I wish I was as rich in real life, as I am in pokemon sword. Lol.
Since I revisited my old pkmn games a couple years back, I noticed that not only the difficulty decreases as generations go by (i.e. Pokemon now win a shit ton of experience per battle, therefore, level up and evolve rather quickly, the game tells you how effective your next attack will be instead of letting you learn the table of types yourself, gym leaders, elite 4 and champions get easier to beat, etc), but back then, grinding money was also harder.
Btw. In Pokemon sword, I built my fortune by draining Piers' and Raihan's bank accounts. Lololololol
Bueno, ya que estoy reviviendo mi tumblr, pensé que sería bueno postear este cómic que hice ya hace un par de años pero que nunca postée aqui... siendo que los posts mas populares de mi blog en su tiempo, fueron comics de CDM jajajaaja.
Duré mucho sin jugar porque... perdí el interés, y aparte, los PA no rinden nada hoy en dia, así que paso por muuuuuuy largos periodos de tiempo nada más ahorrándolos, y luego me bingeo el juego jaja.
Este cómic fue de cuando terminé el arco del instituto, y se me hizo bien pedorra la prisa de la Sucrette por dejar el insti siendo no-virgen
Puede que haga mas cómics en el futuro, no descarto la idea, aunque como dije, ya no juego tan seguido asi que no tengo mucho material
Okay, my first post is going to be a "Meet the Artist"
Not only because I think is a good idea to "Re-introduce myself" after this blog being dead for years, but because this was the drawing I did to come back from an almost 2 year hiatus of drawing (because of health reasons).
This is actually almost one year old haha.... so I probably need to do a newer one, but still, for me, this marks the beginning of a "new era" on my art (which is the one I'm currently in), and it makes it the perfect fit to re-open my blog.
So, nice to meet you all. I'm Kai. And I'm an artist
I don't even know if there's anyone here reading this, since I'm convinced the entirety of my following are now abandoned accounts, so I might pretty much be talking to the void, lol .
I don't remember when was the last time I actually posted some art in here, but it was indeed years ago.
As tumblr slowly but certainly became abandoned in favor of other platforms, I myself found it pointless to keep posting here, since the site seemed kind of dead... but as for now, I think I might be coming back, because I'm simply sick and tired of social media and how the internet is nowadays.
I mean... I know the internet is not going backwards just because I revive an old blog, and I cannot change the situation myself because that's completely out of my control, but what is within my control, is how I handle my own creative process and my work.
(I might ramble a lot now, so I'll just place a cut)
I'm just sick of algorithms.
I mean... I have never been one to play the game of social media because it is not my goal to go viral and become an influencer or whatever shit. I hate cOntEnt cReAtIoN with a passion, and I don't want to be put in the same box as content creators.
But even if I'm not trying to become famous, the algorithms still push me to play the same game as if I did, and punish me when I don't comply.
Currently, my main platform is instagram. I used to love that I could post finished pieces on my feed, and sketches or whatever other random thing as temporary posts on my stories, so I wouldn't flood the feed with a bunch of shitposting.
But nowadays with all of this recommended crap that you couldn't care less about + neverending ads + pushing reels until you're sick of them + things not being in chronological order + destroying the search system... you basically never see what the people you follow posts, and it is almost impossible to discover new creators unless the algorithm pushes them to the front page.
Even if I am not trying to grow my follower count just for the sake of having big numbers, it gets really discouraging to work for so long on an art piece, only for it to die in obscurity because NOT EVEN MY OWN FOLLOWERS SEE IT, let alone new people bumping into my account for the first time.
It has made me wonder more than once what even is the point of posting then. If no one is gonna see it nor engage with it, I might as well just draw for myself and never post anything I do anywhere, since I'll get the same outcome.
And then it hit me that... maybe I shouldn't be putting all of my eggs in the same instagram basket.
I mean... all social media is shit nowadays, but by focusing in one single platform, I'm kinda shooting myself in the foot and limiting my reach even more.
I always say that art is my main way to connect with people.
I am very awkward and introverted and don't do well with simply approaching strangers and starting random conversations... but many of my most precious friendships are people who found me through my art, and then we talked and clicked. And I don't want to lose that, but it is so hard when the algorithms nowadays make it almost impossible to get your voice be heard, unless you're producing worthless and useless cOnTeNt.
So... yeah. I mean, twitter is not any better, facebook is a sewer, I refuse to download the neuron killer that is tik tok, and everyone forgot about bluesky like... ages ago so... yeah. I don't have that many options.
It's funny that I am now considering reviving my tumblr since I considered it a dead platform. Like... again, if no one uses this, is like talking to the void, and I might as well not post anything, but the thing about tumblr is that I still like how it works and how you can organize your blog with tags, and the dashboard is still chronological... so... even if there's no one here, at least I'd have some sort of well organized archive haha.
Let's see...
In the end, I want to go back to that mindset in which I only cared about creating and then sharing it on my little blog to connect with people, instead of dealing with all of the anxiety inducing crap that the modern internet bombards us with on a daily basis.
Let's see if I can do it here.
It's been an eternity since I last posted any of my stuff in here, and I'm not even sure if this is still a viable site for posting art since it seems kind of dead. I'm pretty sure like 90% (or more) of my followers are now abandoned accounts lol.
It's kind of tiring thinking there's nowhere else to go because every shitty social media site nowadays, is trying to screw us over in exchange of a couple of cents
don't call what you create "content". regardless of what it is. that's the devil talking. call it art, call it writing, call it music, call it analysis, call it editing, literally just call it what it is
I was going to put other things but oh my god please just don't call yourself a "content creator". you are a person you are making art / writing / music / etc you are an artist an author a musician
you are not an Image Generator For Clicks And Views. please. allow yourself to connect with your work by naming it properly and acknowledging yourself in kind
Calling the art you make “content” — whatever’s actually going to happen to it — reduces it instantly to the status of “something someone else’s going to sell for more than the creator’s going to be paid for it.” It reduces you to being a mere element in somebody else’s so-called business plan.
“Art” is an old, old word. It means—reaching back in time—any made thing (the ancient root-word “artifice” meant to point up what human beings made on purpose instead of something the world shaped by accident). Good, bad, or indifferent, it’s what a human mind made, using whatever ancient or modern tool you can imagine. Art doesn’t have to be GREAT to qualify for the term. It just has to be made, by a living being: for pleasure, to work through pain, idly or with huge intent, for fun or seriously, to illuminate vast subjects or just to jerk the world around for a few minutes.
The “content” term and framing attempts to reduce your creation to something meant inevitably to be bought and sold: a mere product, a commodity, a cheap thin thing that’ll wear out and leave whoever engages with it wanting something better (but always somehow cheaper). The pushers of the “content” concept want you to think of what you’ve invented in the numinous silences of your head—the bitter, the joyous, the anguished, the glorious—as something worthless unless it can be sold off in bulk: packaged like sausage, containered like cottage cheese.
The entities (hard to call them “people” at the corporate level, poor things) who want to sell your output, don’t want to remunerate you decently for it. After all, that might give customers the idea that fellow humans deserving of acknowledgement—not the vast non-living organisms we now call companies—were responsible for the passion and emotion in the art you buy every day… and for which the corporations pay the individual humans responsible for the “content” the very lowest price possible.
What you can do about this: Demand noisily that the creators responsible for art be treated like creatives, worthy of their hire.
What we who create can do: Keep doing it, in hopes that the world catches up with what we’re at.
what you said was very sweet and means a lot to me but i am incapable of properly responding in any way besides “thank you so much aaaah” because i do not know how to accurately express the exact level of my gratitude to where you completely understand how much what you said meant to me without me getting even more emotional and looking like a fucking nerd: an autobiography
honestly? make creative shit just for yourself. and i mean that both literally in the sense that it’s absolutely cool to make something with the intention that only you will ever see it and i mean that personally in the sense that your creative work can be completely self-indulgent to your tastes and preferences
reblog and put in the tags if you were in a magical girl anime where each team member has a different colour associated with them, which colour would you be?
we all know pokemon was made by an autistic person but consider the idea that it was made for autistic people as well:
1. absolutely nothing in the entire game requires dexterity or quick reaction time. you can beat the game with no problems even if you have the reaction time of a shuckle
2. game mechanics based on categorization, things placed neatly into categories that are easy to memorize
3. there are multiplayer elements but the game itself? completely single player. no social interaction required to enjoy the hell out of this game
4. you are not only encouraged but expected to have empathy for and form an attachment to these virtual creatures that do not actually exist, which is very easy for an autistic person with hyperempathy to do
5. the whole point of the game is collecting things. autistics will understand this one
i think it’s very brave and sexy of me to still play pokemon games in the exact same way i did when i was 5 years old - ignoring all stat changing moves. this is an offensive move only household. if you effectively stratagise using stat changes in battle Fuck You
A random and absurd mini-comic about my OC from My hero Academia: Ruruko Jikan.
Her quirk is chronokinesis. She can rewind, stop or accelerate time for others while being able to move freely, but to do so, she must hold her breath, and sometimes she used her power in not so heroic ways. Lol
¡Hola! Espero no molestar, pero quería saber ¿Qué ocurrió con tus páginas en facebook e instagram? Desde hace un tiempo no podía encontrarte en el primero y justo hoy vi que tampoco estás en Insta... Te he seguido desde aquellos días de Corazón de Melón y fue tan de repente que no sé; no es que le debas una explicación a nadie, sólo me preocupó un poco.
Hola!No es molestia. Desactivé mi página de facebook por ahora, pero… mi instagram sigue activo y en modo público, por lo que me extraña eso de que no me encuentres porque no le he movido a nada de mi privacidad ni he desactivado mi cuenta :’I
