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⌈ Secret Post #2037 ⌋

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Do you think she does it on purpose or is it some kind of anxiety disorder or mental illness that keeps her from finishing stuff?

Because... NGL, I can relate (that's why I made the decision early in like not to become a creative professional though, but)

The former. I do not for one second think she has an anxiety disorder. Personally? I think she just gets bored of projects and goes off to the next shiny thing. Quitting her job to work on Hanna, and then dumping it to flit off to cons to sell art and making fanart for new online comics just smacks of it. Maybe ADD? IDK. And no matter what her excuse, you can't just do what she did. She had a job, and left it, disappeared, and took on ANOTHER paying gig. One which I highly doubt she will finish.

I mean, that sounds really ADD... and unless she is getting something out of it (doesn't seem like it because her reputation is pretty much shot at this point) I don't see why anyone would want to drop a project on purpose "because they got bored".

I'm not saying it makes what she does okay but that doesn't seem like normal behavior to me, so I kinda feel a little bad for her

Her rep isn't shot at all, actually. She has a TON of fans that love her. Only a few people lashed out at having their money taken, and were quickly jumped upon by her loyal fanbase. If you read her dA page, it's already flooded with people saying they love her/can't wait to read her new comic.

And since Omni didn't seem to mind she abandoned her old project+publisher...

I'd say, yeah. She got bored and flaked. She did it with three other comics before Hanna.

Wait hold up I coulda sworn a few weeks ago someone mentioned Tessa working with Omni? Or did the names get typo'd what happened with everything.

Still excited for Buzz, though, as sketchy as it makes me feel.

Yes and no on the typos. It's really "OniPress", and all we knew back then was that Tessa would likely be working for them.

Now that we have an actual statement, title and sample art, and the writer is someone well-known (and respected) in the comics world, this feels much more real.

I'll be watching and hoping for the best, personally.

Sure sounds to me like anxiety disorder maybe mixed with some ADD. But maybe I'm projecting too much.

Not that it excuses her behavior, but it does explain it a bit.

From what I've heard, and from what I remember of her notes on her updates, back when I read the comic, I get the impression that she has some sort of genuine anxiety problem, BUT, in my eyes, that is not an excuse for doing this.

She said that she was nervous about being published, she was always nervous about letting her fans down, so she was aware of her problem. She has a sister who is in contact with her and could have easily relayed messages from her if she wanted to quit, and the fandom would have understood. The sister still has a deviantART account too, so she could still come clean.

The publishers, in their dA when they finally cleared up that, no, the rumors were false and they did not cheat Tessa out of money (this was the rumor from "a friend in the know" going on in tumblr for months), all but said that they wanted to let everyone know what was going on but Tessa has asked them to respect her privacy so they couldn't say anything beyond that she was alive and fine. WTF. They had to pay for all the pre-ordered books she didn't sign. They're not even a big company, so I'm not sure what sorts of shenanigans they had to do to absorb the hit.

She didn't even have to deal with the fallout herself.

She still went to cons and did art for someone else.

Many of her fans still love her and are worried about her and would forgive her if she just said what is going on.

Hell, most of the problem with the people fed up with her is the lack of closure.

She had and still has options, and she blew them all, knowingly.

So, even thought I'm sure there is definitely something medical genuinely going on with her, I don't excuse her actions just on that alone.

(And then she goes and gets into yet another publishing contract? Is she a glutton for punishment/anxiety, or...?)

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