One piece of bad news for me

One piece of bad news for me 

Hello, kittens! I didn't plan this post, and I didn't prepare a picture for it. Please forgive me for that. 

I won't beat around the bush and tell you what the news is: all files have been leaked from my Patreon, which you've been supporting for a year :) 

This is sensitive news for any artist, including me. However, those who do read my posts know how I feel about it. 

Although it is unpleasant and disrupts my plans, it is not fatal. I don't know what motivated the person who did this, but he obviously doesn't know that I was going to publish old work anyway. I mean, I don't hide them here on Patreon, and I don't sleep on them like a dragon on gold. 

Especially, as some of you already know, I've lost the ability to generate income from Patreon :) 

So, what does it hurt for me: In addition to Patreon, I also run Twitter. Getting my work online disrupts my content plan. That is, Twitter is no longer my exclusive blog. This is quite a painful blow for me, because everything had already been planned :) 

Now about my position on this. I draw in the adult genre because I am irritated by the sanctimony and hypocrisy of international society regarding sex. It would seem that the world has had a sexual revolution and has learned to talk (and joke!) about adult topics. 

But if you publish a work on one of the fandoms, you immediately receive comments along the lines of "what are you doing, she's 14, you're a fascist, burn in hell," and so on. 

In general, I'm not much affected by other people's mental illnesses, which makes me want to make such statements.  But such paladins, carrying the banner of tyranny and censorship, call the moderators and my publication is blocked. 

I'm tired of proving that my characters are over fourteen years old :) After all, friends, this is art. A character can't be any more than fourteen years old, it's genderless and has no age. He cannot be born and die because he is a fantasy. He has no consciousness. 

But this is the kind of atmosphere that makes me work even harder. Because for me it is a form of protest and struggle against prejudice. I can clearly see how the once free Internet is trying to block sex as a phenomenon. 

No way. You can do almost anything, but tabooing the most vital part of life, which is essentially life, I can't allow :) 

But also, I get very attached to the characters. I love MLB and some other fandom. So I draw from them. 

It may seem like I'm veering off topic, but I'm not. Everything I've written above explains why I don't mind my work appearing online. They work to my advantage. And they are probably stolen by people who like my art and support my position. 

And I don't mind extra publicity for myself as an artist at all. The more people who see my work, the better for me. That's why I treat the distribution of my work the same way I treat advertising. 

If I am read by people who have done what I have done, I ask only that I do not remove the links to Patreon and other social media that I leave on my works. 

Some artists upload archives to third party resources and then give out passwords to all Patreon. To be honest, I don't understand why they do it. If a person wants to download something, they get a password and access to the files. Yes, the artist can make him pay an extra price. But I don't want my patrons to pay extra money for defense tools that don't work :) 

So I leave it at that. I'm even willing to have a conversation with this person, and promise not to block him for this act. While I consider this act to be dishonest and disrespectful to me, I do not consider it a crime. 

Only my watermarks that I leave on the works will change. I will place them elsewhere on the page, not as I do now. I will do this so that a person interested in my art will have the opportunity to express "respect" through Patreon. 

 And one more thing. I now need to think particularly carefully about the publication schedule already on Patreon. I used to publish works as they were ready. Now I need to make a clear plan by day. 

Thank you very much, Mysterious Stranger, for this extra work for me. 

Well. In any case, in a short time, I managed to experience the fear of the pandemic, and to see its face very close up. Then I lost the opportunity to get paid for my work as an artist. Then my nation was declared a rogue nation. And now I am no longer fully human, but a kind of monster, who is a monster only because I had the good fortune to be born in a place other than a "non-monster.  

And I am clearly aware that at any moment I can be persecuted. Moreover, for my creativity and the country in which I live can also punish me severely. If they pay attention to my existence.

And I'm not complaining, because I know it could have been much worse! I'm just explaining why the news of the leaked drawings did manage to shake my spirits a bit. My nerves are getting the better of me, so I am writing this post. 

And once again, I want to say thank you to all the wonderful people who are reading this post. I love you. You prove to me that I am right about something and that my work makes sense after all. 

I thank you for everything. 

And I continue my work, right now. 

Finally, I want to quote the great Dora the Explorer: Swiper, don't Swipe! 

With love and gratitude for your support, Tiana Lynx