#Project sky

[the-storm-chaser]

The Storm Chaser / PROJECT Sky

(Artist)

[phoenixcatch7]

Okay so you know my sky cotl photo compilation Project Wasteland? I'm making more!! Forest is mostly done, and I've collected the photos for valley (with the help of a lovely friend)!

Here's a sneak peak, because I'm so happy with how they're turning out ;).

What do you think?

[snailtaco]

Oop

The scronkles

[dyed-indigo]

i think if shang qinghua no longer had deadlines he would just melt

[loichte]

Finished the blanket - finally

I can’t believe it's over 😅

Pattern: Starlite

[valkugo]

and i wonder: do you see her in the back of your mind in my eyes?

i see her in the back of my mind. all the time. (feels like a fever. like i'm burning alive. like a sign.)

[dreammeiser]

🌈🌧️ Through Hardships and Fair Weather, Until The End, Mae will Always Be Your Loving Friend 🌧️🌈

[leonitextposts]

[chinzhilla]

Hello, I'm North. North Natchanan. First year engineering student... I'm an easygoing person. Pretty chill. Not too serious about life. I'm joyful, cute, and easy to feed.

[avidredux]

wild goes through every sleeping position under the sun before finally passing out but he never falls asleep on his right side. he'll lay like that for a moment, but he gets bothered by the fact he can't hear his surroundings nearly as well with only his left ear out. usually ends up just sprawled out

four sleeps like a plank of wood. arms and legs straight, he's flat on his back. he might curl up for a bit before falling asleep, but ultimately cant sleep as well unless he's "planked"

sky can and will fall asleep in any position. on any surface. in SS he can fall asleep sitting on a toilet. he does not care. and despite what he says, he does in fact snore worse than any of them

twilight and wind both curl up to sleep, wind a bit looser than twi. wind shifts a lot in his sleep, rolling over or turning while still curled up. his bedhead is a nightmare. twi only moves if he's dreaming, and if he falls asleep in wolf form, his legs kick. wild witnessed this countless times during BoTW and never lets twilight forget it

time is shockingly one of the more normal sleepers. an occasional snorer but it's nothing too bad unless he falls asleep sitting up. he's had many years sleeping alongside malon for his body to get used to just plain old sleeping. he always manages to fall asleep at a slight diagonal to his bedroll. and his hands are ALWAYS folded under his head.

hyrule almost always ends up face down in his sleep. has woken up a few times with a dirt covered face after he shifted a little off his bedroll. a drooler and utterly limp in his sleep. when he sleeps outside he's quite a light sleeper, but put him in a bed and it's like trying to wake the dead. ever seen videos of a cat sleeping so hard you can lift their head and it just flops back down? that's him

warriors likes to think he's a normal sleeper but the truth is he has weird nonsensical dreams almost every night that he never remembers. which wouldn't be a problem if he wasn't a sleep talker. those who take watch beware: wars will say some strange shit and any attempt to get context is a losing battle. a few times the others have managed to hold absurd conversation with him in his sleep. is incredibly annoyed to be awoken regardless of reason, though years in the army means he's good at hiding it. sleeps in the recovery position without fail.

legend is one of the last people to fall asleep, his brain likes to go and go and go until he cannot keep his eyes open. he can and will function on very little sleep; he has an odd sleep rhythm that leads to falling asleep late and waking early. he tries very hard not to wake before or at the same time as wild. many many mornings he will open his eyes, see a barely lit sky, and do his best to pass out again (it doesn't usually work but it's the thought that counts)

[oblique-lane]

Observee

(Skyghost // Umbrella man from INTERLOPER ARG)

This is the biggest thing I am interested in at the moment. So sad that Interloper doesn't have a fandom in the conventional sense... We only have a Discord server for the investigations (a couple thousands of people who as confused at what's going on as I am) but there's... no FANDOM. You know what I mean?

There are many characters in this story who, as people (and not people?), are SO INTERESTING, yet there are barely any fanart or them. All with the biggest potential of telling the most heart-wrenching sad story that would compromise our understanding of "human-ness" as we know it... Come on, people?? I'm crying and climbing walls at the Anomidae//Eidamona parallel and the implications...

PLEASE let's make it a fandom. You, yes, you. GO watch it, all episodes, RIGHT NOW!!!

[neigepomme]

sharing these thoughts again, but caleb is 300% the type of guy to go "i'm gonna kill myself" at any minor inconvenience. however, let me add to that — i also think that one of his immediate responses to outside trouble is "damn. we should kill them"

after going through your first heartbreak in high school and telling caleb about it, he replies with "we should kill him," and it makes you laugh and agree with him jokingly (he'd do it but you need him more so that stupid boy's life has been spared). he probably blabs about how you don't need that guy's attention because none of them could treat you the way you deserve, and you're fine hanging out with him for the time being.

the misandrist thoughts from him never stop — as a matter of fact, they get stronger when you start dating. he landed the girl of his dreams, and he doesn't feel worthy, but he'd rather keel over and die before letting another guy have you.

never change, caleb!!

[valkugo]

"my partner died in this room."

(i just wanted to be yours

can i be yours? can i be yours?

just tell me i'm yours

if i'm turning in your stomach,

am i making you feel sick?)

[soapyakships]

("geez.... the two of them are only good on the outside...")

[thegalleonsnest]

OK since I haven't seen too many people talk about this since twitter news usually strikes pretty fast over here whenever e'usk does anything ever, let me give ya'll the run down on two things that will go live on NOVEMBER 15TH and why people are mass migrating to Blue Sky once more; and provide resources to help protect your art and make the transition to Blue Sky easier if you so choose:

The Block function no longer blocks people as intended. It now basically acts as a glorified Mute button. Even when you block someone, they can still see your posts, but they can't engage in them. If your account is a Public one and not a Private one, people you blocked will see your posts.

They say because people can easily "share and hide harmful or private information about those they've blocked," they changed it this way for "greater transparency." When in reality, this is an extremely dangerous change, as the whole point of blocking is to cease interaction with people entirely for a plethora of reasons, i.e. stalking, harassment, spam, endangerment, or just plainly annoying and not wanting to see said tweets/accounts. or you know, for 18+ accounts who do not want minors interacting with them or their material at all (There is speculation saying these changes are specifically for Elon himself so he can do his own kind of stalking, and honestly, with the private likes change, it lowkey checks out in my opinion)

Also, this straight up goes against and may violate Apple and Google's app store policies and also is straight up illegal in Canada and probably other countries as well.

If this ACTUALLY goes through, twitter will only be available in select countries, probably exclusively in the US, which would collapse the site with the lost of users and stock, and probably be the last push it needs to kill the site. And if not, will be a very sad and exclusive platform made for specific kinds of people who line up with musk's line of thinking.

2. New policies regarding Grok AI and basically removing the option to opt out of Grok's information gathering to improve their software.

And anything you upload/post on the site is considered "fair game" with "royalty-free licenses" and they can do whatever they please with it. Primarily using any and all posts on twitter to train their Grok AI. A few months ago, there was a setting you can opt out of so they couldn't take anything you post to "improve" Grok, but I guess because so many people were opting out, they decided to make it mandatory as part of the policy change (This is mainly speculation from what I hear).

So this is considered the final straw for a LOT of people, especially artists who have been gripping on to twitter for as long as they can, but the AI nonsense is too much for people now, including myself. Lot's of people are moving to Blue Sky for good reason, and from personal experience, it is literally 10x better than twitter ever was, even before elon took over. There is no algorithm on there, and you can save "feeds" to your timeline to have a catered timelines to hop between if your looking for something specific like furry art or game dev stuff. It's taken them a bit to get off the ground and add much needed features, but it's genuinely so much better now

RESOURCES

Project Glaze & Cara

If you're an artist who's still on twitter or trying to ride it out for as long as you can for whatever reason you have, do yourself a favor and Glaze and/or Nightshade your work. Project Glaze is a free program designed to protect your art work from getting scrapped by AI machines. Glazing basically makes it harder to adapt and copy artwork that AI programs try to scan, while Nightshade basically "poisons" works to make AI libraries much more unstable and generate images completely off the mark. (These are layman's terms I'm using here, but follow the link to get more information)

The only problem with these programs is that they can be resource intensive for computers, and not every pc can run glaze. It's basically like rendering a frame/animation, you gotta let your pc sit there to get it glazed/nightshade, and depending on the intensity and power of your pc, this may take minutes to hours depending on how much you wanna protect your work.

HOWEVER, there are two alternatives, WebGlaze and Cara

WebGlaze is an in browser version of the program, so your pc doesn't have to do the heavy lifting. You do need to have an account with Glaze and be invited to use the program (I have not done so personally so I don't know much about the process.)

Cara is an artist focused site that doubles as both a portfolio site and a general social media platform. They've partnered with Glaze and have their own browser glazing called "Cara Glaze," and highly encourage users to post their work Glazed and are extremely anti-ai. You do get limited uses per day to glaze your work, so if you plan on doing a huge backlog uploading of your art, it may take awhile if your using just Cara Glaze.

Some twitter users have suggested glazing your art, cropping it, and overlaying it with a frame telling people to follow them elsewhere like on Bluesky. Here's a template someone provided if you wanna use this one or make your own.

Blue Sky Resources and Tips

So if your a twitter user and your about to realize the hellish task of refollowing a massive chunk of people you follow, have no fear, there's an extension called Sky Follower Bridge (Firefox & Chrome links). This is a very basic extension that makes it really easy to find people on Bluesky

It sorts them out by trying to find matching usernames, usernames in descriptions, or by screen name. It's not 100% perfect, there's a couple people I already follow on Blue Sky but the extension could not find them on twitter correctly, but I still found a huge chunk of people. Also if your worried that this extension is "iffy," they do have a github open with the source publicly available and the Blue Sky Team themselves have promoted the extension in their recent posts while welcoming new users to the platform.

FEEDS and LABELS

OK SO THE COOLEST PART ABOUT BLUESKY IS THE FEEDS SYSTEM. Basically if you've made a twitter list before, it's like that, but way more customizable and caters to specific types of posts/topics. Consolidating them into a timeline/feed that exclusively filled about those particular topics, or just people in general. There's thousands to pick and choose from!

Here's a couple of mine that I have saved and ready (down below). Some feeds I have saved so I can jump to seeing what my friends and mutuals are up to, and see their posts specifically so it doesn't get lost in reposts or other accounts, and also specialized feeds for browsing artists within the furry community.

The Furry Community feeds I have here were created by people who've built an algorithm to place any #furry or #furryart or other special tags like #Furrystreamer or #furrydev. They even have one for commissions, and yes you can say commissions on a post and not have it destroyed or shadow banned. You are safe.

If you want, and I highly recommend it to get visibility and check out a neat community, follow furryli.st to get added to their list and feeds. Once your on the list, even without a hashtag, you'll still pop up in their specialized feeds as just a member of the community there. There are plenty of other feeds out there besides this one, but I feel like a lot of people could use one like this. They even got ones for OC specific too I remember seeing somewhere.

And in terms of labels, they can be either ways to help label yourself with specific things or have user created accessibility settings to help better control your experience on Blue Sky.

And my personal favorite: Ai Imagery Labeler. Removes any AI stuff or hides it to the best of it's abilities, and it does a pretty good job, I have not seen anything AI related since subscribing to it.

Finally, HASHTAGS WORK & No need to censor yourself!

This is NOT like twitter or any other big named social media site AT ALL, so you don't have to work around words to get your stuff out there and be seen. There are literally feeds built around having commissions getting and art seen! Some people worry about bots and that has been a recent issue since a lot of people are migrating to Blue Sky, but it comes with any social media territory.

ALSO COOL PART,

you can search a hashtag on someone's profile and search exclusively on that profile as well! You can even put the hashtag in bio for easy access if you have a specialize tag like here on tumblr. OR EVEN BUILD YOUR OWN ART FEED FOR YOUR STUFF SPECIFICALLY!

So yeah, there's your quick run down about twitter's current burning building, how to protect your art, and what to do when you move to Blue Sky! Have fun!

[kawaiialeisha]

🌙

HELLO!!!

It's been a while since Mori has been shown here!

I've been so tied up in exams and assessments that I've had no time to draw... so Mori is becoming my comfort character to draw from now on (again) JKLSF

ANYWAY!

I GOT TO RE-DO HIS REF SHEET! (kinda)

I'm happy with how this turned out... he's so silly and soft

AGHH and more stuff!!

I really like that deploy drawing... wonder if it references something?

You may have also noticed the human design that I love a lot... Mori as a human has vitiligo! Kind of looks like the moon pattern on his face as a puppet!

AWAHHHH AND HERE IS HIS SILLY ALIEN WIFE... STARII!

Starii belongs to @dianacoreexe!

They are so in love, your honour... but it's kinda complicated. I'm not gonna go into depth...

HERE IS HIS SILLY HALLOWEEN COSTUME... JUST FOR SILLIES!

My friend Zombie really wanted to draw him in it again so... this is kind of a redraw!

I really enjoy witch Mori. What a stupid guy /aff

RUBY (THE SILLY MOTH) BELONGS TO @eechytooru!!

I LOVE RUBY!!!!!!!!!

I WAS THINKING FOR THE SECOND IMAGE, "HmmMMM Maybe Mori (in his teens) would've gotten his clothes from Jonesy?"

BUT THEN after Eechy told me more about Ruby... IT MADE SENSE FOR HER TO BE THE ONE WHO MAKES HIS CLOTHES!!

I dunno.. but I love the thought, its so silly /pos

ANYWAY!!

IF YOU WANNA LOOK AT MORE STUFF THEN LOOK AT THE DOODLES UNDER THE CUT! (I've yapped too much)

Here's some really stupid doodles JKLDSF

He's exactly like Morty... Morti? Mory?

..hold on

whats this?