Tiergan

[video=youtube] Peek-a-boo~! :>

Thank you for doing this! It's helpful in luring friends to Tumblr.

Tiergan was going to be a highlander. Then I couldn't give him eyebrows. Though I sometimes have moments of extreme regret every time a highlander takes off his shirt and reveals muscles that Tiergan's in-game avatar will never have. ;A;

Courtesy of Bryn, who sends me cute animal pictures every day.

::hugs:: :C

Pretty! She looks both mystical and mysterious all at once. :>

Awesome patch on m'birfday~! \o/

Hello everyone, I unfortunately have bad news. My overall health has been rapidly deteriorating from the amount of work I've been trying to handle on my own. I have been working 12-15 hour days, sometimes even on weekends working on a mix of freelance work and commissions. The stress of that work, along with other things I won't go into, has made me physically ill. I didn't realise just how badly I was killing myself trying to make ends meet until I was home visiting my family for the holidays and they kind of freaked out at how drained, pale, and skeletal I looked. Because of this, I have to stop working on commissions for health reasons. I will be finishing Honzo and Sophia's because both of them have already paid me, but I won't be able to do any more for a long time. I'm not really sure when I'll ever be able to pick things up again. I'm so, so sorry for getting everyone's hopes up and letting my waitlist get so gargantuan. When I first made this thread and left it open, I was in an extremely hard place in my life. I let the list keep growing and growing and growing because I was terrified all those commissions might be the difference between having a place to sleep or not, or the difference between having food vs starving. The longer the list got, the more I felt like I was going to be okay, so I just let people keep jumping on it. I'm sorry for not having more foresight about this. It meant so much to me that everyone wanted my art, especially when I needed them to survive. I really wish I could make all the pieces for everyone, because I know many of you were on that waitlist for months. Thank you so much for your interest in my work, and again I'm really, really sorry. I know this is disappointing.

\o/ Thank you!

I KNOW. Cassandra, why. ;A;

Hngngn. I can't resist anymooore! ;A; Do.. do you think you'll still be accepting commissions in December? ;_; I can't take screenshots on my derpy laptop while I'm visiting family.

I DON'T KNOW WHO TO ROMANCE. THIS IS THE WORST FIRST WORLD PROBLEM EVER.

Guys, guys. I know what I have been missing from my artistic process this entire time. Owls. [video=youtube]

Looks awesomeee~!

Oh balls. I only noticed this after it ended. ;A; I hope it was fun at least! And that it potentially might continue.

<.< >.> ::quietly puts away into 'reference' folder::

Congrats!

1) I need to send an updated picture of Tiergan since his hair is longer now. 2) Tiergan is going to sorely regret having lost that bet to Ja'ren.

Hey guys, just dropping in a quick note to explain the delay: Like I mentioned before, I have a major freelance deadline breathing down my neck. It ends on the 20th and once it's over, I can resume everyone's commissions. Sorry for dragging out the wait!

Tiergan and Lurial are both Ala Mhigans who assist refugees when they can. I also know Brynhilde Wulf is an Ala Mhigan player who was part of the Resistance and actually an adult at the time Ala Mhigo fell.

::rubs face in pretty artworks::

We already established far earlier in the thread that adults RPing adult-lalas can do what they like because they're adults. I also mentioned I'm okay with teenagers-characters close in age doing things respectfully. I'm more focused on somewhat predatory tactics of characters who are clearly adults vs characters who are very clearly children and how it's becoming normalized to the point where people are actually telling me I should put a 'No ERP" tag for my 15 year old character to ward off adult characters who are into that particular 'fetish'. Shouldn't that just be a given?

Also, for those with 17 year old characters while being adults - I can kind of understand you. 17 is fairly close to 18. Just please, please be mindful of who you are RPing with as your ERP partner - make sure you're not enabling someone who may have particularly unhealthy behavior towards young people. And if you're going to try and pursue a character much older than yours, just hit them up with a tell to make sure they're comfortable with it first - that's all I ask.

Did you completely disregard the fact that Faye previously directly quoted you and posted about how a man in one of her guilds was part of the military and was forced to investigate another guy in the military for ERPing with a minor? And how that guy literally discharged from the military as a result of his actions? Or the video where several people were labeled sex offenders for life after parents found the logs of a minor ERPing with an adult? Think what you want about ERPing with underaged characters but ERPing with ACTUAL MINORS is against the law and HAS gotten people into trouble. Xydane has also worked with law enforcement and seen them investigate stuff like this. Once again - just because you got away with it and the parties involved were fine doesn't mean everyone who does it will be safe.

Out of curiosity - where is it stated lore-wise that certain races are deemed as adults earlier than normal? Do they actually age/mature faster than other races? If we're talking like Salarians from Mass Effect (life span is very short, they age to adulthood mentally and physically way earlier than everyone else) - then I might understand, but otherwise, making lore claims still personally stands on some pretty dodgey territory for me. I mean, if miqo'te were deemed adults by 11 according to the lore, but they were still mentally and physically 11, I would hope that everyone would find that still find adult-child sexual RP to be something really awkward, creepy, and potentially enabling of some pretty terrifying predatory behavior. Additionally, Mae is right about why 18 is considered the magic number. It is ultimately 'safe' no matter where you are from. Additionally, a lot of legal papers will still consider anyone under 18 a 'child' even if their age of consent is younger. (For example, the age of consent in Japan is 13, however they have a Child Welfare Act that defines a child as being anyone under the age of 18 - thus the age of consent in Japan is often disregarded or left up to individual regions to decide.) Or their age of consent is low, but you're allowed to drink, smoke, etc at 18 only - which implies that you're still not fully seen as a real 'adult' in the eyes of the law. Even with regions where the age of consent really is solidly is 13 and you can bet your biscuits I will silently judge the heck out of folks if I see a twenty-something year old character RPing sexually charged stuff with a 13 year old character.