Cold Weather Sucks

[wickedorin]

There's a minor crapton of silver- and gold-wrapped gemstone materia pendants over on Etsy, too. And there will be more... at some point in the future.

Yes, I still exist. Totally, really. I built my first and hopefully last model kit and am still wondering why I did that. Working on a lengthy commission. The usual. There just hasn't been a lot to report and then I get busy and forget to report that there's nothing to report. ...Yes, I know that sounds stupid, but. I still read! I am just... very bad at remembering to come back later and comment. I blame the ease of getting distracted by shiny things.

Unfortunately, I was somewhat prodded into updating for a reason tangentially related to shiny things: some (what I think has started to become a little bizarre) artist harassment, documented here thus far. I know there aren't a lot of artists and artisans that I know who are still hanging around these places regularly, but... have you ever had to deal with this bullshit? Please do share stories. I'm more worried that I may not be alone in this, to be honest.

Comments

[lhexa]

After reading through the documentation of your harassment, I do think that mental health was a factor... I can say from experience (far too much experience) that all sense of perspective goes right out the door, so that something as minor as a snub from an artist can seem to be of world-consuming importance, impossible to let go. A sense of perspective is a pretty damn important part of rationality.

That said, being crazy doesn't preclude being kind or petty, and it only partly excuses one's actions. And actively and persistently criticizing such behavior might actually help those who are slightly less assholish or slightly less crazy to step back from the abyss and reassess their obsession. Personally speaking, I do benefit from direct criticism of my behavior, schizophrenia notwithstanding. It might not make a difference while I'm irrational, but it does afterwards, and if nothing else it means that the next cycle around I'm crazy in a different way. :P

I do have a Tumblr account, now, which I use to read yours, so if you decide to abandon Dreamwidth/Livejournal, I'll still be keeping up.

[wickedorin]

Thank you for the insight! I thought that I recognized patterns (for lack of a better word), but generally the behavior was just plain anonymous troll-/jerk-ish on the internets and starting to interfere with other people, so... anything resembling empathy or patience was utterly lost. *cough* Possibly a mistake on my part, but I guess we may see for sure at some point. Nothing ominous about that statement.

Not that I ever post anything of great value aside from projects, but still nice to have you around. *grin* ...Now to figure out if Tumblr actually alerted me to your presence at all. It's nice when it works.

[lhexa]

My account is lhexan.tumblr.com, as I'm not sure whether Tumblr has any mechanism for finding out your followers. I need to find some other interesting people to watch, too, so I can start making the page less sparse.