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Shadow Lugia 🎃
#tombetching

Shadow Lugia 🎃
#tombetching

I dont know enough about mastodon, but [with the obvious inclusion of baraag] any time i see a mastodon instance linked in someones bio now my hair immediately stands bolt upright on my neck and i back away asap regardless of anything

Not to get too off on a tangent but bro ive been hearing and seeing shit about the seemingly never-ending nightmare spanning a web of mastodon instances, and the FBI will legit charge child victims before looking into the pedophiles on there openly bragging about their grooming its insanity

I genuinely genuinely believe the FBI would sooner go undercover as random internet leftists on bsky than they would look into the sprawling swamp of teen dating servers on discord, roblox, tg groups, etc like i 10000% believe that

Im sure ive said it before but it very often reads like a federal agent is trying to blend in LMFAO now that possibility is more real than ever

Man am i sickkk of the corniness on this site. Every now and then i wonder why i never check feeds and then im immediately reminded almost every time

If ur 25+ you have no business donning an air of authority and posting vapid peepee poopoo leftbait shit like we’re 15 on tumblr again get real man

Thousands of people seemingly not understanding that the “if they find out im gay theyll kick me out of the camp or worse” cover story and 50 copy-paste ‘please donate’ direct replies to random users + paragraph long posts per day dont exactly line up

Not at all a new observation but the amount of obviously fake donationbait “im queer and stuck in a sub-saharan refugee camp” accounts on here is so fuckin creepy and gross man lmfao its insane how many there are

There have been a couple comm inqs ive been sent in the past couple months that had me running around with my hands up celebrating like im ronaldo bc ive wanted to draw the character for sometimes several years fuckkk online rules sometimes

You have to delete the comma, hit space to make it an active hyperlink, then hit CONTROL-ENTER [NOT SHIFT-ENTER] to insert a line break wtf are they smokin with google sheets

They get bunched up bc for some inexplicable reason, despite it being a google form using a google-provided form option [that being a google drive upload box, again made by google] the google SHEET the data exports onto puts all the links together, separating them by a comma with no spaces lmfao

Also for the record, as insane as it sounds considering the total, i see all the comm inquiries and remember ALMOST all of them. Partially bc im good with names, but also bc i have to manually parse all the google drive links out for the refs that get sent in

Ill admit im picky though lol ive grown up seeing all my friends batting unruly or downright evil clients so im REALLY cautious. probably a little too cautious but

Plus its like 52 RIGHT NOW and i regularly go back and add more to the list when im finally feelin the idea. Its sorta like catching me at the right time i guess hfnmskk

It kinda makes me feel like a huge pos bc 52/600smth is a cartoonishly small margin but it isnt like whos more popular / who has the best chars / whos gonna pay more or anything

Its honestly like who has the best vibe, has a good track record as a client with other artists, has an interesting idea

Full disclosure as well, i have a separate, hand-maintained list of all the inquiries im interested in doing going back to the very beginning, so over a year ago, and the current count on that is 52

Some people are clearly a little malicious with it, but some of them are seemingly treating it like sweepstakes rules, where they think submitting a large amount of tickets will increase the chances of them getting picked i think????

No joke id say almost 200 of these are a small handful of ppl hammering me with repeat inquiries. Thats why i had to make a rule about spam

Ive been getting a lot of “how the hell are u getting so many weird inquiries” over the past couple months and i really should clarify that the current amount of inquiries is >600 if you include dupes, multiple ideas, spam, etc.

goes without saying some of them are gonna be notable lol

Despite all of this, i have to say its been a ton of fun. even the bad ones lol

I assume its partially bc ive gone literally 10 years without opening comms a single time, so i was bound to get some colorful ones. I really like how all over the place it is lmfao i get so excited when i see a new one

Granted there are several hundred of them and theyre offset by a likewise huge amount of “AF is ok! do whatever u want dog lol” inqs, but the lack of a middle ground is really staggering

Like if you sent me a loose/general idea as your inquiry you are in an eyewateringly small minority its crazy

Ive had the form open for a little over a year now and the amount of TMI, demanding, open flirting, anger over “being ignored” after the first [or tenth] inquiry, heist planning-level overexplaining, fanfic writing, and terms-ignoring ive seen is almost cartoonish hfkmkhhdj

Also dude, quite a few recent comm inquiries that’d best be described as ‘Orders’ ???

“You will” do this, “you must” do that. “Not optional”, “I expect—“, “promptly”

Bro no shot im taking those, like im half expecting to be ordered to drop and give them 20 at the end of these inqs

Odd for ME at least. No shade towards these people but im just lost on what gave them the impression im the guy for this sorta thing u know

I got one asking for reed as a pooltoy with their char using him to jack off like hes a pillow. Lot of odd inqs recently

Yeah once or twice i get

18 times????? And they dont post art?????

still in a good mood but ive had so many weird furry interactions recently i dont know whats going on lmfao

Someone sent me a comm inquiry last night asking for a complex bg as an additional fee because i “really should be doing more of them” LMFAO great first impression man

Dude there are like 3-4 ppl who unfollow and refollow me literally every time i post a piece of art on my nsfw wtf. Theres one dude whos done it almost 20 times now im so close to just blocking on account of how weird it is

Its almost cartoonish how hard my mental health pivoted and has been speeding in the opposite direction just bc i suddenly decided i was being an idiot and started being social again

Like im still dealing with some weird health problems i gotta solve, but mentally ive been feeling pretty great