2 - Art Fans

OK, so I'm reading my email, and I'm looking at LD5, and suddenly there's
this guy on there and he's complaining about "Oh you whiny artist, you give
us your pictures but you still don't want us to distribute them or steal
them and if you uploaded them in the first place then you shouldn't complain
and I should get them altered and do whatever I want and I don't understand
why you're so pissed off!".

I've seen this batter over and over again and it never get result. It's like
the SciFi channel - it's old, it's tired, and it never gets any fucking
better. So, the fur artists are pissed off, the fans are pissed off, and the
fucking mailing list servers are popping circuits faster than lightbulbs in
a Texas prison, trying to keep up with all the whining. If LD5 was a snail-
mail list, the rainforests would be fucking gone by now. So, let me explain
this to you, chief. First of all, if you don't understand it, you're never
going to. You're not gonna find your shimmer of morality, you're just not.
It isn't there. And if you have to ask why it's wrong to steal someone
else's artwork, then half your brain was lost when they tried to abort you
or something. Finding any sense of morals of you would be like trying to
find your way through St. Lewis with a Rand-McNally, with a quarter tank of
gas and some obscure Hindu god, OK? You're not gonna find it.

So, just for the decency challenged, let's do it like this: say you work
your ass off to buy a car, a brand new car. And then you give - um, say, ME,
a complete stranger - the key, so I can check out this wonderful red souped-
up extension of your penis and give it a test drive. Why would you do this?
Why, why, why would you let me check out your car? MAYBE you just wanted
someone else to enjoy it too? Maybe you wanted a little bit of appreciation
for this thing you worked so hard to get. Maybe even a little bit of
admiration, hey, that's not so fucked up, right? When I take this brand new
car, this nice, wonderful car, AND I DRIVE IT TO FUCKING FIJI! OK? I DRIVE
IT TO FIJI, I DRIVE IT ACROSS THE PLANET, YOU DON'T SEE ME FOR MONTHS. I
burn cigarette holes in the leather, have sloppy nun-killing sex in your
backseat, I run over small, barefoot foreign children, and ruin the paintjob,
and then I take it to some chop shop, so I can get a crappy hundred bucks
from Guido for the parts. Now wouldn't you be just a little pissed off from
that? Wouldn't that just tweak your switch? Wouldn't you wanna slap me so
hard that even my NAME would be swollen? You'd want the gods to remove my
testicles and give them to a gorilla with Parkinson's. And I'd deserve it,
too! I'd deserve to be stomped between the toes of a macro with athlete's
food after walking through a field of glassed chicken houses.

But I don't seem to be sorry at all. No, in fact, I'm a little PROUD of it.
In fact, I look at you and say, "What the hell are you so pissed about? You
have nothing to worry about. You gave out your car, what did you except?
Stop whining!". THAT'S why artists are so pissed off about you. Most of them
work full-time jobs, and then come home and work, WITHOUT PAY, on your art,
so your discerning taste can have a different picture to jerk off to every
other day. What, do you think it's easy?! You think these pictures just fall
out of an artist's ASS or something? Why don't you try it? Go and grab a
pencil right now and try to make a decent drawing and still keep from having
your fucking brain explode at the same time. It's not easy! And most of the
time, the artists are doing it FOR FREE! They're DOING THIS FOR FREE. Would
you work a second job for free? NO, I didn't think so! Even when they get
paid a lousy 20 or 30 bucks for drawing, it only works out about what, what,
that's two or three dollars an hour.

What are you complaining about? You get to go home and fucking watch Toonami
all night, while these guys are trying their hardest not to puke their last
meal of Ramen noodles and spam because that's all they can fucking afford to
eat! These artists are working nearly full-time for shit pay or even for
free, just so they can show you their work and get a little attention FROM
YOU. A little recognition FROM YOU, a little pat on the back, FROM YOU for
taking the trouble to share their creative visions, WITH YOU FOR FREE. And
you're FUCKING COMPLAINING ABOUT IT. What the hell is wrong with you?!
You're complaining because they get upset when you completely RAPE their
work and shit on them for all their trouble. You people should be dragged
out into the town square and shot in the face with a really big fucking
bullet.

Maybe you didn't stop to realize the furry fandom is not that big. But
somehow you can still go out and see new fur artwork every day. 90% of your
masturbation sessions are only there because of these artists, and they
hardly ever get any gratitude. EVEN a WHORE gets PAID! Would you complain
about a free whore because she wouldn't let you surgically remove her vagina
and let you carry it around in your wallet?! NO, but you're complaining that
you can't erase the signature off your favourite profusely lactating vixen
and post it to another list with your fucking name on it! And they put up
with this and continue to work their asses off FOR YOU. You should damn well
be ashamed.

And you wonder why so many good artists don't want anything to do with the
fandom anymore. Some of them are so beat up they act like they've spent the
last five years on a Vietnamese leech pit next to a guy with funky underarms.
You see them on FurryMUCK and you wave hello to 'em and they jump in the
bush shaking and dodging imaginary bombshells. Guess what? Those aren't
bombshells. They're your fucking complaints! They've been so emotionally
ruined by your insisting griping that no amount of therapy is ever gonna
make them stop acting like a drunk redneck's three-legged dog.

They have their revenge, though, oooh yeah, they get their revenge and you
just don't know it. Think about this: next time an artist that draws toe-
curling spooge falls off the edge of the planet because they've been griped
into oblivion, well they haven't stopped drawing, have they? That's right,
they're probably making more art than they ever have, BETTER than they've
ever had, they're just NOT SHOWING IT TO YOU! That unfamiliar skunk or
raccoon sitting quietly in the corner of the Nurple, listening to you
complain about how you can't find a certain kickass artist's work any more?
That IS that kickass artist, and he's LAUGHING at you! I hope that thought
keeps you up at night.

My suggestion is that you take a minute to think about what your life would
be like without any fur art at all. And then realize what you're complaining
about. Fur artists are more giving with their work than any other kind of
artist in the world. You should damn well feel privileged just to have it.
You wanna help the fandom? You wanna stop seeing these great and talented
artists run away to live in a cave for the rest of their fucking lives?
Simple. Download their pictures, enjoy them, and when they ask you not to
distribute it, DON'T FUCKING QUESTION IT! They're not giving away their
rights to their work, you shouldn't even except them to. Just enjoy the fact
that you're a part of a community with so many artists who are willing to
entertain you, and leave it at that - then everybody will be happy.

This is 2, your paranoid Ranting Gryphon, and that's all I have to say about
that.