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Korok forest 🌳

I don’t like this one very much but here it is anyway 😖

This is Fineneth

They only have a design but the story is a bit unclear for me. They do have some but nothing concrete. So I just gave them the nickname “pink space elf” in my mind every time I draw them.

But this time my sister saw them and asked me if it was Fineneth and I was like “who?”

And she went on about how I made a similar elf oc back in school. (I made them to make fun of her for always drawing elves XD. But she didn’t mind because she likes elves) So she went through my old doodles to find them and apparently I did already have an Oc with a name the had the same design that I forgot about. I’m now making them one person with the Fineneth name because it’s a funny name to me.

This might have been them:

R̶̪̾o̶̧̖̖̽̑̀à̴̟͎̖d̸̡̖̈́͋́ ̸̛̠͍̳̂̓Ḱ̶̖ą̸̄͑̚͜m̸̅ͅe̶̼̒̓͜ͅl̵̖̪͉͗̂o̷̞̯͠t̷̢̺̓̎

Technoblade I drew. First one in years. I didn’t turn out how I wanted I have to draw more XD

baby boy allen walker :o)

Nostalgia in the house 🗣️

Ciri looked badass in the new trailer

I see these so often XD I always try to troll so they will at least loose on time. But I’m not very patient so I give myself away :C

I just got blocked :3

🔎Scam Exam(ination)🔍(updated 3/4/25)

Seen as: I would like a commission of my son/pet... Scam Type: Commission

Also: See this update on how scammers are changing the scam.

Accounts running this scam: furrynachodelusion breeariaga7

Proof of iloveartworks being a scammer can be seen/found here and here. The other accounts listed above all follow the same script and additional proof and can usually be found in the tags: #scam, #scams, or #scam alert.

IMPORTANT: Update as of 1/31/25 - They are now threatening law enforcement if you do not send them payment via the fake paypal email. This is a scare tactic. Please see that section once you get to it. Thank you.

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Being open to commissions isn't uncommon if you're an artist.

You may often find yourself receiving messages from strangers looking to commission you for a picture of their OC or even their favorite ship.

But if you receive a message like this, you should be careful you don't fall into a scammers trap.

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How it starts:

it starts by receiving a message from another user requesting a commission. Again, typical common practice if you're an artist.

What they ask for at the start, is usually the first red flag.

IMPORTANT 1/15/25: These scammers are now sending Asks and commenting on peoples posts asking 'are you open to commission? Send me a DM.' So please be aware of this as well!

Here are some images of how this scam conversation starts:

Images provided by: (1)@neogandw, (2)@foggywiz4rd, (3-4)@maikaartwork

🚩Red flag's (part 1)🚩

I want you to draw my son/daughter.

I want you to draw my son/daughter's pet.

It's a blank blog with no posts/reblogs

It's a blog that's only a few days/week old.

While this request seems simple enough, this scam gets worse.

Here are some recent examples of the dog they will request:

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An offer too good to refuse:

Now you may be thinking, 'surely this can't be bad or malicious, right?' They just want you to draw a picture of their child or their child's pet! And that's definitely what the scammer wants you to think. Which is what brings us to the next set of red flags:

Left image from @neogandw, right image from @maikaartwork

🚩Red flag's (part 2)🚩

'I will pay you $200-$500+' (an amount way way beyond your normal asking price.)

'I just want the best you can do.' (They don't know how to answer questions related to details such as pose, background, style, objects you want included, etc.)

'It's for their birthday/holiday' - ' I want it done as soon as possible.' (They will push that you do this with a sense of urgency so you don't ask questions.)

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The Catch:

Now, if you haven't reported and blocked them by now, and you agree to take this persons commission, this is where the catch to this scam comes into play.

If you tell the scammer to send you an invoice, they will refuse.

If you tell them to use your preferred method, they will refuse.

Those methods just 'wont/don't work', you see.

What they really want, is your PayPal email and your name.

From here they will say that they sent you payment, and that you should check your email. Or that 'they got an email and something went wrong' and that you should check your email.

And here is where the scam comes to ahead.

They will send you a fake email meant to look like it came from PayPal that looks like the ones shown below:

Second image provided by @badlibbing

Second set of images provided by @petxka, thank you!

This third image comes from @elrealelchunk on 1/31/25 and is very important. Scammers are now threatening law enforcement if you do not send them money.

Again as noted in the top of the post, this is 100% a scare tactic.

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What this email means / How this scam works:

In the case of screenshot one (provided by @neogandw) the 'MONALISA' is the person who was trying to commission them.

The payment hasn't 'went through', and the e-mail (from 'fake PayPal') is saying that they, the artist, needs to send $200 to 'MONALISA' to 'expand the limit' of their account to get the $500 that is owed to them.

Read the e-mail and think about what you're being asked to do:

'You are to send (name) money to expand your account.' You are to send someone money, to get money.

If your account is limited, why would you need to send another PayPal user money to 'unlock' your account or 'expand it', and not just contact PayPal itself to try and resolve that issue...?

This is not how PayPal works, in any sense.

This is just a way for them to scam you.

There are also a handful of red flags in this email alone.

🚩Red flag's (part 3)🚩

The sender address is not from an official paypal.com address, but instead a gmail.com address. This means that this came from a person, not a company.

The formatting. Let's be frank, no official email from PayPal will ever look like this.

The spelling/grammar issues are everywhere.

Weird url's at the bottom of the email. (I removed them for safety reasons)

Additionally: You may also find or see links in this emails instructing you to 'go here' to unlock your account. These are phishing (wikipedia) links that they will use to steal your PayPal login information. Never click links in emails asking you to 'fix an issue' with your account unless you can verify who the sender is.

If you send these people your money, you will get blocked and never see them again. That's just how this scam goes...

If you'd like another variation of this scam which talks about money wiring, you can check out @maikaartwork's version by clicking here!

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Final thoughts:

If you fall for a scam like this, thankfully there still might be hope.

Contact PayPal and explain what happened in detail. Show them every shred of evidence that you have showing that you were scammed including the name of who scammed you, and the email that sent you the scam, and who you wound up sending the money to.

If you use the messaging system that uses the AI chat bot, ask it repeatedly to 'speak to a real person' until you get sent to a live agent. (this is stupidly frustrating but sadly it's what you have to do.)

And remember, take screenshots and report these users to the websites they are running these scams on. If they DM you on tumblr? Report the DM. If they do it on insta, bsky, twitter or even discord?

Make sure you report them there too.

ALSO: Beware of recovery scammers. This is anyone coming into your DM's telling you they can 'help you get your money back' after you made a post talking about how you got scammed. These scammers are just looking for a quick buck.

Here's a post about ethical hackers (aka recovery scammers)

Other helpful guides on spotting scams. (by @kyra45)

My personal headcanon was always that Kaeya has some negative feelings about Barbatos. He is Khanrian so he didn’t like gods before and he never really warmed up to the idea of worship. He also feels like he doesn’t belong and that a god would never be merciful towards him.

Meanwhile Venti sees him as one of his people and accepts him fully as he is.

Drunk drawing but this is a sketch of a painting I always wanted to do I might render it one day XD

Cross is the best. I hated him before he appeared and I only heard about him from Allen (I even thought how it’s impossible for so many women to be into him) but now I miss him so much.

Sorry it’s old art again. 2021 was great for me.

I had to draw Alma. I still cry over them.

I never posted it here but here’s some techno fanart I did around 2021. I want to do more because Techno never dies XD

A redraw of my old fanart. 2022 vs 2025. Top one is the new one.

Allen my beloved.

Bayek of Siwa. I can’t ever finish the game because every time I boot it up my breath is taken away. So here’s a fanart I drew today.

WIP. I really enjoy rigging. Maybe too much… I will finish animating him soon

I will be honest. I’m here because of the world of honor fanfic. But It’s the best one. My fave. That I recommend to everyone. So pls read this. It’s super interesting and clever. Pls. Thanks.

Now, I think it's time to move onto the very purpose of me starting this.

So, point number one: the basics of fictional politics.

You think that most stories don't have politics?

Most stories just aren't focused on it. Unless your character is the last surviving human in a post apocalyptic world, a secluded monk or some kind of Robinson Crusoe, they will live in society. And where society appears politics follows.

You want to ensure that your readers (at least that part of them that understands politics a little bit) won't cry bloody tears reading your latest creation? Then put some thought into world building.

Now, there are two options when it comes to writing the political (or, think in broader terms - social) part of your story.

First is obviously a sociopolitical system that really exists (or existed at some point in the past).

It's the easier option as you don't have to come up with all the peculiar things like social hierarchy, power legitimacy sources or societal norms of behaviour. It's all already here, you only need to weave it into the tapestry of your story, making it interesting for other people to read.

My advice will be simple: research, research and more research. Make it detailed and make it systematic, and most certainly don't use things like Wikipedia without cross-checking the facts. Some people change the articles there for fun. I did it myself before tests when I worked in university in order to catch those geniuses who tried to cheat. You might think it’s mental, but I’ll let you know it worked.

So, check the facts and use at least two or three sources of information. That will save you from mistakes, personal opinions and propaganda. Because, and I hate to disappoint you here if you haven't got it yet, most sources on society are somewhat unreliable and full of ideological bullshit. Some are just more obviously biased than others.

Depending on how deep you want to delve into the political side of your story, you might need to simply gather facts or gain a deeper understanding of people's behaviour and beliefs that formed and defined it.

Let's say: your story takes place in the USA and one of your characters is mildly interested in the ongoing presidential race. You’d need a couple of facts, maybe some ties between your character's social status and their opinions of the candidates, and that's it.

It would be completely different if one of your characters is a part of the team of a candidate. Then a lot of their life revolves around politics in general and the particular process, so you’d need to know some intricacies of elections, especially what the whole process looks like on the inside.

That being said, the purpose and the plot of your story will define how deep your research should be. Still, quality is what matters.

Second option is more complicated (and more exciting): creating an original political system.

That would require your imagination, yes, but you’ll also need to actually understand the ‘how’s and ‘why’s. Because, surprise surprise, there are reasons our society is like it is. The same would naturally be true about any kind of it, from epic fantasy to post-apocalyptic dystopia.

There are two ways to go about the creation of society in your own world: building from scratch and basing it on some real-life examples. More often than not people choose the second one because not only is it easier to develop into something complete, but familiar shapes help readers to relate with the characters they read about. Ironically, that doesn't save many authors from making the most glaring mistakes.

Either way, when creating your own society and political system the first thing you need to determine is the starting point. ‘Well, that much is obvious,’ you could say. The trick here is to know exactly what your foundation is, so you can confidently build the whole structure upon it.

For example, you are writing fantasy in a medieval setting. You choose Western Europe of the mid-fourteenth century as a foundation for your story. That means that you have some basic things like who has power, how the state is organised, what are relationships between social classes. But you also need to think of things that make your world different from Western Europe of the said period.

Or you want to write sci-fi and decide to build other planets’ societies yourself. That's the most rational decision if what you envision differs too much from what you know about the real-world examples. But that means that you have to create the whole basis from the simplest norms of behaviour before moving to something as complex as politics. Basically, you’ll have to make at least sketches of the whole history and social development to the point where your story starts.

In the end, just like any other part of your story, the social and political side demands a lot of attention and detailed planning. That is, if you want it to look believable. You're in for hours upon hours of research or world building. And some results of it might only get one or two mentions in the final draft of your story. But that's what makes it complete, what gives the world details necessary for the readers to fully immerse themselves. If anything, I’d want my story to be life-like and my characters easy to imagine. What about you?

walking american nightmare

2024 vs 2017

Art 🖼️ of one of my oldest OCs. How the time flies. Still love him though XD

He’s a vodnik that’s why he’s green.

Let’s gooo! When they dropped first hints I thought she was the most likely protagonist but I also thought it might be cool to get someone unknown. It’s her game of course and I’m looking forward to playing XD

I had to draw her she looked so gorgeous :3

I was looking through my sketchbook I found this small drawing on Annatar. This one turned out well for me :D

me: hey, hoyo, can we have kaeya lore?

hoyo: he likes collecting seashells

me: thats great, but-

hoyo: his specific steak order is one cooked on cedar wood with stewed vegetables on the side

me: good to know, but what I mean is-

hoyo: he has really beautiful handwriting

me: ... you know what...

hoyo: ...he has several hidden knives when wearing his sailwind shadow skin

Some aesthetic foggy night photos.

My OC without a name again...I still haven't found one that would fit him.

I kinda don't enjoy the fact that characters with bad upbringing/childhood make horrible things as adults. I like redemptions!

Hello!

Here’s another AU fanart. I will be honest as a child I never noticed that the characters are without culture but looking back on it it’s very much there XD

If the books were set in actual places where do you think they would be set?

As a child I always thought that the first book was definitely set in the UK but the rest I was never sure. Maybe you could put the mountain in Eastern Europe or Central Asia.

I’m Eastern European so I decided to make some character design for them in vaguely our clothes. It was very fun to draw.

Some sketches I made ☆ ～('▽^人)

Eönwë

dominance

Finished this Celebrimbor drawing. Don’t look at the hands please I’m begging.

Changing fandoms again. Here’s a Darren Shan fanart. I know they do not have fangs but to me making him look recognisably like a Vampire is important.