"You shouldn't make art for the money" buddy I'll take it one step further and say we shouldn't have to labor for capital at all but in the meantime pay an artist

a reminder for the millionth time: your peers, NOT corporations, are making the media you want !!!!!!!!!

you know what? i don't appreciate this type of comment at all. i grew up being told i was lazy and careless due to my adhd, when in truth i care so much it's paralyzing. that's executive dysfunction. it's a disability. i JUST began using alt text, which i didn't know about until recently.

I do equate alt-text to more akin to localization or translation, which is a difficult skill to develop just linguistically. you're translating an image to be understood in text, that's not easy, and pretending that it's accessible for everyone is deeply dishonest.

Images and art are a language. People should be free to post in their preferred languages. The demand for alt-text evangelism means everyone is expected to translate before posting. You wouldn't expect that out of any foreign speaker. Individuals are not accessible to everybody, nor should they be.

Alt-text as it stands now is individual labor and no one, absolutely no one, is entitled to someone’s individual labor. I want alt-text to be community labor, which it is right now, just awkwardly implemented. Have people add it and the OP approve of it, like subs on YouTube.

I was always the odd one out in my family to not need glasses for most of my life, so it's an interesting feeling that there might be a pair of them coming my way before the year is out. 👓

There is always a song in my head when I wake up. Lately my brain's been playing songs I heard a gajillion times growing up, like Piano Man. But the past few days it's been running The Motown Song by Rod Stewart & The Temptations, one I haven't thought about in ages.

I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there

LRP: this is why I refuse to take part in internet drama. I greatly dislike being maneuvered into place as a vector in the attack being levied against someone else. I'm here for art, not for being a lackey to some weird teen who cares only about the policing others who aren't performing "correctly"

the thing about online queer discourse is unless you dig into things it's hard to tell if someone is speaking from a place of nuance and decades of lived experience or whether you're reading the untested absolutes of the most 15-year-old alive

I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice

Re-upping this OR asking if any #fiberartists know of a group on Ravelry for this ask? Seeking a BLIND knitter for an interview, and I keep finding sighted people speaking over them... 🙄

I don't get this as much anymore, thankfully. But that woman has had six decades and countless second chances to sort herself out. She ain't changing. She's not my mom; she's banned from my life and staying there.

hiiii at the risk of being self-serving, i have a handful of digital & print out games & zines. i think they’re neat… maybe you will too? profgoggles.itch.io

I feel like actually access to knowledge and learning is a universal good which shouldn't be available only to the rich, to the 'time rich', to the 'clever', or to the 'hard-working'. It should literally be available to everyone to engage with, for enrichment, for knowledge, for a better world.

i could really use the help to recoup after paying for my phd applications. anything is appreciated! ko-fi.com/Q5Q85VM30/go...

Been on my feet cooking since 2pm. Despite our oven attempting to give up the ghost just before the finish line, everything turned out delicious! I can finally put the ol' feet up, rest, & sip on some spiced cider 🍻 Famsgiving-stravaganza successful.

man i have got to heavily cut back on social media again

When you see this, post an image from your gallery to describe your mental health

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Gonna let it sit while I work on the new Volume One cover but yeah!! Yeah this’ll do for now.

me: oh no everyone's gonna call it a demogorgon everyone: 👁️👁️👁️BE NOT AFRAID👁️👁️👁️ me: oh thank god

I come with empty hands and the desire to unbuild walls.

No idea what to think, all I can do is watch it happen.

Clarification: Accepting payments for commissions through Friends & Family is against TOS (which you agree to by making an account), and it is TAX FRAUD. Do not ask for comm payments via F & F. Dont let an artist convince you to pay this way, because your account can be taken down as well.

ARTISTS! You can DISABLE this feature! Protect yourself and don't assume that you're safe if you're an sfw artist!

Apparently P*ypal now asks for customer opinions on accounts sending invoices. If you are paying an invoice to a nsfw artist, do NOT mention NSFW in any way, keep it blank even. you risk both your account and the artists.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost. The world will not have it.

Opened Twitter for the first time in a while just to dig up this tweet of theirs I adore

Untitled https://www.wikiart.org/en/zdislav-beksinski/untitled-175

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this, all day right now (unmute, it’s a bop)

its da #frieren meme #art

So weird how two of the best industry standard pieces of software (Blender, Davinci) are no-strings free, almost like a money incentive ISN'T needed for brilliance in design and quality 🤔

everyone remembers what happened to Isabel Fall.

The "Frieren angle" thing, apart from just being delightful, also completely demolishes the pathetic "AI is democratising art" argument. Someone struggling with a difficult drawing received advice from hundreds of strangers who just wanted to help them improve their art.

Made a sexy elegant glam for my red mage in ffxiv and oops, forgot that draws attention. My usual style is "quiet goth in some forgotten dusty corner" so this is... let's just say I have that panicky "do not perceive meeeeee" reaction when they're merely curious haha

And again! 🥵 It's supposed to cool down soon and I will be happy to say good riddance to 3rd Summer as we roll the dice on a 4th this far into November.

Also important to remember not to get too hung up following references! Drawings are symbols that represent the subject in an appealing way, and that’s not always the most literal, accurate 3D rotation. Just look at how 3D anime uses automorph to distort the models at different angles to look better

Listen. There’s a lot of discourse happening right now. But never forget the core truth of our craft: we’re all just weird little guys making weird little guys.

Apparently the subject of the day on the art side of the internet is how to draw heads at difficult angles, so I’m gonna put it out there that there is absolutely nothing wrong with grabbing a tool like @handyarttool.bsky.social to get super specific references of difficult angles to draw

#3157 A helpful tutorial

I'm watching an adult creator get systematically cut off from every income stream by payment processors and now debankment could be on the table. She makes legal content. They are trying to shut her up and hope that we'll shut up too. We must get louder. Call Visa and MC. Tell them this will stop.

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Ana decided to call out payment processors and their unilateral response was attempting to fuck up her life and that should be bigger news than it is as of now

this absolute model citizen. this is what we need. big followings become immaterial when it comes to the gov't but your safe position as a consimer means everything. thank you for fighting for us ❤️

guess who's awake after an hour of sleep for ptsd reasons thisssss guyyyyy 😎 👉👉 How you doin' early morning internet. Hope you're all managing as best you can. Got some hugs if you need them.

we broke the record highs for today ahahahaha 🫠