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@elfi@pixie.town
- Pronouns
- she/her, fae/faer
- Location
- Canada
I'm Elfi! I'm a fair folk, magical moth, greyace girl, greenhorn gamedev, in my thirties and 
, and ADHD+ASD+EDS. Disclosure: white
💕 Aine @SophicLeech
💕 Agi @AgiDine
💕 Jenny @Esme
💕 Cherry @deejvalen
Icon by @Zwiebelprinz, header from Liar Princess and the Blind Prince by NIS
Joined Feb 2020
New users, to .art and to Mastodon and the greater extended Fediverse - I have a bunch of pinned toots at the top of my feed full of useful information and links to guides, helpful toot threads, etc.
I encourage you to take a little time to poke through the info there - it'll go a long way to helping you feel settled in your new home. 
EDIT: NO MORE SUBMISSIONS.
This was too ambitious of a level of detail for free artwork, and as such only were able to do a limited amount. I'm so sorry ;_;. I still love doing free art but I should always keep scope in mind with limits.
I wanted to do a batch of free art of characters! Don't have to follow or that crap, I just want to build out this style format, and the best way to do that is with characters I haven't created.
If you left Twitter way before Elon Musk was even rumored to buy it because of how it was run under Jack Dorsey, it sure sucks to see people mentally rewriting history to say Twitter only got bad after Musk and Dorsey's new platform is going to be paradise
A recent update to the 'official' apps means that new Masto users are directed to the 'official' mastodon.social instance by default.
It's a huge general instance, and while that may be fine for some, if you're looking for a stronger sense of community or want to find your own people (and especially if you want *really* good and active moderation), have a look at the smaller instances:
They still connect to the fediverse, and they're much nicer spaces to hang out in!
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.
Tree and bush, each done with mostly one brush 🌳 #PixelArt
@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
TFW you use a random online TTS service and it reads "$0" as "bin bash" 😬
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. 
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.
1. The abuser denies the abuse ever took place
a. "It's unfortunate mastodon.art decided to defederate on lies"
2. When confronted with evidence, the abuser then attacks the person that was abused
a. "M.art has a beef witih Eugen, the creator of mastodon and that beef extends to everyone who doesn't join the m.art "clique""
b. "Their style of moderation is control"
c. "People on .art have 0 agency and it creates an environment of fear"
d. Entire post
3. The abuser claims that they are actually the victim in the situation
a. "They turned my enthusiasm against me. They turned me talking about providing agency to users against me. Worst of all, they didn't reach out to me at all."
b. "We have never received a moderation report from .art or any of their affiliated sites (rage. Love) that wasn't a report of them personally attacking something i said to troll me"
c. "I've been minding my own business. It was .art that made a blog and broke the connections of consenting folks for no reasons other than personal attacks against me based on heresy"
d. "i responded to a blog that inspired people to cause violence"
& there's so much more. All the while .art's admin has only posted to counter his claims, and posted an AMA about their silenced/defederated domains for anyone concerned due to what Byron was saying.
DARVO is dangerous, so I hope this helps someone identify it in their own life. Stay safe out there.
The more people we can get using adblockers, the better the internet will be for everyone.
Do your part: help get adblockers installed today.
It's 4 AM here and sleep has still failed to find me, AMA
[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.
- Pronouns
- she/her, fae/faer
- Location
- Canada
I'm Elfi! I'm a fair folk, magical moth, greyace girl, greenhorn gamedev, in my thirties and , and ADHD+ASD+EDS. Disclosure: white
💕 Aine @SophicLeech
💕 Agi @AgiDine
💕 Jenny @Esme
💕 Cherry @deejvalen
Icon by @Zwiebelprinz, header from Liar Princess and the Blind Prince by NIS
Joined Feb 2020
