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.
I think it’s not discussed enough how amazing of a choice it was for tf2 to have a killbind. I mean, really. Taunts like the conga have gone a long way in making sweats into friendlys and whatnot, but the killbind is on another level.
In other games, even if you joke kill a guy, you’re still alive. You’ve inadvertently caused someone else to have less of a fun time. That’s where the tf2 killbind comes in. If you do a taunt before immediately killbinding after a kill, it serves to say “hey, this isn’t a serious kill lol”. The killbind effectively changed the Taunt into the polar opposite of its namesake, serving to make the other player laugh or at least smile rather than mald and seethe.
When you kill an opponent, the camera rests for a few seconds, before going to rest on a frame of the person that killed you. Plenty of other games, such as Overwatch or COD have similar things, but those show HOW you died—the past. TF2’s death camera is a still frame of their present, how they are after they killed you. Moreoften than not people just keep playing like normal, others may taunt to incite you with anger. There’s the magic of the killbind. Going to that camera frame and seeing your killer either ragdolled into a funny position or mid-bloody explosion takes a lot of anger out of the killed. And it doesn’t hurt to killbind because you’re effectively choosing to die on your own terms. It’s effectively a choice to remind everyone involved that it’s Just A Game.
In a format flooded with tryhards that will take the game seriously no matter ranked or competitive, the killbind stands as a reminder that death in this game isn’t a punishment.
@strangezeroz welcome to tumblr where the app decides when you can be gifted with the sight of og memes, you cannot look for these yourself via the search engine, you won’t find them, you have to wait to be gifted them
Why did I write this. This should've probably been a 2 parter, but I didn't wanna dedicate 2 posts to this nonsense. I hope you enjoyed the double feature I guess. Mr. Resetti isn't so scary as you get older.
I originally decided to draw about playing video games as a low-stakes practice and confidence boosting project. But I accidentally started drawing several Saturday Morning Cartoon-style gags stacked on top of each other and made a Plot (sorta). Oops.
I also spent too much time on these 3DS screens for them to be compressed to the point of near obscurity, so here they are in close up.
Something i'm developing. this is Piper, she had her humanity ripped away from her but not everyone who is forced into a box will fit the mold, even with extensive changes. as a result she is learning what it means to be Piper from scratch. learning to be human again when the world sees her as a cold unfeeling machine.
if yall like this, let me know, i have a script in the works for it, toying with the idea of making Piper a stand alone comic and as it stands im torn between making it an outright doctor who fan comic or its own things inspired by Doctor Who.
wearing a face mask in public is cheap, effective and easy
wearing a face mask in public helps protect vulnerable people from potentially deadly disease
wearing a mask in public protects YOUR privacy in this age of mass surveillance we have entered without most of us even noticing it
wearing a mask in public means having to focus on your facial expressions less, double win for us autistic bitches or anybody with the resting bitch face
wearing a mask in public is literally so easy
its not a big effort, i simply do not understand why you wouldn't
protect the lives and livelihood of vulnerable people
protect your privacy
protect your peace of fucking mind
its easy, just fucking do it
For several years, multiple blogs have been constantly sealioning Patricia Taxxon and her community to answer for an endless, unmanageable river of accusations. These blogs lie about the content of her posts. Some of the worst instances of this would interpret her posts as the complete opposite of what she said. They did this to antagonize her until she gave them an excuse to report her account.
To the blogs who orchestrated this, know that you actively prevent criticism. By constantly jumping at shadows, you create a "Boy Who Cried Wolf" style attitude towards anyone who is actually trying to give helpful criticism. The only goal your actions serve to advance, is punishing trans women. Additionally, the strategies you use are the same strategies that get Black people banned as well. Don't think we haven't noticed that you only have one openly black ally.
To Patricia Taxxon, I want you to know that I support you, and that there are people who can see what is happening to you.
where creatures and transformations are the main fluff, you can do some pretty messed up stuff in the negative space, things one doesn't account for when doing transformations, intentionally or not.
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