Diction Art

Hello! I'm Diction. I draw ponies. This is where I will post them. I'll fill this description box later when I feel like it and not so lazy (never). Official Pages http://dictionsroom.tumblr.com/ - Stuff I Reblog http://dictionart.tumblr.com/ - Art...

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Birthday Bird

A little colored sketch I did for Rokko Comms for her birthday a few days ago.

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Dragon Queen <3 <3

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Every time...

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Late night movies and gummies

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Chillin’

Commission for the wonderful Kali

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You can support me by visiting my Patreon or my FA

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Gilda the gryphon as a pony and Orion the pony as a gryphon Commission for Orion

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channeling unfulfilled wishes for a loving sweet motherly figure into fictional video game characters

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I cannn’ttt waaiittttt for this movieeedeeeedsa

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Real bun hours 6am Nimbus doodle

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My favorite dragon catching some sun <3

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Patreon sketch for Acacias

Support me at Patreon.com/diction if you’re feeling super generous <3

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Dare I?

[stunnerpone-deactivated20210116]

For everyone who thinks I’m getting $500+ dollars a month, let me just show you how a ton of those pledges are false and how a lot of people have been getting content on my Patreon for free.

There are other cases. Some people who know that Patreon charges you at the beginning of the month, mysteriously unsubscribe a few days before that happens, after they got all the content for free of course.

Before you ask, no I don’t delete patrons, because I can never be sure if it’s a legit error, like a bank denying Patreon to charge you (which has happened before with some people and has been fixed), or a guy trying to see all my content for free. And aside from deleting them, there’s not much I can do, at least not that I’m aware of.

I know that by making this post I’ll actually encourage some people to try and get “free access”. But I wanted to show you all how we artists struggle to get paid even when we “block content behind a paywall”.

I hope that Patreon and other sites improve their “scam detection” or however you call it, since this has been an issue for as long as I’ve been using it.

If you’re an artist struggling with this as well, give it a reblog and maybe we can bring attention to this issue and to make people understand how hard it is to actually get paid as an artist, even while blocking your content.

[asksolarflair]

Welp, that’s stunner, tehlumineko, and alasou so far that I know of getting a bunch of these. I know at least Lumi got 19 fake 20 dollar ones in a month.

Keep an eye out for things like them only patroning you and having weird generic names stunnerpone. Greg338 or whatever. Those are undoubtedly fakes and all it does is give them access to your stuff and make you seem like you’re making more than you are.

[alasou-deactivated20240114]

Yup… Happened to me… It is a real struggle…

[ponkoporo]

It is so dumb how they don’t charge you at the time you pledge. Like Twitch does ffs.

[stunnerpone-deactivated20210116]

^^^^^

I don’t know either. And why do they let people whose credit cards have been declined keep getting access to content?

[ratofponi]

I got a bunch (about 7 or so) fake $25 pledgers this month too, I deleted them and talked to patreon support, they told me they’ll change their payment system soon so that new pledgers will get their card charged at the time of the first pledge! I think that’s a good change.

They all have a bunch of random numbers after their generic nickname and only followed me, I think that’s common for those spambots. What’s more aggravating tho, are the few people who always conveniently drop their pledges every 30th and then suddenly are pledging again on the 2nd. It’s pretty rare, but I don’t understand it, do they think I don’t notice? The only thing they accomplish is to give me more work since I have to check if they’re a legit patron or not when someone votes on my patreon polls or sends in an idea. That’s why we can’t have nice things.

[nekomestinyworld]

Yah same here, got 3 $50 pledges. I even wrote to them, but never got an answer. It’s pretty much annoying, not because they get content free (despite I upload everything to my other sites later), but also because, as a freelancer, it’s hard to plan ahead. I’m glad they will change their support policy. Hope that will discourage fakers.

[appelknekten]

Sad others have to suffer, but I’m glad I’ve waited before starting a Patreon.

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I’m a super tiny artist and already I’ve got people fake pledging. That’s why I’m thinking that I’ll only do rewards and such after the first month. That is until they make that change, which sounds pretty reasonable. Hopefully that’s soon

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omgggg this is like the best thing ever I didn’t think he’d actually do it <3 <3 <3

Original print here

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I said I’d draw Agile Cloud in the first outfit I find on a DevArt inspiration page. It said lolita AND I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT LOLITA IM SORRY IF THIS IS OFFENSIVELY BAD