Blaque Tygriss warning warning warning. "Update" ;)

[grygon.livejournal.com]

Posting this cause I noticed some activity on her yahoogroup- namely that she has deleted it. So I suspect she is up to SOMETHING. Guess we'll see. Anyone have a furbuy and furbid account to see if she's accepting commissions when my plush has STILL not been fullfilled nor refunded (since 2004, people)?

Anywho, the story is long and boring but you should be warned in case my suspicions are true and she's accepting commissions and doing new artwork despite saying in a March 2009 post to her yahoogroup that she won't until all commissions are refunded or fullfilled.

So here are the past posts about her since there still isn't a tag for her:
8-6-2005
8-26-2005
9-23-2005
10-9-2005
12-11-2005
1-8-2006
2-19-2006
5-15-2006
8-27-2006

Can't believe it's been THAT long since I last posted to warn people. I meant to at least twice a year.

Anyhoo... one of her last posts in March 2009 to her yahoogroup right before it got deleted:

Posted by: "A. Gaillard" blaquetygriss@yahoo.com blaquetygriss
Sun Mar 1, 2009 7:33 pm (PST)
I hadn't been to this group since 2006 something honestly.

This is an announcement (an old one actually but new to any who hadn't heard) that as of 2007 I WILL NO LONGER ACCEPT COMMISSIONS OF ANY SORT FROM NOW ON. NO LONGER WILL THERE BE ANY ART AUCTION ON ANY AUCTION WEBSITE.

I WILL COMPLETE/REFUND COMMISSIONS THAT ARE UNDONE AND STUPIDLY (on my part) UNNECESSARILY WELL OVERDUE. ASIDE FROM THAT I AM /NOT/ TAKING ON NO MORE COMMISSIONS NEVER AGAIN.

I can either give you something that is already drawn/made, refund or complete the commission. Bare in mind refunds will take a bit as I am seriously tight on cash and commission completions will be completed
upon time they were received.

Only spare plushies I have already made is a werewolf, dragon and a host of near-done critters. Artwise it mainly consist of tons of sketch art of varying adult and tame situations.

I don't know WTF is wrong with me or my drive to draw, I feel insanely burnt out and can't even stand the sight of pen and paper. Never in my life have I drawn just one image every six or more months. It's gotten that bad. This shit has seriously pissed me off with myself because I never had this problem up til 2006 when all that bullcrap went on in my life.

This is NOT an excuse, this is an EXPLANATION because if it was me looking from the outside in I would want a explanation. Fuck the excuses, I am just burnt the f*ck out.

Unless wanting otherwise stated by members, in a week this Yahoo group will be deleted.

My email account is and always will be the one here on Yahoo. My web galleries that I visit every now and then are on Sheezyart, Deviantart and Furaffinity if needing to contact me.

Again I deeply apologize for the heartache, set backs and harm I have caused to any and everyone. It seriously was not my intention for things to turn out the way it did. People who commissioned me back in 2002-2003 can tell you I use to be fast, like 48hrs fast. Now? I just lost every and all drive to draw like I use to, much less thread a
needle to sew. I never thought would suffer burn out but did.

And more I think of it, it's pissing the FUCK out of me.
Sorry for the bad grammar and English.
-Blaquetygriss

And I should mention- I emailed her after that post about getting a refund and... no reply. Big shock.

I wonder if she's ever gonna start believing in karma? Seriously, if she straightened this mess out I bet her life would start to improve a lot. I don't feel sorry for the mess she's in and I never will. I say she deserves some of the shit she has had flung at her because of the shit she has flung at her clients.

Maybe that's harsh of me, and yes hindsight is 20/20 and I could have done a LOT to prevent getting ripped off by her ($400, for those who haven't read all those links) but there is no excuse for her. None. I don't have many regrets as I learn from my mistakes... but I will always regret BlaqueTygriss. Yes, I also learned from that mistake, but I also direly regret it.


(Posted edited for a minor html italics glitch that doesn't seem to want to go away... *pokes it*)

Comments

[stormslegacy.livejournal.com]

WTH is your problem? Whatever it is, please stop derailing the thread. You are making personal attacks that seem to be out of the blue and have NOTHING to do with anything?

Artists Beware is not the smartest place to make an ass of oneself.

[grygon.livejournal.com]

this is MY thread and i wasn't the one who derailed it. but once it derailed/got hijacked, i figured fine, why not. i read the rules on the profile and sadly there weren't any about "do not hijack threads" as lilenth did with her own boasting (and boasting and boasting and boasting... sorry, but that kind of ego/attitude bugs the FUCK out of me). so i went with the flow.

[lilenth.livejournal.com]

Wow, I must honestly say that I never knew having a realistic idea of one's abilities and the kind of speed a dedicated artist is capable of counted as boasting. I guess you learn something everyday, shame you didn't learn how not to make a spectacle of yourself in front of a huge artist/commissioner forum.

[stormslegacy.livejournal.com]

I can see how you might have read things that way, but there are WAAAYYY better ways to communicate that. As a random reader of this thread, it totally looks like you flipped your lid out of the blue, and you got personal fast. If she bothered you, tell her so politely that you find her comments in poor taste. Don't freak out and attack her personally, because it really makes you look bad.

A site like this is about business, so when you act like that it makes me and others reading think that you might be a little wound-too-tight to work with in the future. There's no rules against derailing to insult someone, but then, there's also no laws against jabbing scizzors in my own eye...doesn't make it a good idea.

[grygon.livejournal.com]

Good point. I think next time I'll just take it to the mods anyway, even tho there isn't a rule against hijacking threads to talk about yer mad skillz in every reply, there maybe should be some common courtesy among members. And there is. Except with 1, I guess.

[lilenth.livejournal.com]

I think their problem is that they said something foolish earlier and rather than be an adult and apologise for making a silly assumption? They decided to go on the warpath.

I'd let them get on with it, no skin off my nose after all, it's their reputation they're damaging.

[thaily.livejournal.com]

Seriously, this is yet another AB post where you have to beware of both parties apparently.