Welcome to all the new folks! Mastodon is a lot like Twitter, but there are two etiquette things I'd like to remind everyone of.
1. Add alt text to your images so people know what they're looking at! Click where it says "No description added" and you can describe the image to everyone.
2. Use hashtags! You can follow a hashtag in the same way you'd follow an account, so it's great for helping people find your work. Bonus points if you CamelCase the tags.
@elfi The town of Lysandre's Rest holds a lantern festival each autumn, after the first frost, with six nights of lanterns being released amid other celebrations. They hold it in honor of how you sought out the Queen of Winter, intending to save your people from a harsh winter, and ended up marrying her after she found you full of life and fire such as she'd never known. Lysandre's Rest hasn't had a harsh winter in over three centuries, thanks to your quest. #WhisperingInfinities
From now until 8:00a Pacific, 2 July 2023, the #WhisperingInfinities return! This time, all who respond will learn of a festival or celebration held in their honor somewhere across the Infinity of Infinities!
If you like these flash pieces, you can support me making them (this is my only income!)
https://ko-fi.com/kassil
https://patreon.com/RenegadeOctopus
https://www.gofundme.com/f/housing-repair-and-function
Mastodon strikes me as more of an indie space than a place where people hire or get hired, but just for the record: Daedalic has now officially stopped internal game development. That means pretty much everyone who worked on Gollum was laid off.
In other words, if you need a designer, a programmer or an artist who already is skilled at working remotely, now is good opportunity to hire some really nice people.
EMERGENCY COMMS (Lingerie, 👀 contact in the examples)
Hello hellooo!!
Rent is here again, and since I have a lot of free time now, I'm opening emergency sketches commissions!
If you're interested, just send me a DM!!
And you'll help me a lot if you share this.
have y'all heard about artisans cooperative? they're building an alternative to etsy. I've signed up and joined their fundraiser with these greeting cards: https://ko-fi.com/s/0c89e5accd
buy some and use them to spread the word about artisans cooperative!
White supremacy, Racism, Fascism
Oh great, I found my first white LGBTQ+ person on this site who thinks BIPOC folks should set aside racism (from us white queers) in the fight against fascism. And when told she would have to stop being racist before we can have coalition with BIPOC people, she said 'I guess no coalition then'. 💀
REALLY saying the quiet part out loud there. As if fascism isn't upheld by white supremacy and racism.
info on DARVO, byron
DARVO is an acronym for Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender. It's a strategy that abusers use to avoid being held accountable and deflect negative attention onto the person attempting to hold them accountable. Wikipedia breaks it down nicely:
1. The abuser denies the abuse ever took place.
2. When confronted with evidence, the abuser then attacks the person that was abused (and/or the person's family and/or friends) for attempting to hold the abuser accountable for their actions, and finally,
3. The abuser claims that they are actually the victim in the situation, thus reversing the positions of victim and offender. It often involves not just playing the victim but also victim blaming.
[EDIT: CLOSED AT THE MOMENT!]
COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN ! PLEASE BOOST
If you'd like one, send me an e-mail over at florence.carlus@outlook.com, (preferably with "COMMISSION" as the subject of your mail)!
Boosts are very welcome
Glaze, a project to poison-pill your art against AI abuse, has released 1.0.
tweet: https://twitter.com/TheGlazeProject/status/1673694200020230146
site: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/
EDIT: obviously this is an arms race. but that aspect is very interesting too.
Regarding the position of scicomm.xyz on #Meta and in the Fediverse, #FediPact etc.
After discussion between myself and the other mods and considering the views expressed by the people on our instance we have decided that pre-emptive blocking of Meta is warranted.
There is more detail on the background and explanation of this decision in a post on our companion site, here:
https://about.scicomm.xyz/doku.php?id=blog:2023:0625_meta_on_the_fediverse_to_block_or_not_to_block
Thanks to our people for their comments and suggestions to help us reach this decision.
I'm Elfi! I'm a fair folk, magical moth, greyace girl, greenhorn gamedev, part-time dream dragon, in my thirties and , and ADHD+ASD+EDS. Disclosure: white
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💕 Jenny @Esme
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Icon by @Zwiebelprinz, header from Liar Princess and the Blind Prince by NIS