#inkblot app

[shemeiart]

Inkblot Summer Art Drive!

I'm taking part in summer Inkblot membership drive as an artist! You can get some cool art from me for only one time donation of 10$ (donation or shop order) at https://ko-fi.com/inkblotapp

Support an LGBTQ+ & BIPOC lead team creating a new home for creators around the world! Donos helps our small team & dev of a platform for artists, writers, animators & more! ONE TIME Donos of 10USD (donation or shop orders) or more earn a free sketch reward from one of our 65+ Artists!! 

[zylphide]

Excited to announce that I'll be participating in the @inkblot-app Summer Sprint as one of the artists!

I had a wonderful time volunteering for the 1st Annual Membership Drive earlier this year, so of course I'm back for more :3

One time donations of $10 USD or more from now until August 30 with get you a free sketch from myself or any of the other 65+ volunteer artists!

I've been on Inkblot for 1.5 years now and I'm really appreciative of the team and their dedication towards the site. Please check them out if you're interested in building a space for artists, by artists!

[turb0fox]

I'll be participating in the Membership Drive @inkblot-app is holding as a volunteer artist! The site is wonderful and has some great features to it like a comparison slide and reblog function for easy sharing so if those few examples sound interesting I highly suggest giving it a try! I look forward to working with them during this event!

[nights-at-crystarium]

As a twitter/tumblr user since 2010-2011, I believe I have sufficient grounds to say that currently we as a community are living through the scariest, shittiest time yet. This post isn’t trying to fearmonger, no I’m not leaving tumblr until it literally keels over, but I suggest that we don’t put all our eggs in one basket.

If twitter/tumblr stay usable, great! In the worse scenario, you’d have kept posting on a new platform and stayed ahead of the curve.

This post shares my personal experience with three potential “new”* fandom places, and is aimed to help fellow content creators. I’m an artist fully depending on internet to survive, my reasoning may not apply to you if you’re a hobbyist. Do your own research, it’s always healthy. * Pillowfort and mastodon have been around for 5+ years, bluesky is ~2 years old.

Discovering new people to follow kinda sucks on all three platforms, twitter and tumblr are eons ahead, but, given the recent chaos and uncertainty, I’m willing to be patient, keep posting on those, and feel safer than I would’ve otherwise been. More baskets good, one basket bad.

All three have poor visual customization, don’t expect custom tumblr themes.

This list starts with the least popular, but most human and easy to join, and what I personally trust the most. All three allow nsfw if labeled properly.

✦ Pillowfort is a barebones tumblr. Intuitive, cozy, but currently very, very small. Be patient with its clunkiness or lack of some features, it’s made by an AO3-like team. I’d personally love if the fandom crowd managed to redirect its attention to it instead of the sus bluesky.

Joining: is free, invite-only, but the waitlist is nearly instant.

Lurk around on their official tumblr: @/pillowfort-social

✦ Mastodon, for me personally, is impossible to explain directly. I’ll use several comparisons.

- Discord but all servers can interact. You’re still on a server curated by some human(s) that might tell you what you can and can’t post, BUT, if you don’t like that server’s policy, you can move to a new one while keeping your followers. - Email, users A and B may be registered on different domains, still they can talk. It’s a weird comparison, but fediverse (please I’m not explaining THAT but it’s a good thing) in general looks like another email story: unlike big sites that come and go, it might stand the test of time. - Someone compared mastodon’s structure to xiv’s dc and servers, if you look at its domain names that way, it might be easier to understand.

Depending on user, mastodon may feel gatekeepy/snowflakey. I haven’t spent enough time on there to form a proper opinion yet, but a warning’s due.

An actually good and hopeful thing about mastodon AND tumblr: the two might start interacting in future. Ever lamented that your fav asian artists don’t use tumblr? If they use misskey, or any other place on the fediverse, it might be possible to follow them directly from tumblr in future, and vice versa.

Joining: is free, however some servers close for new members sometimes, and have human moderators reviewing your request.

✦ Bluesky is a twitter without Musk: today’s average internet user reads this, drops everything and already looks to register there. It’s still sus, but people flock to it like crazy. Most likely to become the next big fandom place in my eyes, even if I’m not happy about that.

I personally have no good feelings about bluesky. Same as twitter, which I hated even before the 2018 tumblr exodus, yet the crowd decided to make it The New Fandom Place, and, grudgingly, I had to give up and also join them in 2022. During the year I haven’t stopped despising twitter, yet, I can’t deny that it helped me survive. I estimate half of my patrons, and, hell, even tumblr audience, comes from twitter. So, if bluesky ends up being the next hot shit, I’ll have to keep up because internet pays for my living.

Joining: is free but hell, invite-only, the waitlist is a lie, your best chance to join is a direct invite.

This’s all I’ve got to say for now. If you have a correction or an addition, replies/reblogs are welcome!

Screenshots of the current interfaces under the cut, you may spy on my profiles o/

Pillowfort

Mastodon.art

Bluesky

[wolffe-makes-art]

I have Cara now btw! Just another place I post my art on lol.

Can also still be found at Bluesky (finally started posting there after forever), Inkblot, and Cohost!

[warcrimesimulator]

Toyhouse's community may be terminally stuck in 2013 era Tumblr but it still manages to be the best character/OC storage site. It allows html profile customization and doesn't look like a mobile app so that's already a massive W.

[inkblot-skyz]

Guys is it worth getting Procreate when I don't have a pen

[ruiiplume]

Link to your inkblot? Or like any other place you post your art at, even twitter?

it's all in my carrd below

[devilishdelights]

they rlly do need 2 come up with something like twitter for artists bc like. nothing else works. tumblr doesn’t and instagram just sucks ass

[shemeiart]

This year I took part in @inkblot-app Secret Santa event on their Discord! Now I can finally show this cute lil artwork I made for opressionhurts!

[funky-dealer]

so sorry chat im going thru it rn i cant scroll this app for even five minutes without it crashing on itself and even right now as im typing this its having trouble keeping up WHY are you LIKE THIS

[kagedbird]

Tumblr "Let's add various images about """"people""""" streaming and even more images that aren't basic posts because the app didn't brick hard enough without them" mobile

[ookamij64]

As someone that has used both, I second this. While Artfol has been worked on by at least one person, in my opinion it seems to be the more stable of the two. Inkblot seemed very unusable to the point where I ended up just deleting the account and leaving it there.

some art sharing sites kind of function horribly.... like artfol and inkblot are borderline not usable...

[amethystfairy1]

Hey, sorry if this is a bit to dark or perhaps even triggering for you, or too much. You're free to just delete this or keep it or whatever you want to.

I just. I had one of the worst breakdowns I've ever had. An identity crisis, I suppose, that I was a terrible person and that everyone needs to leave me or they'll get hurt and burned. That I was merely placing on a mask and I was nothing underneath. I guess this is what happens if I spiral too much into my thoughts after the sun goes down (one piece of advice is to never listen to your brain after the sun goes down. I usually listen to it, but, tonight was just rough, I guess)

It was near the apex of this breakdown that I checked my Tumblr. For a distraction, a sign, I don't know. You posted the link for "Inkblot Lovely". I decided to go check it out, stay up to date to your series and all.

Scott's entry, I don't think it was the first time I saw it, but it was similar enough to my situation that I had to switch apps to calm down for a second.

It was me, in a sense. It was Jimmy's affection and sure belief in Scott that I was drawn to. I anonymously had a bit of a breakdown in a server I have with some real life friends. A friend anonymously responded that I'm not all of the things I think I am. That I'm not secretly a terrible person that needs to be cleansed.

I don't think that if it wasn't for your fic, I would've accepted the objections to my conclusions so quickly.

I want to thank you for helping me tonight. Thank you, truly. You showed me that I can be loved.

Take breaks, drink water, and eat and sleep well.

This is not dark or triggering or anything like that to me whatsoever! I promise you that! I am so happy and honored to hear that Inkblot Lovely went up at a moment where you needed it.

I'm so happy that Jimmy's affection for Scott in this AU and in this scenario helped you find the courage to talk to some friends in that server, even anonymously. I know sometimes it feels like we're all wearing masks, because we've gotten hurt, or maybe even done some harm in the past, but that doesn't define who are now, and it doesn't make us terrible. Scott's gonna have to learn that in TTSBC, and if in some way reading about him doing that has helped you feel like you can be loved, then that is the greatest and more wonderful thing I could possible hope to hear as a writer, that my stories meant something like this to someone and helped you somehow, because they've helped me a lot this past year as I've been working on them, too.

I am taking breaks, drinking water, and all those other good things, I wish the same to you and very much all the best. All the love in the world, because all of us need to see that we deserve that. 💖

[shanicetjn]

Siobhan

🦋 Membership Drive Doodle for @gearthepunk. Thank you so much for supporting @inkblot-app!

Doodled - 30 April 2024

[inkblot-skyz]

Oh to be an echo flower in the middle of waterfall.......