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odd little online habits of mine if anyone was curious about various patterns on my art accounts: 

* I'll reblog cool art on bsky if the creator is under my follower count (simply because i'd have a worthwhile positive impact), but i'll delete the reblogs in 24 hours so it doesn't clutter up my feed if somebody's looking for my work. Also so they don't get caught up in the crossfire if an art harasser decides to go after me.

* recently adding "more like this [$link to blog archives of the fandom]" on newly posted bsky pieces, for multiple reasons: (1) subtly (and maybe wishfully-thinking?) training people to click on personal site links with a little "treat" clearly dangled on the other end since i don't post everything on bsky. (2) consistently alerting people that there is a more stable off-site archive to begin with in case of nsfw art ever becomes more of an issue. (3) it keeps my personal site high on search engines with the sheer number of inbound clicks. tangentially, i have a tin foil hat theory that posting my personal site on hacker news frequently about five years ago accidentally "seeded" it on a number of indieweb initiatives before the whole AI rubbish.

* i'll actively throttle my follower counts if something starts picking up. personally, the sweet spot for 'art getting out there while flying under the radar' feels in the ballpark of ~2k followers. i think i had about 6-7k on twitter on the nsfw account before deleting it and was getting really uncomfortable with that attention. (throttling being turning off QRT's, turning off reblogs, posting some dead dove or with a totally different art style/fandom to scare off people, deliberately not posting for a while etc. basically the total opposite of engagement farming :D )

mind, i love positive attention on my art, don't get me wrong! but controlled steady-growth attention tends to bring less issues. thankfully i haven't had any issues with people adding me on starter packs, but on this note i'd probably quietly ask to be removed from starter packs since i want people *knowing* what they agree to when they click on follow.

* habitually deleting all posts older than a year or two, outside of certian artworks/resource posts that aged well.

* personal opinions are limited to here (since dreamwidth has many layers of friction against bad-faith individuals such as private journal toggling and also being on a "old" long form site), or to narrow topics such as (kink) art censorship. i find that a lot of experienced activists recommend that people stick to one topic they're passionate about to not burn themselves and their audiences out emotionally; it def holds true for me. I also feel like it creates less of an attack surface; that way if I'm posting about the right for lolisho to exist -already controversial- then bad actors have a very hard time using other parts of my existence as a weapon or vice versa (using that as a weapon, etc).

there's a non-zero chance that these habits along with a bunch mentioned on my harassment resource page that have kept me from getting dogpiled over the years.

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"We may sometimes assume that a translation provides a window onto the original, but just as often, as Derek Walcott says, “to translate is to betray.” An old Italian pun—traduttore, traditore / translator, traitor—reminds us that the translator who connects two people always stands between them."
"Translation, divination, sacrifice, theft, and more: these are the connecting /not-connecting arts, and each is therefore well figured as the artus that is a flexible joint or the boundary that is a permeable membrane. To say this is, in a sense, merely to restate the old idea that tricksters and their actions embody ambivalence, but it restates it in a language that makes it clear why we may call the tricksters who practice these things artists in an ancient sense and their creations works of art."

- Trickster Makes the World