Thread:Brywarrior/@comment-1824169-20170512204557/@comment-4816710-20170513115723

So, what you said about me with rules I don't like is probably true. It'd be one thing if the rule had always been enforced, y'know? I could have just gone somewhere else and it wouldn't have been a big deal. The part that made me angry was that I had basically set up my entire "career" to be on here, and with the picture rules "changing" it felt like I would have to start from scratch. Kinda. I don't really know how else to explain it. I had put a lot of effort into the designs for my characters and whatnot, but ended up having to change them around to fit pictures that were "close enough", and then I wasn't even allowed to use those images anymore. The thing that I think topped it all off was that I found the guy who had made that Overflow fanart on deviantArt, and asked if I could use it and he turned me down. I think that's when I did the really, intentionally poor tracing of his image to use as my own, lol. It was just incredibly frustrating. I don't usually think of myself as selfish. In my IRL I tend to put myself last, so I would come on here and put myself first. I'm also ridiculously stubborn. Like, once I've decided to do something or not to do it, there's no changing my mind. And, again, I understand your original point (back in #PictureGate ) when you said that it's not fair to the artists of the art if we use it without their permission, even if we give credit. I don't 100% agree with it, but I understand where you, as an artrist, are coming from. The way I've always seen it is that if we give credit, then there's no mistaking who the artist originally was. At the time you had tried to compare it to someone using one of my stories, but I still think it's different. If someone takes your story idea and changes just a few things about it, while still giving you full credit for the original idea, it's considered Fanfiction. And I sure as hell wouldn't mind having a fan who liked my stuff enough to write fanfiction. You also, I believe, tried to use a farming metaphor or something that didn't quite translate in the same way. Regardless, it's over.

Aaron, I do appreciate what you tried to do, and the picture itself is very good, but it's just a guy who's made of water. Overflow is supposed to be a wave. No solid bodily structures other than his eyes, head, and neck. So you're gesture (that doesn't look right, but there's no spell check ha ha) was great, but it just didn't fit the way that the "original" picture did.

I'm probably not going to come back to the wiki because I've just kinda ruined it for myself on top of the whole thing I said earlier about it feeling like a restart for my characters, if not the whole series. Plus I've got college now. I just finished my freshman year and I'm trying to try in school for once. Which all sucks because this place was my home through high school. I hated every minute of high school, not because of bullies or peer pressure or girls, but because I didn't understand how homework was supposed to help me. I very rarely did homework, and when I did it was strictly for classes/teachers that I adored. Which falls in line with CaT's whole "I have an issue with rules I don't like" thing, lol. Anyway, I'm tired. Not jsut because I didn't really sleep last night, but I am just physically and emotionally exhausted. It's been a long year without my BTFF fam, and I am sad to say that- actually. I literally changed my mind mid sentence. I don't think I'll continue my series here, but I still want to talk with y'all. Some of y'all were my closest friends at different times in my life, and some of you were probably undeserving enemies, but I don't really want to lose touch with you guys. So, I'll probably see y'all around Chat.