comings on.
coming soon

Mood: a little worried
Listening to: The American Analog Set: Born on the Cusp
Reading: Keith Miller: The Book Of Flying

Update!
I made a new username, thereswaterhere. So if someone named thereswaterhere is favoriting like a mad dog and not posting art, that is why, it's just me. I want to start doing all of the social stuff like favoriting and journals and commenting and stuff over the summer so I can still have that account when I get rid of this one to make my own site.

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[link]

I'm a little worried about being on this site. Above is a translation of the contract we have all been signed into by signing up for this site.

[link]

drahomira got six of his pieces stolen by a dirt-poor publishing company to use as covers. They are making money off of his work. How much stuff like this happens that we don't know about? How much of the work we create is safe? If I were old and/or dead it wouldn't matter so much to me, but I am a young thing just going into college, just breaking into the world and I still have my name to keep safe. All of us do.
What do we do?

Did you know you can't break the contract with DA unless you send them a letter via fax or mail asking permission? And they don't have to grant it to you? It's fishy, and it makes me a little bit scared.

I try so hard to do what I do. I am sure you do, too. And think: Someone can take that from us, the one personal thing we have made. It's a poison that I don't want to be drinking, no matter how safe the dilution seems.

So I am making plans for the future. I want to learn how to build my own website, with my real name at the top and small, safe thumbs of all of my work. I want the world to see what I've done and can do, but I would appreciate it if they could see it in books that I have published or galleries that I set up. By the end of this summer, before I go into college, I think I may write that letter asking for leave of the contract with DA, hopefully after I have set up my own website. I want to get out before something big and bad happens. Of course, this sacrifices the bonds that I have formed with you. And if there is one thing that I hold close to my heart, it is you. I don't want to leave you, I want to be sure we can talk as much as we still do. So my new site must have the comment option like [link] or the member option like [link]

hm

what a thing.
maybe I don't have reason to worry. But if I can take all of the good things about this place with me somewhere else that is safe...well, then I think I'd at least feel at ease.

with love,
Jennifer