Bemuse the Amused

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These are some comments from my BRAVEST WARRIOR sketches on DA.

I don’t think it matters WHAT fandom you’re in….at this point, we’ve all had to deal with one(or 2 or 100) of these kinda HS fans.
And before you tell me they might not be referring to HS….their screen name clearly said they…

Alright, I wanna start by saying I’m really really REALLY sorry someone’s giving you grief. Like, part of me kinda of just wants to hold you and squeeze you so tight against me until nothing can bother you ever again because I’ve been sort of popping in and out of your blog for a bit, ever since you started drawing homestuck and I’ve just sort of stuck around because your style is SUPER cute and you’ve developed it so much and just wow- you’re like an amazing, super adorable person who’s just great despite everything. 

Another part of me is just sort of watching with this horror stricken expression of someone who’s watching a passenger train derail and roll off the side of a cliff down into a valley and eventually side into a river or something, because I just can’t look away from this literal train wreck. It’s really just gone from bad to worst to turning a blind eye to being in your face and I just. Have to take a deep breath and hold it and let it out and just, whoosh. And try to ignore it as the river turns into a river of lava or something because it seems like it can only get worst. 

But there’s a whole other part of me that actually wants to get upset, that irrational part of me that’s obviously really deep in the fandom, for you to just generalize all of us due to a couple of us. Yes yes, I’m well aware that saying a couple of the homestuck fandom is bothering you is a complete lie. There are a lot of us bothering you, just because you were such a niche market with your style and your kinks and wow adorable artwork but this isn’t about that. 

And I’m still really really sorry that anyone is bothering you. Really I am, but there are just so damn many of us! We’re kind of like that piece of gum that just stays there after your bubble has popped and you keep licking at it to try and get it to go away and then you start gnawing at your lip and it’s just still there. 

But that isn’t about that either! I mean, yes, I’m going to personally apologize for a famdom that has hundreds, if not thousands, of people in it. Yes, I’m going to apologize in place of those people who are bothering you, but I also want to see if I can help in some way by giving a few ideas that might help you rid us of your system. I mean, of course some people will still stay behind, but it couldn’t hurt to try, even if it is a little bit labor intensive. I feel as though it would take less energy doing these things than to actually fret over it all the time. 

Oh, and these are just suggestions, so I guess you can just stop reading if you want, if you’re even still there. 

1.) It might help if you take all of your HS art off of your blog, even if it’s just to move it to a secondary blog. Maybe you’ve already done this? I can’t say I’ve been looking at your HS art much, not with all these cute monster boys running around. The zebra was adorable and awesome and those markings were so cool.

2.) You should probably take it all off of dA too, because they’re still going to float around the HS tags and the kink tags, meaning that people can still find them, and not everyone will read all of your posts from then to now that would tell them that you aren’t doing anything to do with HS.

3.) Try to, and I’m really sorry to ask, but cut us some slack? I mean, like I said, there are a lot of us. A lot a lot. Not everyone will get a message and a lot of people will get it late, or too late for them to notice that they upset you and then situation escalates into something distressing. 

4.) Keep doing what you’re doing art wise because one, you’re off the HS tag, and two, well, art is great, your art is great, you’re great. 

Sorry I can’t be more helpful, but I’ve never really had this sort of problem? I don’t really know what it’s like to be stressed by some faceless, nameless thing. I mean, unless you count midterms, finals and leaving my house. 

And again, I’m really really sorry that people are giving you problems and this is seriously four parts good intentions and one part just having to say something after watching this happen for so so so long. 

I just. I really want to coddle you and try to make everything better and I know I can’t because I’m sort of part of the group that’s part of the problem? Yeah. Kind of have my hands tied over here.

Sorry for the wall of text.

Ah~ this is a very nice message to receive and I’m sorry I’m not gonna be able to take some of the advice you offer.
Quick question regarding paragraph 2, am I the derailed train or is the fandom? Cause really it totally works both ways and I am drowning in the lava and the next stop is probably hell and whatever’s below that.

Regards to paragraph 3, I understand why you’re upset, it’s not fun to see others hate on something you love. And I know that there is a WONDERFUL side of the fandom and I made (and kept) quite a few friends from that………..But the side I experienced the most was the dramatically bad side of the fandom….where my screen name alone was like taboo or something and people I’d follow on here would feel shame from that and weren’t afraid to voice it while I watched. I wasn’t considered a person in some parts and I’m still not. I never felt as low as I did while participating in the HS fandom.
I kept drawing and reading it cause I legit loved the series though and it inspired me to do more art….and I still like a lot of the art I did for it as well~! But when I stopped I just got…so many people pressuring me to go back…every single day for months and months. It got to the point that I just started to hate the series and couldn’t read it or enjoy it anymore (that and the plot just started to….not appeal to me.). So I guess I just started regarding the fandom as nothing but a nuisance cause of my own experience with it and that’s not right and I know there’s tons of good people part of it.
Things have been getting progressively better though, I don’t get the comments about it every day anymore and people are starting to pay more attention to the things I’m focused on now. I haven’t received hardly ANY hate mail since I stopped drawing for HS either….mostly cause nobody really cares exclusively for X-men stuff so I just seem to get written off…which is so great.
But yeah, I don’t feel the need to make the reminder texts as much anymore (but sometimes when I gain like 30 followers from a piece going around I feel I gotta say something before I blast them in a the face with something weird that they weren’t expecting.) Though I really need to be nicer about the things I say, I’ll focus on that more from now on.

In regards to removing my art, I have really thought about it several times….but I’ve had….quite a bit of trouble with art thieves in the past and I find it helpful to keep my original posts with their dates and stuff all in tact so in case I ever need to prove I’m the artist of something.
Also removing things from tumblr doesn’t do a thing if a thing has already been reblogged….and I’d hate to just….delete the whole first two years of my tumblr.
I do intend to turn off all the comments on my HS things on DA though and hopefully that’ll get some things to stop.
I didn’t mean to mock the fandom so much with this post….I guess I shoulda related to ANY fandom…cause there’s usually a joke that’s overused for any of them and there’s always that super moron who wants to relate their fandom to EVERYTHING. And I’ve gotten it so much with homestuck that I’ve gotten to the point that I just snap sometimes…..This post was mostly made to just show a moron at work.

I am so so SO Sorry if a lot of this doesn’t make sense and that I couldn’t cover every point you made in this post….but it’s almost 6 am here and I’ve taken several pills to help me sleep and I shouldn’t even be up at this point.

Also sorry to the people on tumblr who hafta scroll through this.

On your question about the train analogy(metaphor?). I’m pretty sure we’re all the train and it’s passengers. Though I’m not sure if hell is next, I mean, what’s worst to drown in than lava? I’m not sure how to continue this, because I guess we could just become, like, really cool igneous rocks. 

I’m glad things are getting better, but I kinda wish they weren’t, and by that I mean I wish they never got bad in the first place.

And I can understand not wanting to get rid of your art online, because even I have art pieces that I wouldn’t be able to part with. Also, it’s the internet, and anything that goes on it, stays on it. 

I’d try to go on, but it’s six in the morning here too. Six-o-ten, actually. Meaning that I have leave in twenty minutes for the bus to campus.

Oh man, time to hopefully not bomb a midterm. 

Hope you have a good day, afternoon, evening, week so on and so forth!

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These are some comments from my BRAVEST WARRIOR sketches on DA.

I don’t think it matters WHAT fandom you’re in….at this point, we’ve all had to deal with one(or 2 or 100) of these kinda HS fans.
And before you tell me they might not be referring to HS….their screen name clearly said they…

Alright, I wanna start by saying I’m really really REALLY sorry someone’s giving you grief. Like, part of me kinda of just wants to hold you and squeeze you so tight against me until nothing can bother you ever again because I’ve been sort of popping in and out of your blog for a bit, ever since you started drawing homestuck and I’ve just sort of stuck around because your style is SUPER cute and you’ve developed it so much and just wow- you’re like an amazing, super adorable person who’s just great despite everything. 

Another part of me is just sort of watching with this horror stricken expression of someone who’s watching a passenger train derail and roll off the side of a cliff down into a valley and eventually side into a river or something, because I just can’t look away from this literal train wreck. It’s really just gone from bad to worst to turning a blind eye to being in your face and I just. Have to take a deep breath and hold it and let it out and just, whoosh. And try to ignore it as the river turns into a river of lava or something because it seems like it can only get worst. 

But there’s a whole other part of me that actually wants to get upset, that irrational part of me that’s obviously really deep in the fandom, for you to just generalize all of us due to a couple of us. Yes yes, I’m well aware that saying a couple of the homestuck fandom is bothering you is a complete lie. There are a lot of us bothering you, just because you were such a niche market with your style and your kinks and wow adorable artwork but this isn’t about that. 

And I’m still really really sorry that anyone is bothering you. Really I am, but there are just so damn many of us! We’re kind of like that piece of gum that just stays there after your bubble has popped and you keep licking at it to try and get it to go away and then you start gnawing at your lip and it’s just still there. 

But that isn’t about that either! I mean, yes, I’m going to personally apologize for a famdom that has hundreds, if not thousands, of people in it. Yes, I’m going to apologize in place of those people who are bothering you, but I also want to see if I can help in some way by giving a few ideas that might help you rid us of your system. I mean, of course some people will still stay behind, but it couldn’t hurt to try, even if it is a little bit labor intensive. I feel as though it would take less energy doing these things than to actually fret over it all the time. 

Oh, and these are just suggestions, so I guess you can just stop reading if you want, if you’re even still there. 

1.) It might help if you take all of your HS art off of your blog, even if it’s just to move it to a secondary blog. Maybe you’ve already done this? I can’t say I’ve been looking at your HS art much, not with all these cute monster boys running around. The zebra was adorable and awesome and those markings were so cool.

2.) You should probably take it all off of dA too, because they’re still going to float around the HS tags and the kink tags, meaning that people can still find them, and not everyone will read all of your posts from then to now that would tell them that you aren’t doing anything to do with HS.

3.) Try to, and I’m really sorry to ask, but cut us some slack? I mean, like I said, there are a lot of us. A lot a lot. Not everyone will get a message and a lot of people will get it late, or too late for them to notice that they upset you and then situation escalates into something distressing. 

4.) Keep doing what you’re doing art wise because one, you’re off the HS tag, and two, well, art is great, your art is great, you’re great. 

Sorry I can’t be more helpful, but I’ve never really had this sort of problem? I don’t really know what it’s like to be stressed by some faceless, nameless thing. I mean, unless you count midterms, finals and leaving my house. 

And again, I’m really really sorry that people are giving you problems and this is seriously four parts good intentions and one part just having to say something after watching this happen for so so so long. 

I just. I really want to coddle you and try to make everything better and I know I can’t because I’m sort of part of the group that’s part of the problem? Yeah. Kind of have my hands tied over here.

Sorry for the wall of text.