ooc; Hello friends! BIG UPDATE here. (Blacklist the #tfis move tag if you don’t want to see this big post on your dash.)
As some of you witnessed, my blog was terminated last night. (Apologies for not putting this under a readmore but you all need to see it if you intend to ever interact with me.)
The reason why was because I offended an artist, though even that was not my intention. I was using their art in my icons before my hiatus. I went to them yesterday asking permission to use the art, not knowing I already was.
They got very, very upset at me for seeing that I already had. Told me I didn’t have permission, posted screencaps about me being an art thief, etc. They must have reported me as well because before I could even apologize, my blog had been deactivated.
I went to bed feeling horrible-- that I lost everything because of this. This blog has been around for a lot of years and has many memories I could never replace. Thankfully, as you can see. It was restored.
And thanks to my absolutely wonderful, tender-hearted boyfriend @antakilla​ , he helped talk to this artist, whose name I won’t mention.Â
He explained the detail, even with the Korean/English language gap, of what happened... my mistake, but overall good intent. They seemed to have understood him and they took down their posts of me, and apologized for reacting like they did.Â
With this situation having affected me like it did, I’ve chosen two very large updates for Future, here.Â
One, I’m going to archive thefutureissilver.
This blog means too much to me and I don’t ever, ever want to lose it. This gave me a glimpse at what would have happened if I did. Again I have been in this community for many years, there are memories in all of those 4,747 posts. I want to keep them safe.
Two, I’m purging all of my icons.
I will still use them, but I will stick to SPECIFICALLY icons from the Archie/IDW comics, my own game screencaps, art that I DID have permission to use, and my own art.Â
I will be moving back to my reboot blog for Silver, @argentnaivety​
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I think all of you should consider as well what happened to me. This is a sin nearly all of us are guilty of. I’m not asking you to purge your own art icons or anything, but please consider...keep in mind what happened to me. I don’t want it happening to anyone else.
