Apologies if you also still watch my old account - violet-grimm, this is a duplicate of a journal posted there. subs!

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these are second life tattoos stolen from my paintings

hail mary [link]

Lily of Guadalupe

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currently on sale by this sleaze ball [link] for $150 a pop.

whilst obviously copyright theft is the sincerest form of flattery it sure don’t put food on the table to feed my babies. Please feel free to tell this thief what you think of them and whilst I abhor giving them the free publicity and site hits that this rant will send them, I think it’s important that people let them know it just isn’t morally right to do this. Given that I will be getting legal advice, I am sure that anyone who sees fit to comment will do so graciously and I do not endorse the more forthright comments I am sure their actions will attract.

I am not a person to be fucked with or taken lightly.

I am working on some paintings which I shall post on my ‘dahliablack’ account when I have a mo.

On a personal level, I am very busy at the day job – having managed to get through to the final hurdle of the accelerated promotion scheme that we run in the British civil service,. I have a couple of trips to London to go and then, if successful will be elevated to Whitehall mandarin and in around five years hopefully be tucking away £70k a year. I shall be able to get central heating in my starving artists garret, and not have to dumpster dive quite so much in order to feed my fatherless children because someone stole my paintings. ‘ ’.

And I’m off to see ‘scars on broadway’ on Saturday, which I’m really looking forwards to. I shall unleash my inner 14 year old boy.