I found myself a copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four printed by Harcourt, Brace and Company for $20. It didn’t have its dust jacket, but everything else about the book seemed quite fine. There isn’t really much on the inside indicating specifics, but everything I found about it online would suggest that it’s the first US hardcover edition from 1949. It has to be the oldest book in my collection so far and my favorite from a publishing standpoint.

should this be nsfw ?

Full/partial nudity should probs be NSFW tagged

Yep, that was a good call. It’s fine to have NSFW content here, but we’d like to let people know what they’re getting into if we can help it. I’d be inclined to call this NSFW.

i know with me at least it has less to do with what I think and more with what People Over My Shoulder think. kinda like what you said, some people can get Weird about it 🙈.

Reusing clips and maintaining a database sounds really wise for this kind of work. I can recall doing physical collages twice for some classes a few years back. I had a real headache from handling the gluing to finding good clips, and I didn’t make an effort to save the rest of the page. I probably lost out on some good stuff there 🤧.

Doing collages digitally sounds like so much fun to me though, and Eagle sounds like just what the doctor ordered. I tried using XYPlorer, and it’s quite a robust improvement on the Windows explorer. The problem is that it seems to get tricky with cloud drive files in my experience. Eagle looks like it has a ton of potential for the kind of stuff I like to do.

I think this is the first piece of yours I got to see here that used both digital art and the knitting. It’s seriously cool stuff and an awesome way to get texture in!

Almost makes me think that we have a fighting chance to make tags on Lemmy work. Part of me would want to see tags get some unique formatting like post flairs, but even just inline tags would be a leg-up.

Or maybe both in-line and post tags. Neat stuff to daydream 🤔.

Festus looks absolutely foul and mighty. An absolute sight to behold that I wouldn’t want to be up against 😨

I’ve been following the last few posts and I loved seeing Festus develop over the week. That linework was already technically outstanding but I think you most definitely did Festus justice with the coloring and shading. Great job! 👏

I keep meaning to play Firewatch. It’s got my kind of aesthetic and, from the little bit I’ve heard and seen, it looks like it’s up my alley. I somehow never got around to buying it though. Between this and the Summer Steam Sale, I’d say that I’m inspired enough to buy the game and properly have it ready to play soon 🤠.

I love dioramas and this one looks great! I can imagine that the fire tower especially took some finesse to achieve.

That’s some fantastic improvement in less than a year, great work! Your varying line weight is well done on this portrait. 👏

I gotta find some sort of reason to experiment with more sharp and angular shapes at some point. It makes for a neat look and stylized look, but it’s a bit outside my typical form. It would make for a good prompt to draw something a little different than usual, though. I’ll try and keep that in mind the next time I’m struck with the inspiration to draw something that’s otherwise without a plan 🤔.

I love Tech Connections. Unnecessarily long deep dives, but that’s the kind of content I absolutely appreciate. His stuff is a treat that helps to highlight the rabbit holes that can be found in the mundane.

When I first starting shifting away from Reddit, I was nervous about whether I’d like having smaller communities. I’m definitely adapting more to it myself.

I remember coming to a similar realization with Discord servers. I started out with joining servers between friends and I figured that maybe I was missing out by not getting into some larger ones. I actively tried getting into a couple of servers that weren’t even all that big compared to some numbers I’ve heard before—the servers I’d try to get into were like, 3,000+ users typically?

The conversations always felt way too fast for me to get a word in, and it never felt like I had many chances to start conversations unless it was like 2am and most of the serve was asleep. Voice chat feels like I can’t even get my foot in the door. Server rules and policies paradoxically felt convoluted as well as nebulous. I make a solid attempt at integrating into the culture wherever I go, but I could never seem to do those servers right. I still stick around some of those servers now, but only because they play meaningful roles in communities I’m in.

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It feels radical to say, because I’m so used to equating Big Numbers and Lots of Content to being a healthy community, but maybe there really isn’t too much wrong with a smaller or slower community? That’s not to knock anyone who’d prefer the contrary, but I’m starting to realize that me personally, it’s those smaller places that I really enjoy, and that maybe I don’t give them enough credit. It takes more time for fresh content and talk to come in, but when it does, it feels meaningful and like I actually have a chance to be that someone who starts it in the first place. The moderation and culture feels much more in touch with the community there.

I hope Beehaw succeeds in whatever the community and its leadership wants it to be, but I hope that it holds on to its integrity and the philosophy it’s communicated so far, even if that means it leans toward a smaller feel. I think I kinda like that feel to it.