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1) WAI WAI MY ICON I MADE IT CREDIT ME ME ME EDITING MY ICONS IS FORBIDDEN I WILL EAT'CHU
2) What? Credit/link back to the original artist for editing their fanart without permission? Why should I?
Either take fanart and use it and don't apologize, and don't !!demand!!1! that other people afford you the respect you blatantly didn't afford others (if it's important to you to get credit but it isn't important to GIVE credit, yes, it's not simply that you have thought out your own ethical position about fanart posted on the internet and are following a code of conduct, it's a lack of respect), or don't use fanart without permission and credit in the first place. It's not rocket science.
For the record, my own art doesn't icon well so I don't see why you'd want to, but this is my official blanket permission to use it even without crediting me, unless it's in a derogatory/hateful way in which case DENIED. Because personally I am not extremely emotionally attached to most of my art. Strangely enough I don't represent fanartists as a whole and am not arrogant enough to believe my attitude is the norm and all other fanartists should "grow a thicker skin" or whatever it is assholes use as an excuse to act like assholes without having to own up to it.
"Everyone else does it!!" is also not an excuse. Oh, wait, it IS an excuse, but a really shitty one.
2) What? Credit/link back to the original artist for editing their fanart without permission? Why should I?
Either take fanart and use it and don't apologize, and don't !!demand!!1! that other people afford you the respect you blatantly didn't afford others (if it's important to you to get credit but it isn't important to GIVE credit, yes, it's not simply that you have thought out your own ethical position about fanart posted on the internet and are following a code of conduct, it's a lack of respect), or don't use fanart without permission and credit in the first place. It's not rocket science.
For the record, my own art doesn't icon well so I don't see why you'd want to, but this is my official blanket permission to use it even without crediting me, unless it's in a derogatory/hateful way in which case DENIED. Because personally I am not extremely emotionally attached to most of my art. Strangely enough I don't represent fanartists as a whole and am not arrogant enough to believe my attitude is the norm and all other fanartists should "grow a thicker skin" or whatever it is assholes use as an excuse to act like assholes without having to own up to it.
"Everyone else does it!!" is also not an excuse. Oh, wait, it IS an excuse, but a really shitty one.