Here (lemmy), bluesky, and somewhat regrettably, discord. I’ll still lurk on big platforms for the purpose of information gathering but my accounts are mostly gone. I don’t see as much fanart as I used to, so I’m wondering if I should start checking pixiv more often again. But even that’s been enshittified with AI and other stuff (I don’t remember the details tbh), so I don’t even know at this point.

It’s weird when I go to the big platforms. There are big numbers on posts but it feels like fewer and fewer people are talking and a lot of what I do see is just people having the same conversations over and over again and like there are just fewer…people…I guess? It’s weird.

Because those are the faces of Hetalia’s Canada and America superimposed onto the actual countries…it’s just hetalia fanart lol

gonna watch some anime (partner has still not seen evangelion and I haven’t watched it in over a decade) and then heading to the local brewery!

I’m gonna go out and play Pokemon Go today! I’m hoping to get a good Stakataka, I only have one and it’s 2*. People might have gotten their raiding done yesterday though, so if I don’t get it it’s not a big deal either.

There’s at least less astroturfing and AI posing as real people, if nothing else.

I think that sometimes I get overly talkative out of anxiety. Like I’m worried that I’m not perceived well so I try to maintain control over the situation, only to find that it isn’t working and then I just kind of give up and shut down. Dunno if that’s quite what they’re getting at though.

me with visual art and drawing…i pick it up every couple of months, it looks bad, i give up, rinse, repeat. I think I’ve gotten a little bit better throughout the years at least! And I know it’s not good to hold myself to other people’s standards, and even if my art is shit it still has more value than AI slop! But I still look at it and I’m like, “this sucks lmao”, and I wish I could unlearn that.