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Feb 22: FA's Drama Llama & Current Status
13 years ago
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█ Drama, it's something that finds you sooner or later. The only thing that truly applies is "Well, that escalated quickly." It's quite amazing how quickly people react emotionally with only tiny amounts of detail and context. I'll spare you the details of what happened (it's not that hard to find currently anyways), it's unimportant to me, and odds are it's probably unimportant to you.
I think it's best summed up with: Should the police be involved? If the answer is yes, then call the police, not the FA admins. If the answer is no, use the block feature and try to contact the admins.
Or more clearly: Criminal behavior needs to be dealt with by the police.
█ Past week has been grating on my psyche, actually the whole month in general is. Mostly due to things outside of my personal control, and due to things I end up being involved in that I don't really want to be; but have to anyways. I believe it's also known as "Life: It sucks."
There's a part of me that wants to throw out the current list of commissions and start again, and there's another part going "you're almost there, you can do it!" Though the part of me that wants to get things done and doing my best not to disappoint is stronger currently. Though the consequence of is that my personal project days turn into "recover your sanity" days. I've been on FA for like 5 years or something like that and I'm still continually learning things about myself when it comes to my own limits and abilities. Mostly because this time around I'm doing my best to keep at the commissions as I would like a job, but that's the big caveat: With jobs I never really cared about the final result, I would just go through the motions and get the bare minimum required done; with my art I want to give it my all, or almost my all; and that gets real draining on the psyche with the amount of commissions I go through on a weekly basis. It's hard for me to put effort into something, but not all of it; it's hard for me to leave things on the table and move on to the next thing, yet that is something I need to get a handle on.
I'll get a 'redo' on how I handle my commissions either way once I done with the current single and sequence sets. I have a fair idea of how I want to move forward that will be more sustainable on my end. It also just occurred to me now that I've been doing commissions for almost three months now. Time sure flies.
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█ Drama, it's something that finds you sooner or later. The only thing that truly applies is "Well, that escalated quickly." It's quite amazing how quickly people react emotionally with only tiny amounts of detail and context. I'll spare you the details of what happened (it's not that hard to find currently anyways), it's unimportant to me, and odds are it's probably unimportant to you.
I think it's best summed up with: Should the police be involved? If the answer is yes, then call the police, not the FA admins. If the answer is no, use the block feature and try to contact the admins.
Or more clearly: Criminal behavior needs to be dealt with by the police.
█ Past week has been grating on my psyche, actually the whole month in general is. Mostly due to things outside of my personal control, and due to things I end up being involved in that I don't really want to be; but have to anyways. I believe it's also known as "Life: It sucks."
There's a part of me that wants to throw out the current list of commissions and start again, and there's another part going "you're almost there, you can do it!" Though the part of me that wants to get things done and doing my best not to disappoint is stronger currently. Though the consequence of is that my personal project days turn into "recover your sanity" days. I've been on FA for like 5 years or something like that and I'm still continually learning things about myself when it comes to my own limits and abilities. Mostly because this time around I'm doing my best to keep at the commissions as I would like a job, but that's the big caveat: With jobs I never really cared about the final result, I would just go through the motions and get the bare minimum required done; with my art I want to give it my all, or almost my all; and that gets real draining on the psyche with the amount of commissions I go through on a weekly basis. It's hard for me to put effort into something, but not all of it; it's hard for me to leave things on the table and move on to the next thing, yet that is something I need to get a handle on.
I'll get a 'redo' on how I handle my commissions either way once I done with the current single and sequence sets. I have a fair idea of how I want to move forward that will be more sustainable on my end. It also just occurred to me now that I've been doing commissions for almost three months now. Time sure flies.
also, i do hope things get better and stop grating your psyche. psyches are poor substitutes for cheese.
To end drama, all parties need to walk away. Or at least most of them. Leave it up to only those actually involved. :/
*pets stressed draggie* I really hope you can remedy your stress soon, End.
Hope you feel better soon, you do alot of pics especially these past three months, so to help limit your commisions at a time and also give yourself two full sanity recovering days ...in a jacket if sorts ofcourse.
Only my continual mis-spelling of your name disappoints me. And that's me disappointing me
-huggles the big dragon, even if it's risking to get tubed like Tiemeth-
I hope you feel better soon. Remember, things usually go bad before they get better, so hang in there. *gives a small smile to you*
As far as all the drama, its probably hard for many people here to go to the police about it for fear that being a furry would somehow incriminate or ostracize them, but that's really more their problem than the police. The cops don't really care about any of that stuff, its simply their job to deal with something like a stalker as that often leads to a much more serious crime. But, in all fairness, if something like that happened to me 10 or more years ago, my first response would have been contact admins and see if I could solve it myself. Truth is, life takes a lot of experience (or as Oscar called them, our mistakes) to understand the best course of action. While I do find that whole situation very disheartening, I try to consider it a growing pain, and i think everyone in the community learns and grows from that experience, and that makes journals like this one very important (and hence worth commenting on).
At any rate, I hope you manage to find a commission format that suits your without being a burden, and hopefully one that still lets a good majority of us give you monnies!
Also, I've been wanting to commission you for a while, seeing as how I haven't in like...3 years? XD Hopefully I can snag one in the near future!