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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 3mo ago

Because I don't know who might need to hear it: You do not need to suffer to make great art. I had good mentors who told me this until it stuck. Maybe you don't, so I'm going to say it again. You are allowed to be happy AND make great art.

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 6mo ago

#RepostYourArt Day 6: Bird

I've made a few avian cranial kinesis models! Most birds don't actually have a "joint" where the top beak and skull meet, but instead a flexible piece of bone. We don't usually think of bones as flexible, but they can be!

#SciComm #SciArt

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 4mo ago

Processing past trauma through animated shows is not how I expected to be spending my middle age.

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@dtgeek@mastodon.social Bizarrely, Mastodon itself already supports scheduling posts in advance. For some reason they've never included a User Interface for it in the Web App, so you can't access that feature there. (Some third party apps allow you to tho.) As a bit of a flex, I was on Twitter long before it allowed you to schedule posts in advance. The first time you could do that was through a third-party Twitter app, and they added it to "native" Twitter years later.

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 4mo ago

Weird little project to make myself feel better that happens to coincide with #Junicorn. Might do another one, it was kinda fun.

(3d printed with some additional bits. Modeled/printed/painted/everything else by me.)

#DarkArt #UnicornArt

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 5mo ago

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OK, here's what I've got now. I will probably add some little "teeth" along the back-inner ridge on the chalicerae. Do I add some along the palp-coax too (for the rudimentary maxillae)? #SciArt #Arachnophiles #Spider #Invertebrates

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 4mo ago

Realized I've been experiencing some rather intense Character/Identity Bleed from watching a show. I'm trying to read up on it (I find that learning about things helps me deal with them). I'm finding lots about Bleed from role-playing (games/acting) but not much about Bleed from reading/watching.

This paper talks about "experiential crossing" from reading, which seems related, although more generalized.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2017.01.003

Is there a different term for Character/Identity Bleed from reading/watching rather than role-play? Anyone know of any other studies/writings on this?

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 4mo ago

I made some things.

This is my second time ever using a sewing machine to sew things, as opposed to my usual method; hand sewing with pliers (I am usually sewing things that a "regular" sewing machine couldn't handle).

Pattern from PrintablePony https://www.etsy.com/listing/601364518/sewn-horse-fly-bonnet-pattern-sewing

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 4mo ago

Wondering if working on a game project for awhile would improve or deteriorate my mental health. 🤔

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 4mo ago

Mental health has been a wreck the past few days. My therapist thinks it's stuff piling up until something breaks, but it came on suddenly (from my perspective) which has usually been medication related.

Either way, trying to work on "fun" projects and not beat myself up for having a broken brain.

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 3mo ago

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@lindasgoluppiart@mastodonapp.uk I mean, sometimes there *is* suffering in making art. Hopefully it's not the bulk of the experience tho. 🤣

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 3mo ago

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@VANTABlack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place I'd of course prefer nobody had to suffer, but yeah, it happens. Often there are things far beyond our control that cause us suffering. And it's totally fine (in fact, good!) to put that into the art you create. It's the idea that, "without suffering one cannot make art" that bothers me. You don't *have* to suffer to make great art. You don't have to starve, or struggle with depression, or be constantly unhappy with the things you make. The art itself should not make you unhappy. The art should be a way of communicating or dealing with the things you are feeling. I hope that makes some kind of sense? I think this is what you where already saying?

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 3mo ago

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@VANTABlack2000@mastodon.gamedev.place Yes, exactly! Art is about communication. It doesn't strictly have to be about communicating an emotion, but that's often a big part of it.

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 4mo ago

My brain has learned that it has to scream in order to get my attention.

(This is not a cry for help. Just something I said in conversation and thought it might be relatable.)

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 6mo ago

Updated my owl skull with eyeballs model. This is the first #SciComm model I created, and I've learned a lot since. It has asymmetric ears and removable eyeballs and sclerotic rings for teaching about the senses of owls.

Available on my Etsy (from USA) https://blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com

#FediGiftShop #ArtShop #SciArt

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 4mo ago

Gonna mod my 3d printers. Surely that will fix my mental health.

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@nev@flipping.rocks Yeah, that's what I've been running into. There's a handful of photos that show the ventral side, but the "mouth bits" are mostly obscured by the little hairs, so it's still really hard to see what's actually up in there.

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 6mo ago

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@ater The little "hairs"! 🤩

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 7mo ago

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@KristinHenry One of the big things is "discoverablity". It is very hard to find new people here. Boosting helps, but not that much if you and the people you follow aren't continually finding new people some other way. Most of the time I find people somewhere else (other social media or websites) and then follow them here.

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 5mo ago

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Maybe something like this? I know the "teeth" and the little bumps are larger than "real life", but if I make them too small they won't be visible on the 3d printed version, and I feel like this is something worth being able to show.

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 8mo ago

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@16af93 ecoevo.social maybe? flipping.rocks or scicomm.xyz might also be suitable.

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 4mo ago

RE: @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

The answer here seems to be somewhere on the spectrum of Identifying with a Fictional Character and Parasocial Relationships with Fictional Characters.

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-4154497/v1

Lots of writings on it, will have to do some reading and thinking.

https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/crt/vol38/iss2/1/

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Blue Appaloosa @BlueAppaloosa@sunny.garden

· 6mo ago

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@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io It depends a bit on the particular bird species, but most birds have some amount of movement in the top beak. Pretty cool!

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