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Ardyn Izunia, looking rather dapper with his hair tied back, wearing a red suit.

I didn't draw this for any particular reason, but at one point in esama's fic "Oh, where to we begin?" Ardyn gussies up in a bright red suit to crash a gala ball at the Citadel. As you do. And the idea of Ardyn pulling his hair back and wearing a red suit appealed. I gave him a vibrant canteloupe-colored scarf, because he deserves it.

as always

First art in this year

#haikyuu #oikawa tooru

bellotopo

MYY THREE FAVSS!!! YIPPPPEEEE

All credits to freaka_loonyz!!! 🙇‍♀️🙏🧎‍♀️(FOLLOW THEM ON TIKTOK AND TWITTER!!!)

pain

Another for @grubus 's fic Shen Yuan of No Relation... this fic slays

Inspired by ch 44 where they talk about heights :'D also totally bsing w the robes

#svsss

cacodaemonia

AO3 / ff.net + Artstation 'concept artist' scam

FYI, I personally know two people who got scam comments from the same AO3 account today alone. They were very similar to the ff.net comments in this reddit post, and go something like:

As a concept artist, I really enjoyed your story! The characters were compelling, and the plot kept me engaged from start to finish. Your writing has so much depth, and I could really envision the world you’ve created. While reading, I got some ideas for potential artwork to bring your characters or key scenes to life. I’d love to chat more about a possible collaboration if you’re interested

The main difference between this and a previous wave of similar comments is that this is from a logged-in account as opposed to a guest.

I can't send a support ticket because I haven't gotten any comments from this particular account. Obviously, AO3 volunteers don't need to be flooded with more support tickets right now, anyway, and I'm sure other people have already reported this user. But do yourself a favor and just block Evelynaddison92 on AO3 like I'm about to. The account is 100% a scammer, and there are certainly more accounts like this on AO3, but that's the only one I know of atm.

cacodaemonia

Make that a third person I know who's gotten the same comment in the last 24 hours, though I don't know if it was from the same username.

I'd recommend reporting the comments if you get them, and like I said above, block the users.

Also, feel free to reblog this with any more usernames that are leaving the same comments—that way, more people will know to block them.

cacodaemonia

Found a new one. I'm going to report the comment, but in the meantime, you can block AnnieWalker090.

loverboy-havocboy

adding be cause i didn't see it here so it might be new - but the scammer mentioned in the original post hopped into my dms this morning

brokenphoenix99

And ANOTHER one. Username follows the same pattern. Slightly different wording (with abruptly ending/missing words in a sentence). Also LOL... my work was ART, not a story 🙄, so they are clearly just mass hitting anything!

You can block helenrosie5 here.

I'll be reporting and blocking. 🚫

aerjnn

I also woke up to being followed by this account on tumblr after reporting their comments on my work on AO3.

I noticed that a seemingly more established account on tumblr recently plugged evelynaddison92 in a post. I'm not sure what to make of it or how/whether to react to it (do they know?). The way it's written sounds like they've had personal experience with them.

cacodaemonia

Thanks for adding to this! So we've got at least three accounts to block on AO3:

Evelynaddison92

AnnieWalker090

helenarosie5

I also peeked at the artstation accounts of the other two 'people' (like, we all know it's either the same person or a group running the same scam together), and they're more of the same:

Lots of basic character images with an oddly wide range of apparent skill levels

They all started posting images 4-5 months ago

All three accounts, including the one in the previous post, have the same username formula

All of their bios are very similar, with some of the same wording, and seem extremely robotic, with 'used car salesman' vibes

And of course, they're all going around AO3 leaving nearly identical comments on fics and art (and probably podfics and meta)

idk if someone in their little scammer group is making the images, but it's more likely that they're stealing them from artists on deviantart or something? idk.

At any rate, the extreme similarities between all of the AO3 and Artstation accounts confirms that it's the same scam, so just make sure to block them (or report new ones you come across, then block), and don't be fooled by similar nonsense.

cacodaemonia

Just adding another scam account to block. A friend and I both got comments from this one today, so we're both going to report it, but I'm honestly not sure if multiple people reporting accounts like this helps get them banned or anything? Spamming is definitely against AO3's TOS, but that might just get the comments deleted.

Anyway, the scam account it Akren483. Go forth and block!

eldritchmage

I got a comment on A03 from the account Lianahayden1 that is this same scam. I reported them to the staff, and will block that account there if I can figure out how.

As widespread as this is, maybe the best we can do is broadcast what's happening to warn people, but I hope we can figure out more to do at some point.

seiya-starsniper

Oh this grift made its way to AO3? Here's another account, Lyla Rowan, that tried this on my inactive ff.net account

FF.Net terminated the user within like 24 hours of me getting this message so I knew pretty quickly it was a scam, but looks like they're trying again on AO3! I haven't checked to see if this particular name is on the site yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was.

ectocosme

I just got this one today! (though I had a few on my inactive ff.net account too so I clocked it as scam instantly). See how the wording could apply to any fic?

Block AljinParker. also I suspect they mixed their accounts and sent me a first "introductory" comment:

I think they're the same scammer because of the copy-paste comment sitting none of the characters, plus it's a long fic and they commented on ch.1. They have no bookmarks and no fics of their own.

Amethystthone192

be sure to report them if you do get a comment. Otherwise AO3 won't be able to deal with them and they'll pester others.

kobylas

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#dragon age #dragon age veilguard

aldruiel-scribbles

In this link there is definitely not a folder with every Dragon Age eBook, numbered in order of reading plus the two Encyclopedias about the world. Please do not use the link, there are not free books in there.

#dragon age