A few weeks ago, I tried to commission Mixed_Bandicoot_Girl for a YCH of one of my characters (Kandi, my sexy dragoness), but she behaved oddly, ghosted me, and blocked me. Shortly ago, I saw a journal she had posted, urging anyone to take down the string bikini picture (under the presumption that they were not-only traced, but Kandi belonged to her, despite me still having the invoices). When I signed onto Fur Affinity, I'm welcomed with the fruits of her labor to make me out to be the bad guy. Now, I'd like to clarify a few things: One-, I wasn't being rude. Whenever money is “on the table”, I'm skeptical UNTIL AND UNLESS I'm proven that I don't need to be. Now, this can be direct contact via someone I know and am close to (an IRL friend, SO, or I just know that someone I grew up with IRL is an artist), it can be holding off for a while so I can go get verification from current and previous customers (I had to go with that route for this particular artist), and I've even known a few to withhold payment until the sketch (or even whole piece) is done. That's not a one-size-fits-all solution, but it's certainly an agreeable one. Number the Second-, she accused my USUAL artist of TRACING the art. This claim is complete and utter bullshit! The whole reason I made him my go-to is because a friend I went to college with helped me get an artist for my characters. He knew the guy I use was cool, affordable, and could do an animé-like style that I like for my characters to be in. So far, my experience with Mixed Bandicoot Girl was getting an incorrectly-itemized invoice that I asked about (her solution was to delete the invoice, ghost me, and block me) and then hoping she could just accept that I no longer wanted to do business with her anymore after it was all over and done with. Sadly, an opinion I've heard about her seems to be more correct than non (I'm not posting it here because I'd like the hope of sparing dignity), as she has decided to escalate this needlessly. It was to my understanding, anyway, that when she refused to answer me (I was never rude, I've got the screenshots on my computer for this reason), she was foregoing any right or privilege to contest any art I do with the character, not to mention that she's sitting there and acting like she has a monopoly on ideas. I bought Kandi from [https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56488255/] this ad because I had an idea for a character to write that sprang from some late-night browsing. When I bought the character, I decided to have my go-to artist make a few minor changes because her [Kandi's] character would be someone who dresses like (but most-certainly isn't) a hooker for the extra cash here and there. I wanted her in a shot of a string bikini, as I simply thought that would be fitting beach attire for her. Did I give Mixed Bandicoot Girl a chance? Yes. Did she piss it away? Absolutely. What was my solution? Go to someone who I knew would draw the art because I effectively owned any and all rights to it, something I should've just done from the beginning. Somehow, I still think that Mixed Bandicoot Girl would have someone perusing FA on her behalf to take down any pictures of a string bikini, and I know there are a few out there, so artists, please beware of this sadsack. If anyone wants more details, feel free to comment or note me.