Notices by Rabbit Cohen (bathyspherehat@mastodon.online)

Art is not a sport. The point is not to be impressive at something difficult. It's expression, it's a way to focus on yourself, it's a way to get feelings out, it's a way to get ideas across. There is no cheating.

There's evidence that artists have been projecting images to trace them for thousands of years. The earliest written description of the camera obscura, an early projection device, dates back to about 500 BCE. Leonardo Da Vinci and Johannes Vermeer both likely used projection as a drawing aid.

You don't have to tell anyone what your artistic process is, either, even if they pay for your art.

As long as you're not straight up plagiarising someone else's art, there is no cheating in art. You can take photographs and trace them. You can use a grid. If you're working digitally, you can colour pick from your reference if you want. It's fine.

I miss you, Sam Ehly. I will never stop loving you. You were my best friend. #TransDayofRemembrance #TDoR

@evan I KNOW
I'M JUST TRYING IT OUT AND I'LL STILL BE HERE
I just know a lot of people who are exclusively there, and I figure it can't be worse than fixating on tumblr drama.

Also, tell me your bluesky and I might follow you!

As a known hypocrite and fool, I have now made a bluesky acount. Follow me there if you want! bathyspherehat.bsky.social

@evan Sometimes, yeah. Even just going for a walk or sitting outside for a while and seeing the sky sometimes can help.

This is exactly what happened in the book 1984.

I feel so trapped.

Bottom surgery, but they replace whatever you've got with a sticky hand.

Note: I know that 30's isn't old. But like, it's old to 15 year olds.

The most cringe thing you can do in your thirties and beyond is care whether young people think you're cool.*

*In a youth culture way, not in a being a good person way.

Young people: the bad news is that in time, your fashion sense, slang, etc will become cringe. The good news is that you won't care.

@evan I can't tell if you have haters or if some people just thought "strong no" was a funny response to this.

That might seem like wild behaviour, and it is, but it's also incredibly on brand for her.

My sister is learning to read Cyrillic so she'll be better at Geoguessr.

It's not clear to me that TikTok censorship is such that you have to use terms like "unalive" for die/murder/kill/suicide/etc and "fruity" for "gay", but what's really discouraging to me is that people who believe that you do still largely refuse to leave TikTok.

@evan Yeah, some of it's just silly and odd, but then there's stuff like the fact that suicide baiting is very normalised there.