Hamtaro: Ham-Ham Heartbreak and…Conquest (1983)

i dont even want to think about what that would look like 😂

i don’t actually have any friends right now so thats why i say that. :)

thankyou! i very much consider myself more of a stippler than a hatcher but have been trying to improve on the latter and this challenge is a nice way for me to try it more. i finished this and went “well i like it but also i should have done a whole bunch of things differently”. but that is just the way of things isnt it :)

thankyou! i admire woodcuts very much so this is a very big compliment for me!

yes, ideally i would love for many local city councils to set up their own instances that local orgs, council services, businesses, and individuals can have relatively stable accounts on without having to worry about inter-instance fedi lore or trying to work out hosting for themselves when they aren’t confident in technical matters. but unfortunately that’s quite pie-in-the-sky dreaming right now!

i’m a non-technical user and it is a pretty awkward position to be in tbh. i have been floating around various fediverse platforms for quite some years now and it is just very isolating. i can do all the right things in terms of curation and maybe find a tiny handful of cool people but i am still missing out on things like information about local community events, because a huge proportion of those pretty much only get posted on instagram.

so for me it is not even about friends being on there or needing to yap at brands but like…when is the popup art market on, oh there is a call for volunteers for beach cleanup, there is a blood drive on, the tattoo shop i like has a flash day coming up. and before someone yells at me: i dont currently have an instagram account and havent for a while now. but like…i do miss having access to that sort of information because it would get me out of the apartment and involved in local community events. and now i never know what is going on in my city and don’t go out as much. :/

so yay for not using evil meta bullshit that is increasingly janky and many kinds of fucked up. but like. if i had friends over on insta as well, it would make switching to a fedi platform a very hard sell: “come to this place where your friends are not, and probably no local information is available, and people will be continually pissy at you for not caring enough about technical things, and almost nobody wants to hear about the things you are interested in, and people dont want you there anyway because the low userbase is considered a feature not a bug”. ya know? it is just a non-starter.

there are good things about fedi platforms too, but some of those good things are things normal people will simply not understand or care about no matter how frustrated it makes technical users. i wouldnt tell a friend to come here, i would simply tell them to use what they are using less often. and i am sure there will be people in this very thread thinking “good, we dont want idiots like you here”, and that is indeed another part of why it is isolating for me to be here. :)

thankyou! it was a bit of an experiment but i like how it turned out too :)

ahhh he is so cute 😭

thankyou, it was out of my comfort zone on many fronts so im happy someone likes it!

• Casket Cassette - Reducer
• Skeleton Mage - The Halls of Ever Summer
• Stillborn Heir - Sinister Masquerade
• plus a bunch of Prehistoric War Cult for good measure

• Fake Dust - Decrepitizing Din Of The Cerebral Psyopticon
• Pilori - Sans Adieu
• DJ John - DJ John’s 1st Mixtape
• somaFM’s Vaporwaves station

awesome to hear! it’s a very handy resource for sure :)

maybe take a gander through the list Blaze made of active communities which are not politics, news, memes or tech, there’s definitely more than that around but it is a good starting point

finally got around to watching Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) and it was very good, about as subtle as a brick to the face but i think it kind of needed to be.

just got a budget handheld console and the first thing i have been playing is GameBoy Color game Hamtaro: Ham-Hams Unite! it is a simple collecting game with some puzzles, and very cute (i am terrible at the bowling & soccer mini-games though)

• the new Takkak Takkak album, Abu
• Eddie Dark
• more Trevor Something than is probably healthy

iirc in swedish it means both that and married lol

cheers, i joined the community! occasionally i will post on !artshare@lemmy.world or !shitty_art_share@piefed.social but it’s always good to have some other places to see others’ work & post too. i feel like a lot of what i do doesn’t really fit many places so weird probably works for me as an umbrella.

and good on your son for sticking with drawing, i think it takes a strong will to push through the initial awkward period & the frustrations it can bring, but it is so rewarding once things start coming out closer to how you wanted them.

ahh thanks! i have been drawing for a little over 2 years now, so i still have a lot to learn, but i am enjoying the journey very much!

thank you! it’s still a good while away from done and i am perpetually haphazard in my process but here is where i am at with it currently: