Closed Species Service Reviews

Service Reviews for Closed Species services

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Rules and Guidelines ❄️

Hi! This blog is meant as a place where you can post honest, uncensored reviews of artists within CS spaces, Species Owners + Mods, Guest Artists, and the like. Moderating @csvent-2 and reading multiple CS vent blogs has led me to seeing a lot of posts along the lines of “this artist handled my commission terribly, and I want to warn people, but they’re very popular and I’m afraid to do so publicly,” that has led to the creation of this blog.

Please read the following before submitting any reviews!

-This blog will host both positive and negative reviews, tagged as such. Feel free to filter if you are only looking for one or the other.

-As this is a CS focused blog, the review must in some way be CS related. This can be a CS adopt, a custom CS character, a commission that includes at least one CS character, and so on. Please specify the species and what type of review (adoptable, commission, staff review, etc) you are posting.

-This is not a vent/drama/complaint only blog. Negative reviews are, of course, allowed, but abject hate/vents/dramas will not be posted. This is not the space for that. Likewise, reviews with unnecessarily inflammatory language, name calling, or rudeness will not be posted. Please try your best to keep a neutral tone even when posting negative reviews.

-Good Example: ArtistABC didn’t communicate well with me, I had to ask for updates multiple times before receiving one somewhat rude response months after the original date they said they’d be done by.

-Bad Example: ArtistABC doesn’t give a shit about their commissioners and was super bitchy just because I asked for updates. I can’t believe anyone would commission this piece of shit!

-Likewise, with positive reviews, please try to be specific about what exactly you are reviewing positively, or at least mention that you had a positive experience with a type of commission/adoptable/what have you.

-Good Example: ArtistABC is great to work with because they provided updates and had a fast turnaround time.

-Bad Example: ArtistABC is great.

-Serious concerns (scamming, back charging, tracing, OC theft) must be accompanied by proof and will not be posted without proof. Please have these as uncropped and uncensored as possible for authenticity, I will crop/censor as needed before posting.

!! If this blog is misused, if it is proven that anons are posting flagrantly false reviews, or other equivalent circumstances, this blog will be CLOSED. Please follow the rules, and remember that while honest service reviews are needed and important to help people find an artist who is right for them, there are still people behind the service being provided. !!

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CS: Frankenhounds | Review: Good

I honestly don't really get into closed species, it's hard for me to connect to them because they all look similar, Frankenhounds caught my interest seeing they are 16+ and have a older community, I can very much say that I have no issues with them and I recommend them, I didn't feel limited with creating my first MYO with the common trait options and they aren't money based like how a few CS I've been apart of were.

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(Twinklegoats) (Negative) This is unrelated to the species itself! I'm really happy in the species and enjoy my characters! The staff and everyone is really nice. I commissioned an outside artist for an artwork of my closed species character. I commissioned Luneiity through YCH.commishes December 16th, 2023, for 2 symmetrical chibi icons. Both of which they said would be done within 8 hours. I received radio silence for 10 days before contacting them on Toyhouse, and was provided with the first and only image (the first one being an MLP character) I have received from them on January 1st. I have tried to contact them repeatedly since then with no response, and they have been active enough afterward that there's no reason why they couldn't have seen my messages. Jan 4th - Posted a commission. Jan 8th - Posted personal base edit of their OC. Jan 29th - Posted a fullbody hand-drawn personal OC reference to Toyhouse. Feb 4th - Posted a fullbody hand-drawn personal OC. Feb 6th - Spoke to an artist on Twitter about Luneiity commissioning them in the future. ^ The above dates and what was posted on them are for perspective on how much art they've been doing while completely avoiding my SYMMETRICAL icons, using characters that are also symmetrical in patterning and lineart. My inbox messages have gone unread. I have pinged them on Twitter (their DMs were closed), and have sent them a friend request. I messaged them one last time on Toyhouse and will be filing a chargeback for a PARTIAL refund if they dont respond within 2 weeks of the original message. They also have a beware on Toyhouse already about not completing their side of an art trade and ghosting the person who had already done their end repeatedly, across Discord and Toyhouse. I've been informed recently that they still haven't responded to this person either, and was given permission to link their post once I make my own beware when all this is over.

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[darlingshittalk]

I hate how much the dainty community has made me paranoid about being fucked over by artists. I commissioned a person, and they told me a week ago that they'd send me a sketch in the next 24 hours, but I haven't heard anything from them since. I know a week isn't a long wait time at all for a commission, and I don't want to be rude or come across as through I'm trying to rush them, but this is the same thing that happened the last time an artist almost scammed me, and would have if I didn't get mods involved. I just wish there was a way that users could review their experiences with people that advertise in the art server or something. It'd offer more peace of mind for the people commissioning, and allow mods to better filter out people that repeatedly scam others :/

There should definitely be a blog made where people can input their experiences with artists in the Dainty community, or at least a way for mods to keep an eye on the more suspicious artists… for now try to ask for an update every couple of days and if it reaches 2+ weeks for an update, bring it up to mods.

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I’m always happy to take reviews over here, the blog’s been a bit quiet but I’m still checking the inbox.

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[ Dorkkitz / MimiMeows / Honeykiitz ]

Grouping all 3 species together because they're all owned by the same person I'm reviewing.

Paws (Bloody--Paws) owns 3 very small closed species and has been very kind and helpful. She seems super interested in feedback and even hosts polls on batch themes! My interactions with her have all been really positive, and questions about any of her species have had very fast and informative answers.

Another thing!! I love that for two of the three species (Dorkkitz and MimiMeows) have it set so they're all "fill in a prompt to adopt" freebies. It's made it super stress free for me and the few other people in this community so far to get into and stay in the community.

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Staff Review/Staff Custom Review (Positive):

PalletEclipse from the Skire/Cccat community is one of my favorite artists to work with. Every time I commission her, she’s responsive, quick with her art, and extremely friendly.

Recently I commissioned a custom cccat from her, and the process was both fun and fast. She listened to any ideas I had while also putting touches on the design that worked really well pattern and color wise. It took her about a day to do the entire custom, something that I will always be floored by no matter what. She’ll probably know who I am if she ever reads this blog, but I will stand by saying she is a communicative artist, as well as a fun mod to talk to in server and in DMs while commissioning.

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Sorry the ask box wasn’t open folks, it was supposed to be. Should be all working now!