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Art Theft

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If you ever drew any Greek Mythology, please have a look here and check if this colouring book is using art stolen from you, too, as it does with my Gods of Ancient Greece - I know I've seen some of the other drawings here on DA:


https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B091WJ6R5L/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1


And please let Amazon (and the publisher) know what you think of people selling stolen art as their own, even if it's not yours.


EDIT: Also, I discovered another of their books using art of mine:


https://www.amazon.com/-/de/gp/product/B092469NWP/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i10


They also have books about Norse gods - please check out if they're using your art!

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It's good they now (sometimes) put "contains racism and that's not okay" warnings before old movies and books, but could they add warnings for misogyny, homophobia and religion-based discrimination too and not just put that before the old stuff, but also the contemporary one, and not just before movies and books, but also songs, series, comics,

paintings, games, TV-shows, plays, operas, musicals, lectures, apps, ads and magazines - or would whole industries then have to shut down for not keeping up with the warnings because there's still so much of all this stupid bloody shit everywhere?


Btw: That was a rhetorical question.

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Talking about the "community" under new Eclipse - this year was the first time since I joined DA that I didn't get a single Happy Birthday note. I missed those; it was just a nice annual little extra.

I don't blame the people, but new Eclipse; you get no notice about birthdays, you can't leave a comment directly on the profile page anymore, finding nice emoticons is a mess, navigating is a mess, finding your messages is a mess.

Oh, what a 'great new community'.

I won't extend my core membership, that much is sure.

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Thistle Energy

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(Okay, after wasting three quarters of an hour to find out how new journals work now and trying to find out where to find help now, then accidentally finding out myself by clicking somewhere I would never had suspected to be the correct source and finally finding out how to submit a new journal - I'm already sick of Eclipse, don't forget to leave DA a feedback for that disservice - I can finally write what I wanted to write an hour ago when it was still fresh in my mind.)


I had to talk on the phone with somebody, freelance jobwise, and I had talked to that person once before a couple of weeks ago. Back then I had had the impression that they were a bit slow, but no harm done.

So today we talked again and suddenly they began to utter statements and opinions that were just inacceptable - morally, intellectually and simply from a decent common sense point of view.

I don't want to give any details, so I can't be more precise; whatever you imagine might be more or less the right direction.

I objected, and in the end I was insulted in the tone of a stubborn five-year-old with the usual arsenal this clientele seems to bring up - mind, this person phoned me for advice and help - so in the end I suggested that they might seek their help somewhere else if I was so stupid and horrible. This person - a super heavy Facebook user (got all their info there) - was totally shocked that their behaviour had direct consequences.


What really shocked me on the other hand, was not just that I encountered such a person for the first time in real life - when they made fun of that kind, I always thought, god, are there really such people? That bad? Yes, there are.

I tried to talk to them, but it was as if I talked to a wall (with barbed wire on top), and as if I tried to take the drugs from a junkie.

In the end I was so angry I almost started to cry. For it did hurt me to witness such a broken person beyond any reach, any sense.


But what was really bad, were the vibes, the energy I got from them - all that hatred and hostility, that desperation, the self-righteousness, an energy as from a cramped ball of thistles, red and rotten, almost bloody (always tough to describe energies).

It appalled me, I felt as if I had to wash that off me, it was disgusting.

Encountering a person that turned out to have - and quite suddenly, too - such an ugly, empty, twisted mind and soul, was hard to bear, especially for highly sensitive little me.


I once read in a novel, can't remember which, that the really creepy thing about madness is not those people running around screaming, but those who seem normal, until suddenly, the madness shines through while they are still talking calmly.

Well, no calm talking here, but the effect was quite similar, the shock to realise: Oh - they really ARE like that.


Did you ever have a similar experience? Or, do you know what I mean, to begin with?



Edit: I remembered wo said that about the madness - it was in a novel by Agatha Christie. Not that anybody seems to care, but still.

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I (finally) started learning Gaelic this year.
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