#sorry for the addition op

[megabuild]

it's actually so weird how people react with such vitriol to the slightest mention of minecraft youtubers like i used to be sympathetic about it because of the whole association with dream and so on but it's gotten to the point where if you've been made aware it's a rich and varied community and you still have that knee jerk reaction of "well they're lame, they're cringe, they're all ugly racist white boys" you are actually just a fucking idiot. i'm sorry. like if you cannot do that most basic level of separation like that there is something fundamentally unformed in your brain you should probably work on

[beaulesbian]

One Piece ep. 1103 || "Oh, somebody was guarding the ship."

vs. manga chapter 1071

[anti-dazai-blog]

I don't understand why fans in general are always so against critical analysis & always try to defend characters whenever someone points out bad writing. Bsd fans have huge issue like that I'm glad you're so vocal about dazai character writing tho cause lots of people just avoid it due to his fans taking it so personal

I think it’s mainly an issue of people not properly tagging their posts, so that when people search their favorite characters, they find negativity instead of the positive content they were hoping for. It makes sense why that would be annoying— but in the end of the day it’s everyone’s job to curate their own internet experience.

I tag all of my negative posts with #anti dazai, so it’s pretty easy for a person to just block that tag (or block this account), and so most people don’t have a problem with me. I’ve only run into any sort of problem with two separate tumblr users in the past (one of which is pretty infamous in these bsd tumblr circles)— so from my end of things, I don’t really see all the people getting angry about character-critical content. I know it’s out there, I personally just don’t come across it very often.

I also block very liberally, so that might be a contributing factor to why I don’t see that side of the fandom. But either way.

I’m glad you’re enjoying this blog!! For any given piece of media there will be positive aspects and negative aspects, and everyone can and should feel free to talk as much as they want about both sides. There also isn’t a single right answer— meaning one person could find a character to be written in a very compelling way and someone else can find the character writing shallow— neither person is wrong, so long as they can justify their opinions with textual evidence.

The only time a media interpretation is wrong is when it’s entirely made up. And I don’t mean “this person read the text and came away with a different conclusion than me,” I mean “this person is directly contradicting the text and is giving no reasons for why they might think the text is lying.” There’s always the concept of an unreliable narrator, but on tumblr, the website that’s infamous for lacking any sort of Reading Comprehension… yeah you’re not gonna get the brilliant literary debates everyone’s hoping for.

[dennisboobs]

extremely underrated method of tumblr communication is liking someone else's reblog/tags on your own post (like HEY... I SEE YOU, GOOD SHIT) but then i realize you guys probably can't see when i do it because dennisboobs isn't my main

[honeynclove]

sometimes I block ppl and for literally no reason????

[nostalgia-tblr]

i've been trying to Do Tumblr Correctly and only Like posts so I can return later and Reblog them but I don't remember to do the Reblogging and some of the Likes were just in case I did so my Likes page is as unhelpful as it was before but now I also feel the loss of Liking things just to show whoever posted it that that I saw it.

Also I must say I am, in general, not a fan of the Tumblr Use Rules that you only find out about when people tell you off for not following them.

[sodafrog13]

if you followed me bc of my addition to that dunmeshi post i hope you know that dunmeshi is NOT the main thing i have going on here

[goddamnshinyrock]

Saw a post of yours reposted to Pinterest about your footprints in the base of your childhood home. Do you have any pictures? That sounds adorable!

oh good lord that thing sure has traveled, first facebook and now pinterest.

I don't have a pic as my parents' basement is a) dark and b) messy lol. The area with the footprints mostly has shelving/water heater/potting bench/etc over it now.

[doctordragon]

Censored the op's URL because I agree with them and I don't think they did or said anything bad other than hopping on a trend that's been on Tumblr since I started using it

I hate this kind of mentality though. That a post made about minority a to have comments only about minority a or else it's "derailing" and "off topic." You have made a post on a public platform. People are going to say things and relate to your post and go on tangents. That is literally the entire point of comments on the internet. I understand getting upset with people being bigoted or rude on your post, but talking about how minority b experiences something similar to minority a is neither of those things. In fact, it is the opposite, as it constructively adds into the conversation.

If you want to have a conversation that isn't "derailed" or has people comment "off topic" things, don't make a Tumblr post. Have an actual conversation with real people who you can reasonably expect to stay on topic when you ask. You cannot expect the same from internet strangers.

If I ever make a post about being a trans man or autistic or whatever, and you can relate despite not being the thing the post is about, PLEASE comment and share your experiences!!! This mentality that minorities aren't allowed to talk to each other and relate to our forms of oppression only serves to divide us.

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

i would never survive tiktok i get WAY too annoyed when people are annoying in my notes on here

[sanctifiedtongues]

people putting shit about 'reading comprehension website' in the tags on that post when the original post was very easy to misinterpret...yet another phrase long due to put on the shelf.

[camgoloud]

i mean like. okay fair. but you do realize what website you’re saying these words on right

[mathswizard]

[izzyspussy]

am i the only one who thinks it's incredibly presumptuous and rude and other such things to add on a new ending to an artist's work on here and say you "fixed it". no bitch, you didn't know how to read it and made that op's problem. make your own fucking post lol.

[yukipri]

hi, i love your work and i know you have a lot of experience handling reposts, and i really need help.

i’m an artist who has their work reposted on facebook. i filed two dmca reports with links to the original posts on tumblr and twitter and to the post im reporting, but facebook denied both of them. both for the reason that they couldn’t be certain i was the rights owner.

in the first report i filed, i didn’t put the address in the correct format so i thought that was the problem. the second one, i don’t know what i did wrong.

do i have to use my real house address? the one i provided is the workplace of a family member. do i make “name of rights owner” my full name? i put my username minus the underscore both times i filed. i sign my works like this and it’s visible on the artwork (username minus underscore). do i put back the underscore to make it match my twitter name? my tumblr varies slightly. do i make it match tumblr instead? is there a specific thing i need to write in the “please provide any additional information…” box? do i need a facebook art account to report the post? or is it not working because it’s fanart? i know of artists who were able to get their fanart taken down on facebook so is where i live the issue? i’m really sorry for all the questions. i just don’t know what to do.

Hey there, I am so incredibly sorry this has happened to you. I'll do my best to help.

I'm not sure if my advice is the "best," and if there are legal professionals here who can provide better advice, definitely listen to them! But here's what I have done, with success having DMCA takedowns go through, including on Facebook:

1) I have always used my full legal name, sometimes with a parentheses handlename (tumblr user YukiPri, and/or Twitter user YukiPri_Art, depending on the platform) afterwards. When adding your handle, it should be formatted exactly the way it is to find your various socials, as that is likely part of the verification process. If you have slightly different handles on different platforms, I recommend doing what I did in the example and specifying "Tumblr user XXX" etc for each one. I do believe they still require your full legal name, and you should make very clear which parts of the name field is your legal name, and which parts are social media handles.

2) I have always used my full home address. I completely understand how deeply uncomfortable this is, and I share that discomfort and I am so sorry that you've been put in a situation where you have to experience. I understand the fear of doxxing. But I believe this is also necessary for legal reasons.

I'm not sure if a family member can consent to have their full name/address used in your place, perhaps as a "representative." But I feel like that makes things more complicated, so I've never used it and have always filled out my full info. If anyone with professional legal experience has different advice, I am all ears.

3) You do not need a facebook account, though sometimes it unfortunately is helpful, especially if the post is in a locked account. Either way, you need the link to the EXACT link with the infringing work.

4) Likewise, you need to provide the EXACT link to the work that was infringed, preferably that matches your watermark, since it appears you use one.

From the info you've given me, the only thing I can think of is that they were not able to match your legal name to the address you provided, and therefore cannot verify that you're a real person. I could be wrong. It's stressful, but at the same time I'm glad they have a process in place for making sure not anyone can file DMCA—imagine the chaos and evil people could do if anyone could claim anything was theirs!

It's a horrible and incredibly stressful process to file DMCA claims, and I am so frustrated that we artists have to feel this immense stress to reclaim our stolen work instead of people simply respecting that they have the privilege of viewing our work for free.

I really, REALLY hope this helps you, Anon. Please be assured that Facebook HAS removed my art for me before via DMCA (though sometimes it's taken a while), and I really hope the above works for you.

In addition, while I hate that you have to do more to protect yourself and your work, please consider the following in the future, if you haven't already:

-Add your full url/handle, not just signature to your watermark. I know it's ugly, i HATE having large watermarks, but my watermark has evolved into this for a reason:

My watermark, shockingly enough, isn't actually for people who have stolen my work, or the few people who might see my stolen work who might decide to follow it back to my socials. I mean, that'd be nice, but I know how rarely that happens.

My watermark is designed more so that it's easy for social media staff to verify that my work is my own when I file a DMCA. I want it to be as easy as possible for them to look at my art and for them to say yup, this is definitely by YukiPri_Art @ Twitter and YukiPri @ Tumblr!

Also use simple, legible fonts. I know it can be ugly, so I do try to color them all or choose different fonts to match the work in question. But again, the main point of this watermark to me is so that staff can read it quickly. I want their job to be as easy as possible.

-I also explicitly state "Do Not Repost" on my artwork itself. I have heard "Oh but I didn't know," too many times, dozens, no hundreds of times, even if it's on the post itself, even if it's in my bio. None of that means anything anyway once someone reposts it. But if I stamp "DO NOT REPOST" onto the art itself, there is no denying that the thief reposted with full awareness that they are stealing, and it is a sign to EVERYONE that they did that. More often than not, people have come to me to tell me about my stolen work so I can file a DMCA because of this line.

-Place your watermark somewhere hard to crop out. If it's near an edge, anywhere that you can square marquee and crop without chopping off essential parts of your art, people will crop. I absolutely despise that I have to do this to my art, but placing it near the center, close to the face/body so that cropping it out would mean chopping most of the image and therefore making it unattractive, usually will discourage the thief from editing it out. After all, art thieves are at heart lazy and do not want to do work for attention.

-In that same line, if your art has relatively flat colors, consider adding a bit of a gradient or pattern/texture, at least to the part with the watermark. Or, simply place your watermark in an area with multiple colors/complex lineart (yeah I know, I hate covering up those parts too). This is also so that a thief at least willing to open photoshop to attempt to erase your watermark will have a more difficult time. If it's too much of a pain, they usually won't bother.

I hope this info was helpful, and again i truly hope you get your case resolved, and that you never have to experience this again!!

❀ ❀ Send YukiPri an Ask! ❀ ❀

[poppy-in-the-woods]

Sorry for the interjection, but this is too long to put it in the tags, so here it goes:

I don't think you are a pedophile, however, I think we as a society would like to think teens and preteens Don't Do That, and maybe some don't, but some do.

Kids are starting puberty earlier now (I started mine at 13/14, which was considered pretty standard back then, but it would be pretty late considering the average now). And I don't know if y'all remember what it was, but I remember developing an interest in kissing before I got my first period, and I remember having a questions about what sex actually was after getting my period. And I wasn't getting any, but some of my classmates were having sex at 15/16. Bottom line is: teens and preteens are going to develop an interest in this stuff, and if we don't teach them sex ed, they will turn to the internet (which has some good sources for sex ed but also a lot of misinformation) and porn, and then we're going to have another generation who doesn't know about consent, or safe sex, and STIs and teenage pregancies numbers are going to raise again.

Lots of parents don't want strangers to be teaching their kids sex ed because they feel that's their job, but then they don't ever have those kinds of conversations with their kids because they're very uncomfortable conversations. And then it's too late, they're already watching porn behind their parents backs and thinking that rough sex is what everyone likes, that consent is a mood killer and that each and every woman likes (or should like) to be choked without a warning. And this is just for cishet kids, queer kids have it harder to find any resources that cater to them.

Also, we, as former kids, have internalised that any adult that talks about sex with kids must be trying to groom them, so we cannot longer differentiate between actual sex ed and grooming. The things is, all the studies say that little kids that have received sex ed (and at that ages it's mostly about the correct names of body parts and general consent), they're less vulnerable to pedophiles because then can communicate better that they're being abused earlier after it happens.

If forbidding kids as young as 12 from doing stuff with each other doesn't work (and experience tell us it doesn't), we better make sure they have the resources to do it in a way they are safe, so they don't grow up with the same gaps in their sex education as we did.

PS: As a smut writer I know I can put "minors DNI" all I want, but they're going to read it anyway. The least I can do is trying to make it clear that what you can read in the stories is a fictionalised and stylised version of what sex is in real life (I also try to include that consent can actually be very sexy, and general tools to communicate, but I am not an expert by any means).

I'm not like Mad at anyone who does this and I'm obviously not in charge of how anyone else tags shit on their own blogs, whatever, but it's always bummed me out when my sex Ed posts get reblogged and tagged with 18+, minors dni, etc. personally I actually very much want teenagers to learn about their bodies and safer sex but I guess I'm just the guy who wrote the thing.