I will NOT name and shame anyone whos done me wrong that's mentioned here, that's between me and them.

And I WILL block anyone who tries to white knight for me, I do not condone harassment especially not 'for my honor'

I am a adult and I can take care of myself,
If you see people stealing my designs n shit tell me in a private note and I will handle it.

I get this less more but I really ha e a feeling I know where the second one is going

It can go two ways and both are absolutely disgusting on how people handle it in all levels

And worse that it isn't even just this fandom doing it

I think inspiration is both... a blessing and a curse.

While sometimes it's nice to see people like your things enough to want it too... other times it hurts when people straight up steal your shine and claim it as their own (speaking from experience)

Regardless, I think your feelings are valid no matter what, it's how you react, however, that makes a difference. (I also am anti-harassment)

God yeah, my biggest realization in my own artistic journey was 'Never take inspiration from a single source, always include at least 3 other things from different artists/sources'
its VERY hard to copy someone's design if you are injecting your favorite things from multiple sources, the more sources the better and more unique a design.

I know I did try to make a wisp viper design in Secondlife a couple years back. I mainly just wanted to do it to see if existing parts could make a decent looking facsimile, and I recall sharing it with you. If that sparked some of this, I want to apologize.

oh no it wasn't you at all, please don't beat yourself up in any level about that.

Sometimes, while I don't ever see myself getting big enough attention to be considered popular in any way, I do actually get paranoid of the prospect of getting my work ripped off or somehow getting attacked out of nowhere for "stealing work", which even at the worst being from someone I didn't even know about and somehow has way more support and notoriety than I can contend with.
Because of that, it makes me hesitate often to put out certain characters or designs I have that seem unique or take inspiration from unusual places, usually because I'm not sure just who's going to come out of the woodwork to make things stupidly complicated for no reason.
I would say it's just a paranoid thing for me, but it's also not like it doesn't happen either or that I don't have even some idea of what sort of people to expect to do so.

oh yeah I have a few characters that I won't post to the internet at all for fear of people taking or claiming my ideas aren't unique, haha.

And its not in a 'oh i want to have one original thought' as much as 'everything its inspired off other things but I thought of these on my own and I hold that dear to me'
They aren't even that special of a concept but they are Mine

N yeah Popularity *sucks* I don't want to be on a pedestal, I don't want to be seen as this unapproachable uppity bastard.
I'm just a weird little scrunkly disabled idiot on the internet, drawing is vital to my survival and mental health but it doesn't make me feel superior in any way.

I actually stopped writing and shifted my dream from "Becoming an author" due to things like this and fandoms that I follow though don't interact with. I could never handle people taking my characters and twisting them up or yelling at me over them. Plus, as with most, though I don't think people realize it, those characters are a part of me. They are some of my trauma laid bare to help me heal.

Yeah I completely get you, Soren n I don't even let our closest friends draw any nsfw with sola x anyone but his wife dawn & atlas. But we KNOW sola would get warped beyond recognition if a fandom got hold of him >8( a lot of the characters in our rp is pieces of ourselves too. I'd have to make a comic with characters that I don't have any deep connection to but then is it really a kira original??? having aggressive passion for all i draw is my calling card.