fannish etiquette question

[ratcreature]

With the proliferation of Tumblr, what do you do if another fan just reblogs your pictures? I understand that one of the reasons people like Tumblr is because it is so easy to just post a bunch of pictures and video and such, but I do have a notice that I don't want my art distributed without permission, because I'd rather like traffic to come to my site than some random Tumblr or other site. (This seems to be an ongoing problem for me of late.) Am I just behind on the new fannish normal?

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[omens]

Yeah, I think the new fannish normal is definitely heading that way; you're probably behind. I don't really know how I feel about it, but I think once you put something on the internet, no matter where you put it on the internet, you've lost control over it. Hazards of the media, etc.

In terms of etiquette, if you see your stuff reblogged when you've stated that it shouldn't be, I'd guess just contacting and requesting the person to take it down is pretty much all you can do.

[ratcreature]

My problem is mostly that I don't want to come across as some petty jerk or anything like that, being exceptionally prissy about using my art, if indeed fandom has now universally shifted to making Tumblr-ing (? does some verb similar to tweeting for twitter exist?). I mean, the instance I came across did credit and link back. *is conflict shy* But people don't seem to do this to fanfic for example, just repost in a more convenient format for them without permission.

It doesn't irk me nearly as much when this happens to my images randomly rather than from within the same corner of fandom where I am. And I mean, I even enable this dA embed thingy which I think allows people to embed my picture anywhere they like as preview without uploading it to their own space.

[omens]

I actually did see some one (tumbling? LOL) fanfic once! I don't remember where/what/who though, but it was strange. I'm conflict-shy, too; I totally get that. Anyway, I don't know if it's a universal shift, but it's definitely some sort of shift... it'll be interesting to see what happens, I think. Might be good to web-address your art so people can at least hunt you down if they're wondering what else you've done. I wouldn't know what address to put, though... heh.

Didn't know dA had a thing like that! Now I'm curious.

[ratcreature]

You can enable an embed that people can c&p. That embeds a small preview (think about the size of the unenlarged dA preview) at least for non-mature images, and then people can click that. You often see it when people post their dA art to their LJ, because dA doesn't allow direct hotlinking afaik. There are also Twitter and Facebook buttons and what not.

Most of my art is signed RatCreature (with only a few scribbles signed with RC) and when you google that (with or without space) my domain ratcreature.net where you can find my art is the first result (before Bone comic-related pages even that inspired my pseud), so unless someone cuts my signature out (that has happened to me only once), nobody should have any trouble tracking me down. Also in my more recent art try to remember to embed my copyright info and web address in the JPEG meta info that gets stored with an image but sometimes I forget and (in older it is still set to the default "created with GIMP" or something like that because I didn't know function), but maybe a visible web address wouldn't be bad idea. Though I hate watermarking images.