I like this image from the Men in Pain site. I like (a lot) the Work is Never Over tumblr where I found it. I intensely dislike the fact the tumblr owner felt the need to stamp their watermark on the top right corner. I also hate the fact they felt the need to move the very clear MiP attribution from the bottom left to right edge, where it’s easily missed (the original image can be seen here).
Screwing around in an image editing package for a few minutes doesn’t confer a creative credit. I enjoy seeing tweaked images on tumblr (the Alternative Female Domination tumblr does a good job in that respect), but nobody should fool themselves that somehow that’s equivalent to hiring professional models, and then lighting, rigging and shooting a scene. Please leave original watermarks alone and don’t add new ones. Even if you have worked hard and spent literally seconds of your life shoving the file through an image filter or two.
You’ve hit on one of the things that really ticks me off. There’s all sorts of free, good, free, sexy, free, free imagines on the internet; why FFS do some bloggers think it’s okay to appropriate the credit for themselves? This kind of thing will be the death of Tumblr.
And kudos to you for not only keeping the credit, but in actually researching the source (which is more than I do, I’m embarrassed to say).
This is one of the less obnoxious ones, but yes, it’s still annoying and goes against the spirit of tumblr. The millions of image posts wouldn’t exist without content creators doing their thing, so the least they can do is keep full credit where it’s due.
Google reverse image search is my savior on the credit front I have to admit. Sometimes I know the artists or models by sight, but most of it is simply a case of 10 minutes of scanning search results.
-paltego
Now who would have thought that submissives have egos too?
They should be punished for each of these transgressions.
Suzanne
Actually the ‘Work is never over’ tumblr is run by a dominant woman Suzanne! And far be it for me to comment on the connection between ego and dominant women, I’ll leave people to draw their own conclusions there 🙂
-paltego
Submissives do have egos, too. Yes indeed, Ma’am. And they control those egos, wrestle them to their knees and force them to bow low to the ego of a Mistress (or, if you are so inclined, Master, but let’s stick to the Femdom standard for now in this rant). Because She needs to dominate — it’s what makes Her what She is. It’s the same with a sub (=slave, etc.); it needs to acknowledge the greater power, the superior station, of a Dominant. The two need each other, not unlike the classic Greek notion that we are each half of a complete set and we spend our lives searching for the matching half, sometimes heterosexual, sometimes homosexual, varying from one individual to the next. I’m suggesting that, just as we are each one or the other, and sometimes a mixture, each matching life partner may be Dominant or submissive (and possibly also mixed now and then, and maybe sometimes shifting over time).
My particular persona (that’s a good term to use, I think) is almost entirely sub, but flawed, and totally hetero. So I search, and have ever since I can remember, for a Domme who is heterosexual and fits my expectations that have been honed over years of research and experience, to fit certain criteria (which I won’t go into at this point).
Each one of us has his or Her own set of those criteria, and after practically a lifetime of searching, in between making a day-to-day living on the mundane level, I confess I haven’t found *Her* yet. But I still dream, and I still hope. Maybe in the next world, or plane of existence, or whatever it is that we hear and read about, but cannot quite comprehend or define. Good luck to all of us as we keep on searching.