Communication woes
[note: this was written before I bit the bullet and made a bluesky account specifically for Project Sekai]
I currently have a(nother cycle of) hyperfixation with Project Sekai and would like to find art for my profile pic and banner on mastodon. The banner part is actually simpler than I imagined as there is a good community on Tumblr (which I have an account there) which had a whole post on Emu Otori related banners and icons. That Tumblr post included a profile picture, but I wanted to use something that other people drawed (with their permission of course).
A social media I only heard of vaguely
I remembered hearing of cara.app a few times as a social media solely for artists, avoiding the middle person which are reposters on other social media platforms. I went there and used the obvious #projectsekai hashtag on the search bar to see the diverse art that is posted there. I took a liking to one Emu art, but I got into a problem.
How do I contact them?
The obvious thing here is to message them on cara.app, but I don’t have an account there (and I really don’t have the mental capacity to sign up for another social media service). Okay then, I’ll try emailing them, surely they put their email address somewhere right? Well, they didn’t specify it in their bio, and that mail icon on their profile page is basically a cara.app dm.
Not everything can go the way you want
Based on the fact that I’m on a public tilde server and basically writing this blog in a terminal session, I might overestimate on whether other people are aware of the need of offering other contact information or not. I would prefer that someone puts their email for easy contacting, but I do realise that the average person doesn’t check their email unless it’s for a new account creation. Guess I’ll have to settle on pixiv to find my new profile pic (for some reason, I do have a pixiv account. Probably an artifact of my previous Project Sekai hyperfixation).
tags: blog, project-sekai, social-media