Identity & Art Theft Alert

mazokhist:

krovav:

krovav:

Please read. This is especially important for artist, kin, roleplay/writing, and LGBTQ communities.

A few months ago I received a message from someone looking for “guidance” in the elven kin community, which I told them I could not provide. They continued to message me asking more about myself and my sona character, and after some time I noticed they were beginning to adapt traits of mine every time they learned more about me. Eventually I realized they were copying my selfie poses/angles, my clothing, my captions, my tags, my editing, taking after my interests, and even changing their “kin selves” to look, act, and have occupations like myself/sona. I finally addressed their behavior when they plagiarized directly from a roleplay and comic between my partner and I, which they admitted to stealing. They denied everything else, so I decided to block them and remove myself from the situation. About a week ago I realized that despite having blocked their accounts, they were still stalking me. After months.

Today, I was shown a drawing they recently did of what they claim to be them and their friend’s characters. The drawing is traced from my original piece of mine and my partner’s sona’s, shown below.

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This person has also been plagiarizing my partner’s photography, taking not only his Instagram username (my partner’s username has been “woodelven” since last year and this person has just changed their username to “shadowelven”) but also his concepts and titles to pieces that have been in galleries. Here is my partner’s photograph of a book I gifted him. They went out and bought the same book and took a photo of the same exact page he photographed. That, along with the stolen title, is not a coincidence.

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They also made another private account, the username being “dysphoricelvengod”. The fact that they’re stealing art of my sona, which is supposed to be me as a cisgender male, and using it to represent themselves and being transgender, I’m absolutely disgusted. This is harassment. They are purposefully triggering my dysphoria using my own content that helps me alleviate my dysphoria.

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I don’t want to clutter this post with every single detail they’ve stolen from my partner and I, but I will leave a link here for those who want to see further proof. Because it really is down to every little detail and it is important to us, especially since I explained to them right off the bat that our sona characters help my partner and I alleviate our dysphoria.

To view all of my content for reference, my Instagram is @deadthrall​ & my partner’s Instagram is @vincerenoel​ or on his moved account @woodelven.

Here is a list of all of their accounts to block/avoid:

Their Main Instagram Accounts
seb.erus
nekromancy
dysphoricelvengod
shadowelven
seblucianus
acidqvill

Their Main Tumblr Accounts
https://nekroelven.tumblr.com
https://victorianhollows.tumblr.com
https://maliciouslittlebrat.tumblr.com

TLDR: Please share this. This person has no respect for artists and wears other people’s individuality like they’re costumes, and will even try to trigger other people’s dysphoria. They won’t listen to reason, and addressing this with them before has only made the issue worse, as has ignoring them. The best thing to do is to warn others. If you do see them continuing to steal my content, please let me know so I can file copyright claims.

Reblogging to boost and to warn everyone that they are now going by:

https://nekr0elven.tumblr.com
https://victorianregalia.tumblr.com

On Instagram they have reactivated and/or changed to:

https://www.instagram.com/nekr0mancy/
https://www.instagram.com/shadowelven/

There has still been no indication that this behavior will stop.

I also wanted to say thank you to everyone boosting this and offering their support. It means a lot and helps a lot.

Update: They’re currently hiding @eldrxtch on Instagram & still refuse to apologize or stop this nonsense. Thank you to everyone finding their accounts and letting us know about them!

withywindlesdaughter:

imagesofperfection:

gtfomulder:

nichtschwert:

irishfino:

ithelpstodream:

“it’s just a parking lot”

exactly. there’s nothing there. not a statue. not a plaque. nothing.

[drives over hitler’s death site]

Bloody amazing.

And you know what’s right next to it?

That’s right, the Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden, which translates to the Memorial for the murdered jews.

So if you wanna go have a look at the monument commemorating the victims of Hitler’s regime, you can park your car right on the spot he died and walk there.

Makes ya think, doesn’t it?

Germany: *has a literal parking lot over Hitler’s death site and has the memorial for the murdered Jews right next to it*

America: *has statues and museums dedicated to people who believed slavery was so amazing and good they decided to make their own country and murder anyone who disagreed*

Women, the streets near the car park are named after:

Gertrud Kolmar – German Jewish poet murdered in Auschwitz

Hannah Arendt – famous German Jewish philosopher and author, her works on totalitarianism, authority and the nature of power, who fled Nazi Germany in 1933

Cora Berliner – German Jewish economist and social scientist murdered in
Trostinets extermination camp

reblog this forever 

Why artists and writers reblog their work multiple times:

hakimo2015:

thresholdofzero:

wyomingsmustache:

directium:

  • They posted it late at night and want people to see it in the daytime
  • They want others to reblog it
  • They want more attention for it
  • THEY WANT OTHERS TO REBLOG IT
  • They have followers in different timezones and want everyone to get a chance to see it
  • THEY WANT OTHERS TO REBLOG IT
  • IF THEY REBLOG IT MULTIPLE TIMES, THEY’RE DOING IT BECAUSE THEY WANT ATTENTION FOR IT AND THEY’RE LIKELY NOT GETTING ENOUGH, SO THEY KEEP REBLOGGING IT IN THE HOPES THEY’LL GET SOME
  • BE A COOL BRO AND REBLOG
  • THEY’LL LOVE YOU FOREVER

“Bro why you keep reblogging your own work bro”
“BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE IS”

The same reason movies play in theaters for longer than one night.

The same reason art exhibits last for days.

The same reason music isn’t listened to only once.

Reblogging for the last comment! 👍👍👍

💐 Nara the Pegasus ($20) 🎨

creature-cauldron:

Name: Nara
Pronunciation: Nah-Ruh
Name Meaning: Happy
Species: Pegasus
Gender: Female
Pronouns: She/Her
Zodiac: Pisces
Element/Energy: Air, Light, Creativity, Healing, Happy
Vessel: Opalite Bracelet

💐 Appearance 💐

Nala resembles an Andalusian horse who has a beautiful white coat that has almost watercolored markings on her in the colors of pastel blue, pastel yellow, and pale pink. Her wings are large and feathered, with pastel flecks mixed into them and her eyes are a warm solid white. She is 15 hands (5 feet) at the shoulder and her mane and tail are long and flow majestically when she flys. She is capable of speech mostly through divination and telepathy, but when you hear her voice it is very soothing and gentle.

🎨 Personality 🎨

Nala loves to lay in the sun and take naps, but don’t let that fool you as she is very playful and mischevious. She loves to move thongs around, stomp her feet on bubble wrap, and generally act silly. She enjoys making people laugh and being around her just makes you feel like everything in the world is a little brighter and less stressful, that is until she decides she wants to chew on your hair… She loves to be creative and will paint beautiful things by holding the brush in her mouth, or if she gets too bored with that she sometimes just slaps her tail in the paint and hits the canvas with it over and over, it is really funny to watch tbh.

💐 Magic 💐

Nara’s magic has a few different aspects to it. There is the elemental magic that focuses on air magic and light magic, then there is the painting magic and meditation aid, and lastly, there is the astral travel, healing, and energy working aspects. 

🎨 Manifestation 🎨

Typical Horse Noises (Neighs, Whinnies, Nickers, Snorts), Hooves on the floor, The sound of wings, White orbs, a heavy weight on your shoulder or head, a nudge on your back

💐 Divination Preferences 💐

Tarot, Oracle, Runes, Pendulum, Telepathy, Bibliomancy, Scrying, Dowsing Rods

🎨 Offerings 🎨

  • Food: Sugar, Carrots, Oatmeal, Peppermint, Crackers, Cotton Candy, Apples
  • Drinks: Water
  • Stones: Opalite, Rainbow Moonstone, Citrine, Yellow Calcite, Blue Lace Agate, Sodalite, Blue Kyanite, Rose Quartz, Goldstone, Labradorite
  • Colors: Pale Pink, Pastel Blues, Pastel Yellow, White, Mint Green
  • Incense: Jasmine, Chamomile, Nag Champa, Lavender, Apple, Vanilla, Mint
  • Activities: Painting, Naps, Meditation, Astral Travel Flying Sessions

💐 What Nara is Looking For 💐

Experience Level: Any

Family Size: 19 or Less

Nara is looking for a friend who may need some cheering up in their life or who really likes horses/pegasus. She wouldn’t mind helping them learn about various aspects of witchcraft, so she could play the mentor role too if wanted. 

💐 Submit an application HERE!
🎨 Listing Made By Cali / Feisty Celtic
💐 Image Source: Here
🎨 If you do not answer all of the questions your application will not be accepted💐 If the spirit chooses you or wishes to hold your application for consideration you should be contacted by one of use within 24-48 hours.
🎨 Not exactly what you’re looking for? Try a Reverse Adoption! ($25)
💐 Price does not include shipping! ($4 US $10 Canada)

defilerwyrm:

thegreenwolf:

xtori34:

Looking up Scottish mythological creatures and

Wulver: a werewolf in Shetland, that is said to have had the body of a man with a wolf’s head. It was reported to have left fish on the windowsills of poor families.

That is the nicest Werewolf legend I’ve ever heard of.

Now I wish I could draw because I’d love to draw this.

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i tried

wyntercraft:

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A master-list of POC witches, occult practitioners, diviners, and more! 

If you want to be added, just let me know. ♥ 

– The way these witches are referenced here (black, mixed, etc) is how they described themselves! If someone just has POC next to their blog, this means they did not specify.

Hey! I’m a bit confused about some terminology I guess? My magic work revolves around encouraging odds, attracting circumstances. Basically declaring intent, asserting intent, and asking for aid, so to speak. However, I always do so with the intent that if something isn’t meant to be, that if I’m wrong in some way, then my magic will ‘fail’. So, encouraging, rather than forcing odds. Have you heard anything else like this? Does this even make sense? Does it have a name?

Yes that is called Intent! That is what we all use, its using energy and your own wants and desires to try to push and pull circumstances and specific energies. Its the anchor and ‘base’ so to say of magick

hi nami!! i was wondering if there are certain ways that one should create a sigil? like does it matter what is used pen/pencil/crayon wise?

I personally do not think it matters what you use for your sigils. I use everything! The process for making sigils varies person to person. I personally make them similar to meditation, I close my eyes repeating the sentence or phrase in my head what I want as I practice drawing shapes. Once I’m done I look at my collective ones and the ones I connect with most is the one I use for the sigil.

We just had a woman accuse our front desk staff of all being racist because she was put into a small  queen room. One, ma’am that is the room type you booked. that is the 90 dollar room you booked, if you want a bigger room it costs more. Two, ma’am two of the desk workers right now are African American too. We are not discriminating

PSA to Witchblr and the Witchcraft Community

solarianwitch:

Stop 

Ripping off 

People’s spells and tips.

Someone uploaded my spell word for word with no credit given onto their instagram. I’m going to ask as many people to reblog this as they can, because honestly this is super annoying. Link to my original post here

So stop. Make your own original content, and don’t copy others unless you asked them first. 

– This means reposting and vague-copying things on tumblr 

– This also means ripping people off word for word from tumblr onto instagram or any other platform

– This means reposting sigils 

– This means reposting witchy pictures 

– This means anything you have not created yourself. 

They. do. not. belong. to. you. 

When I make spells I am putting all of my hard-earned energy and expertise into them. I am not being paid for this and its literally a labor of love. Things like this make me not want to post original content anymore.  

It hurts the community as a whole because we lose information people would otherwise be fine to share. You are hurting us and limiting the available resources that could help other witches. 

So please reblog this. Let people know that this sort of thing isn’t okay. 

– Solarian 

THIS! please stop! I’ve had several posts, spells and even screenshots of my stuff stolen, it is frustrating. Make your own material or at the very LEAST credit me and link back to my original post

did-you-kno:

There are 4 types of drunks. Researchers
who studied our drunk and sober selves
found that we fall into 1 of 4 categories
when drinking: the Hemingway, who has
the same personality whether sober or
drunk, the Mary Poppins, who goes from
sweet and happy to even more outgoing
and loving, the Nutty Professor, a quiet
introvert who becomes an uninhibited
attention-lover, or the Mr. Hyde, who
suddenly turns hostile and irresponsible. Source Source 2 Source 3

inhearthandhedge:

3foldwitch:

cannabiswitchcraft:

autumnbutterbean:

mothmaam:

So I lurk on reddit’s witchcraft subreddit frequently and today someone by the username “shymcf” posted this. (Link includes the thread)

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Some woman was throwing these glass jars into the ocean and frankly, I’m furious. You don’t throw non-biodegradables into the ocean! That’s straight up littering! Luckily the cops showed up which prompted her to stop her littering but she got away; OP fished them out of the water afterward.

And in case anyone was wondering what’s inside, the OP said there were raw eggs inside, some broken, and paprika.

Omfg! Listen up witches! THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE! I know most of you wouldn’t do anything this foolish, but for those who think you can throw whatever shit you want into any body of water, you need to think again!
There are plenty of ways to achieve the same results without littering.
I’m assuming this woman was cursing everyone she knows and trying to get rid of them, but you can do that many, many different ways.
Do some damn research.
AND DONT FUCKING LITTER!

Don’t be that witch. Keep your jars for your home spells and protection jars. I’ve seen plenty of broken jars on Galveston Beach down here due to this foolishness, don’t do it.

Instead take some old toilet paper tubes and use that. Or take those little biodegradable seed starter pots and use those.

Water frozen in jello shot molds or bowls work really well too. Just transport them in an ice chest and you’re good to go.

The Scratch Curse

amaradarkmoon:

     Inspired by current events in my life (:

     This is a curse to “scratch” your enemy when they are wishing ill upon you or sending you bad energy. 

Things you’ll need:

  • A chicken foot (or a sharp claw like object if your not comfortable using animal parts)
  • A photo or poppet to represent the target 
  • A pouch/something to put things in
  • Guinea Peppers 
  • Chili flakes
  • Black Pepper (optional)
  • A black candle
  • A red candle

Directions:

     This curse works best preformed when the moon is waning. If you work with deities or spirits, call on them now.

     The first thing you want to do is crush and mix your guinea peppers, black pepper, and chili flakes. While you’re crushing them, get angry. Someone wants the worst for you, wants you to fail and/or suffer- and that’s pretty shitty. Focus on that how your going to do something about it and crush your ingredients with that anger, sadness, disappointment etc. This is you retaliating. Pour your ingredients into your pouch. 

If your using a photo write the persons name on the back and any other information you have to identify them (DOB, Address,etc.). If your using a poppet do the same on a piece of paper or directly onto the poppet. 

Next take your chicken foot or claw like object and scratch the photo/poppet with it three times. Each time repeat this chant with all of your witchy power:

“I scratch you for wishing ill upon me. The ill you wish is now upon you.”

place the photo/poppet in the pouch along with the chicken foot/sharp object. Seal the pouch with black candle wax and then red on top.

It’s ideal to bury the pouch at a crossroads (or cemetery or the targets property) but since that’s not always a possibility- or legal- you can opt for burning it or simply throwing it away in a dumpster (NOT in your home). I actually use the latter for curses and binding spells and it works just fine. After you’ve released the curse in your preferred way, walk away and don’t look back. Also remember to take a different route when heading back home.

Good luck

Let People Make Bad Art

who-gives-a-ship:

When I say bad, I don’t mean something that is intentionally wrong on a moral level. I’m not talking about people who draw POC as racist caricatures or use art to spend messages of hate. I mean just plain poorly executed, amateurish, mediocre, bad art. It’s important that bad art exists. And callout culture is so toxic to just regular, run of the mill bad art that it honestly makes me worried about young artists who are growing up in this environment.

There’s all kinds of bad art, but perhaps the most embarrassing kind is something TV Tropes calls unfortunate implications. This is when you accidentally make something offensive. When you’re a young artist (or just starting out in art, but more commonly when you’re young) sometimes you don’t think things through all the way. Maybe you use a word you didn’t realize is a slur or you draw a character like a stereotype that you just plain haven’t heard of before. Maybe you haven’t learned to think critically about your own work well enough to recognize a resemblance to something unfortunate. Maybe you’re out of your depth on an issue and don’t realize you need to do more research. Whatever the situation, unfortunate implications can creep up on anyone. It’s just a part of learning how to make art. But in the current climate, it can also ruin your life if you get especially unlucky.

Callout culture works on a one-strike policy. Once someone is problematic, they are problematic forever. And that can ruin a young artist. Being labelled cringe-worthy or just plain shitty is bad enough, but being labelled racist or homophobic for an honest mistake is a whole different level. Those terms imply intent that doesn’t exist in this case, and it can make you fair game for all kinds of harassment. There has to be room for mistakes, room that callout culture doesn’t allow. The results can be awful. Young artists can be bullied out of creating content before they even get a chance to find their voice.

So I’m not saying give hate speech a free pass, I’m saying that mistakes happen and should be treated like mistakes, not like genuine shittiness. Accept apologies and understand that not everyone has your level of experience. Before you call something intentionally bigoted, ask if it’s an honest mistake. A lot of young artists just don’t realize they’ve done something wrong and screaming at them to quit making art isn’t going to help them learn. It’s just going to decrease the overall quantity of art in the world and make someone feel like they should never be creative again.

Don’t assume something is maliciously offensive until you’ve ruled out the possibility of a mistake.

What Kind of DM am I? Part 2

Me: you are in a stone hall way with two doors. One to the left and one to the right.

Warrior: I open the left door-

Me: make a reflex save *they fail* you are suddenly swallowed whole by a large Mimic

*Different Campaign*

Me: There is a stone well resting in thr center of the room.

Mage: I peer down it

Me: make a reflex save *they fail* you are suddenly devoured by a large Mimic

*Yet another campaign*

Me: you see a lute resting in a corner of thr dusty room

Bard: I GRAB IT!

Me: reflex *she fails* a Mimic latches onto your fave like a face hugger

*After many campaigns*

Me: its an empty room with a single chair in the middle of it

*group proceeds being extremely paranoid of this one chair, keeping their distance, poking at it and spending a good 40 minutes trying to see if its really a chair*

Chair: *was just a normal chair*

(Bonus Quote- Bard: ANYTHING CAN BE A MIMIC! WE’RE NEVER SAFE!)

What Kind of DM am I?

Me: you find a ring that glows with magical energy

Sorcerer: I use Knowledge Arcana to identify *rolls a nat 20*

Me: You see that its a ring that has been enchanted with the spell Invisibility

Several Minutes Later in Battle

Sorcerer: I put on the ring of invisibility

Me: You put on the ring it shimmers with magical energy for a brief moment before turning invisible on your finger as if you were not wearing a ring.

Sorcerer: GODS DAMNIT!