Would anyone else be interested in art/writing prompts centred around character development? 🤔

I know I love those prompts that are like "show your OC's weird, hidden talent" or "What is your OC's favourite fictional character?"

I tried looking for tags but was surprised to see that tags like OCprompt and characterdevelopment and such seem to not have had much use for this sort of purpose. o:

If you know a tag used for this kinda stuff, I'd love to know what it is!

#OC #originalCharacter

YOUR DAY COULD PROBABLY BE WORSE:

Hiya Internet randos! A Friday #PSA. Given what’s been going on with #Threads and #BlueSky, it’s a great day to toss a few bucks towards the maintainers/admins of your #Mastodon servers.

Remember: #Zuckerberg and #JackDorsey are in it for the advertising revenue and the money they can make by packaging and selling your demo info to third parties.

For Mastodon maintainers it’s a passion project, and hosting and maintaining servers isn’t free, in either money or time.

Support your platform of choice. Check if your server has a #Patreon or similar subscription service.

Hugs. Happy Friday!

Since more people are joining masto, figured i'd do another intro post. You can call me J or Jess, I'm a part time mermaid and a full time cat mom. I'm visually impairred, and have lots of different interests. Karaoke, music, all kinds of tv and movies, hanging with friends, family, astrology, modeling, and art. I'm also a cat mom to a wonderful girl named Nova. Also the biggest stoner you'll ever meet. Feel free to say hi.

For anyone that needs to here this: The world will give you a million reasons to be someone you're not. Be your awesome self anyways. Huge hugs to anyone that needs one.🦋🦋🦋🦋

Watching the movie Tarla about a woman who becomes a cooking teacher. I'm less than halfway in, and I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to it than that, but that's where it's at right now.

Here's the movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27816768/

And here's a link to real life Tarla Dalal's website with more than 20,000 recipes, which is the spoiler for there being a lot more to the story! https://www.tarladalal.com

In the movie, she invents Gobi 65, which is essentially chicken 65 but with cauliflower. Heaven knows both are fabulous.

I am going to have to spend serious time browsing her recipes. Like so much time.

#cooking #bollywood #HindiMovie #IndianFood

I’m no financial expert, but it looks to me like they’re organizing a hedge fund.

Two sunflowers....

I painted them in landscape format in watercolor, but here I cropped them to a square format, so you can choose for yourself which format fits best in your rooms.

Get prints here:
https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/two-sunflowers-square-karen-kaspar.html

#sunflower #sunflowers #MastoArt #art #AYearForArt #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #kunst #contemporaryArt
#watercolor #watercolour #BuyIntoArt
#flowers #flower #gardening #garden #floral #nature #NatureLover #summer

@Curator my first try at one of the prompts ! hope y’all like it. i love drawing castles 🏰

#DigitalArt #ArtPrompts #CuratorPrompts #MastoArt #FediArt

Happy floofy Friday #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats

Tried both T2 and Threads over the past week and they have just so very different vibes …

On T2, as soon as I introduced myself, there were people saying hello.

On Threads … crickets 😛

I wasn’t following anybody (or at least many people) on either platform at that point.

The interesting thing is, on Threads there are a lot of people interacting if you are a celeb — but it appears to be transactional. Not a lot of actual conversations.

But, Threads also has the numbers and so there are a lot more people to find for a particular field/subject — iOS/Swift devs, for example 🙂 On the other hand, it’s not easy to find anybody since there is no search except for search by name …

Overall though, Threads doesn’t have the public square feel that they say they want to foster. It feels more like a very crowded mall where everybody wants something but aren’t really interested in those around them …

#Threads #T2 #SocialNetworks #Conversations

We started watching "Tarla" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27816768) yesterday. It is the story of Tarla Dalal, an Indian chef and author of more than a hundred cookbooks. Despite all of this, I had never heard of her and was expecting the story to be similar to that of Julia Child (and the HBO series, "Julia") given the similar time periods, but so far "Tarla" is going down a different path and we are both enjoying the story immensely 🙂

If you love food, cooking, or just learning about india from like 40 - 50 years ago, you might like it too. It's certainly different from the usual Bollywood fare these days ...

#Movies #Bollywood #BioPic #Cooking #RealPeople

After trying out Threads for a while, found a bunch of things which makes it harder to deal with for me personally:

* There is a character limit to posts but no character counter. So I won’t know if I’m hitting the limit till I actually hit it.

* No desktop version. I don’t use mobile that much and switching away from the desktop to use Threads means I’ll use it less often. (Yes, I know about the website and the ability to view profiles, but there's no way to see the post timeline, that I know of, via web)

* No hashtag support. I find hashtags make searching for content so much easier …

* Speaking of search, you can only search for people — not content. So I can’t find people posting about interesting stuff unless I know who these people are in the first place. Or, find them serendipitously by coming across a post of theirs in the main timeline.

* The main timeline appears to be algorithmic, but geared towards those you follow and their follows maybe? I know that I’ve run into duplicates pretty quickly when I scroll down …

* No edit functionality. Which I miss sorely after being on the Fediverse 😛

* No personal timeline — so if you want to see only posts from those you follow, you’re out of luck.

#Threads #FirstImpressions #TwitterReplacements

I thought Threads wasn't going to be available till at least 12 hours from now?

I’m already in. Here are the good points:

1. I’ve found people I know already since I follow them on Instagram.

2. I get to use my Instagram handle. Don’t have to fight over handles 😛

3. I immediately found somebody that I didn’t follow on Instagram, but was interested in following due to their YouTube videos. So discoverability (on a very quick scan) seems to be good.

4. I like their image gallery — the only app (I know of) which doesn’t ape Twitter and do that weird 1/2/3/4 grid. Threads just gives a scrolling gallery. Much nicer.

Haven’t used it enough to have any other impressions. But I do miss not being able to use it from my desktop since I’m not that heavy a mobile user ….

#Threads #FirstImpressions #TwitterReplacements

One person I think more people ahould be following, especially when they're new, is their server admin. Reasonably established admins often share server updates, helpful info, and interesting boosts. Check the About page of your server to find out who your local admin is, scroll through their post history a bit, and consider adding them to your Follows.

Watching the movie Tarla about a woman who becomes a cooking teacher. I'm less than halfway in, and I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to it than that, but that's where it's at right now.

Here's the movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27816768/

And here's a link to real life Tarla Dalal's website with more than 20,000 recipes, which is the spoiler for there being a lot more to the story! https://www.tarladalal.com

In the movie, she invents Gobi 65, which is essentially chicken 65 but with cauliflower. Heaven knows both are fabulous.

I am going to have to spend serious time browsing her recipes. Like so much time.

#cooking #bollywood #HindiMovie #IndianFood

Best visualization of #auditoryProcessingDisorder lol.

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Alt text provided. #Neurodivergent #adhd #Autism #Autistic #AuDHD

By Venelin Dimitov

#nature #photo #photography #trees

Summer Red Dahlia

https://5-tanya-smith.pixels.com/featured/summer-red-dahlia-tanya-c-smith.html

#FlowersOnFriday #dahlia #gardening #wallart #prints #giftideas #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #photography #PhotographyIsArt

A new #introduction for a new instance.

Hi, I'm Alecia, a kiwi from the bird site.

I write #fantasy and read most types of book. I blog a humorous take on the #WritingLife at https://www.asakkalon.com/ and might be a bit obsessed with #cats and #dragons

I'd also love to talk with you about #books #reading #writing #Bookstodon learning #languages #WritingCommunity #Minecraft #WFPB diets #outdoors #NZ smart stuff, stupid stuff, and silly jokes.

Say hi - you might be my next best friend.