/ot/ - Off-Topic

>>3599
NTA but back in the day people overshared just as much and acted dumb about things, it just wasn't that in your face as it is now due to everyone being forced in close proximity with each other. Back then Livejournal communities and forums mostly consisted of people who were on the same page due to their interests matching up but now you have to interact with all sorts of assholes you normally wouldn't pay any mind to.

>>3600
What helped with me cleaning up my social media feed for example was a one-strike rule, if you tweet anything to do with identity politics I will unfollow. No matter if it's things that I even agree with, it gets tiring because when I want to discuss politics I do it on my own terms in places other than social media. An occasional post when it's topical is fine, but not constant soapboxing. Now I mostly get cool people, fandom talk and art on my feed.

>>3601
That rule of yours makes sense. I deleted all of my social media to get away from it. If I restart I'll follow this method.

>What helped with me cleaning up my social media feed for example was a one-strike rule, if you tweet anything to do with identity politics I will unfollow. No matter if it's things that I even agree with, it gets tiring because when I want to discuss politics I do it on my own terms in places other than social media. An occasional post when it's topical is fine, but not constant soapboxing. Now I mostly get cool people, fandom talk and art on my feed.
After I returned to social media in yearly summer 2022 (I use only twitter & tumblr and nothing else), I've been doing exactly what you've said. None of the people I follow talk about politics, and we share art together and talk about fandom stuff. All of the people who like and share my things are people who don't engage in politics and it makes me so happy. I feel like I've returned to the early internet.
I have never talked about politics on the internet and if twitter recommends me something related to it I ignore it or press not interested in this tweet.

>>3554
No it's ok. I'm >>3553 and I don't find the idea of crossdressing 2d moids offputting per say. I could understand the dynamic of a man pretending to be a woman for the sake of story telling (obviously i don't want trannyshit). But have you seen how moids interpret those dynamics in the first place? We could have a 2D trap character (I still don't like traps) have at least an interesting story going for him but you know very well what moids will do with him. It all reminds me of Astolfo, I heard he wasn't that bad of a character to begin with but after seeing how dirty moids treated him it just made me put off so awfully by this character. Each time I see astolfo all I can think of is all that disgusting moid art. It's like the straighest form of gay there is. I don't even know how to explain it myself.
And when you see these same moids trying to emulate that porn sick art IRL it just comes off as deeply and autistically porn rotten.

>>3556
I get exactly where you're coming from, characters like Astolfo have been done incredibly dirty by a lot of pornsick men. He is a fun character, but a lot of people just treat him as a futa-like sex symbol. It is indeed a very straight form of "yaoi."

To make it worse a lot of people who draw these characters aren't even fans of the original work. You know how porn artists will draw characters like Morrigan even if they've never played Darkstalkers? That's the vibe I get with a lot of his "fans." It is too bad, I like the Fate series and he's fun in everything I've seen him in, but my immediate associations are that garbage and its tainted him for me too.

>>3553
I hate when traps are drawn in this off-model/OOC coomer style. What is enjoyable about a character is almost never translated into NSFW drawn by male hands. Maria Holic is a fun show!

>>3554
EXACTLY

>>3377
Thanks for sharing this nonna, I can't believe it… Nura's face omg why is he so cute

>>3373
Happy new year anons! 2022 was a rollercoaster for me, entirely in a negative way, I hope 2023 won't be as bad.

I'M LATE BECAUSE OF VACATION but happy new year to you all nonas!!! I love you and I love this site!!

>>3295
That's great! be sure to let me know what you think of it over here.
>>3296
It's one of the funniest manga I've read, the charecters bounce off each other so well.

Taking advantage of the current festivities to post to
my boys

Now that I think about it the Santa costume definitely counts as a uniform.

Be careful scrolling, I initially started posting Christmas-themed pictures to hide something, but it's also just fun to be festive.

I hope all of fujochan has a great holiday wherever and however they're spending it.

pls forgive me for all this spam but i really like how this artist has made some of the male genderbends. It's so creative… even though the art can be a bit scrotey at time.

i headcanon patchy as fujoshi

>>3182
uh…Patche?
Yes, Flan?
What is yaoi?
Why do you ask?
Because the books under your bed-

/Tonight on 2Hou News/
It has been reported that Flandre Scarlet has passed away because of "Spontaneous Human Combustion".

>>3096
genshit impact is very popular atm and has gud ships but too much drama

>>3119
>And what was Chinatsu accused of drawing, by the way?
I'm talking about the in-game art used in FE3H. She designed almost all the main characters but she didn't do the bland as fuck portraits or the cutscenes like pic related, yet she's blamed for them being bland or ugly. But suddenly when she did the cover art for the game's OST people were in awe that she could draw well and said "wow she improved so much since the game uwu good for her" as if she didn't start her career before these brats were even conceived. Anyway, I think people don't realize how half-assed FE3H in terms of devs and how resources were allocated, maybe because Yusuke Kozaki drew the portraits in the actual games for Awakening and Fates for the characters so they assumed it'd be the same here. I think that was also the case for Echoes with Hidari but there are less characters in that game so that was way more doable.

>The most recent ad showing the MC's hair turning full red based on morality choices had my sides in orbit
Please tell me you're joking kek, that can't be real. My god this is ridiculous.

What I've been doing for the past year or so is getting into newer shonnen jump series in case they catch on eventually, which is something I never did before. It's kinda like investing in stocks or something like that.
Not that I'm forcing myself to read them, I actually enjoy what I got into. What I'm currently following are Sakamoto Days and Akane Banashi.

Sakamoto is pretty fun and it seems that an anime adaptation is in the works. There is already a lot fanart and some fanfic, so the future is looking bright, tough I'm not really into any of the ships right now. I'm currently hoping hammer dude and the ojisan develop into something, since I like where the dynamic is heading.
The other characters definetly had their moments, and I get why people are shipping them, it's just not for me.

Akane on the other hand, has some great boys personality wise, third pic is one of my favourites, though due to how the plot has gone so far, there's been no shipping at all. The manga is focused on the mc, Akane, so the boys have barely interacted with eachother. So there is not much to go off.

Anyways, is really cool getting into something fresh again. Forgive me for rambling about this stuff, I just wanted to talk about this somewhere.
To make this on topic again, are there any new franchises you're investing your fujobux into?

>>3095
I feel like these are less tips and more general statements about making money with art. I hope more anons weigh in because I like discussing the comm meta.

Staying knowledgeable about FOTM media and the characters/ships therein is free eyes/traffic. Don't give a shit about Genshin? Suck it up! Invest in Kaeyacoin.

It might surprise you that m/m comms are also bought by cis men and are often more pornographic than what a fujo artist might expect (Tom of Finland versus two naked anime twinks kissing). Because fujos often eat "for free" or make their own food, it's actually kind of rare to get paid to draw something close to what I'd draw for fun. I guess what I'm trying to say here is show you can draw muscles at your own peril.

Upcycle warm-up sketches into cheap YCH ("your character here") comms.

Set your expectations low. Objective quality doesn't directly translate into living wages off of comms. It's all luck and how much of your soul you want to sell to cumbrains. Speaking of:

Consider learning anthro style on the side because furries are way more generous with their money than weebs, especially the gay ones. Animal dicks (knotting specifically) are also popular in "normal" (lmao) porn.

Combine FOTM knowledge with anime girl body types for even more free traffic.

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