someday i’ll do a comic that’s not cynical and dumb i believe it
I feel terrible doing this, but knowing that psychologists found the more we see a word the more meaningless it is to us is why I refer 'emergency' commissions as 'the baked beans fund'. The money I received two years ago -the only time I had to do the baked beans fund- was enough to not spiral endlessly into debt, and also buy baked beans. Ohhh Yeaaaaah~
Oh, this is certainly not about asking for emergency stuff in general. This is about people who abuse the word 'emergency' when needing money for things they knew were coming. Emergency, to me, is something out of total left field and sudden.
The word itself is telling of its nature! Emergence, to EMERGE as if from beyond some vast and vile threshold unbidden. At least in the human brain, anything that can be described as emerging is generally a bad thing.
Cancer emerges.
Godzilla emerges.
Your heating bill does not emerge. It punctuates, or it drops, or if you're like me it piles up until you can create the Leaning Tower of Postage, but it does not emerge.
egad, it annoys me to no bounds when that happens. This one artist will beg for emergency commissions literally every two weeks because he's starving and his rent is a month late etc etc... and then he buys a fursuit.
I think it could do with some more cynicism to be frank. It's people being optimistic and gullible that allows people like this to keep doing what they're doing.
I've also seen a lot of EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS where the person ends up not even doing the artwork. Y'know, since they're busy with the emergency. Forever.
THIS, and hey it's real cool when people do this and then say "oh wait, emergency over! i'm fine and don't actually need your money. but i'm keeping it".
'oh no, rent's due! just like every month! EMERGENCY EMERGENCY!!!!!!!!!'
or 'oh no, tuition's due, but i just bought a fursuit! EMERGENCY!!!'
but the best is 'oh no, i want this item that is completely nonessential and 100% a luxury item but i don't have enough money, EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS!!!'
it's gotten to the point where everyone yells emergency so much that i don't try and get 'emergency commissions' even when it really is an emergency.
Just spent 200 dollars on fridge repairs. Didn't bat an eye. No emergency here.
Yay for financial responsibility!
I work in the billing department for a communications utility company (TV/internet/phone) we always get so many people calling in desperately tring to avoid being disconnected after Christmas. I always want to say to these people, "What they should do with Christmas is hold it on the same day every year so people could plan for it and not be ambushed by the sudden expendatures."
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