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Sep. 15th, 2025 11:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kradeelavreally funny i use the few social media i do these days exactly how i treated various functions of deviantart
dA inbox: discord & email, check every few days
dA gallery: bsky with all notifications turned off except for replies + only-photos/artwork/media-seen (and comment on a handful of those), tumblr.
dA portfolio: fancy purdy kradeelav.com stuff ~
dA journal: this, once in a blue moon. :D
dA really was the proto-social media in so, so many ways.
dA inbox: discord & email, check every few days
dA gallery: bsky with all notifications turned off except for replies + only-photos/artwork/media-seen (and comment on a handful of those), tumblr.
dA portfolio: fancy purdy kradeelav.com stuff ~
dA journal: this, once in a blue moon. :D
dA really was the proto-social media in so, so many ways.
Just Create: Food poisoning edition
Sep. 14th, 2025 11:21 pmdianec42 posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
justcreateWhat are you working on? What have you finished? What do you need encouragement on?
Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype?
What do you just want to talk about?
What have you been watching or reading?
Chores and other not-fun things count!
Remember to encourage other commenters and we have a discord where we can do work-alongs and chat, linked in the sticky.
Are there any cool events or challenges happening that you want to hype?
What do you just want to talk about?
What have you been watching or reading?
Chores and other not-fun things count!
Remember to encourage other commenters and we have a discord where we can do work-alongs and chat, linked in the sticky.
Photos: Fairy Garden Lantern Deconstruction
Sep. 14th, 2025 10:20 pmysabetwordsmith posting in justcreateSomeone overheard that I'm working with terraria and gave me this fairy garden lantern so I could turn it into a terrarium. :D So today I deconstructed it and cleaned the container.
The lantern part has an open top with a hanging loop and a solid base. It has a hexagonal shape with a narrow top, widest part below the middle, and slightly narrower base. The panes appear to be rigid plastic. The frame seems to be metal. There's a bit of heft to the base, even when empty.
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The lantern part has an open top with a hanging loop and a solid base. It has a hexagonal shape with a narrow top, widest part below the middle, and slightly narrower base. The panes appear to be rigid plastic. The frame seems to be metal. There's a bit of heft to the base, even when empty.
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Multifandom Exchange: AspecEx - Sign-Ups are Opened! Nominations Close Soon!
Sep. 14th, 2025 06:35 pmSmall Web September Check-In 2: Halfway House/Troubleshooting!
Sep. 14th, 2025 07:34 pmenchantedsleeper posting in smallwebSomehow, we’re already (nearly) halfway through the month of September 😱 Where has the time gone?!
How is everyone doing with their small webbing so far? The theme of this check-in is troubleshooting: if there’s any part of your Small Web September project that you aren’t sure how to accomplish, or maybe something that you worked on didn’t turn out quite right, come and ask about it here!
It doesn’t have to be specific to this month, either – maybe it’s a past project that you hit a wall on, or a future project you’d like to start. If you haven’t run into any issues yourself, feel free to offer suggestions to people in the comments who have!
Here are some question prompts for this check-in:
For our previous check-in post, head on over to Small Web September Check-In 1: Links!
How is everyone doing with their small webbing so far? The theme of this check-in is troubleshooting: if there’s any part of your Small Web September project that you aren’t sure how to accomplish, or maybe something that you worked on didn’t turn out quite right, come and ask about it here!
It doesn’t have to be specific to this month, either – maybe it’s a past project that you hit a wall on, or a future project you’d like to start. If you haven’t run into any issues yourself, feel free to offer suggestions to people in the comments who have!
Here are some question prompts for this check-in:
- How is/are your Small Web September projects going? Are you working on the same things that you put down in your Goals (if you decided to set goals), or something else?
- What do you plan to focus on for the second half of September?
- What’s an element of your project that you found unexpectedly challenging? Did you manage to solve the problem, or not yet?
For our previous check-in post, head on over to Small Web September Check-In 1: Links!
some things...
Sep. 14th, 2025 06:15 ammeningiomatomorrow begins the raisune week, and i have sketched everything and am currently lining them. huzzah!
this jounral will be for complaining about computers.
( aforementioned computer complaining )
this jounral will be for complaining about computers.
( aforementioned computer complaining )
first weekend
Sep. 13th, 2025 08:09 pmfinchThere's nothing quite like reading fanfic that jumps up on your buttons and rolls around on them like my cat jumping up on my keyboard while I'm working.
Weekend one is not off to a great start, I'm gonna be honest. It's definitely now Autumn and the pressure change has my vertigo messing with me. At the moment I have tinnitus in both ears, but the right ear is the whooshing sound I usually get and my left ear is a high-pitched sound. The combination of tinnitus and audio processing disorder leads to the most ridiculous scenes in stores or restaurants or anywhere I have to talk to people because I'll be partway through an interaction and lose the ability to understand what the other person is saying.
The plan for this weekend has been cut down since bending over and other various weird movement is out, but at minimum we're planning on taking some stuff to goodwill tomorrow. This will happen. Bug went through her books some and for her that's huge. And we paid somebody with a truck to come take a few things too big for the car, so... Definitely some progress. Just not as much as I'd like.
I did also finish a fic last night but not anything I've been intending to work on, just something that took over my brain this week. Yay, that!
games games games
Sep. 12th, 2025 02:12 pmgoodbyebird+ No Man's Sky had an update adding customizable shared space ships, and now I'll have to jump back in. Anybody else here still play NMS from time to time? Farting around in a communal decorated base sounds like so much fun.
(I saw one ship shaped like Clippy lol)
+ Or if you'd rather base build and hang in a desert planet, Dune Awakening has a free demo weekend. I honestly didn't expect to like it as much as I did, but the environment is lovingly crafted, and the story surprisingly robust.
Sadly I don't have enough internet at sea to dl the update myself. I'm missing out on a stunning mural 😔
I'm on Europe Lynx / Sietch Yaracuwan, it's been fairly free from bothersome trolls. They've added a bunch more events and story characters as well, so I'm diving back in when I get home. In case somebody wants to buddy up for base building? I'll have to start almost from scratch because I suuure didn't put anything in the bank like I ought to have.
+ And Marvel Rivals is adding Angela!! I don't want to be interested in a hero shooter but HOT DAMN
(I saw one ship shaped like Clippy lol)
+ Or if you'd rather base build and hang in a desert planet, Dune Awakening has a free demo weekend. I honestly didn't expect to like it as much as I did, but the environment is lovingly crafted, and the story surprisingly robust.
Sadly I don't have enough internet at sea to dl the update myself. I'm missing out on a stunning mural 😔
I'm on Europe Lynx / Sietch Yaracuwan, it's been fairly free from bothersome trolls. They've added a bunch more events and story characters as well, so I'm diving back in when I get home. In case somebody wants to buddy up for base building? I'll have to start almost from scratch because I suuure didn't put anything in the bank like I ought to have.
+ And Marvel Rivals is adding Angela!! I don't want to be interested in a hero shooter but HOT DAMN
Zine Introduction (+ hello!)
Sep. 11th, 2025 07:42 amsaintofcrowns posting in makezinesCrossposting an entry from communal_creators, if that's alright. Some background: I've participated in a lot of zines of varying organization and polish, mostly fandom, and also have helped organize a zine jam every July since 2023. I am working on a TTRPG sourcebook project with friends later on next year, so I'm doing a zine for my own worldbuilding project as a warmup.
To be frank, unformatted worldbuilding is not very interesting for anyone to read. It also isn't very interesting to work on, at least for me. My ongoing project is to lay out my low-fantasy, Chinese alt history setting in the format of a museum exhibition. There be fantastical beasts and nitty-gritty cultural stuff. My setting is not associated with any particular project other than I wanted an excuse to draw lots of gryphons and research early Zhou dynasty. I like the scaffolding of metafiction and in-universe media: ie. creating subway maps and tourist brochures for a completely fictional setting. For this project, it means multimedia with writing and art in the form of artifacts, diagrams, and information plaques. Hopefully this is enough structure to keep me interested and I can (in the future) print if I want. The particular exhibit inspirations I'm drawing from are Guanghan's Sānxīnduī and Chongqing’s Three Gorges Museum.
I'm not a historian or a curator. This made me a little nervous to start this project, but fuck it. You can just do things. For the duration of the next month, I am planning to finish the art and writing for the displays on:
I'll be treating it as a zine with deliverables. Feel free to ask about it.
Resources I am using
( Layout )
( Formatting for print )
( Organization )
But really, visit the Sānxīngduī and Three Gorges museums if you ever get a chance. They are both engaging and excellent at telling a narrative. Particularly pay attention to the way halls are laid out to introduce audiences to a concept.
communal_creators, if that's alright. Some background: I've participated in a lot of zines of varying organization and polish, mostly fandom, and also have helped organize a zine jam every July since 2023. I am working on a TTRPG sourcebook project with friends later on next year, so I'm doing a zine for my own worldbuilding project as a warmup.To be frank, unformatted worldbuilding is not very interesting for anyone to read. It also isn't very interesting to work on, at least for me. My ongoing project is to lay out my low-fantasy, Chinese alt history setting in the format of a museum exhibition. There be fantastical beasts and nitty-gritty cultural stuff. My setting is not associated with any particular project other than I wanted an excuse to draw lots of gryphons and research early Zhou dynasty. I like the scaffolding of metafiction and in-universe media: ie. creating subway maps and tourist brochures for a completely fictional setting. For this project, it means multimedia with writing and art in the form of artifacts, diagrams, and information plaques. Hopefully this is enough structure to keep me interested and I can (in the future) print if I want. The particular exhibit inspirations I'm drawing from are Guanghan's Sānxīnduī and Chongqing’s Three Gorges Museum.
I'm not a historian or a curator. This made me a little nervous to start this project, but fuck it. You can just do things. For the duration of the next month, I am planning to finish the art and writing for the displays on:
- information on 3 key historical figures
- setting, including the specific archaeological site
- 4 artifacts from this specific era.
I'll be treating it as a zine with deliverables. Feel free to ask about it.
Resources I am using
( Layout )
( Formatting for print )
( Organization )
But really, visit the Sānxīngduī and Three Gorges museums if you ever get a chance. They are both engaging and excellent at telling a narrative. Particularly pay attention to the way halls are laid out to introduce audiences to a concept.