New account for ~AquillaLight
I do not have a paid account by choice. The community dA serves is worth it, but the service I've received, where my money would go, has shaken my interest.
I am in the process of moving all my old submissions and favorites from the old account to this account. Please do not mind fave/submission notices as I clean up the old account!
My real journal is hosted on LJ: [link] (Must be friended to view)
My dA journal is purely meant for artistic happenings.
I'm a slow as molasses artist, so please watch my scraps too!


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There was system maintenance the other night, and I couldn't access my dA account. I was so afraid I got hacked into, again..... But it just seemed dA was just buggy.
Cept now, I can get into my account, but when I browse other people's pages, it won't load. I see the shadows for the thumbnails, but not their art, or the page loads as a grey screen.

Odd! O.o


Edit I still am having this problem in FireFox. Any ideas? I cleared the cache/cookies, and removed all add-ons installed. Nothing works.
Clean reinstall of FF?

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Contacting me?

- I have adopted a 1-chance-rule with strangers. Harass me on or off line and you'll go straight to the blacklist. Along that line, do not harass me for my uploads unless I'm CLEARLY breaking the rules.

- I report art theft, and alert the original artists. What is stolen art? Click here. [link]

- Please do not send me mass note spam. If you're not already banned by the time I see the note, you WILL be reported! I don't want free ringtones, print sites, or a larger erection.

- Please do not send me "friendship week! Send this to 10 people!" style spam on my user page. It will be hidden, ignored, and your name blocked and reported to the dAstaff, as per rules of spam on this site.

New account for ~AquillaLight
I do not have a paid account by choice. The community dA serves is worth it, but the service I've received, where my money would go, has shaken my interest.
My real journal is hosted on LJ: [link] (Must be friended to view)
My dA journal is purely meant for artistic happenings.
I'm a slow as molasses artist, so please watch my scraps too!


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Found in a Art theft community, here, [link]

Mind Your Business: You Will Lose All The Rights to Your Own Art

I really don't understand the issue well, and I'm not a big name artist that is likely to have my livelihood jeopardized. Still, NO one wants their art stolen, and a lot of people are going nuts over this. To turn the internet into a royalty-free image database, and the possibility of your art being "claimed" by another at which point makes you as the creator fraudulent..... I really want to understand what I'm reading better. Before I plaster everything I own with watermarks so thick the drawing itself is lost.


Things like this scare me. I've had my art stolen from me before, too. Back in grade school when screaming and trying to punch the thief's lights out where completely justified..... even if not the best response. But RL or net, it still hurts.

Keep in mind, I was young, maybe 7 or 8 at the most...
It was some panda bear I worked hard on, lovingly bringing a panda to life on construction paper with thick Crayola markers. I couldn't find it after spending 2 nights drawing it and almost losing it in a rain puddle, and even carried it under my arm to school because it was too special to put in my backpack, but after lunch my art was gone!! I left it on my desk and when I came back, it wasn't there!
I tried to explain to my teacher it was right there and done before lunch, but I tore my desk apart trying to locate it not half an hour later.... (Giant pandas are all of what 2 colors? None is black and white are not "colors"?) I was to fail the project simply because I could not produce the bear I lovingly made for a grade. It walked off on me! I was in tears and all but bawling at the top of my lungs over it.

When I saw it again, badly markered in to be a brown bear and Brian's (the theft, holding it crinkled tightly in his dirty mitts) speech of "Yuh, i worked REALLY hurd on it.... but i changed my mind, cuz pandas stink...." I had to be restrained not to punch his lights out.

The ONLY proof I had was my name on the BACK of the sheet I drew the bear on. Proof that in fact I drew it, since after he was first seen with it till I saw it, there was no way for me to sign it. So then it got messy of failing the theft and trying to grade my butchered art between the natural color of the paper (yellow or orange construction paper), my own drawing/coloring style, the paper stressed and torn by me trying to rip my art BACK out of his hands, and a quick hasty brown cover-up trying to make it a brown bear in 5 minutes, but basically making mush.

PROVE that's my art?? Sheesh! And I did the project, he didn't or didn't think it would earn a good grade. And I was going to be penalized for doing my own homework!?

Will some dA watermark (or any) defray the worst? No. But it may be better than using nothing at all.

The really sad thing is if you can edit out a name, or crop the image to simply cut out the corner with the watermark, you can draw with those same stealing skills.

Thoughts on this?


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Contacting me?

- I have adopted a 1-chance-rule with strangers. Harass me on or off line and you'll go straight to the blacklist. Along that line, do not harass me for my uploads unless I'm CLEARLY breaking the rules.

- I report art theft, and alert the original artists. What is stolen art? Click here. [link]

- Please do not send me mass note spam. If you're not already banned by the time I see the note, you WILL be reported! I don't want free ringtones, print sites, or a larger erection.

- Please do not send me "friendship week! Send this to 10 people!" style spam on my user page. It will be hidden, ignored, and your name blocked and reported to the dAstaff, as per rules of spam on this site.

New account for ~AquillaLight
I do not have a paid account by choice. The community dA serves is worth it, but the service I've received, where my money would go, has shaken my interest.
My real journal is hosted on LJ: [link] (Must be friended to view)
My dA journal is purely meant for artistic happenings.
I'm a slow as molasses artist, so please watch my scraps too!


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Free users: Do you see that box on your favorites now?
"No more ads: deviantART Subscription"

How the )@$#(_#+_()@ can I get rid of it without being a paid user? I WILL not give money to this site until the staff reearn my trust after I was forced to take a number from that serial fur-hating hacking while the hacker wasn't even banned!
Frankly, I'm tempted to leave, cept Yerf is down and I don't know anyone on Sheezy/Elfwood/VCL.......



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Contacting me?

- I have adopted a 1-chance-rule with strangers. Harass me on or off line and you'll go straight to the blacklist. Along that line, do not harass me for my uploads unless I'm CLEARLY breaking the rules.

- I report art theft, and alert the original artists. What is stolen art? Click here. [link]

- Please do not send me mass note spam. If you're not already banned by the time I see the note, you WILL be reported! I don't want free ringtones, print sites, or a larger erection.

- Please do not send me "friendship week! Send this to 10 people!" style spam on my user page. It will be hidden, ignored, and your name blocked and reported to the dAstaff, as per rules of spam on this site.

New account for ~AquillaLight
I do not have a paid account by choice. The community dA serves is worth it, but the service I've received, where my money would go, has shaken my interest.
My real journal is hosted on LJ: [link] (Must be friended to view)
My dA journal is purely meant for artistic happenings.
I'm a slow as molasses artist, so please watch my scraps too!


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Huh. There seems to be a database error. I posted some of my old works, but they are not showing. I wonder what's going on.
Oh well, I'll leave this for another night. I've been on some heavy painkillers, making me a bit loopy as of late. But I KNOW I just posted a few..... I'll try checking again later.

Edit They're ok. I thought all my old art vanished off of Aquillalight, and what I did post just took a while to show. ;
I'm slowly moving things onto this account still, but for now, I've set all my works on Aquilla to the storage section. I didn't know we could store art, out of the public view!

I apologize for the mass-fave/mass-delete/mass-submits for right now.

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Contacting me?

- I have adopted a 1-chance-rule with strangers. Harass me on or off line and you'll go straight to the blacklist. Along that line, do not harass me for my uploads unless I'm CLEARLY breaking the rules.

- I report art theft, and alert the original artists. What is stolen art? Click here. [link]

- Please do not send me mass note spam. If you're not already banned by the time I see the note, you WILL be reported! I don't want free ringtones, print sites, or a larger erection.

- Please do not send me "friendship week! Send this to 10 people!" style spam on my user page. It will be hidden, ignored, and your name blocked and reported to the dAstaff, as per rules of spam on this site.

New account for ~AquillaLight
I do not have a paid account by choice. The community dA serves is worth it, but the service I've received, where my money would go, has shaken my interest.
My real journal is hosted on LJ: [link] My dA journal is purely meant for artistic happenings.
I'm a slow as molasses artist, so please watch my scraps too!


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Awright. I had removed all of ~JosephCollins character art, as a kindness he doesn't deserve by following his request to take down any of his character art. Even if he went to dAStaff as he had threatened to, I MADE THAT ART AND POSTED IT WITH PERMISSION. It's his characters, but my own work. dAStaff doesn't need this kind of drama, nor would they honestly listen.

He's violated that "do not post and post alike" request, which I did no questions asked.

Either we both need to respect the request HE made, or NEITHER of us should. It's perfectly alright for him to post art he made of my character (now he KNOWS he has no permission from me to post my character art), but ooooooh no, bitchwhinemoansobreport that I posted art I made of his?

I'd bother him, but frankly, I have enough stress in my life without whacking a wasp nest.


Sorry Joe-Schmo.
Talk to me when you remove this: [link]

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Contacting me?

- I have adopted a 1-chance-rule with strangers. Harass me on or off line and you'll go straight to the blacklist. Along that line, do not harass me for my uploads unless I'm CLEARLY breaking the rules.

- I report art theft, and alert the original artists.

- Please do not send me mass note spam. If you're not already banned by the time I see the note, you WILL be reported! I don't want free ringtones, print sites, or a larger erection.

- Please do not send me "friendship week! Send this to 10 people!" style spam on my user page. It will be hidden, ignored, and your name blocked and reported to the dAstaff, as per rules of spam on this site.