without them is VERY noticable and they simply need to be highly compensated for it

Ahh! I finished my fan art for two webcomics that I love. Days of Hana with Hook, and Sirens Lament with Ian. You guys, I seriously recommend these webcomics, and if you want me to draw any of your suggestions, send me an anon and I will do my best. That’s all for now, bye!!!

hmm artists what feature do you draw on the face first. this is for science btw.

Day 1 of 6: Willow!

Recently I had to buy a new pen for my tablet, and as a celebration of getting a new one, and getting back to art after a month of nothing, I’m doing a redraw of the Owl House season 2b finally.

I am so excited to see the full project, and for the new season, whenever that may be. I will definitely be doing more work with the Owl House too; stay tuned!

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Fanfiction Authors: HEADS UP

(Non-authors, please RB to signal boost to your author friends!)

An astute reader informed me this morning that one of my fics (Children of the Future Age) had been pirated and was being sold as a novel on Amazon:

(And they weren't even creative with their cover design. If you're going to pirate something that I spent a full year of my life writing, at least give me a pretty screenshot to brag about later. Seriously.)

I promptly filed a DMCA complaint to have it removed, but I checked out the company that put it up -- Plush Books -- and it looks like A LOT of their books are pirated fic. They are by no means the only ones doing this, either -- the fact that """publishers""" can download stories from AO3 in ebook format and then reupload them to Amazon in just a few clicks makes fic piracy a common problem. There are a whole host of reasons why letting this continue is bad -- including actual legal risk to fanfiction archives -- but basically:

IF YOU ARE A FANFIC AUTHOR WITH LONG AND/OR POPULAR WORKS, PLEASE CHECK AMAZON TO SEE IF YOUR STORIES HAVE BEEN PIRATED.

You can search for your fics by title, or by text from the description (which is often just copied wholesale from AO3 as well). If you find that someone has stolen your work and is selling it as their own, you can lodge a DMCA complaint (Amazon.com/USA site; other countries have different systems). If you haven't done this before, it's easy! Here's a tutorial:

HOW TO FILE A COPYRIGHT COMPLAINT FOR STOLEN WORK ON AMAZON.COM:

First, go to this form. You'll need to be signed into your Amazon account.

Select the radio buttons/dropdown options (shown below) to indicate that you are the legal Rights Owner, you have a copyright concern, and it is about a pirated product.

Enter the name of your story in the Name of Brand field.

In the Link to the Copyrighted Work box, enter a link to the story on AO3 or whatever site your work is posted on.

In the Additional Information box, explain that you are the author of the work and it is being sold without your permission. That's all you really need. If you want, you can include additional information that might be helpful in establishing the validity of your claim, but you don't have to go into great detail. You can simply write something like this:

I am the author of this work, which is being sold by [publisher] without my permission. I originally published this story in [date/year] on [name of site], and have provided a link to the original above. On request, I can provide documentation proving that I am the owner of the account that originally posted this story.

In the ASIN/ISBN-10 field, copy and paste the ID number from the pirated copy's URL. You'll find this ten-digit number in the Amazon URL after the word "product," as in the screenshot below. (If the URL extends beyond this number, you can ignore everything from the question mark on.) Once this number has been added, Amazon will pull the product information automatically and add it to the complaint form, so you can check the listing title and make sure it's correct.

Finally, add your contact information to the relevant fields, check the "I have read and accept the statements" box, and then click Submit. You should receive an email confirmation that Amazon has received the form.

Please share this information with your writer friends, keep an eye out for/report pirated works, and help us keep fanfiction free and legally protected!

NOTE: All of the above also applies to Amazon products featuring stolen artwork, etc., so fan artists should check too!

Am I crazy?

For the past few years the same movie ( I think) has been bobbling around in my mind. There is this dude, your stereotypical nerd that makes inventions. Nobody likes him. The movie starts with him running (I think on the side walk by his house (which is huge, but he’s like a teenager so his parents are making bank or something) or like, in his neighborhood, or something) when he locked himself on his room, and the people chasing him breaks his door down. Whelk instead of these people killing him, because you know, I was a kid when I watched this movie, the shower him in congratulations because he got into some school or something. The people congratulating him are his neighbors and classmates and teachers, because they have all been victims of his malfunctioning experiments and inventions, and they are happy to be rid of him.

Flash forward to him in this boarding school (I think it’s a high school, but I couldn’t tell you if you paid me) where his starts getting teased again despite the fact that this is some rich people school where all the students are smart for no reason. Mr. Main Character them meets the chick he is going to get with at the end of the movie ( yes it is one of those movies) and after getting ridiculed again, desired to change himself using an invention that he designs. This invention ( that is on the cover of this movie I think) is a giant heart shaped computer (I think) that will change Main Character in to the a cool guy that is basically the opposite of himself. His is fitter, cooler, actually smarter if I remember correctly, more laid back, and has a different accent then him ( I think) and goes about the movie trying to impress Love Interest while being cool him, and going on with his studies as regular him.

The conflict happens when the “cool” him starts to show up when Main Character does not want him too, or they start to switch at random. The scene I can remember the most is them at this dirt bike park place, and cool main character starts to drive on for the bikes, to impress Love Interest, when cool arms regular switch back mid jump on the bike. Nobody sees, but we get this slo-mo action shot of regular freaking out and letting go of the bike, and cool taking back over and doing some cool flip to get back on the bike and sticking the landing. ( note: I think this whole thing is flipped, but I may also be wrong, I have not seen this movie since I was like 4). So Main Character tries to get to the bottom of what happened, when it turns out that the Invention has a mind of it’s own, and is wanting to completely him permanently.

Anyway, blah blah blah, he gets turned , the power of love saves him, and they destroy the machine and they all live happily ever after. Okay, that is the movie for what I remember. Does anyone know what the hell I am talking about, or am I actually making if all of this up? Please tell me I am not crazy.

WE MADE IT FOLKS!!!