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So much begging and stuff :/
12 years ago
All I see in journals much anymore is begging, help this person out (assisted begging) and people lying to everyone about needing money so they can do what they can't afford to do while they attend cons on the money they should be using to pay bills with.
So here's a slightly different kind of journal.
I'm getting more artwork done. I pay for these commissions with money I set aside, AFTER I pay my bills, and budget food/etc.
I'm buying a house. Yup finally going to have a place to display some of the artwork I have commissioned, maybe just a few pieces. Someplace I can invite friends to visit :)
(runon paragraph warning!)
Elliots, I just got back from my first ever Vegas trip (barring airport terminal plane exchange only visits) It was pretty good. Was with the Boyfriend the entire trip :D That was SUPER. Hung out with a few friends, and hung out with Frisky/Fisky for a bit as well as one of the Mascots - I still don't know if that was Elliot or someone else just mascotting. Otherwise, didn't know anyone really at the con. I have see Woodymutt and Kiwalyon around, Saw Menstruelwolf briefly, met Reevethelion and Darkou as well as someone who tailed our group most of friday night (no problems with stalkers here :P) Gambled, won/lost ate a fuckton of food - nothing was dissapointing foodwise - and you HAVE to visit heartattack grill it's fuckingFABULOUS! I'll probably go next year :)
I might have helped get my boyfriend a really nice job working withe me :) We'll find out later, I'm not holding my breath on this one, but hey, I'm using the "Never hurts to try" Mantra here.
Just got back from Arizona again, visiting the boyfriend and driving too/from Elliots :) Met up with some older acquaintances as well as just a handful of new ones. Didn't see everyone, maybe next trip, so long as it's not the trip where I bring the boyfriend back with me to live :)
More art coming, yes I'm still feeding artists.
Don't forget to check out the first 5 pages of the Forgewielder and Rrowdybeast (UnshackledFenrir) Collab Comic including Ssvanti and Vverevvolf.
Amwulf is also working on a comic for me along with quite a few people I've been meaning to get artwork with :)
If things keep going nicely, I'll eventually finish my prep to move everything over to Sofurry :D
So here's a slightly different kind of journal.
I'm getting more artwork done. I pay for these commissions with money I set aside, AFTER I pay my bills, and budget food/etc.
I'm buying a house. Yup finally going to have a place to display some of the artwork I have commissioned, maybe just a few pieces. Someplace I can invite friends to visit :)
(runon paragraph warning!)
Elliots, I just got back from my first ever Vegas trip (barring airport terminal plane exchange only visits) It was pretty good. Was with the Boyfriend the entire trip :D That was SUPER. Hung out with a few friends, and hung out with Frisky/Fisky for a bit as well as one of the Mascots - I still don't know if that was Elliot or someone else just mascotting. Otherwise, didn't know anyone really at the con. I have see Woodymutt and Kiwalyon around, Saw Menstruelwolf briefly, met Reevethelion and Darkou as well as someone who tailed our group most of friday night (no problems with stalkers here :P) Gambled, won/lost ate a fuckton of food - nothing was dissapointing foodwise - and you HAVE to visit heartattack grill it's fuckingFABULOUS! I'll probably go next year :)
I might have helped get my boyfriend a really nice job working withe me :) We'll find out later, I'm not holding my breath on this one, but hey, I'm using the "Never hurts to try" Mantra here.
Just got back from Arizona again, visiting the boyfriend and driving too/from Elliots :) Met up with some older acquaintances as well as just a handful of new ones. Didn't see everyone, maybe next trip, so long as it's not the trip where I bring the boyfriend back with me to live :)
More art coming, yes I'm still feeding artists.
Don't forget to check out the first 5 pages of the Forgewielder and Rrowdybeast (UnshackledFenrir) Collab Comic including Ssvanti and Vverevvolf.
Amwulf is also working on a comic for me along with quite a few people I've been meaning to get artwork with :)
If things keep going nicely, I'll eventually finish my prep to move everything over to Sofurry :D
I'm not saying that either way is better than the other, but i don't think direct name calling is necessary.
Needless to say though, yes. People need to learn how to create a budget and get priorities strait.
Job.
Food.
Roof.
Bills.
Transportation.
Toys & Entertainment.
Commissions would fall under this last category, not above it. When people ask for help because of poor choices and then proceed to use donated funds or money for commissions for their own leisure, it just makes me more callous to their plight when they are actually in need of help. =/
It is good to hear you had a fun time at Elliot's though! (^ㅈ^)b
But yeah that's actually one reason why I just don't help out anyone unless I know them closely because at least in this fandom, a lot of times it's just so they can go to some con, upgrade some computer part, or buy some fat dildo they can't truly afford. I had one friend long ago who put his own desires ahead of paying back his debts, one of which was actually a close friend of his who had been waiting for 3 years for his money. It's good people wanna help and sometimes there really is some sorta situation going on that can't be helped by the person involved but I do see quite a bit of it being over bad budgeting. One thing that does irk me are ones who plead for the funds yet live with parents. :P
This is a nice debate subject though ^^ I'd mention commissions instead of cons, since alot of us never been to one :P!
I know that art is business for alot of artists, but I wish they could keep in their scraps the first pic of every year as reference, not only for them, but for the people they inspire! You will be shocked when you see a few of the best artists having terrible, average art in their past!
Don't give up :)!
I'd like to see more people get drawing and stuff though, can't go wrong with more artists. Just yeah, it's not as easy as it sounds unless you are gifted at art.
Well if this continues, it will only make people more hesitant to donate money cause they won't be able to tell the real cases from the fake ones =/!
As far as art goes, I don't need a freaking metric ton of myself running around..... I'm not that much of an egoist.
And yes:
Job.
Food.
Home.
Bills.
Living expenses (I'll never understand why people always fail at including their hundred+ dollar-a-month data plan and smartphone in this.)
Saving for emergencies.
THEN, and only then, do you start getting extra things.
I'm not working at the moment (Due to a damaged eye from a car accident), so I'm not buying anything but basic groceries (Ramen, kosher hot-dogs, a daily multivitamin, and veggies.) No commissions, no eating out, no gaming online. I play a lot of card games with the neighbor (who's retired), and I read and spend time on Wikipedia, learning things that are going to eventually be useful later (Looking up different welding techniques, loan-words from other languages, and food recipes.)
*Foxy is very confused at all the poor budgeting*
And yet there are also professional, financially well-established furries that work HARD, and play as they like as a result...... *sigh*
Moneywise, I am always curious how people looking at it. Friends who makes less/more than me always able to find ways to use them while I feel "not getting paid enough" after rent and stuffs being paid each month. I maybe buy one or two commission a year, hopefully that number increases, and a lot of times when I accumulate enough fun fund often times those "in need for help" journals come across my way.........and contribute some of my fund to it (if it is reasonable).
Do you mind I ask you more about some questions in private ?
As I said, I am doing HORRIBLY, but I am not begging. Because I am doing what I can. You do not need to beg for help, when you can help yourself. Only you can solve your own problems.
Of course, unless it is something TRULY terrible. I can understand it. But After being on FA for years, I know the fakes and real ones.
I am a writer. I write for myself. I can produce 'art', but I do not advertise it because I still work to better myself at it.
......anyway, sorry to ramble on, draggie. Just wanted to throw out my two cents. Also, grats on your hard work. You deserve where you are today!
Also I know probably two people who you are taking about. I haven't had personal money like that to blow... Going to cons etc. Fuck that shit. Pisses me off too man.
Your first impression of Reeve, does he look French to you? :D
Your comics Rrowdy (Fen to me) is doing is just sweet tea - Iksar and werewoof hotness and kink that I'm savoring on these hot Texas days...
You (and Fen) have been 2 of the awesome people I've come to really dig knowing (after a fashion) from being on FA. I look forward to maybe getting to know these other important people in your life next face time or however.
Until then, cheers Iksar bro.