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This dumb...[Rant]
9 years ago
Please take a moment to read this. Especially if you're an artist drawing for me
So...Some of you may know that I'm not a huge fan of corporate character recolors...
For those who don't know what I'm talking about: I'm talking digimon reskins, pokemon reskins, My Little Pony reskins, Sonic the Hedgehog reskins etc. etc....Pretty much if the character is an obvious rip from a popular TV show / Popular game? Then I really don't like them.
That goes for ownership...Personally I'd probably make an exception for getting art of the ORIGINAL Renamon/Star Fox with my own character featured within it, as in no recolor crap! :\
So...OWNING a completely basic pokemon/digimon/whatever, but with different colors? Bad. I can't stand it.
GETTING ART of the actual, original pokemon/digimon/whatever, with the correct, intended colors. I could do that if done right!
That's my opinion, and people are obviously welcome to disagree if they want, assuming they can stay within the realm of realism and not fly off into some non-existant fairytale land where their bogus claims might hold some merit.
Here's a good example of such a person:
This person contacted me a few months ago, wanting to get art with my Vaxi as a female, and his recolored, huge Meowth(Pokemon) clone character. I told him plainly that unless it's the actual pokemon, I.E no recolors and no random body changes to edit it to your liking, then I'm not interested. He got ridiculously angry and offended, asking how I dare to hurt peoples feelings just because they have a character I don't like etc.
We argued back and forth, before I lost interest and blocked him. I then found this on my F-list, which took his complete idiocy to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL:
"Every single character that is made is corporately owned one way or another. Nothing is original. No matter how original you think something is, the fact remains that there is some series out there that has characters either similar or akin to their likeness. There is no getting around this. So, I apologize if you simply do not understand it from my point of view and how just rejecting people for not fully understanding a situation really isn't nice."
OH REALLY!? IS THAT SO!?
This damned fool literally just said that EVERYBODY'S FURSONA...YOUR fursona, THEIR fursona, MY fursona, EVERYBODY'S FURSONA ON THE PLANET, is somehow, no matter what, directly associated with some kind of TV show or game in the world, and therefore, the ENTIRE FURRY FANDOM is, according to this retard, owned by corporations.
I'm about to rip my hair out of my scalp. Why am I still bothering with complete numbskulls like this? What benefit do I, or the world, get from me sitting here, fuming with frustration at trying to make someone comprehend something, only for them to say 'FUCK REALITY I NEED TO BE RIGHT THEREFORE THIS IS FACT!'?
Let me be fucking clear: PROPER fursonas, as in fursonas MADE from SCRATCH by the owner, or BOUGHT from a creator who themselves created it from scratch? ANY fursona, that was not just some random sonic the hedgehog pic you found on google and recolored using MS Paint? THOSE fursonas, make up the fandom. WE make up the fandom, be it artists who create them, commissioners who commission them, or fursuiters who enact them and make them real? No matter what, THOSE facts together, make up the furries of the furry fandom.
To me? If some teenage kid sexually identifies as a lime green renamon with gold eyes and has a complete addiction to Kabuterimon dick? FINE, you know what? FINE, I don't care, be that way if it makes you happy...BUT you're not a furry because of it, and don't you fucking dare claim to be one, either! At least not in my book.
For those who don't know what I'm talking about: I'm talking digimon reskins, pokemon reskins, My Little Pony reskins, Sonic the Hedgehog reskins etc. etc....Pretty much if the character is an obvious rip from a popular TV show / Popular game? Then I really don't like them.
That goes for ownership...Personally I'd probably make an exception for getting art of the ORIGINAL Renamon/Star Fox with my own character featured within it, as in no recolor crap! :\
So...OWNING a completely basic pokemon/digimon/whatever, but with different colors? Bad. I can't stand it.
GETTING ART of the actual, original pokemon/digimon/whatever, with the correct, intended colors. I could do that if done right!
That's my opinion, and people are obviously welcome to disagree if they want, assuming they can stay within the realm of realism and not fly off into some non-existant fairytale land where their bogus claims might hold some merit.
Here's a good example of such a person:
This person contacted me a few months ago, wanting to get art with my Vaxi as a female, and his recolored, huge Meowth(Pokemon) clone character. I told him plainly that unless it's the actual pokemon, I.E no recolors and no random body changes to edit it to your liking, then I'm not interested. He got ridiculously angry and offended, asking how I dare to hurt peoples feelings just because they have a character I don't like etc.
We argued back and forth, before I lost interest and blocked him. I then found this on my F-list, which took his complete idiocy to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL:
"Every single character that is made is corporately owned one way or another. Nothing is original. No matter how original you think something is, the fact remains that there is some series out there that has characters either similar or akin to their likeness. There is no getting around this. So, I apologize if you simply do not understand it from my point of view and how just rejecting people for not fully understanding a situation really isn't nice."
OH REALLY!? IS THAT SO!?
This damned fool literally just said that EVERYBODY'S FURSONA...YOUR fursona, THEIR fursona, MY fursona, EVERYBODY'S FURSONA ON THE PLANET, is somehow, no matter what, directly associated with some kind of TV show or game in the world, and therefore, the ENTIRE FURRY FANDOM is, according to this retard, owned by corporations.
I'm about to rip my hair out of my scalp. Why am I still bothering with complete numbskulls like this? What benefit do I, or the world, get from me sitting here, fuming with frustration at trying to make someone comprehend something, only for them to say 'FUCK REALITY I NEED TO BE RIGHT THEREFORE THIS IS FACT!'?
Let me be fucking clear: PROPER fursonas, as in fursonas MADE from SCRATCH by the owner, or BOUGHT from a creator who themselves created it from scratch? ANY fursona, that was not just some random sonic the hedgehog pic you found on google and recolored using MS Paint? THOSE fursonas, make up the fandom. WE make up the fandom, be it artists who create them, commissioners who commission them, or fursuiters who enact them and make them real? No matter what, THOSE facts together, make up the furries of the furry fandom.
To me? If some teenage kid sexually identifies as a lime green renamon with gold eyes and has a complete addiction to Kabuterimon dick? FINE, you know what? FINE, I don't care, be that way if it makes you happy...BUT you're not a furry because of it, and don't you fucking dare claim to be one, either! At least not in my book.
but really tho, this whole journal, hits everything right on the head as it should.
My point is: I'm not a fennec ._.
Besides that, you say you disagree, but do you disagree that im wrong in saying that those 3 are the ones that make up the fandom? I think you claimed to agree there too, so what, exactly, was the point here if you agree with me?
and honestly, there are only so many foxes with emo hair you can have in a fandom without it just looking like a bunch of recolors after a while either. for example.