Please stop calling her a cow...

An experimental portrait I was trying for @/Nexial_Machine of Apolleona, a character I have wanted to draw for a while now.

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vaximous (bsky), Schofield, DreolinTheDerg (X), AngerySkaven (X)

The fact of the matter is that I detest this sphere, and proponents who told me to go here were insufferable people. After reading one of these proponents say I'll go where likes and engagement goes, I have even less desire to be here. What a spiteful, materialist, self-conceited statement.

Ethos isn't just experiences, it's intent, spirit, culture, so on and so forth. The spirit of this site has a perennial smarminess and smug to it that I can't bypass, and its application feels suffocating and bubbled. It's Tumblr but infinitely less transformative.

It doesn't get by me when something is designed in spite, nor does that get by others who use it in spite. This is a very spiteful and tunnel-visioned website; everyone who has proclaimed it to me has a stick up their ass one way or another. Even the prick in the screenshots was backhanded about it.

I resent your reduction of me as another number-chasing artist. Absolutely insulting. I don't chase likes and I'm barely an artist.

The only reason I bother posting here at all is because the name of the game for distribution is putting things in several places for the consumer end. Even if I'm late in crossposting here and hate doing it, it's for the benefit of the people who already like what I make and don't want to use X.

No matter how much I am interacted with here, this site is NEVER going to become my "main." Art isn't about engagement to me—if it were, this place would be a total lost cause for an account small as mine. I'd have given up already. The ethos of this site is too hostile to me to promote regular use.

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"who emailed it to her?"

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NEGLECTED THIS WEBSITE AGAIN AWARD

goin' to a party where no-one's still alive

The sidearm: a summation of one's priorities and intentions, all in one compact and concise package.

"when he woke, there was no trace of the ship. only the dawn was left behind by the storm."

versions without the pesky pillarboxing or yapping

DEATH THROES

"it's an invitation to an infiltration, message received from the enemy"

handy diagram conjured by the GRAPEMONGER. remember it, IT COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE...

well, here's the full res of the card, maybe you can extrapolate a couple different reasons why nobody wants it!

LUNCH BREAK

"be glad there's one place in the world where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came!"

"highly trained professionals!"

censoring this one 'cause im not super duper sure on the law of the land here, uncensored on the big X

MISTAKES (censored)

"who really gives a damn for a flaky bandit? don't ask me to bleed about it—i need this blood to survive"