Sometime around the 2020 era, we lost the right to be mediocre at things we love.
No longer can you just bake bread...you must start a sourdough side hustle lol. Wanna stay fit and go jogging or running? Nah, you gotta optimize your biometrics for a marathon. What my point is that every hobby has been enshittified and gentrified into a brand opportunity.
This strange infatuation with optimization culture is killing the human spirit.
So this new year, starting tomorrow, one of my resolutions is to do something bad but fun. Maybe I write a terrible poem. I like to draw and paint, so perhaps I will draw a horse that looks like a table or sing off-key in the showers or in front of my loved ones. The algorithm driving the mainstream social media wants me to be a polished product, but my humanity lives in these messy, unoptimized, cringe-inducing joyful failures.
I will try to reclaim the right to be an amateur. Will you join me?
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it's my birthday today, and it would be the best birthday if you could share my art around, since my business hasn't really been boomin' lately 💙🍰
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I blame this one entirely on listening to the Witcher soundtrack tonight
Inktober day 5: deer
#inktober #inktober2025 #deer #ink #drawing
"You were supposed to be out of the marsh by sunset."
I really want to work out a better way of indicating the wake of a boat with ink, but this'll do for tonight.
#inktober #inktober2025 #ink #drawing
Decided to add a little colour splash today.
Day 2: Weave(r bird)
#inktober #inktober2025 #ink #watercolour #drawing #birds
It's October, here we go again! Also how is it October already?
Starting off with a quick one after a late toddler bedtime.
Inktober day 1: Mustache
#inktober #inktober2025 #ink #drawing #mustache
Website of comedy writer and illustrator Steve Nelson. Creator of Audible series The Temp.Steve Nelson
Drew a silly little comic based on a meme I saw the other day.
I mean, practically speaking, I'd of course choose the daily chicken attack. It'd just be annoying but I'd survive. The sword fight with the orangutan is way cooler though. 😂
#orangutans #swordfight #cartoon #comic #drawing #art #meme #fruits #lychee #rambutan #longan #mango #random #猩猩 #劍法 #畫畫 #藝術 #連環圖 #水果 #荔枝 #紅毛丹 #龍眼 #芒果
Late last year I started the 100 heads challenge. Today I picked up where I left off.
#art #mastoart #Drawing #Portrait #digitalart
New drawing using a photo from k
@killer_machine_1 as reference (thank you so much ❤)
Drawing consists only black and white lines amd shapes. No colors or even shades of gray. Somehow I like this most 🖋❤️
#manga #mangadrawing #mangaart #art #drawing #mastodonart
[time for a #reintroduction! #introductions #introduction]
I'm Flo (he/him), a #queer #author of #lgbtqia #fiction.
Primarily I write #sliceoflife, #comedy, heartwarming & lighthearted, #gay #romance in a variety of settings, such as #hopepunk, #scifi, #fantasy, #steampunk, #horror, #gothic, annnnd the list goes on~ 😅
Some more things about me:
— I'm currently pumped for #NaNoWriMo!
— I like #writing, #reading, #drawing, #art, #gaming, #movies, #books etc.
— I dabble in #learning #mandarin and #tokipona (which i don't tend to talk about here).
— I am #agender, #asexual, #aromantic, (thus #AroAce) #disabled, #ActuallyAutistic, and a #demiguy
— i have a wishlist (mostly full of very, *very* gay books): throne.me/u/drowsy/wishlist
— alt accounts at @ghost@weirder.earth & @floghost
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