Around 2:30 this afternoon, I was sitting in the living room of Mukat's house, reading LJ, when I heard a loud
bang from the bathroom. I jumped up and went to look, thinking the cat had knocked something over. Everything looked normal, until I noticed the bathroom cabinet seemed... low. It normally looks like this (this is the cabinet in the other bathroom)
[link]but it seemed to be sitting right on the toilet.
Then, it slid to the right, slamming into the top of the litter box, resting on the side of the countertop, and the back of the toilet exploded like a party cracker, sending chunks of porcelain flying. About two seconds after the huge cabinet dropped over, water began to gush from three places in the back piping stuff, hitting the floor and the wall.
Within a minute, the floor was filling up with water fast.
I grabbed the nearby towels and tried to dam up the doorway, to keep the water on the tile and off the hardwood floor, but there was so much water that it started to flow through. I couldn't reach the shut off valve on the back of the toilet because the cabinet was still in the way. While I was trying to figure out how to move the thing, it suddenly fell again, coming right at me. I lunged out of the way, thinking the glass would shatter and cut me, but it slammed into the floor and the glass remained intact, although the doors flew open and dumped the contents across the floor.
Now that the cabinet was out of the way, I began moving the chunks of porcelain in order to reach the valve. The water was, at this point, all around my ankles and flowing over the towels into the hall. Once I could reach the valve, I tried to turn it, but nothing happened. It was stuck, rusted shut. I called Mukat, telling him I needed him to come home right away, asking how to turn off the main water supply to the house. He didn't know, so he called his mother, who began rushing home as well.
While I was waiting, I ran next door, hoping to find someone who knew anything about plumbing or where the shut-off valve in a suburban home would be (our pumphouse/well set up at home has made me useless with city plumbing). One neighbor wasn't home, and the other looked blankly at me and said, "I don't know anything about plumbing." Almost apologetically, she added, "Because I'm a girl?" which made me die a little inside.
I ran back to the house, determined to strong arm the valve. Using a towel and pretty much falling over in the process, I managed to turn the damned thing. After that, I grabbed every towel in the house, slowly herding the water back into the bathroom. It had run under the door into Mukat's parents' bedroom, and under the wall into their bath. It's apparently also gone under the wall into the laundry room. I kept it away from the giant heating/cooling unit in the hall closet, though, which is worth something, I guess.
Mukat arrived, and we vacuumed the water out using a shop vac. When his mother arrived, she called a plumber and her insurance company. The plumber came and replaced the toilet (for about $600). I am still wet and I am very, very cold. But the water is gone, and the tile is getting cleaned, so it's all winding down.
Here is the room during the shop-vacuuming. I never really noticed how freakishly large that cabinet was, until it came flying at my head:
[link]Warriors from the army of towels:
[link]The damage done to the back of the toilet:
[link]Here's the chunk of porcelain from the back of the toilet I had to move:
[link]The gouge out of the litter box where the cabinet hit it, and just general cabinet carnage:
[link]Here's the hardwood floor in the hallway, already warping because it's too saturated with water and set too close together:
[link]Since the cabinet is set on the wall with a catch system to prevent it from being knocked off the wall, we couldn't figure out why it fell. Mukat's mother suggested the cat, but we rattled the one in their bath, and it never even budged, so there's no way a five pound kitten can knock something wider than two of me off of two mounted brackets.
Then, I found out that this morning, there was a 5.2 earthquake in Illinois that was felt as far as our town here in Tennessee, so I am convinced that either the quake or its 4.6 aftershock knocked the thing loose and it fell on its own later.
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Don't steal. Everyone's capable of producing something of their own, so there's no excuse for you stealing other people's work.
No one is going to pity you because Deviant Art removed things you stole and were posting illegally.
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Brandon: What are you doing this Friday?
Christian: Sitting by the shores of Babylon, weeping for Jerusalem, which is lost. Why?
-Cheshire Grin, cheshire-grin.net
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Brandon: What are you doing this Friday?
Christian: Sitting by the shores of Babylon, weeping for Jerusalem, which is lost. Why?
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Monster.
How should I feel?
Creatures lie here.
Stupid rednecks, thinking they can get away with stealing......
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I've learned that when it comes to art, people often ask for a critique but what they really want is a blowjob.
And you're welcome! I love your photos!
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I've learned that when it comes to art, people often ask for a critique but what they really want is a blowjob.
If you didn't trace, the things wouldn't line up perfectly. And just because you move it over slightly before continuing to trace doesn't mean you didn't do it at all. They line up, line for line. Line for line. And, as I said, it took me 14 minutes to dissect your tracings and upload them to Photobucket, by the way, since all you did was enlarge the original images. You didn't even change the ratios - you just increased them 200+ each time!
You are a thief. You have traced real artists' work, and refuse to admit it. Again, the issue is not that it is fan art. The issue is that it is traced art, and traced art is theft.
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Brandon: What are you doing this Friday?
Christian: Sitting by the shores of Babylon, weeping for Jerusalem, which is lost. Why?
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i am saying and have been saying, that i have reproduced them.
AND NO I DO NOT TRACE, repeat NOT TRACE, get over yourself!
you call me pathetic, and arrogant, but look in a mirror!
your the own who has no life, copying pics and lining them up so they match, it just distorts my pics and most things do not even line up! your proof is worth a rats ass!
so seriously, leave me the hell alone, you don't like the way i get wat to draw, DON'T LOOK AT IT!
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take what thou need, through any procatiouns necessary!
"i learned to draw myself, i taught myself and made all these pics with the inspiration of the the originals."
"damn, kan't anyone see, i drew these using my skill of reproduction"
You are claiming them as your own. You even had the audacity to leave a comment on one of the original artist's entries, saying, "lol, I drew this too, check it out." That's unbelievably pathetic and arrogant.
You traced them. You are claiming you eyeballed them, when they are obviously traced. By refusing to admit they are traced, you are claiming they are legitimately your art, which they are not.
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Brandon: What are you doing this Friday?
Christian: Sitting by the shores of Babylon, weeping for Jerusalem, which is lost. Why?
-Cheshire Grin, cheshire-grin.net
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SinX- Leader of Sakura Phantasms
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take what thou need, through any procatiouns necessary!
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Brandon: What are you doing this Friday?
Christian: Sitting by the shores of Babylon, weeping for Jerusalem, which is lost. Why?
-Cheshire Grin, cheshire-grin.net
Your art is not better than mine. You don't have any art. I will agree that Kubo Tite's art is better than mine. I'm of a mixed opinion about Takahashi Rumiko. And both of the Deviant Art artists you stole from are worlds better at art than I am. But again, you don't have any art to be jealous of. All you have are traces.
And if you don't care, why are you here? Why are you all over my journal, replying to me and anyone else who posts about how much you "don't care"?
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Brandon: What are you doing this Friday?
Christian: Sitting by the shores of Babylon, weeping for Jerusalem, which is lost. Why?
-Cheshire Grin, cheshire-grin.net
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SinX- Leader of Sakura Phantasms
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take what thou need, through any procatiouns necessary!
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My signature is pasted on! o.O
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Have self-pity! It makes you feel better about yourself. Especially the next time you fail and realize you're only human.
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Brandon: What are you doing this Friday?
Christian: Sitting by the shores of Babylon, weeping for Jerusalem, which is lost. Why?
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