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User called chbdhbrjb has taken others' art and images and edited them for himself, without bothering to even have the decency of asking first (answer would have been no anyway). I recommend checking out his gallery and making sure he didn't steal your work. He already took one of mine and made two uploads, something I've filed two separate DMCAs against.

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SO, I just found out tonight, while browsing Google, that multiple of my works (over 20) were uploaded to a website called HiClipart without my permission, or even knowledge.

Thankfully, the site is also readily available to remove any art that was uploaded without the owner's permission, so I'm sending them an email with all the links to my works that are on there, along with a link to my gallery, and I'm hoping they will remove the images without incident.
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This little guy has taken Twitter and Pokemon Go by storm, literally! It was either a leaked new Pokemon, or just a model placeholder for Kecleon, but the minute it showed up, everyone fell in love with it, me included.

A full digital version will be coming out later today!
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/449292524578930689/493101770289971243/IMG_20180922_094048.jpg
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Made this on Tumblr, and I figured I'd post it on here too, to get it spread out more. These can apply to OCs you make for roleplay, fanfiction, gaming, or even writing original stories of your own.
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1. Look at your character and ask yourself "Will people want to read about this person? Will they seem interesting to my readers? Will they be able to relate to them?" If the answer might be no to any of those, work on it.

2. If your character has no impact on the story, makes no difference in it, and anything they've done could have been achieved without them, do not add them in.

3. Do not make your character some "edgy" brooding lone wolf who refuses any and all help and interaction and goes it alone. That is not original, and it is not something readers want to suffer through.

4. Overpowered does NOT equal badass. It shows a lack of care given to your character and laziness. Nobody wants to see a character stomp through enemies and canon characters with ease, as that defeats the purpose of the struggle and destroys any semblance of tension that could have been had.

5. Your character is not a special snowflake. There is no reason to place them on a pedestal over others, or put emphasis on any special traits they may have. They are not better than the canon characters of the fanfic you're writing about.

6. If your character is a teenager, they're not going to have fifteen different skills that they've mastered and an unparalleled mastery of a weapon or multiple weapons. Mastering even one skillset or weapon takes years of practice, more than one would take an entire lifetime.

7. Think about the situations you throw your character in, and ask yourself how you would react in those situations. Honesty lends credibility.

8. Do not give your character a "troubled" history unless it's going to come into play as a major plot point. If you do something like killing off their parents or family to make them have a dark backstory, either follow up on it and have them affected by this traumatizing event, or drop it entirely. Treat the event for what it is, and make it affect your character properly.

9. Give your character a goal, something they're trying to reach. If your character is just there for the ride, get rid of them, it'll no different without them. Have them work towards something so your readers can root for them and hope they succeed, or fail.

10. Give your characters personality. Give them likes, dislikes, hopes, dreams, emotions, opinions, make them hate one thing, and love another. Make them feel like an actual person, so we're not just reading about some emotionless doll.

11. Avoid making them related to canon characters. There’s no reason to do so other than to try and make your OC “connected” to the canon characters in some way. Unless you can pull it off well, make it believable, and have it set firmly in an AU, do not do this, it’s stupid and cliche.

12. Try to make them FIT in the world you’re making them for. Whether it be for a show, book, movie or game, make sure your OC follows the rules of that media. Otherwise why even bother? Your OC is meant to feel like they belong, don’t deviate from the rules of whatever you’re making them for just because you want to or don’t like the rules.
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I LOVED the film. I can easily see why it got critical acclaim. Things started out a lot faster than most Godzilla films, and that surprised me. We jumped right into the plot without much buildup. I didn't have an issue with reading the subtitles and watching what was happening, though the names of people and what department they were part of DID fly past. Not a bad thing, that's just what happens when you watch movies that aren't dubbed.

I DO wish that the text on screens and whatnot were translated. Toho, why?!

Let's address the most discussed topic of the film; Godzilla. Specifically, his design and three forms.

Godzilla's design DID NOT BOTHER ME. None of his three forms did, nor the ending. Why? Because in the end, it still captured the essence of what Godzilla is, what he's capable of, and the fact that man's pretty much powerless to stop him. It still held the message of nuclear testing and man's hubris, just with the issues Modern Japan faces added in this time.

It reinvented Godzilla, and I'm OK with it. It kept his core aspects while adding in new things, just like each bundle of Godzilla films did in the past, just like Legendary did. I DID have an issue with his feet (shocking, I know). I don't like how he stands on the balls of his feet. It's weird.

Also, I DID NOT MIND HIS ARMS. With this Godzilla, he mutated and evolved based on the situation. He did not experience a situation in which he needed his arms, and besides, Godzilla's ALWAYS had small arms. Just like the T-Rex which he was based off of.

I LOVED THE ODO ISLAND REFERENCE! I also found it BRILLIANT how they explained the name Godzilla within the film itself.

While I didn't understand all the struggles of Japanese Bureaucracy, due to being American and not knowing how they run things over there, I think they best showed how things work when they're relaying the message near the beginning, when Godzilla's near the train tracks. The message "Civilians present. Can we fire?" goes from the Surveyor through three others before it finally reaches the Prime Minister's room.

I DID get sick of them going from meeting to meeting though rather quickly, but that's not because of the movie, it's because of how the Japan handles politics. It reminded me a bit of GMK, where they kept having to wait for confirmation, wait for the cabinet to make a decision, etc. The Prime Minister in the film seemed really over his head, even before Godzilla showed up, and seemed really unsure.

As for characters? I like Rando Yaguchi. He's logical, a little snarky, and is the audience surrogate for taking potshots at the Japanese Bureaucracy. He's a cool dude. It actually touched me when he took a minute to say a prayer before leaving after seeing the destruction Godzilla caused during his first rampage.

I also enjoyed the team that was assembled to stop him.

Another thing that got to me was when Godzilla tries to climb up that building in the beginning. In the clips I've seen on YouTube, with the married couple getting ready to leave, I never noticed that the father was tending to his son right beforehand. Makes it all the more real when Godzilla knocks the building over and crushes it. Same with seeing the scenes of the people in the shelters.

I liked the impending countdown to doom, reminded me of Return of Godzilla/Godzilla 1985. What's interesting to note is that in Return of Godzilla, the Prime Minister was able to convince the other countries NOT to nuke Godzilla by asking them "Gentlemen, if Godzilla appeared in Washington, or in Moscow, would you be willing to use nuclear weapons, knowing that many of your own people would be killed?"

Yet in Shin Godzilla, Hideki Akasaka, aid to the PM, says that America said that if Godzilla were in NY, they'd still bomb him. My, how times change, eh?

Of course, there's a few things I have to complain about, but they're minor nitpicks. I wish Persecution of the Masses was used more than just once in the beginning attack. I would have enjoyed seeing a montage of the destruction wrought by Godzilla to that song.

I also DO wish that Godzilla wasn't so static. His tail could have used more movement, along with the rest of his body. I would have also liked to see more of the overall destruction and how people were coping with it, similar to how it was done in the original Godzilla film.

Well, there's my review. I'm sure I'll have more to add later when I've thought on the film more, but that's all I have for now. It easily deserves the praise it's given.

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