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Please, Do not ask me to deliver messages to other people.
10 years ago
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I'm not calling anyone out, but this happens enough that it's really starting to get on my nerves. I do not like playing messenger, I don't want to be part of a conversation that does not involve me. My association with another person does not make me their keeper.
Do not ask me to get a message to another person for you. Especially if it's something involving personal drama or some business transaction. It's not my business, I don't want it to be my business. My fursona is not a carrier pigeon.
There are two exceptions to this:
1. If it is an honest to god absolute emergency that you need to speak to this person as soon as possible. If it's an emergency then I will do my best to get you guys in contact as soon as I can. The keyword here is emergency. If you ever ask yourself "is this an emergency" usually it isn't. Not trying to be a dick, but seriously I'm talking about life and death sort of stuff here.
2. If it is something of a time sensitive message and I am physically in contact with this person then cool. Considering I don't live with or around other furs this is essentially just con stuff. If you see me at a con and go "hey tell Rio the dinner moved to 8" I won't fly off the handle. That's reasonable. I won't do this for business transaction stuff "tell WolfymcFurpants I put the money in his paypal for the commission" or "tell ArtistGoat i'd like the full color option instead" no, fuck you, I don't get involved with other people's business. In fact you should ask that of anyone. Keep that shit between you and the artist.
I suppose there's another thing I'm fine with "Tell friendfur I say hi" sure. This is a casual greeting, it's nice, no big deal.
Honestly this is coming off more aggressive than I ought to be but I really really hate when people perceive me as being close with someone and attempt to use me as a means to speak with them for whatever reason. They feel like i'll get the message faster, that the message will have more import coming from me, or that the person is ignoring them or screening them and they can use me to get around that. It's a dick move and it's unfair. It's dragging me into whatever private business and expecting me to do a job for you because i'm perceived as useful.
That said, it goes the same for trying to contact me as well. If you want to talk to me, send a note, and email, a skype message when I am on. Do not use my friends as runners. ESPECIALLY if it involves a commission. Its not fair to them and it can only lead to misunderstanding in the future. The only time i'm cool with it is if someone is going to physically talk to me and you might not have that chance, or if it is an absolute emergency, in which case my friends might have another method to contact me, but really, emergencies don't come up that often for that to be a concern.
So that's that. Seriously guys, stop trying to use me to get messages to other people. It's rude and annoying.
Do not ask me to get a message to another person for you. Especially if it's something involving personal drama or some business transaction. It's not my business, I don't want it to be my business. My fursona is not a carrier pigeon.
There are two exceptions to this:
1. If it is an honest to god absolute emergency that you need to speak to this person as soon as possible. If it's an emergency then I will do my best to get you guys in contact as soon as I can. The keyword here is emergency. If you ever ask yourself "is this an emergency" usually it isn't. Not trying to be a dick, but seriously I'm talking about life and death sort of stuff here.
2. If it is something of a time sensitive message and I am physically in contact with this person then cool. Considering I don't live with or around other furs this is essentially just con stuff. If you see me at a con and go "hey tell Rio the dinner moved to 8" I won't fly off the handle. That's reasonable. I won't do this for business transaction stuff "tell WolfymcFurpants I put the money in his paypal for the commission" or "tell ArtistGoat i'd like the full color option instead" no, fuck you, I don't get involved with other people's business. In fact you should ask that of anyone. Keep that shit between you and the artist.
I suppose there's another thing I'm fine with "Tell friendfur I say hi" sure. This is a casual greeting, it's nice, no big deal.
Honestly this is coming off more aggressive than I ought to be but I really really hate when people perceive me as being close with someone and attempt to use me as a means to speak with them for whatever reason. They feel like i'll get the message faster, that the message will have more import coming from me, or that the person is ignoring them or screening them and they can use me to get around that. It's a dick move and it's unfair. It's dragging me into whatever private business and expecting me to do a job for you because i'm perceived as useful.
That said, it goes the same for trying to contact me as well. If you want to talk to me, send a note, and email, a skype message when I am on. Do not use my friends as runners. ESPECIALLY if it involves a commission. Its not fair to them and it can only lead to misunderstanding in the future. The only time i'm cool with it is if someone is going to physically talk to me and you might not have that chance, or if it is an absolute emergency, in which case my friends might have another method to contact me, but really, emergencies don't come up that often for that to be a concern.
So that's that. Seriously guys, stop trying to use me to get messages to other people. It's rude and annoying.
Aaaanyways. Fay, could you tell Fay I said hi to Fay yesterday? :V
also wahgarbl. I am not Past Fay's messenger. Past Fay and I are not on speaking terms, she's a dick that left a mess for me to clean up, and I barely got sleep cause of her.