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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[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.