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[foxwolf321.livejournal.com]

WHO: absinthe stellary

WHERE: http://www.furaffinity.net/user/stellary/

WHAT: 4 full colour, fullbody pictures (1 is completed) and 1 flat colour bust. traded for 2 shirts totalling 42 dollars.

WHEN: Originally commissioned June 2011, problems started 3 months later.

PROOF: http://s276.photobucket.com/albums/kk7/fowolf321/?action=view&current=page1.png

http://s276.photobucket.com/albums/kk7/fowolf321/?action=view&current=page2.png

http://s276.photobucket.com/albums/kk7/fowolf321/?action=view&current=page3.png


EXPLAIN: Commissioned her, at the time her paypal account was closed. So we traded art for shirts. She is great to deal with right up untill she gets paid. Then the real fun begins. She has already stated many times that she does not care about artist beware as it paints an unfair picture of her. Well, I suggest to anyone reading this, dont fall for it. Find another artist!


Edit: I have since been put on her block list on FA, so looks like my refund or art will be quickly coming........
Edit: hmm, not sure what this giant space down here is about, I can not delete it......

Comments

[mekania.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't feel like the OP deserves to be put on blast ("you must not have anyone close in your life", really guys?) when nothing in Stellary's notes appear to be a person grieving and asking for some patience. All it looks like is someone using a tragic event to guilt her commissioner into getting off her back.

Sorry, I'm pretty sympathetic to loss but I don't believe people should be guilted into having feelings for something that isn't personal to them especially when, in this instance, Stellary *was taking more commissions while using her dad's death to get out of previous obligations*. I can't stress that enough.

[tunavoice.livejournal.com]

Yeah, even I thought that comment was pretty bad. I won't be surprised if a mod jumps on it. I mean, I can totally see why the commissioner got mad- the continuous excuses would have gotten me angry, too, as well as the lack of communication. Stellary has a history of this, as many of us know.

But on the other side of the coin, what really put me off and made me say what I did was the commissioner's attitude. They came off as HIGHLY aggressive and handled things in a way that could have been avoided entirely. Their responses in the thread did not help.

(In addition, I wasn't trying to guilt them in any way, but moreso explain why I felt the way I did. I apologize if I came off that way.)

[mekania.livejournal.com]

I get it, I do. I just can see how this spiraled a bit and the OP got defensive when people started telling them they didn't express the feelings they believed the OP should feel.

I don't honestly think the commissioner said anything terrible in response to that excuse, to me they were actually pretty reasonable in expressing what Stellary was doing wrong. They were blunt, yes. But not abusive/rude.

Commissioner response to the excuses where she cites the funeral:
"a few months is 2, it's been over 3. as I said I don't mind waiting but this is getting ridiculous. You haven't even tried to do one. work with me here, when can I expect them"

Doesn't address the funeral. It's to the point but willing to work with her. When she responded with "You can expect them when I have time to do them" +excuses for why she needed to take new commissions is when he seemed to really let everything out there. I'm not sure I agree "aggressive" is the right term.

I can also understand the defensiveness in the comments, I'd personally be really upset if people were telling me (not just you, a LOT of people) I didn't have the correct emotions to a situation which I am not personally involved. The first comment included a hypothetical "if this were a different artist who was otherwise great, then you wouldn't have done this" but this is not that situation.

I may not be expressing myself as articulately as I hoped so it may be time for bed. I just think everyone should maybe take a moment and comment based on *this* situation and not the hypothetical in which a good artist who has solid business ethics and would never use a tragedy as a free pass to blow something off gets lambasted by their customer when they ask for some time to grieve.

Edit: Wow second paragraph was a bit confusing, cleaned up the sentence a bit!

[kadaria.livejournal.com]

The last part is exactly how I feel about this whole commenting situation on this post.

[foxwolf321.livejournal.com]

its been awhile, I did mean to thank you earlier, but my posts where just dragging things offtopic. I do appreciate you seeing my side of the fence. Unlike what everyone assumes, I am not unsympathetic, I do understand artists are people. But i have never been one with words, you described it much better then I ever could.

[aerospiritual.livejournal.com]

This, seriously.