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- About the situation from yesterday -


I received a very long message regarding the patreon leaks that happened yesterday. The message explained that the culprit was none other than a young man who didnโ€™t know much about copyright and economic values.

After reading the message I felt so empty. At the time I was overcome with rage, trying to find out who leaked all my work with gritted teeth, alongside with bursts of sad crying in my husbandโ€™s arms.

Itโ€™s been difficult for me to draw comics. I have never had a break during weekends while drawing December Twilight, and was moaning about it to the point it would have made my friends uncomfortable. All the times I had to held on to my pen with cough drops and headache pills, just so I could put my creation out there came rushing back to me when I heard about the leaks. It made me hate the whole world.

I thought I had gotten used to leaks and pirating from when I drew illustrations for Patreon, but with the comics the pain was incomparable. It made me feel so little. Whatโ€™s the point in drawing something of my own if people were just going to scatter it into the wind and mock it so mindlessly? It felt like the things I valued were deemed worthless. Why put in more work and live like this if itโ€™s not worth it? I was also getting exhausted with all the things I tried to stop the leaks, and tired of the whole situation that made me suspect my supporters.

I got to know about the leaks some days ago, just when I was going to get some sleep after a tiresome day. I felt everything going numb with vengeance. I wanted to get revenge on the leaker. Then I got to know that they were just young and naive, that they now know that what they did was wrong due to the feedback and input from the comicโ€™s supporters, and they deeply regret the choice.



I forgave them the moment I read the message. They erased all the images that werenโ€™t public, left the public images like before, and just like that my anger melted away. I felt like a fool for getting so angry about this. This person just wanted to share my work because they liked it so much. They even drew fanarts. Thatโ€™s when I realized I was consumed by my rage. I never actually thought there would be people who pirated without know the repercussions of the action. There was no need to hang them on the gallows straight away. I should have contacted them personally or blocked them before jumping the gun. (Iโ€™ve decided to do that from now on, but donโ€™t think that Iโ€™ll slack off on catching pirates.)

If you're reading this, please don't comment on it yourself. I've forgiven this friend, so I hope he won't be reprimanded or blamed again. Thank you for the cute fan art, and I think it would be good for you to do anything with your drawings. My cartoon... There are some levels to the illustration, but I think you know everything here already if you look for it. Just don't let anyone catch you.

Iโ€™m sorry for causing so much drama, and I thank you all for comforting and taking care of someone like me. Itโ€™s all thanks to you the situation didnโ€™t escalate too much. I had so many things to say, but I thought it would be best to cut this short and show my gratitude through art. Again, thank you so much for being there for me. Christmas is around the corner, but Iโ€™m not sure if I can make it in time. Anyways, see you soon!

With gratitude, Raccoon_21C

P.S. A special thanks to the person who dug into the case and mediated the whole situation. Thank you so much.


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์ž‘์€ ํ•ดํ”„๋‹์— ๊ด€ํ•˜์—ฌ

์–ด์ œ ์ƒˆ๋ฒฝ ์œ ์ถœ ๊ฑด์— ๊ด€๋ จํ•˜์—ฌ ์žฅ๋ฌธ์˜ ์ชฝ์ง€๊ฐ€ ์ €ํ•œํ…Œ ํ•˜๋‚˜ ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์œ ์ถœ์„ ํ–ˆ๋˜ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ์ด ๋‹ค๋ฆ„ ์•„๋‹Œ ์•„์ง ๋‚˜์ด๊ฐ€ ์–ด๋ฆฐ ์นœ๊ตฌ์˜€๊ณ , ์ €์ž‘๊ถŒ์ด๋‚˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ์ ์ธ ๊ด€๋…์ด ๋ถ€์กฑํ–ˆ๋‹ค ๋Š” ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ๋‹ด๊ธด ์ชฝ์ง€์˜€์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ ๊ธ€์„ ์ฝ๊ณ  ์ €๋Š” ํ—ˆํƒˆํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์‹ค์€ ์œ ์ถœ์ž๋ฅผ ์ฐพ๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•ด ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”๋“๋ฐ”๋“ ๊ฐˆ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ์™€์ค‘์ด์—ˆ๊ฑฐ๋“ ์š”. ๋ถ„๋…ธ์— ์‚ฌ๋กœ์žกํžˆ๊ธฐ๋„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์Šฌํผ์„œ ์šธ๋ฉด์„œ ๋‚จํŽธํ•œํ…Œ ํ•˜์†Œ์—ฐ๋„ ํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ ๋ง์ด์—์š”.

๊ทธ ๋งŒํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ •๋ง ํž˜๋“ค์—ˆ์–ด์š”.. December twilight์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๋™์•ˆ ๋‹จ ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์˜ ์ฃผ๋ง์„ ์‰ฌ์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์นœ๊ตฌ๋“ค์—๊ฒŒ ๋ชป๋‚˜ ๋ณด์ผ๋งŒํผ ์•“๋Š” ์†Œ๋ฆด ํ•ด๋Œ”์œผ๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”. ํŽธ๋‘ํ†ต์•ฝ ๋ชธ์‚ด์•ฝ ๋จน์–ด๊ฐ€๋ฉฐ ๋ฒ„ํ…ผ๋˜ ๊ฑฐ, ๋ˆˆ์ฝ” ๋œฐ ์ƒˆ ์—†์ด ์˜ค๋กœ์ง€ ์ž‘์—…, ์ž‘์—…, ์ž‘์—…. ๋‚ด ์ด์•ผ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ๋ณด์—ฌ์ฃผ๊ณ  ๋ง๊ฒ ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ผ๋…์œผ๋กœ ๋ฒ„ํ…ผ๋˜ ๋‚˜๋‚ ๋“ค. ๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์œ ์ถœ ๋์„ ๋•Œ๋Š” ์˜จ ์„ธ์ƒ์ด ์›๋ง์Šค๋Ÿฌ์› ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

(์œ ์ถœ ๊ฑด์€ ์˜›๋‚ ๋ถ€ํ„ฐ ์žˆ์–ด ์™”์–ด์„œ ์ ์‘์ด ๋œ ์ค„ ์•Œ์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ๋งŒํ™” ๊ทธ๋ฆด ๋•Œ๋Š” ๋˜ ๋Œ€๋ฏธ์ง€๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๋ฅด๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”.)

๋‚˜๋ž€ ์กด์žฌ๋Š” ์ด๊ฒƒ๋ฐ–์— ๋˜์ง€ ์•Š๋Š”๊ตฌ๋‚˜. ๋‚ด๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋ฆฐ ๋งŒํ™”๋ผ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๊ฐ€๋ณ๊ฒŒ ํฉ๋ฟŒ๋ ค์ง€๊ณ  ์กฐ๋กฑ๋‹นํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ๋Š” ๊ฑฐ๊ตฌ๋‚˜. ํ—ˆ๋ฌดํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ฐ€์น˜๋ฅผ ๋’€๋˜ ํ–‰์œ„ ์ „์ฒด๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์ •๋‹นํ•œ ๋А๋‚Œ์ด์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ์‚ด์•„์„œ ๋ญํ•˜๋‚˜ ์‹ถ์„ ์ •๋„๋กœ.. ์–ด๋–ป๊ฒŒ๋“  ์œ ์ถœ๋˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๋ง‰์•„๋ณด์ž๊ณ  ๋ฒŒ์ธ ์ผ๋„ ์ง€์ณ๊ฐ€๊ธฐ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ–ˆ๊ณ , ์—ฌํƒœ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋‚˜๋ฅผ ์ง€์ง€ํ•ด์ค€ ๊ณ ๋งˆ์šด ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์„ ์˜์‹ฌํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋งŒ๋“œ๋Š” ์ƒํ™ฉ ์ž์ฒด์—๋„ ํ™˜๋ฉธ์ด ๋‚ฌ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ •๋ง ์ž  ์˜ค๊ณ  ์ง€์ณ์„œ ์ข€ ์‰ฌ๋ ค๋Š”๋ฐ ์œ ์ถœ๋œ ๊ฒŒ ๋ฐœ๊ฒฌ๋ผ์„œ ์—Š๊ทธ์ œ... ์–ดํœด... ํ”ผ๊ฐ€ ๋งˆ๋ฅด๋”๊ตฐ์š”.

๊ทธ๋ž˜์„œ ์œ ์ถœ์ž์—๊ฒŒ ๋ณต์ˆ˜ํ•˜๊ณ ํ”ˆ ๋งˆ์Œ์ด ์ปธ์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๋Ÿฐ๋ฐ, ์ €์˜ ๋งŒํ™”๋ฅผ ๊ฒŒ์‹œํ–ˆ๋˜ ๋‹น์‚ฌ์ž๊ฐ€ ์•Œ๊ณ  ๋ณด๋‹ˆ ์–ด๋ ธ๊ณ , ๋งŒํ™”๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ  ๊ณ„์‹œ๋˜ ์• ๋…์ž์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๊ป˜์„œ ์ผ๋Ÿฌ์ฃผ์‹  ๋•์— ์ž์‹ ์ด ํ•œ ํ–‰๋™์„ ํ›„ํšŒํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋œ ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์ฝ์ž๋งˆ์ž ์ €๋Š” ์šฉ์„œํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋Œ€๋‹ตํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์•„์ง ๋น„๊ณต๊ฐœ์˜€๋˜ ๋‚ด์šฉ์„ ์‚ญ์ œํ•˜๊ณ  ์ด์ „์ฒ˜๋Ÿผ ํ™๋ณดํ•˜๋“ฏ ๊ณต๊ฐœ๋ถ„๋งŒ ๋‚จ๊ฒจ์ฃผ๋”๊ตฐ์š”. ๊ทธ๋žฌ๋”๋‹ˆ ๋ˆˆ ๋…น๋“ฏ ํ™”๊ฐ€ ์‚ฌ๋ผ์ง€๋”๋ผ๊ตฌ์š”. ๊ทธ๊ฒƒ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์“ฐ๋ฉฐ ๋ณต์ˆ˜์‹ฌ์— ๋ถˆํƒ”๋˜ ์ œ ์ž์‹ ์ด ๋ฐ”๋ณด๊ฐ™์ด ๋А๊ปด์กŒ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด ์•„์ด๋Š” ๋‹จ์ง€ ์ œ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์ด ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ข‹์•„์„œ ์‚ฌ๋žŒ๋“ค์ด๋ž‘ ๊ณต์œ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ๋‹ค, ๊ทธ ์˜์ง€๋กœ ๊ฒŒ์‹œํ•œ ๊ฒƒ ๋ฟ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ํŒฌ์•„ํŠธ๊นŒ์ง€ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋˜ ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์–ด์ฐŒ ๋ชจ์งˆ๊ฒŒ ๋‚ด์น ๊นŒ์š”.. ์ด ์‚ฌ์‹ค์„ ์•Œ๊ณ  ๋‚˜๋‹ˆ ์ œ๊ฐ€ ๊ทธ๋™์•ˆ ๋„ˆ๋ฌด ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์ผ๊ถˆ์™”๋˜ ๊ฑธ ์ง€ํ‚ค๋Š”๋ฐ ํ˜ˆ์•ˆ์ด ๋ผ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹จ ๊ฑธ ์•Œ๊ฒŒ ๋์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ตณ์ด ์œ ์ถœ์ž๋ฅผ ๋“ค์ถฐ๋‚ด์„œ ๊ณต๊ฐœ์ฒ˜ํ˜•ํ•˜๋“ฏ ํ•  ํ•„์š”๊ฐ€ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‚˜. ์ƒ‰์ถœ ์ž‘์—…์„ ํ•˜๋˜ ์กฐ์šฉํžˆ ๋ธ”๋ฝํ•˜๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ๋”ฐ๋กœ ์• ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ํ•ด๋ด์•ผํ•  ๋ฌธ์ œ์˜€๊ตฌ๋‚˜ ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๋“ค์—ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. (์ด ๋ถ€๋ถ„์€ ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐœ์ธ์ ์œผ๋กœ ํ•ด๊ฒฐํ•˜๊ธฐ๋กœ ๊ฒฐ์‹ฌํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.)

ํ˜น ์ด ๊ธ€์„ ๋ณด๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ๋ณธ์ธ์ด ์ฝ”๋ฉ˜ํŠธ๋Š” ๋‹ฌ์ง€ ์•Š๊ธธ ๋ฐ”๋ž๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ €๋Š” ์ด ์นœ๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ์šฉ์„œํ–ˆ์œผ๋‹ˆ ๋ถ€๋”” ์•ž์œผ๋กœ ์งˆ์ฑ… ๋ฐ›๊ฑฐ๋‚˜ ์ž์ฑ…ํ•˜๋Š” ์ผ์ด ์ƒ๊ธฐ์ง€ ์•Š์•˜์œผ๋ฉด ํ•˜๋‹ˆ๊นŒ์š”. ๊ท€์—ฌ์šด ํŒฌ์•„ํŠธ ๊ณ ๋งˆ์› ๊ณ , ์ด ์ •๋„๋ฉด ๋ณธ์ธ๋„ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์œผ๋กœ ๋ญ˜ ํ•ด๋ด๋„ ์ข‹์„ ๊ฑฐ๋ผ ๋ด…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ œ ๋งŒํ™”... ์ผ๋Ÿฌ์ŠคํŠธ๊นŒ์ง€ ์ˆ˜์œ„๊ฐ€ ์ข€ ์žˆ๋Š”๋ฐ, ์ฐพ์•„๋ณผ ์ •๋„๋ฉด ์ด์ชฝ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์•Œ ๊ฑฐ ๋‹ค ์•Œ ๋‚˜์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‹ค๋งŒ ์ ˆ๋Œ€ ๋ˆ„๊ตฌํ•œํ…Œ ๋“คํ‚ค์ง€ ๋งˆ์‹œ๊ธธ..

ํฐ ํ˜ผ๋ž€์„ ๋“œ๋ ค ์ฃ„์†กํ•˜๊ณ , ๋ถ€์กฑํ•œ ์ €๋ฅผ ํ•˜์—ผ์—†์ด ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•˜๊ณ  ๊ฐ์‹ธ์ฃผ์‹  ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๋“ค๊ป˜ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์‚ฌํ•˜๋‹จ ๋ง์”€ ์ „ํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์‹ถ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ผ์ด ์ด๋ ‡๊ฒŒ ๋งˆ๋ฌด๋ฆฌ๋œ ๊ฒƒ ์ „๋ถ€ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๋“ค ๋•๋ถ„์ด๋ผ ์ƒ๊ฐํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ๊ฐ„ ํ•˜๊ณ  ์‹ถ์€ ๋ง์ด ๋งŽ์•˜๋Š”๋ฐ ์ด๋Ÿฐ ๋ง ๋ณด๋‹ค ์‹ค์€ ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์œผ๋กœ ์—ฌ๋Ÿฌ๋ถ„๋“ค์„ ์ฆ๊ฒ๊ฒŒ ํ•ด๋“œ๋ฆฌ๋Š” ๊ฒŒ ์ฐจ๋ผ๋ฆฌ ๋” ๋‚ซ๊ฒ ๋‹จ ์ƒ๊ฐ์— ๊ธ€์„ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ณด๋‹ค ๊ทธ๋ฆผ์„ ๊ทธ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.. ๋Š˜ ์ดํ•ดํ•ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ  ํ•ญ์ƒ ์ œ ํŽธ์ด ๋ผ์ฃผ์…”์„œ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. 12์›” ํฌ๋ฆฌ์Šค๋งˆ์Šค๊ฐ€ ๋‹ค๊ฐ€์˜ค๋Š”๋ฐ ์‹œ๊ฐ„์„ ๋งž์ถœ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์„์ง€ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ฒ ๋„ค์š”. ๊ธˆ๋ฐฉ ๋‹ค์‹œ ์ฐพ์•„์˜ค๋„๋ก ํ•˜๊ฒ ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ps. ์ €๋ฅผ ๋Œ€์‹ ํ•ด ์ง์ ‘ ์ƒํ™ฉ์„ ์•Œ์•„๋ด์ฃผ์‹œ๊ณ  ์ค‘์žฌํ•ด์ฃผ์‹  ์ต๋ช…์˜ ์ œ๋ณด์ž๋‹˜๊ป˜๋„ ์ง„์‹ฌ์œผ๋กœ ๊ฐ์‚ฌ๋“œ๋ฆฝ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

- About the situation from yesterday -

Comments

Hug~Itโ€˜s good ending for both of you.It's very difficult to forgive who hurted deeply,but you did.I'm proud of you.Love you and support you forever.

Timespacetiger

No Worries, I would've felt the same. Glad everything was settled nicely. you're amazing artist and hope the best for you. keep up the great work <3

RoseTourmaline

Itโ€™s ok Ccoon, I didnโ€™t know you were going through this, I hope you feel like your old self again and take this experience to heart you know live and learn. If you need a break we will understand we love your art and your comics! โ˜บ๏ธ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿผ๐Ÿปโ€โ„๏ธ๐ŸฆŒ๐Ÿ’•

Animus

I'm glad you're feeling better. Art theft is soul crushing, and you had every right to be angry. I'm also glad the offending party did their best to undo the damage and apologized personally. This was the best ending, and I'm so happy you're able to be at peace once more. &lt;3

Mr. Morebucks

You always have my support. I can tell you put a lot of effort on doing this work, and I hope you can make it through.

ChanYoYo

happy that things worked out and there arent anymore hard feelings. Hope you get a well devesered rest for the holidays. :)

shiga

You have the right to be angry about art theft, and its good that things worked out when the post was made and the culprit learned their lesson. Art theft is a thing people need to learn about more and how that affects the original creators behind them. But for now, glad things did turn to the better. However, be sure to care for yourself more. Give yourself a break, its the holidays and they are about the cheer and holiday vacations.

Sapphire Power

I'm glad it worked out!

Pal

Good thing this matter is resolved. Do remember to take breaks when you are not feeling well, although work is important but it is not as critical as our own health. Happy holiday, cheers ๐Ÿป.

dam

You are so kind and ......I don't know how to express my feeling and all I can do is support you as always. Maybe you can take a break to feel better because you are no so healthy, which can be seen in your words. Best wishes and Merry Christmas!

Yasushiharuka


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