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- Sep 7, 2020
I understand all that happened between Lily and Lizzy but theres no way that Lily is able to compensate for everything Mik has drawn for her. Almost every drawing Mik does is for Lily or of Lilys characters, there's just no way that Lily would be able to pay her for it all. Ginger you could speculate about, She only draws things for Lily on the off chance that she's taking random requests. So I think its more likely that Lily pays for art from Ginger.That's also not how that works?
I had a thing here explaining the stupidity of the idea that all shonen protagonists are motivated by 'strength' and 'freedom' as concepts rather than desiring 'strength' and 'freedom' in service to a more concrete and personal goal (as the Sith code details Sith motivation and for some reason I thought she'd be making an equivalency), but then I read it again and I realize she says the 'core virtues' of any shonen protagonist.
What the hell does that mean?
While this is a legitimate perspective to have, this isn't how Lily has stated that she works.
A while back she said that she always felt a need to compensate fan artists, either by donating to them or making sure to plug their Patreon if they refused the money. She hated getting free art and would always insist on at least some nominal money exchanged, and says that she always overpays any artist she commissions.
She says that she feels deeply uncomfortable not offering compensation, and that this was also the reason she paid Lizzy for her art even though they were in a relationship.
I'm not sure if she's still necessarily espousing this view (I haven't seen it said in a while, but my awareness of Lily's social media is mostly contained to what's posted in this thread) but it was one that she made sure to mention, and that seemed to be corroborated by the people she commissioned at the time.
That said, her giving Mikaila and Ginger (and, previously, Lizzy and Carousel) expensive gifts might be what she considers compensation for services rendered. Plus she does still plug Mikaila's patreon (even if it seems that it does no good, although given the quality of work on display that's not Lily's fault).
And I think it's important that she does do this in the form of gifts. It was some months back that Lizzy explicitly mentioned how free she felt that she could throw out the computer Lily gave her. There's definitely some amount of power play going on.
Given that Lily has all but admitted her trans identity is based on a fetish, that's not at all surprising.
Like I said, I know that's how Lily operates ,but I'm talking about Mikaila. Your partner can give you all the free shit in the world but it wouldn't change the fact that they still would do the drawings without payment. And with how much of a doormat Mik is I wouldn't be surprised if Lily praising her and enjoying her art would be enough compensation for her. Since Lily is a predator of sorts it also wouldn't surprise me if Lily thinks giving Mik the bare minimum (slight praise) would be enough 'payment' for her.