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?

Comments

[pocketmouse]

I think it's in part because while it's somewhat easy to repost part of a fic you like, it's hard to repost just part of a piece of artwork.

[astridv]

Yeah, that might be a part of it. It's no excuse though. Especially since it's not that hard to figure out how to modify a picture, and there are plenty of people in fandom who would explain it to those who ask.

[ratcreature]

Also, it's not as if artist weren't often providing thumbnails themselves, but you don't see those "reblogged" with a link to the original, it's the whole image that gets taken. I have 120x120 thumbnails on my website, and provide embedding on dA, so in either place someone could find a way to reblog the equivalent of a fic quote without any image editing whatsoever. But that's not what happens.