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Someone at the Twilight premier had a Sparklypoo t-shirt. That is, a shirt with my crest (the old one, not the new, improved one as seen in my icon) and her text. I wish people wouldn't go around stealing original artwork and putting it on shirts. I would never do that.
It annoys me a little that people act like Sparklypoo is just this thing, sort of just sprang into existence by itself. No! I invented it! Not that I invented making fun of Mary Sues, but that unicorn crest drawing is mine, and the name "Sparklypoo" is mine. It's not that I want to be a bnf or anything. I don't know what I want. People not taking my drawing and putting it on a t-shirt would be nice. It would be different if it were just the words, or if she'd drawn her own Sparklypoo crest. I certainly don't mind that people use the word Sparklypoo all over the place, I think it's awesome that the idea spread like that. But nobody seems to know the source of it! I don't know, maybe I care more about that than other people. It's like with calling book 7 "Potterdammerung," that was really clever and I wanted to know who came up with it. I don't know why, it's not like I knew them, I just wanted to know.
People do fangirl me at the cons and that's cool - it's not even really that I want attention - but I don't like it when people go around with Sparklypoo stuff and they've never heard of gmonkey42 or of Pirate Monkeys Inc. like they just found this thing on the internet, it was just there. I'm sure there are copies of my comic floating around on other people's sites, with other people taking credit for them; I just don't let that get to me because there's nothing I can do about it. And I realize I don't have such a distinctive style, and I'm not all that prolific, so my work isn't instantly recognizable like at lot of people's. But still.
The real, underlying problem is that with people acting like Sparklypoo just happened, I feel like if I try to take credit for coming up with the name and drawing the comic, people will think I'm lying. If lots of people try to take credit for my ideas, then nobody can tell the difference when I try to take credit for them.
I don't even think the comic is drawn that well. I'm OK at drawing but I know I'm not great. It stings a little that there are more people who view the first page and leave than people who read the whole thing, but I don't have any illusions about how good I am. But it's damn funny, a lot of people liked it, and I want credit for that!
It annoys me a little that people act like Sparklypoo is just this thing, sort of just sprang into existence by itself. No! I invented it! Not that I invented making fun of Mary Sues, but that unicorn crest drawing is mine, and the name "Sparklypoo" is mine. It's not that I want to be a bnf or anything. I don't know what I want. People not taking my drawing and putting it on a t-shirt would be nice. It would be different if it were just the words, or if she'd drawn her own Sparklypoo crest. I certainly don't mind that people use the word Sparklypoo all over the place, I think it's awesome that the idea spread like that. But nobody seems to know the source of it! I don't know, maybe I care more about that than other people. It's like with calling book 7 "Potterdammerung," that was really clever and I wanted to know who came up with it. I don't know why, it's not like I knew them, I just wanted to know.
People do fangirl me at the cons and that's cool - it's not even really that I want attention - but I don't like it when people go around with Sparklypoo stuff and they've never heard of gmonkey42 or of Pirate Monkeys Inc. like they just found this thing on the internet, it was just there. I'm sure there are copies of my comic floating around on other people's sites, with other people taking credit for them; I just don't let that get to me because there's nothing I can do about it. And I realize I don't have such a distinctive style, and I'm not all that prolific, so my work isn't instantly recognizable like at lot of people's. But still.
The real, underlying problem is that with people acting like Sparklypoo just happened, I feel like if I try to take credit for coming up with the name and drawing the comic, people will think I'm lying. If lots of people try to take credit for my ideas, then nobody can tell the difference when I try to take credit for them.
I don't even think the comic is drawn that well. I'm OK at drawing but I know I'm not great. It stings a little that there are more people who view the first page and leave than people who read the whole thing, but I don't have any illusions about how good I am. But it's damn funny, a lot of people liked it, and I want credit for that!
