PSA: Pythia/ AuroraCelest closed: 8/27/2018

Posted 5 years, 10 months ago (Edited 5 years, 6 months ago) by SquidsInTheAttic

8/ 27/ 2018 All known accounts for this user have been deactivated.


Toyhouse: AuroraCelest (inactive),  Pythia (old account), N3M3S1S
Deviantart: OracleDelphis / Rhoad
Furaffinity: OracleDelphis
Artfight: Pythia


In December of last year I opened an art trade thread and Pythia posted asking to trade for busts or chibis. I gave people the option of who they would like to draw and provided links to said characters. At the time I was delighted with the idea of getting a matching bust set for the twins my friend rps with me.  We agreed I would do a full coloured chibi for her drawing two busts, made using one base.  This can be seen below:

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I finished my half of the trade as can be seen here, uploaded in my stash with the original upload date.  I unfortunately deleted my initial correspondence sending them the art as I didn't think there would be a problem.  I didn't hear from them for some time and they weren't active on toyhouse when I checked their login time, so I wasn't overly worried.  I assumed life had crept up on them and they were busy.  It's a usual time for exams and I'm a firm believer in life coming first.  Part way through January I sent her a note which showed up as read, but received no reply.  This bothered me as I had finished my piece and it seemed polite to at least acknowledge the sent note.  I left it for almost one week before noting her again.  She once again disappeared and I assumed life must have come up and so I waited.
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By March I was fairly annoyed.  She had been logging in and had posted other art of her characters, but didn't give any hint of acknowledgment.  I made it clear if no reply was given I would assume it was not longer wanted and would tweek the design into something new and trade them.

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It's been some time until I've been able to act as I've been scrambling with RL issues as well as keeping up with trades with others and commissions.  

Since then they have traded the character.

This isn't a callout, I just want people to be aware and possibly wary if doing trades with this person.  This isn't such a bad loss, but it was still time spent that could have been spent on my own work.


[EDIT JULY 1 2018]

Pythia has now changed accounts and is under the account name AuroraCelest.  I've been informed that they are still shirking their claims, though they have uploaded their characters on art fight.


[EDIT JULY 16 2018]

PaperTsubaki has been kind enough to provide a list of art forum threads that this user owes art on.  It can be viewed in the comments section here.

Currently AuroraCelest has been banned from the forums so this will put an end to them claiming any new threads or scamming any more people for the time being on Toyhouse.  It remains to be seen if they will finally do some of the art they owe.


[EDIT AUG 24 2018]

Once again they have apparently account hopped.  They also seem to have another account on DA that they have used to purchase adopts.

lillywise

unfortunately they also tried to claim some resells i was selling / trading one as well.. we worked out a deal but she never answered me back, despite me asking again later on down the line. definitely not someone you want to try to do business with. to anyone interested in her designs, i suggest just taking the loss now and avoiding them. 

SquidsInTheAttic

kavaro

Ah I'm super sorry that happened.  I was hesitant about writing this psa but having someone else come forward makes me glad that I did.

SquidsInTheAttic

Storyteller

I'm sorry about your experience as well.  They seem like a super shady person.

SquidsInTheAttic

Thank you for the update.  Ive been attempting to contact people who have agreed to art trade with her but without a proper search function its difficult to track them all.

SquidsInTheAttic

I've gone ahead and sent in a ticket to the staff here to see what can be done vis a vis allowing her to continue on like this.  I'm waiting on a response.


[edit] It was favored they be banned from forum use for the time being, until they shows they are finally completing their obligations.

TheYUO

WELL, I am going to toss this in here because I HAVE NO CLUE if I did anything wrong/don't know if this will be important later.

I posted on the Draw the OTP/Couple Above you **PAGEDOLL EDITION** [Page 3] and I have both completed the Journal Dolls AND sent the dolls via Message to AuroraCelest of Sobek, Horus, Anubis, and Osiris [Their post is deleted as of right now, and don't know if this is due to the banning]. My art isn't uploaded to the characters HOWEVER the message had been read and never received a reply back.


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Stuff I Gave (6 Files- Individuals, Larger Together, and Smaller Together)

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With this said and reading, I have no clue if these characters DO belong to them and with this said, I did give them a bunch of files. Along with this, I will go ahead and do the person prior to AuroraCelest request due to this.

Wish I had known sooner, and I would like to ask what to do with the images.


SquidsInTheAttic

TheYUO

I do believe the characters are theirs.  They do pay for the characters they receive as far as I know.

My experience was almost identical to yours albeit they approached me in my own thread.

The best I can suggest is to recycle the images by perhaps finding similar characters in your own gallery or a friends and edit them.  Eventually I'll be doing the same with the character I did art of.  They still haven't uploaded it so idk.

Kirbygal

Oh snap was this the psa thread I got warned about? Adding something here around two weeks ago we were supposed to have an art trade but I haven't received their side yet. Two weeks still seems early compared to the rest of unfilled claims here but at this point I probably won't be expecting anything back. From now on I won't send my side first anymore ;o;

SquidsInTheAttic

PaperTsubaki

I just typed in her old username on artfight and it popped right up.