Art rant. I’m mad. Ignore if you want but I’m making this because I think it’s important.
I keep seeing this shit and it’s making me pissed off so here I am.
I keep seeing people reposting other people’s art onto other platforms (most of the time without credit and when it is credited typically it’s due to a watermark.)
I’ve seen this on A LOT on Pinterest (which I use mainly for drawing references and writing stuff).
People will never credit the artist. Never. I’m going to get niche here for a second but specifically in the Pissa/deathduo and overarching QSMP community.
It’s not even something that can be easily reported and taken down. It’s an act of respect for the artist. If you like a work so much you want to go through the effort of reposting it then CREDIT THE PERSON. And if they say explicitly they do not want their art reposted. DONT REPOST IT.
Look there are other ways to draw attention to cool art from other platforms. “Look at this amazing art I found” and then drop the link. (Even this should come with precautions because don’t click any link you see on the internet. Like remember the internet safety shit that’s drilled into your head).
AND SOME OF THEM HAVE THE AUDACITY TO TURN OFF COMMENTS. (Ik specifically Pinterest has weird features where you have to opt in to comments but still I think it’s fucking rude to not even let someone point out that you are technically stealing art.)
I just have to say it’s horrible.
Credit artists if they are ok with their art being reposted. End of the day don’t do that shit.
Don’t be the reason people have to watermark their art. Don’t be the reason people stop sharing their art. Don’t be the reason why someone stops drawing because they aren’t even going to get credit for the hours that goes into making art.
At the end of the day it is theft. You are stealing someone else’s art. Yeah sure you won’t face prison time over it but shouldn’t you have morals?? Shouldn’t you want to be a good person who respects others??
I’m tired of going onto Pinterest to find a drawing reference and seeing people’s art getting stolen. Especially people I follow within my community.
It’s not just one person reposting either. If it was one person they could easily be blocked and reported but no, people in general just aren’t respecting the artists.
People who make art, write fics, create theories; they are the backbone of a community. When you start to chip away at their motivation to keep creating you are hurting the community itself.
This has gotten long and I’m still pissed but I’m rambling at this point.
-Potentially Rhúne, Ambrose, or Peirce (from my original story I started roughly 3 years ago and has been put on hold since I started writing TFUTWT and ASAU)
-Lea (I completely rewrote her when I redesigned her and I love her so much)
-Bloom (he’s my sona but I love him too much to not include him)
Everyone is like oh I cry when I'm sad. I literally cant unless its like a dog dying in movies (yes I was forced to watch John Wick a few days ago, yes I cried).
However I cry when I'm angry. I'm so angry and I cannot express my anger because the words are not coming out right and I will just break into tears. Ugly crying, yep.
And honestly I prefer crying when I'm sad. When I'm sad the tears are a way to get the sadness out. I feel numb for a bit afterward but then I'm fine. When I cry while I'm angry, I get angry that I'm crying because tears are a stupid response to being angry. Which then fuels my anger and then I'm crying more.
Basically Bloom just finished crying because they got mad and now Bloom is rambling to the internet about how they feel like shit--
Phil could hear the yells of Bolas from the hallway. shared the same class for their last class of the day and Phil was always subjected to trying to wrangle the other members of their group into a semblance of calm.
“I have to take care of an egg with Mariana for fucks sake!”
“Imagine!”
Phil walked into Baghera and Slime about to break into a fistfight. Jaiden was taking bets with Cellbit and Foolish.
“Oi! You two! No fighting on school grounds. You have any grievances you take them out later!”
Baghera shrugged back on her jacket. “He started it.”
“I don’t doubt that.” Phil said with a laugh as he sat down next to Charlie. “Who did you guys end up with?”
Foolish beamed. “Vegetta! We called our egg Leonarda777! Her name is Leo for short.”
“Of course he somehow managed to be partnered with his boyfriend.” Slime muttered.
“Huh? What’s that? Someone wishing their ex would want to get back together with them? Who knows maybe you two will finally make up!” Foolish teased, his grin was shark-like.
“He’s a bitch! I don’t want to get back with him.”
Phil moved on. “And you Baghera?”
“I got partnered with Etoiles,”
“Etoiles is probably the best person to be partnered with, he will spend hours on something to get a slight advantage over others.”
Her eyes shone. “I know right? Our egg Pomme is the most precious girl!”
And they went around the group, rambling about their partner and their eggs. Some point after Slime broke into a rant about Mariana for the fourth time Phil turned on his phone and went straight to his contacts.
Philza: Hey this is Phil. I just checked my work schedule. I should be free after school tonight and Friday.
Missa: Awesome! We’d also have to do one set of tasks over the weekend then. Sunday works best for me ^w^
Philza: I can’t do Sunday it’s the only day that’s completely a non-negotiable
Missa: oh! I’m sorry! I’ll figure out how to get some extra time for Saturday. Soulfire typically does these big group hangouts at the mall but if I’m going to be honest they kinda overwhelm me
Philza: believe me if I could get out of it I would. I do not want you to have to rearrange your schedule
Missa: you offered to do it with your work, I’m just getting out of an extra hour of hanging out at the mall hahaha
Philza: thank you
Missa: Ofc! It’s not an issue!
Jaiden waved her hand in front of Phil’s face, officially pulling his focus off of his phone. “We’ve been saying your name for the past three minutes.”
“Sorry I was messaging my egg partner–”
A chorus of ‘ooos’ filled the room. “Philza has a crush~” Baghera cheered. “Oh I love love!”
“We were figuring out when to meet up to take care of our eggs.”
“So a date?” Foolish asked. Him and Baghera high-fived when Phil sighed.
“Not a date, it's literally just for a project.”
“Sounds like a date to me,” Jaiden said, shrugging off Phil’s noises of shock.
Phil said. “He’s a member of Soulfire!”
Jaiden, Baghera, Slime and Foolish looked around. “He’s not Bad right?”
“...well no–”
“Then there’s no issue!” Baghera said excitedly. “Bad is who we hate, not the rest of soulfire right?”
“But they’re all friends with that muffin fucker!” Foolish yelled.
“Not all of them! Tina’s really ni–”
“No she’s not! She’s a vicious demon!” He yelled again, letting laughter emerge amongst the rest of the bolas group.
“Tina’s sweet, and besides even if you have some dislike for her because of some shit that happened in the past Niki is really nice, she tries to make up for the stuff Bad does.” Phil said.
“See, you're even defending some of Soulfire!” Baghera said.
Phil was quiet when she pointed that out. “You’re all adhd but for some reason he managed to capture your attention— seems like there’s something there to me~”
“I’m leaving for university in three months. I’m getting out of my parents house and—“
“We’re all going to crash at your place for sleepovers!” Foolish interrupted.
“I will be in a dorm room, those things are tiny.”
“Foolish he’s changing the subject! Dumbass!” Jaiden yelled.
“Oh right-“
“Alright.” Cellbit stood up. “Fuck off, give him space.” He kicked Slime out of his seat next to Phil and shooed the others away.
Slime started a fight with Jaiden which promptly distracted them.
“I get your hesitation about opening up to a member of soulfire. Trust is hard for the two of us.” Phil let him keep talking. “I have no doubts that you can figure out a solution to this.”
“A solution to having a member of soulfire as my team?”
“Yes, Niki and Tina might be nice but not all of soulfire is like them.”
“Not all of them are as terrible as Bad.”
Cellbit sighed. “Would you rather me teasing you about a crush? I’m trying to help here—“
“I officially met him last period—“
“Officially? You’ve noticed him before?”
“He’s a part of soulfire of course I noticed him. Missa’s the one always right next to Bad.”
Cellbit gave a small chuckle. “Well good news for you, he always seems terrified of Bad. Bad news though he’s close to Bad.”
“He’s not close to Bad. He defended me, you know? He stopped me from punching Bad in the mouth.”
“Don’t let a pretty boy distract you from your goal.”
“He’s not going to distract me. It's a school project, Cellbit.”
“I know, I just worry for you. You don’t talk about it when things bother you and it’s not healthy. Last time you punched Etoiles so hard he had a black eye.”
“Etoiles can take it.” Phil said, looking at the floor. He still felt bad about it despite Etoiles saying he deserved it.
“We aren’t punching bags Phil. We’re human too. We all need to be vulnerable at times. I’m here for you.”
“I know mate.”
“Keep your guard up but don’t be afraid to be yourself.”
“Ok, yeah. Advice time over, fuck off now.”
Cellbit laughed and quickly managed to distract Jaiden.
Missa: Where do you want to meet up tonight?
Phil: yk the park between school and the mall?
Missa: the one with the big skatepark? My friend skates there
Phil: yeah that one. You wanna meet up there?
Missa: that’s great I live about a five minute walk from there
Phil: oh cool!
Missa: you want to walk there together? We could drop our bags off at my house before heading to the park.
Phil: I’m giving my friends a ride back to their place first sorry
Missa: its not an issue haha
Phil: so meet you there at like 5?
Missa: yep!
Phil: see you then
Phil thought about what Baghera and Cellbit said. They were joking about him having a crush on Missa, right? Cellbit did call him a pretty boy and that’s true. Missa was pretty but he could say that without having a crush.
The project was the first time he had a full conversation with him. And Phil was only interested because he needed to get things done. Missa was cool, from what Phil knew of him but he was still a part of soulfire. Cell was right about one thing though, Missa is friends with stupid ass Badboyhalo.
And Bad was not someone you just became friends with. Maybe when they were younger but now? Now Bad became friends with people because of how they could help him. If Missa was Bad’s friend that meant that Missa wasn’t as sweet as he looked.
Phil walked all the way down the hall to the only gender neutral bathroom on campus. He shut the door and locked it. Of course he was partnered with one of Bad’s new friends. He just needed to get through the stupid project.
Bad knew how to push his buttons and he had gotten himself much more involved than he intended to in this project.
Phil eyed his reflection in the mirror and quickly pulled out eyeliner out of his pocket. He fixed the smudged wing before heading back to the classroom.
“Missa the egg doesn’t have to have hair.”
“But she looks adorable with it!” Phil sat back in his seat.
Missa was cradling the one they had dubbed ‘Lullah’. He gave her black curls made out of pipecleaners and was in the process of trying to make a little flower.
“She looks cute.”
“See!” Bad rolled his eyes and went back to working on what looked like… a top hat?
“I thought that since you liked sketching and since I like music that she’d be creative. She plays music and can draw cute things!”
“Cool.” Missa brushed his blue bangs out of his eyes.
“For Chayanne I was thinking a chef, and maybe a little warrior because well…” he laughed and lowered his voice. “Anyone who fights Bad and only ends up with a black eye has got to be strong.”
Phil laughed. That black eye hurt like hell and he was grounded for weeks for getting into a fight.
“Sure.”
Missa wrote down the notes before trying to create the tiny flower for Lullah’s hair.
“Maybe she should have a purple hat.” Phil took some purple air dry clay and started to mold it into a small ball.
“Yes! And Chayanne can have um…” Missa paused for a second. He pulled out his phone and started going through his camera roll. “Something like this!”
He showed Phil a picture of hand warmers with a pattern of little ducks in bright yellow.
“Oh! That’s cool, I’ll finish making her hat then we can figure out how to incorporate that.”
The two worked in an almost comforting silence. Maybe working with Missa wouldn’t be terrible. Maybe he wouldn’t be like the rest of soulfire. He wasn’t like bad.
“So how do you want to do Chayanne’s design?” Phil asked.
“Well ducks have a beak we could do a thing where it’s almost like his beak is poking through the shell?” Missa suggested.
“Hmm, oh what about a little duck floatie. Like the ones kids wear to help them swim.”
“That’s better, this way he can have wings and a little tail!”
Phil’s eyes shone slightly. “I’ll do the little head of the floatie if you want to do the actual ring.”
“Yeah that should work.” Phil grabbed the yellow air-dry clay and started working. Missa noticed how well his makeup was done. He couldn’t do elaborate eyeliner and he often just blended his messy mistakes into the final look.
With Phil on the other hand though it looked like any blended bits were intentional. Thick wings emphasized the almond shape of Phil’s eyes.
Missa’s mind was wandering but that was normal. He often had his music playing in the background to block out the random thoughts that filled his brain but it would be rude to start playing music while he was trying to be friendly with Phil.
“Does this look good?” Phil held up the little head of the duck.
“Great! Let me just add the tail and we can put it on him.”
Phil opened his notebook as Missa finished decorating the egg. “So you know the general concept of the project right?”
“Yeah, a partnership raising eggs.”
“We have to do tasks with them, three times a week.”
“The assignment list is posted online.” Missa opened his phone but turned it off when Phil kept talking.
“We’re also meant to have a little journal of how we work together as partners,”
“Yeah, how do you want to do that?”
“I have a few extra notebooks in my locker. I can make it look good.”
Missa paused. “Ok so we need to do the tasks together.” He reviewed the assignment.
“Three days a week, yep. I have to work certain days but I can figure out how to get the schedule to work.”
“I’m free most of the week.”
“Cool, I’ll make sure to message you. Do you want to take care of the eggs until we meet up or should I do it?”
“Whatever works better for you!”
Phil paused. “I’ll take them, that way if I can’t meet up for a bit because of work you won’t have to be stuck with two eggs.”
“It’s really not an issue—“
The bell rang, cutting Missa off. “I’ve got it!” Phil said, placing the eggs in the small cushioned box they had gotten. “I’ll message you if I can meet up, we’ll make plans later.”
“Do you two know each other?” Bad glared at Missa.
“No. He’s the leader of Bolas. That’s how I know him. He’s the leader of our enemies.”
“Bad do we really have to be rival groups? They seem nice.”
“They’re a bunch of backstabbers, don’t trust him Missa.”
“I kind of have to trust him for the project.”
“You know what I mean. Don’t spend any more time with him then you need to.”
“I get it.”
“No I don’t think you do, he’s the reason I’m at this school Missa.”
Please read the post about my fanfics before answering the poll, here is the link.
Would you be willing to read more of my QSMP fics?
Yes. I will still read on AO3/Tumblr and I will still interact with them.
No.
Voting ended onMay 22, 2024
I'm going to be brutally honest here, this will change how often I post. If everyone moves on I will probably post new chapters at a slower rate due to the lack of motivation.
I've said it before I will say it again: I am heavily motivated by people interacting with my work. Without people interacting I will be much less motivated to write.
