Hey! I'm Spooky (or Nellie, whichever works!), and I like to draw assorted things that pertain to my interests. I'm currently working on a webcomic called Kilroy, about a thief and a cursed mirror! Also my art tag is #art stuff. :B
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Sorry I'm thinking about old webbed sites again, but I was just havin a conversation on Bluesky about how the way social media is set up to force artists to churn shit out so fast just to be seen that we don't even slow down enough to really look at what other people are making, and just...
I think the way deviantART was set up was way healthier. By DESIGN. What do I mean by this? Well, think about how things are now. Every major social media has a dashboard people scroll that is endless. That is the main way you encounter art, supposedly by people you follow. It depends honestly. On instagram that's a fuckin' rarity, but I digress.
You have a dashboard, and let's say you only have a little bit of time to look through it. When the time's up, you close the app or tab or what have you, and everything that you didn't see in your scroll now might as well be gone forever. You probably won't ever see it, unless the poster reblogs/reposts/bumps it in some way, during a different time of day when you're more likely to catch it. Algorithms that force constant posting for a boost are bad enough, but so is the fact that everything is missable.
Now take ol' deviantART. It's flooded with AI bullshit now, but BEFORE then, in the ancient times, it was a collection of galleries and real peoples' artwork with a functioning search. Let's say you find some artists you like, and follow them.
Instead of a dashboard to scroll, you could go into your watch list and BAM. There it was, a collection of EVERYTHING the artists you followed had posted since the last time you checked. All there for you to look at at your own leisure. The artist could post at whatever fuckin time they wanted, and they'd only have to post ONCE, and you could still have a chance to see it without having to go to their individual page.
If you wanted to find new artists, no problem! There was the front page with featured works, or recent works- there were sections people could post to based on type of art (traditional, digital, etc.) and if you liked any kind of fandom, you could search AND sort those searches by popular/recent! It required a little bit of agency to go look for other people in your niche, but it wasn't difficult by any means. And some of my best and longest lasting friendships were started on dA by me finding fanart I liked and commenting on it! Or by participating in community-ran events like OC tournaments!
Like, I know instant gratification is a tough thing to beat, but I think if we found some way to just slow back down a little, maybe communities could be a thing again... I dunno. Or maybe I'm just an old kook. Or maybe both! Who knows?
But yeah somethin' somethin' gallery sites are way healthier than twitter for artists.
#deviantART#gallery sites#yeah i know old man Spooky's back on their 'I miss old dA' bullshit#but legit I think the treadmill mindset is a huge factor in what killed our communities#that and the fandoms all moving to little isolated discord servers that can't be found by new people joining the fandom#every time I get into something new it's like showing up to a ghost town#since search is nigh unusable on most social medias now#sigh...
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I had no idea just how many YEARS of mail I've stuffed into random corners or piled on random surfaces until I had to go through it all in one day and it took literally the entire day, from like an hour after I woke up to midnight... .w. #movingforcingmetodealwith #myexecutivedysfunction
#life update#if you wanna know how many years of mail- earliest date I saw on one was 2021#so yeah there was a LOT and it was so dustyyyy xnx#*sad pathetic little sneeze*#the grand majority of it was junk
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Tumblr is good for creative types because the tag system lets you be truly deranged about how much you like it without feeling as Exposed as a Comment Section
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i love the shadowguys they're so cute
#deltarune#deltarune chapter 3#shadowguy#i love them so much#they're so bnuuy or kittycat#very saxophone noise...
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... *looks at Art Fight team reveals and grits teeth*
I can't. I really gotta be kinder to myself this year. ;w; Gotta stop biting off more than I can chew;;;
*lays face-down on the ground*
#i pushed myself further than I probably should've last year and still only managed to get a few revenges out before time was up @H@#I guess if i want peeps to draw my characters outside of art fight I'mma have to make some damn good compelling stories with 'em!#or do it the ol fashioned way- obtaining some dollars with which to commission someone.... which may take a while <XD ; but SOMEDAY...#like I love doing revenges because it encourages me to go out of my comfort zone a bit and draw other characters than usual#but also I'd be lying if I didn't acknowledge how awesome it is to see your ocs drawn by literally anyone besides yourself#even if it's only a one-off or if it's transactional#still feels kinda magic in a way like 'omg you're a real boi now'#if that makes sense??#it can be a real mood lifter#but yeah incredibly stressed out rn and idk if I can handle any more
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Time for a new Jelly, new good vibes! Good luck everyone, it’s gunna be good soon
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Working on OC bio stuff and writing short stories with them (for morale)
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Someone: If you could have any one super power what w-
Trans and nb people:

#yea...#also it's literally the best superpower#like if you want any other superpower you could just change yourself to be able to do it#ultimate cheese right there
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Just recently rewatched Runaway Brain for the first time in years and absolutely love this line from Minnie
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#laugh rule#lisa frank#break stuff#this is one of my fave uses of this song#next to the Hoodwinked AMV of course
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Heck yea goin' thru old art supplies and I found my mickey mouse hole puncher!!
#mickey mouse#disney#i'm surprised at how well it still works- i've had this thing since I was like 5!
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‘pierrot and the cat’ - théophile steinlen (1889)
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there's just something so funny to me about shitty harvests
#somewhere in the tiny great-mouse-detective-esque mouse society that lives alongside our own#some mouse is going “Who stole all the lemons from my tree??”
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HAMMAR WHIP
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been sitting on this one for a WHILE
#some slimy ghoulish bigoted fucks voted to make it legal to try and kill trans teens today by allowing red states to ban their healthcare#so I'll say this right now:#live.#hang in there kiddos#as long as there's breath in our lungs we'll keep fighting for you#this is far from over.
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