She/her, proud member of the LGBTQ community (pansexual, aromantic, genderqueer).
My name is Dina, and I'm an NSFW artist and writer who specializes in fetishy (and especially hypnofetishy) artwork... but sometimes indulges in wholesome SFW work. Still, there's a very good chance my feed's going to be NSFW, so... 18+ only, please!
Happy Halloween, everyone!
Previous: Chibi-Dina's Pride. Next: TBA The Chibi-Dina Chronicles: Chibi-Dina's Hypnoween III I usually do something for Halloween, but this year I got really busy and ended up deciding to have a quiet holiday... Amy had different ideas. Previous: Chibi-Dina's Pride. Next: TBA
Checked the first couple eps of Tiny Toons Looniversity. It's actually not bad. Nothing like the old Tiny Toon Adventures show... but if you view it as an AU in the vein of The Looney Toons Show (familiar cartoon chars in a more modern setting, with tweaked roles and personalities) it's pretty darn watchable. Haven't seen the entire first season, but so far... it might be better then the Animaniacs revival.
I might write a blog post about this when I have the time.
My new laptop is finally up and running!
My old laptop decided to give in after nine years of solid service, and so I had to get a new one. You can read all about it (complete with my unnecessary personifications of electronic devices) here:
Well... Summer hasn't been very good to me. Weather has been pretty lousy, though I suppose I deserved that after complaining about how hot June was. I spent a lot of July and August sick... got a nasty cold, then an ear infection, and just as I recovered from that, I got another ear in
This hasn't been a very good summer. I had two nasty colds, then got an ear infection, and then just as that passed I got an infection in the OTHER ear. I've just been low-energy and not able to do much. Now my shoulder hurts.
Here's to me getting better.
Hey, an instance for black queer folk that needs a bit of exposure to get the word out about it. Please boost if you have friends who've felt alienated by the nazis you tend to find on other, unmentionable servers. https://blackqueer.life
Admin: @tillshadeisgone
By the way, I'm still pondering changing instances. It's just not easy to find one... partly because I often get kind of scared off by tales of instances suddenly shutting down, or people being kicked off instances... As an NSFW fetish artist I'm a little paranoid about these things.
So much of social media treats you like you have the plague or something if you happen to do erotic stuff... and if you do erotic stuff that's not 100% vanilla? Cue the accustaions.
Even now, more than a decade later, I refuse to touch GIMP. Even if the program hadn't been frustrating and laggy and confusing, the way the users treated people who needed help and were confused was enough to make me delete the program and never look back.
I don't know if GIMP is better now and I have no desire to find out.
So let's not give Mastodon that reputation, huh?
I really like Mastodon, but it's not exactly intuitive. It's HARD to find the right instance to join, and the set-up is kinda confusing...
It DOESN'T help when some people get miffed and go "Mastodon is SO easy to understand, you're just too lazy to bother to learn it!"
That sort of attitude is exactly why I stopped using GIMP after two days: I couldn't work out how to use it and my comp kept crashing, and on the official message boards I was met with hostility and called "Photoshop monkey."
I think so far the most disheartening thing about Fedi/Mastodon is that I see people not want to join due to ongoing elitism.
Don't give people flack for staying on Twitter or moving to BSky, they're not our enemies.
It's fair if you disagree with those platforms and how they're run, but don't take it out on the users. They have their reasons, and being insulted for not being on Fedi/Mastodon is one of them.
Given recent circumstances, yes, staying on Twitter is an incredibly dangerous game, but not stupidity.
There's many factors that weigh into that decision, from time to convenience to reach, all of them are valid in one way or another, maybe not to you, but it's still real.
tldr;
Don't make it "Us vs Them", there is no "Them"
Be inviting to those not on Fedi/Mastodon, don't try to insult them into joining
Darren Di Lieto
Oric 🇦🇹 🏳️🌈 
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