Eeveeleen

Trans, She/Her.Me am do art. Anti-NFT

[avaantares]

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!

[eeeveeeleeen]

Almost forgot to send this on here, I had energy that specifically wanted to be spent on drawing a self portrait/sona sorta deal. Not the kind of thing I've historically been egar to draw, but I am super happy with this. Kinda funky exploring identity/personal image via my own art, I'm happy I did this. For all intents and purposes this is a me and it's lit. B)

[eeeveeeleeen]

Drew more Fluttershy, this time anthro because I thought of this really cool outfit/hairstyle that I thought would look really cool. Very happy with this, it has made the good brain juices.

[eeeveeeleeen]

I've been feeling kinda down lately so I drew a Fluttershy to cheer myself up and it kinda worked. Pretty happy with the result, I hope it makes other people a bit happier too.

[eeeveeeleeen]

Just a lil something I made for what might become a personal project. I knew I was gonna make it 2d, but I felt like doing an experiment using blender to try and pull off some 2d puppeting to make the hypothetical project way easier on myself in the long run.

This only really demonstrates the face "rig" and I have no idea where to even begin with the body, but I'm still super proud of the outcome. Still a bit rough around the edges in some spots but this is as finished as it needs to be for now.

Additionally, the backside of this project is truly a horrendous mess of drivers hooks and constraints, if anyone reading this happens to have any good resources on puppeting meshes in blender, please send them my way.

[eeeveeeleeen]

Forgot to post this one on tumblr, this one is a doodle I did to blow off some steam while working on a drawing for a friend. I started doodling and then they told me to put a squidward nose on it and now here we are.

This whole doodle was part of the bigger experimental picture of using aseprites pixel brush with pressure gradient dither for shading, I am happy with the results.

[eeeveeeleeen]

I was screwing around with making a color palette and used one of my friends characters to have a play around with it. So here's the doodles I made of them!

[eeeveeeleeen]

I've been riding the inspiration high I've gotten from my hollow knight post, made an assorted bunch of sprites with a bonus 1 tone for anti aliasing. One of them is meant to be a gaster blaster of sorts, a custom vessel, a cat, then something that I have no idea what it's really supposed to be but I thought it looked nice in this composition. I like the end result alot.

[eeeveeeleeen]

More random lil doodles I did while working on bigger things!

I drew the lil guy on the left and then drew him at a higher res a couple times, it was a fun exercise. I really like how I made him a cyclops simply because I couldn't fit 2 eyes in there and then as it got bigger it went from a cyclops to being this freaky void head wizard thing. The colors were self imposed just based on the colors I was using in the doc I was in at the time. This was a fun play around, I like how it ended up.

[eeeveeeleeen]

Had a bit of a revelation recently, tldr I'm gonna take myself less seriously and post way more random doodles and WIPs. This one inparticular was just a palette cleanser while I was doing something bigger. Dont know if I'm ready to post the bigger thing yet or not. Anyways yeah enjoy my knight on a bench in the undertale boss sprite style, I hope you have a good day. <3

[eeeveeeleeen]

I've been in something of a creative rut but I felt like making something for me friend, this is that. Went out of me comfort zone a tad too, this was made entirely in blender which took a bunch of skills that I'm not accustomed too. I am very happy with this, added bonus is that they seem to be too!

[asciiheart]

The nuclear family is probably the greatest enabler of child abuse, ever.

Putting two people in complete control of another person (who is particularly vulnerable and has few legal rights) and then having no oversight for the whole arrangement is the absolute worst idea.

Families are garbage.

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

Hahaha wtf

[yourownpetard]

I wouldn’t even know where to start with this. omg.

[amal-wa-ahlam]

OP, what would you propose as an alternative to families?

[asciiheart]

communal child raising

less isolated familial structures in general

children being made aware of how they should and shouldn’t be treated

Some form of child protection services that don’t just believe the parents and assume a child is lying when they report abuse

more legal and counselling services made available to children

[tracyalexander-deactivated20201]

I don’t get people that are like “lol, what? that’s so weird, lets laugh at the very notion that traditional families are abusive”.

[itsfridaybutimstillaro-deactiva]

communal child raising is the traditional family. 70-100 years ago 4 generations lived together in the same house, having 4 grandparents, 6 aunts and 15 cousins around every day was normal.

[queeranarchism]

Things that should be mentioned:

- These communities are not necessarily connected by an biological ties. In a lot of these multigenerational ‘families’, including people in the family who are not relatives or married into the family is totally normal. This has always created a lot more space to support people without families, support people who do now want to partner up and to create communities in which couples who can not have children (like some queer couples but not all & other couples too) can be a part of child raising. 

- Having a lot more young people around often means young people learn from each other. In many cultures young people form a non-hierarchial group that learns together and can do a great deal without adult supervision. 

The nuclear family doesn’t just facilitate abuse, it facilitates hierarchy. It’s a training school for obedience to authority. 

Now, which system would push such a training school strongly so it could get docile obedient citizens? Which system whould push the nuclear family. 

I’m not saying it’s capitalism but it’s capitalism. 

And then there’s the fact that the 2 parent, nuclear family can be most easily pushed into the pattern where one adult works an extremely exhausting job many hours a day that leaves that adult hardly capable of doing anything else, while the other adult takes on all the other things that adult would otherwise have done: care for children, clean the living space, prepare food, prepare clean clothing, etc. for free. What we know as traditional gender roles. 

This way capitalism gets one intensely loyal worker who feels ‘responsible’ for ‘supporting a family’ while all the work to keep that worker going is done for free by an unpaid worker in the home. 

And, you know, communities need a lot less stuff. A community of 50 can do just fine with one or two hammers. 25 nuclear families need 25 hammers. The nuclear family demands a huge amount of commodity purchasing. 

[dollsahoy]

(hooboy that last point)

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I love those documentaries where a member of a modern nuclear family culture goes to a different culture and tries to explain their family structure to the locals and the locals are always like “how the fuck does that even work that sounds so unstable and stressful I would die if I had to raise kids with so little support”

[eeeveeeleeen]

Holy fuck this just kept getting better as I read more!

[eeeveeeleeen]

Say hello to Terrance. I have a big soft spot for cute food it seems, this time round we got a turnip. Textures all still procedural, more pretty basic squash n stretch going on but I did have an experiment with something I wasn’t even sure I could do, I animated the leaves using shapekeyed curves, I think the result is really nice and bouncy lookin. Pretty proud of this if for the leaves alone.

[simplecg]

So cutttteeee

[eeeveeeleeen]

Cheers!, But pokemon? Did I design an existing pokemon by accident or something?

[eeeveeeleeen]

Lowkey pisses me off that I only have motivation to make this stuff after it’s over, Oh well, here it is, my hourglass.

[ego-tistical-prick]

DOPE AS FUCK MY DUDE

[eeeveeeleeen]

Cheers!

[thetenderpassion]

[lovelynemesis-deactivated201903]

This has happened to me before when I was in college at a frat party. This girl comes squeezing herself in between me and my friend and throws her arms around me. “Amanda, I am so glad you decided to come!” I was so confused and just figured she was drunk and mistaked me for someone else, until I saw the panic on her face. She leaned close and whispered that a guy was following her, was certain that he had put something in her drink and if I would please play along. I looked behind her and sure enough, some creep was watching her like a hawk. We invited her to hang out with us the rest of the night and even waited until her ride showed up just to make sure she was safe. Always look out for each other!

[phoenixwolf876]

If you ever feel scared like this just come up to me like we have been friends since kindergarten, call me any name u can come up with ill play along.

[17mul]

🗣

[black-hippie-moonchild]

👌🏾

[succubus-is-smol-deactivated201]

Stay together, stay safe

[eclecticstudentwriter]

Perfect advice. I’m reblogging this as a guy, because first of all, if you”re a guy : DON’T DO THAT. Don’t be that creep.

And if you’re a guy and you notice some creep is following or stalking a girl, and that she’s obviously uncomfortable or panicked, go ahead and say hi, long time no see, pretend to be her cousin, and tell her discretly you noticed there was a shady guy. Ask her if something’s wrong, if she feels unsafe, if she wants your help (very important - she may not trust you enough, no one could blame her, don’t take it personally). (and don’t you dare take advantage of the help you offered for a flirt opportunity, that would make you no better than the creep)

We can all stop “witnessing and do nothing”, and set an example.

[hapslock]

Alternative option for a guy: if you feel safe doing so, go up to the creeper who’s following her and be like “hey WHAT’S UP bud do you like SPORTS? My favourite team is the redsox what’s YOURS my man? What you DRINKING dude that looks GOOD.” and be friendly and just loud enough to blow his cover. Draw attention to him and see what he does. He won’t feel as safe creeping if he knows people are looking at him, and maybe he’ll leave. It also means the woman won’t have to worry that you are *another* creeper she has to be wary of, and you may distract the bad dude enough to give her a chance to lose him.

[tumakhunter]

Reblogging for that last comment.

[1-ofthecoolkids2]

NO THIS NEEDS TO BE BOOSTED

[perpetually-tuned-out-deactivat]

so like if we are mutuals and you need to call someone on the phone legit hit me up and i will totally give you my number for situations like this. I don’t give two fucks if I’m at work! Your safety is more important to me! Please call me and laugh obnoxiously. Hell put me on speaker while you talk so my coworkers can help make some noise and keep you company

[sebbbystaaanmoved-deactivated20]

^^^^ this tho

[stuckonjbbarnes]

SAME HERE

[north-peach]

seriously, don’t hesitate 

[thefringeperson]

I am someone who does not get social cues very well.  At all.  But if someone is making you uncomfortable and I am there, I will absolutely be your new best friend and glare pointedly at whatever creeper has you twitchy while I walk with you to wherever you’re going.

[yeah-asbestos]

I will always help you! All these tips are very useful, for guys and for the girls

[eeeveeeleeen]

Say hello to Terrance. I have a big soft spot for cute food it seems, this time round we got a turnip. Textures all still procedural, more pretty basic squash n stretch going on but I did have an experiment with something I wasn’t even sure I could do, I animated the leaves using shapekeyed curves, I think the result is really nice and bouncy lookin. Pretty proud of this if for the leaves alone.

[eeeveeeleeen]

I think I have a soft spot for cute fruit. Made this little guy over a day or so, all textures procedural, used it as an excuse to practice some primitive animation doin some squash n stretch, gave the wee boi some motion blur and called it a day. His name is Thomas in case anyone’s wondering. Also introducing my watermark! My long ass name don’t lend itself to much but I slapped this together over a couple days and feel pretty happy with the result. Seeing as my art style is so all over the place I wanted at least one thing in my art to be consistent.