Through various sources and resources of my own I have come to an interesting conclusion...  If I defend myself and my work (as I have previously) I am SOMEHOW (don't ask me HOW cause I still haven't figured out the convoluted logic behind this one!) "admitting my guilt" and yet, if I do NOT defend my work I am ALSO "admitting my guilt".  So, um, it's kinda become a "damned if I do and damned if I don't" no-win situation for me. Which is, in itself, a bit of a dilemma.  LOL!

CHAIN OF EVENTS :

I render something in Poser or DAZ|Studios and trace it out (since tracing one's OWN artwork is not in question can we agree that this is acceptable?).  Over time I adjust, resize, add pieces of other renders (sometimes a hand or a foot or whatever just is NOT right no matter WHAT ya do!) of the same figure (aka "characters") or, in some cases other figures cause I want the head different or, well, whatever.

Voila, I have a new doll, prop, clothes, etc, ad infinitum.

A YEAR (or more!) later someone comes to me and says "Hey, your THING A looks like BlahBlahs THING B!  You stole it!".  Now I do not remember ever having SEEN BlahBlahs site, let alone her THING B, so I go look at it and mine DOES look like hers.  Somewhere along the line I assume that I must have been there at some point (Gods know when, cause I certainly don't!) and something about the item must have stuck in the back of my brain.

Of course, I am also the one who ASSUMES that BlahBlahs THING B predates my THING A.  I never ask about that I just ASSUME the error on my part, apologize and do my best to re-make, re-create, revise or whatever needs to be done.  Hell, for all I know BlahBlah could make something from MY stuff tomorrow and turn around and claim that I stole it, based on the wait time of a freaking YEAR, during which time the "disputed" (unknown to ME cause no-one bothers to tell ME any of this in a TIMELY manner, of course!) items continues to circulate.

Right now, 98% of everything I own (INCLUDING all my back-up CDs of renders used to create things from) are back in Connecticut in storage while Luc and I are living temporarily in Chicago (long story, most blogged about in another section) so I can't go through all my stuff, find my back-ups and show how I made what and from what sources.  About the best I can do is show links to the items I used (from either DAZ, PoserPros, Renderosity or RuntimeDNA) to render out and use as my source material.

So...  no defense, no excuse, no LACK of defense, no nothing...  just simple facts.  Believe or not because I know that many who read only read what they WANT to anyway and that this will become all topsy turvey, taken out of context, quoted and misquoted in whatever way those who feel the need to keep poking at dead horses will do...

*hugs*

PS : there is no "copy/paste" protection on this blog as is it completely EXTERNAL to my site and is actually hosted through www.blogtext.org for those who were wondering...

Drama, Drama, Drama!!!  Seems there is no escaping it's dreadful clutches no matter WHAT you do!   *sigh*

OK, so I create ALL my dolls using my very OWN Poser and/or DAZ|Studio renders.  This INCLUDES hair, clothes, props, whatever FOR the doll.  Heck, even my few critter characters are made that way.  I admit that I can NOT draw a straight line with a freaking RULER, but I can render out a pretty picture, doll, what have you, in either Poser or DAZ.

When it comes to doing dolls, I render out something that I like the look of and re-pose it in various positions and keep rendering it.  I then add hair and/or clothes and re-render them in the SAME poses that I did the nekkid dolls in so I can get the clothes to refit to the additional poses, most ESPECIALLY the "odd poses".

Sometimes I'll render out JUST a dress or hair that I like and trace it out and then "fit it" to a specific doll or scrap it or toss it in the "maybe I'll use it someday" pile.  Whatever...

Now there is SOMEONE out there (and unlike HER I refuse to mention names as, just because she is a rampaging BITCH doesn't meant that I have to!) who seems to spend ALL of her time trying to find ANYTHING that looks like something I've made just to claim that I "stole" it.  She never comes to ME and says anything...  oh, no, that would be too freaking EASY, not to mention the POLITE and ADULT way of doing things, right???  Instead, she'll wait a year (or even MORE) until she pounces with her "proof" which, of COURSE makes me look TWICE as bad.  It makes it not just look like I "stole" it, but that I did so knowingly and willfully AND kept it up there almost tauntingly.

Instead of giving me a change to rectify and apologize for the UNINTENTIONAL likeness of something, fix and replace the disputed items to the satisfaction of all (which, when brought to my attention I do as quickly as humanly possible and has cause me to remake 3 of my dolls already the very MOMENT that I was MADE AWARE of the situation!) she just goes around calling ME a thief and coming off like her crap smells like roses!

Some people need to take a freaking chill pill and look to their OWN crap!  Hell, the person of which I'm speaking hasn't created a truly ORIGINAL item in, like, forever...  and although I think MY coloring needs serious improvement, HERS looks as bland and lifeless and a 5 year olds coloring book.  Perhaps, if she spent HALF as much time working on her own stuff as she does tearing other people down she just MIGHT be a nicer happier person.  Unless she's the type of person who can only BE happy when teraing someone else apart.  In which case I feel truly sorry for her, as her life must suck even more than mine does.

OK so...  the entity (I refuse to call her a woman, as she surpasses even the most childish of teen drama queens!) is at it again.  I swear it's enough to make you want to THROTTLE someone!

Every single time we ignore her bull***t she hast to start stirring everything up all over again.  She is currently sending harassing and threatening emails to at LEAST one good friend of mine for NO reason!  We have left her alone, for the most part...  well, ok, so we DO laugh about her childishness and stupidity in PRIVATE, but we haven't been doing ANYTHING to her in ANY way...  and yet she feels the burning need to just keep coming back with various rantings and ravings of a paranoid schizophrenic nature.  In fact, her "tag box" is the most rediculously juvenile thing I have ever seen.  Anyone who responds to her in a non-suppotive way is, of course, banned...  while she and her supposed "friend" (who, other than having all of her comments CAPSLOCKED has the very exact same spelling and grammatical errors as she does, leaving one to believe they are actually one and the same person) spew their (her?) venom all over the place.

This is the SECOND time she has been forced to shut her "pay site" down under severe controversy.  Both times were under the accusation of theft of graphics.  She claims she'll be re-opening once more in January and I implore ANY who read this to beware!  There is a very good REASON why many sites actually changed their Terms of Use to reflect that NONE of their items (tubes, lines, etc) were ever to be used in ANY way in conjunction with hers!

She has a "habit" of trying to hide who she is by virtually stealing the names of other sites.  This most recent time she initially opened under a name that was VERY similar to the site name of one of my beloved "sissies", Adorable, who's site name is "Adorable's Little Pixels".  Many were fooled into joining this OTHER woman's site, thinking they were joining Adorable's.

A word of advice to the wary...  when new sites open and you aren't sure of their ownership and/or reputation PLEASE ask around, check with friends, with other site owners, whatever.  DO NOT get taken in by people like this who are given a "second chance" only to throw it back in everyone's faces!

So...   once upon a time a vaguely frightening person wanted to trade memberships with me.  She just kept emailing me, over and over again until I figured "ok, she's new and I was new myself not long ago, so I'll trade with her and give her a chance"...

BIG mistake!  She never EVER really put anything UP on her site (hosted free on pizco *shudder*) and changed her link, membership concept, etc like 5 times.  Eventually, one of my dear "sisters", Kay, got conned into setting up a forum for her to host her membership site on, figuring to get her the heck OFF the horrors of a pizco site...  Well, this woman screwed things all up, and then just decided, without telling Kay, that she was going back to pizco, and other such insanity.  To be honest, I only know a teeny PART of their story, but I do know that Kay was thoroughly messed over.

At around this time I contacted the woman to terminate the traded membership agreement with her as, frankly, I was getting NOTHING for the trade...  she never actually MADE anything and, at that time, the only outlines she had on the forum were pretty much Kay's.  I had just had enough, ya know?  She then kept emailing me over and over again, wanting to be my "site sister" and couldn't understand why I had kicked her outta my membership site, even though I had been VERY clear as to why.

Now, a word of warning, it looks like  she's BACK and starting all over again.  AOT of my friend's site's have recently been approached by her requesting to "trade memberships".  I also saw an add go through just the other day for her site, and it's STILL hosted on pizco, although it has a new name (yet again).  If she contacts you run FAR away as fast as you can.  She gives me the willies, and I don't get creeped out all that easily!

Yes, there ARE psycho stalkers out there, and I swear they're gunning for whomever they can!

Two of my dear friends are having trouble with the same psychotic candidate for the loony bin.  She's virtually cyberstalking them, sending threatening emails and leaving messages on tag boards and the like.  She got caught as a "pixel thief" and many of us were willing to give her a second chance.  Cause that's what ya do, ya know?  Everyone is entitled to make a mistake and DESERVES a second chance, after all.  However, during her "second chance" she was once MORE proven to be a thief and many pixel sites went so far as to change their terms of usage to disallow the use of THEIR work with any of HER stuff.  Needless to say, she discovered herself removed from pretty much every membership site she belonged to due to her behavior.

Instead of being "adult" and just saying she was wrong, and sorry and all that she began threatening the person SHE stole from, blaming HER for all her troubles within the CGC.  Yeah, right...  the b**** brought this on herself, through her very OWN actions, but of COURSE can't be HUMAN enough, let alone ADULT enough, to admit SHE was at fault.  She is, apparently, one of "those people" who must blame every one ELSE for THEIR actions.

Now she's threatening and harassing ANOTHER friend of mine...  *sigh*

We are all saving pretty much ANYTHING this person sends to any of us as evidence against her, because she is now terrorizing one poor woman and REALLY ticking the other one off.  Luckily, the idiot doesn't seem to realize that she is breaking MULTIPLE federal laws, at the very least, and kust keeps putting her threats in writing...  if we're REAL lucky the LAW will take care of her for us, as it should!

Sometimes I really wonder just what the "Pixel World" is coming to...