A topic that was supposed to be relatable to the talentless but turned into an argument
Howdy, the name's Salty. I've been on the Hub for almost a year now, and I've decided to make this post to voice some grievances I assume a lot of people have on the Hub. This is for the talentless folks, those of us who can't draw, manip, etc.
First off, OCs. God damn do I love me some original characters. They can be anything you want, from any fandom you want, and they can look however you see fit! OCs are, without a doubt, something great. See, here's the issue. I can barely draw, so most of my OCs are never leaving my cranium, as I can't commission anyone to draw something I've only got a text description of.
Speaking of commissions, man, can you believe how many well-known pieces on the Hub are from commissions? If only I had the cash money to spend on them. I do not. Seriously, shout out to all the penniless scrubs like me. We'll have our day someday.
Anyone else hate that feeling of seeing some flawless piece of Hypno art, and seeing "Oh boy! Text!" then realizing that it's in Japanese or something and no one's translated it? God damn, it's tragic. I've seen shit almost a year old that still ain't translated, and it hurts being unable to read the text. Not to mention you can't even google translate that shit, because Japanese characters aren't letters like we know 'em.
So, you've just fallen in love with a character from something, right? And you're super excited to see if the Hub has anything of that character. And then it doesn't. So, okay, no hypno porn of this character, fine. So you check... I dunno, some other random-ass R34 site. And still, there's nothing. Nothing good anyways. And what makes it worse is that there's MC in the series the character's from. What's even worse is if the character themselves is actually affected by or uses said MC. Shit's brutal.
Finally, and this is even more painful, let's say you've just finished watching a REALLY good show, or you've been playing a REALLY good game, and you see a character in it you fucking adore right? Now, imagine looking that character up, thinking "Well, they're obscure, so I doubt they'll have anything", but you actually find an image, maybe multiple, with that character. Now you're excited, like damn, the site recognizes the tag! But then you look closer, and oh. Oh no. You hate something about the image. The art style, the side-fetish involved, etc. I've had this happen countless times with good characters, and it infuriates me to no end. And it's not like you can fuckin do anything about it. You can't draw, you can't manip, you just get to stare at what could've been.
Okay seriously though what's with the only pics of Akatsuki from Log Horizon being 2 parent/child images with excessively... Over-the-top foot stuff? That's not even fair, there's not even romance in the actual series, and now I can't even get that with hypno shenanigans. Why must I suffer so?
Anyways, those are some of my pet peeves of the Hub, as a user with little to no artistic talent, and no software to manip. Got some stories to tell in regards to any of these? Or maybe you've got your own grievances about being unable to create stuff for the Hub. Either way, share 'em here.
First off, OCs. God damn do I love me some original characters. They can be anything you want, from any fandom you want, and they can look however you see fit! OCs are, without a doubt, something great. See, here's the issue. I can barely draw, so most of my OCs are never leaving my cranium, as I can't commission anyone to draw something I've only got a text description of.
Speaking of commissions, man, can you believe how many well-known pieces on the Hub are from commissions? If only I had the cash money to spend on them. I do not. Seriously, shout out to all the penniless scrubs like me. We'll have our day someday.
Anyone else hate that feeling of seeing some flawless piece of Hypno art, and seeing "Oh boy! Text!" then realizing that it's in Japanese or something and no one's translated it? God damn, it's tragic. I've seen shit almost a year old that still ain't translated, and it hurts being unable to read the text. Not to mention you can't even google translate that shit, because Japanese characters aren't letters like we know 'em.
So, you've just fallen in love with a character from something, right? And you're super excited to see if the Hub has anything of that character. And then it doesn't. So, okay, no hypno porn of this character, fine. So you check... I dunno, some other random-ass R34 site. And still, there's nothing. Nothing good anyways. And what makes it worse is that there's MC in the series the character's from. What's even worse is if the character themselves is actually affected by or uses said MC. Shit's brutal.
Finally, and this is even more painful, let's say you've just finished watching a REALLY good show, or you've been playing a REALLY good game, and you see a character in it you fucking adore right? Now, imagine looking that character up, thinking "Well, they're obscure, so I doubt they'll have anything", but you actually find an image, maybe multiple, with that character. Now you're excited, like damn, the site recognizes the tag! But then you look closer, and oh. Oh no. You hate something about the image. The art style, the side-fetish involved, etc. I've had this happen countless times with good characters, and it infuriates me to no end. And it's not like you can fuckin do anything about it. You can't draw, you can't manip, you just get to stare at what could've been.
Okay seriously though what's with the only pics of Akatsuki from Log Horizon being 2 parent/child images with excessively... Over-the-top foot stuff? That's not even fair, there's not even romance in the actual series, and now I can't even get that with hypno shenanigans. Why must I suffer so?
Anyways, those are some of my pet peeves of the Hub, as a user with little to no artistic talent, and no software to manip. Got some stories to tell in regards to any of these? Or maybe you've got your own grievances about being unable to create stuff for the Hub. Either way, share 'em here.