#mantafins

[benisbeansart]

Buncha oc references

[doeoftheyear]

Many of you may already know, that I'm a huge fan of closed species! So I wanted to link you to one I just found out about, they're on Discord, Neocities, and TH! They honestly look really cute and I'd love it if you checked them out sometime!!

https://discord.com/invite/mantafinofficial

https://toyhou.se/~world/107882.-mantafins-

(Artwork isn't mine)

[csvent-2]

mantafins are a complete joke. they’re run by a staff team of sensitive-ass adults who will harass and attack literal 13 year olds for months on end to get their way

+ skunkblood is a clown who just sells the exact same design 100 times over for an outrageous price each time

fuck mantafins, nothing unique about them and yet they gatekeep them to hell and back

🌸

[csmeanerr]

(mantafins)

god the skunkblood talk brings me back. i despise cs now and was hoping to just put all of this behind me but the amount of people joining mantafins and not knowing about their previous species is just a bit upsetting to see.

i dont have screenshots for proof, it was years ago and all of these are just taken from my own experience but heres the things ive witnessed

skunkblood doesnt like non hq artists. if you were a non hq artist doing gift or event art of any of their characters you can guarantee that shit was never acknowledged or uploaded to their toyhouse profiles compared to a more high quality artist's art which was uploaded immediately. (friendly reminder alongside this to support your beginners artists!! we all started somewhere)

would constantly offer their species myos to people for their designs or money and then close the species after a week. i wish this was a over exaggeration. and no compensation was given unless brought up to them to which they would offer a 'equal value' myo from their new species. no refunds.

all species were and are cashgrabs. no exceptions. all of them were. once a species became dead and didnt make money it was sold to somebody else.

lied about having adopt money be for college also yeah. shit tons of dekudogs. i dont have too much hate for dekudogs if its like some big companys design and not a personal character or a really small fandom. but its more so just the fact they were sold as adopts and some of the buyers werent aware that they were dekudogs that irks me. at the very least let your buyers know the design is heavily inspired off a existing one. and if they make the decision to still buy even after that then thats their choice and its good that they are at least aware of it.

previous mods admitted to saying skunkblood would shit-talk peoples designs in modchat (no proof was given for this by the mods so so take this with a BIG grain of salt. feel free to post this anon ask without this part if it falls under serious accusations. i do feel bad throwing a accusation around like this with no personal proof of my own. all these ones above are things i experienced and saw but this one i didnt.)

i have wanted to speak about this in this blog for awhile but due to somewhat extreme paranoia and fear i have not. but im a bit too tired to consider the consequences of posting this right now so ill leave the freaking out and huge waves of paranoia ill get from this for the morning when im more conscious.

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[uwuinhell]

Hahaha! Again!

WHOOO MANTAFIN MYO EVENT (I will be posting about them a lot)

This event means you can make invites for the server and get points for each one! Points then correlate to a specific manta egg that you can claim! (And you can trade extras for server currency to buy stuff!!) ((1 inv = 2,000))

Freshwater MYO - 1 invite

Saltwater MYO - 5 invites

Reef MYO - 10 invites

Ice MYO - 15 invites

Abyssal MYO - 20 invites

Robot mod - 30 invites

Royal mod - 40 invites

Invites can be on discord or other platforms! If you can’t reach an invite count that you really want, they'll also be doing a raffle for an **Unlisted** MYO to anyone who joins! There will also be items randomly handed out.

EVENT ENDS MAY 1ST

https://discord.com/invite/mantafinofficial

Here's a Reef manta I made myself for a previous Myo event :3

[thehueofdalan]

I built up a backlog with my art, so I figured I needed to post these now. From top to bottom, left to right:

Headshot icon of Brett

Headshot icon of Norwood

Shaded pagedoll of Peepo

Pageart of my sona for Art Fight 2023

Leif as a Funko Pop

Sweetums and Zesty eating honeybuns (for Hoodjinx prompt)

Neon Sky in colored pencil

Armie with some of his gemstone collection

[deliriouskuria]

anyone interested in cs?? mantas are hosting a myo event!

[csscreenshots]

tw su!c!d3 mentions  (reposting bc forgor to send the screenshot last time)

but has anyone else seen skunkblood’s mantafin server? it’s basically a ripoff of another cs called manotikes and he rants in announcements about people and uses the species to post adopts that go for like $50+

and not to mention the other cs he was going to shut down, and when ppl got upset about what was going to happen to their ocs he started saying he was suicidal and said he’d kill himself if he didnt revamp/shut down the species - oof

(couldnt find announcement ss)

like yeah its fine if you wanna revamp but blatantly saying in a announcement that you’re suicidal and openly telling people you’d kill yourself is kinda….

like seriously bro just tell people you’re not feeling well and keep it at that a lot of people could get upset by all this suicide talk 😐

[csmeanerr]

Guy named skunkblood owns a species named mantafins and hes a fairly popular artist i think . Joined initially from a myo event ad in another server n thought they were cool … then i noticed how its a huggeeee cashgrab … he doesnt even try to hide it too

Hes like the only one in the server that makes adopts and they go for like 70+ each (gone up to 200 i think?) and he makes them like EVERY DAY… and all of his artists dont design shit its like just him doing most adopts and gatcha … and dont get me started on small events where you can “donate” a couple dollars to get a random item and then events where server members design HIM shit and get like a measly amount of currency or a myo in exchange …. Its a huge cashgrab and honestly i hope all the users who encourage his shit stub their toe rlly hard.

reminder of skunkblood also designing a bunch of zipperguts dekudogs

[themantafin3]

WIP!

making a Toy Chica Mantafin and just finished the look for Cupcake and I love him <3

[themantafin3]

HEHEHE

I'M GROWING AN ARMYYYY

note: three of them aren't my art, I just own the character-

[themantafin3]

my bois

[themantafin3]

Found You~

I FUCKING LOVE HIM!!

[themantafin3]

funky art I did for a new dude I traded for!!!

he s t a r e

[thehueofdalan]

Some somewhat recent pieces that I totally did not neglect to post (no, not at all). /s From left to right, top to bottom:

Color pencil fullbody of Leif

Halfbody of Armie wearing a newsie cap

Poly clay figurine of Brett

Lightbox of Armie, Gateau and Shockwave

Fully rendered scene of some of my Maws

[thehueofdalan]

Been a little bit, here’s an assortment of OC art! From top to bottom, left to right: -Headshot of Pizza Tower-style Armie; drawn via Shake Art DX -Standard piece of Armie, with shades -Armie clad in a reverse-tie-dye t-shirt -Pixel art render of Armie in the Pizza Tower style, with game-accurate palette -My sona shoulderbashing Pepperman-style, -Headshot icon of my newest Mantafin OC Leif; made for his TH page. -Fully rendered scene with Leif in it, the prompt was to draw your manta character in a sunset landscape.