Tails is basically the reason I found out I wanted to be a fox when I was like 7, so he's had an influence on my identity for sure. Without the full body and no color to go on, he does look a lot like him.
Foxfire
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Yeah, pure art posts are against the rules, but it's often pretty easy to turn something into a joke related to the art you've made. Also it could just be emotionally relatable, which is also allowed.
Yeah I feel you on that, at least in the sense of knowing people enjoy what you create anyway. It doesn't have to do anything crazy, but knowing people want to see it from time to time is certainly a nice feeling. Art is a form of personal expression after all, and I want to share that with others freely. That is also what I look out for in others too, people who want to share their ideas and create purely because they want to. A labor of love and nothing more.
Engagement is one of those things which is a bit odd to try and capitalize on. It's less about the content itself and more about the where and when a lot of the time. You'd be surprised just how much the exact same post would change in reach just by shifting your post time by a few hours. I never found /r/furry to be a good place to post artwork when I used Reddit. Slapping a tagline and putting it onto furry_irl was significantly more effective with user interaction and turnarond. Though regardless, virtually none of those people ever interacted with my furaffinity.
At the end of the day though, being popular has little to do with hard work and improvement as an artist. It's much more about endlessly shoveling out content of any quality and constant self promotion. If you're not the kind of person who wants to turn marketing into a hobby, you and I are in the same boat. Just making things we want because we can, and sharing stuff without expecting any real engagement. I might not be popular, but at least I feel free to do as I please.
Though if decentralization were to be hidden, it'd be a good idea to cycle through lots of well established general instances for user signups under the hood. The vast majority of people are just going to choose the default options, and if it's all going to funnel into mastodon.social, that's a lot of centralization of users. Ideally no single server lords over all the others in terms of user count, because that gives them lots of power other instances may feel compelled to abide by. Having power spread out across many different people helps keep things in check, at the very least making large or drastic decisions more of a round table affair.
In regards to the prospective decision of which I am a party to, I have reached a conclusive choice between the dichotomy of 'can' and 'can not'. To whomever it may concern, the result of much mental deliberation has reached an egress, now ready to be communicated to all those interested. It shall be known from this moment forward and into the forseeable future (notwithstanding a later recanting, which would nullify this verdict) that the status of my ability is unable, ergo, 'can not'.
You're certainly not alone, I'm in the exact same boat lol.
Aww thank you for the kind words, I really appreciate it!
Thank you very much!
Two, One. Earth below us. Drifting, falling.
Sorry doc, I had to make a stop at the cemetary. Everyone's dying to get in there you know!
"I got the pipe part! Now I just need the bomb part..."
Glad my translation of the window was on point then! This was made in Krita, a FOSS art program. I actually made it under a size and color constriction to be recreated as a Mario Maker 2 comment, which I ended up doing a week later.