grumpy about hotlinking

[ratcreature]

Does anyone on my f-list speak French and could tell me why this LJ entry has one of my HP drawings hotlinked? (It's one of illustrations I did for Beth's In From the Cold.) I noticed this a couple of days ago when I looked at my website referrer logs. Unfortunately my webhost doesn't let me disable hotlinking in the usual ways you see in anti-hotlinking tutorials, and so I tend to just ignore the occasional random hotlinking from outside fandom (usually it's some jerk that includes my stuff in their "ew, someone draws superheroes gay" lulz, so there's no hope of fixing that) but this seems to be from within fandom, and somehow that makes it different for me. So two days ago I commented there and asked the poster in English to not hotlink my artwork, but it had no effect so far, and they posted in their LJ after this time, so presumably it's not a matter of internet absence over some prolonged holiday break or something. Sigh.

From what I gather the entry seems to be some sort of meta fiction in which the poster talks to the characters about a WIP and the poster is using my art as some sort of story illustration? But I'm not sure. (Gah, why has all my French knowledge vanished? I guess that happens when you don't use a language for a decade.) Anyway if it's used as fiction illustration it would be doubly annoying, because I drew this specifically for Beth's story, and don't really want to see it with random fanfic, meta or otherwise. Also, it's just rude to hotlink.

I guess I could move the file, but that would mean fixing links in at least four places (my own website, LJ, IJ, and my art blog), and that is annoying. The profile has messaging enabled so I could try that on top of my comment, or would that come across as nagging and I should just give more time? OTOH it can't take two days to get an LJ entry edited.

Anyway, this makes me cranky. I'm not even mentioned by name or got a link in the entry, so besides my sig on the art there's no credit given either, nor any way for me to hear if people who see my art there like it. *disgruntled*

Comments

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

I've written to someone she knows to see if I can find out what's up...

[ratcreature]

Thanks! I know some people don't know about hotlinking and fanart etiquette, and I don't want to be a nag or anything, but this kind of thing is just not okay.

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Email on the way...

[bethbethbeth.livejournal.com]

Ah...update already! She's taken the link down and she's writing to you to apologize, so all's well that ends well!

[ratcreature]

Yay. And thanks again for helping me out.

[vamysteryfan.livejournal.com]

As far as I can tell, she's writing an ongoing self insertion story in the HP universe. In this section, she's talking to Snape and Dumbledore. Snape invites her to join him in the Caribbean to start a lab for making potions. He needs someone to talk to the customers. She makes a comment about thinking he would tan very well. He offers a small bungalow, the beach, sun cocktails...Caribbean here we come.

So I guess she thinks your art is a good illustration for the next part of her story.

Tacky

[ratcreature]

Okay, so I wasn't that far off. Thanks for telling me.

So no really compelling reason anywhere why she thought it a good idea to insert my art that I did for someone else into her stuff, and didn't even credit me. I mean, I wouldn't have minded a regular link along the lines of "over there ratcreature did a Snape illustration that reminded me of mine" or whatever, people can link however they want after all, but not just insert my image as if it was done for her. >:(

I guess I'll wait a bit longer to see whether she'll respond, and then try the private message method.

[keina-snape.livejournal.com]

Hi there,
I'm really sorry for all the trouble around my post, I really didn't receive any email alert about your post and so didn't think any more about it. A friend just told me there was a problem there and I've cut the link so your art doesn't appear on the page!
So sorry about that, to explain the context: I was extra tired and didn't post any chapter of my fic for long, so to entertain my readers I made a short dialog between myself and the characters ( Snape and the cat ) threatening to go and live on the Carribeans after puting a stupid end to the story. I remembered this picture, though I really don't remember how I found it again... anyway I must really have been very tired at the time because I usually always tell the author names and put a link to the site, not display it on the page...

Anyway, it's fixed, sorry for the trouble. Thanks Raewhit for telling me about this.

Keina

[ratcreature]

Cool. Thanks for responding and for fixing the hotlink.