- she/they
when 1 world ends, the next one comes alive
By the end of this year, I'm dropping all of my social media (except Youtube). I'm just really sick and tired of the bullshit that comes with social media; the trolls and bots, the disgusting and annoying behaviors of shitty people, the constant censorship and disappointment. I'm ready to leave it all behind. So far, I've left Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr, and I'm gearing up to leave Bluesky and Discord as well. I just want to enjoy other peoples' art, photographs and opinions, have a robust tagging system that everyone can use to provide a comfortable and regulated experience while avoiding content they don't want to see, and be able to effectively block and/or mute other people. I don't want to live in fear of everyone else on the internet or be paranoid all the time. At this point, I only trust sites that are made for artists, by artists. I don't trust social media to protect us or treat us well.
I do feel a little bad about this for a multitude of reasons, but social media has ultimately done more harm than good for me and humanity in general, and I've finally come to the the decision that it would be better for me to step away.
Here are some really cool artists that I like who unfortunately aren't on Sheezy at the moment, but you should still check out elsewhere if you can! I wanted to make this journal so I wouldn't forget about them even if I can't regularly follow them.
Aaron Reynolds
Ande Wittenmeier
AJMarekArt
Alex Tomlinson
Celesse
Crisppyboat
Dominique Ramsey
Faeling Magic
Fox Popvli
graskip
Mahoukarp
marlee_d
MothSprout
mysillycomics
OrlandoFox
purr.in.ink
Smeesh
spicymochi
StrawbunnyCake
Taran Fiddler
Temiree
The Etherington Brothers
For the past few weeks, I've been having a lot of trouble with the worldbuilding for my main project, Culture Shock. I won't bore you with all of the details, but one of this show's goals is to expose people to different cultures and societies.
The thing I've been having trouble with is determining what kind of world the characters will live in. I want the characters to live in a better and slightly more romanticized version of our world. I don't want it to just be a 1:1 recreation of our world. That would be boring. However, I want to retain as many things from our world as possible, and creating something entirely different would probably make it harder to achieve the aforementioned goal. So far, I've come up with two ideas:
- The one I'm currently sticking with: have human history take place in prehistory, but carried out by the dinosaurs instead (kinda like the Dinosaurs TV shows), and have modern societies use the dinosaurs' history as a guideline for what they should and should not do.
- The one I'm thinking about going with: make up a different world for them to live in, but with many aspects of their cultures and societies based off of ours.
I could really use some help with this, because this has been driving me crazy for the past few weeks.