Fandom can be a scary place nowadays, as for some people it has turned into a moral and social statement, but that doesn’t need to be your (general you) experience. The days of fun self indulgence cannot die if we don’t let them. I’ve made amazing friends thanks to that, so I’d encourage people to always enjoy fandom to its fullest and not worry about what others might think of your guilty pleasures. Instead I found a bunch of people who enjoy similar things and even people who hadn’t considered them but sent me a ton of support to continue my own take on the canon content. I used to be lowkey ashamed of it when I was younger and even when I started uploading my own canon-derivative stuff vs just fanart of the show or other people’s lovely fanfics, I was worried it might not be well received or be written off as bad as a synonym for self indulgence. You’re right in that everything posted to this blog is 100% driven by self indulgence hahah. People linking back to me is nice, but not necessary for me, and if people really like your stuff the universe has a way of having them find you eventually! “situation: my art gets used to sell shirts - solution: I reach out to the store that’s allowing it to raise a complaint.” / “situation: someone reposts my art on twitter - solution: I ask the user to take it down politely, and if they ignore me I report the account to twitter”).īecause my blogs are all fanart and because I don’t monetize it, I tend not to worry too much about the possibility of my content being reposted or used anywhere else, so long as it’s non-commercially. Sometimes it helps to ask yourself “even if the thing I fear happens, what’s the worst that can come out of it?” and work around that (e.g. I can’t tell you how you should feel about it: that’s personal and while I wish people won’t torture themselves over inevitable things, distress is as valid an emotional response as any. And for all the paranoia going around about “x site stole my design and they’re selling it on X merchandise!”, most of the time what you’re looking at are sites with user uploads where accounts aren’t verified and content isn’t checked before upload: most of these sites will have customer service you can reach out to in order to request your art being taken down, as the person who uploaded it is not the original artist, and you hold the intellectual property to anything you create.Not that anyone’s audience is required to do this, but some people are just nice and mindful and they’ll do it out of the goodness of their hearts. You might think it doesn’t do much, but it lets your viewers know you’re against your stuff being reposted elsewhere, and they might do some reaching out for you if they spot someone unknowingly sharing stuff around. ![]()
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