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Does anyone else have a complicated relationship with posting/sharing art publicly online? I've been finding it very difficult to have any motivation to share art/crosspost anymore. It doesn't sit well with me.

With the way that social media sites are built, it feels more like posting my art is meant for others to "consume" it and that I am expected to always share anything I make for the entertainment of others rather than start a conversation or connect with community, because everything on social medias is so fast paced and my posts are often visually competing on the feed (if not working against an algorithm) to be seen by a person. And it's like, it's not that I don't appreciate all the likes and shares on my art, I really do and I like sharing stuff I do that I'm proud of but unfortunately it just feels so superficial after a certain point especially on Twitter/Bsky/Instagram, when anything I post racks up thousands of notes yet no one says anything about it. It's shared around the internet space but I get no gratification (And honestly I'm so glad people on Tumblr are more inclined to comment on art but I wish I could respond to tags to tell them how much I appreciate their response and have a conversation!!)

On Sheezy, I just post whenever I want and it's for organization and gallery purposes, also bc I really want to have my art posted there and honestly no where else, just like back then on dA when that was my only site to post art. And since nothing can be shared the way art is shared/RT'd/etc on social media, I did it because it was fun and more of a community thing than really wanting popularity or anything. I post art to start a conversation, to share my knowledge, and to express myself. I honestly even set a small goal for myself to comment on 3-5 pieces on Sheezy whenever I log in, and say something nice about someone's art because I know they'd appreciate something small like that on an incredibly fast-paced internet.

I get more gratification from posting my art in RP discord servers where likes/shares are not a thing, and everyone is more encouraged to comment and talk about the piece.

The art side of the public internet just makes me very sad nowadays, and it just isn't fun to post publicly most of the time anymore. I have no reason to do so either because my main job isn't art lol

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I used to wish my OCs were well known so I can be like those big artists that always get OC fanart but I've struggled a lot with sharing stuff about them for no reason other than it feeling like a chore (so grateful Art Fight exists though)

Then I got a job with disposable income and now I'm feeling the joy of commissioning artists full illustrated pieces like I'm a Renaissance aristocrat

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Today is International Geologist Day! Go tell a geologist you appreciate their work! Also, here’s a series of geology themed illustrations I made of TB and Mona that I wanna share for today.

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Part 1 to some Outbreak RP themed attacks for this year's Art Fight! Part 2

Attacks are for @we1come2parad1se, @grapplemace, @spacesquidz, @thewozzler, @sunpoppa, and @71eh!

Art Fight: https://artfight.net/~Geoledgy

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Part 2 to my Outbreak RP art fight attacks! You can see Part 1 here.

Attacks are for cwiserart, @chebits, @silverope, @penpalspencil, @whisperingrockers, and @meowrgathan!

Art Fight: https://artfight.net/~Geoledgy

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Finally made official refs for TB and Mona!

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Finally made official refs for TB and Mona!

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Made a meme about how I'm feeling right now

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check out my bowen's reaction series pride flag

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Everyone's always makin' OCs that work at NASA, where are my USGS, NPS, USFS, BLM, USFWS, and NOAA OCs at...I want to see them. (Or, this is a sign to make a new OC :-] )

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In to cars but not like the dudebro type of way but in a horsegirl type of way

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I don't care about your blorbo. turn that thing into your OC, post haste!!!

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did not have room to bring my personal laptop with me on this trip but ughhh. need to code website So Bad

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Finally got access to their webpage code files again so I made some small changes....some things I need to do is change the scrollbar on TB's page, add more music to Mona's page, fix the links to the image gallery, and also find a new header for Mona's page.

You can visit them here: TB & Mona

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It's so interesting to see me come to a full circle, because I used to spend my time making petpages for my Neopets (which are pretty much OCs)...and now I'm basically doing the same thing all over again but doing webpages for my OCs. It was always an on-going project, never something I felt like I had to "complete" and that's how I feel about my Nonco/Urush OC webpages too.

I had no idea how to code back then, so all my Neopet pages were just blank white backgrounds, really long pages, large images, and using <hr> to separate my pages. Also I just copied what other people did in their html petpages to see if I could figure it out myself.

It wasn't until a few years ago did I pick up coding again out of the blue and improved like crazy. I watched some very simple basic videos on html and css, and honestly I just started using a live code builder and it made my site coding multitudes easier.

My biggest advice to building a site is: just do it!!! Don't worry about making it unique and perfect, especially on the first try, just make a space for yourself online without social media limitations, put the info about your OCs out there if you want, already. If 9 year old me, who was bad at English, could make a webpage for OCs, so can you!

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I feel crazy because I've been into mineral collecting and going to rock shows long enough that now I can tell where a mineral has come from based on how it looks or what color it is

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A view of Spirit Lake and Mt. Rainier, 80 km to the north, from the summit of Mt. St. Helens.