So, I know my account hasn't been super-active recently, because life is crappy and likes to remind me I do not deserve money, but there's been an issue going on that I've noticed, specifically on a certain website: F-List.

I have an F-List. This is it. https://www.f-list.net/c/murdock/

I don't really RP very much anymore, though sometimes you might see me lurking in a chatroom or something. But my main concern is this: I keep seeing people, pretty infrequently, thankfully, but it's happened, taking images I've commissioned and posting them on their F-List profile as if it represents their character. Sometimes people make little edits to it and such.

I don't really appreciate it.

/Especially/ since more often than not, when I see someone's made an edit to it, they actively remove the original artist's signature from it. That's a BIG no-no for me.

Now, I /will/ clarify. Up to this point, my policy has always been to quietly contact the admins and inform them of the issue, and request art takedowns. And it's happened pretty much every time, so I'm not really upset about it. I don't want to cause drama with anybody, or throw a big tantrum because "Hurr blurr muh characters" and whatnot, just don't take what I've spent money and an artist has spent time on and claim it as yours, that's that. In fact, one time we had a hilarious moment where a guy used a pic of Murdy, I requested its deletion and it was removed, and he put up /another/ pic of Murdy, which I requested taken down and it was taken down--and then he posts on his profile "OMG I'M SO SORRY MURDOCK".

Turns out, he literally just googled "femboy moogle" and got two images of Murdy in a row. We totally talked about it on Discord, he was a sweetie, not even mad at that, lol. One of these days I may just get a pic done where Murdy catches him trying on his clothes or something and makes a joke about a doppelganger. X3

But I digress.

If you want to roleplay as the character Murdock the Moogle, you do not have my permission. He is mine, and actions undertaken by impostors could give people the wrong idea about who I am. If you want to use artwork I have commissioned to represent your unrelated character, you do not have my permission, for the same reason. If you want to edit my pictures and claim you're someone entirely different, I'm more than likely going to say "no", but if you go out of your way to make the edit different enough nobody's going to mistake the character, you can ask. I'm open for discussion, I'm not going to tell you to eff off or anything. But even if I do say yes, you'd darn well better keep the original artist's signature on their work. They did the hard part.

Just putting that out there so my opinion is clear. Not really meant to be a negative journal, just an informative one. So...how about a dad joke to round things out?

It turns out, the KKK owns their own space station up in orbit. They've been doing research in an attempt to prove white supremacy, by conducting tests on people of various races, and have started out by having these various people of color run laps, noting times. However, they all come to the conclusion that in order to well and truly provide irrefutable results, they must use the scientific method and not hamstring any of the subjects in any way.

You k now what that means, don't you?

It means space-based racists base space races and rate on case-by-case basis.

*ba-dum psh*

(Say it out loud if you don't get it)