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[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

If you mean a drawing tablet, I also vouch for Krita. It's free and open source, so you can use it right away however you'd like. It has all the general tools you'd expect for drawing with a tablet and plenty of resources and documentation too!

If you mean something like an android tablet, I do see a build of Krita on F-Droid (a FOSS only app store), but I haven't ever tried it. Barring that or iPad maybe ibisPaint? It's proprietary but free to access basic tools, and could get you started exploring and creating.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Looks good on pawb.social desktop! Maybe just a bug for your end?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I'm honestly not sure what answers you're expecting, given that feral is a pretty general, fuzzy descriptor for a myriad of characters of all sorts. The most general answer I could amass would be the depiction of adult, sapient characters which have body types you don't approve of (I've read your side bar), in media which people grow fond of like literally any other anthropomorphized being in history. Human beings can be attracted to anything, and this shouldn't be surprising considering you are literally in a community which is based around interest in fantasy creatures that are varying degrees of animal.

What is the appeal of being attracted to animal parts, assuming you are attracted to anthropomorphic animals of any type? If that sounds loaded, it's because I've mirrored your own question, but more broadly.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago
  • No it's a turn of phrase
  • "So I have to tilt my head when I say it?"
  • No, no, it's just an idiom.
  • "Don't call me that, I'm trying my best!"
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

The phrase "truth is stranger than fiction" is really going into overdrive for the roaring '20s. If only we got the boring '20s instead...

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Sometimes life can be most disappointing...

Route from Owosso, Shiawassee County, Michigan, 48867, United States to Kuka Uwu, Yoyo, Kukawa, Borno State, Nigeria. Open Street Map says "Couldn't find a route between those two places."

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (19 children)

What does that phrase even mean? Asking something else to make something for you is not artistic, so it can't be that. People who commission other humans to make things aren't suddenly artists. If they literally just mean consumption of images, it's not as if web searching for images has been difficult for the last couple decades at this point. If you don't care about art at all and just want content, there are lifetimes of things you could look for readily available to indulge. Just start typing and away you go! Literally the only thing that has changed is that now you are accelerating dead internet theory and removing human interaction from what you consume. Of course, if you don't care about art that is a moot point, since human self-expression and communication never meant anything to you in the first place.

At best, the phrase should be specialized, on demand consumption of niche content is more accessible, not art.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago
  • Grandma: They're sharing a bed, they're sharing a bed!
  • Me: Get out of my head, GET OUT OF MY HEAD! ඞඞඞ
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I understand what you mean, so many people love to harp on about skill, quality, and commercial viability when they talk about 'art' for some reason. Fuck that noise, art is just a genuine desire to express yourself. All I want in this world is for others to feel willing to express themselves, and share it with others—genuine human to human dialogue. No matter what you create, as long as you wanted to make it and express yourself, you are an artist. More than that, a human with experiences who wants to communicate with others, and that is wonderful no matter what.

Please keep creating! From one artist to another, making what you want to is always worth it. Putting yourself out there takes courage, self expression is vulnerable, and people will be hurtful sometimes. Try to remember you are valid, and deserve the ability to express yourself like anyone else. You are an artist! I'm not saying platitudes either, I still remember your comfy sweater post from a couple weeks ago I commented on. Anyway, thank you for creating, and please keep expressing yourself.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Those are just relatable things to a lot of people, and hardly exclusive to the 'furry' demographic. Memes are generally not the place to find profound or original ideas. The very fact that the memes are even drawn at all—instead of stacking jpgs on top of one another—is already putting your hypothetical furry memes as well above average amounts of effort.

As for you being the only one? No, I have seen lots of people be upset about memes being very sex focused in the past on Reddit. There have been meta memes about "the joke is sex," but sex interest isn't ever going to go away. If you want a certain meme to exist, you should be the change you want to see. I don't make a crap ton of posts, but I do make every single one of them myself. Maybe you won't like them if you scroll through, but ultimately I expressed myself and shared it. That's what art is all about anyway, self expression.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oops sorry, that was my bad! Thanks for the heads up, and too bad about the run. What a buzzkill that must've been.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

The answer for this setup is basically luck, but also some unlocks and strategy of course. The pillars holding this up are:

  • Pekero, a Legendary Joker which can only be acquired at random after finding a 0.3% chance The Soul card while opening a Spectral or Tarot pack in the shop. There are several, but this one is required for the effect to make a negative copy of a consumable item you hold after exiting the shop.
  • Ghost deck, required to obtain spectral cards in the shop. It is otherwise incredibly difficult to obtain spectrals as a consumable, and you need to have Pekero make negative copies of Cryptid specifically.
  • Cryptid, a spectral card which creates two duplicates of a selected card in your hand. When in a blind, this means you are temporarily increasing the cards held in hand by two as well.
  • Brainstorm, a rare joker only unlocked after discarding a Royal Flush. Brainstorm copies the ability of the leftmost joker slot, meaning if you have Pekero there before exiting the shop, you can create multiple negative copies of a consumable such as Cryptid. Blueprint is similar, but for the joker to the right of it instead.
  • Baron, a rare joker which makes Kings give 1.5x xMult while held in hand. In this case, the ideal setup is a red seal steel king, so the xMult effect triggers several times, alongside Baron being duplicated by Brainstorm.
  • Joker duplication, as you normally only get access to one at any given time. This can be achieved through the destructive spectral cards at an opportunistic time (like Ankh when you only have one joker), or getting lucky with Invisible joker, a rare joker unlocked by winning a run with only ever having four jokers at one time. After two completed blinds you can sell it for a random duplicate. You can also hold onto Showman, an uncommon joker which allows duplicates to show up in the shop. Ideally you'd duplicate both blueprint and Brainstorm, but I assume this run didn't get the chance. You'd also normally have Mime, to further retrigger held in hand effects.

After all that, you'd just keep beating blinds, accumulating Cryptids, and whenever you're ready, duplicate an unholy amount of red seal steel kings and have like 100 kings in a ridiculous hand. Play high card, and let the fun start!

 

A redraw of the original feelings of power meme by @iamnotanartist_ by me.

The moment in question: It took WAY too long to get access to a flush planet card for observatory's 1.5x effect, oh well. I got lucky enough anyway lol.

 

Draw your own while you still can, I'm sure you know where to go. Happy April Fools!

 

Truth really is stranger than fiction.

Source: Mastodon

 

A few of the recent posts I've seen here were about custom jokers, so I figured I'd share mine and ask others here. It doesn't have to be drawn out, but if you ever spent some time thinking about one, I'm interested to hear about it! Speaking of, here is what mine is about:

Ain't Goin Nowhere infodumpThis card is a homage to those people who overload their trucks in hardware stores, the ones who will tap the vehicle and say "That ain't goin nowhere!" It's a magical incantation, and something I thought would be fun to represent as an effect.

I tried to make it clear enough with the limited typing space you'd get, but that leaves out a lot of the tangential info of course. When I say Joker chips and mult can't decrease, think about the many cards which offer an unconditional trigger of these things in a given hand. When the trigger is unconditional, there tends to be an external condition which needs to be fulfilled, which can either decrease or reset (e.g. Hit The Road Jack, Ride The Bus). A joker can also be perishable and lose chips and mult over time (e.g. Popcorn, Ice Cream). Ain't Goin Nowhere would effectively prevent any of these from providing less than the maximum mult they've given since when this Joker was added to your run.

An important note though would be that these cards would still both perish and reset or decrease as normal, but would never provide that lower value, instead waiting for you to meet the conditions to increase it beyond your current maximum.

The second aspect of the Joker is that you cannot sell other jokers (as in, only this Joker can be sold while it's in play). This is functionally related to ratcheting down everything, and also a penalty to work around if you want to try and work with the potentially quite powerful effect. If you have fewer than the maximum amount of Jokers, you can buy more, but once bought, they are stuck there unless they either perish or are destroyed (e.g. Gros Michel, Ceremonial Dagger). You need to be mindful of anything you pick up, or you'll have to sell this card and change your strategy.

The best time to get this card would likely be once you have some established Jokers, and a rare conditional xMult card (e.g. Campfire) or an economy card like Bull or Bootstraps. Something that has synergy in a way where you can just massively inflate it and lock it in for the rest of the run. Verdant Leaf would destroy you though.

Credit: Typeface is m6x11plus by Daniel Linssen.

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Ears_irl (OC) (b.catgirlsare.sexy)
 

Tinnitus is like a telemarketer, it just won't stop ringing.

Source: PeerTube

 

Welcome to Furry_irl!

This post will serve as a more detailed version of the sidebar rules for the community, and also as a place for community members to leave meta comments (e.g. discussion about rules to add, things to change, etc).

Rule details

Rule details

0. Code of Conduct — Follow our instance rules.

The Pawb.social Code of Conduct and it's included CW Policy cover most of the basic stuff you'd expect regarding illegal content, bigotry, harassment, marking obvious pornographic material as NSFW and the like. Regardless, do read through it if you haven't already. In regards to the CW policy, here are some addendums for this community in particular:

Overt suicidal themes — Characters depicted as imminently or having already committed suicide must be CWd (on Lemmy this means marked as NSFW, and with text in the body such as 'suicide' such that users can filter it). More absurd Wile E. Coyote type slapstick like a falling grand piano or rocketing to the sun are fine as is, but if it features methods people typically use to actually end their lives, please be courteous.

General weed usage — CoC 5.1.4 mentions all schedule I and II drugs. I believe weed is still erroneously labeled as a schedule I substance in the US, despite having medicinal usage, and also being fully legal in many states. If your furry meme comic has a bong in frame, or your character has red eyes, I'm not coming after it if it's not CWd. This obviously doesn't extend to depictions of abuse / misuse.

1. Post formatting — All titles should be a single word, followed by _irl. An emoji may substitute the underscore.

If you're familiar with other irl communities, post formatting rules like this are likely second nature already. Pick any word (typically something vaguely related to the post) and you're golden. If you're not sure, just title it furry_irl. Capitalization doesn't matter.

2. Credit artists — If it’s not your art, include who made it in the title or the post body. Links are appreciated, except to X/Twitter.

Artists should be credited when you share their images. At a minimum, include an artist's username when rummaging about your phone to dump your furry memes. This can be in the title (e.g. Furry_irl (by UserName)), in the post body, or both. Furthermore, direct links to where the artist is are greatly appreciated in the post body, unless it is to the Nazi owned platform Twitter / X. Do not link there, or to any website which scrapes its data (e.g. xcancel).

If you're posting your own art to Furry_irl, first off, thank you! Second off, please give some form of indication it's OC in the title or post body. Anything from just saying the word, to talking about drawing it or taking the photo. You could also put a link to where to find well, you, if you'd like!

I do not expect specific artist credits for captioned images sourced from large corporations, such as big TV shows, movies, or video games. This rule is to ensure indie artists are given their dues, and can be discovered by others easier.

3. Stay on topic — Images should contain or be related to furries. Images should be relatable or a meme. This isn’t the place for general art posts.

There isn't much to expand upon here, but here are some explicit examples of furry posts to avoid for this community:

  • General art of any kind without a joke or relatable experience. If the image has no text, it likely shouldn't be here.
  • Comics spanning multiple pages/posts to tell a story. Comics posted here should be short form (e.g. 4-panel humor).
  • Character reference sheets
  • Legitimate commission or purchase ads of any kind (e.g. custom pieces, YCHs, adpots, refsheets). Jokes containing fake ads are fine of course.

4. Avoid AI images — Our fandom has countless artists, please share their (or your own) labors of love instead.

We have a vast artist pool, and that vast pool tends to absolutely hate anything to do with generative AI. Please be courteous to them and others by not posting such generations here. You should know explicitly who made the art before posting anyway, so this should be a fairly simple request.

I do not condone AI witch-hunt accusations. Don't be antagonistic in post comments. If there is definitive proof a sourced image is generated, include relevant link(s) in a report. I will not act on 'vibes'.

Past posts

Some posts made before 2025/02/18 are likely breaking some of the new community specific rules. They will be considered grandfathered.

Actions

Posts that break the rules will be removed at moderator discretion. If you do not include artist credit, I may request you add it, and give you some time to modify the post first.

If you make a habit of me removing your posts, I will remove you from being able to post.

Meta discussion

Meta discussion

Any questions, comments, critique, or suggestions regarding this community can be posted here and discussed openly.

I am trying to provide some sensible supplemental rules, and write down things people seemed to know already (such as the furry_irl post formatting style). If community members think something isn't a good fit, I want to hear about it so it can be evaluated. Overall, I feel the community has been decent about self regulating, and I'm not expecting the supplemental rules to change much, besides a request for who made some art here and there.

I am also adding some basic flair to the community (an icon and banner) so that it is no longer barren. Please consider these placeholders instead of anything I am particularly dead-set on keeping around. It's just some basic vector graphics I created in Krita. If you have ideas, or wish to submit art (it must be your own art), I highly encourage you to do so. If several people are interested, we could turn it into a community vote event, or make it some sort of collab!

Please share your voice, I want the community to have a proper say in how it looks and is run. Thank you!

PS: The post image is OC, I drew it specifically for this write-up.

 

I got an email on Tuesday from the FSF that today was I love free software day, so I decided to make some art in appreciation of a community responsible for creating and maintaining so many wonderful programs! Thank you dearly to KDE for all that you do. As an artist, I use Krita so often for all sorts of things, and I am so grateful it exists.

I could gush about a number of projects under your wing, but to keep this short, you empower people like me to have a freer digital world in so many ways. I appreciate you!

PS: I read the art guidelines, and license this as CC-BY-SA

 

I sketched this out like a week from the inaguration, but it took until today to finish it. I feel worse than when I made the sketch, but at least I got it done.

For people with filters: Politics Trump Elon

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Important (pawb.social)
 

Sometimes dumb ideas don't leave until I draw them.

 

Can you believe it guys? Christmas, just a week away! Christmas is in a week! Woo-hoo! I am so happy about this information.

 

Can you believe it guys? Christmas, just a week away! Christmas is in a week! Woo-hoo! I am so happy about this information.

 

In light of recent events, this is my new headcanon.

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