I have an account at DeviantART. It’s a growing community of artists who post stuff online. Some specialize in random pictures, or paintings, or even ceramics. All in all, it’s a fun place with a lot of support.
Most of the artists are also happy to have their works incorporated into your works, provided you don’t sell it. It’s part of the whole Creative Commons movement you may have heard of in the past couple years. It works nicely, and it’s really all kind of on the honor system anyway.
So I’m looking for some images to make a picture for my wife. She’d been telling me a story about an opposum, and it put me in the mind of (roughly) this:
Taste the whimsy!
I thought it was funny. So did people in the office. But one person didn’t find it very funny.
The girl who made this:
Yeah Dana, I went there. It's your cupcake.
She sent me several nastygrams about how she didn’t give me permission to use the cupcake, and how it was HERS and repeated rebukes about how it wasn’t the DeviantArt way. I took the picture down and she STILL bitched about it.
Finally I told her we were done, and I was ready to let it go. Until I went through her Etsy store.
It turns out she’s a raging hypocrite. While she’s worried that everyone will think I made a cupcake, she’s been making (and selling) this:
Yummy TradeMark of Not Dana.
It’s kind of galling that she’d whine about me “stealing” her stuff, when she has no qualms whatsoever about stealing profit from the great Pocky. If there’s one thing I despise, it’s hypocracy.
So the original image is presented here in ALL it’s glory. And it will be FOREVER!!! HA!
Or, unless she apologizes. 
