#let nobody put you down

[kiwi-channn]

Make sure to not let anyone get to you or put you down 💪 and Always try your best and learn from your mistakes and get better little by little, It's okay if it doesn't work for million times👌

Small message to anyone feeling down at doing something like me🫂

#small massage #feel down #getting better #download #kiwichan #busybee #have a nice day #self help #self love #im trying #do your best #let nobody put you down

[medicalunprofessional]

never change, man !

#phantom of the paradise #potp #swan potp #nightmaretheater #65 layers and about 24 hours . Eeeyyuppp #Look into my beautiful mind boy #Its a bit unusual to what i usually draw #but i had to push a specific look for this piece #hopefully you all are picking up on the corperate look . the advertisment look #Sneeze. Anyways my point is industry destroys creative people. This includes swan #I feel like phrases like these ; how he was put on a pedistal…. it lead him to be Like That #as awful as he is he desperately needed help #it might seem like vanity on the surface #but i think its… more than that #long story short: we need to destroy the beauty industry. the skincare industry. the anti-aging industry #It ruined his psyche forever and he cant let go of the ideal version of himself he will never truly be again #i dont think he can at this point. hes in too deep and hes suffering for it no matter how much he feels hes fixed his problems #he cant accept a version of himself that isnt that perfect young man. because he never confronted his problems. he just ran away #anyways . Hi swath *punches him**kicks him* #i dont care if nobody gets me lalalalla my truths and headcanons are awesome forever and i live in my own reality lallaallal #sorry i think im gonna be posting about swan alot for a few months hes making me sick #i wass gonna post this earlier but my internet was real bad #*lays down in my pile of pillows* eat up boys. haha #sidenote: drawing white blond people is horrifiying. Boy your skin and hair are the same color. Introduce some contrast to yourself. Please #adding on: its inportant to note this focuses on him looking st himself in the mirror alot on purpouse #to remind himself what he ‘’’’really’’’’ looks like #the 4 middle pannels all represent that too . u have to be in my brain ri get this #sorry for unleashijg another swan essay in my tags. will happen again lol

[gnomeantics]

hate it when computers work normally and perfectly. its not right. girl where is your specific ritual which only the owner knows

#my laptop (or rather the laptop i use daily; technically its the family computer but nobody else uses it) dual boots win7 and win10 #and as a result of that is sometimes goes a bit screwy when you boot it up #the sort of established thing is that i pretty much exclusively use it for windows 7 #and my mum and sister exclusively use it for windows 10 #so this only really affects me #but sometimes when you put it to sleep when it's running win7 #it will go Nuh Uh and not load win7 #so you have to go along with the dialogue #let it reboot when it tells you to #select windows 7 when it turns back on #then it says you need the repair disk #so then you have to hold down the power button until it blinks 3 times #then turn it back on #select windows 7 #and it works perfectly again #it's excellent i love it #yapping

[magnecalliope]

The irony of almost every post tagged "[fandom] critical" is that they are all monuments to an absolute failure on the OPs part to engage their critical thinking skills while writing about whatever text they are criticizing. They're almost all written in bad faith, though, so they aren't worth more than the effort it takes to block them. Stop giving your time to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

#like i promise nobody who is unironically claiming stella and stolas' marriage being loveless is a retcon actually cares #if what theyre saying is true. They're just trying to get an epic clapback on vivzie and hellaverse fans #stop giving them your time and energy when you could be putting it towards drawing stolas getting dicked down by blitz instead #or whatever makes you happy #the world is already so full of misery and hate why are you letting that energy into something that's supposed to be fun?

[cordycepsbian]

"human" leif or something

#bug fables #bug fables spoilers #vaguely but still #bug fables gijinka #bf leif #stuff i made tag #trying to get back into drawing humans again #if we put enough clothes on them nobody can tell how out of practice we are #does anyone else remember leif did not know what glasses were until chapter three #it'd be funny if they needed glasses and had no idea because glasses weren't invented yet #also it just feels right #other than that this design was just. trying to pin down the Wild Cave Wizard vibes #with a little bit of winter-y clothes hence the boots and gloves #uhh let us know how you like it. bye now

[ralexsol]

i love when i make plans with other people and im super on top of it and everyone agrees to the plan. and then lo and behold nobody else goes with the plan

#whatsupray? #i am. going feral right now #noooo i have to be understanding and nice about it? nooooo #dont make me further repress my emotions 😌 #im speaking about both a specific instance that is happening rn and one that has been happening for months #dont you just hate it when you cant get people in line yourself because you're not in charge?? #and the person in charge is an absolute pushover??? #like. i could solve this issue in a week YOU'VE BEEN LETTING THEM WALK OVER YOU FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS AND MONTHS... #like you're being so nice to them WHAT ABOUT ME?? YOU KNOW I CARE ABOUT THIS MORE THAN THEY EVER COULD... #this is not a ohhh nobody feels badly about this situation if i dont put my foot down #this is a every passing week i am not only getting even more done with the other people i am getting MAD AT YOU. #oh no! i stopped asking for updates! i stopped caring!! #i stopped caring because I TOLD YOU THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS EVERY FUCKING TIME I TRY TO DO THINGS LIKE THIS #I CARE AND NOBODY ELSE DOES AND AFTER MONTHS I REALIZE IVE WASTED A YEAR OF MY LIFE

[oglegoggle]

Weird double emotion of lonely and longing & too mistrusting of others to really even want to attempt to date now (if ever again tbh)

#this is goggles #just tired of relationships that make me feel like I am the sun to them when really they’ve lit me on fire and are burning me up #so they can in a way pretend to be tragic Icarus who flew too close #I continue to feel like a MPDG to the people I date #like I’m eccentric and handsome and dreamy and fun yeah #But I am not always my best traits #and often I have weird and tricky needs that nobody I’ve been with has really be able or willing to accomodate #I know that I’m very very hard to love at my most raw #it hurts so much to warn someone of this and they insist that they can in fact love me when it’s hard #but then when my hard time love times roll around whoopsie doopsie guess you were right after all #and just I put a lot of work and effort into my relationships desperately wanting to milk even a tenth of the effort in return back out #and I’m tired of it #I’m tired of putting work into others who think I’m some perfect dreamboat who is going to swoop in and fix their life #I tired of putting work into people who won’t put the work into me #couldn’t even schedule fucking counseling for us immediately after his evil cat slashed my literal eyeball #pathetic slob an absolute manchild a sorry excuse for a partner or a son #I sure as fuck felt like a crazy hybrid of partner and dad to him as much as I tried to convince him to do his chores and do them right #this isn’t even the first time that this shit has happened don’t know why I keep letting it #I’m the nameless love interest in your back story that was sooooo dreamy and romantic and good in bed that you dream of him for life #the one you fantasize about when you’re inevitably having problems in your 23 year marriage decades down the line #think about what ever happened to him and wonder if you could’ve made it work #but I’ll be long long gone #you won’t know whatever happened to me or if you could’ve made it work #you’ll go back to your unhappy marriage and tell yourself it’s what you deserve for fucking it up with me #me? I’ll have probably asphyxiated on my vomit or something by then ol’ Jimi style #because let’s be real I’m probs gonna lose grasp on my little Habit eventually #it gets worse and worse with each major trauma I endure #I need the traumatic experiences to stop please I am so so tired #may solitude in the Parks give me peace #may peace give me detachment

[d3cayingabyss]

i hope the people who fucked me over are happy with what they've achieved

#vent #rant post #vent post #are you happy now that I wonder if im loveable or just tolerable till im inconvenient #are you happy now that I question my every word #because i cant tell if im being annoying or not? #are you happy now that i question my worth as a person every day because i cant tell what i do deserve #because what i think i deserve is a room with nothing #a cold floor with windows high enough that i can hear but i cant see what i want to participate in because i was never meant to participate #because you decided i didn't get to do that #because im convinced that im a bad person because nobody ever told me what i did wrong #nobody told me why they left #why did they leave? #all i got was “You're just overwhelming” #im sorry #i never meant to be overwhelming. thats my bad #if i let you put a muzzle on too tight and keep me chained down #will you stay then?

[h-ypno]

Older men will deadass just tell you to shut up and not talk over them on theyre first day of the job.

Iv been here for two years.

#Maybe its because hes a wannabe cop #but like. Everything about this decaying fuck screams "Men will literally refuse to sit down in a 'sitting down job' for posturing #instead of going to therapy #he fucking leaned into me #like #fully #put his hands up to my face and everything #trying to tell me his job is more important #fucking kill yourself #I was talking to my coworkers and they all told me to stand up for myself #that #“theyd never let a man treat them like that” but COME ON #when you tell someone like that to “be kind” they see it as weakness #im not even gonna give this person the opportunity to do the right thing because the “right thing” #in this persons mind #is weakness #im not even going to waste my energy #Nobody delete this plz. Seriously. #and im not even here to bitch about dudes im bitching about how older men were raised and the special breed of masculinity they embody #its just a whole lot of ick. The fact I can tell they want to be seen as strong so they force talk over you #but on the other hand #refuse to sit down or joke or be kind #its really fucking weird......

[exopelagic]

if I have to do one more thing on my own today someone is going to die

#I WROTE MY DUMB FUCKING ESSAY AND IT WAS HELL #BUT THERE IS SO MUCH ICE HOCKEY LEFT TO ORGANISE AND IM GOING TO START MAIMING #I WILL HUNT YOU DOWN. COME AND HELP ME WITH THIS. #uhrhehGHDHDJC okay. list of things. #1. basic email. fine. #2. fancy admin email I put off bc NOBODY WOULD GET BACK TO ME. but I have that now. #3. fucking tournament email which I need someone to look over but I might just give up on #4. message fundraiser guy bc it’s very soon and I need to talk to him #5. message everyone abt handover shit bc nobody’s done it STILL #that might be all. I gotta cook after that but I can deal with that I think. I hope. pls it’s already 4:30 if this takes longer than an hour #okay speedrun time I give up on caring abt people’s opinions if I’m running this club alone they’re gonna have to deal with that #alright okay okay let’s fucking GO #luke.txt

[truly-quirkless]

TAG DUMP 2 - Inbox n' Dash

#I’ll make you see/That now the fire burns in me || Starter Meme #Now you wonder why I’m broken/If only you had noticed || Ask Meme #You cannot hide || Anon #I can’t put this behind me/Or just pretend || Asks #Are you excited?/Because now’s the time to go || Dash Commentary #This was all just a test for me || Dash Games #I’m taking your precious beansprout on a weekend field trip/Possibly against his will! || Crack #Together we run/Til we see the morning light || Queue #They wait for the chance I stumble/Fall down and my heart might fumble || Open Starter #I won’t compromise/You must be out of your mind || Closed Starter #Voices I know/They tell me I should come home || Relationship Call #I’m always reaching out/For this destiny || Plotting Call #To make it happen/That’s all on me || Starter Call #I now/See there’s no time for wastin’/Be assured/I won’t be waiting || Inbox Call #But I’m still on a mission/And I can’t let nobody stop me now || Thread Start #I’ll amount to what I’m meant for/The sun won’t set until I’m done || Thread End #But like an ember/I’ll remember || Saved

[starstruckmiraclekitty]

“Love, you really don’t have to.” Simon murmured, his heart racing as he watched you sink to your knees in front of him. His heart was racing a mile a minute, his hands shaking as he struggled with where to put them.

He’d never gotten head before, not once. Nobody had ever offered, and Simon wasn’t the kind of man to ask for any favors in bed. He was always curious though, always wanted to know what it would feel like.

“I want to.” You replied, batting your beautiful, lust blown eyes up at him. “Want to make you feel good, Simon.”

Simon let out a soft groan at your words, and watched as you pulled his hardening length out of the confines of his pants. He held his breath in anticipation, his eyes struggling not to flutter closed as he felt your warm hand wrap around his length.

His breath hitched in his throat as you swirled your tongue across his tip, your eyes fluttering shut at the taste of the accumulated pre-cum soaking the head. He felt you moan softly against it, your tongue beginning to drag up and down his now rock hard cock.

His mind went numb when you finally took him into your mouth, your pretty pink lips thinning around the thickness of his length. He felt your mouth tighten around him, creating a tight, wet suction.

It took everything in him not to cum then and there, between the sight of you taking what you could of his length in your mouth, mixed with the feeling of your wet, hot mouth around his cock was overwhelming.

He let his hands fall to your cheeks, gently cupping at your warm flesh as you began to bob your mouth up and down his length. You wrapped your hand around the base of his cock, twisting at what you couldn’t fit in your mouth.

Simon let out chorus of soft grunts and groans, his mind still blissfully numb as he concentrated on the wet, lewd noises your mouth was making, and just how fucking good your pretty lips felt around his cock.

The pleasure was almost too much, and Simon could feel his stomach tighten, a pleasant burn filling his abdomen as his orgasm rapidly approached. His whole body began to tingle, his legs beginning to tremble as you attempted to take him deeper into your mouth.

“Wait, wait, please I’m going to cum.” Simon breathed out, his hands which were on your cheeks gently urging you to pull your head away. “Sw-sweetheart, please.”

But you remained where you were, fully intent on finishing what you started. You hollowed your cheeks further, your tongue skimming along the underside of his length at you continued to bob your head.

“Shit, fuck!” Simon growled, his hands finding your hair and gripping harshly, his cock pulsing inside your mouth as his hot cum shot down your throat. Butterflies filled his belly as he struggled to regain his breath, his cheeks burning crimson from embarrassment. “F-fuck, I’m so sorry.”

You pulled away, your eyes locked on your lovers as you made a show of swallowing what was left of his cum. Simon felt his cock twitch at the sight, as a low grown escaped him. “Oh fuck.”

It was simply the hottest fucking thing Simon had ever seen in his life. And god he wanted to do it again.

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As always thank you SO much to all the immense support recently!!!💕💕💕💕

#simon ghost riley x reader #simon riley x reader #simon riley imagine #cod imagine #mw2 imagine #ghost x reader #ghost mw2 #female reader

[lesbianpikachu]

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#WE ARE SO BACK DUDE #MAN #this is like the first good night i've had in a while #goddamn it i fucking hate being an adult and it's something that's frustrated me in a way i don't know how to express for so fucking long #being able to admit that to myself and just say it out loud feels so fucking good. I do not want to do adult shit. i do not want to pretend #to be normal fuck everything and everybody i fucking hate being an adult i hate careers and social niceties fuck everything #god i fucking hate everything and im so happy to be able to say that again. life fucking sucks and thats it #oh my god ive been stuck in a positivity puddle for so long i hate it. complaining and hating is my lifee i will never stop #just oh my god it's so hard to be alive all the time and nobody ever talks about it and just expects you to do everything right all the tim #We are not going to fucking make it dude. what else is there. can we do something else #i feel so expected to just do things right all the time and i feel like people can see that and just make fun of me for existing all the ti #i fucking hate it! literally all of that shit makes me want to die. but like yeah like oh my god putting all of that down might fix me #we'll see. oh god the pokemon video looms large. im on gen 4 but i've been hardcore procrastinating on it. i'm just so done with all the sh #MAN i feel like a real person again i feel like i can breathe. i have been so frustrated w my friends and family for the longest time #and now i just feel like oh. yeah. literally none of this bullshit is necessary. why am i letting all these people tell me how to live #Who cares if im alone who cares if someones watching who cares if people like me i am alone i am happy i am doing what i want #like if i meet my goals and i feel like im doing what i think i should be doing then who cares. i'm having the experiences i want to have #and that's enough. it was always enough. and anybody who says it isn't should get over it. im fine. why are you trying to make me not fine #ok im done im done i just wnated to pour all this out. it feels a little cheesey but legitimately most nights to me feel like they dont mat #and this one is one that for the first time in a long felt like it finally did

[riaki]

i literally cant stop thinkin’ about highschoolbully!gojo who used to be your ride or die ‘til he started getting attention from those popular jock type guys who are always assholes to everyone. and him being.. well, him means he preens under attention no matter who it’s from, so naturally he started to gravitate towards that group and their little troop of cheerleading fangirls. and then he started distancing from you and without either of you really realizing it, you’ve slipped between the other’s fingers. but the way he acts towards you makes you think he let you fall without moving a muscle to slow you down.

soon enough, a year swings by and by the end of it he’s gone from your life, save as just another face in the gaggle of boys who make crude jokes and laugh at smart kids and pop milk cartoons during lunch just for the hell of it. but you’re minding your own business, ‘cause you’re mature enough to realize that people come and go, no matter how close you might’ve been and you think it’s unfortunate that so many memories could be thrown aside in a blink of an eye, but it makes a lot of sense when you walk past satoru and his friends bullying some random kid. you don’t know him, but you’ve heard enough to realize it’s his girlfriend satoru’s flirting with while his ‘gang’ kick at the kid. and it’s sickening, but you don’t say anything when you walk by.

and when you don’t ever see the kid afterward and catch the dark eyebags under his girlfriend’s eyes, you come to the cruel realization that satoru isn’t the boy who’d bandage the scrape on your knee you got from tripping in the playground or buy you a soda because he’s noticed your sweat when you were walking home and you don’t have any money left on you.

it’s a glass half empty, half full type of situation. on the one hand, you don’t have him anymore. on the other hand, you don’t have him anymore. that is, you lost your best friend, but you’ve also lost someone who has the potential to absolutely ruin your life. and you don’t know whether to be glad or not, so you just mind your own business even if it hurts a little when he ignores you, stops tossing paper at your head in class (unless it’s to embarrass you) and stops walking you to and from school.

but the cherry on top of the shit cake is that he doesn't get it. so when he approaches you in the library one day after satiating the need to tear pages from books and make them into paper airplanes to throw at people, he doesn't seem to understand why you try to ignore him, or put off his attempts to hold a convo. but the worst part is that he's just sleazy and clueless about it. it's like he took an eraser and wiped every single year of your friendship off the chalkboard with one fell swipe, and you wish he'd done that too to the less-than-appropriate messages he and his friends had written towards one of your classmates.

he doesn't understand why you're hesitant to talk, and that's what makes it the worst. he always thinks he's in the right, and he keeps setting you off and it sucks that he knows exactly what sets you off. "i'm an asshole? what're you talking about? really, you're in over your head. you never change." he laughs, and you ignore him, and he gets bored, and he's about to leave when he spots your wallet open next to your book, on the table. there's a polaroid peeking out, and he recognizes the tufts of white hair to be him. but there's a weird feeling in his chest, and he thinks he gets it from you, so he leaves because he thinks you're weird.

and it goes on; you practically become a nobody in satoru's eyes, because of that weird, weird feeling you give him. it's unfamiliar and he's never gotten it before and he doesn't like it. but it's unavoidable when your professor pairs you two for the end-of-term project. and of course, you're ready to do all the work, because that's how it always was between you when you were kids. but sometimes he'd surprise you by helping, and he'd show you that he was actually intelligent just to earn your praise because he liked it. but he ignored you, and you did everything, and it would've been okay if not for his friends egging him on to present your entire project when the day came and leave you with no content for a grade.

that's the first time it hits him: does he really want to do that? but it's not like it'll be the first time; you've always taken the hits for him, because you're naturally smart and you'll pick yourself back up in no time, and you get why he does it, so it'll be okay. so he agrees, and he enjoys the time he gets to spend with you through it, but the nagging weird feeling that blooms in his chest like a pesky weed only grows stronger. that's all his feelings ever seem to do around you.

but before you know it, presentation day swings around. you had coffee this morning (on his card), and you're ready enough to shoot him a small smile that sends his heart a-flutter. so you go up, feeling up to the task and ready until— he starts talking, and talking, and talking, and people don't think that he's taking your words out of your mouth because he's intelligent when he wants to make you praise him and you don't get the chance to get a word in and you notice the guys are laughing and hitting each other's shoulders to themselves in the upper rows and before you know it it's over. people are clapping but moreso they're looking at you and they're whispering— but it's terribly loud and they don't bother to hide it. they call you things that shouldn't bother you but they do anyway, because it's satoru's fault, and you're such a fool for thinking you could have it your way again.

so you leave class early, excusing yourself and ignoring the way your professor gives you a distasteful look and scribbles something next to your name. you're out the door in a second, neglecting your bags and satoru's a little lost because— didn't he just do good? people were clapping, and laughing with him and not at him, but it's attention either way so he doesn't mind. so why do you? why did you look at him like he stabbed you in the back? and his friends are calling his name, and he wishes he could chase after you and do something but he doesn't.

and it's a little sickening what they do next; one of their girls grabbed your bags and tossed it to them, and they've started rifling through it as if they own it, tearing up your shit and dumping everything onto the ground and he's kind of just... glued to the chair by his feelings. his heart feels like it's been patched together and the weird fuzzy feeling he had in his chest that's been cultivating has extinguished to be replaced with something he realizes he's only ever felt when it comes to you— guilt.

he's so lost in his thoughts that he doesn't realize his friend is silently offering him something— nudging his side to get his attention. he takes it without really realizing he moved his hand, and his silent friend with the gauges in his ears and the dark hair gets up and leaves without another word. when satoru looks down, he realizes he's been given your wallet. "the reward for betraying your baby," they call it. like all you're worth is the money in your account.

he's a little curious. that's how he's always been; asking you questions, rummaging through your stuff, laughing sheepishly and shaking it off when you caught him red-handed. so he opens it up, ignoring your sad little cards and the funny look on your license. he's looking for something, subconsciously; but he doesn't find it. there's no white tuft of hair to suggest his presence in your life; just empty black leather. nothing else.

and he doesn't see you after. or the following day. or the following weeks; weeks that turn into months that turn into the end of school and he's graduating but you're not by his side. and neither are his so called 'friends'; the only thing he has to their name is your own ruined friendship. it's a shame; he feels alone. very alone. no fuzzy weird feeling, not even that thing people call guilt. no attention to chase, and connections are ever harder to make. it shouldn'tve mattered that much, right? it was just a presentation. why wouldn't you just come back to him like you always did? were you not still friends...?

but the blood is still on his hands, and he doesn't manage to ever wash it off. guilt has a way of festering; of weighing on the heart 'till there's nothing left to feel or think but unfortunate circumstance and what could've been done differently. it just sucks that he never tried hard enough to keep you from slipping between his grasp. and now, he doesn't even have a polaroid to your friendship's name.

pt.2

#idk where this came from #this has probably been done before so i hope this take is original enough 👨‍🍳 #new drabble style cus i got lazy ajgfbdshjg #gojo satoru x reader #gojo x reader #jjk x reader #gojo satoru #gojo satoru x you #satoru gojo x reader #gojo x you #jjk x you #satoru gojo x you #gojo satoru x y/n #gojo x y/n #technically #jjk angst #gojo angst #billet-doux #satoru x reader #gojou satoru x reader #satoru gojo #gojo #jjk satoru #gojo jjk

[maikaartwork]

Artists, let’s talk about Instagram commission scammers

There’s been a huge rise in commission scammers recently, mostly on Instagram. A lot of new artists don’t know what to look out for, so I figured this might help people.

How they begin

Usually the scammer will write to you asking about a commission. Something deceptively cute - mostly I encounter asks about pet portraits, with one or two photos sent. They’ll probably try to sell you a sweet little story, like “It’s for my son’s birthday”. They will insist that they love your artwork and style, even though they don’t follow you or never liked a single piece of your art.

What to look out for:

Their profiles will either be private, empty, or filled with very generic stuff, dating at most a few years back.

Their language will be very simple, rushed or downright bad. They might use weird emojis that nobody ever uses. They will probably send impatient “??” when you don’t answer immediately. They’re in a crunch - lots of people to scam, you know. 

They’ll give you absolutely no guidelines. No hints on style, contents aside from (usually) the pet and often a name written on the artwork, no theme. Anything you draw will be perfect. Full artistic freedom. In reality they don’t really care for this part.

They’ll offer you a ridiculous amount of money. Usually 100 or 300 USD (EDIT: I know it might not be a lot for some work. What I mean here - way higher than your asking price, 100 and 300 are standard rates they give). They’ll often put in a phrase like “I am willing to compensate you financially” and “I want the best you can draw”, peppered with vague praise. It will most likely sound way too good to be true. That’s because it is.

Where the scam actually happens

If you agree, they will ask you for a payment method. They’ll try to get to this part as soon as possible. 

Usually, they’ll insist on PayPal. And not just any PayPal. They’ll always insist on sending you a transfer immediately. None of that PayPal Invoice stuff (although some do have methods for that, too). They’ll really, REALLY want to get your PayPal email address and name for the transfer - that’s what they’re after. If you insist on any other method, they’ll just circle back to the transfer “for easiest method”. If you do provide them with the info, most likely you’ll soon get a scam email. It most likely be a message with a link that will ultimately lead to bleeding you dry. Never, and I mean NEVER click on any emails or links you get from them. It’s like with any other scam emails you can ever get.

A few things can happen here:

They overpay you and ask for the difference to be wired back. Usually it will go to a different account and you’ll never see that money again. 

They’ll overpay you “for shipping costs” and ask you to forward the difference to their shipping company. Just like before, you’ll never see that money again.

The actual owner of the account (yes, they most likely use stolen accounts to wire from) will realize there’s been something sketchy going on and request a refund via official channels. Your account will be charged with fees and/or you get in trouble for fraudulent transactions. 

You will transfer the money from your PayPal credit to your bank account and they will make a shitstorm when they want their money back, making your life a living hell. They will call you a scammer, a thief, make wild claims, wearing you down and forcing you into wiring money “back” - aka to their final destination account. 

Never, EVER wire money to anyone. This is not how it’s supposed to go. Use PayPal Invoice for secure exchanges where the client needs to provide you with their email, not the other way around.

You can find more info on that method HERE.

What to do when you encounter a scammer:

Ask the right questions: inquire about the style, which artwork of yours they like, as much details as you can. They won’t supply you with any good answers.

Don’t let the rush of the exchange, their praise and the promise of insanely good money to get to you. That’s how they operate, that’s how they make you lose vigilance. 

Don’t engage them. As soon as you realize it might be a scam, block them. The sense of urgency they create with their rushed exchange, and pressure they put on you will sooner or later get to you and you might do something that you’ll regret later.

Never wire money to anyone. Never give out your personal data. Never provide your email, name, address or credit card info. 

Don’t be deceived by receiving a payment, if you somehow agree to go along with it. Just because it’s there now doesn’t mean it can’t be withdrawn. 

Here is a very standard example of such an exchange. I realized it’s a scam pretty fast and went along with it, because I wanted good screenshots for you guys, so I tried going very “by the book” with it. 

Please share this post, make it reach as many artists as possible. Let young or inexperienced artists know that this is going on. So many people have no idea that this is a thing. Let’s help each other out. If you think I missed any relevant info, do add it as an rb!

Also, if you know other scam methods that you think should be shared, consider rb-ing this post with them below. Having a master post of scam protection would AWESOME to have in the art community.

#art resources #artist help #artist advice #commission advice #scammers #instagram scam #please share with your fellow artists

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damn looking at all the Garbage Useless Clutter Shit apps and widgets and whatevers that come pre-installed (and sometimes can't be uninstalled!) on a windows pc is nauseating

#what the fuck is microsoft people #''windows calculator'' You Know Nobody Uses That #not even fucking accountants gkfjd #i need to do some fucking maths ? i either pull out my phone #or google the equation because Both options are better than waiting for your bullshit little program to even launch #btw let me uninstall edge. its job of taking me to the firefox download page is done and i will never need it again. #let me put ol yella down