Glad I saw this post today, downloaded and love it straight away! So clean and exactly what I wanted out of a FOSS weather app.
Handmade‽ Wow, they are so cute! Are you the creator? If so, you did a lovely job bringing them to life!
Or even better, if that prevents you from falling back asleep and now you're half-awake when your alarm would actually go off. Lousy REM sleep cycles...
Engagement is one of those things which is a bit odd to try and capitalize on. It's less about the content itself and more about the where and when a lot of the time. You'd be surprised just how much the exact same post would change in reach just by shifting your post time by a few hours. I never found /r/furry to be a good place to post artwork when I used Reddit. Slapping a tagline and putting it onto furry_irl was significantly more effective with user interaction and turnarond. Though regardless, virtually none of those people ever interacted with my furaffinity.
At the end of the day though, being popular has little to do with hard work and improvement as an artist. It's much more about endlessly shoveling out content of any quality and constant self promotion. If you're not the kind of person who wants to turn marketing into a hobby, you and I are in the same boat. Just making things we want because we can, and sharing stuff without expecting any real engagement. I might not be popular, but at least I feel free to do as I please.
Drew out this pun after having it stuck in my head for a while. Made it to look like a simple Christmas card, enjoy!
cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/4618559
My plushie friend has a birthday and I am running with it, he's getting a party! Kicks and his friends are gonna have fun celebrating today, I even have a little cupcake and candle for later!
My plushie friend has a birthday and I am running with it, he's getting a party! Kicks and his friends are gonna have fun celebrating today, I even have a little cupcake and candle for later!
I made some lineless art of my plushie Kicks for his birthday today! I also learned a little more about Kicks' character and tried to incorporate some of those elements as icons for the background, such as the ladybug for enjoying nature, the bow for Sagittarius, and the shoe + handbag for elements of his buisness.
We're having a meal together! I saw Vaporeon in the corner stand of a flea market, and decided to adopt them. Now they will have a place to call home again, and hugs too!
I noticed a quite lovely funnel web yesterday morning! The maker was hiding of course, so I figured I'd lightly tap the web's edge with a piece of straw. That absolutely did the trick, and I was impressed with this little spider's speed with checking out the tiny disturbance! They explored the web for a couple minutes, and I tried to take some pictures to show off both the web and it's owner. I liked this one the most, so I'm sharing it with you all!
Welcome to Lemmy, and thank you for sharing your art with us! Have a great day!
Saw this little one when I was out at a store, looks like goldenrod soldier beetle! Their coloration really stood out amongst the gray carts, so I was quickly drawn to them, and tried taking some close-up images!
"I got the pipe part! Now I just need the bomb part..."
I took this a little while back with a macro lens I had on my old phone. I was amazed at just how close I got, there are lots of very visible features here that I'd entirely overlook seeing a grasshopper minding themselves out in the world. I'm appreciative they stood still long enough to take the picture, as you might imagine even some tiny movement would've made this a blurry mess.
When you get your duck friend, you're supposed to whisper a cool name into their ear, and they'll be yours forever. I went with the name Foucault, after the creator of the Foucault Pendulum (Léon Foucault). A simple and elegant way to not only showcase the Earth's rotation, but also your approximate latitudinal location too (because the time it takes to complete a full rotation is influenced by your distance from the poles).
Anyway, science stuff aside my duck friend is incredibly soft, and has little beans in the bottom half so they can sit upright without having to balance them! I love giving them hugs and seeing them every day when I get back from work. Being that they are a tall and thin duck, I find them pretty difficult to photograph. Hopefully this side shot of them laying in bed is enough to showcase their cuteness!
A spider I happened to notice a while back while out and about. Its markings and size caught my eye, as it was very different from the spiders I typically see around here. I doubt they are rare, but it was new to me and I wanted to get a close up picture. It might not look particularly close, but it's a phone camera with no optical zoom. I was only a couple of inches from the subject and didn't want to disturb them.
I think Lemmy is simply too small for that level of separation at the moment. Of course anyone is welcome to make a new community on this server, but I wouldn't say we are anywhere near the point of content saturation that it's necessary to split it up to prevent stuff from being drowned out. The server is fielding maybe a handful of posts a day locally across all communities, any kind of art or discussion at all will be seen and appreciated.
Yep, there it is. No steel-toe boots in an environment like this‽ Tsk tsk
Hello! If you like seeing furry related posts you'll be just fine. Heck even if not, we are connected to a wide web of servers in the Fediverse which you can participate with anyway. This server is just one small cog in a very large machine of people sharing all sorts of things with one another.
So many phones these days have terribly small batteries for what is basically a computer in your pocket. With android I have a choice at least, so I chose an absolute unit of a device with a 13,200mAh battery that lasts an entire week before I plug it in.
We will defeat our enemies with kindness, friendship, and this cool crossbow I found!
Related, there is a donation group for Mastodon for Harris. I imagine a great way to show there is interest in her making an account is to see fundraising coming from the user base. It's at ~114k at the time I wrote this: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris