PEOPLE ARE DYING OF COMMUNISM
In last night’s Members Only post (password: cf4l), I shared a lovely piece of ragemail from someone who feels that making fun of her Twilight fan art is akin to bullying a gay person to death. Seriously.
To retaliate, she has amended all 35 of her coloring book pages on Etsy to include this important message:
“I welcome all your comments, provided they’re positive.”
I can’t tell you how much I love this. In fact, I’d like to have some samplers made up for the next charity drive. If anyone wants to make me a PEOPLE ARE DYING OF COMMUNISM sampler, let me know.
In the meantime, the fight has now moved over to Twitter.
SHIT JUST GOT REAL.
Please help this poor girl out. And by girl, I mean 40 year old housewife who draws pictures of Robert Pattinson with no shirt on. She really needs the internet to yell at us.
So far the Tweets coming in are fantastic.
It’s a good start, but real activism doesn’t just sit on its hands, no matter how good that feels.
If you’re on Twitter, tell the world something bad about us. Let’s make this happen. If Frans Johansson can trend, so can we!
ROCK ON TWITTER, GET A LIFE SHITTER!*
*I’m still working on this part
May 6, 2011 at 11:21 am
I heard that you eat a litter of baby kittens every morning for breakfast WITHOUT MILK! Is this true? I want to make sure before I post it.
May 6, 2011 at 11:35 am
The internet is no place for unsubstantiated rumors, after all.
Which is good because *I* heard she has her morning kittens in smoothie form.
May 6, 2011 at 11:36 am
See, that’s why we need to verify things! Just like I made sure to look at those coloring book pages being called art before deciding they were crap…you’ve got to go straight to the source.
May 6, 2011 at 12:29 pm
With a side of coleslaw while listening to Zydeco music.
May 6, 2011 at 12:43 pm
Yeah, but rumor has it she only pretends to like Zydeco music.
May 6, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Zyedeco Kitten Conspiracy is my new band name.
May 6, 2011 at 12:14 pm
nah she drinks them with breastmilk.
May 6, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Only those that come from cats who’s owners are against circumcision.
May 6, 2011 at 1:38 pm
I don’t care if a cat’s cicrumcized as long as he gets his balls snipped. There are too many strays.
PSA: Neuter your pets dammit!
May 6, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Breastmilk for all, Feline Genital Mutilation for none!!
May 6, 2011 at 5:41 pm
First she kicks them, then puts them in the blender with breastmilk and PROCESSED SUGAR. She needs her strength to cart those wheelbarrows of babies down to the train tracks.
P.S. She’s a fucking commie pinko, too.
May 6, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Is that without milk in the kittens or on them?
May 6, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Don’t be silly. She eats the kittens with breastmilk.
May 6, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Dammit, just saw Angel’s comment.
May 6, 2011 at 8:17 pm
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May 6, 2011 at 11:23 am
I’m going to be having way too much fun coming up with shit to tweet.
May 6, 2011 at 11:32 am
You can be bitter- just get on Twitter…
May 6, 2011 at 12:42 pm
I hate Twitter, but I have this itch to set up an account just to screw with this chick.
May 6, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Me too. I will be content to watch the madness unfold from here, though.
May 6, 2011 at 5:42 pm
May I sit with you, Poops?
May 6, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Can I squeeze in here with yous twos to watch thee parade from the sidelines? I refuse to tweet. It’s the last
internetsinternet I am holding out on joining.May 6, 2011 at 11:23 am
BABIES AND TRAINS, PROPORTION’S A PAIN!
May 6, 2011 at 11:59 am
Now we need Regretsy cheerleaders!
May 6, 2011 at 1:53 pm
If by cheerleaders, you mean fat chicks in pink sweats knocking back mint juleps…sign me up.
May 6, 2011 at 3:05 pm
Or we could all just wear regretsy thugs shirts with whatever else we had on before changing into the shirt.
May 6, 2011 at 1:09 pm
WHEN YOU SNIFF TOO MUCH GLITTER,
YOU START WARS ON TWITTER.
May 6, 2011 at 2:16 pm
I just have to say yours is the best username in all of internetdom. May you never die of communism.
May 6, 2011 at 11:24 am
So far, on my Twitter, Regretsy ate my baby, gave my daughter a huge zit on her nose the day before prom, turned my Pepsi into Coke, and kicked my baby kitten in front of a train.
I HOPE YOU’RE HAPPY!
May 6, 2011 at 11:27 am
Regretsy is also the reason I can’t wear my prom dress from 1986.
May 6, 2011 at 11:31 am
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
May 6, 2011 at 11:36 am
It was the prom dress from 1984 that was the abortion of taffeta, fluff, and bows. The 1986 one was haawwt!
REGRETSY IS THE REASON I WORE THAT LAVENDER FLUFF NIGHTMARE IN 1984!
May 6, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Why? Because you repurposed it with scraps of lace, twigs and a pinking shears then sold it as Vintage inspired for $500? Or was there another reason?
May 6, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Regretsy made my twitter explode this morning with awesomeness. It seriously has made my day.
Also Regretsy wont release their long-form birth certificate!
May 6, 2011 at 11:24 am
BAD ARTIST MOMMIES, THE REST OF YOU ARE COMMIES!
May 6, 2011 at 11:25 am
I heard that @regretsy cut the brakes on a school bus for special needs children! #postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 11:26 am
REGRETSY STARTED THE RICK ROLL!
May 6, 2011 at 11:28 am
I KNEW IT! BASTARDS! You hear that April… you are responsible for annoying entertainment!
May 6, 2011 at 11:41 am
I almost said that, but I went with the ‘Friday’ connection…
May 6, 2011 at 11:26 am
I saw your RT’s and went, “WTF? Did I miss something?”
Now I know. I can vacuum the cat hair off the couch for hair balls to sell on Etsy with peace of mind.
May 6, 2011 at 11:52 am
you mean the cat hair that regretsy put on your couch?
May 6, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Yup. My cats had nothing to do with it.
She did it on purpose, too. She KNEW my in-laws were coming over this weekend, and she KNEW they’re allergic to cats! I’ve been vacuuming all week to keep the cat hair under control because she keeps coming over with BAGS of cat hair! Where does she even getting it all?! Is she shaving cats at the animal shelters…?!
May 6, 2011 at 12:01 pm
*Where *IS* she…
May 6, 2011 at 12:07 pm
… so what you’re saying is regretsy steals cats from animal shelters and shaves them, and purposely infects the elderly. terrible. someone tweet that, the world needs to know!
May 6, 2011 at 12:12 pm
She kicks the hair off kittens.
May 6, 2011 at 1:24 pm
She has to shave the kittens before she puts them in breastmilk to eat for breakfast…duh. And she also gets the kittens from the shelters under the guise of legitimate adoption. Also, regretsy is somehow inexplicably responsible for aborting baby pandas worldwide…
Keep fighting the good fight, Regretsians! XD
May 6, 2011 at 11:26 am
Regretsy squeezes the toothpaste in the middle!
May 6, 2011 at 1:39 pm
And drops the cap in the toilet!
May 6, 2011 at 7:39 pm
Regretsy dropped my toothbrush in the toilet and then put it back!
May 6, 2011 at 11:26 am
May 6, 2011 at 11:27 am
As a mother myself, I’m really impressed by how much time this woman has on her hands to argue with total strangers and make shitty fan art she traced off the Twilight dvd cover. Shouldn’t she be picking her kid up from school or something? Anything?
May 6, 2011 at 11:32 am
If she were my mom, I’d be grateful as hell for every moment I could escape the crazy train.
May 6, 2011 at 12:45 pm
She may escape riding the train but Regretsy will just throw her in front of it.
May 6, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Imagine having that woman be 50% of your gene pool? That poor child; any day now s/he could start tracing Bieber pictures with crayons and posting them in mom’s store.
May 6, 2011 at 11:49 am
Is it considered “irony” that this woman likely neglects her own children when called by her muse to create overrated coloring pages?
May 6, 2011 at 11:52 am
Oh, she forgot to pick her kid up a long time ago. Now her daughter lives in the woods behind the school, semi-feral. She makes do… grubs and berries are plentiful. Sometimes, though, she still wakes up screaming- huddled in her little nest of dry leaves- with vague memories of Mommy’s terrible art.
May 6, 2011 at 11:54 am
I think the kid would be better off.. At least she can live without psychomom..
May 6, 2011 at 11:52 am
*internet high-five*
May 6, 2011 at 12:49 pm
If she traces, and with so much tracing experience behind her…shouldn’t she trace better? But hells bells, I’m just a bitter knitter, what do I know?
May 6, 2011 at 5:45 pm
This almost makes me happy that my mom has absolutely no hobbies. Or computer skills.
May 6, 2011 at 11:27 am
To be fair, Trotsky did die from Communism
May 6, 2011 at 11:41 am
As did the Romanovs…
May 6, 2011 at 11:55 am
we could’ve saved him… if only we hadn’t been sitting around making snide comments on regretsy
May 6, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Yup – in 40 years time our grandchildren will ask “What did you do in the Great Twilight Artwork Marxist War?”
I guess that we’re not gonna look too smug then
May 6, 2011 at 1:04 pm
I fully intend to look at least this smug, if not smugger, in 40 years.
May 6, 2011 at 9:33 pm
I thought Trotsky died from an ice-pick to the head? Man, shows what I know.
May 6, 2011 at 11:27 am
I just had to go back to the chocolate covered bacon… I couldn’t help myself… the fat gay jewness in me wants some so bad…………….. grabs couverture chocolate… I”M GOIN’ IN! oh… and Rock on Etsy, have sex with Regretsy? no… that’s not it… dang
May 6, 2011 at 11:27 am
I actually started a twitter account to check this out and now I feel old because Twitter is confusing.
May 6, 2011 at 11:31 am
I hear people say this a lot. Which part is confusing? You’re probably just overthinking it.
May 6, 2011 at 11:32 am
Think of it as chat with a million bazillion self-centered people.
(I can say this as I have *three* twitter accounts.)
May 6, 2011 at 11:44 am
Anyway – quick tutorial:
If you are “home”, you will see your own tweets and the tweets of people you’re following.
If you are on the profile of someone (like @Regretsy) you will see their tweets and any they have “re-tweeted” (other people’s comments they’ve pasted into their own feed).
If you type “regretsy” in the search box at the top, it will show you any tweets from anyone mentioning regretsy in the tweet. For this, that’s the one you want.
May 6, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Or just go here if you REALLY don’t want to have to figure it out:
http://twitter.com/#!/search/postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 1:22 pm
or type in searchbar #postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 1:35 pm
sweet, I’m not a twit, but this is awesome:
APlanetCalldErp Anna M
@Regretsy tags Navajo symbols as “steampunk” #postsomethingaweomecuzyouknowyouwantto (okay changed that)
6 minutes ago
May 6, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Oh thank you! It just seems like you can see the same thing from a variety of different places… I don’t know if that makes sense. Anyway thanks for the primer, I’m getting it!
May 6, 2011 at 1:42 pm
I’m old and it is confusing and I already have 5 accounts that I don’t know how to use.
May 6, 2011 at 6:01 pm
I am sure it is regretsy that makes twitter seem confusing (seriously I am old and it is hard to me, which really means it just does not interest me enough to try to understand).
May 6, 2011 at 11:32 am
REGRETSY MAKES JYLCAT FEEL OLD!
May 6, 2011 at 11:34 am
would it be silly to actually tweet that? hmmmmm
methinksI think not…May 6, 2011 at 1:37 pm
hahaa, It does! And I don’t think ANYTHING is considered too silly to tweet!
May 6, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Just for Regretsy, I:
1. reset my twitter password
2. Googled “how to use Twitter”
3. told my 4 year-old to “give mommy just a few more minutes” about 5 times.
4. uttered “f*ckin’ twitter” several times while trying to figure out how to “follow” regretsy
5. gave up, hugged the 4 y/o
6. realized I just pissed away about 15 minutes of my life I WILL NEVER GET BACK.
On the bright side, I now understand what the hell all the random @’s and #’s mean.
#theinternetissuckingmylifeaway
May 6, 2011 at 12:14 pm
I joined twitter just for this.
May 6, 2011 at 1:02 pm
Me, too. My first tweet was: @regretsy made me join twitter and then made me miss the twitter war while I was figuring out how to use it.
May 6, 2011 at 1:14 pm
I joined the internet just for this.
May 6, 2011 at 12:31 pm
This is quite possibly the best thing I’ve read all day.
May 6, 2011 at 1:47 pm
in retrospect, I should have asked my 4 y/o how to use Twitter. would have saved a lot of time
May 6, 2011 at 6:28 pm
Cat 2 looks at you with distain. Cat 1 presents his a-hole to as a sign of affection.
May 6, 2011 at 11:27 am
Twitter War= Greatest Show On Earth*
*suck it, Ringling Bros.
May 6, 2011 at 12:50 pm
How many rings are there? Do we get to see some high wire acts sans net?
May 6, 2011 at 1:03 pm
One. There is one ring, and it has hands on either side of it.
May 6, 2011 at 8:43 pm
One ring to goatse them all…
May 6, 2011 at 5:32 pm
We do get to see a couple of butthurt clowns juggling inadequacy, indignation and stupidity, oh yeah and FIRE!
May 6, 2011 at 11:28 am
My head is killing me today, I think I might be dying of communism you guys. Cough.
May 6, 2011 at 11:30 am
I had Socialism once. Luckily, it didn’t progress to full-blown Communism. I went to the doctor and they were able to prescribe something for it. The worst part was going to class. All the other kids had to stay at least 15 feet away from me or risk getting Socialism themselves. Luckily, these days they have vaccines for those sorts of things.
May 6, 2011 at 11:31 am
Are you feeling sickle?
May 6, 2011 at 11:35 am
Yeah, got the Trotskys too. BA-ZINGLOVA!
May 6, 2011 at 11:37 am
Get to the doctor quick – no Stalin!
May 6, 2011 at 11:54 am
LeeLoo, I find you to be witty and charmimg. Srsly, like every post. I heart you.
Do you need a new BFF? I think Killer’s taken…
May 6, 2011 at 11:59 am
That made my day! : D
May 6, 2011 at 12:45 pm
LeeLoo always gets high Marx from me
May 6, 2011 at 11:32 am
I have the sniffles. I think it might be socialism. Hope your case of communism gets better!
May 6, 2011 at 11:56 am
May 6, 2011 at 12:02 pm
DO NOT play with agricultural and carpentry tools. DO NOT hold the sickle up to your eyeball and smack yourself in the nose with the hammer.
May 6, 2011 at 9:12 pm
this is the best thing ever. i love you.
May 7, 2011 at 3:19 am
You’ll find neither sympathy nor help here on regretsy. Miserable and insecure regretsy readers do not help those dying from communism…
May 6, 2011 at 11:28 am
@Regretsy is cynical new detritus made by mixing old detritus. Vs solitary creative genius shaping world to their their vision. http://catandgirl.com/?p=2881
May 6, 2011 at 11:28 am
YOU SUNK THE TITANIC, MY CAT COLLECTION’S GIGANTIC!
May 6, 2011 at 11:55 am
@regretsy sunk my battleship
May 6, 2011 at 11:29 am
Wow, she hit the nail on the head. I’m super jealous of her amazing tracing abilities. WELL GUESS WHAT, ROBSTENFART! I’m going to go kick a kitten in your honor!
PS : You’re thirty-one, and starting fights over twitter. I don’t think Regretsy is your biggest problem.
May 6, 2011 at 11:40 am
Yeah, that’s what gets me–this tittybaby has the sacks to admit she traces and is no good at art (because you know perspective matters to some people)…yet we are hateful and jealous of her admitted lack of talent.
Thanks for sweating over your drawings…ewwww
May 6, 2011 at 12:27 pm
There is a big market for merchandise soaked with bodily fluids on etsy.
also:
Regretsy dropped a toenail clipping in my Big Gulp #regretsy
May 6, 2011 at 12:41 pm
I was just thinking that. What nads to say “I copy this stuff because I can’t do it myself. Now, give me money for this.” If you can’t do it without copying it, don’t try to sell it.
By this logic I can copy whatever I want and sell it. In fact, I have a nice cello music CD right here. I copied it from Yoyo Ma because I’m not good at playing the cello (In that I can’t at all). Money, please!
May 6, 2011 at 7:49 pm
I had a feeling she traced. Pisses me right off. Good thing I’ve got alcohol to quell my rage.
She had it comin’, yes she did.
May 6, 2011 at 11:29 am
I know it is silly but “Why else would they sit around and bash everything on this wonderful site?” bothers me. Not everything is bashed my darling. Only the shitty stuff is bashed. Not even everything posted on Regretsy is bashed, a lot of it is just regarded with shock and awe.
May 6, 2011 at 11:35 am
I know I only buy things on Etsy to make fun of them. And then I leave nice feedback ironically, duh. Because I hate everything on there.
May 6, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Oooh, you do? I thought it was only me! Nice to meet you. Are you fat, lazy, jealous, and a loser too? Because that would just be the Vicodin & razor blade laced icing on the rotten cupcake that is Etsy.
May 6, 2011 at 1:35 pm
Oh my god, TOTALLY. I pretty much spend every night alone eating pastries, when I’m not busy dicing up puppies and feeding them to vegans under the guise of “tofu stew.” So yeah, that’s me.
May 6, 2011 at 4:27 pm
i went and twittered around a bit, then realized I have a small following. I so rarely use my Twitter account, what a nice surprise for people who buy my non-Etsy products on my website and my zazzle and cafepress friends. Oh well, I don’t think I cursed. Much. In any case, maybe some of them will find their way to Regretsy.
May 6, 2011 at 3:16 pm
I run a store on Etsy and I love this damn place. These idiots make it look bad for the rest of us who are trying to be fair and good!
May 6, 2011 at 11:29 am
I don’t have a Twitter, but I’m considering making one just to post “Regretsy loves babies. But not raw.”
May 6, 2011 at 6:56 pm
Maybe Twilight lady could trace your comment for you and post it as her own original work?
May 6, 2011 at 11:30 am
I heard over at Regretsy, that bitch April kicked out Bronc. Thank God I have an empty side of the bed…he’s stayin’ with me. (I will not be mentioning the Im Gay part.) Now, take these “aspirin” and have a G+T Bronc…
May 6, 2011 at 11:34 am
This is my favorite one so far:
“@Regretsy sends hot guys to Burning Man but takes pictures of them with their clothes ON.”
May 6, 2011 at 11:39 am
Yeah, that is pretty cruel actually.
May 6, 2011 at 11:44 am
Score! that one was mine. I am no longer misarble today.
May 6, 2011 at 12:14 pm
I’ll bet you’re still uneduacted, though.
May 6, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Snerk…
I was feeling really sad for her, given how hard her life has been recently…right before I got into the shower. I get out, and all this happens.
Teach me to feel compassionate. Christ, humans often make themselves so hard to like.
Also…is that really Bronc on facebook? I had not realized men could look like that and also be straight. Go April!
May 6, 2011 at 1:49 pm
That’s TERRIBLE!
May 6, 2011 at 11:30 am
“I welcome all your comments, provided they’re positive.”
The old church next door to me has been leased by a splinter group who left their large, established denomination because they didn’t agree with allowing gays to participate in the sacrament. The new sign includes “All Are Welcome”.
Um, no.
May 6, 2011 at 11:30 am
I wonder if they’d like the Westboro Baptists to show up…
May 6, 2011 at 12:56 pm
“i am positive you use an overhead projector and the big box of crayolas with the sharpener in the back.”
May 6, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Here’s my coment: I’m positively sure these drawings look like they were done by someone with positively no art training at all.
May 6, 2011 at 6:53 pm
Cross oooverrr chilllldren.
Alllll are wellllcome. Aaaall welllllcome.
Go into the Light.
There is peace and serenity in the Liiiight.
May 6, 2011 at 11:30 am
I’m so proud that my first tweet ever was to tell the world that Regretsy eats babies for breakfast and communists for dinner.
May 6, 2011 at 11:46 am
Oh, no! We are the Communists!
May 6, 2011 at 11:53 am
We’re cannibals too?!
May 6, 2011 at 1:07 pm
It would be just like us, wouldn’t it?
May 9, 2011 at 9:04 am
Just read your “rant” on your blog,and wish to give you a multitude of upraised thumbs!!!!
I enjoyed looking over your designs as well!!
May 6, 2011 at 11:30 am
Holy shit there I am!
I feel like tell her “Lady, I gots no life. I can do this all damn day.”
May 6, 2011 at 11:30 am
grrr. *tellING
preview is my friend. dammit
May 6, 2011 at 11:40 am
Ha! Until your post I didn’t even realize there was a preview feature. Shows how observant I am!
May 6, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Wow, would you look at that? There is a preview button.
PS : I had to reply to this just so I could see the preview button for myself.
May 6, 2011 at 11:30 am
This is driving more traffic to this site, giving HK more fodder for more posts, and yet this Twitter campaign is supposed to be threatening or something?
This woman utterly fails to realize that HK just doesn’t give a shit – a lesson this foot-stomper sorely needs to learn.
May 6, 2011 at 12:15 pm
HK is a true honeybadger that way.
May 6, 2011 at 12:56 pm
But is she lactating? If so, I hear you can make some soap & ice cream.
Think of the children! Won’t someone please think of the children!?!
May 6, 2011 at 4:17 pm
I lol’ed at the lactating honeybadger. And I felt you should know.
May 6, 2011 at 11:30 am
Reading all the tweets now. I fucking love you people so much. So, so much.
May 6, 2011 at 11:33 am
ARRRG, Why is there no upvote in twitter?
May 6, 2011 at 11:41 am
There’s a retweet, so it appears in more places…
May 6, 2011 at 11:33 am
Irrelevant, but I read your name as Dysfunctioning Lint. Sounds like something that is definitely sold on Etsy. I like it.
May 6, 2011 at 11:31 am
I had communism once, but then I sold a couple of my Sharpie and colored pencil drawings of various scenes from “Twilight” and “The Turner Diaries” on etsy and now I’m all about the profit, baby.
May 6, 2011 at 11:31 am
Regretsy was piloting Ocean Flight 815. Just so you know.
May 6, 2011 at 1:05 pm
I think you mean Oceanic Flight 815.
(I am a Lost dork.)
May 6, 2011 at 2:59 pm
NAR! too much coffee, not enough tequila.
May 6, 2011 at 7:22 pm
That was Regretsy’s fault too.
May 6, 2011 at 11:31 am
Are we sure she isn’t just trolling?
Also, how dare she sell (crappy) art while people are dying of communism? DO SOMETHING CONSTRUCTIVE!
May 6, 2011 at 11:37 am
YES, I was going to say this. But I try to be diligent in reading existing comments before adding my own. There are starving blogs in India with not enough comments to go around!
May 6, 2011 at 11:32 am
Regretsy made me paint my taint and sit on things.
May 6, 2011 at 11:32 am
Hi, I’m such a shitty artist that I can’t do anything but draw 3 tits! So I like to trace my pictures and then color them by number. Then I sell them on Etsy to fucktards like myself!
I still say my kid can do better than some of the shit I’ve seen for sale lately… so why am I always broke? Oh yeah, cause I won’t sell garbage on Etsy or whore my kid out!
It’s fucktard Friday people! Time to piss off all fucktards!
May 6, 2011 at 11:32 am
OMG how many people will DIE of communism TODAY??!!!?? Can I wear a rubber bracelet, make a YouTube video, or setup a Cat-Walk-A-Thon or something to prevent these needless deaths?
But I do have to sympathize with the Twitard a bit. My boss is so mean, he never backs me up when I tell a client they’ll have to settle for whatever I produce because I’m not very good at the things we’re trying to sell.
May 6, 2011 at 1:20 pm
You need to quickly trace a couple of pictures and color them – avoid red!!! That will save at least one person from the HORRRRRRRRIBLE disease called Communism…
May 6, 2011 at 11:32 am
She thinks this is art. My art degree begs to differ. If I brought in a traced *anything* to my drawing class my professor would probably slap me into next week.
Also, Regretsy came over to my house, didn’t wipe their feet on the mat, kicked my kitten and then stole all my kid’s left over jelly beans from Easter.
May 6, 2011 at 11:46 am
I wrote a long rant which I guess got eaten.
I agree with this. Tracing everything is so lame.
Her reason for tracing it is because she can’t get proportions well. THIS SHOULD BE HER CLUE. IT MEANS SHE NEEDS TO PRACTICE FREEHAND DRAWING MORE NOT LESS.
Imagine someone who is out of shape and gets windy when they walk a few minutes thinking to themselves, “I get tired when I walk. I’m going to start using a scooter from now on because walking is hard for me.” NO, most people would be thinking, “Damn, I need to go to the gym, I’m out of shape.”
I just don’t understand this reasoning. If you suck at something, you work to improve it if you have the option, not find a way to cheat your way around it. “Practice makes perfect” and all that.
May 6, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Been out to Walmart recently? There are a lot of people using those scooters because walking is hard for them.
May 7, 2011 at 4:34 am
BSc – University of WA – 2003
DipEd – 2005
May 6, 2011 at 11:48 am
Agree x 100. I would have been laughed straight out of college.
May 6, 2011 at 12:12 pm
How the fuck many art majors do we have on here? Rollcall!
BA in Illustration, Auburn, 1991
May 6, 2011 at 12:44 pm
I have a BA in English Lit., can I count as half?
May 6, 2011 at 1:02 pm
Mrs. Vagoo, I’ve noticed Regretsy seem to have a lot of English majors and writers, too.
May 6, 2011 at 1:32 pm
BA in Studio Art (the liberal arts degree of art) 1980, Northern Illinois University.
May 6, 2011 at 1:49 pm
BA Interior Architecture and Design 06 Kent State.
May 6, 2011 at 1:55 pm
BSEE (electrical engineering) with a minor in Physics, 1981.
Please don’t hurt me.
My parents discouraged me from spending their money on any BA degrees. And I stupidly thought that to be an artist or musician, I didn’t need to go to college for it. But I lived in the “Arts House” dorm…
May 6, 2011 at 2:02 pm
BFA Interactive Media and Digital Arts (Animation) NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY BABY
In school now
hey, Im young and hale. Can I be HK’s apprentice? (Bronc too. I hear he’s an animator)
May 6, 2011 at 2:16 pm
BFA in Dramatic Writing (screenwriting) from NYU, 2006.
May 6, 2011 at 2:38 pm
BFA in theatre, Syracuse, 1983.
May 6, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Master of Music, Boston Conservatory, 2011- actually graduation is 7 days away. Woot.
May 6, 2011 at 4:53 pm
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, 2001
May 6, 2011 at 5:27 pm
War Eagle!
But, I’m afraid after a few art classes I decided I didn’t want the art minor I was considering. If I were going to starve for my art, it would be the writing one.
(For what it’s worth, I strongly recommend college art classes to anyone serious about artwork. It helped me improve a lot both in actual technique and toughening me up for critique.)
May 6, 2011 at 6:35 pm
BFA Studio Art, JMU, 2010
May 6, 2011 at 8:26 pm
BFA Studio Art with concentration in Painting, Alfred University, 1994.
May 6, 2011 at 8:40 pm
I have all but one semester of my studio art degree (in drawing too!) and then realized I would never get a job. So I immediately switched my major to English Lit and Art History. Because that’s gonna help sooooooooooo much.
May 7, 2011 at 6:03 am
Orin Scrivello D.D.S.
Skid Row College
May 30, 2011 at 7:20 pm
BA, English (Lit), Virginia Tech, 1996…
May 6, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Graphic Design, CCS, 96
May 6, 2011 at 1:35 pm
BA Technical Theater, concentration in Costume Design.
May 6, 2011 at 5:15 pm
MFA from Pratt (Brooklyn NY) 2000. No, I’m not a hipster.
May 6, 2011 at 12:07 pm
My Four year old’s art work looks better.. At least he doesn’t trace..
@robstenArt @Regretsy came into my house and put their muddy feet up on my couch and rubbed their dirty platform shoes all over my leather couch saying, “F*** YO COUCH!!”
LMAO!!
May 6, 2011 at 12:09 pm
This. God, tracing was shunned even on the porny oekaki boards I used to draw on. If she had ever had contact with anyone outside her circlejerk of Twitard fans she would know that tracing is a big no-no.
May 6, 2011 at 11:33 am
REGRETSY HAS ROACHES IN HER HAIR.
May 6, 2011 at 5:59 pm
Ah, I was wondering what sex Regretsy was. I tried to feel her up once to find out but she said there was a 2 drink minimum and I was broke.
May 6, 2011 at 11:33 am
Look, she’s got a picture of Katy Perry! She’s branching out http://www.etsy.com/listing/69555712/transition-closer?ref=v1_other_2
May 6, 2011 at 11:41 am
What’s with all those little marshmallows in her mouth?
What really gets me is that she admits that she traces her “artwork” and then “changes things here or there.” Really? Come on now. Even the teenage tracers on deviantArt know better than to blatantly admit they’ve been tracing.
May 6, 2011 at 11:34 am
“COLESLAW, FULL OF BAWWWWWWWW”
“FOR NORMAL KIN, KEEP BREASTFEEDIN’”
Those work, right?
May 6, 2011 at 11:34 am
She’s entirely too close to my age to be acting like a toddler.
May 6, 2011 at 6:18 pm
Agreed. When someone mentioned she was in her 30s or 40s, all I could think was ‘Who in their right mind that age would be obsessed with ‘Twilight’ to the point of drawing bad artwork? It borders on creepy.
On the other hand, I probably shouldn’t be talking. I’m a big fan of Doctor Who, and I’m in my early 50s. On the other hand, I’ve been watching the show since I was in my early teens, and my interest is more in the Classic Series (up through Seven) than the new one (though I did watch the first season with Nine, and I’ve started watching 11).
I mean, I’ll readily admit that Matt Smith is easy on the eyes. But Sweet Jesus, my SONS are older than him!
May 6, 2011 at 11:34 am
Here’s mine:
@robstenArt You know what? @Regretsy ate my homework once and I got an F. DAMN THEM! #postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 11:42 am
@Regretsy is actually a Chinese reseller! #postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 11:54 am
This is addicting…
The @Regretsy lady wouldn’t share her cupcake with me even though I said please! #postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 12:33 pm
The @Regretsy lady made me a cookie, but then she eated it.
May 6, 2011 at 11:34 am
Jesus Christ, did she fall and hit her head or something? It’s like she never left elementary school.
May 6, 2011 at 11:40 am
Srsly, I am starting to wonder if maybe she’s mentally ill or something, and that’s why she can’t step away. In which case I would feel a little bad. In which case I hope her therapist is not the fluffy kind and will tell her to step away from the computer for a while.
May 6, 2011 at 8:32 pm
Honestly, I fell on my head in 4th grade, AND am a bit mentally ill (anxiety), but I earned my BFA, and am smart enough to not try to sell work I feel I screwed up on.
May 6, 2011 at 11:35 am
Almost makes me want to create a twitter account just to #postsomethingterrible.
May 6, 2011 at 11:37 am
You’re not LJ from PLH are you?
May 6, 2011 at 11:41 am
Nope, sorry.
May 6, 2011 at 11:35 am
Is she seriously 40? Or an adult at all? Because I’ve been assuming she’s going through puberty and it’s making her crazy.
May 6, 2011 at 7:27 pm
Maybe it’s early onset menopause combined with vascular dementia.
May 6, 2011 at 8:36 pm
I don’t know what vascular dementia is, (If I feel like it I’ll Google it. Probably won’t.)but I am 39 and have just begun to experience hot flashes this year. It’s a thought.
May 6, 2011 at 11:36 am
We have to insult EVERYTHING on Etsy? Crap; I’d better get busy!
May 6, 2011 at 12:15 pm
I spend too much time on Regretsy as it is!
May 6, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Isn’t Etsy an insult enough?
Its all that Regretsy lady’s fault. She keeps cracking Etsy’s system & loading shit for sale!
May 6, 2011 at 11:36 am
Wait wait wait, so let me get this right, so she traces these pictures and they still look like shit? So why is she mad at us, she admits that she isn’t any good.
May 6, 2011 at 1:03 pm
Because, she “welcome all your comments, provided they’re positive”.
I’m POSITIVE she draws crap. I’m POSITIVE she’s got the mentality of a middle schooler. I’m POSITIVE that her children will have years of therapy ahead of them.
May 6, 2011 at 8:38 pm
It’s got to be pretty bad to suck even at tracing.
May 6, 2011 at 11:37 am
I just got done yelling at my kids because they were distracting me while I’m supposed to be working and now you come along and post this shit. How am I ever supposed to get anything done?
oooh…that gives me something else to post on Twitter…
damn you, HK
May 6, 2011 at 11:38 am
I am so sick of people crying “bully” at Regretsy. It’s the new trend to cry “bully” anytime someone says something negative. This country is so protective of “self-esteem” that even IMPLYING that someone isn’t perfect or has room to grow is considered bullying. These whiners wouldn’t last 2 seconds in a competitive arena. The first time someone criticizes the color they used in the background and there would be posts all over the internet about the judge who hates the color purple and who is jealous of those who can use it with such passion. I’ve experienced both competition and bullying, and the two are nothing alike. Stop insulting the memories of those who have committed suicide due to bullies by implying that saying your art sucks is on the same page as suggesting someone should kill themselves because they are a dirty whore.
May 6, 2011 at 11:43 am
You know, I’d be so chuffed (happy), I’d piss myself if something of mine showed up on Regretsy. What an awesome way to get attention. And if your item is truly weird in a good way, the attention just means someone’ll buy it. And if it sucks, guess what? NOW YOU KNOW. FIX IT. Businesses pay people good money all the time to tell them their products suck, then they fix them and make money.
May 6, 2011 at 12:01 pm
I’d have mixed feelings about it, but yeah, showing up on Regretsy, on the whole would be a good thing. It did sorta hurt my feelings though when I dress I own by my favorite Etsian showed up on Regretsy. The seller took it in stride though and is still happily selling them.
May 6, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Not everything that shows up on Regretsy is bad. Some of it is WTF but still wonderful. (And a LOT of these items get sold.)
May 6, 2011 at 1:11 pm
I am just going to assume you’re talking about the 4 wolves dress.
May 6, 2011 at 12:29 pm
I’m actually thinking of putting the worst thing I could possibly make on Etsy, anonymously submitting it to April, and hoping to god it gets posted here.
May 6, 2011 at 2:00 pm
We’ve all had that thought! I have a pile of “art” that I
traceddrew in High school (which is over 30 years ago at this point) waiting to be scanned, and a shop to be opened in the vague hope that April will feature me.May 6, 2011 at 6:49 pm
This reminds me of the part in the bad ’80′s dance movies where the opposing gangs look at each other and it is ON! But instead of a dance-off. . .do I sense a sh-art off in the works? As in who has the shittiest art to throw down?
May 6, 2011 at 12:05 pm
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May 6, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Short version:
If my stuff on Regretsy: YAY! Money!
Your stuff on Regretsy? Make you sad/mad? Fix stuff!
My stuff not weird enough for Regretsy. Sad.
May 6, 2011 at 12:21 pm
Oh. Y’mean the first one.
Here goes (short version):
You say someone bully because no like your crappy stuff? You wrong.
You used to playing by kiddie rules. Bullying different from calling crappy stuff crappy. Competition != bullying.
May 6, 2011 at 12:37 pm
If that’s TL, heaven help you if you ever make your way to my blog! *laughs*
May 6, 2011 at 1:27 pm
I’ve always said pessimists are the true optimists, because we believe everything can improve.
May 6, 2011 at 11:39 am
*Correction: 40 year old housewife who draws pictures with no shirt on AND of Robert Pattinson with no shirt on.
May 6, 2011 at 11:41 am
“regresty made someone buy horrible twilight art photocopies”
May 6, 2011 at 11:41 am
Mental wounds not healing, life’s a bitter shame…
she’s going off the rails on a crazy train!
May 6, 2011 at 11:41 am
This is the best tweet so far (yeah, I read like 5 of them):
http://twitter.com/#!/orcmischief/status/66572507666333696
Having a BFA (& selling art on etsy) I am mortified that this flouncy Ms. Sadlarious isn’t ashamed to admit that she TRACED the god damned pictures. I cannot imagine the shame I would suffer to have
A. done that
&
B. publicly admit it.
May 6, 2011 at 12:18 pm
I wrote another rant that got eaten. Gah!
This is the “new normal” for some people. All they have to do is say, “Drawing was hard, so obviously the only reasonable option for me was to trace.” and we’re all supposed to understand or something?
How does this work? I can’t wrap my head around it. To admit that the minute you found a roadblock in the development of your skills, you just work around it by cheating, instead of having some pride and intestinal fortitude and WORKING THROUGH IT.
Some things have to be EARNED. I have much more respect for someone who draws something freehand, even if it’s semi-crappy at the moment, because at least it shows that they are struggling and willing to try, even if they aren’t there yet. If they continue to work at it, they guarantee they WILL get there eventually.
But if you’re not willing to do the work to get really good at something, then how can you have any pride in yourself or your art?
May 6, 2011 at 11:42 am
Helen I will send you a baby and a basketful of tasty kittens if you can convince someone in Aprils Army to make a ” i welcome all your comments provided they are positive” sampler. Please please PLEASE?????
May 6, 2011 at 1:05 pm
Does it have to be a sampler? I can’t embroider or cross stitch to save my life but I have other more useless talents including Wycinanki.
May 6, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Do you want a framed sampler? Or would you like it in bookmark form?
May 6, 2011 at 4:21 pm
I’m p sure there are at least 2 other AA members stitching at this very minute.
May 6, 2011 at 5:15 pm
I know there are. Because Regretsy is a sweatshop owner.
May 6, 2011 at 11:42 am
Regretsy Smitten, Kick a Kitten
Communism Sufferin’–Get Some Bufferin
May 6, 2011 at 11:43 am
Wow. I don’t know in what world she lives in where admitting to tracing is ok. Not even from a commercial point of view where time is money and illustrators are expected to churn things out quickly and shortcuts are allowed is directly tracing someone else’s work acceptable. Those photos she’s traced from, they’re all copyrighted too, but guess that went over her head. There’s a difference between using a reference picture and directly tracing it. Hell, there’s even a difference between using a reference picture and eyeballing/copying it out as your drawing. I don’t sell my artwork on Etsy, I don’t sell my artwork at all except specific commissions/on request via deviant art. Maybe I should reconsider! I’m kinda speechless right now and trying to find words to describe what is going through my mind. Jealousy is not it. She can suck on my Bachelor of Arts degree and 10+ years of experience.
May 6, 2011 at 12:29 pm
On an online art community I visit, there are regular arguments/debates about tracing vs drawing. There are always us old-skoolers (not all of us old! LOL) who think drawing is an important skill, and then there are are those who borderline flounce and whine because drawing is “hard” and “takes too long” or “too boring” or whatever. Some seem to think it is unnecessary tedium that they should not be subjected to. WHATEVER.
In the “real” world, a lot of people look down on tracing because they equate it to using a coloring book. They remember tracing things as a kid and they think, “Hey, anyone could do that.” Also, when someone shows artwork that they traced and says, “Look at my drawing” most average people are going to assume that this means they drew it freehand and may be impressed by it based on that assumption. To find out later that it was just traced feels like a cheat.
May 6, 2011 at 1:00 pm
The key is for your tracing to not look like it was traced, AND to not trace the entire original image… THAT takes actual skill. A skill she has failed at miserably.
May 6, 2011 at 2:28 pm
Tracing can be part of the learning curve for those of us who are learning to draw, don’t have much confidence.
But – you don’t trace and sell somebody else’s artwork.
That’s #1.
If you are going to use tracing, its to improve and learn your drawing skills – to find out how perspectives and shading work.
This is the “work” of someone who is afraid to learn and to grow, to make mistakes, experiment and try new things. A good teacher would be useful. Maybe this experience will steer her towards one.
May 6, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Agreed, Nana. Sometimes it is used as a learning tool, and apparently it can be really helpful then.
Other times it’s used because the artist found drawing “hard,” and thought, “well, I don’t like doing anything that’s hard, so I’ll trace from now on.” That kind of reasoning often proves to be an artistic-dead end.
May 6, 2011 at 6:11 pm
There is no “trace,” there is only “do.”
Tracing teaches you nothing except how to follow an object’s line, and it isn’t really a transferable skill. Using reference photos and sighting sticks is the best way to learn, and shading is something you learn by trial and error.
May 6, 2011 at 6:33 pm
Nothing is going to steer this whiny twatwaffle to any teacher. She would flounce at the first critique or suggestion that she should do something different or “hard”. She has taken the compliments of the other Twitards as serious evaluations by people who know whereof they speak and not the group-grope full of squealing pubescent (actual or behavioral) fans of glittery vampires that it really is.
May 6, 2011 at 5:34 pm
Actually, in my personal experience, most times IRL they will ask you, “Did you draw it?” and when you say yes they clarify, “By yourself?” ie: Not traced?
I would like to think that means my art is so hawtsome that they can’t believe it wasn’t produced in a factory by a computer with no human intervention because no one can really draw that wonderfully. (But I know it’s not true.)
May 6, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Most non-artists I know don’t think that any drawing is traced. They naturally assume that it’s freehand unless someone points out that it isn’t.
However, some fellow artists will assume by default that you trace or use some drawing aid. Because of this I specify that I draw everything freehand. This occasionally gets astonished responses from other artists, like it’s some rare thing. Obviously it’s not.
I remember one time a fellow artist couldn’t figure out how I did this one drawing—it was a sketch of a character, based on the author’s description. It was drawn without any reference to look at. This artist kept on asking me, “How did you do that? How could you do that?” The idea that I drew something reasonably decent-looking without a photo to look at or trace was just outside of her comprehension.
May 6, 2011 at 6:31 pm
@Oakhurst – I’m not certain, but I’m somewhat sure that most of the people who asked if I drew my work freehand were not artists themselves. However, some of them did specifically mention their kids drew.
Perhaps it’s our styles of artwork? Mine is manga/comic influenced, so I use lines. If you’re more into photo-realistic art and can do it without references, that might provoke “WOAH REALLY?” reactions?
Interesting how it varies, though. I’m more shocked by the fellow artists being shocked than anything else.
May 6, 2011 at 6:42 pm
My favourite is when they ask you this WHILE YOU ARE DRAWING IT, perhaps paused with it halfway done, as if you had seen the drawing and been so seized with lust for it that you dragged away some delicate art student so you can finish it yourself and perhaps frame it with their skin.
May 6, 2011 at 11:44 am
Bah. I’m not good at silly insults.
May 6, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Hey, I’m not saying I didn’t post something. But “Regretsy killed the dinosaurs” is admittedly kinda lame.
May 6, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Darn, and someone else thought of it before me.
May 6, 2011 at 5:02 pm
What about “Regretsy killed the radio star?”
May 6, 2011 at 11:45 am
I don’t use my twitter often. But when I do, I #postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 11:45 am
REGRETSY= http://www.etsy.com/listing/70431400/wanna-play
#postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Regretsy is also definitely http://www.etsy.com/listing/41970136/morning-glories-in-the-rough?ref=pr_shop
Huarrrrrrgh.
May 6, 2011 at 1:07 pm
If that’s her 10 years ago that explains an awful fucking lot. Like how her head is disproportionate & her ass is at one time way too large & way too flat & way out of whack with the rest of her.
May 6, 2011 at 6:17 pm
No no no, the proportion issues are all because of PERSPECTIVE, man! Her ass is closer to you so her head just LOOKS disproportionate! You just don’t UNDERSTAND her art.
May 6, 2011 at 1:42 pm
This listing is actually a rules violation– mature content should be labeled and not visible in the first photo.
Juuuuust leaving that information right here.
May 6, 2011 at 6:16 pm
So, 10 years ago she had boobs so extraordinarily pointy they could cut glass, bad gas (unless that’s her “sexy face”) and used to bend over nude amid a bunch of flowers. Hmm.
May 6, 2011 at 8:56 pm
Well, that pic shows how talented she truly is. No way can I pose so that you get a full-on view of my ass, and BOTH of my tits at the same time. Of course, it surely helps that in her case said tits are apparently placed one on top the other instead of beside each other.
May 6, 2011 at 9:01 pm
If she hadn’t gone and admitted to tracing things, I’d think that one was almost mediocre. Given that tracing IS involved, though, I’m struggling to say it isn’t complete rubbish.
May 6, 2011 at 11:46 am
I couldn’t help myself:
@Regretsy traces the outline of the face from various stills and promo materials & then alters things here and there #postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 11:53 am
Alters things in a bad way so they can say it is not quite Bella and Glitter boy.
May 6, 2011 at 12:32 pm
A photocopy of a tracing. That’s so amateur. If she’ll throw in a photo of the image taken with a 3 year old cell phone, she’s got herself a sale.
May 6, 2011 at 11:46 am
We are so mean. Here we are making fun of someone whose entire portfolio is based on tracings of photographs. My gods, we are such meanies. No wonder she started a Twitter war against Regretsy.
By the way, Regretsy came by my place and drank all the orange juice. Then put the empty container back into the refrigerator.
May 6, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Straight out of the carton, I assume?
May 6, 2011 at 12:27 pm
Exactly!
May 6, 2011 at 9:03 pm
You could tell because of the lipstick stains she left on it.
May 6, 2011 at 11:46 am
Regretsy wants to replace the constitution with Sharia law
May 6, 2011 at 11:47 am
WHY DID YOU POST THE PASSWORD HERE I WANTED TO FEEL SPECIAL
THAT’S IT I’M CALLING THE INTERNET POLICE ON YOU FUCKING COMMUNISTS
May 6, 2011 at 11:47 am
Don’t fight on twitter if you are bitter, you’ll lose in the end. April’s Army is here to stay, Regretsy we will defend. If you don’t like it go get bent, the army’s already been sent.
May 6, 2011 at 11:48 am
I just noticed this in her shop announcement:
PS- To all those Regretsy users who tore my art apart by speculating about my technique, wrongly accusing me of tracing, and malisciously insulting my shop and blog, please feel free to post whichever piece you like and give me more publicity. Thanks!
May 6, 2011 at 11:51 am
How can she be accused of tracing, when she mentions she’s tracing? I’m confused, it must be time for a drink.
May 6, 2011 at 1:08 pm
I don’t think accused means what Twitard thinks it means.
May 6, 2011 at 6:20 pm
Or maybe she doesn’t know what tracing is/means? Perhaps there are a lot of things she doesn’t know, which could fill an art instruction text.
May 6, 2011 at 11:57 am
THAT’S WHAT WE WERE DOING IN THE FIRST PLACE, YOU INSUFFERABLE, HUMOURLESS WRETCH. It’s lulzy fun that gives you more publicity, but that ship has sailed halfway around the world now and you missed it!
Also, “wrongly accusing me of tracing”–YOU YOURSELF JUST SAID YOU TRACED ALL THE OUTLINES. UUUURRRRKKKK!!!
Sorry, something about this “artist” just brings out the capslock in me.
May 6, 2011 at 2:05 pm
maybe she realized she shouldn’t have said that and then changed her listings again and is denying it ever happened. Not like that’s never happened before.
May 6, 2011 at 9:08 pm
AS of midnight I still see:
“The technique I use is I trace the outline of the face and body from various stills and promotional materials and then alter things here and there, or sometimes, everywhere. I am not good with proportions so this gives me a starting point. All the coloring, shading, trees, and foliage are my imagination.”
Uh… um… so… I think she’s still accusing herself.
May 6, 2011 at 6:44 pm
Totally read “capslock” as “cockslap.”
May 6, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Ah…so much for the spelling improvement…
May 6, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Wrongly accuse her of tracing? But…but…she admits to it in the description now? She has no logic at all.
May 6, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!
Oh wait, I see it already has.
May 6, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Oh, now she likes free publicity?
May 6, 2011 at 4:19 pm
mmm…maliscious.
May 6, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Yummy, yummy malisciousness.
May 6, 2011 at 11:48 am
You art is reminiscent of kitty litter, called you out and you ran to twitter.
May 6, 2011 at 11:48 am
almost peed my pants reading what you regretsians have t̶w̶i̶t̶t̶e̶d̶,̶ ̶t̶w̶a̶t̶t̶e̶d̶, tweeted about
May 6, 2011 at 11:48 am
Man, I thought I was being all witty with mine but someone has tweeted something similar but funnier.
Seconding : http://twitter.com/#!/orcmischief/status/66572507666333696
Regresty makes me laugh every day: how dare you!
May 6, 2011 at 11:49 am
Positive criticism: “It’s positively awful.” and “I’m positive it’s copyright infringement.”
May 6, 2011 at 11:49 am
Two of my BIGGEST pet peeves:
1) When people say “I could care less.” (THIS IS NOT RIGHT, PEOPLE!)
2) When people use the “You’re just jealous” response to a critique of someone/something. That is the biggest effing copout because you don’t have a real response to something someone said that you don’t like!
Lady, we are SO NOT jealous of your LACK of TRACING abilities!
May 6, 2011 at 11:54 am
I also hate “I could care less.” Really? How much less could you care? What do I have to do/say to get you to care even less?
May 6, 2011 at 12:01 pm
I think “I could care less” is meant to be a sarcastic version of “I could not care less”, like saying “yeah right.” It’s a linguistic case of losing the negative.
WOW, I AM SORRY I GOT SO NERDY UP IN HERE. YOU COULD PROBABLY (NOT) CARE LESS ABOUT HOW THIS PHRASE IS USED.
May 6, 2011 at 12:03 pm
No. It’s just people saying it wrong! Like, “money is the root of all evil” is another I hear often
ALSO NOT RIGHT!
May 6, 2011 at 12:54 pm
I agree with boomerang.
May 6, 2011 at 1:20 pm
I use them both, with great pleasure. “I could care less” has an implied “but I don’t” I feel. It’s not just that I don’t care, but I don’t even care how much I don’t care about it. (I think of it as the TL;DR of caring.)
May 6, 2011 at 6:31 pm
I’m afraid I don’t have enough trust in people’s intelligence to believe it is being done intelligently/sarcastically/ironically. People are just stupid.
May 6, 2011 at 6:48 pm
I think it’s a shortening of an old phrase I ran across once, “(something about which) I know little and could care less.” It just doesn’t make sense without the first half of the phrase.
May 6, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Regretsy is the root of all evil.
May 6, 2011 at 11:59 am
How about: “I could care less, but my not-so-secretly wounded pride won’t let me.” ; )
But yes, cop-outs with bad grammar infuriate me, too.
Oh, and if anyone types “your [sic] just jealous.” it means we can’t be friends anymore.
May 6, 2011 at 6:43 pm
“Unthaw” is one of my biggest peeves. People in my area almost always say this and it ticks me no end.
May 6, 2011 at 12:36 pm
David Mitchell has some thoughts on #1.
(In case the tags don’t work, link below in plain text.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
May 6, 2011 at 11:50 am
Live in peace with no Regretsy, unless you posted crap on Etsy
May 6, 2011 at 11:50 am
But on the positive side, Regretsy has already improved her spelling! We’ve been upgraded(?) from “miserbale” to “miserable”. Although…I’m actually feeling slightly more miserbale at the moment. This is my bale and I’m not sharing!
May 6, 2011 at 12:10 pm
So… I guess she can take criticism and do something useful with it when it comes to spelling. Now she should take a deep breath and accept that her art needs that too.
May 6, 2011 at 6:37 pm
I want to know what a miserbale is, so I can become one.
May 6, 2011 at 11:50 am
I accept your sampler challenge!
Though I am english, so it might not arrive instantly!
May 6, 2011 at 11:51 am
Her “technique” is that she traces the only parts of her pictures with any likeness at all. The worst and most visually offensive parts (colouring, shading, foliage…) are all her own. Thanks for clearing that up for us, ma’am! Now I can hate your work in an informed way, rather than the hilarious but directionless rage I felt before.
May 6, 2011 at 11:51 am
I had to shake my head when she said that she traces the basic outline because she can’t draw porportions.
If she has trouble with porportions she should do as many art students do…take a life drawing class!
Tracing everything will not teach you a damned thing. I had an art teacher that would fail a student from the class if they dared to trace anything.
May 6, 2011 at 6:45 pm
Any art teacher worth their salt would fail a student for tracing.
May 6, 2011 at 11:51 am
going to correct you, she is a 32 year old housewife who draws pictures of Robert Pattinson with no shirt on.
May 6, 2011 at 11:52 am
I want to make a PEOPLE ARE DYING OF COMMUNISM sampler and send it to my Soviet Union/Worldwide Communism history profs. Preferably anonymously.
May 6, 2011 at 11:57 am
No! Send it to meeeeee!
May 6, 2011 at 12:12 pm
I’m sure there will be a whole flock of samplers, and I’m sure you can get one.
May 6, 2011 at 8:17 pm
If I had the funds I’d pay you to make me one so I could hang it above my Cold War Unicorns (COMMIES vs. FREEDOM. My God, they’re awesome).
May 6, 2011 at 11:53 am
I’m having way too much fun with this. Sorry for the spam!
May 6, 2011 at 11:54 am
Oh man, me too!
#postsomething terrible – more fun than studying!
May 6, 2011 at 12:20 pm
No kidding. I am now into losing my second hour of income (independent contractor, work from home) –I’m trying to figure out if there’s a client I can bill for this. lol (Just kidding…if any of you would happen to be reading and know who I am. hee)
May 6, 2011 at 11:53 am
Mine:
“Fuckin’ @Regretsy. She held a gun to my mom’s head, demanded a blunt, pissed on my cat, & shit in my oven. Cunt. #postsomethingterrible”
May 6, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Nothing pisses me off more than when people steal my mom’s blunts.
May 6, 2011 at 5:23 pm
Oregon weed is good shit. That’s why she had to hold a gun to Mom’s head to get said blunt. ;p
May 6, 2011 at 11:56 am
Am I the only one that finds it ironic that her store name “Robstenfart” ends in “FART”? Because that pretty much sums up her “artwork”.
May 6, 2011 at 11:56 am
Contributed my two tweets.
May 6, 2011 at 11:56 am
@Regretsy sparkles when the sun hits it. ohhhhhh snap! #postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 11:57 am
I unlocked my twitter account just to participate in this fuckery, and that’s saying something, since it’s locked because MY MOM IS ON TWITTER YOU GUYS.
So far on my twitter, @regretsy put Baby in a corner, doesn’t know the difference between you’re and your, and suggested to Rebecca Black that writing a song about how awesome Fridays are would be a really good idea.
This is way way more fun than working.
May 6, 2011 at 11:59 am
Reading through her tweets before the ones HK posted is probably the BEST evening entertainment. Though I’m torn – she sounds like a ten year old, and I’d feel bad laughing about a kid (unless said kid did a particularly funny face-plant).
Seriously, the butthurt absolutely made my day.
According to her, we’re “jerks”, “bullies”, even “monsters”. How dare we, when elsewhere people are dying from communism?
She’s even taken it away from twitter now and is trying to make her hate for us monsters known here:
http://amplicate.com/hate/regretsy
Now I feel like I should wash my mouth out with soap, for some reason. And develop a cure against communism. Not necessarily in that order.
May 6, 2011 at 12:07 pm
If a kid gets his/her feelings hurt while playing with the grown-ups, it’s something they’re going to have to deal with. Years ago, I had a full time job at 13 years old (thank you Indiana farm laws! Saved up for college!) and it taught me really quickly that while people will still humor the young, there’s not a lot of room for crappy work, if you’re actually supposed to be a contributing member of the crew. If Precious Poopsie isn’t ready to get their feelings hurt, momma and papa need to keep them off the internet.
May 6, 2011 at 12:09 pm
I’m probably going to spam that too. ONCE YOU POP YOU JUST CAN’T STOP.
May 6, 2011 at 12:55 pm
http://amplicate.com/hate/regretsy/5122604-because-there-is-something-fishy-about-the/
I resent this.
We do TOO love the gays. And if any of us didn’t before, we did after we met Aristan.
May 6, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Don’t forget BigGayAl!
I love me some BigGayAl.
May 6, 2011 at 11:59 am
ummm some of you all might end up with a new follower. DO NOT BE AFRAID. I am mostly harmless.
May 6, 2011 at 12:12 pm
No worries if so. I have tons of strange people following me already. *laughs*
May 6, 2011 at 12:16 pm
@Phenomenise. I don’t mind you following me. I need to get the funny out lol.
May 6, 2011 at 12:22 pm
I’d be happy to have regrestian followers. Some of the other weirdos I sometimes get…not so much
May 6, 2011 at 12:00 pm
REGRETSY ATE MY BABY!
May 6, 2011 at 12:05 pm
LMFAO
May 6, 2011 at 12:01 pm
I don’t have twitter, someone post this for me, please!
@regretsy touched me in my no-no spot and told me to say, “Ooh, what a lovely tea party”
May 6, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Molestation jokes don’t generally go over so well, actually.
May 16, 2011 at 2:28 pm
I love Jay & Silent Bob, too
May 6, 2011 at 12:01 pm
When sellers write things like this it puts me off doing any business with them, even if their stuff looks fantastic. It looks like they can’t accept responsibility, and if your item goes missing, they will end up shouting at you for requesting the wrong postage and being the Hitler of art or something.
May 6, 2011 at 12:07 pm
I totally agree. I found a seller whose stuff I really really liked once and was somewhat unique. In their shop announcement they had totally slammed the only other shop I could find on Etsy that had anything similar. Guess which shop I bought from?
May 6, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Me too. This chick is programmed to play the victim, and even if she were to pull something magical out of her whiny ass, the immaturity she’s demonstrated gives me no faith in her ability to handle a transaction (or any complications thereof).
May 6, 2011 at 12:01 pm
May 6, 2011 at 12:04 pm
May 6, 2011 at 12:07 pm
JESUS MARY AND JOSEPH. THAT is traced?!? How do you trace something and STILL manage to fuck up the eyes?
May 6, 2011 at 12:31 pm
Well, having no artistic ability is a good starting point.
May 6, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Eyes? I was looking at the handthumb.
May 6, 2011 at 12:41 pm
I think he’s preforming a breast self-exam.
May 6, 2011 at 12:58 pm
I thought he was pretending to be Napoleon
May 6, 2011 at 7:20 pm
Well….the seller states that she traces the faces and then does the features freehand.
The results are….the results!
May 6, 2011 at 12:05 pm
twitter is going wild
May 6, 2011 at 12:11 pm
May 6, 2011 at 12:13 pm
weirdly, she’s not kidding. but it wasn’t vampires though
May 8, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Yup…he wasn’t accepted into art school which of course historians say “fed his rage.”
May 6, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Probably landscapes are a lot easier to do than vampires. Has to be the reason why he didn’t trace.
May 6, 2011 at 12:06 pm
My mommy won’t let me play with Regretsy anymore because it told me to take my pants off in front of the Caribbean fairy door. *sob*
May 6, 2011 at 12:06 pm
I can’t keep up with the volume of tweets coming in!
May 6, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Love your name by the way.
May 6, 2011 at 1:41 pm
thank you, not many people get it.
May 6, 2011 at 12:06 pm
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May 6, 2011 at 12:07 pm
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS!! I have started a WAR!!
http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd297/sailor_angelmoon/twitard.jpg
I can’t believe she’s taken it this far… I even told her to laugh and let it go… I guess she didn’t take my advice.
May 6, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Don’t feel bad about it. It’s healthy that she’s getting it all out of her system now. Might even spark a random burst of creativity – as long as she doesn’t run out of tracing paper, that is.
May 6, 2011 at 12:39 pm
So it’s not enough that we are miserbale, now we’re uneduacted too?
Going to go cry-snot in my Team Edward shirts brb.
May 6, 2011 at 8:34 pm
If loving Twilight is the standard of high education, then I’d much rather be a dunce.
May 6, 2011 at 4:31 pm
“uneduacted assholes who HATE TWILIGHT”*
Holy shit.
*Emphasis mine.
May 6, 2011 at 12:07 pm
What Regretsy did to me was so heinous I can’t even say it out loud, so I have to show you on the hand-made doll.
May 6, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Where did Regretsy touch you? It’s okay. Regretsy won’t hurt you if you don’t post silly traced craptaculars on Etsy.
May 6, 2011 at 12:27 pm
Regretsy touched me in my dirty place — my K-Tel EZ Tracer.
May 6, 2011 at 12:32 pm
I though you said she touched Goatse….
May 6, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Is the hand-made doll anatomically correct?
May 6, 2011 at 12:36 pm
It’s only missing the rainbow colored hooha.
May 6, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Is the doll handmade by little children in a sweatshop in China?
May 6, 2011 at 12:43 pm
noooooo. (hide my pocket asian)
May 6, 2011 at 6:55 pm
Pocket asian sounds dirty.
May 6, 2011 at 12:08 pm
I should really be studying for finals
May 6, 2011 at 12:22 pm
I love the bunny teeth… whatsup doc!
May 6, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Actually not all that inaccurate!
May 6, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Kiler?
May 6, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Edward’s hand is giving me pre-emptive nightmares :/ I prefer .
May 6, 2011 at 8:55 pm
Let’s try that again. I prefer Twilight James Dean as I have fondly come to think of him.
May 6, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Regretsy drinks milk straight from the bottle.
May 6, 2011 at 12:13 pm
My twitter is stuck on private and won’t let me change the setting, so it won’t do me any good to bash regretsy on there. So I’m just gonna say this:
Regretsy feeds tuna salad sandwiches to dolphins just so they’ll be complicit in the murder of other dolphins #regretsy
May 6, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Ha! Not only does she spew that stuff about Regretsy in each listing, but she also tags each of her loverly drawlings with “Hellen Hiller”. Hellen… Hell ‘n… Hell ‘n Hiller… Hell ‘n Hitler! Hell ‘n Hitler! No wonder you’re so evil!
Oh, and @Regretsy always forgets to flush when they go #2.
May 6, 2011 at 12:13 pm
cornjob put this on twitter, bravo!
@Regretsy knew bin laden’s secret hideout weeks ago but was too busy making fun of @RobstenArt to tell anyone.
May 6, 2011 at 12:17 pm
def
May 6, 2011 at 12:13 pm
I am too long winded for twitter…
May 6, 2011 at 12:16 pm
What’s the difference between a pile of dead babies and a Cadillac?
Regretsy doesn’t have a Cadillac in its garage.
#postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 12:17 pm
“I hate Regretsy because they bullied and picked on me and made me feel like I should go hang myself. I really hope Helen and April get sued or that someone they pick on is a child with mental problems and the parents sue them. When they picked on my Etsy shop I decided to give them all the bad publicity I possibly could so then I can sleep it night too. Helen and April are a bunch of sad arrogant bitches. ”
Oh, the schizophrenia!
May 6, 2011 at 12:37 pm
No, that’d be an insult to schizophrenics.
May 6, 2011 at 12:54 pm
@Regretsy insults schizophrenics!
May 6, 2011 at 12:46 pm
She wants us to pick on a child with mental problems? I will need to run to the liquor store.
May 6, 2011 at 1:33 pm
Are there many children with mental problems down at your liquor store?
May 6, 2011 at 12:52 pm
So she’s comparing herself to a child with mental problems? Sounds about right.
May 6, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Apparently she DOES haven mental problems if she can’t figure out that April = Helen.
May 6, 2011 at 12:18 pm
What i put:
Because i am reseller and have many alibaba sources and regretsy tell everyone i reseller! Is not resell! Is handmade by 11 year olds in Indonesia. Not sweatshop, is airconditioned so they no sweat. Like your idea of art trace! Will buy many child workers sharpies and color sticks at once!
May 6, 2011 at 1:09 pm
I loved it so much I had to reply with 真牛
(Chinese characters for “Awesome!!” more or less.)
May 6, 2011 at 12:20 pm
I’ve just realized I’ve morphed into a lesbian because HELEN KILLER, OMG, I SO LOVE YOU!
And I am totally OK with this.
May 6, 2011 at 12:59 pm
I thought that too. Then I saw those pictures of Bronc and Mike and realized I must be bisexual.
And I’m totally okay with that, too.
May 6, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Regretsy tried to put it in my butt, then claimed it was an accident.
May 6, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Regretsy bottle feeds AND supports circumcisions.
May 6, 2011 at 5:59 pm
What’s more, Regretsy also demands all hermaphroditic/intersex babies have their male organs removed and be raised as wombyn.
May 6, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Нет Коммунизма. Комитет Ригреци, да (Товарищ)
Communism, no. Committee of Regretsy, yes. (Comrade)
May 7, 2011 at 12:48 am
Addendum: Comrade Lenin is telling the Young Pioneer:
“The People’s dream happened”
The painting behind them represents Pre-Revolution Peasants, it’s pretty common but not traced !
May 6, 2011 at 12:23 pm
I don’t have a Twitter account, so I’ll say what I have to say here, and someone more enterprising than myself can Twitter it:
Regretsy throws babies at old people, and leaves every room she enters smelling vaguely of Hillbilly Bajingo Wash.
May 6, 2011 at 12:23 pm
@regretsy made me get a twitter! D:<
May 6, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Snape didn’t kill Dumbledore. Regretsy did. #postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 12:28 pm
I’m gonna be honest. I actually like this one. http://www.etsy.com/listing/70858297/complicated. There’s something about the pastiche of tracing and tramp clothes and trapper-keeper folder innocence. She’s an outsider artist in some strange way, who would have been interesting if she’d kept it intensely personal rather than tried to sell the shit on Etsy and start a flame war with Regretsians: the Navy Seals of Flame WarsTM
May 6, 2011 at 12:30 pm
Aaargh! That TM showed up in superscript when I previewed it, I swear!
May 6, 2011 at 12:41 pm
I agree(d) with you about “Complicated” until I realized that with her unabashed copying/tracing, the composition probably wasn’t her own.
May 6, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Looks like Bella needs a Brazilian wax…
May 6, 2011 at 1:56 pm
Is Edward pulling a Molly Shannon Superstar armpit-sniff??
May 7, 2011 at 4:15 pm
That one would remind me of stuff I did at 16 or so, except for the fact that I actually DREW my own work.
And that she’s not 16…
May 6, 2011 at 12:29 pm
I heard Regretsy invented coleslaw.
May 6, 2011 at 1:06 pm
No, it was a mass-production factory in Kuala Lumpur. Regretsy’s just the front to make it look homemade.
May 6, 2011 at 12:32 pm
so do you think robestonart has figured out how she is having fun doing the very thing she decries yet?
May 6, 2011 at 12:32 pm
JFC, how is this even a job for you? With sellers like that this shit writes itself.
May 6, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Regretsy doesn’t even have a birth certificate!
May 6, 2011 at 12:35 pm
I’ve sent more tweets today than the last 6 months combined. Thank you, Regretsy, for giving me one good reason to have a Twitter account. I knew it would come in handy someday. This is comic gold.
May 6, 2011 at 7:10 pm
oh it’s crazy fun! thank you robstenart for dragging my tired ass to twitter
May 6, 2011 at 12:35 pm
” Find something constructive to do with your time”
…a bit rich coming from a woman who spends her days tracing Twilight movie posters.
Oh well, I guess we all have to do our part in the fight against communism, natural disasters and disease.
May 6, 2011 at 12:35 pm
@Regretsy uses too many words and not enough pictures #postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Must. Tear. Myself. Away! Must. Return to. Productivity….
May 6, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Just give up like the rest of us fat, jealous losers. You only live once.
May 6, 2011 at 12:42 pm
<img src="http://ny-image1.etsy.com/il_570xN.209084873.jpg"
Eeeewww… she really sweat over this one. And then smeared it.
@regretsy loved me and left me with a bun in the oven and cigarette burns on my sheets.
May 6, 2011 at 12:44 pm
May 6, 2011 at 3:52 pm
Bella gets ready for the Vampire Prom!
May 6, 2011 at 7:15 pm
@regretsy loved me and left me with a bun in the oven and cigarette burns on my sheets.
winning at tweets!!
May 6, 2011 at 12:42 pm
@Regretsy eats cupcake wrappers.
May 6, 2011 at 1:23 pm
Well, there was still some frosting on it.
May 6, 2011 at 12:42 pm
I have been WATCHING the posts go up on twitter #postsomethingterrible, and I think I just wet myself laughing. I love regretsy!
May 6, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Had to figure out my password here AND on Twitter to post but OMG this shit is hilarious!
@Regretsy buys canned tuna that isn’t dolphin friendly #postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Yeah, this lady’s lacking perspective alright.
May 6, 2011 at 1:40 pm
Love me some 2-D design jokes.
May 7, 2011 at 1:57 am
I need more thumbs for this comment.
May 6, 2011 at 12:49 pm
@regretsy is the reason we can’t have nice things…
(and I never got Twitter-fever either… I’m either too old, not old enough, or just too retro…)
May 6, 2011 at 12:51 pm
My incredibly insightful contribution:
HayleyFiasco: @Regretsy Helen Killer licks the tears off of orphan children after kicking them in the shins & showing them pictures of goatse #whimsical
May 6, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Should I post a picture of my squirrel Merkin and say Regretsy shaved my squirrel? Uh I don’t know
May 6, 2011 at 12:56 pm
My contributions
Regretsy made me aware of an artist whose abilities are on par with the writing prowess of Stephenie Meyer.
Regretsy funded the remake of Gigli.
ANNNNDDDD
Regretsy doesn’t like coleslaw.
May 6, 2011 at 12:57 pm
@Regretsy hung my starving gay kitten from Lenin’s tomb. #postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 1:07 pm
I completely forgot I had me a twitter.
May 6, 2011 at 12:57 pm
I just took a minute to look at her account, read this twit-er and almost cried laughing.
RobstenArt Jessica O’Gorek
regretsy.com insults Twilight and everything Robsten… put in “bella” in the search field and read the posts. These people are monsters!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
May 6, 2011 at 12:58 pm
@Regretsy makes cell phone calls while using the public bathroom stall right next to mine.
May 6, 2011 at 1:13 pm
@Regretsy also clubs baby seals with pandas. #postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 7:03 pm
While spraying them with Aquanet.
May 6, 2011 at 9:04 pm
BABY pandas, at that.
May 6, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Hey you guys are wrecking Twitter! I get this message; loading tweets seems to be taking awhile.
Gives me time to refine my squirrel comment I guess.
May 6, 2011 at 1:00 pm
My advice to the artist: take small steps to your dreams even if it looks like a vagina.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/26434542/take-small-steps-to-your-dreams-even-if
May 6, 2011 at 8:14 pm
The best thing about that listing, (besides thinking that turning a vagina into bacon would be ‘too much’), is the postscript!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
in my defense to having this item on
the site that can’t be named.
where they just basically talk shit
about items for fun. to them i just
want to say. i hope your happy being
a bully. its like high school. *rant i can’t post*
and to the people who think its that site is great.
i don’t think its great.
that is all.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
‘The Site That Can’t Be Named’
LOL!!! x 23,847,560,984
May 6, 2011 at 9:16 pm
Regretsy is really Voldemort?
May 6, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Damn it, Regretsy, you made Twitter not work! I’ve been trying to log in for hours. That is why Regretsy is bad.
May 6, 2011 at 1:01 pm
Makes me wish I were smart enough to Twitter. Regretsy ruined my perfectly good flounce.
May 6, 2011 at 7:22 pm
anyone can twitter i promise
May 6, 2011 at 1:01 pm
I can tell this Twilight artist has no experience in the art world. Well, first of all, the obvious, she’s terrible at drawing. But secondly, she only accepts positive comments on her art? WTF? The art world has no problem chewing you up and spitting you out especially if you are going to TRACE Twilight photos. I’ve found when showing your art you only get positive reactions from your friends and people who wouldn’t know how to draw if Leonardo Da Vinci came back to life, grabbed their hand and tried to guide it to redraw the Mona Lisa. If anyone likes her drawings I say they fall into one (or both) of those categories.
May 6, 2011 at 3:04 pm
Don’t you understand? She lives in Cupcakeland, where criticism and dissent is not allowed!
May 6, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Damn regretskycommi tellin me what I can do and say. I SAY NET TO YOU!
May 6, 2011 at 1:03 pm
I posted:
@Regretsy gave me irritable bowel syndrom – but it’s ok ’cause I use the oil for my ‘special wood sculptures’
oh man, I love you guys so much – I’m laughing so hard I’m crying and even my husband is amazed that I set this off (and he always rolls his eyes when it’s about Regretsy)
May 6, 2011 at 7:30 pm
I tweeted: YOUR tax dollars on salad bowel oil to shine @Regretsy wood!
May 6, 2011 at 1:07 pm
Hey this isn’t funny guys, my uncle died of communism last year!
(they did some tests- it looks like I’m a carrier too
)
May 6, 2011 at 7:45 pm
My father died of second hand communism.
May 6, 2011 at 1:09 pm
@regretsy Doesn’t send me flowers anymore. #postsomethingterrible
Yeah, I know it’s kind of lame.
May 6, 2011 at 1:21 pm
Dang it. I just came up with a less lame one and someone just posted it.
May 6, 2011 at 1:10 pm
As it is my day off and I’ve had the luxury of wasting time watching the Twitters, I’ve noticed that of all the terrible things anyone could accuse a person of, leaving the toilet seat up seems to be mentioned the most.
Leaving the toilet seat up > murder
That’s just simple arithmetic, people.
May 6, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Toilet seats and farting.
May 6, 2011 at 1:20 pm
And drinking out of the bottle/carton.
May 6, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Don’t forget squishing the toothpaste tube in the middle, and then leave it lying around without the cap on!!!
May 6, 2011 at 1:36 pm
Domestic idiosyncrasies are worse than death by Communism.
May 6, 2011 at 1:19 pm
I guess getting my ass put in jail for trying to stop the closing of the shelters is not taking up enough of my time, because somehow I still time come on here and laugh at the shit people make.
I am glad to hear our “artist” is making people’s lives better by appealing to the status quo and making vapid drawings.
May 6, 2011 at 1:21 pm
My Twitter’s private so here’s my first tweet from about 2 hours ago:
@Regretsy has driven traffic to my shop resulting in several sales. OH WAIT SHIT. #postsomethingterrible FAIL
May 6, 2011 at 1:24 pm
Regretsy shaved my squirrel and didn’t even have the curtesy to leave it a glitter sprinkled merkin
I tweeted the above, am I doing it right?
May 6, 2011 at 1:25 pm
Adding to the piles and piles of “maybe you should learn how to trace better, then!” comments.
I wonder what would happen if Regretsy sent this many emails to the copyright holders…
May 6, 2011 at 1:28 pm
Someone tweet this: Regretsy made Stephanie Myer
May 6, 2011 at 1:29 pm
Every so often I claim something related to Regretsy is the funniest thing ever. I take back all of the times I’ve said that in the past. After having searched @Regretsy on Twitter, I’m pretty sure I can definitively say that the results of that search are the funniest thing ever.
Stay whimsicle, fuckers.
May 6, 2011 at 1:29 pm
May 6, 2011 at 1:31 pm
Did this girl ever consider writing, say a Romance novel? Maybe something about Sailors from Greece? Put a catchy entendre in the title, and she’ll have fame!
May 6, 2011 at 5:46 pm
This isn’t a bad idea, it might help release some of the repressive tension that’s making her all stick-up-her-ass-y.
May 6, 2011 at 7:07 pm
I forgot all about her.
May 6, 2011 at 1:35 pm
REGRETSY IS TERRIBLY FUNNY!
May 6, 2011 at 1:36 pm
OK, now I can read the rest of these posts…
May 6, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Posted this on twitter: @Regretsy drinks the formaldehyde from Kurt Cobain’s brain using Hemingway’s shotgun barrel as a straw.
May 6, 2011 at 1:39 pm
You fuckers. I gave in and got a Twit account because you bitches were making me laugh so damn hard.
May 6, 2011 at 1:44 pm
Regretsy gave me communism
May 6, 2011 at 1:46 pm
@Regretsy cheats at Punchbuggy #postsomethingterrible
@Regretsy also jinxed me into not using #postsomethingterrible correctly.
@Regretsy still has her ‘Don’t blame me I voted for Nader” bumper sticker on her car. #postsomethingterrible
@Regretsy handcrafted Donald Trump’s toupee out of my favorite cat @Artimus2088 #postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 1:58 pm
All her blog posts are gone now. I thought she was going to fill her blog up with Regretsy-hate! I feel so unhated. *bursts into glitter tears*
May 6, 2011 at 2:03 pm
I am literally having one of the best times of my life following #postsomethingterrible on twitter. You guys are lolarious.
I’m already planning the etsy store I’m going to set up based around making cross stitch samplers of things like ‘People are dying of Communism’ and ‘Even badgers lactate’
May 6, 2011 at 2:05 pm
This woman annoys the bejeezies out of me!! Regretsy does not bash EVERYTHING on Etsy, it only bashes the CRAP! Usually people trace because they cannot draw!!Did she miss the memo?!
May 6, 2011 at 2:22 pm
THANK YOU! People don’t seem to understand that if they just stop being fucking retards we’ll just move on to the next one.
May 6, 2011 at 3:31 pm
lol! But if one knows they are being retarded, is he/she truly retarded?
May 7, 2011 at 1:29 am
Well this is exactly why we point it out. They should follow our advice and stop the fuckery.
May 6, 2011 at 2:07 pm
Now RobstenArt is saying on Twitter that Regretsy is finally making her laugh. Oh, I’m so proud.
May 6, 2011 at 2:48 pm
She just decided to outsource the fury to her sock-puppet twitter account.
May 6, 2011 at 2:09 pm
Since I’m an Etsy seller, does this mean I’m jealous of myself?
Awesome. I’m going to have some super exciting email conversations with myself about communism.
May 6, 2011 at 2:11 pm
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1428510888
in case anyone was wondering.
May 6, 2011 at 2:14 pm
I have a cough now. I think I’m dying of communism.
Thanks Regretsy!
May 7, 2011 at 6:55 pm
You’re probably dying of consumption, with that cough, like tragic heroines from centuries past.
May 6, 2011 at 2:15 pm
Guys, this one’s actually not bad!
http://robstenart.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d3bbxa4
The human faces/figures are still poorly rendered, but the picture itself is quite pretty. Perhaps she should stick to non-human subjects?
May 6, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Yeah, I thought that one wasn’t so bad at all. She’s got potential, she just needs to do more work and study. Study as in freehand drawing, taking a life drawing class, and so forth. Copping out by tracing everything because she can’t get the proportions right is going to get her nowhere.
May 6, 2011 at 2:42 pm
indeed, that’s actually really nice. i think it’s hilarious that she then has the criticism field wide open, but luckily that one doesn’t need much critiquing. hope she turned it off on the other ones, though, or she’s just setting herself up at this point.
May 6, 2011 at 2:45 pm
Honestly, there’s something about her style that I like. And I really don’t care that much that her technique sucks. I don’t sweat the technique.
But her infantile ranting and the attempted flame war… [shakes head].
May 7, 2011 at 7:18 pm
Except that the suckage of her technique results in inconsistent quality.
May 7, 2011 at 7:16 pm
It’s actually better than not bad. It’s fairly good. This is what she ought to stick to, then. Do landscapes, not figures. Use a decorative style, not “realistic”.
Not every artist is good at every aspect of art. Sometimes you CAN practice and still not be good at something. Think of someone who is a good pop singer, but would never be able to sing opera. The key is staying within your limits once you realize you have limits.
May 6, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Regretsy made a silicon copy of my you-know-what and sold it online.
Regretsy put glitter on my cat.
Regretsy gets drunk on jello shots.
Regretsy stole my towel.
May 6, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Your Etsy shop is a hamster, and your blog posts smell of elderberry. Now, go away, or Regretsy shall taunt you some more.
May 6, 2011 at 2:24 pm
And we’re Regretsians! Why do you think we have this outrageous accent??
May 6, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Regretsy made me waste a lot of time clicking the thumbs-up on every single comment on this page.
Regretsy made me unprotect my Twitter page so my stalker can find me and kill me. Does this crazy person add THAT as a form of death? Maybe I can ask him to beat me to death with a metal swastika.
Regretsy made me look up the spelling of the word swastika.
Regretsy made me sit here like an asshole trying to find things that Regretsy made me do.
May 6, 2011 at 2:24 pm
I slept with @Regretsy on our first date and she hasn’t called me back!
May 6, 2011 at 10:34 pm
What have we learned?
May 6, 2011 at 10:38 pm
(Meaning it was YOUR fault, for putting out, you dirty whore)….
May 6, 2011 at 2:24 pm
@Regretsy used up all the glue, on purpose!
You’re a communist if you don’t get that reference.
May 8, 2011 at 10:56 pm
NOT A FINGA!
May 6, 2011 at 2:26 pm
UPDATE: a sock-puppet account called @carmensvalestad has appeared on Twitter, mostly to call people who make fun of @robstenarts “unemployed”.
…really? That’s the best insult she can come up with? I mean, a lot of people are unemployed in this recession. How is that even an insult anymore?
May 6, 2011 at 2:35 pm
especially when unemployment is infinitely preferable to the kind of employment that compels you to trace things, and badly. me, my laptop and my snuggie are just fine at home, thank you.
May 6, 2011 at 2:33 pm
May 6, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Oh my…I just searched google images for Communism
May 6, 2011 at 2:43 pm
Something seriously bothers me about a GROWN WOMAN who traces and is still a SHITTY artist.
At least I know that all I have to do is TRACE PICTURES and color them in, and make some cash. GOOD TO KNOW.
May 6, 2011 at 9:26 pm
And colour them in quite poorly, no less.
May 6, 2011 at 2:49 pm
I don’t think I played her game right:
May 6, 2011 at 2:57 pm
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May 6, 2011 at 2:58 pm
A bit out of line. And waaaaay more work than a flaming paper bag on her porch.
May 6, 2011 at 4:43 pm
No. Fight e-tard fire with e-tard fire. And never hit lower than they do. I know it’s hard to believe, but by handling this with humor, we are taking the high road.
May 7, 2011 at 10:32 am
If she had been cool about it, she might have made sales to some of the nearly 80,000 Regretsy members. But now we can get down to seriously mocking her and say, “She started it.”
May 6, 2011 at 3:03 pm
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May 6, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Here’s mine:
@robstenart @Regretsy left a pubic hair on my bottle of Tacky Glue. #postsomethingterrible
I originally had “can of Coke” but since this is Etsy, I decided to go with the craft reference. Besides, don’t you want to know why Regretsy left a pubic hair on my bottle of Tacky Glue???
May 6, 2011 at 7:13 pm
I do! I do!
May 6, 2011 at 3:11 pm
Okay, fine. I’ve had about enough of this Twitter-twat. In “honor” of her “art” (read: open mockery, because my special needs kiddo can trace better than that!), I’d like to offer this shirt to April, to do with as she pleases. Just tell me where the hell to ship it, and what size (up to 3X in stock) you need it in.
Twilight Shirt
May 6, 2011 at 3:13 pm
People are dying of communism. Go help them! Take the money you would otherwise spend on my “art” and go give it to them!
May 6, 2011 at 3:23 pm
I’ve been up for far too long, and my dyslexic tendencies are kicking my ass. I keep seeing the hashtag #spotsomethingterrible and thinking, “Well, yeah. That’s kind of Regretsy in a nutshell.”
May 6, 2011 at 3:26 pm
REGRETSY FARTED IN MY GENERAL DIRECTION!
AND IN A COMMUNIST MANNER, TO BOOT!
May 6, 2011 at 3:38 pm
honestly, the thing i find most insane about this woman is the fact that she did NOTHING to hide her real identity before she posted things she did in retaliation. Her WORK number is just a quick Google away. Not that I’m saying any taunting is saintly, but sheesh – all those nasty swear words… you’d think a mother and career woman would want to, idk, keep a lower profile before letting off some steam?
May 6, 2011 at 3:57 pm
I joined Twitter just for you, I still think it’s stupid. I am all for Facebook though, go figure.
May 6, 2011 at 4:15 pm
I follow a lot of interesting/funny celebrities. Mostly funny. The way I use it, it’s a whole different animal than facebook.
May 6, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Here we go again.
Another person who claims that Regretsians have no lives, yet they themselves spent a huge portion of their time focusing on whining online and encouraging others to do the same.
I also like how she calls us monsters, but aren’t those who face starvation, slavery and war these days are under the rule of a particular kind of people called DICTATORS?
(And for crying out loud, it is appaling that she, a grown woman, would compare herself to the sufferings of a tormented youth that face TRUE and serious bullying)
Can’t help but say too, the folks on Regretsy are one of the most wittiest, hardworking, educated and openminded bunch.
May 6, 2011 at 4:03 pm
Here we go again.
Another person who claims that Regretsians have no lives, yet they themselves spent a huge portion of their time focusing on whining online and encouraging others to do the same.
I also like how she calls us monsters, but aren’t those who face starvation, slavery and war these days are under the rule of a particular kind of people called DICTATORS?
(And for crying out loud, it is appaling that she, a grown woman, would compare herself to the sufferings of a tormented youth that face TRUE and serious bullying)
Can’t help but say too, the folks on Regretsy are one of the most wittiest, hardworking, educated and openminded bunch.
May 6, 2011 at 7:28 pm
I still can’t get over the fact that she’s NOT fourteen. Wth.
May 6, 2011 at 4:07 pm
I’m not actually sure how I got a double post there. Cough.
(Sorry folks! At least I’ll have a new excuse. @Regretsy made me double post. How horrifying)
May 6, 2011 at 4:07 pm
I laughed so hard reading these.
May 6, 2011 at 4:22 pm
The #postsomethingterrible tag is still moving so fast I can’t keep up with it.
May 6, 2011 at 4:22 pm
Twitter. It’s too much fun.
May 6, 2011 at 4:23 pm
Regretsy told me they had candy in their van and there was NO CANDY!!
May 6, 2011 at 4:28 pm
I have never participated in twitter this hard before.
May 6, 2011 at 4:40 pm
I just maxed out my allotted tweets for the hour. I didn’t know you can do that.
May 6, 2011 at 5:55 pm
Oops the last one got nipped.
May 6, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Jeesh with a capitol Jesus.
Off to the 1st Friday Art Crawl (let’s be honest, Beer/Wine Crawl) to display Real Art publicly and be present in-the-moment style while adored/humiliated and also verbal abuse use multipurpose upon other unsuspecting Artistés
Namasté Bitches…
May 6, 2011 at 5:12 pm
…just when things were getting interesting HERE
May 6, 2011 at 5:28 pm
If she thinks tracing makes her an artist I wonder if she thinks rhyming Etsy with Regretsy makes her a poet?
May 6, 2011 at 5:34 pm
I swore I’d never use twitter, but here I go… I HOPE YOU ARE PROUD OF YOURSELF.
May 6, 2011 at 6:22 pm
I had used it once before today, but look what has happened to me:
Regretsy causes the common cold
Regretsy made a pwecious snowflake melt.
Regretsy peed in your coleslaw.
Regretsy bottle-feeds circumcised babies.
May 6, 2011 at 7:16 pm
It’s O.K.; blame it on Regtetsy.
May 6, 2011 at 7:16 pm
Derp – Regretsy
May 6, 2011 at 5:36 pm
I’m a tweeting twat for you baby!
May 6, 2011 at 5:42 pm
I’ve been drinking apple cider, I don’t care!
Allied losses:
May 6, 2011 at 6:04 pm
So I just read a bunch of these twitters. It is so obviously us guys doing it all, they are so clever. She probably thinks she has a lot of friends, haha.
May 6, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Regretsy asked me to poop back and forth, forever.
May 6, 2011 at 6:13 pm
Regretsy lit my tampon like a fuse and blew my box apart.
May 6, 2011 at 6:14 pm
@Regretsy makes me want to obnoxiously post FIRST on every post.
May 6, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Regretsy demanded a tearful handjob, then spunked in my eye.
May 6, 2011 at 6:17 pm
Regretsy tugged on superman’s cape and spat into the wind.
May 6, 2011 at 6:19 pm
Regretsy created all the costumes for “Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark”
May 6, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Regretsy gave me a blowjob, but didn’t bother to spit out it’s gum first.
May 6, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Regretsy got me too drunk to remember the proper use of its and it’s
May 6, 2011 at 6:27 pm
Regretsy ghost-writes tsunami jokes for Gilbert Gottfried
May 6, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Regretsy smuggles black-tar heroin across international borders in the hollowed-out bodies of re-born-monkey-avatar-sharpie-paint babies
May 6, 2011 at 6:33 pm
Regresty drank whale sperm. I was going to drink that whale sperm. D;
May 6, 2011 at 6:57 pm
Robsten is now on the “dark side.” Persuasion can work in odd ways.
May 6, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Regrety wussed out and only made Robsten *think* about hanging herself, rather than tying the knot & kicking the chair out from under her.
May 6, 2011 at 7:02 pm
What are you talking about? That gal is NOBLE! Despite the fact that people are suffering and dying of war, disease, starvation, slavery, communism, poverty & natural disasters she manages to pull through and sell traced pictures of the Twilight cast. That’s a pretty selfless act.
I’d even bet that the proceeds go to ensuring that every soldier overseas gets a copy of New Moon. Who needs antidepressants when you can just shoot yourself in the face after watching that garbage?
May 6, 2011 at 7:17 pm
@Regretsy HelenKiller kicks kittens in front of trains while babies die from communism #postsomethingterrible
May 6, 2011 at 7:40 pm
Finally, an excuse qto use my Twitter account!
May 6, 2011 at 7:44 pm
youze guyz, you broke twitter! I can only see the latest posts and none of the old ones, and I’m missing all the hilarity!
May 6, 2011 at 7:45 pm
@Regretsy made Fonzie jump the shark
May 6, 2011 at 8:04 pm
This is too funny…true Regretsy style, ya’ll. I have to make a Twitter account just for this occasion,lol
May 6, 2011 at 8:07 pm
God’s truth, you are the finest, funniest bunch of fat, jealous, envious, “uneduacted,” unemployed bitches ever. I love you all.
May 6, 2011 at 8:40 pm
I’m a Twihard, and I’m gay. I’ve been bullied for both. Being bullied for liking Twilight is not in good taste, and irritating. HOWEVER, being gaybashed is abusive, criminal, emotionally damaging, and downright hideous.
Oh, y’know what else is downright hideous? That disgusting lack-of-an-excuse for fanart. I’ve seen some shitty Twilight art, and this about takes the cake!
May 6, 2011 at 8:50 pm
Come sit by me.
May 7, 2011 at 6:04 am
I’m gay, and I’ve been bullied, but I thought most of us queers had better taste than to touch Twilight with a 10 foot pole. Congrats on breaking the stereotype!
May 7, 2011 at 11:01 am
Why thank you! To each their own.
May 6, 2011 at 9:09 pm
I think twitter is the stupidest thing, but I just signed up so I could #postsomethingterrible. Change your undies, April.
May 6, 2011 at 9:40 pm
i joined twitter for this, also so i could fuck with robstenart
May 6, 2011 at 10:09 pm
Next charity is for the communist countries!
May 6, 2011 at 11:13 pm
Okay, I think I found out why she’s so bitter. And I can explain it like an educated junior in college for studio art.
She traces pictures, is not good with proportions, and uses Roseart pencils. The fact that she’s just so bitchy necessitates that I post it so she can maybe see it and cry more.
Tracing means: She has the artistic ability of a self-conscious 5-year old, and the willingness of an embarrassing, over-enthusiastic mom to try to sell it on the internet.
Being bad with proportions means: she’s too cheap to take a $300 drawing class from a community college which could teach her not only proportions, but teach her how to actually properly use colored pencils in case she missed that part in first grade where they graduated away from jumbo crayons. I bet she pronounces “crayons” like “crans.”
Using Roseart pencils means: she’d be too stubborn to take anything from a $300 community college art course, particularly the “required materials” list. GET PRISMAS!
May 6, 2011 at 11:21 pm
A little late to the party, but:
@regretsy ate White Castle then dutch ovened me.
May 7, 2011 at 3:11 am
If art for you is so much work sweat and tears, maybe you should do something else…
May 7, 2011 at 12:08 pm
If art is so much work, sweat, and tears, it should be better than a piece that was “fucked up on” to later be posted to the internet.
May 7, 2011 at 4:50 am
Regretsy made up nasty nicknames for me. The call me “Tracy”. And also “robberart”.
May 7, 2011 at 5:33 am
I’m asking all the Twilight Fan Club members to send you hate email. And to use Papyrus font.
May 7, 2011 at 11:53 am
Btw, communism is soooo yesterday. Islamofacism is more like it.
May 7, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Where’s Maya?
We need to be friends.
Now.
May 7, 2011 at 5:43 pm
I was recently featured on a regretsy rip-off for an item of mine. And frankly would never take some riffing as being bullied. Get over it. Have they ever heard the any press is good press?
May 7, 2011 at 9:53 pm
I can’t even count how many times poorly-drawn pictures of glittery men have fed my family, sheilded my home from disaster or fought for my freedom
May 8, 2011 at 10:41 am
Hey, is it true that you can get communism from using public toilets?
May 14, 2011 at 3:35 pm
The grassy knoll comment is awesome.