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    Sasha: It's fine.
    Marta: It is NOT fine! He flipped off the waiter and told him he ordered "food that doesn't taste like shit"
    Sasha: How much alcohol did he have again?
    Marta: He had two drinks but that's not the point

    Mother in law disagreements.

    Advice for getting into the fandom side of Twitter?

    in General

    Posted · Edited by Dragoncat

    8 hours ago, kradeelav said:

    I just spent a recent night talking somebody off the ledge of probable self harm because they got "cancelled" by creative twitter over something incredibly stupidly minor.

    So, yeah, twitter is toxic, and the creative side is even more toxic if possible.  And not in the snowflake way, either - we're talking constant death threats, harassment mobs, and similar; wrote a whole resource page on it. Would echo the above posters in saying 'don't'.

    That being said ... I know that's what you're not wanting to hear. Some tools in your toolbox:

    • fuck hashtags, fuck trying to "fit" yourself to what the audience wants to see.  Sure the dopamine rush is nice, but it's never worth waking up five years down the road and realizing you sold your soul for something as insignificant and ephemeral as "likes" and attention that doesn't last more than two seconds. 
    • Make your own website (not on social media) as a "base", neocities has some free options. The algorithm can never censor you there, and it's a personal gallery of your creations that you can be proud of, always.  (These days i spend 90% of my time on my site vs 10% on social media.)
    • Make shit for yourself, not for others.
    • Newsgrounds and mastodon may be slightly 'chiller' socmed sites for sprites n stuff than twitter.

    Thank you Krad. I had no idea the toxicness was this bad...it's really really sad. But your link describes kink artists, which I am not, although I have dabbled in smut fic, but very vanilla stuff.

    I have dabbled in making my own site for stuff like this before. How would you recommend finding zines though? A lot of them are on twitter, if not all.

    Dan's sprites (feedback appreciated)

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    In FE battle sprites, males have thicker limbs. A good example is on the archer. Look at Wil, then look at Rebecca. Rebecca is wearing a skirt and she has thinner arms and legs. With this pose though, it's gonna be hard to do on the legs at least, but try making the arms thicker and broadening the shoulders.

    Advice for getting into the fandom side of Twitter?

    in General

    Posted · Edited by Dragoncat

    Just what it says. I want to start posting my fanfics and sprites on Twitter and broadening my audience. A lot of fun stuff happens there from what I've seen and I realized if I want to join in and hear of the new projects as they come, I'll need more than Discord and Reddit. Now I have heard horror stories about Twitter and Nintendo fandoms. People getting really nasty over drama...but I mainly want to get into the creative crowd which is generally more chill.

    I have already linked my Twitter to my Reddit. I plan on completing my Twitter profile and posting stuff with appropriate hashtags, does anyone recommend anything extra? I will also be following topics and others in the creative crowd. But I wonder if there's anything besides the obvious to avoid and anything besides the obvious I should do.

    Please do not just tell me not to without a good reason or an alternative place to get into these zine projects.

    Why do some guys have posters of half naked women.

    in Far from the Forest...

    Posted · Edited by Dragoncat

    53 minutes ago, NinjaMonkey said:

    Have you ever considered how difficult it is to detect sarcasm through text-only means? It's not apparently obvious that he is being sarcastic. I always end my sarcastic statements with /sarcasm to show I'm being sarcastic.

     

    Oh, and I have Aspergers, so it's nice to see that the staff here are so accomodating with regards to my learning disability /sarcasm

    I have Aspergers too, I get it.

    @Interdimensional Observer I remember reading something about how the Ancient Greeks associated big penises with brutish ugly criminals, so their statues had small ones to say "Hey, this is a good citizen and a good man!"

    Also, in the bottom right corner of the image you posted, there is a man with a snake coiled around him biting his package. That man has the face of one of the pope's advisors who barged in while Michelangelo was painting and yelled at him about the nudies. So he painted him in hell with a snake biting his balls. Of course the pope heard of this, and he just said "as Pope, my domain is Heaven and Earth, but I have no authority in Hell. Sorry about that."

    Michelangelo hated his job and it was glorious. 

    Why do some guys have posters of half naked women.

    in Far from the Forest...

    Posted · Edited by Dragoncat

    6 minutes ago, Integrity said:

    so you put this kind of jokingly, but this is part of the motivation for a lot of guys. similar to how some dudes watched dragon ball and got fit because goku inspired them, some guys put up pictures like that and go 'can't get that, wanna be able to get that, gonna can get that' and pump harder with a goal in mind. there's maybe a much deeper conversation to be had about women as prizes and all that, but it is what it is in this case.

     

    otherwise, 'inspiration' is the general name of the game. look at pinups in the wars, particularly on fighters - a reminder of what the boys were fighting for, and that generalizes to why some dudes use them as inspiration to exercise. hell, most of the reason i'm motivated to get back to exercising is for my wife. oughta put up a poster of her.

     

    obviously this isn't a catch-all. there's guys who do it out of a sense of fragile masculinity, for sure, and then there's guys who just do it because they like looking at boobies.on the same token, why did i have a poster of arnold in my bedroom for years?

     

    I was actually completely serious. While a naked girl would motivate them because they want that, Goku would motivate them as like a rival.

    Nature is a tenacious beast and I find this sort of thing interesting.

    Maybe I should use pictures of naked dudes to motivate me to get fit...but I'm not sure if it would work as well for the female brain.

    Why do some guys have posters of half naked women.

    in Far from the Forest...

    Posted · Edited by Dragoncat

    Good question. I mean they're not rubbing one out to those posters, they're just there.

    As a straight woman, I only like looking at naked guys when I'm in that mood, I don't want posters of them.

    Then again, a lot of classical art has nudity in it and idk what's up with that either.

    Oh, maybe since he's doing a workout, the naked girl is triggering something in his subconscious? Nature is acting up and in his subconscious, he's a primitive ape/neanderthal/caveman and he has to impress that girl/show her how strong he is? That's my best guess. It's actually a neat strategy!

    Expanding Sticker Rewards to More Things

    in Far from the Forest...

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    37 minutes ago, SoulWeaver said:

    Frankly, I find I hate the 'I voted' sticker because it reminds me every year of how unworthy I was to vote. I know next to nothing about the individuals on the ballot nine times of ten, I simply go with whoever my mother says to, as I know she does in fact do her research each year, usually with my brother alongside as he also tends to pay more attention than I do. I firmly believe people who cannot spare the time to do the research necessary to know for themselves should by all means not be allowed to vote, myself included, and thus the sticker ultimately remains more a source of shame for me, one that is generally found in the trash long before the end of the month.

    I completely understand this, it's really hard to do research on it anyway! You'll find more attacks and strawman arguments from both sides than anything else and talking about politics is just stressful.

    I kinda know who I'm going with, but I'm gonna run through I side with anyway. It's very helpful, just put in your views and it will show you who you side with.

     

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    "Lightning brings the cactus pain, now it all begins again" Thunder on the big cactus.
    "Crumbled inn few reminice, its faulty beams will not be missed" Gravity on the collapsed tent. This is the least obvious one.
    "Lonely mushroom bursts into flame, in the land that quicksands claim" Fire on the mushroom shaped rock.
    "Three rocks await the winter's kiss, one by one they find their bliss" Blizzard on the group of three rocks, biggest to smallest.
    "In the end shall bloom a flower, sacred light reveals its power" Holy on the white flower, it turns into the hotspot where the fifth element is obtained.

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