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5 months ago
Hey all, sorry for admittedly a bit of a drama/vent journal, but this has been boiling for awhile now and I guess it's coming to a head. Consider yourselves warned. Screencaps to be found on the DeviantArt post of this https://www.deviantart.com/theappre.....one-1206725272
TL/DR: I had a friendship turn sour, he wrote a hit piece about me and tried to review bomb my book, I accidentally faved from him last night because apparently he unblocked me, quickly remedied the mistake, now this guy who's talked about physical violence towards me in the past, is using my real name to threaten doxing me, and claiming I'm stalking him. (SHOCKER, he might also be racist. See bottom for pictures. You make that call.)
I had a friend of over 10 years who's designing talent and classic sci fi was more than considerable, and in that time we've emailed, talked over Discord, I shared my book on amazon with him, he even drew one of my designs once. And while he had a bad habit to monologue about his own works, often focusing very little on what I brought to a conversation unless it was about his work, and often he had a penchant to make up tall tales, I didn't mind all that much. It wasn't hard to look past at all when you're both passionate about much the same things.
Well, one night after posting uncensored and inflammatory political pictures to DeviantArt that got him clapped by the Admins, unable to take responsibility for his own actions, when I spoke to him about this with the gentleness one would use with a child, his ego wouldn't allow him to admit fault. After being friends with someone that long, you know when you're reading something they wrote, and when they like to portray their adversaries as inferior to their own intellect and hides in fake spelling errors to their texted out "Proof" instead of a screenshot, it becomes insultingly to one's intelligence to presume I won't notice.
But of course, ego prevailed and instead of admitting it, or dropping it, Bluestone blocked me everywhere (remember this, as this will be important later). Oh, and to top it all off, he's mad that I challenged his honor, but then proved he had none, as the very next day he went under an assumed name and left a negative review on my book. At the time, I had like 3 reviews on my book, counting his, so he took me from a 5 star rating, down to like 3, which hurts the chances of trying to make my life's dream a reality. I'm by no means a big creator online. According to Bluestone, he's worked professionally designing starships for people with his own office back in the day, being in magazines, and wanting to write his own book. The idea that a near 60 year old man, who's tasted the same dream, would even THINK to go for the kill for a smaller creator's work is unconscionable. He's never read my book, as his eye sight is too bad. In his own words, he was afraid that one day he'd have to stop drawing because on some days he could only see shadows out of his one eye.
He then made a post where he intentionally tried to misrepresent my political beliefs to his audience, which I find WILD considering he said this about ACTUAL NAZIS, when I was trying to talk about a fictitious pseudo-fascist group in one of my Apocalyptic books.
Image on DeviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/theappre.....one-1206725272
btw he later had a whole sci fi fourth reich thing in his gallery before he deleted everything, so there's obviously some things about him I didn't know. I guess I dodged a bullet with this, especially with some of the things that he later said, or the fact he liked to pretend he was a troll hunter in some Cowboy game, harass people online, and then post it to his alternate Youtube Channel Avenging Terrier. But I digress.
Since I was blocked, all of his artwork disappeared from my favorites, and search results. Apparently when he recently purged his account, he unblocked me? I didn't think it needed said for anyone, but when you UNBLOCK SOMEONE, they can see your art in search results. Last night I was searching through DeviantArt and saw a cool floppy disk picture, faved it, and guess who's name popped up as the artist? I unfaved, and discovered today not only was I blocked, but he decided to use my real name and try to talk tough again, like the previous post about kicking my ass. I faved from him in the past because we like similar things in sci fi and graphic design, and I just KNEW how he was going to respond..
Threatening violence is nothing new to him, as anyone who's gotten on his bad side before can attest. I don't remember the usernames, I think one was Homelander something, that he threatened legal action against for comments he didn't like, and some bravado about beating him up. Given that he has my address and shown there's not much he's not willing to stoop to, tried twice now to paint me as a political extremist, I want to give people a fair warning of who he really is. When I mentioned free speech, he seemed in the past to think that meant making racial comments, talking in voice call about "Brown" people in his country, and texting a certain word like he had carte blanche.
Image on DeviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/theappre.....one-1206725272
I have full uncensored screencaps from our chats, but I think we have a clear picture here. I'm just tired of his childish temper and trying to restart fights or go after my irl stuff. I'm not asking anyone to bully him, or talk to him, I give you this as a public service. If you see the name Jonathan Bluestone, Outland Industries, Fallen Worlds, or the Arcos Mk 1, just ignore him. Block him and don't engage. Just let him exist in the paranoid space he's made for himself and maybe appreciate his designs from afar. I'll be re-posting this across all of my accounts as a warning to anyone in the sci fi spaces to be forewarned.
TL/DR: I had a friendship turn sour, he wrote a hit piece about me and tried to review bomb my book, I accidentally faved from him last night because apparently he unblocked me, quickly remedied the mistake, now this guy who's talked about physical violence towards me in the past, is using my real name to threaten doxing me, and claiming I'm stalking him. (SHOCKER, he might also be racist. See bottom for pictures. You make that call.)
I had a friend of over 10 years who's designing talent and classic sci fi was more than considerable, and in that time we've emailed, talked over Discord, I shared my book on amazon with him, he even drew one of my designs once. And while he had a bad habit to monologue about his own works, often focusing very little on what I brought to a conversation unless it was about his work, and often he had a penchant to make up tall tales, I didn't mind all that much. It wasn't hard to look past at all when you're both passionate about much the same things.
Well, one night after posting uncensored and inflammatory political pictures to DeviantArt that got him clapped by the Admins, unable to take responsibility for his own actions, when I spoke to him about this with the gentleness one would use with a child, his ego wouldn't allow him to admit fault. After being friends with someone that long, you know when you're reading something they wrote, and when they like to portray their adversaries as inferior to their own intellect and hides in fake spelling errors to their texted out "Proof" instead of a screenshot, it becomes insultingly to one's intelligence to presume I won't notice.
But of course, ego prevailed and instead of admitting it, or dropping it, Bluestone blocked me everywhere (remember this, as this will be important later). Oh, and to top it all off, he's mad that I challenged his honor, but then proved he had none, as the very next day he went under an assumed name and left a negative review on my book. At the time, I had like 3 reviews on my book, counting his, so he took me from a 5 star rating, down to like 3, which hurts the chances of trying to make my life's dream a reality. I'm by no means a big creator online. According to Bluestone, he's worked professionally designing starships for people with his own office back in the day, being in magazines, and wanting to write his own book. The idea that a near 60 year old man, who's tasted the same dream, would even THINK to go for the kill for a smaller creator's work is unconscionable. He's never read my book, as his eye sight is too bad. In his own words, he was afraid that one day he'd have to stop drawing because on some days he could only see shadows out of his one eye.
He then made a post where he intentionally tried to misrepresent my political beliefs to his audience, which I find WILD considering he said this about ACTUAL NAZIS, when I was trying to talk about a fictitious pseudo-fascist group in one of my Apocalyptic books.
Image on DeviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/theappre.....one-1206725272
btw he later had a whole sci fi fourth reich thing in his gallery before he deleted everything, so there's obviously some things about him I didn't know. I guess I dodged a bullet with this, especially with some of the things that he later said, or the fact he liked to pretend he was a troll hunter in some Cowboy game, harass people online, and then post it to his alternate Youtube Channel Avenging Terrier. But I digress.
Since I was blocked, all of his artwork disappeared from my favorites, and search results. Apparently when he recently purged his account, he unblocked me? I didn't think it needed said for anyone, but when you UNBLOCK SOMEONE, they can see your art in search results. Last night I was searching through DeviantArt and saw a cool floppy disk picture, faved it, and guess who's name popped up as the artist? I unfaved, and discovered today not only was I blocked, but he decided to use my real name and try to talk tough again, like the previous post about kicking my ass. I faved from him in the past because we like similar things in sci fi and graphic design, and I just KNEW how he was going to respond..
Threatening violence is nothing new to him, as anyone who's gotten on his bad side before can attest. I don't remember the usernames, I think one was Homelander something, that he threatened legal action against for comments he didn't like, and some bravado about beating him up. Given that he has my address and shown there's not much he's not willing to stoop to, tried twice now to paint me as a political extremist, I want to give people a fair warning of who he really is. When I mentioned free speech, he seemed in the past to think that meant making racial comments, talking in voice call about "Brown" people in his country, and texting a certain word like he had carte blanche.
Image on DeviantArt https://www.deviantart.com/theappre.....one-1206725272
I have full uncensored screencaps from our chats, but I think we have a clear picture here. I'm just tired of his childish temper and trying to restart fights or go after my irl stuff. I'm not asking anyone to bully him, or talk to him, I give you this as a public service. If you see the name Jonathan Bluestone, Outland Industries, Fallen Worlds, or the Arcos Mk 1, just ignore him. Block him and don't engage. Just let him exist in the paranoid space he's made for himself and maybe appreciate his designs from afar. I'll be re-posting this across all of my accounts as a warning to anyone in the sci fi spaces to be forewarned.
Vix
I sadly also had a friendship end kind of like this, with cyber bullying and trying to ruin my reputation as a commission artist. They were not nearly as hateful as yours was, but it did hurt a lot! You’re better off without them
If you ever want to DM me on discord to chat, vent, or share stories about what happened, I’m happy to listen and share!
I'm so sorry you had to go through something like this, and the cyber-bullying too! You deserve so much better! I'll deal with Bluestone as needed, but it's just a sad how a friendship had to die because he can't live in reality. Then as a fellow creative to go RIGHT for my book, that's like if I intentionally tried to ruin his starship or Forgotten Worlds thing! Well, if nothing else, I'll consider it a win that I have good friends like you in my life to off-set all the Bluestones out there!
What's wild is that we were pretty good friends for a LONG time! I think since 2013 or better! This dude sent me pictures of a scar/operation he had, his SOCIAL SECURITY CARD (which is weird because I didn't think people outside the US had those), his passports, and all kinds of things, but telling him I could tell that he'd written something was enough for him to throw all of that away! It's mind boggling!
Wow that’s wild!
And indeed! All it took was one argument for him to pop off like that, after all of that!
And he seems to be a racist Nazi ontop of that. Not a shocker from someone who wants to take legal action against comments you don’t like. Criticism is covered under the 1A. Either grow some thick skin or get off the internet.
Sorry this happened to you Jyooc. Hopefully this guy fucks off one day and it STAYS that way. Good thing is that if he does dox you, you can press charges on harassment and possible threats as you stated. Hopefully it doesn’t come to that.
At the very least he's romanticized evil and is childish enough to think that when some says free speech, not policed by a government, it makes him look "cool" to use slurs. It's, again, shockingly childish level thinking for someone old enough to be someone's grandfather! And it's weird to think that he tries to sell himself as this tough, 80s, "If I offend you, too bad" kind of dude, when he's willing to try to take people to court for speech he doesn't like on the internet.
Oh believe me, I will! Thanks Joey!
As long you can disprove him you should be fine