Decade of Mutual Admiration

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[modmad]

want to help? you can!

Thank you to everyone who has been sending such kind messages, I promise I really do read them all, even if I can't reply, but while these messages are wonderful (and really. I mean it. just the nicest and most heartfelt things I've ever seen) the sad fact is they don't change my situation. But you can change it. You can help me.

If you know my situation, if you want to help me, please write to Glitch Productions. They are the only people who can, and I believe, might, be able and willing to save me. SMG4 has ignored me, even through a legal letter. I have no hope that they will do otherwise, but Glitch are a different case and I think they just genuinely don't know I exist. I have sent them a message, to no reply, but more messages means more of a chance they will notice. IF you are on twitter please message that way, I closed my account there years ago, and please be polite: I am not asking for hate, even if I've received it.

Even a short message will help. I need numbers, I need voices. My own voice is being drowned out, but you can speak for me as well.

[timmyreads]

For some points on the plagiarism under the read more (what I collected/organized while building up an email to send):

1) TIMELINE RGB was created long before, over a decade before Mr. Puzzles first debuted. (*RGB's first appearance may have been 2011, was a little iffy on that)

2) UNDENIABLY UNCANNY RESEMBLANCE The number of traits, some uniquely specific to and representative of RGB's design, that are copied in Mr. Puzzles design are too many to be chalked up to 'just a coincidence'

Especially when you look at the designs of all of the other TV head characters out there - I collected as many as I could find (though I'm sure there's more) and none of them come even close to sharing the number of similarities that these two do.

3) TV MODEL AND DESIGN CHOICES While looking up references for older TVs, I found that for the exact TV they're based on (small retro box TV with knobs in the upper right of the TV and an antenna) most of the references didn't have a vent on the side of them like RGB and Mr. Puzzles do.

I looked up 4 different reference terms, and still had to scroll a while before I found one that matched exactly (above collection just a general sample/example of types of TVs I found). Unless my browsers are wigging out, either the pictures that would come up for these kinds of TVs were different in 2023, or this exact combination of features are just not very common for this style of TV. If that's the case, it may be a bit strange to design a character with those features together.

Here's where that distinction is important: Mr. Puzzles as a character doesn't have much of a reason to go with this design over other styles of similar TVs. But RGB does. The vents on the sides of RGB's head aren't just an aesthetic choice - they're included as a legitimately integral part of the story-line (Negative RGB). The same can be said for a number of other choices Modmad has made, down to individual items of clothing, that show just how much thought and intention and consideration went into every aspect of RGB's design.

Which makes it that much more frustrating to see him get plagiarized in such a careless manner by people who don't even seem to put much care into their own character (common criticism I've read that SMG4 fans have had about Mr. Puzzles and his 'arc').

4) OTHER PEOPLE, EVEN THOSE WHO HADN'T HEARD ABOUT THE SITUATION FROM MOD, NOTICED This has been noted by fans of both series since Mr. Puzzles first came out.

Some people may have found more points than this, but these are what I stumbled upon. Hopefully helps bring a little more context to the situation.

[modmad]

reblogging this version because. yeah.

yeah.

[modmad]

just to update that nobody from any of the relevant parties has got back to me or made any statement. please reblog this version, as @timmyreads has compiled an extremely comprehensive explanation and evidence of the theft; at first I just wanted to be left alone, but it's really not enough. every time I see Mr Puzzle or even read his name I feel physically sick, it's hard for me to type it even now. I feel violated in every way, and I need help. I can't save myself, I have tried every single avenue available. At this point I need to be saved.

For those saying please/just keep making TPoH anyway, it's not that simple: I can't. My mind and heart are broken. The story itself has stopped communicating with me. I cannot make it any more, not if this situation doesn't change, and that loss of the story scares me more than anything else in the world.

[modmad]

Sorry to have to boost this again but I just had to sit and console my mother who was shaking and crying about this when I came down this morning. She is the kindest, more genuine person in the world and I have never seen her cry like that even when my father died. My sadness is increasingly turning into anger and I don't have any way to stop it.

Please keep sharing this post so that people know what is happening and help me to get closure- this isn't just destroying me and my work, it's destroying people I love. I have done everything I can to resolve this peacefully but I cannot let it continue.

[publicdomainreview]

Waterfall and Northern Lights, Carl Svante Hallbeck, 1856. ⁠ ⁠ Chromolithograph depicting Harsprånget waterfall, now the site of the largest hydroelectric power station in Sweden.⁠ ⁠ One of several aurora borealis prints available in our online shop: https://publicdomainreview.org/shop/fine-art-prints/subject/aurora-borealis

[queerpunktomatoes]

Image IDs under cut

[IMAGE IDs: A series of photos with words in typewriter font. They read:

1: Know your rights. All people in the USA have these rights regardless of citizenship

2: You have the right to:

-Remain silent -Not sign anything -Walk away if you’re not being detained -Tell others their rights -Record and document -Seek legal help

Clearly state that you are exercising x right.

3: If ICE comes to your door:

-Ask if they have a warrant signed by a judge -If they don’t, don’t let them in -State you are remaining silent -Don’t say a word

4: If ICE comes to your workplace:

-Ask if you are free to leave -You have the right to refuse a search -Do not sign anything -Remain silent

5: If ICE stops you on the street:

-Stay (act) calm -Ask if you are free to go -Remain silent and do not sign anything -You have the right to refuse a search

6: If ICE stops you in your car:

-Don’t open the door or lower the windows all the way -Ask if they have a warrant signed by a judge -They have no authority over traffic and you do not have to show ID

7: If ICE arrests or detains you:

-You have the right to immediately speak to an attorney and remain silent until then -They can’t listen to you talk to your attorney

8: Don’t fall for ICE’s ruses. They will lie and pretend to be local police, even dressing in their uniforms. Be on guard around all law enforcement. Know and exercise your rights.

9: The printable zine.

END ID.]

[tuffcretin]

Stabby Ghost's Guide to Unionizing, originally published in Fruitslice Issue 4 - A Fruitslice Survival Guide: Maps, Manuals & How-To's

Now available for your reading pleasure right here on tumblr!

[modmad]

TPoH: Update!

Read the new TPoH Update here!

Read TPoH from the start here.

TPoH is a quirky existential adventure comic I've been making for the last 13 years! Go read it all, for free!

If you’d like to support me and my art you can buy BIG BEAUTIFUL BOOKS of TPoH and much much more! Head on down to Topatoco town and introduce yourself to my store!

support me on patreon for little extras! Even one or two dollars a month makes a big difference to me :D

[modmad]

BIG UPDATE! new pages of Chapter three of Into the Inkwell just arrived! Read on from where we left off, here!

as ever huge love and thanks to @lizzybeanbutt for being my quality control <3 Read all of this Doctor Who and Lux Imperator fancomic from the start, here!

[requiem-on-water]

Momoire

[duffrey]

Lost Connection

[duffrey]

She's whimsical and wonky and I love her.

[jean-wei]

Light Through Memory, 2023. Self published. Best experienced on desktop or ipad ! (basically a larger screen for viewing spreads)

historical fiction ! pre-telescope astronomy! that was a brand new genre for me haha. so many liberties taken here haha...haha....

[hamletthedane]

I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.

What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.

What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.

What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.

The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.

And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.

But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.

I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.

[claypigeonpottery]

that time you lost your temper is now trapped against your face

fucking pottery lol

gotta remember that the blue will turn black, and the black will turn brown, and the red will get much darker

[sanctus-ingenium]

i'm abandoning this WIP and releasing it into the wild, i couldn't get the framing right

this is for your gratification. aren't you happy? doesn't he look happy in there?

[jbbartram-illu]

I love all my BirdLadies, but this Northern Flicker might be my favourite one yet?!

To my fellow bird nerds: I did consciously choose to use the male markings because the red cap & fancy black face markings were too dramatique to pass up & this is definitely a thing that will happen again (because birds) - just consider the term BirdLady to be somewhat gender neutral (or at least gender non-conforming)!

(& yes, this pal is available in the upcoming shop update, tho it pains me a little to sell her!!)

[julieterbang]

thepastatable__

[headspace-hotel]

Yesterday I had been feeling so horribly depressed furious and irritable all day that I saw no possible relief for the bottomless pit of existential agony within me. Then I went into the kitchen, poured all that remained of a one pound box of pasta into a pot (over half, around five servings) cooked it, dumped mozzarella cheese over it, and sitting at my desk ate nearly all of it in the span of 15 minutes, finishing what was left a short half-hour later. I felt almost immediately restored and so sleepy that I dozed off at 9:45 pm before getting up around 10:30 to brush my teeth

I think potentially there is something to be understood from this

[popsicle-stick]

something that came to me in a dream