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The Elskling Situation.

(Take two because tumblr broke my drafts.)

I've had a few asks about this that I've held back until I could make a longer post about this situation. Some of you may have already seen the bulletin on Toyhouse, but the artist has also reached out to me directly to inform me about this. They have stated they are okay with this being posted as they have already left the species and no longer wish to participate.

And boy, who can blame them?

You can read their bulletin about it here.

But I'll also sum it up in this post.

The situation: Elskling had been doing a number of prompt commissions for other Succubuns members, most notably Pursuit of Diligence. There did not seem to be any issues until they received this message from Yves barring them from continuing to take prompt commissions:

That last bit is significant. Only commissions that were already completed would still be accepted.

Elskling was given NO warning leading up to this and was not even given a grace period to complete any commissions left in the queue, leaving them forced to refund anyone whose commission was not yet finished, as the original agreement of completing the prompt for them could no longer be fulfilled.

Their messages to me explaining the situation further, including the above screenshots: (note I have cut out a reply of mine between the messages to keep things concise)

Now, in the spirit of remaining the unbiased public forum this blog is meant to be, I don't often weigh in. However, on this one, I do feel the need to give my two cents.

This was handled beyond poorly. There was no consideration given to the situation this would leave the artist in. The least they could have done would be to allow their queue to be finished instead of leaving them to either refund everyone or somehow level up their art to Succubuns' inconsistently enforced, yet stupidly high standards.

And don't get me started on how rude it is to just deem someone's art "low effort". A cartoony, stylized art style does not mean it is low effort, and it is so hurtful to just decide that when you have no idea how much time and effort is being put into each piece.

I know this is a pretty inherently negative space by virtue being a vent blog, but I would love it if you guys could just... Go send some positivity their way, because this is such a shitty situation and Elskling did not deserve to be treated this way.

Their art style is adorable and really unique, so maybe even consider commissioning them, if you have some spare funds lying around and feel like helping them out.

Shame on you, Succubuns.

Separately from this, they also reached out to me again a little later with an apology to share with the community for reselling some things above worth/price paid, which they did not realize was frowned upon at the time. And considering Succubuns doesn't enforce this even with their own artists' TOS, it's unsurprising someone would think this was acceptable.

(Not included for privacy is a mentioned screenshot of an apology sent directly to an affected artist)

Just wanted to know your opinion on goats, they're quite cute ya'know

- goat voice

A new voice! always great to hear.....although with how......calm? things have been recently i fear one of you is bound to start trouble soon.

As for your question Goat, i don't really have a preference on the animal. I admire their aggressiveness and agility but i haven't seen one in years. Not since practicing on them for learning how to cut horns in a-

you know what. i think my time before the whole maze and military general think doesn't need to be touched on. Point of that was, due to horns, goat imagery was often used to represent demons. so....over time i grew to dislike the beasts.

Now though.......i'd consider myself indifferent.

that part in the screenshots where he fucking nitpicks shit like elskling’s line art and poses and whatever is hilarious. this is the same motherfucker who takes credit for designs on guest artist buns who do all the legwork in drawing the actual design and piggybacks off of the artist’s hard work. i’m sure it’s split 50/50 but he doesn’t even deserve that when all he provides is a “low effort” concept (ha, see what i did there? i threw it right back at him).

so! when you read this, i want you to look at yourselves. i want you to look deep within your goddamn souls and ask "is this worth it?". is the way you handle yourselves in public and in private worth it?

take a step back and look at what you two are doing to the people of the community you claim to love. take a step back and fucking think about what you do. because to all of us you just seem to be lashing out randomly when someone does "too much" of something vague that you "don't like".

these people pay for your rent, your groceries, your fucking bougie-ass japan vacations. show them some damn respect.

i hope screwing over one of their members in the middle of a medical emergency haunts them but that would imply yves and luca actually care about their community which they have made it known time and time again that they do not.