Professional writer refuses unsolicited commission work offer from artist after being fooled before, and the artist responds with insults and accusations and gets blocked

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• I'm being called out for saying No

  
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• A new writer, still figuring out the rules, gets hit by the usual invasion of unsolicited art offers that smell less like fandom and more like spam bots sniffing for easy marks. After a losing stretch of interactions that drained savings, left panic attacks in their wake, and trained them to recognize scam patterns, the obvious move is to guard the door harder. Yet the moment they try to enforce that boundary with a stranger who says she loves their work and wants to “discuss” ideas, the script flips. Saying “I did not ask for art,” “I cannot pay for it,” and “I do not want to work with artists anymore” is not negotiation, it is self‑defense. The expectation that the writer should have predicted the person’s emotional investment in an unpaid favor is exactly the kind of pressure that keeps vulnerability profitable.  

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• The artist’s response is textbook guilt acrobatics. She presents paid‑plan schemes, shares her gallery, pushes for an opinion, and then pretends the line art she starts is something the writer somehow triggered by being honest about not wanting it. She tests the line, tries to frame herself as the injured party, and when the door slams, paints the writer as unprofessional and heartless. The moment the conversation starts triggering panic, blocking is not melodrama, it is triage. The extra layer of copying legal advice, chats, and disclaimers is not paranoia, it is damage control after years of being told every problem was their own fault.  

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• The core conflict here is not about art, it is about permission. The person is not asking for proof they were nice or generous enough, they are asking for confirmation that they did not magically become legally or morally responsible for someone else’s unilateral project. In a world that treats “no” as a conversation starter and “I’m not interested” as an invitation to guilt, choosing to protect yoursafety and finances is not impolite, it is the only form of sanity that does not involve signing yourself up for other people’s fantasies.

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