Anke @AnkeCreates@mastodon.social

Miss @nemo is annoyed because I won't let her mess up my hair. She has a hard life.

#TuesdayTags

I don't consistently watch any tags, but I check in the tags #art #fantasy #fantasyart and #birds ever so often. Would love to see more in #fantasyart

I should remember to use it where it applies on my toots...

#tags #hashtags

#mastotip for people posting #art #photography or other #images
You can remove the URL that gets added automatically to the text of your toot.

I'm going to try, once a week, to do a post about an artist that I particularly like. This week it's going to be Mirko Hanak, a Czech illustrator and designer who did a lot of book design. He did a lot of wet-on-wet where he dropped a blob of paint into a wet spot on the paper and let it spread out, and then added details; he also did something called "quash" where you load the brush with paint and smoosh it down on the paper to make a shape, with detail added later.

I don't paint like this at all but I love it so much. Here is a pinterest URL for more of his work:
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/valentinashutov/mirko-han%C3%A1k/?autologin=true

and a Youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI56LWbNM4c

#artinfluences
#watercolor
#artists
#animalart

#TuesdayTags! Or maybe just #tags or #hashtags but let's talk about them.
What are tags you watch? What are tags you wish were more active?
Got any topic you'd like to know tags for?

I'm looking for a particular #writing tag, namely one for stories (fiction) that are short enough to fit in a toot. None of the ones I searched - #mastofic, #tootfic - seemed to be particularly busy, but tootfic a bit moreso.

When I was little, a teacher told the class that locusts 'moved in a cloud' and 'ate anything green'. She didn't specify that they were insects that ate vegetation. For years I thought locusts were gas clouds that stripped green paint off things.

For those who dont know, the federated timeline displays all the activity from all the people on other instances who are followed by people on your instance.

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It is therefore very good practice to follow as many interesting people from other instances as possible. We are the ropes binding this distributed system together.

#faq
#metadon
#documentation

Internet, when I say "writer's guide to therapy", I don't want guides to psychology or psychiatric disorders for writers. I want something about how to write a good therapist. For a writer who has never been to a therapist.

Work with me, here.

that the mastodon federation works so well despite massive queue delays indicates it would also work well even with instances scattered about the solar system. a trial run for a future we have yet to immanentize

Oh! I can share this with you all! While on my walk, I got a chance to watch some ospreys flying around the river, and all of a sudden one stopped, like, mid-air. O_O Just treading water up there. Then it faltered...and just SPIRALED down into the river! Like, wings out, turning like a top, SPLASH! I was Super Worried for a sec, and then it came back up and was fine. Just fishing. STILL SO COOL

PSA: please please please put flashy/strobing graphics behind a CW. please also consider not using flashy userpics. they can trigger migraines and seizures, and are often just generally annoying to have in the corner of your eye. we can make masto more accessible for everyone, kay? thanks. <3

and a firefox addon to stop gifs (which does not appear to work for gifs in toots): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/toggle-animated-gifs/

#welcome new users:

Things you wanna know:

"Local timeline" means mastondon.social only
"Federated timeline" means Mastodon and any site it talks to (think wide world/public)

Android app = Tusky
IOS app = Amaroq

CW means content warning. This will hide your toot. Good for spoilers and things like that.

Rules here: https://mastodon.social/about/more

https://mastodon.social/media/WWLTLwx5dCUUB-lhMlQ