add teal seer origins

3 files changed, 47 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml
index d0751034..9fac0ce4 100644
--- a/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml
+++ b/album/coloUrs-and-mayhem-universe-a.yaml
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ Commentary: |-
     [[artist:decon-theed|repeatedScales]]<br>
     [[artist:dj|DJ 最テー]]<br>
     [[artist:waif|Frank Haught]]<br>
-    [[artist:kera-jones|Kera L. Jones]]<br>
+    [[artist:kera-l-jones|Kera L. Jones]]<br>
     [[artist:ray-mcdougall]]<br>
     [[artist:paul-tuttle-starr]]<br>
     [[artist:eligecos|Gec]]<br>
@@ -800,9 +800,13 @@ Track: Teal Seer
 Additional Names:
 - Pumpkinsniffle Puree (contest-submitted name)
 Artists:
-- Kera Jones
+- Kera L. Jones
 Duration: '2:32'
 Color: '#008b8b'
+Referenced Tracks:
+- Something's Different
+Sampled Tracks:
+- Something's Different
 URLs:
 - https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/teal-seer
 - https://youtu.be/Dwcn4q4X0OQ
@@ -815,6 +819,25 @@ Art Tags:
 - Scalemates
 - Alternia
 - 'cw: hanging'
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Makin:</i> (wiki editor)
+    This track was almost entirely made out of pre-existing stems of a different stock song. This broke the rules of the contest and (unwittingly) infringed the source's licensing terms, but this was discovered in 2024 and no action has been taken. [[track:somethings-different|See Something's Different for details]].
+
+    <i>Kera L. Jones:</i> ([Unpublished Tumblr ask, via Homestuck Discord](https://discord.com/channels/152981670507577344/184908151185866752/1231122466521481256), excerpt, 4/20/2024)
+    
+    hand to god, i've never heard of [[artist:paul-lawler|paul lawler]] or APM before today.
+
+    what i can tell you is that i used a [shitty, defunct music program](https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/aviary-introduces-free-online-music-software/) that came prepackaged with a bunch of crappy royalty free sound bytes that I played around with until something sounded good. i was also 13 at the time and was just excited to contribute to a piece of media that I held in such high regard. i don't make money off of it anymore, since the label is basically dead, and what I did make only amounted to about... 350 dollars. that's all there is to it, really.
+
+    <i>Kera L. Jones:</i> ([Tumblr](https://brokenpocketwatch.tumblr.com/post/22071152517/so-i-heard-this-song-was-pretty-popular-i), 4/29/2012)
+
+    So I heard this song was pretty popular.
+
+    I COMPOSED THIS SONG BITCHES. I AM THE CREATOR OD THE SOUNDTRACK TO YOUR SLEUTHING.
+
+    That is all.
+
+    Terezi Power.
 ---
 Track: Cobalt Thief
 Additional Names:
diff --git a/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml b/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml
index 01f29d43..f22b20d8 100644
--- a/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml
+++ b/album/references-beyond-homestuck.yaml
@@ -39627,6 +39627,21 @@ Artists:
 URLs:
 - https://father2006.bandcamp.com/track/someone-else
 ---
+Track: Something's Different
+Duration: 2:22
+Artists:
+- Paul Lawler
+URLs:
+- https://youtu.be/GIICuW6jEFA
+Commentary: |-
+    <i>Makin:</i> (wiki editor)
+
+    This track is part of Paul Lawler's [Fantasy Tales](https://www.discogs.com/release/4818472-Paul-Lawler-Fantasy-Tales) album for APM Music's Quantum music library. Paul would end up licensing this song and others to [Aviary's Music Creator](https://archive.nytimes.com/bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/aviary-introduces-free-online-music-software/), a now-dead online DAW that came preloaded with cut-up samples and stems of such stock tracks. It should be noted that the licensing terms did not allow using this program for commercial purposes, as ended up happening with [[Teal Seer]]. (See more thorough explanations [here](https://discord.com/channels/152981670507577344/164122260913913857/1231151704406360064) and [here](https://discord.com/channels/152981670507577344/184908151185866752/1231279785313832970).)
+
+    <i>Paul Lawler:</i> ([Email, via Homestuck Discord](https://discord.com/channels/152981670507577344/164122260913913857/1231151704406360064), excerpt, 4/20/2024)
+    
+    If I remember rightly this is a track I composed that went into some kind of program 20+ years ago, which enabled editors to play around with the audio stems, so it might be he used that, but that doesn't give [[artist:kera-l-jones|him]] any rights to sell it for profit.
+---
 Track: Sorrow In a Pacifist Pillbox
 Artists:
 - NEUPINK
diff --git a/artists.yaml b/artists.yaml
index 72fe0106..10a0c356 100644
--- a/artists.yaml
+++ b/artists.yaml
@@ -6164,7 +6164,9 @@ URLs:
 ---
 Artist: Kenta Nagata
 ---
-Artist: Kera Jones
+Artist: Kera L. Jones
+URLs:
+- https://brokenpocketwatch.tumblr.com
 ---
 Artist: Ke$ha
 Directory: kesha
@@ -8883,6 +8885,10 @@ Dead URLs:
 ---
 Artist: Paul Kandel
 ---
+Artist: Paul Lawler
+URLs:
+- https://paullawler.bandcamp.com
+---
 Artist: Paul McCartney
 ---
 Artist: Paul Tuttle Starr