#crediting

[nat-stimmy]

so ive been seeing more and more uncredited / poorly credited stimboards in the stim tag and it's been bugging me, so i decided to put together a post about some things i think newer stim blogs should know!

CREDITING:

- DO NOT USE PINTEREST AS A SOURCE. DO NOT EVER USE PINTEREST AS A SOURCE. Pinterest is full of reposted gifs that other people have made (including my own!) that have been posted there without their permission. it's just not a good way to credit people, because you are using stolen gifs. Find your gifs on Tumblr. - DO NOT USE UNCREDITED STIMBOARDS AS A SOURCE. if you cannot find the gif ANYWHERE ELSE then either use a reverse image search engine like tineye to find the source or use another gif. sometimes posts just disappear and blogs delete and gifs get lost. it's sad but it happens and the next best thing is to figure out what video it was from and gif it yourself. - DO NOT POST YOUR STIMBOARD BEFORE YOU HAVE CREDITED THE GIFMAKERS. No, you can't say "dm for credit!" or "Lost the sources, sorry, but its too pretty not to post!". Credit your sources. Blogs like mine put effort into making sharable stim gifs for you and we would appreciate a "thank you" in the form of a link back to the post you found the gif from. Otherwise you're just stealing it. - DO NOT USE ART YOU HAVE NOT MADE FOR THE MIDDLE IMAGE, EVEN IF YOU CREDIT. While gifmakers' content is made to be shared and used in this way, general art is not. the artist will not appreciate their art being stolen. if you have express permission from the artist, then it's fine. but do not presume that Just Crediting Is Enough.

DNI BANNERS:

BE AWARE OF YOUR FONT + COLOR CHOICES AND TEXT SPACING. Certain fonts are harder for people to read and certain color combinations can cause eye strain and headaches, and with smaller banners with long DNI lists sometimes words get cut off or moved and make people read it wrong. Just a bad time all around. Don't have much advice for this, just don't use bright colors on bright colors, or pastels on pastels and use a plain text font instead of a fancy Aesthetic one.

DO NOT ADD YOUR DNI BANNER TO POSTS THAT ARE NOT YOURS. I can't believe I have to say this but if a post does not originate from your blog, you do not get to add your banner to a post by reblogging it to your blog. That is incredibly rude. What if the person you're reblogging from has different boundaries than you? Be considerate.

BE SPECIFIC. "weirdos / freaks dni" is not good because nobody knows what you're talking about, and also yknow. the word "freak" is ableist and maybe not the best choice of words here. You might as well just not use a banner at all at that point. There's a similar issue to "Basic DNI criteria" because there is no basic DNI criteria. it's different for everyone. List your boundaries plainly and accessibly. That's about all I can think of for now, but this post may be updated or added onto! Please spread this around!

[the-bjd-community-confess]

I hate ppl who post photos they didn’t take in the bjd tag. Idc if you credit, random-aesthetic-blog123, I will block you, set fires to your crops, and take your first born unless you correctly guess my name. You don’t wanna know what Im willing to do if they don’t credit.

~Anonymous

[sunlitsorrows]

Hi! My name is Sunny and this blog is simply a place I can collect things that make me happy, hiccup the odd poem, and reblog things I see that make me laugh or cry or think.

Crediting: I credit where I can, but my dumpster fire brain chemistry frequently renders me physically incapable of tracking down a source so if you see something uncredited or incorrectly credited and/that you know the correct/source of, please please please feel free to point me in the right direction.

Tagging: I tag everything I can think of, but I realize that is not saying very much. If you follow me and/but need something tagged a specific way to maintain your peace and mental health please please please feel free to let me know, I will oblige without argument.

[wecandoit]

Hey just wanted to let you know this person might've stolen one of your pictures [https://at.tumblr.com/itsdivyachoudhary/afternoons-and-late-night-studying/1q1yirjbpggr] I thought maybe you'd want to know so sorry if I'm bothering you

hi! thank you for letting me know, i really do appreciate it! it would be super awesome if people could credit me or at least dm me beforehand when they use my pics, but i've decided not to be super pedantic about it (as of now).

i still really appreciate people bringing it to my attention, like you, lovely anon. so thank you so much!!

[editor-flower-shop]

hi! gif maker here! if you're not using footage you took, keep that original video link somewhere safe as an archive so you can credit them on your gif post!!

i completely second this! always credit people, its basic politeness!

~ moondust

[stonelions]

he thinks he's being so smooth with his little face on my leg. i SEE you, villain

[askalastorblog]

The amount of joy human alastor and his mother gives me should be illegal

https://twitter.com/_nedned_x

[cozystars]

!!! BUILT LIKE BILBO BAGGINS !!!

[torturedpoetemotions]

If the right way is too hard, fuck it. Do it the wrong way.

Folding clothes keeps you from getting the laundry done? Stop folding clothes. Put a basket in your room and throw your unfolded clean stuff into it right out of the dryer, it's fine.

Rinsing dishes off keeps you from loading the dishwasher? Load them dirty and run it twice.

Chopping onions keeps you from making yourself dinner? Buy the freezer bags of chopped onions.

You forget to take your meds and don't want to get out of bed to get them? Start putting them next to the bed.

Can't keep up with the dishes? Get paper plates. Worried about environment impact? Order biodegradable ones online if your local store doesn't have one.

Make the task easier. Put things where you use them instead of where they "go." Eliminate the steps that keep you from finishing the task. Eliminate the task that is stressing you out.

Do it the "wrong" way. It's literally fine.

[itsforexposure]

[admiralexclipse]

[artistotel]

hey! for todays protest, i made this little zine about palestine (holding just simple and basic information).

you can download the zine here, fold it yourself, and distribute it around.

no credit is needed. feel free to leave it around bars, protests, or wherever. simply print it (borderless) and fold it. here is a tutorial on how to do it.

dont stay silent. there is a genocide of horrendous, atrocious proportions going on. also if you are a zionist here to argue with me, i dont plan to entertain you at all, not on my art blog. fuck off, you'll be swiftly blocked. i see enough of you clowns on my main and i have no energy for you. you can skip the death threats too bc i dont give a shit.

(i'm off to get ready for a surgery now, i just wanted to post it before this. if you need anything, i might take a bit to reply)

[fawndollie]

WHO WANTS TO GET BOOPED

IM BOOPING EVERYONE WHO LIKES THIS WEWWWW!!!!!!!!!! NO ONE IS SAFE!!!!!!!!!!!1

[ao3-shenanigans]

WE MADE IT FOLKS!!!

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

i will never understand why more people in their 80s don't commit felonies. you reach that age and surely there's something illegal you always wanted to do but didn't bc Consequences

dammit, GO FORTH GRANNIES!!! rob an armored car! hold up that bank! tunnel your way into fort knox! what are they gonna do, sentence you to 20 years? good fuckin luck with that

[marinememes]