#maybe they want to monetize it

[lemongogo]

can i ask.how u guys practice ur creativity <3 how u practice ur imagination or like.. how u experiment with ur art, how u come to ideas and how u develop them.<3 pretty please <3

#smthing i have always struggled w.is feeling like i can only draw things that r handed 2 me. #as in.an idea or concept that already exists #chara or conflict that already exists.Scene that alr exists. #and i think it can be soo limiting bc when i have that sort of creative desire but nothing 2 reflect off of it #i feel like im unable to do anything/get anywhere bc im unable to do that mental legwork myself ykwim #like comic artists r SOOO JAW DROP INSPIRING TO MEE bc not only are u envisioning ur own sequences/situations #but u are able to imagine even the most MUNDANE interactions within those scenarios u know #like the transitory panels and the quiet moments and the every day stillness #and i feel like.its not even a poor attempt on my behalf its like.i cant Even attempt it.like my brain is soo empty #and soo static and noiseless that i am like gauhh...... #i can practice lines all day long and practice colors and practice anatomy or Whatever bc its something concrete #and its in front of me and i can pry apart the physical technicalities until i understand it better #but my MIND???ABSTRACTION>? THOUGHTS .ough its so hard #and i really want to push past that but i dont know how and its so .. demoralizing to think that ill get there One Day but i feel #one million and two days away.and not making active process towards it. #i know the first step is to build ur visual library and i feel liek. idk i FEEL LIKEEE theres more 2 it that im missing #but also im depressed as hell n my job is killing my creative drive and the seasonal stuff isnt helping #so maybe i just need 2 give it time (true) but i also like.man i dont know. i want 2 do something w my hands #but everything ive been doing so far has felt soo .hard and fruitless and i definitely dont want 2 turn art into such a stressful thing #fruitless as in like.i dont get any personal satisfaction w it.idgaf abt monetization or algorithms or any of tht #but smtimes thats just what happens and i have 2 weather through and know ill be more equipped 4 this some other time #SAWRYYY IM ALWAYS GOING ON AND ONNN im nromal im normal<3 i just rly like art and it sucks balls whn it feels out of reach #sigh cry fart scroll.(:salute:)

[solarpunkani]

Oh yeah speaking of going to chill with The Ladies, I hope to go tomorrow (and my mom wants to come too lmfao) and it will be the first Official Test of the sunflower bag of legend

First official test meaning first time I'm gonna carry it with stuff in it outside of the house.

All I really plan to put in there is some balls of yarn, some hooks, maybe some scissors, and my little flat tray of safety pins and yarn needles, so nothing too too heavy (well except for my 1 pound yarn balls but yknow) but I'm still both excited and nervous. If I really wanna test it out, I might put my ipad in there for good measure.

I'll report back with my results.

#listen I KNOW I should probably make a liner #but full honesty. I don't know how. and I'm too nervous to fuck up the bag somehow trying to do it #it might be more of a decorative outing backpack purse kinda deal #something to wear to craft meet ups or maybe to hold my stuff when I go to garden sales/festivals who knows #honestly like while im not planning to monetize this hobby by selling sunflower bags. if i really wanted to. like. #garden sales would probably be a half decent place to find the target audience #anyways i need to go bed its 12:30 gnight

[tricksterlatte]

Anyone else think short form social media based on algorithms designed to promote topics that create more engagement instead of more joy, the idea of fast fashion but conveyed through social media, and the fact you can monetize suffering and outrage better than ever has largely resulted in the death spiral of media literacy and the mass emergence of bad faith readings?

#I may be venting a lil but god it blows my mind #fyp is a blessing and a curse because i don't think ppl were ever meant to be subjected to this many ppl at once #god i took a bird site hiatus for weeks and now BARELY check it and it already feels like a hit #oughhhhh #even fandom spaces have hugely incorporated marketing and networking into them bc of cmms and sponsorship and building portfolio #which would be fine tbh if it weren't for the way socmed is designed #now it's like you can't support too many ppl or else you're shadow banned or you have to make yourself palatable and marketable #and websites with threads in which people will only read the first post before qrting because ratios are seen as five minutes of fame #features that permit beating an algorithm are locked behind a paywall that promises you money if you go viral #and what goes viral is usually incendiary content meant for those ratios or trends. whether for or against OP #even in hobbyist spaces the climate has changed so much due to the monetization and marketing and just. ugh #not to mention side accounts dedicated to gossip in this new priv account culture like...idk #if you have to make another account so you can make fun of a friend on main with selected priv friends it just doesn't sit well with me #and not every priv account does this but enough do and it makes me tired #unsolicited hate comments are still as bad as they used to be on ff dot net except now people openly are proud of it more #why do most socmed feel like passive aggressive sticky notes on high school lockers #there is so much more I could say about everything that has left me weary about the internet but I don't know the time or place #and I don't want anyone to think this is about them because it's a general statement. though if you are doing the more inflammatory things. #maybe rethink that. it's not good for anyone else and it's not good for you either #I keep coming back online to check on ppl and see art and I *know* it's draining for my health every time #but I feel a lot better now that i use socmed less overall. and that I try to focus on what makes me happy #it just sucks seeing so many people i care about endure absolutely wild struggles bc people online do not care. #I like rambling in my tags because this is the only place I ramble except my personal journal and to my wife

[icewindandboringhorror]

I find it kind of silly that so many of those "time based life rule" sayings are like ~deep serious guidelines~ of some sort, but then there's that one other Well Known Rule that's just like "hrmm can I eat something off of the ground or not"

#the duality of human condition.. two biggest concerns in the modern era are attempts at self fulfilling productivity #and also 'if i drop my sandwich can i still eat it :(' #Also while capitalism is often linked with/the source of hyper productivity culture - note that I do not mean the images in that context #'meaningful to you' does not have to mean 'productive within a capitalist system'. The point is not 'every waking hour of every day #must be spent in the most societally productive grinding mindset hyper efficency mode possible' but more like #if you've always wanted to learn french ever since you were a kid and you think it would be fulfilling to you (just because you like it #absent of any larger purpose like using it for a job/monetizing it somehow/etc.). and you've just spent like 5 hours straight on tiktok #or something mindlessly scrolling the internet. maybe someimtes it'd help for your own personal fulfillment in the long #run to try to - the next time you have 5 spare hours - work on learning french or something that is actually significant to you #as a person and that you'll be glad you worked towards. instead of weeks and weeks passing by and feeling you have nothing to show for it #or etc. AAANYWAY. The images/rules themselves are also NOT the main point of this post. More just the juxtaposition of them together #and the fact that 3 of them are serious seeming while one is so mundane it seems silly in comparison. #BUT even though they're not the main point . I still didn't want it to come across as if I was like promoting or buying into capitalist #productivity culture propaganda or etc. I don't find productivity tips like this inherently bad as long as they're kind of divorced from #those ideas. I think it's still important in life to have goals even if those goals exist outside of the typical expected framework. #I mean that's actually part of why a culture of chronically exhausted overworked deprived people is damaging because if you #'re forced to spend 85% of your waking time working at some job that is perosnally meaningless to you that brings you nothing that #youre only doing under threat of starvation and houselesness and etc. then of course you don't have much time for hobbies or things you car #about and of course you'll feel more aimless and personally unsatisfied and like life is not fulfilling or interesting. #Productivity and efficiency is GOOD actually. as long as it's able to be directed in ways that are actually meaingful to the community or #individual and bring some sort of feeling of fulfillment or progress or accomplishment and working towards a person's personal ideas #of happiness whatever those are. rather than just working away aimlessly so some guy you don't know can buy a 20th house or etc. etc. #ANYWAY.. lol.. Me overthinking things perhaps.. probably not as likely #that people see the silly little cat images and go 'WOW EVIL you must be a capitalist grind culture lover' like its pretty clear #thats not the point... but... just in case... lol.. I loooove to over clarify things that don't actually need clarification

[funkytoesart]

.

#Not to be dramatic lmao and it's probably just burnout but i am SO tempted to quit making BTCT altogether :/ #I've been working on it for like... idk 2.5+ years now? and i'm just... t i r ed #also it's not like i'm even monetizing it atm. I'm literally just making it in my spare time (for free) and #I don't suspect it would do well if i Tried to monetize it again #and it's far Far too time consuming to continue if i choose to not monetize it #which is why lately i've been feeling like it would be better if I just.. quit making it entirely. #which would suck bc i love the story and the characters but at the same time i feel like it's just not worth continuing? #idk maybe i just have a case of burnout and imposter syndrome lol but #it feels pointless to continue? #I want an art career. And I need to earn more money. #but... i've kinda lost hope that it could be by/through making webcomics #or at least this webcomic #funky's personal tag #i say all this as if i'm not Just About to wrap up the first season production lol #i have like 1-2 more episodes left of season 1 to finsih #maybe i'll just finish making season one and Then call it quits #although season 1 ends on a cliff hanger so that would probably be pretty mean of me LOL

[forthedancingandthethriving]

Guinevere is an up and coming fisher-cat. All of them were important to the trade of Harmonia, as since their seas were particularly blessed by Caspian, they'd never run out. Fish was their specialty, and by the Muses was Guinevere going to live up to everyone's expectations.

Her father was a proud captain in Queen Alina's armada (though he had more time now, considering the Taiga Wars between Desiderio and Monaxiá were over) and her mother was one of the most famous fisher-cats there was, always bringing in large hauls.

So yeah, no pressure or anything.

"Ah!" Guinevere hisses, quickly drawing her paw from the water and shaking it. "Sea's a prickly bastard today. Zenith must've hit ya, eh?"

She sighs and leans against her boat with a loud grumble. The sea further out had been ravaged by a storm the past few days, where all the good fish was. It was far too annoying.

Her keen ears pick up the sound of someone sputtering and coughing. She quickly stands, heart racing.

Oh no, don't tell her someone went out in the storm and got washed up!

She quickly rounds to the other side of her moderately sized boat-

And stops, body going slack.

"What.. are you?" She whispers, ears pinning back.

What lays on the sand, coughing and sputtering, is not a cat. It has a snout and fur like hers, their fur chocolate. But their tail was hairless, long and thin. Small round ears were atop their head, with smaller whiskers. Their snout was more pronounced than a cats, throwing Guinevere off. All that looks vaguely familiar was the fact that.. whatever this being was, they wore something fairly similar to a painter's outfit.

They sputter again, and Guinevere panics. "Ah, Muse-damn it! You're choking!"

She rushes over and kneels down, sand clinging to her wet pants. Now so close, she saw just how small this stranger was compared to her. Almost adorable, if not for the fact they were hacking up water.

She focuses intently and starts to sing softly, feeling the magic flow through her. "Water of ocean, blessed ye be.. follow my voice, please come to me."

Water soon streams from the being's mouth, Guinevere soon had it tossed back to the ocean. Quickly, the stranger sat up, and their head hits her chin.

"Ow!"

"Gah!"

The two cry in pain and quickly separate, with Guinevere rubbing her chin and the stranger rubbing their head.

They're the one to speak first, though they have an accent so thick to Guinevere that she can hardly make out what they say other than a 'sorry! So sorry!' from what sounds like a male voice.

"It's okay!" She opens an eye to look at them. "Uh, are.. you ok?"

The stranger looks are her quizzically and looks her over, and she isn't surprised. She's never seen one of them, and they've probably never seen one of her.

He nods. "What.. you?"

She pauses to think before pointing. "Uh.. Guinevere! I'm.. a Cat."

The stranger looks down, his eyebrows furrowing as he if he was figuring it out. Then he looks back up, speaking tentatively. "Guinevere? Cate?"

"Kha-t." She speaks slowly, making sure to sound it out.

"Cat." He nods, then points to himself. "Monet. Mouse."

Guinevere thinks her brain stops as she tries to figure out what Monet just said. "M.. Mise? Mouise?" Her own accent was not helping.

"Mous." Monet says slowly, and she nods.

"Mouse." She repeats.

"Yes!" Monet nods eagerly and then frowns. "Where.. I?"

"Harmonia." Guinevere answers. She stands up and offers a paw, which Monet takes, and she's taken aback by how he reaches up just to her waist. "Ethil kingdom."

Monet seems to understand and looks around. She then hesitates before speaking.

"Come.. to my home?" She asks carefully. "Help you?"

The Mouse pauses to think before he nods.

○●○

"Thank the Muses for pa being close to that mage in Cilcia." Guinevere sighs in relief, as she clips a bracelet around her wrist, as Monet did the same.

"The Muses?" He raises a brow.

"Mhm, they're the ones we worship! We follow Caspian, Muse of water and creativity." She smiles. "It was probably thanks to him you didn't die in the ocean out there."

He seems skeptical. "Eh.. I doubt that. It was probably our ocean Artistan, Arno."

Guinevere pointedly ignores that. "Right.. well, how did you even end up here?"

"Gah.." Monet groans. "I was part of a crew that was going out to the ocean to get some new painting supplies. The clay is quite good where I'm from." He frowns. "A freak storm hit the boat out of nowhere, and the captain jumped ship."

Guinevere fur bristles. "Cowardly bastard!" She hisses. "He'd be tried and jailed for that here, the Admiral as judge!"

Monet looks surprised. "You seem to take this type of stuff seriously."

"Of course!" The she-cat nods, striding over to the brick stove. She kneels down and grabs some nearby logs stored by the wall, setting them in. She grabs a flint and strikes it several times before it lights. "The sea is Ethil's way of life! I mean, for Muses sake, it's the backbone of our industry."

He thinks, then speaks. "Do you all have magic?"

"We do." She nods as a fire ignites under the brick stove. She then stands. "Do you?"

"We express it in art."

"We express it in music."

The duo looks at each other before Guinevere rubs the back of her neck. "Can I.. get ya anything to eat?"

"Do you have an fruits?" His ears lower a bit. "Just something to tide me over."

She winces a bit and scratches her cheek. "Uhmm.. I don't, unfornately. Cats don't.. we, uh, don't really eat fruits on their own. I might have some apples..? I think?"

"That'll do." Monet nods, though he does look perplexed.

Guinevere sets a kettle of water on the before moving to search around her small, quaint cabin before she manages to get some fruit. She sets it down on a plate in front of him and smiles sheepishly. "Sorry.. it's just.. us Cats, we eat purely meat. Fruits and vegetables are usually added just for flavor."

Menot nods in understanding, and she moves to the stove, where the kettle begins to whistle. She carefully lifts it off the hot stone and pours the water into stone cups, and then she sprinkles tea leaves, which quickly soak in. She sets the kettle down on the stone counter and walks over to the table where Monet sat. The Cat set one cup down in front of him as she sat across from him.

She pointedly doesn't make eye contact. She doesn't like how something primal was telling her leap at him. "So.. how.. does taking ya to see Queen Alina sound? I'm sure she'd be willin' to help you find a way home."

He perks up at that. "Oh! That'd be wonderful!"

She smiles nervously. "Just a fair warning. She can be.. intense, ya know?"

"Ah, it'll be fine." Monet chuckles. "I'm sure I can handle meeting her."

Guinevere sweats a bit. Muses, I hope you can handle meeting my aunt.

#oc: guinevere #oc: monet #fanfiction: my writing! #!posts! #the sea being 'prickly' is due to a certain king meddling with the water around a seal to see if its helping keep it closed #Guinevere and Monet. what will they do? #(have a slow-burn friendship and maybe even romance idk) #Guinevere is Alina's niece. Her mother is Alina's sister who purposely stays out of royal life. She does have a good relationship with Alina #but they lost contact for a good few decades and their parents thought Alina was dead so the right to rule NEARLY wasnt given #until she returned of course #Alina loves her family a lot but also understands and respects their want to not be caught up in royal life

[overwatchleaguesigns]

i am once again reinstalling overwatch

#also reply to this or send me a message if you'd like to say more i genuinely want to know the state of the game #depending on how it's doing and what's available i might get the pass #low likelihood as i hate the new monetization system and i don't have a lot to spare but MAYBE

[tipytap]

love how we went “look we have these amazing devices that connect everyone to all the knowledge in the world!” and companies went “what if i took that and irreversibly damaged an entire generation’s brain chemistry”

#im looking at you tiktok #i hate it when people use the phrase societal adhd because i have adhd and its not the same #but like #i see where the sentiment comes from #everyone’s attention spans are FUCKED #not to mention whatever the hell is going on in gen alpha #literal children are being HEAVILY influenced by online spaces and its honestly really sad #ive seen 8 year olds at my work with full faces of makeup #some of these kids in laser tag are stringing together lines of obscenities that would make a sailor blush #i had to kick a kid out a little while back because he was screaming slurs at a kid who was maybe 6 years old #mind you the this kid was like 10 #its sad really #cuz then those of us with adhd too are double fucked #like i want to delete tiktok so bad but its literally like a fucking addiction #wahoo dopamine!!! #and now #even better #its getting even more heavily monetized!! #this is dystopian

[bmpmp3]

there isn't anyone doing it quite like how older voltage inc used to do it in the english speaking otome game space rn in regards to absolutely batshit pulpy story premises as an excuse to get a bunch of handsome anime boys around u. kiss of revenge is about going through like a decade of medical school purely so u can kill some guy. love letter from thief x is about a museum curator and a hoard of gentlemen thief guys. our two bedroom story has like twelve different coincidences causing you and ur fellow thirty something coworkers to live together in the same house (while ur mother seems to be living her own otome game with the guys' dads offscreen i guess??). scandal in the spotlight: some guy skipped town and now ur the writer for an idol group. we know what happens in kissed by the baddest bidder. its iconic

#sowwy im chatty rn because i need to work on an essay. and i dont want to HJKDSHJDS #i dont know about voltages more modern stuff since theyve been leaning more into the love choice shit and i dont have the time for that #mobile game monetization style. just let me buy a thing outright #also i dont know much about the usa branch either because at the time it wouldnt run on my phone orz but i hear they were batshit too <3 #but i would love to see more pulpy stuff like early and middle era voltage. maybe i should be the change i wish to see in the world #maybe I need to make weird short pulpy otome games <- says the person ignoring their homework rn

[simleez]

i can’t leave for one night that monet does insane things when i am gone 😭

#but also btw happy new year woooo 🥳🎉 #i hope everyone has a good one ^^ #another year of jake gifsets hhh djbdkd #i have wanted to post but i am still pretty sick so </3 #i don’t have the will to open ps for the life of me #but maybe soon 🙏 #all of this to say… monet you are so 😭 #tris.txt

[flebus]

boss cut my hours, like, pretty significantly going into the new year.... 🥲 seems there is nothing atm that can be done about it.

i find myself considering the commission grindset, but oh, the market... she's so saturated....... it's so thankless.....

#txt #so impossible to get anywhere with art if u havent been consistently building an online platform for years at this point i think #i mean obvs it isnt. like. impossible. #but frankly i think it requires a soft skillset that i do not possess such as consistency and attention to image #self promotion marketing etc #but i dont want to look for a new job mine is so close to home aaaaahhhh #“maybe i can make an itch.io and sell digital sketchbooks and zines” <- guy who is fully aware that it's impossible to make money that way #not that i want to monetize my art even. like. honestly i dont LOL #but its the only avenue i have outside of my day job atm 😭😭 guy who has no skills

[cosmocove]

i love making things poorly its so important for the creative spirit that you learn to love being an amateur

#bonk.txt #got possessed n started making a rambling video on a thing i like rn #n its like an hour n 25 minutes long atm n my god its been an experience doing so #i recorded talking all in like one day n pre editing it was like a total of 4(?) hours of audio (recorded two takes for both halves of it) #and im only using the second takes in it cause i was getting more comfortable speaking in them n wont get an opportunity to rerecord for #like maybe a few months? so im working with what i got i also didnt like rerecord a part when doing the second take cause i decided it #didnt fit the vibe i was going for n that part was like 35 minutes long also circling back to the one day thing i learned why u shouldn't do #that lol my voice was strained after that not like significantly n its better now but damn you should definitely not talk for like #collectively four hours in a single sitting #i dont even know if i will upload it once i finish it im mostly doing this cause i want to n im having a lot of fun with the learning proces #i wont be able to properly work on it for a while cause ive got family visiting soon n i prefer to keep my online n offline life seperate #and also keep my hobbies mostly to myself cause im frequently told i should monetize my hobbies n i have no interest in ever doing so #its just been a lot of fun to do this n embracing that i have no clue what the hell im doing n that it wont be the best but it will exist 👍

[solradguy]

I did something like 120 drawings in between September and December 2022 and I still don't think I've fully recovered from the burnout tbh lol Baby steps...

#textpost #Sometimes I wish art wasn't my only way of generating income but I REALLY do not want to monetize another of my hobbies #Maybe one day I can sell 3D prints but I don't really know how to model so I don't have anything I could sell at the moment haha #I am not ever monetizing translations unless someone pays a metric shit ton for it. That's 100% staying a hobby

[red-eft]

i kind of want to buy my own printer and produce my own prints…… only problem is printers + ink + the fancy paper i'd want to print on are expensive orz

#txt #granted i work in a store that sells everything i'd need so i could get a good discount #but even then it'd be like. probably ~$220 for everything ughhh #i might sell a few prints but definitely not enough to justify getting my own printer #though.. the nature center has a gift shop with swag from local artists so maybe i could get a deal there? idk #it's so exhausting to think of how to make money with my art. it's my soul and i'm trying to monetize it ☠️ #but i really really want to make money off my art so i don't have to put as many hours into my retail job #which in turn would free me up to make more art! wbsbsjf

[tropiyas]

sonic fans discourse when a new game comes out is unparalleled. no idea who to root for but there’s always some big reaction almost every time it’s kind of epic

#maybe the cool thing for me is how it’s always about the Idealized Romanticized concept of a Sonic Game #and it’s never about anything meta like the monetization or its popularity (over vs underhyped) or any politics about it #it’s purely like ‘‘this game is ass / this game is amazing / the fans don’t know what they want’’

[theres-whump-in-that-nebula]

Ok. I will read some Rob Roy, then go for a walk.

Also new favorite activity unlocked: Pacing laps around the clutter in a pitch-black basement while using one of those metal slinky toys that crawl/roll up and down your arms for an hour at a time.

#I’m trying to get roughly 10000 steps a day and it’s going pretty well so far #I’m about halfway to the points I need for a gift card now because I watched some ads too but uh #Yeah #Basically I’m exercising now because I’ve managed to find a way to monetize it sksnsjsjdnnd #beauty standards can go fuck themselves I’m doing this to buy a wobble stool #maybe this will improve my cardiovascular health in the process because heart conditions run on both sides #and uh yikes #don’t want that