Month: January 2016

kokiron:

tanku:

kokiron:

I think i’m like…….a furry but not a furry, u know?

a faux-ry

mad-maddie:

Honestly. Any post I see about people who never received paid commissions scares me senseless. It makes me feel like I need to work faster on orders so I don’t upset anyone and worries me that with each supposed scammer that’s just more and more people that will never commission artists ever again.

Honestly as a person who commissions a lot, I can pretty much wait months as long as the artist

1.  Communicates
2.  Seems like they’re putting forth a good faith effort. 

While I was having the issues w/ burdwow I was waiting for another commission that was taking even longer, but I knew that the person had Shit Going Down IRL so I was like ‘w/e I can wait, its just pixels.’ Meanwhile, I emailed them and they didn’t reply for like a month which was a big warning flag.

goreh0wl:

I was so, so hoping it wouldn’t have to come to this, but after an entire year of waiting and trying to be patient, I feel I have to make this official post.

Last January i inquired @burdwow about one of their $35 colored waist-up commissions [x]. After the second email with them sending the sketch, all contact came to a complete halt. I sent two more emails after that, along with multiple asks and fanmails on tumblr and a request for a refund. For months, there was nothing except for a few vague text posts that said she was getting to it [x] [x] It wasn’t until she was directly [called out] that they made a [text post]. She had not even attempted to try get in contact with any of the other people she had done this to. 

And there were quite a few. [x] [x] [x] [x] That’s 7 people alone that have been screwed over like this. Not including a few people who have come forward anonymously. I’m unsure if the people here have gotten their refunds, but I know I sure haven’t lol.

So she told me to send her my email and asked, since she could not get paid asap, if I wanted to have half the money now and half of it later. I said no, trusting she’d give me my full refund asap when she could.

And so almost a month passed. Again. I FINALLY got a reply saying she had the money. This was on December 12th. A month later. I sent two asks and a fanmail just in case she didn’t get my reply. And I decided to wait until the year was over to make this post in hopes she might contact me.

To top it off she had artist beware posts going back as far as 2011

At this point all I care about is that no one else gets scammed. I’d really like that money back but it’s too late at this point and I warn everyone to beware of commissioning this artist. 

Time to boost this again.

korkrunchcereal:

I don’t care really. making Elune a naaru cheapens the Night Elves I feel so that they have almost nothing unique. 

gaytruckerblog:

chiauve:

jackalopejess:

I just realized that there are many of you on here who have never had to store information on a floppy disk or write it to a CD due to your hard drive only having so much space and flash drive and SD cards weren’t a thing yet and you’ve probably never downloaded mp3s of anime songs and video game music from limewire to burn your own CDs and you’ve never had to wait five minutes for a Flash cartoon to load and you probably don’t know what YTMND is and you don’t remember sprite comics or Albinoblacksheep and you don’t remember when Youtube was new. NEW. YOUTUBE WAS NOT ALWAYS A PART OF THE INTERNET AND I REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS NEW OH MY GOSH I AM ACTUALLY FREAKING OUT A LITTLE

When downloading a 3 minute video of good quality took three hours.

When there were no social sites, only shrines and messy forums.

Dial-up. NEVER FORGET THE HORROR OF DIAL-UP. Nobody could use the phone.

It sounded like this: SSSKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeEEEEeeeeeEEEEKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKHKSHJJKKKKKKKKKKKAHHHAHAHAHAHA It was the sound of your soul dying.

Music could only be found in .midi and .wav format. Rarely one could find the mythical .mp2

Image galleries that took 10 minutes to load and half the pics would give up and die anyway.

Personal art galleries cause where else was that shit gonna go?

the days before youtube when you had to actually DOWNLOAD fanvids and they took fucking ages.

not being able to use the phone while connected to the internet.

games taking up multiple floppies… FLOPPIES.

I am just gonna put this here:

I can buy a single hard drive that can hold that 5,977 GB