Shade wrote:
Hi guys, I go by Shade. I'm a 36 year old retired pro hula dancer. I was wondering if anyone could provide me with some FREE, can't stress the word 'free' enough, manips and/or art of half Black/half Canadian women getting hit in the head with a rubber mallet while getting molested by extra-dimensional LaCrosse players who have balloons for arms?

My artistic preferences are eccentric, yes, but at least I'm not asking for pics of chicks farting, because that's just weird.

Thanks for any FREE art/manips.

NOTE: For those lacking senses of humor, this post was dipped in batter and fried in sarcasm, poking light-hearted fun at those who want stuff for free on the site.

Shade wrote:
LOL Yeah, the thread was really just to poke fun at a situation I went through recently here where I had someone repeatedly PMing me asking for my site URL and e-mail and then they finally asked me to... get this... e-mail them ALL of my art I had scanned and saved, and they wanted me to do this for free.

Funny thing was that I responded with "LOL I'm not taking half my day to send you scans of all my art for free. You crazy? I have CDs that I sell that have my art on them. If you want one, it's $20." Then, surprise, surprise, I get no response.

Cheap ####s. And this happens a lot. People showing intense enthusiasm about my work and claiming they want to hire me, then I give them a reasonable quote, way under industry rates, and then they, unsurprisingly, lose the ability to respond.

Do these people think I can pay my bills by doing work for them for nothing? #### that. Come and mow my lawn, build me a shed or wash my car for a month if you can't pay with cash. This is capitalism, baby. I'm not a bar and I don't give credit.

It's like, if you want me to do something for you, that's fine. I WANT money in return. I mean, is that unreasonable? There's so many cheap ####s running around thinking they're entitled to get stuff for nothing. If you're one of those people, you can blow me. Repeatedly.