Just a heads-up on new scam tactics: I wrote a post last night about how I would love to write Kingdom Come fanfic, but I like the games too much to be inspired by them (I need to be equally intrigued by and pissed off at canon's squandered potential for my muse to get excited). This morning I had a DM from a user I don't know, who sent me a screenshot of the post and asked if I had written any fics before that I felt comfortable sharing.
Spidey senses tingling, I went to their blog, and they have only a few posts, almost all about art commissions; then I check their comments, all of which are them responding to various posts offering commissions work.
I blocked them without responding, but I'm sure if I had sent them a link to my work, the next message would have been the usual, 'Wow, this is great! I can visualise it so easily! I'd love to make art for it!' scam that's so prevalent.
Be very, very sceptical. Scammers are trying to change things up and give themselves the veneer of legitimacy before hitting you with the ol' 'Your work has inspired me so much! Pay me money and I'll show you what I can create with that inspiration' rubbish because too many writers have been warned about this particular scam for them to just roll up and drop it as their opening line. I have never known a fandom artist, whether they take commissions or not, to only ever interact with people by offering commissions, or have only one example of their work on their blog. Those are huge red flags.
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