Also, the same way the methods recommend cultivating thoughts and letting them marinate and connect to other thoughts until they become ripe, I feel the same way about drawing now, like… drawing is the pursuit of a mental image. And I can rework or even redraw an image iteratively until I nail it.

#DigitalGardening #Zettelkasten #PKM solved my compulsive posting itch. But unlike the dweebs (/affectionate) that publish theirs for the world to see/engage with, I like to keep mine private. ++

Hey all, my living situation will very rapidly change in ~Dec-2025/Jan-2026. For this reason, I'm doing a clearance of all items in my shop from now till the end of November. Please use code STRUGGLEBUS for 50% off all items, or use this link: ko-fi.com/hikatamika/l... #ArtShop

Any smallweb people that use it, be careful!! (I used it for my site buttons…) Does anyone know another image host I can use?

I wake up to the news that imgur is completely blocked in the UK now. Boooyyy I love it heeereee help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/art...

Like with BSky I *unhides engagement numbers* post something of actual importance/value and 0.5%-1% of my following sees and engages if I'm lucky. My rinky dink website… hit counter just goes up and I strategically have no avenues through which you can press Dopamine Button™ for an art piece ++

I wish basic web publishing literacy was made easier for regular folks to understand. And I wish people weren't brainwashed into thinking personal sites need to look/feel like webapps. I was gonna open-source the source code for my site so you could copy me. Then financial and family troubles hit.

(Gentle quote detach because I think quoter's post stands on its own two legs just fine. Also I have Pillowfort burnout from when my genuine efforts turned into voidposting, during one tumblr exodus one time. [Funny how many tumblr exoduses there were.])

The funny thing about BSky WaffleGate right now is no one really *IS* telling anyone to migrate anywhere else. Just that we shouldn't homebase Bluesky. I think a lot of us have realized the "scrappy-new-startup ➡️ leadership crashout" cycle. People are just wising up and making blogs/websites.

IDK how to say this any more forwardly, but this isn't just about waffles, this is also about my social media minimalism (that WaffleGate has made me break, btw) But if you like talking with me and feel close to me, I'd love if you DMed me (here) so I could give you my email/Signal/Telegram/Discord

Also, what's the cultural consensus on off-platform messaging? Discord has put it in TOS that you revoke the right to sue them, also they had a data-breach, so what it it now? Signal? Telegram? Email? IRC? Or are we genuinely tied down by convenience?

Re: platform migration altogether, I don't feel like it. They all have AI scraping, or tyranny. WaffleSky, plus my September burnout have caused this 👇 I feel like I should just use my accounts to post updates, and be social on: - My website that I control - The comments of others' work - DMs

Staff and engineers cannot be telling random users to f-off—for any reason, no matter what. Like what is going ON here?

Yup. Federation is an awesome idea, but simply not practical at scale for social media as we typically think of it. I dipped from mastodon bc I would routinely wake up and discover I could no longer locate 10-15 people I followed bc my instance blocked theirs. No warning, no explanation.

Maybe the good part about the everyone-had-a-site early web is that people only had to be responsible for their own websites and content. If you don't have to manage other people, you don't start having waffle-posting tantrums. /genuine hypothesizing

Saying it on main cos it's where it's the most relevant, But BSky staff and moderation being so dismissive of trans users' concerns and outright hostile towards its userbase in replies, quotes, & mod actions: makes me feel like the community sandcastles I built here are gonna be washed away.

my spookiest (and, coincidentally, purple-est) offerings from my shop! 🎃 doodlemancy.etsy.com

I've noticed some friends and followers following my Mastodon account. I can't browse it in the way that I enjoy. You can only make feeds out user lists or 1-3 hashtags in absolute reverse chronological order. Also it allows anyone to become their own Waffles-like moderator, so… don't expect much,

I'm not going to Twitter or Instagram again btw. I'm ok with being a nobody again if it means I'm not putting my art on a direct conveyor belt to Grok or Meta AI's mouths.

Anyway every SocMed has the tyrant problem, or the feeds brainrot/dopamine/validation problem so... IDK subscribe to one of my many RSSes (hikatamika.com/rss/) Or follow me on one of my other platform existences if that's too icky, IDK. (hikatamika.com/my-links/)

*opens BlueSky to check for fires* *fires*

(If you want to know about HTML and CSS, I've been trying out W3schools and it's been lovely 👨‍💻👩‍💻)

Re: The concept of SocMed and jumping ship in general, our first reaction is always to jump to another… social media platform but they all have their issues. Errr, make/host a website! Like so. hikatamika.com ++

Belle and I are back to working on that webring sajkdfhlaskdjf Hahahahaha /@ screenshot

My 'tober of choice this year is more or less #NoUploadTober (/s) for this reason. I love loving my art. I do not enjoy hating my art. But IDK how to love it AFTER posting it yet. Ah well. Having fun with my pens tho.

Forcefully un-addicting myself from scrolling, especially "catch-up" scrolling has like, ruined SocMed scrolling for me a little. I like, accidentally de-influenced myself from something I didn't mean to de-influence myself from. HELP... sdhjfasdf Hahh...

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If you've got a story that needs telling, I've got a pen to lend! Writing Commission Sale: Now Ongoing.

💖CHAPTER 3 OF GLITTER & GUILT IS HERE💖 glitterandguilt.thecomicseries.com/comics/104 I HOPE EVERYONE IS EXCITED BECAUSE I HAVE FUN THINGS IN THIS CHAPTER :) #GlitterAndGuilt #Webcomic

Re: friends' reactions to this, and friends that have burnt out before me, there are a couple early/mid-202X Internet Artist's Dream™ Canon Events that are painful but you feel good once you get to the other side. ++

Everyone has been so kind and understanding and I wanted to say thank you. I was afraid to talk about burnout, adjusting strategies, moving (potentially out of state), warming up to fulltime employment… stuff like that. Especially re: this global climate. I just wish we could talk about it more!

Hi! I have an important update. I have to finally say some truths about why my online presence has been different lately. If it matters to ya, I'd appreciate it if you could find time to read! hikatamika.com/blog/2025092...

What happened to TikTok? Another one of my "Things Hika Misses by not Scrolling Daily Anymore" type things, I see.

The one. ONE! Downside… is that some major important friend life/project stuff falls between the cracks when I don't scroll daily. But my DMs are open…? (/asking myself) Yes, they're open. We can do the interpersonal-tango of how frequently and for what purpose, but they are open.

Beneath the Grove is out TODAY!!! A WHOLE CHAPTER after YEARS!!!!!! Go read!!

it's my bday read my comic beneaththegrove.thecomicseries.com/comics/1/#co...

LRP I really liked that sketchbook tour a lot!! I saw it early for Patreon reasons.

NEW VIDEO YAHOO!! youtu.be/tiJXFkGNcaQ?...

Today marks the 20th anniversary of my webcomic, Kuro Shouri! 🥹 It was first posted on September 27th, 2005, on deviantART. But who knew that Yasha and Hisaki's adventures would last 20 years? Certainly not us. I'll be sharing some favorite memories in this thread! bindings.app/read/Tps9G0Nh

doodled a Selene with the new procreate brushes 💖 this is them a bit younger

New post on Patreon! Got some new progress on Beeswax as I work on a few different things. It's only $2 a month if you wanna read early, but you can sub for free to read it in a week! www.patreon.com/posts/beeswa...

I love my twice weekly Bsky catchups. They make me feel like an old man strolling through Internet City.

@nileoart.rip was playing silksong on our discord call today and this is the only way i can accurately describe the energy haha

02: the high priestess #tarot #art #inkdrawing #traditionaldrawing

huntrix chibis are DONE DONE DONE! 💕 #kpopdemonhunters #pixelart

Love at First sight for RGB-chan but definitely second sight for CMYK-chan ... Because she ran away in the middle of the night when she got caught doing her graffiti by RGB-chan!

Hi! I have an important update. I have to finally say some truths about why my online presence has been different lately. If it matters to ya, I'd appreciate it if you could find time to read! hikatamika.com/blog/2025092...

Sending out these cute orders today… Did you know *everything* in the HK★Shop is 50% off till the end of November? And, I'm dono-matching on all purchases of the charity print? This is my version of the old "Emergency Comm™"! ko-fi.com/hikatamika/l...

GOOD MORNING EVERYONE HAPPY HELLO SUNSHINE DAY!! ☀️☀️☀️