Home
no one leaves home unless
home is the mouth of a shark
you only run for the border
when you see the whole city running as well
your neighbors running faster than you
breath bloody in their throats
the boy you went to school with
who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory
is holding a gun bigger than his body
you only leave home
when home won’t let you stay.
no one leaves home unless home chases you
fire under feet
hot blood in your belly
it’s not something you ever thought of doing
until the blade burnt threats into
your neck
and even then you carried the anthem under
your breath
only tearing up your passport in an airport toilet
sobbing as each mouthful of paper
made it clear that you wouldn’t be going back.
you have to understand,
that no one puts their children in a boat
unless the water is safer than the land
no one burns their palms
under trains
beneath carriages
no one spends days and nights in the stomach of a truck
feeding on newspaper unless the miles travelled
means something more than journey.
no one crawls under fences
no one wants to be beaten
pitied
no one chooses refugee camps
or strip searches where your
body is left aching
or prison,
because prison is safer
than a city of fire
and one prison guard
in the night
is better than a truckload
of men who look like your father
no one could take it
no one could stomach it
no one skin would be tough enough
the
go home blacks
refugees
dirty immigrants
asylum seekers
sucking our country dry
niggers with their hands out
they smell strange
savage
messed up their country and now they want
to mess ours up
how do the words
the dirty looks
roll off your backs
maybe because the blow is softer
than a limb torn off
or the words are more tender
than fourteen men between
your legs
or the insults are easier
to swallow
than rubble
than bone
than your child body
in pieces.
i want to go home,
but home is the mouth of a shark
home is the barrel of the gun
and no one would leave home
unless home chased you to the shore
unless home told you
to quicken your legs
leave your clothes behind
crawl through the desert
wade through the oceans
drown
save
be hunger
beg
forget pride
your survival is more important
no one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your ear
saying-
leave,
run away from me now
i don't know what i’ve become
but i know that anywhere
is safer than here.
How to Report Stolen Art on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok (2022 Updated)
(Alternatively: My Shit was Stolen 42 Times in 2021 and I Snitched On Everybody and So Can You)
🌸 DMCA and You 🌸
If you're reading this, you may be the victim of reposted or traced artwork. It can feel demoralizing and sad when other people take credit for your work, but know that you have rights! As the original artist, you own the rights to art that you create.
Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), online platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok will issue "takedown notices" to users who infringe on copyright. These notices are only valid if you have a good faith belief that the infringer is not protected by fair use. More on DMCA for artists here.
What is "fair use"?
Essentially, that the new work is transformative in purpose and character. Examples include research, parody, journalism, and critique. Repost accounts exist to gain followers, and do not fall under fair use. Tracing another artist's work or "photo-bashing" without permission are not fair use either (see end for examples).
🌸 Where to File 🌸
To file, you will need at minimum a name, a physical address, and an email address*. I've organized this list roughly by my success rate with getting reposts removed, along with # of reports submitted. Turnaround refers to how quickly I received a response to my report.
(@laine-o adds: I have had some success with filing DMCAs without including my full name/complete personal info as that can deter artists from filing DMCAs.)
I've never received an email response to my reports, but all four posts I reported were taken down. Make sure you are reporting fresh uploads of your work and not pinned "links" to twt.
I'm sorry little one, this is... the Sunken Place. TikTok's DMCA form requires you to provide "a certificate, license agreement, and/or other materials" to prove you are the copyright owner. I've tried submitting a letter, and if it works, I will upload a template. Anecdotally, I don't know of any small artists who have successfully had their work removed through DMCA reports.
Disclaimer: Info above represents my personal experience. YMMV.
Additional sites:
VI. WeHeartIt: https://weheartit.com/contact/copyright
VII. Wattpad: https://www.wattpad.com/help/DMCA
🌸 Tips & Tricks 🌸
Asking your followers to report a repost won't work. You, the copyright owner, must file the request.
Watermark your art so your handle is visible on reposts
If you find yourself frequently reposted (prayers 4 tenartist), set up autofill on Chrome and save the repost URLs to report in bulk.
Reverse Google Image your work to find reposts on various sites.
And my #1 tip:
⭐️🌟File the DMCA report before you contact the reposter.🌟⭐️ Until you've had the experience of an online user DMing you a college thesis on why you should feel honored that they stole your art for their shitty curated repost page only for IG to approve your report and their account to be deleted mid-rant due to too many DMCA strikes... you have not experienced true schadenfreude, my friend.
That's it! Thanks for reading. I'm happy to incorporate anyone else's experiences or feedback into this :)
🌸 Additional Reading: 🌸
Click to read more on these interesting case studies of copyright and visual art from the past two decades:
- Obama Campaign Poster [Fairey vs Associate Press]-- In 2006, street artist Shepard Fairey photoshopped an unauthorized photograph of Senator Obama to create the "Hope" graphic for his presidential campaign, which generated $400,000 in merchandise revenue. The Associate Press claimed copyright infringement, as they owned the photo, and Fairey sued, on the basis that his photo-editing fell under fair use. The case was settled out of court.
- Resident Evil Environment Textures [Juracek vs Capcom, Ltd.]-- In 2021, photographer Judy Juracek sued video game studio Capcom for alleged resemblance between textures from her art reference book Surfaces and in-game environments in Res Evil 4. Case is ongoing.
- Who Is the Bad Art Friend? [Larson vs Perry] -- A Harvard Law Review blog post on the infamous NYT Mag story by Robert Kolker on an ongoing feud between two writers involving plagiarism, deception and a kidney donation. The linked article discusses the doctrine of transformative use and appropriation art, with examples of both.
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Have y'all ever written yourself into a hole so deep you had to buy an iPad and take a 5 month sabbatical on art twitter to conjure the creative energy to finish the story? 😅
Here's Chapter 17 of Duplicity!!!
Rating: E
Verse: Canon-divergent after Ch. 699
Ship: Sasusaku
Genre: Romance, Action/Adv, Drama
Summary:
Five years after the war, Sakura joins an ANBU team in the Land of Stone to investigate a warlord for illicit trading. But playing courtesan and guard with Uchiha Sasuke proves challenging when they have yet to reconcile their tumultuous past.
🌸🌸🌸🌸 Ch 17 Excerpt: 🌸🌸🌸🌸
The metal walls of the mineshaft zipped past as she free-fell into the depths of the Earth. Blindly, she scrambled against the grooves of the metal plates, her fingers and soles heating with friction.
When she found purchase, she stopped to catch her breath. The air underground was warm and gritty, with the unpleasant scent of old eggs in someone’s forgotten lunch. Overhead, the bright sky was but a distant star in a pitch black night; below, the bottom of the mineshaft was a small square, haloed in a green glow.
How far down did this mine go?
Not too far, she hoped. She had to clamber back up with Riku in tow. As Sakura descended, the metal trembled under her hands, and every so often, the whole shaft reverberated with a low, ominous groan. At the end of the shaft, Sakura pushed chakra into the walls, trying to sketch a map of the mine in her mind, and…
It was useless.
The stony heart of the mountain pulsed like living flesh, and the mine below the great belly of the beast. In her mind’s eye, the crystal gem embedded in the soil burned as bright as fire, too blinding to discern from other signals.
It could be Riku or an entire army down there.
Hanging from the ceiling, Sakura crawled out of the mineshaft.
A vast cavern opened below her, nearly as wide across as the excavation pit above. Construction must have progressed since Sasuke visited with Higa. The smooth ceiling sloped against support beams, and steel tram carts rested on double-wooden rails that split into a network of dark tunnels. Singular lightbulbs hung from the ceiling, but their glow was dimmed by lurid veins of yellow-green threading the walls, coalescing at a tangle so bright it was nearly blinding.
Sakura’s eyes adjusted to the cavern’s single occupant at the center: lithe frame, black hair, and sharp eyes narrowing over a gas mask—
SASUSAKU MONTH ✿ JULY 2021 ✿ #ssm21
text list of prompts ✿ all rules + faq ✿ message ✿ twitter
calling all fans of sasusaku! 🌸🍅sasusaku month is a celebration of the relationship between uchiha sasuke and uchiha sakura (formerly known as haruno sakura). it runs every year from jul 1st - july 31st. during this celebratory month, sasusaku fans can join in to create and share fanwork. focus can be romantic or platonic friendship—however you enjoy them! 💖💙
key rules (all rules+faq):
✿ starting july 1st 2021, tag your posts with #ssm21 to be reblogged. please use it within the first 5 tags! to ensure we’ll see it, you can tag us @ssskmonth
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