Anxiety ridden artist screaming like possum

draw it bad and draw it weird and draw it catered only to yourself and draw it wobbly and draw it too small and draw it with the default brush and draw it without using references and draw it and leave it unfinished and draw it for the first time and draw it

This is what I tried to explain to US platforms like Patreon when they suspended my account for having a nude statue as the background image: I live in Europe, I can go and see a nude statue within a 5 minutes walk. Children can see them, they're not in some 18+ container. I will never understand those policies.

I recently learned that, a few years ago, the Vienna Tourism Board had such a problem with this that they opened an OnlyFans for their museums.

I hate this aspect of US culture and want to fight it viciously

Time to go back to IRC.

sighs. saves for later

The problem with this is transferring YEARS of Discord usage to these new alternatives. Until a tool is made that allows full back up if not transfer of All That, then transitioning to these alternatives isn't feasible for the baseline everyday user.

I've also been looking into Stoat. It doesn't offer as much functionality as Discord, but it's setup in a similar way and the community guidelines are pretty sensible for the time being. But they are experiencing a glut of traffic atm thanks to Discord shitting the bed and some people are having issues getting signed up. So be patient with it, it's a very small team of devs trying to get it off the ground.

We are still looking at options. I've heard just enough ill about Revolt / Stoat that I haven't wanted right away to start using it but so far of all the alternatives I've tried it's the one that offers the best chance of getting some approximation of the Discord experience back. I'm especially worried about the availability of options to interact in a *plural* fashion. Discord allowed that in a relatively facile manner thanks to its bot API hooks and the PluralKit / Tupperbox bots which made use of that capability. Will I be able to get back anything like that, jumping to XMPP or IRC or whatever else? At least I know that there's some option of that sort with Revolt / Stoat. ~Chara

good dynamic: character who’s too deeply rooted to a fault + character who’s never been able to form roots anywhere before

I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it

I always reblog this one when I see it on my dash. When someone posts their own art, writing, or music here they are really hoping you will share it.

I mean I know a certain level of projection on fictional characters and situations is inevitable and even healthy, but sometimes you got to step back into the real world to remind yourself that Character X is not your shitty parent/abusive ex/asshole boss/bully from high school, and that people who like Character X are not personally victimizing you.