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caustic.caffeine’s art fight 2024 info

since the art prep thread is long and such. besides, there’s some things i’ll note that don’t fit there!

my art fight profile: https://artfight.net/~caustic-caffeine

my hitlist: https://forms.gle/VAoyqmHSmNdE9UDp8

plans: my biggest priority is getting onto the top three longest revenge chains this year. this person and i are shooting to reach 800 levels, minimum, which means at least 400 attacks per person. whew! that’s a lotta drawing! i’m setting a 13 drawing daily minimum for myself with some days where i’ll draw more, and probably some days where i’ll draw less. assuming vivi and i hit the 800 level mark/end up on the top 3, this’ll probably be the only year i attempt this xD i’ll die happy if we manage to get on the top 3 for sure.

i’m also hoping to hit some instagram mutuals and do some scenes, as far as art outside of the 800 level chain goes. i won’t hit the majority of the people in my hitlist; it’s there for me to find fresh ocs if i feel uninspired or bored by the ocs that i’ll be very exposed to/focused on this year

all this to say: i’ll do my best to revenge, but don’t expect it! (you will be more likely to get revenged if you attack fran, though heheh)

i’ll update this blog to reflect my status as things change. suuuper excited for this season!

What are tone tags

in short, tone tags are used to help indicate tone of any given message. this is helpful for folks like me who struggle to interpret tone! here’s an example (pay attention to the bolded tags):

“[name] is a really cool person! like, just look at them, they’re glowing. /gen”

“[name] is a really cool person! like, just look at them, they’re glowing. /s”

the “/gen” tag clarifies that this is a genuine statement, versus the “/s” tag indicating the speaker is being sarcastic. this may seem obvious to you given the context of the conversation, but to someone who can’t judge tone well, you can see how much of a difference these statements are, despite the text being the same. one is positive and supportive, the other critical.

a good thing to do to determine how often you should use tone tags is ask the person you’re talking with, especially if they’re open about being neurodivergent. different people will have different preferences! using tags like these can save you (and the person who needs them) a lot of miscommunication errors, leading to smoother conversations.

if you want more information about tone tags and how to use them, consult this website! thanks for asking :]

oops, forgot to send the refs:

and additional info:

caustic.caffeine’s art fight 2024 info

since the art prep thread is long and such. besides, there’s some things i’ll note that don’t fit there!

my art fight profile: https://artfight.net/~caustic-caffeine

my hitlist: https://forms.gle/VAoyqmHSmNdE9UDp8

plans: my biggest priority is getting onto the top three longest revenge chains this year. this person and i are shooting to reach 800 levels, minimum, which means at least 400 attacks per person. whew! that’s a lotta drawing! i’m setting a 13 drawing daily minimum for myself with some days where i’ll draw more, and probably some days where i’ll draw less. assuming vivi and i hit the 800 level mark/end up on the top 3, this’ll probably be the only year i attempt this xD i’ll die happy if we manage to get on the top 3 for sure.

i’m also hoping to hit some instagram mutuals and do some scenes, as far as art outside of the 800 level chain goes. i won’t hit the majority of the people in my hitlist; it’s there for me to find fresh ocs if i feel uninspired or bored by the ocs that i’ll be very exposed to/focused on this year

all this to say: i’ll do my best to revenge, but don’t expect it! (you will be more likely to get revenged if you attack fran, though heheh)

i’ll update this blog to reflect my status as things change. suuuper excited for this season!

badly formatted bucket list or something idk this stuff sounds neat and i wanna try:

learn the drums or relearn electric violin and perhaps find a local rock or metal band to vibe with

streaming??? art streams would be nice for body doubling reasons & pngtubing/vtubing seems intriguing

finish that one tween mv for that one song. maybe do more of those too

i. could work with my local regional center to provide free art resources, etc for other folks getting services from that org. might actually even be a decent job??? combines art and supporting other neurodivergent folks in the community

figure out long term commissions/non emergency commissions

maybe ask my brother to help me learn coding

flesh out various character and world building shit in my world building passion project (maybe even research how languages work and develop one for my own purposes

relearn russian, learn welsh, and/or learn polish

scout out that one area that i’m thinking i’d move to in the long term

maybe learn to be a tattoo artist?? also gettin tattoos and more piercings, 10/10 gender euphoria

hone my kayaking skills, maybe learn to become a whitewater kayaking instructor?

participate in the protests for palestine happening in my area

so many possibilities… idk it’s nice to set goals for the future as a wee young person who’s passionate about things

how does it feel knowing tumblr is the only (i think) safe space with no ai

i’ll be real with you: there aren’t any truly ”safe” platforms out there while good, universal regulations aren’t in place. nothing’s stopping ai bros from going to tumblr and manually grabbing images to train their algorithms on. i feel like platforms not doing the same (or at the very least, making it a permanent easy option to opt out) is bare minimum for any platform that wants to respect its users (yes, including the users who don’t post art, since on instagram for example they’re scraping ALL posts, not just art).

i’m happy that to my knowledge tumblr is still a platform that wants to respect the artist community, but either way i’d still be posting. we aren’t gonna win against ai by running away from the platforms that don’t respect us— we’ll win by staying and supporting each other, continuing to use the current ai poisoning methods, and campaigning for our rights as artists and copyright holders of our work!

one more of kai!

meme attacks (psychic damage) i dealt on my friends @void-in-the-sky and @univornz ! the first non-chain attacks of the season for me LMAOOO

[bea, harper (skye’s), kai (univorns’ sona)]

new oc reference just dropped for rubithin! uncensored moobs beneath the cut (scar ref)

they’re one of my oldest ocs that i still pay attention to, and are certainly one of the more storied ones :)

Took my tiny child with me to the Halloween store. Walked in and immediately realized it would be a terrible mistake.

They had those jumpscare machine things everywhere, lots of spooky noise machines, scary looking animatronic things, crazy decorations, just the whole 9 yards and then some. I immediately went to turn around and leave when I heard a noise coming from my arms.

My one year old child who gets scared if we cough…. was laughing.

She makes this precious “eee!” sound and starts vibrating when she sees something she really likes, usually an animal or a balloon, and she points right at the big zombie thing by the door and does that. I carry her in past a huge 10 ft tall Pennywise inflatable, and she smacks me to tell me to stop so she can look. She ponders him for a moment, and his glowing light-up eyes, then points at his hand and shouts “BEEM!” Which is her word for “balloon.” She made us stand there under Pennywise for at least 3 minutes, which is a really long time for a one-year-old.

Then, she begs to get down, so I let her loose and she just books it all over the store. Finds the creepy demonic looking babies and shouts “BABY!” then gets this confused look on her face and tries to wipe the “dirt” off their faces. Decides it’s not worth it, goes and picks up a severed hand decoration, hands it to me and says “hand.” Yes, my dear, it is a hand. And yes, that severed foot has “toes,” you’re very right.

Finds the wigs, runs down the aisle shouting “hair! hair!” and grabbing her own sparse little headfuzz so hard I think she’s going to rip it all out. Then she found the speaker in the wall that was blaring Monster Mash and she demanded I pick her up so we could “DANSSSE”. But she got distracted by the big spider decorations, which she christened as dogs by running toward them and barking.

She ran up and down the aisles of costumes touching the fabric and making her little “tss tss tss” giggle that she does when she’s having Much Too Good a Time. Every so often she’d stop, look back to make sure I was there, and point at something and vibrate with her aggressive “EEEE!”

A man turned a corner wearing one of the creepy latex masks. He immediately started apologizing to me, saying “I’m so sorry, I’m looking for my friend, I don’t want to scare her.” Meanwhile my child is standing there looking up at him with the most confused look on her face. Not scared, just confused, like he is so dumb and she can’t figure out why he would want to make that stupid face for so long. But he rounds another corner all hunched over, she flaps her arms and sighs, and takes off to go scream at the creepy lawn decorations.

When it was time to go, nothing could convince her to come to me willingly, so I had to promise her one last look at the balloon man while I picked her up against her will. Pennywise placated her, and we left the store with a smile on her chubby little cheeks. She demanded we wait and watch the big inflatable-flailing-arm-tube-man out front, the one that was bright orange and had a jack-o-lantern face, and she bounced and wiggled and danced in my arms despite its fan being louder than the loud motorcycles that scare her on our walks. She waved bye-bye to it as we left for the car.

Basically, that was the cutest thing that’s ever happened to me in my life, and it’s so crazy how so many things are culturally taught and kids are just… immune to that. All she saw was bright colors and things she recognized and could name, in a place she could explore and touch. She has no concept of clowns being scary or zombies being A Thing or what constitutes “creepy” and “spooky” and “gross.” To her, a severed arm with gore hanging out the end doesn’t represent pain or violence, it’s just “arm,” and it’s got some weird stuff on the end that’s funny colors. They’re just things, there’s no context for it.

The world is weird and beautiful and it’s so cool to see it through the eyes of someone who is so New to this planet and hasn’t been influenced by society and culture yet.

YEAHHH HAPPY ARO VISIBILITY!!!

HAPPY FIRST EVER INTERNATIONAL AROMANTIC VISIBILITY DAY

Hello everyone!

This is a server for Project Moon Artists!!

We are currently hosting a server-wide animation collaboration, “Reception”, featuring Angela.

We need more artists to backup the project or take the part (3) that was recently dropped!

Why else should you join?

📚• We will host many server wide projects and competitions

🌙• A fun, friendly community of people who share interests

🪽• An accessible server that looks good (well, soon… we will be revamping and adding more channels as soon as the Angela project is finished or close to finished!)

📄• We will soon be hosting a competition for the new channel name and icon!

Come find your people!!

You don’t need to be an artist to join, if you like PM then you’re welcome to join.

We are also partnered with Moonframe, another discord server. 🌙

REBLOGS VERRRYY APPRECIATED!