Marked by the Eye

cove! they/it/he/she. CURRENT HYPERFIXATIONS: Fallout, Knives Out, Project Hail Mary, SciFi [gen]

[keeperofthebees]

markiplier and Ryan Gosling should meet up at the Oscar's and kiss

[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.

[magnetic-rose]

if all the new ryan gosling girlies and gays could watch the nice guys that would be great because that’s my favorite ryan gosling sad pathetic meow meow role AND he’s shipped with stone cold top russell crowe.

[imwritesometimes]

film of all films is being talked abt on AP news today lmao what

[sp8ce-queen]

those guys seem nice...

[fr33n]

[tildexart]

silly comic i made because my therapy appt was cancelled

Transcript:

I’M CURRENTLY AT A 'SEB WILDER' ON THE LITERALLY ME SCALE.

ВUT!

IF I GET A LITTLE BIT SADDER, OR LOSE SOME SELF-CONTROL, THIS WILL ESCALATE TO A 'HOLLAND MARCH.’

[tildexart]

silly comic i made because my therapy appt was cancelled

Transcript:

I’M CURRENTLY AT A 'SEB WILDER' ON THE LITERALLY ME SCALE.

ВUT!

IF I GET A LITTLE BIT SADDER, OR LOSE SOME SELF-CONTROL, THIS WILL ESCALATE TO A 'HOLLAND MARCH.’

[towboats]

im so glad theres more people coming aboard the gosling train 😛😛😛😛😛 heres some stuff i never posted

[rotten-m3]

Agender ryland grace because there's no gender in space

[earthtoamaal]

when i read this bit i knew I’d love this book ngl

[hailed-marys]

Enby Grace thoughts

[ghstwht]

And some sketches I'll probably never finish 👎

[yexerrr]

patron saint of one way trips🎶

[cimmeria-writes]

so i’ve been reading the book.

[keeperofthebees]

do you think Ryland spent his entire time on the Hail Mary thinking that he must have SOMETHING he was willing to die for, even if there wasn't a memory or a picture, and that's why he kept going and chose to trust Rocky? Cause if he was brave once, he can be brave again? And then after all that realizing he was never brave before he got here? that there was no reason for him to do all this? That he could've just let everyone die for what they did to him?

Then again, he wouldn't have met Rocky, so he cant be too upset with Eva.

[rylandgracie]

what kind of soulmate crack cocaine was everyone snorting in that set when they made this film i'm being serious