Strabius gushes about Digimon

Strabius-berry's digimon-centered side blog.

[fawnivy]

but why is reposting BAD?

i thought i’d make an faq filled with every excuse in the book about reposting, for those who still don’t understand why it’s bad…or for people who don’t know what to say in retaliation to these! so here we go. 

first of all, an artist doesn’t even NEED to explain themselves. in the same way with someone who says “dude, make sure that soda is diet” or “please don’t tickle me”. they don’t want you to do it. you don’t need to test them by ignoring them. the reason doesn’t matter: it’s the person’s wish with THEIR things. if you had any respect for others, you’d just take it at that. 

BUT for some people, they don’t want to respect others at face value, and want their reason. (which, i might add, is rude.) so let’s get into that: 

but i’m giving you exposure! isn’t that good?

no. 

you’re not giving artists exposure. for people like myself, freelance artists, you’re hurting us. about a year ago, i sent my portfolio off to an indie game. in it, i had a piece of work that had been reposted (that i didn’t even know about). i was told much later that they “looked into it” and saw that my work was posted by someone else, which means now they have no idea who the artist was, and THEREFORE can’t be sure my work was legit. i lost a potential job to a repost. 

doesn’t matter if you say “i didn’t draw this”. sometimes, they don’t even look. they just look to see if it’s on any site other than your own. and that’s terrifying for artists. so don’t endanger our livelihood for instagram likes. 

besides, you’re not even giving exposure if you didn’t credit, cropped out the signature, or somehow made the resolution so low to where you can’t even see the signature. which brings me to…

but i credited you!

some people still don’t want it reposted even with credit. the last answer should show you one of the many reasons why. 

you’re dictating what i can/cannot put on my page! this is MY page!

and it’s MY art you posted. you can’t take something i did and do whatever you want with it. imagine if you took someones drawing, photocopied it, and spread it all around the town without their permission. they’d have every right to be angry, right?

but you posted it online, which means anyone can do anything with it. so if you don’t want it reposted, don’t post it online!

i have to post my art onto my websites to build a fanbase, something crucial to an artist. it shouldn’t be on ME to not post it in the first place, it should be on YOU to not repost it. you’re just echoing victim-blaming arguments. 

you’re basically saying “if you don’t want to be bullied, don’t exist.” which is a terrible thing to teach people, rather than “be nice and respectful towards others.” yes, i know our world isn’t perfect. but that’s no excuse to contribute to vile things. 

well i would be honored if someone reposted my art. and my friend doesn’t mind reposts, so why should you?

good for you! good for them! but did you know there’s more people in the world other than just you and your friend? we have wishes and feelings too, so you don’t get to project your own emotions onto what WE should be feeling as well. i love peaches. some people don’t like them. that doesn’t mean that now they have to eat peaches because i don’t mind them. 

what an artist creates automatically belongs to society, though. 

go steal the mona lisa and tell me how that works out. 

everyone can VIEW it, yes. artists want others to view their work! we just don’t want you to do stuff with it we asked you not to do. 

WELL THEN SPEAKING OF THAT, since i can’t put your work on redbubble and sell it for myself, why do you have an umbrella of the starry night?? huh?? you STOLE van gogh’s work! (yes people have legit said this to me) 

putting my work on items and selling it is totally illegal. van gogh’s work is owned by companies now, who have authorization to print it on things. and i’m just ONE freelance artist who is, you know, still alive and not giving permission to do that. you can’t compare a dead artist from the 1800s to a digital artist in 2017. apples to oranges, my dude.

well i SAID “credit to the artist” so i DID give you credit!

because saying “the artist” really tells people who i am and lets them visit my websites! thank you so much! 

but all sarcasm aside, that doesn’t do anything other than show you were too lazy to find the artist. same thing with “source: the internet” and “who drew this xD” or misspelling my url on purpose or putting the credit under a cut. OR cropping the image to cut off my signature! you didn’t give me credit. 

it wasn’t on the website i wanted it on! you should have more social media.

i’ll have the social media i want to have. not up to me to make more accounts on more things just so you won’t disrespect me. 

but i don’t remember where i got it. besides, i reposted SOOO much work and saved it all a long time ago. how can i find it now?

reverse google image search is so great.

also, if you didn’t know the artist, that’s a HUGE reason not to repost it in the first place!! you didn’t even know if it was okay since you never got to see their position on that!!

take down your video with stolen fan art. take down your entire fan art twitter account. i don’t care “how hard it was to save those images” or “how many views you have now”. you got all that attention from someone else’s hard work. searching for art will never be as hard as making it. if it were that easy, you’d be drawing all the art yourself. 

but i asked the artist and they didn’t say anything! i assumed it was okay. 

yeah, i feel you. it’s the same thing as when you ask your mom if you can borrow some money, she doesn’t answer, so you just steal it from her purse. no answer means the answer you want to hear, right?

wrong. don’t take “unresponsive” as a yes. that’s disgusting. 

well i honestly don’t care. artists are just selfish. i’ll repost their art if i want to, just to show them how much i hate their stance on reposting. and (insert another really edgy statement here from someone who only says things to get a rise out of people since their life is empty) 

one day you’re gonna come across an artist who has no chill and wants to sue, and can actually do it, since some people put their work under HEAVY copyright. and i’m gonna kick back in my chair with a nice capri sun and watch it all happen, since you have that kind of attitude towards people. 

yes, this whole thing seems a bit. well. “salty”, as some would put it. and i have every right to be irritated over this. all these questions are asking “WHY should i respect their wishes? give me a reason” or “but here is my excuse rather than just taking it down”. time after time, artists are villainized just for telling people not to repost. 

like i said, the artist not wanting you to repost it SHOULD be reason enough! we’re so tired of having to fight people just to have respect for our art. we have to deal with tracing constantly, so can you please take reposting off our plates? i know bad things will always happen, but that’s no reason to make it worse by contributing. 

artists are generously putting our art out there for free. if you want to keep seeing our art for free (btw we don’t HAVE to, all the big artists could just up and leave and go to patreon), maybe show us some respect? because we get pretty dejected when we see strangers getting attention from something we did, and it makes us want to remove everything we show you guys. you say “don’t post it then!” but would be mad if all fan art disappeared. 

if you want to keep the art, respect the artist making it. there’s a real person behind that drawing. 

[incaseyouart]

This is THE best post on Tumblr. 

[katieaiko]

Reblogging.

[unu-nunu-art]

putting this here on my art blog for once for all of you who reposted my art although I said multiple times that I don’t like it. If you have anything reposted from me, take it down now.

DO NOT REPOST MY ART.

[kyraa-arts]

Please🙏 this is so important!!! If you see any of my art reposted on sites like Tumblr / Twitter / Deviantart / Pixiv message me !!! I DON’T allow reposts on those sites!

I allow reposts only on sites I’m not on (e.g. facebook) but with proper CREDIT! That means, you have to link my accounts!! All of them!!! (Tumblr / IG / Twitter / deviantart/pixiv/ youtube)

Even tho I do have an Instagram account, I allow reposts on there, but again only with CREDIT : my link (credit : @ ksmile1313 ) and tag me in that post 🙏🙏🙏

Maybe some of you can’t understand how I feel when my art is reposted without credit, but I’m telling you, it hurts.

Please DON’T REPOST my art, except the sites I don’t have an account for. On IG I only allow reposts if you link back to my IG account!!!

Thank you for understanding 💖💖💖

[arabian-batboy]

Have been thinking about how Guilmon is arguably the scariest-looking protagonist's partner Digimon while Gekkomon is probably the least harmful-looking one, but the first one is treated like a baby while the other is constantly abused.

[musimon1]

entering an ethical vampire feeding type-situation w/ a wild panda. then adopting them...

[ichimi-karame]

テイマはこの2人が好き

[jafaaoti]

[shiocreator]

behold

Hedge

[delyth-thomas-art]

Duo of digimon sketch reward over on my £10 sketch tier.

[0dderrr]

Erismon for Braxton on kofi

[notaventura]

here is herissmon

[bossarmadimon]

I should edit this to the “he is gabumon“ meme

[kiadony]

This drawing is actually older than the previous one (so a growing pain as I like to call early attempts at drawing newfound favorite characters) but I figured I might as well have it here too instead of leaving my tumblr abandoned for the nth time. Plus I'm excited about finally getting into Digimon after so many years of considering it so why not spread some love.

[kiadony]

And the last small Lekismon art before I get around to drawing more.

Edit 27.11: apparently I've been forgetting the small metal plates on its gloves all this time, since the first couple of drawings I did had them out of view so they didn't register in my brain. I knew it'd bother me so I added them in.

[kiadony]

Here is a new drawing and I feel like it's only fair if I also put the sketch that spawned it:

...with a quote from Full-Life Consequences, which to this day lives rent-free in my head.

And this in turn came from my Time Stranger playthrough. See, I went into it knowing almost nothing about Digimon besides some cultural osmosis stuff, and I decided to just roll with whatever I would get. One of the first 'mons I put on the team was a Wanyamon I nicknamed Bluebell, and due to it having the "always act first" personality skill I started joking about how it really likes to kill fast. Then it evolved into a Renamon and I sort of absentmindedly left it running on the treadmill for far too long, to the point of getting a Lekismon out of it. Then, Bluebell followed the "intended" path to Crescemon and Dianamon and remained the fastest member of the team by a mile. Obviously the kill fast jokes stayed too. After that Bluebell became a character who I envision as staying as a Lekismon for most of the time, simply because to me it's the cutest of them. So there you have it, and that is why it's currently dominating my tumblr.

[kiadony]

Even an ice element user (at least... sometimes?) can enjoy a warm drink in winter time.

[kiadony]

This year, I became one of the many people who got into Digimon via Time Stranger and I wish I had known earlier that I needed a bunny with tendrils in my life.

Edit 27.11: apparently I've been forgetting the small metal plates on its gloves all this time, since the first couple of drawings I did had them out of view so they didn't register in my brain. I knew it'd bother me so I added them in.

[dhulfaqar]

Friends come and go. Relationships end. That edgy character you latched onto at age 12 is forever

[mammoneide]

hellmeryxmon!!

[yiffmaster]

today I learned that no one knows who really created Digimon and the person who’s credited with it may not be a real person

[yiffmaster]

this is fucking me up bc “we thought humans created it in the 90s but we’re discovering that it maybe created itself” is both a textbook horror plot and the canon of the digital world in like every iteration of the franchise

[osumesu21]

Fun stuff to add to this:

Tamagotchi and Digimon canonically take place in the same universe. This includes them sharing the same language:

There’s at lease one known Tamagotchi that fell into the Digital World and mutated into a Digimon in order to survive:

AND there’s repeated use of Tamagotchi iconography in Digimon:

Some other fun stuff to keep in mind. According to the anime, the first time Digimon were witnessed in the real world was the Highton View Terrace in 1995, but Digimon weren’t seen again for a long time afterward. But in late 1996, a UFO crashed into the Sumida River, carrying with it Tamagotchi that had fled their home planet after it had become drunk and uninhabitable. The Tamagotchi devices built by a professor and his assistant converted Tamagotchi into data and allowed them to live in Earth’s atmosphere. Bandai picked up the project and started mass producing and selling Tamagotchi as toys for kids. It was nearly a year later when we suddenly got the Digimon virtual pets, using the same framework as the Tamagotchi devices.

Now, I’m not saying that Digimon and Tamagotchi both actually exist, have taken over Bandai, and for years have been using the company as a way of spreading themselves around the world and keeping themselves alive. I’m just saying that’s one conclusion you could probably come to from this information.