Thinking about the deviantART kerfuffle made me think that there’s really no other art website where I’ve found significant community or interaction that makes sense. ArtStation is OVERWHELMINGLY just for men making grim dark video game assets. I posted things there, but I felt like I was not supposed to. I also posted to Pixiv, but I feel both like I am not supposed to post there and like the predominantly Japanese audience does not like the style of my work. None of the anything on Twitter makes any fucking sense to me. Instagram’s box is really limiting. Toy House is nice to have to keep a little always accessible stash for my characters, but the focus there seems to be making characters just to sell them to others, which is definitely not what I’m doing.

I wish dA were still alive and functioning better, for sure. I used to have the best fucking time on there. But my account is 20 years old and it has been ages since I got real interactions from humans.

I think I’m a little bit bad at interacting with people for a variety of reasons, so maybe Tumblr is just the only one that my brain finds an acceptable pattern anymore.

I definitely need to force myself to paint things that are not just whatever thing I’m obsessed with if I want to be seen more, though. The prospect of this right now, with everything I have going on, is daunting and makes me tired to even think about. So maybe Right Now is a bad time for this, but I know I definitely should.

Are there other art-focused sites that don’t suck?