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maya ⛓️i’m always so jealous of furries’ art commission culture. it seems cool that there are subcultures where it’s a thing to flex on people through
* developing your own artistic skill, or
* paying someone to use theirs
∴ esoterik ∴@maya visiting people's handmade websites feels a bit the same to me (though there isn't such a culture of paying others to build them, it's got a pretty strong diy ethos)
@maya that said, for some of us it ends up being kind of an anti-flex... 😅
@d6 reminiscent of https://vbuckenham.com/blog/how-to-find-things-online/ which i love, one reason being that it gently and neutrally introduces the idea that cool and fun things one may like that people have done on the internet were done seeking status
@d6 still mulling this over... furry art commission culture and the rise of digitally produced art are super entangled (deviantart back in the day, etc.). and having this art commission market be *global* has let something very niche exist at pro scale. but now synthetic production threatens the perception of value for digital-only media. i can't imagine a *fully* offline subculture achieving anything parallel but one wonders what the role is for physical media in combating that. stamps. zines
@d6 furry art seems like it has
* encouraging attitude toward shaky-skill self-production
* culture of free gift exchange among creatives, some collaboration
* respect for the idea that this stuff is worth paying money to create (which facilitates pro-tier quality)
curious to be able to maintain all three
mycorrhizawhat would it look like if you believe that the status-seeking part needs to be able to exist digitally (profile pictures etc.) but that in a world with synthetic media production people are going to be increasingly drawn to physically created items (impasto and pigment on paper grain, not e.g. digital prints)