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Vostok_ [none/use name]

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Artist from Romania. Dreaming of a better world.

[linktree link goes here once I have reason to set it up]

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  • I can see where you are coming from in regards to the use of color saturation and framing. Perhaps I will come up with a piece that will play more into that visual language.

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  • Hah, I didn't even think of that, but now I can play into it by making the giant clouds base color be blue in the final piece.

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  • What is funny is that I made this in 2 hours while I have been struggling with another concept for 2 weeks, here is a sketch of it, a little sneak peek.

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    Vostok_ [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    Rise.

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    Ponche de frutas navideño - Novo General Megathread for the 1st-5th of December 2025

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  • Krita is so nice to work with I can't believe I ever left it for Clip Studio Paint, the perspective assistance tools are better, the pop-up palette is a fantastic feature, all the layer modes and filters are there, the program literally just runs better and the community-made resources are always there at 0 cost. I will say that my experience with CSP was necessary to make me better understand what Krita was capable of, but now I can say with full certainty that it proved to be a frivolous purchase.

    I am amazed that there are people out there willing to provide such quality software for free, this goes for all FOSS alternatives like Libre Office and Linux operating systems.

  • Testing, testing. War Crime 1, War Crime 2... is this on?

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    Friedrich Engels - Novo General Megathread for the 28th-30th of November 2025

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  • how did I manage to look at megathreads on this site for an accumulated 2 years and never see that link

    In any case, thank you! I will keep this in mind.

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    Friedrich Engels - Novo General Megathread for the 28th-30th of November 2025

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  • Let's say that an artist focused on subject matter with socialist aesthetics made an account on mastodon, on what instance would it be wise to make their account on?

    I did some light research and apparently it is not a great idea to make an account on the big general instance, so what would be a place that isn't prone to getting blocked while also being at least neutral on painted hammers and sickles?

  • What gives you hope that a communist revolution will happen in our lifetime?

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  • The tendency of the rate of profit to fall.

  • Post-Revolution by Proledevil

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  • I need to drop what I'm doing and follow proledevil on xitter

  • WEEKLY BLOOMER THREAD: If you have some good vibes to share, share them here!

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  • I shared my art here yesterday and I genuinely didn't expect it to be so well received, now I am more motivated than ever to keep going and start creating an online presence for myself as an artist.

    On another note, coming back to using Krita made me realize that I never really needed paid art creation software in the first place, at the end of the day it's all about your own skills.

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  • My recent choice to FOSS-ify my whole computer is paying dividends every day.

    Personally, I don't even know that much about how computers operate and using the terminal feels like witchcraft, but ever since taking my chances and jumping ship to Linux Mint I feel like I actually own my own computer.

  • Open your mind.

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  • Huh, I never considered Mastodon as an option until now, I'll look into it. But either way what I noticed is that if you want your work to reach as many people as possible you pretty much have no choice as an artist than to use X, you can maybe skip making a Bluesky account, but a critical mass of people is still on Xitter.

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  • Now that image can definitely be used as reference for a future illustration concept

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  • Thank you for noticing that aspect, I believe that brushwork is half the fun and half the visual appeal of an illustration.

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  • Now that is the highest praise I could receive

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  • I remember making this specifically to fit as a phone background, it served me as such since then

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    Vostok_ [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    Open your mind.

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    Golden Horde - Novo General Megathread for the 5th-9th of November 2025

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  • No special themed megathread for the October Revolution? Now that's what I call revisionism.

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    Oktoberklub - Oktoberlied - Song celebrating the October Revolution!

  • Feels like there's a lot of hostility here lately.

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  • I resonate with this sentiment, I mostly lurk because most comments and posts radiate a very foul energy of pessimism, hopelessness and thinly veiled hostility. It's mentally taxing just to look at what other people are talking about, I can only imagine what it would be like to regularly engage with this site's discourse. The vibes are rancid.

    Most of the user base of this site is North American and it really shows in how traffic on comms about special interests is dwarfed by tired ranting, despair, doomscroll material, toxic irony, post-postmodern humor (

    ) and people generally looking to pick a fight.

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    June Days Uprising Begins (1848) - Novo General Megathread for the 23th and 25th of June 2025

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  • What if there was a fakenews comm, but the fake news posted was literally just current news headlines but reversed?

    "American bombers drop bunker busters on Iran"

    could become:

    "Iranian bombers bomb the United States" (reversal of actors)

    "American bombers don't bomb Iran" (simple negation)

    "America signs non-aggression pact with Iran to not drop bombs on Iran" (completely opposed to reality while adding an element of irony)

    I say it would be quite hilarious, imagine seeing a headline on a post like: "The USS Nimitz is still afloat and operational in the Persian Gulf" Then looking in horror to see on what comm it was posted. Bonus points if the comm icon is a black and white picture of an American politician looking at a newspaper and the comm name is something like "newsn't".

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    Socialist Music Daily - 14 - Spanish - Y En Eso Llego Fidel (And That is When Fidel Arrived) by

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    Vostok_ [none/use name] @hexbear.net

    Socialist Music Daily - 13 - Russian - День Победы (Victory Day)