Hey all! It has been nearly a year since I've been absent from tumblr, and likewise almost a year since I have last updated you on Mona and her team's mutual aid inititatives. In that time, Mona's efforts have managed to keep entire communities of displaced people alive in the refugee encampments in Ghazzah, including through the distribution of staple foods, fresh fruits and vegetables, cooked meals, clean children's clothing, diapers, baby formula, and so much more. Please continue to support Mona's efforts through the new link on Chuffed. Remember! Every single dollar counts!!! Chuffed donation link.
For more information, please consult her Instagram!
If you also have more to spare, please help Mona support her sister and niece who have been displaced 6 times over the course of the accelerated genocide.
None of this is possible without Mona and her family's diligence and work. If you would like to send her a thank you note or well wishes, please include it in the replies to this post, in your tags, or in the comments! She always appreciates them ♡
TL:DR I do not want to cancel the show, I don't want it to cancel me.
So I have been forced, basically, to make this statement as I am being asked about this character or 'introduced' to it (and the incoming new show) against my desires. I have deleted all previous posts about my encounters with this problem long ago for personal reasons that will be apparent, but people don't know about my situation and do deserve an explanation. I will keep this post short for my own mental health. This is the first time I have disclosed any of this information to the public, and it is hopefully the last. My silence has been a part of my uncomfortable situation, but it's clear the world won't let me try to just ignore it any longer, so it's full disclosure time.
1, Yes. I know about Mr Puzzles and his uncanny resemblance to RGB, my character from the on going comic The Property of Hate, who pre-exists Mr Puzzles by approximately ten years.
I did not, as a consequence, base RGB off Mr Puzzles...
2, I have received very violent and manipulative hate mail from fans of that character over the past few years due to this similarity, many threatening to slander me via cancel culture to discredit my own creations. The worst of these messages almost caused me to commit suicide which close friends can attest to (this period coincided with the death of my father which they used against me to full effect).
Since then the hatemail has been less frequent, but continues, and I am afraid it will pick up again with the advent of this new show.
3, I have contacted the smg4 management about these issues, to no avail. My first email was a request to tell their followers to cease sending me hatemail, which they did not attempt in any way. They have never responded to the large overlaps in terms of RGB's design, and when I finally sent them an email via a lawyer as a last resort (which cost me £4000) they did not respond. Please note that I did not ask for a cease and desist, I only wanted the hatemail to stop, and perhaps for them to alter Mr Puzzle's design very slightly to be a little less like RGB's. I even made this simple suggestion as an example:
Despite going out of my way (against the lawyer's wishes) to phrase the letter in a none-hostile manner, and offer them an alternative, they did not reply to this email at all.
I am a disabled indie cartoonist; I do not have the money to take further legal action, and in any case I do not want to. I hate conflict, and the emotional toll of sending that email alone was enough to make me miserable and exhausted for months. All I want is to be left alone, and for people to know that RGB was invented first. I cannot afford to do anything to protect myself or make anyone listen legally; this post is the most I can do, and it is the only post I intend to make about it.
that's it. that's the whole situation. please do not message me about the show, or the character, as both are very distressing to me: if you do I will either delete the message, or block you, depending on the angle. I have blocked all related tags, and I will unfollow if I see posts, so I am doing everything I can to take care of myself in a non-aggressive fashion. I have only made this statement so that people understand.
a small example of some of the hatemail (which was preserved only to be sent to the makers as evidence which, again, they did not respond to) below the readmore. read at your own discretion, it is unpleasant.
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.
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.
Hello everyone! This is Fizz and she’s the sweetest girl in the world. She wins the hear… Sarah H needs your support for Help Fizz Recove
From out friend: "Pax recently had to drop a bunch of money on Fizzy Whizzy, known professionally as "Astrophysics", his adorable wobbly kitty. Anybody who knows Pax knows that he's one of the first people to offer help and often one of the last people to ask for it. I'm really proud of him for asking for help in this regard and I would appreciate it if people would share this link far and wide to see if we can help him pay off the debt incurred by Fizz's recent care. If you've got a little extra to contribute that's great, but it's totally understandable if not! Please just consider throwing up this link with a couple of pictures and letting people know that this is a good cause to donate to and this is a community member in good standing who pours a lot of work into a lot of different causes."
Please help our friend Pax and Fizz, every little bit helps!!!
So recently I bought a couple Metal Cardbots on ebay. I've fallen in love with so many of the designs from the show, they are such a breath of fresh air. These toys absolutely do not disappoint.
However, I was not ready for how big they are.
Given Tachy's and Glober's alt modes I just kind of expected them to be around Deluxe transformers size class. I was dead wrong, they're taller than a lot of Voyagers!
Cyclonus just barely evens the score with his bunny ears and the fact that I had his legs partially mis-transformed in some of these pictures.
Deluxes look so short compared to them.
And then of course, Musclehyde stands even taller.
So tall in fact, that he rivals Bruticus.
Now granted this Bruticus is a knock-off that was gifted to me, so I'm not sure how he stacks up compared to official Hasbro combiners but given his limbs are about deluxe size as well I think this is accurate.
They only reach his knees....
Of course, the tallest robot in my collection is probably Hatsune Miku (Yes she's on a stand no I don't care)
But wait, there's more! Tachy gets even taller with her weapon card!
Welcome to the first edition of the Pokéjinka zine our biggest project so far! 245 artists bringing you the Kanto & Johto pokédex full of interesting gijinka designs of all the pokémon entries.
The zines are available for free! The only thing we ask is to share our socials release posts and follow our contributors ♥
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Pokéjinka DEX - DTIYS!
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Go to the form below and check the rules!
We'll collect all the entries and make a DTIYS mini zine!
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This will run until May 1
The mini zine will be up in this page mid/late May.
transformers fans: name a woman challenge. who is your favorite canon femme bot.
chromia
air razor
nickel
velocity
black arachnia/airachnid
windblade
nautica
strika
strongarm
slipstream
Voting ended onFeb 23
1. Purposefully did not put Arcee & Elita on here because there the most well known tf femmes and the ones people default to when you ask them to name a female cybertronian.
2. I know Black Arachnia and Airachnid are not the same character, I ran out of choices.
3. Any mention of a male character with the 'hes like a woman to me excuse' ya blocked!
In light of the new year, please consider donating to the people in Gaza who still need help:
Alaa Khaled's Campaign is at €1,836/50,000. They're #158 on Gazavetters' Sheet.
Youssef's Campaign is at $12,326/25,000. They're #132 on the Bees & Watermelons Fundraiser List.
Momen's Campaign is at €29,550/70,000. They're #125 on the Vetted Gaza Fundraiser List.
Alaa Siam's Campaign is at $1,517/30,000. They're vetted by association.
You know what I'm going to say. Donate what you can, if you can.
Alaa Khaled's campaign is at €1,903/50,000
Youssef's campaign is at $12,431/25,000
Momen's campaign is at €29,550/70,000
Alaa Siam's campaign is at $1,517/30,000
If a ceasefire holds, you boycott Israel HARDER, you divest, you push for sanctions. You don't perform for apartheid. You don't whitewash genocide. You don't pretend like Israel isn't still a violent occupier stealing land and collectively punishing Palestinians daily
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