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BHS Blogress Report: 2017, Week 46
Week 46 - Go Help ErinPtah (https://www.deviantart.com/erinptah), I Got Nothin'
Tasakeru Book III: Soulsnatcher, Chapter 6: COMPLETE!
Tasakeru Patreon: 3 Patrons
Book II Appendix: 2 pages doneShattered Skies, Chapter 31: 4.5 pages doneShattered Skies: Viluy's Database Chapter 2: 6 pages done
Silent InvenTOYry Semi-Shorts Episode 02: Now in progress
No, really, I have nothing interesting to write about for this week's Report, so I'll use this space to plug ErinPtah, who does a ton of creative-type stuff, including the two really awesome pieces of Shattered Skies fan art pictured below. Erin needs $600 to pay off a new hard drive, so having suffered through my own HD death
G/t Community Survey!
Hey, everybody!
I hear a lot of assumptions about what the “majority” is in the community (such as “everyone’s into F/m” or “it’s mostly destructive G/t”) and that really got me to wondering what the facts on the statistics were so…
*drum roll*
I MADE A SURVEY!It’s free online here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/XFWTWK3 .
Please give the survey a try and signal boost this so we can get an accurate picture of the community!
UPDATE:
You can view the survey results here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/results/SM-NTCNGP8W/
That link will stay up-to-date with all the new resp
Oct 26
Deviant for 16 years
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LGBTQIA Pride Stamp Collection
6/4: ...this image is five horizontal bars of solid color, and some bright soul suggested it should be flagged as mature content.
No! No, it does not! The fact that gay people exist is suitable for general audiences, including children! Go away, anonymous would-be flagger. Sit alone for a while and think about your life choices.
6/1: Happy Pride Month! I moved a bunch of NSFW Leif & Thorn art into storage -- but if you had it favorited, don't worry, you can still find it on the website.
3/30: All Gumroad purchases on April 4 will be fee-free! That means all proceeds go to the creator if you order a copy of Leif & Thorn volume 1...o
Calling all Sailor Fanartists
Voting is on for the Sailor Senshi Next Generation contest! Click on through and vote for your 2 favorites =)
If you draw Sailor Moon fanart, or know someone who does, we could use your help!
I'm currently the main graphics-maker at Sailor Headcanons on Tumblr. We post user-submitted headcanons about everything to do with the Sailor Moon universe -- silly or serious, major or minor, past or present or future.
They get posted on nice little graphics, like so:
Most of the backgrounds are official SM art -- screenshots, manga scans, merchandise, what have you.
And I try to avoid recycling art for multiple headcanons.
You can see how, even
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Hey there! I just wanted to say hello real quick. We've been internet friends for over fifteen years! I'm so proud of the work you've done and how you utilized your budding writing skills from Sailor Neopets into so many wonderful LGBT works. I love to see Kara Lynn pop up in your works, and how she reminds me of some of my best times as a teenager. Happy Pride and good for you!
Thank you for being an lgbt+ ally, it's always nice to see support from kind hearted people ^^
Hey, I've been a fan of your work for some time, and I really want you to receive full credit for all of the things you publish, but dA isn't as safe as we thought it was. I described it more throughly in my journal: 
I'm really sorry to bring such bad news so close to the holidays
I won't post art on dA and you shouldn't either.Alternatively titled "[Baldi voice] GET OUT WHILE YOU STILLL CANNNN!!!!"
If you're like me, trying to read Terms & Conditions is like trying to read a foreign language. Sadly, some companies use that as a way to sneak things past the radar. The following is from a Tumblr post explaining the situation:
6. Payment Unless otherwise agreed between Artist and deviantART in a writing from deviantART, the license granted to deviantART under this Agreement is royalty-free.[...]
3. License To Use Artist Materials. As and when Artist Materials are uploaded to the DeviantArt Site(s), Artist grants to DeviantArt a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license to do the following things during the Term:
a) to prepare and encode Artist Materials or any part of them for digital or analog transmission, manipulation and exhibition in any format and by any means now known or not yet known
I'm really sorry to bring such bad news so close to the holidays
Well, I have good news to bring in return: this is actually a misunderstanding of the TOS!
It goes around every year or so. I've known about it (and why it's wrong) for a while.
That section only gives DA the rights to use and modify your work on DA (for example, to produce thumbnails and show them in search results), and in promotional materials (for example, to make a "join DA to follow the artists who created these great pictures" post, or maybe to print a brochure).
It does not allow them to sell the license to your art to other companies (like Hot Topic). It definitely doesn't let them use your art to advertise any random non-DA thing (like the KKK).
The confusion seems to have started in 2014, when somebody took a piece of fanart from DA and got it sold on a shirt at Hot Topic. But that wasn't a legal thing that DA licensed. It was art theft -- and people who steal art from DA are just as willing to steal it from Twitter, Instagram, or any other place I could post.
I'm glad you like my art, and that you're concerned about artists being treated right! But this situation is actually fine, and DA is as safe as it can be, I promise.
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