hot mess of fandoms

Sorry for double posting but APPARENTLY those commission scammers have showed up on Tumblr at least for the first time for me.

For those who don’t know what I am talking about, there were/are commission scams going on in Instagram and even places like Artstation where people would pretend to be interested in your work and try to commission a pet or portrait for the sake of trying to get your bank details. Here’s how to (somewhat) sniff them out:

1- They don’t seem to be an average customer/ person that would be involved in your fandom, or has a blank template for an account or don’t even follow you.

2- They ask you to draw a portrait or a pet picture either for themselves or their children/family.

3- They promise to overpay you (in the hundreds) and do not listen to you even if you firmly state the price is cheaper.

4- They are constantly asking for your email name, or private details regarding things like banking details or passwords or other private information others should not know.

5- They try and over reassure you they mean no harm, try to guilt you into giving them the info, or become aggressive over you not giving them what they want.

I was supposed to be finishing cold front art…not this

Information: My art blog doesn't have the same reach as the main one, so I don't share links to collections there, it would simply be shooting in the foot (It happened to me by mistake, but I deleted it and shared it again, but on the main blog, because seriously, that one the blog is not my main one and my works go there after I deleted my deviantart, because it turned out to belong to an Israeli company)

So yes, this blog exists because there are not many alternatives (And I prefer not to risk finding out again that another website is like Deviantart, Tumblr is not perfect, but it's better than my works getting lost on the main blog, and then I would have a problem with the skin color of my OCs)

Many of the older works are still from debiantart, I had to move everything from one site to another, so…

Now that I have your attention:

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