There is this rage. Deep, even deeper still inside of me. This rage has but only been recently awakned, the ignorance of a Stupid ******** hving been the alarm clock. This rage has been unknown to me, for I have never thought about experiencing it. Oh I have delt with it before, but in completley different forms. This time, this time it has gotten personal. Yes, I may overreact over the fact of accusion, but it's life. You get something never seen before, and everyone tends to overreact in some way about it. Over, under, inbetween, it doesn't make a difference. What matters, is the mixture of the two.
Ignorance.
Accusuion.
What is missing from this delicate mixture? Facts. The ******** facts that prove either pro or con on the matter. If the facts are missing, you have nothing but a stupid child fight that means nothing to either side. Ignorance tends to take over a side, proving the other side difficult to reason with it. And this. This, my friends, is what has made my inner pot of hatred and potential homicidal actions boil over the sides and scorch my safe neutral outside. It completley melts the ******** outer shell, blasting out at speeds unknown to the human minds as if it were on some type of steroid. A steriod with the potential to slow down the healing process. Why is that? Because life's a ********. Life's a damn prostitute that's been laid every single minute you think about it. And it's overpaid.
Today was a tragic day. Sit, get food, and let me explain to you, what exactly went wrong with my ever so wonderful afternoon.
DA. The very first Website I go to when I find a computer with internet. After trying to relieve stress from the previous hours, I had decided to let it out in an arguement. Yelling always seems to calm me down, even if the arguement had nothing to do with what was pissing me off.
I then come across a forum thread stating "Anime is not Art..." Being in my mood, I decided to yell here. Upone clicking the thread, I began to curse and yell, all in the sake of releiving stress. Of course, I had many points, proving my ramblings to be worth reading.
So after clicking the send button, I go off, browsing the rest of the site. I had not expected anyone to reply for some time, or not at all. But low and behold, someone HAD replied to my ramblings. I wondered why anyone would bother reading what I had written. So, I clicked the link, leading to their reply.
What I found both horrified and insulted me.
As I stared at the reply from this person, whom I've had no prior meeting with, my mind was trying to register everything. After a few more bleak seconds, my eyes wandered to the first sentance.
"Well if Miss Rips-Off-Jhonen-Vasquez says it, it must be true!"
What I said was that anything can be considered art. The, now being labled as Smart a**, opened the descussion with her/his comment stating that I rip off Jhonen Vasquez.
Now, this was where I began to get pissed off. I don't rip other's works off. I never have, I never will. I would not stoop so low as to try and rip off anyone else's style. If you know me in real life, you would know (or at least I hope) that I do not go around with JTHM books with me, copying the exact style. A few things about my style:
- It has SOME smilarities to a few exsisting styles. This including Jhonen Vasquez.
- So far, I've been told it's ORIGINAL and UNIQUE.
- It's under development. Though I'm pretty sure I'll keep it where it is.
This was the basic reply of what I gave her back. A few minutes pass, and she replies again with this,
"******** OK ******** ANYWAY
I must confess that I thought that rant was directed towards me, because I've been known to get people to similar rage-levels (I got one up to RL 98.5 last month!) with my own brand of 'retarded spamming.' So, my point still remains but I take back the hostility. I am nice, yes?
Also, you totally rip off Jhonen Vasquez. I'm just sayin' is all. I used to do it too."
The b***h now expects me to forgive her hostility, YET throws back the fact that I "rip off J.V." This woman has a ******** problem. I've CLEARLY given her examples of why I DON'T RIP. RIPPING is for ******** HOBOS WHO DON'T HAVE TALENT OR ARE TOO LAZY TO FIND IT. I found my talent. I know it needs work, but I'm not improving it by ripping off others. I don't even consider it, nor have I ever in the past.
"I used to do it too." THIS right here, does not make sense to me. She has done what she believes I do. Give me a ******** break. If she's done it before, then she wouldn't be so blind as she's making me believe she is. If she "knows" what ripping is, she wouldn't be accusing me. So I had no choice but to give it to her in the most simplest terms I could. A compare and contrast chart.
Similarites:
- The eyes
- The hands
- The nose
- Boots buckles (In case you want to get spacific)
Jhonen Vasquez (JTHM):
- Walnut sized feet
- Rectangular bodies. No curves whatsoever.
- Noodle-thin legs and arms
- 5 fingers
- Square heads
- Spaced teeth and jagged tongue
- Square ears
My Style (MARCO):
- Large feet (Influence: Bleedman)
- Curved bodies. Almost feminine like (I am disabled in drawing strait bodies with no curves. AKA its hard for me to draw "manly bodies" wink
- Average sized arms and legs. (Knee down is windened for large feet)
- Four fingers (I can never fit all five lol)
- Round heads (Previous style. Imroved by B. Martinez)
- Regular, anime-ish teeth and tongue (Previous Style)
- Roundish ears (Influence: Billy Matinez)
- Distinguishable lips for girls (Influence: Billy Martinez)
And I can go on. Basicly, my style has a few influences, B. Martinez being my art teacher on Saturdays. And now for the grand finaly: Definitions.
Influence: to be inspired by many different things. To take a characteristic of a cetain style and fit it into your own. Ex. Lenore was inspired by J.V.'s Squee
Rip: to render or steal and claim it as your own. Taking an original piece and warping to make it seem to be done by you. Ex. Taking a snapshot of an anime character, changing the colors, and claiming to be original.
You be the judge.
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