#reposted since tumblr won’t allow more than one video in a single post

[breakitoutwildbreak]

Imagine TFE Megatron and Starscream making up the same way these two idiots made up.

[kuuderekun]

My Life as a Shipper

https://jaredmithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2018/09/my-life-as-shipper.html

I’m not sure I can accurately name this post since it’s not an attempt to comprehensively go over every ship I’ve ever shipped.  I just wanna share some things.  And this won’t exactly be chronological either.   Some of this reminiscing is about Fan Fiction I did read, but plenty is also more about stuff I imagined, that I would have written myself if I wasn’t so lazy. It may surprise my followers (if any exist) to learn that my earliest ships were all Het, I’ve been a Yuri shipper for a long time now, but not quite from the start.  And to a certain extent I’ve never abandoned my Het shipping, I am still ultimately a Cis-Het Male after all. Early on I did a lot of imagining myself into shows having storylines with the female characters I was attracted to. My first real ship was shipping Dawn and Spike from Buffy The Vampire Slayer. It’s weird looking back on that now since it’s not the kind of thing I’m likely to ship today at all.  But I have fond memories of exploring now long dead Dawn themed fan fiction sites, where I mostly got into stories about this ship but did read others.  And for context you should know I’m exactly the same age as Michelle Trachtenberg, so I wasn’t seeing Dawn as the little girl of the show, she was rather the only character I could come close to seeing myself in.  But I shipped with Spike not because I had any attraction to James Marsters, but because she canonically had a crush on Spike and so I wanted her to get what she wanted. The early Het Ships I shipped that I still care about are the Zelda ones interestingly enough.  I was a big Link and Malon shipper, which included Link/Marin and Link/Romani and also Link/Cremia.  I read an old Zelda Universe article called The Girl with the Red Hair: Malon + Link, which I really liked, and it still exists. https://zeldauniverse.net/2010/11/28/the-girl-with-the-red-hair/ I think that’s a reposting however, because it’s dated to 2010 and I’m confident I’d read this before Twilight Princess came out.  Because as we were learning more about it I felt like it was confirming the theory of that article, TP Link must descend from the Hero of Time and Malon.   YouTube videos about Malon theorizing seem to be when on her as a love interest mostly just indirectly repeating that article but then adding the TP element. The Fan Fiction I was into back then, on both the Dawn subject and the Zelda subject, included a lot of angst.  I was into scenarios about triangles and jealousy and unrequited love.  Some of them even got pretty Dark.  I think I would have become a Non-Monogamous shipper sooner if I’d simply learned of that being an option sooner.  But make no mistake, my current desire for everyone being happy in the end stories doesn’t mean I don’t see the appeal of melodrama.  A number of Dawn fics were between seasons 5 and 6 or between episodes of season 6. I was also interested in the idea of stories about a post Majora’s Mask Link having his dark side drawn out by the Fierce Deity Mask. It’s hard to say where my Femslash interest truly began.  When I was into Dawn fics I read some Femslash ones about her, some with Buffy, some with Faith, possibly one with Tara.  But they weren’t what I actively shipped. Noir was my introduction to Yuri.  I first stumbled upon that show by surfing my family's On Demand service and seeing it on Anime Network On Demand, where episode 9, the second part of a two parter, was the earliest episode currently up.  Watching that episode was the first time I ever saw 2D Girls Kiss.  And as I continued the show I got really into Chloe and her unrequited feelings for Kirika.  However it took awhile strangely for me to realise Kirika and Mireille were also canon, I still had some heteronormativity to get over.  I remember that the first time I saw the word Yuri was on Noir’s IMDB forum, someone had posted a thread called “Noir Yuri Pics” or something and I originally assumed it must mean something more specific then just gay. Around then was also when I started actually reading DC Comics, and Stephanie Brown became my favorite Comic Book character, and it didn’t take long for me to start shipping her with Cassandra Cain.  But another niche Het Ship I supported was Tim Drake and Darla Aquista.  I also like Linkara supported the controversial Donna Troy and Terry Long relationship.  There an old fansite I really liked that is no gone called Donna Troy Woman and Hero. I’ve also engaged in some Pokemon shipping over the years.  More so game characters though, filling in the blank slate that is Leaf.  Anime wise that I like May and Dawn way more than Misty makes me pretty controversial.  My imagination always treated Lass as a single character rather than a class.  A Fille Fatale who flirts with both Red and Leaf.  Basically there were little if any existing fanfics I found to serve my tastes there.  I did enjoy a series on FanFiction.Net about Leaf and Dawn. I was also someone who’s interest in the Twilight ignited Vampire craze lead me to research the Pre-Dracula stuff, which lead to me reading and really liking Carmilla.  Because of Paul Feval that Vampire interest lead into and overlapped with my French Pulp Fiction interest which allowed me to learn about Eugenie Danglars and Louise d’Armilly. The Vampire craze also lead me to The Vampire Diaries, where I found another of my top Het Ships, Jeremy and Anna, played by Stephen R McQueen and Malese Jow.  That ship was prominent in my early Tumblr activity. Then came the era of Pretty Little Liars being my favourite TV show, I became a strong Sparia shipper and looked into other ships as well. Back to Zelda.  Prior to Skyward Sword I quite liked how Nintendo was mostly avoiding making Link and Zelda a couple.  But then Hyrule Warriors comes along implying they’re always destined to fall in love and I was quite annoyed.  So I’ve always had hostility towards Link/Zelda shipping.  However the Skyward Sword Prequel Manga included in the Hyrule Historia (which I saw glimpses of before I properly got to read it) kinda won me over on it.  Though that’s technically Link and Hylia. Zelda is one franchise where my Het Shipping is still strong.  But I have became a supporter of Zelda Femslash.  For both Skyward Sword and Hyrule Warriors I like to ship Zelda with Impa, and for Twilight Princess I like Zelda/Midna, and I see Ashe as a Lesbian on principle.  I also now support the theory that Cremia actually had feelings for Anju in Majora’s Mask. I developed an interest in various Tolkien and Silmarillion related Femslash ships.  Like Nienor Niniel and Nellas, as well as viewing Nessa, Haleth and Ter-Telperien as Lesbians. I started a FInal Fantasy Femslash tumblr that I’ve mostly let die since my interests there are limited.  I ultimately view Terra Branford as Asexuel and yet I still crave material about her and Celes.  I also strongly support Agrias and Ovelia from Final Fantasy Tactics. Since getting much more actively into Anime starting in 2014 there are a lot of ships I’ve become supporters of, from Magical Girls to Cute Girls Doing Cute Things to the better Harems, and the occasional specifically Yuri show/OVA.  But I’ve supported some Het stuff too and even learned to appreciate Yaoi and Traps.  But strangely nothing I’ve found in the last year and a half has really compelled me the way my old ships did.  Though perhaps they just need time, again I haven’t been rewatching stuff as much as I used to. However recently learning about SaGa Frontier thanks to Yahweasel has made me a supporter of the Femslash potential it provides.

[nillsp-blog]

I have experienced this a few times already and, nah, I’m not mad but I think it’d be great if more people know there’s a set of unwritten rules about reprints.

I will explain what reprint is and how to properly ask permission and how to credit the artists (if they allow reprints).

Reprint/reproduce means posting/using illustration/photograph/video/music/other forms of art somewhere that isn’t under the account of the artist/copyright holder and some artists don’t allow it. If they have stated that they don’t allow reprints, please do not use/post their art!

It’s like you’re posting a photo of yourself on Facebook and, without your consent, someone you don’t know use it as their profile picture… •_• 

That might be sounds extreme but it’s pretty accurate for some artists. After all, the face of an artist is their works.

Their works are their intellectual property and using it without permission is infringement to their rights. People that reprint art without permission are called art thief.

Yep, you love the art, didn’t mean to harm the artist and just simply don’t know about it, so read the rest and find out the proper way to reprint an illustration :)

(this will also works for other forms of art)

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1. Check their profile(s) to see if they allow reprints and, if they didn’t mention anything, you have to always ask for PERMISSION before you use their illustration as profile pic or post it somewhere in the Internet. Some artist stated clearly that they prohibit/don’t allow reprints. In this case, DON’T USE THEIR ART!

2. If they stated that reprint is allowed then feel free to post, but read number 4 before you post it with a big smile!

If they didn’t mention anything about it, you can ask them for permission by sending them a message through their social media accounts or their publishing platforms. You can use the template provided below when sending them the message.

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Hello, I’m [INSERT NAME HERE] I love your illustrations and I’m thinking of posting one of your illustrations in this URL [URL TO THE PIC YOU MENTIONED] in my Tumblr blog/FB page/Twitter/IG. You can find my [THE PLATFORM YOU MENTIONED] here: [THE URL]

If you grant me permission, I’ll definitely put a link to your profile and the original illustration. I guarantee I won’t edit your illustration or claim it as my own.

Thank you for considering my request!

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If you think you might want to reprint more of their picture, you can add this line before the ‘thank you’ part:

If you grant me the permission, I’d greatly appreciate it if you would specify whether or not I need to contact you when I want to reprint more of your works in the future.

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3. It might take a few days for you to get a reply. Some won’t allow reprint, so do not post their illustrations. If you enjoy their works, you can just save them in your PC or phone and enjoy them privately.

Some will allow you to reprint freely as long as they’re properly credited and some will ask for a certain way to credit them, some will also ask for the link to the reprint, so they can monitor it. Some will also state if they don’t want their illustrations to be cropped and has to be posted as is. (resize is usually OK)

Also, if you ask for permission to more reprints, some will allow you to reprint freely as mentioned above, but some of them want you to ask for permission for each and every illustration you want to reprint!

Read their reply carefully and do as they wish.

4. If reprint is allowed, then as promised, you have to include their name, the link to the original pic and a line like this “Permission has been granted by the artist” so people know that it was reprinted with the artist’s consent!

This will also encourage people to ask for permission first before posting.

5. Don’t forget to send them a reply containing your thanks and the link to your post. You might not get another reply, but it shows that you’re someone they can trust. Who knows you could ended up being friends with them?? (at least that what I experienced X’D)

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In my case, I don’t allow any reprints. It’s for the sake of exclusivity, so that people only able to find them in my accounts.

Other than my own decision to not to, most of my art are co-owned by Roruke and Enyllo (both helps me with coloring and drawings). You’ll never know how many people contributes to a single illustration, that’s why you should ask so that you can credit properly (IF reprint is allowed).

And, you wouldn’t want me to get into trouble with Roruke and Enyllo, right? Without them I’d kill myself coloring the comics, so please stop ^^”

What about Instagram repost?

Good question! I did Halloween Event which requires repost and since I have stated clearly that it’s allowed to repost that certain illustration, it’s completely fine to be reprinted. As long as it’s in Instagram, of course :)

Other illustrations are still prohibited.

I’d greatly appreciate it if you could understand the artists’ wishes and report to the artist(s) if you find someone reprint their pic even though they have mentioned 'no reprint’. You’re helping them finding people who steals their art!

One more thing, monetizing (or simply making money from) other people’s art is PROHIBITED. Unless, you have written permission or you’re the rights holder.

Thanks for reading this long post and hope this helps you to support your favorite artists!