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⌈ Secret Post #4043 ⌋

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Re: Vent Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty annoyed at this artist a friend and I commissioned back in... June or July I think? Definitely half a year ago, anyway. She is (or at least was before going inactive) a BNF in a popular fandom and got quite a few commisions because her art style is nice and she did have a fairly high output at the time. She'd occasionally hinted at some mental health issues but not that often. Then, shortly after closing her commission spots, she went completely silent on tumblr. She was still posting a lot on twitter, but it was a constant mix of selfies, pictures of outings with her friends and a lot of mental health whining (at least as much as I can tell, she only tweets in her native language). She spent all the money she got from those commissions on several things but completely stopped posting any art. Then, she recently moved and started asking for more money, opened commissions again and created a patreon where the rewards are valuable things like "virtual hugs" (that's not what patreon is for damn it, get a kofi account if you want free donations!).

Now, I'm generally a patient person and I completely understand if mental health messes with your life. But the huge problem I have with this is the lack of communication on her part. The first few months, she went completely silent and only started posting very short, general notices some time ago. The only bigger post she made was the one where she explained her situation , including the reopened commissions and patreon announcement. She keeps saying that she's still working on the commissions, but quite frankly, I almost believe she hasn't started a single one of them. And opening additional slots when not one of the old ones is done ... yeah not a great idea.
I mean, I get it, she needed money. But her prices aren't cheap and the people who paid her for this probably don't exactly swim in cash themselves. And Idon't want to ask her because I don't want to be the one mean person who gets blamed for pressuring the poor mentally ill artist or something.

But damn it, it's been over half a year and not a single personal status update. That's just frustrating.

Re: Vent Thread

[(Anonymous)]

It sounds like Ana Voog and her fraudulent ass.

Re: Vent Thread

[(Anonymous)]

It's not but I'm both pissed and also kind of glad that this isn't such a rare case, apparently.

Re: Vent Thread

[(Anonymous)]

lmao is this about strigas

hope you kissed that money goodbye if so, she is never in a million years going to finish the commissions she’s taken. some are over a YEAR old.

Re: Vent Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Nope, someone else - who at the point of opening commissions last year hadn't done it for a while and afaik finished the ones she did before that without issues, so there wasn't really a reason to expect otherwise.

Re: Vent Thread

[soldatsasha]

Ask her anyway. It's been half a year. You aren't being mean for asking for what you paid for. As it is, she essentially scammed you and your friend out of a lot of money.

I assume you paid through paypal or something similar? If she can't at least provide you with good progress shots and a reasonable ETA for when the project will be done, report her and do whatever the steps are to get your money back.

Re: Vent Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I guess there won't be any other choice in the end - I wanted to wait a bit more because she moved at the beginning of January and I wanted to give her the chance to get settled in, but I'll ask her next month...