Ajax B. Corainder @saintajax33@awoo.space

I've seen a bizarre amount of trash-talk lately aimed at people - primarily freelance artists - who have expressed concerns about their ability to maintain an audience on Mastodon, because people shouldn't be trying to "make it" here. Because the Fediverse isn't about "building your brand". Because the "popularity contest" of amassing a Twitter following isn't something to strive for here.

The thing is, freelance artists need to be able to make money to LIVE by selling commissions, and if they have no reach (or ability to grow an audience) because of the way Mastodon works, they *can't* make this their Twitter alternative.

I get it, capitalism sucks and nobody wants The Brands to find the Fediverse to be an acceptable target audience, but y'all are the guy in the well haughtily chiding artists for participating in society. You get that, right? You do understand that there's a difference between Beyonce or Skittles and an independent full-time furry artist just trying to sell commissions at $40 a pop to make rent and needing the ability to reach new fans of their work to do so. Don't you?

05/2022: A buck bro.

#furry #furryart #anthro #gay #bro #brah #bro

Political Cartoon (US)

I'm up! Hope everyone has a good day today

Remember when we rolled down hills in tyres as children? Those were the Goodyears.

abolish time

I'm gonna keep posting this until one of you fucking boosts it

absolutely astonishing, yet harrowing; for one must wonder what could happen if Wolf @ 100% Volume

(reposted 'cause I forgot to CW ^^')

Heyo! Nice to meet ya, and I'm excited to be a new artist on this platform. Let's be friends :3

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What badge are you going to help this fox earn? He's eager to please, and feeling very submissive~

Some people use BDSM to handle trauma on their own terms, so I drew Nick Wilde with that in mind.

#nsfw #porn #male #submissive #bdsm #costume #paws #feet #anus #fox #fanart #leather

Probably not a lot of people know this now, but Mastodon's web app started out with "Publish". In 2016 a famous YouTuber jokingly offered to support Mastodon's Patreon forever if I changed the button to say "Toot" instead. Needless to say, this was a really early, and not very informed decision. The first glimpse of attention and financial support. As a non-native speaker I had no idea there was another meaning.

A recent draw of my sona im pretty proud of 🥴

Boyfreids reff shhhhh dont tell him i posted this x3

finished a painting last week for some friends that was supposed to be a christmas present but will now have to be a spring holiday present