Anke @AnkeCreates@mastodon.social

Hello hello just a reminder that https://tootplanet.space IS open for registrations! We love new people and are generally a bunch of creative nerds and I'm the admin so the rules are light but there's no tolerance for assholes.

Also, it is super pretty. 😉 Click the link to check it out, even if you aren't gonna move instances.

#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.

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

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

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

btw once more for new users: CW does not hide images, it only hides text

if you want to hide an image, use "NSFW" and add relevant content warnings https://mastodon.social/media/cWAluNMRR8uga93R0hA

Some mastodon guides:

Official FAQ:
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/master/docs/Using-Mastodon/FAQ.md

Unofficial FAQ
http://mastoguide.info/

Getting started guide
https://ndarville.com/blog/2017/04/01/mastodon/

and a welcome from Eugen
https://medium.com/@Gargron/welcome-to-mastodon-111d9227e56a