jitterbugjive:

mlpartconfessions:

First they glorify your art, then they ask for free drawings (if you are shy like me you accept) and finally…THEY ASK FOR MORE!!! If you tell them that you are feeling a little bit used or annoyed they start telling you things like “Oh now you hate me…i don’t blame you I’m just a piece of crap” and all that self pity bullcrap. It works if you are shy so you keep drawing for them. When you really get tired of them and stop talking to them they start posting hate posts towards you and self pity sh*t. After that you receive anon hate, of course.

Seriously…I tried to be friendly with them but they just used me.

- Submitted by pencilswirl

A long time ago, I had someone like that, constantly leeching off of me and asking for free stuff because I wasn’t very well known back then and I wanted people to value me.

And if I said ‘no’, they’d then act really depressed and come up with a lot of bullshit about being miserable for different reasons.

I pretty much lost my shit when they had claimed twice that their grandma died, and then a cat and a gerbil within the same week.

It got so bad that I made a new policy: “No sob stories or guilt trips if I don’t give you what you want exactly when you want. I’m a nice person, really, and if you want a friend to talk to that’s fine. But I’m not happy about people going “My grandma died, I’m sad, draw me something free/speed up your commission/let me see what you have so far” If you’re REALLY sad, you’d want to talk about it to someone, not harass other people to draw freebies for you. If you’re a friend, and I know you aren’t feeling well, and I know it will cheer you up, I might draw you a get well picture, but NOT if you bring it up and beg for it like it’s the only thing in the world that would make you feel better.”

Basically, giving people free art when they ask for it as a crutch to their supposed problems only gives them a dependency on it and they’ll never be satisfied.

How does a cat and a gerbil die in the same week? Did the cat try to eat the gerbil but choke and die?