BLOGGING LIKE ITS 2004

About blsky!

2024-11-24T17:02:27Z

So, everyone left twitter and joined blsky, sometimes without even thinking:
WHAT IS BLSKY? Why is everyone so excited to be a part of it? What if blsky wasn't that good?
Here's a lil comic with my thoughts about it. Don't be angry at me, it's just a lil analysis / tips for all of you who are lost about socmed (social media)... I think a lot of people of our generation saw a lot of websites appearing and just dying (Nabyn, YGallery, Sheezyart...) and there's still some of them that are less known but not necessarily bad (pillowfort, mastodon, misskey, weasyl...)
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2023 art summary + achievement

2023-12-31T17:17:02Z

2023 art summary... And I've done many things this year!

Made my first cosplay from scratch (Varré Elden Ring)
Finally made wacky zines!
Had my first table in a convention ALONE (not totally alone, I had help, I mean It was "jake chirak's table")
Sold my webcomic Blood Klot in a store!
FINALLY made my online store & made my website look better! (+ tutorial how to make your own website + newsletter...)
GOT RITALIN. IM THREATED FOR MY ADHD. I CAN SLEEP. I CAN BOTH SLEEP & BE CREATIVE
I made TON of new friends ~~and got rid of bad people (not murder, they are just out of my life)~~

Now, with the art summary:

You can see my previous art summary HERE

So, what now? What are my (artistic) plans for 2024?

MORE ZINES!!! And also: DOUJINS! I always wanted to make doujins!
Be more UNHINGED. Now that i'm more active on masto, i've found a way to share my art with out being stressed by having annoying people harass me. Aethy? Blorbo? Baraag???? MASTO IS INFINITE. Twitter is dead. Bluesky sucks. Threads stinks. Masto is meh. Long live masto.
I want to try again figurine making! I sucked so much last time I tried lol (trying is failing, failing is progressing)
Streaming? I started making a png-tuber. I like trying new things! Maybe this will annoy me!!!
More webcomics, go back to BLOOD KLOT? MAKE HORROR COMICS?? ANOTHER COSPLAY?? RAAAARGH TO MANY IDEAS, BRAIN EXPLODY

Anyway... onward to 2024!!! See ya there!

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Coding is infinite (like Bioshock) (but in a good way)

2023-11-16T12:28:48Z

Everytime I think i'm done coding the website or figuring out how x or x works...
THERE'S ANOTHER THING POPPING UP.
Anyway, now my new obsession is figuring out HOW THE FUCK RSS WORK and try to find a good NEWSLETTER provider.

While browsing through reddit, I saw a lot of people mentioning how newsletters were still important for artists (may they be musicians, sculpters, merch artists or comic artists) because you can't ABSOLUTELY NOT rely on social medias.
Same for RSS. Even if people who are less than 25 years old mostly don't care about newsletters or RSS, older people are into this (and I think most of the people who follow me are my age/older. Hello to the younger one, welcome to old man yaoi realm) I'm thinking why not. I'm not loosing anything. I don't have a huge following (by huge I mean I don't have more than 3 numbers following me on twi/insta lol) But I like a challenge, trying new things, improving myself. And I want to make happy people that support me. YOU! If you like what I do? THANKS! Maybe encouraging newsletter will be our savior or us all, artists who struggle making our craft VISIBLE.

Not knowing yet where I am going, I made a banner:

As for newsletters service, I don't know. I tried to look up different websites:
- MailOctopus but apparently their mails LOOOVE to land on the spam folder :|

- Mailchimp looking for infos about this one made me found more bad reviews than anything else lol
- Convertkit this one was recommended a lot, but those who didn't like it mostly said "nah, try beehiiv"
- Beehiiv recommended a lot. Its pretty new, they seem to listen to their customers but not the most "professional"
- Klaviyo most recommended but out of my pricing range. I think it's worth it if you have MANY SUBSCRIBERS.

SO UGH. I don't know, i'm indecisive, like always, and also i'm a AMATEUR in that kind of thing. Any rec is welcome.
Oh, and
(almost) out of topic, but i'm trying framaforms for creating commission forms instead of google form... so far, its good!

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Updates! A lot of them!

2023-10-26T23:38:18Z

Wow wow!
So, I finished my "how to make your own gallery on neocities"!
Its RIGHT THERE: HOW TO MAKE YOUR OWN WEBSITE
I also made a post (for sharing purposes, not for PLEASE GIVE ME ATTENTION purposes, any linking is fine, from these posts or not)

Now what's the plan?

WELL. Certainly not taking a break lol

First, I would love to learn more about RSS. I want to add that on my own website!
And perhaps, add a "advanced" page on the "how to make your own gallery" sub website (probably to teach about RSS, how to add your own custom cursor, and navicon. Nothing too HARD but certainly more advanced than just copy and paste hex codes.)
I need to update my store! Its almost done, now I have to put it online (priority on cons, but my store will be open for Christmas)
I need to make a google form for my commission page.
There's "fun" pages i'm thinking about on making... more later! Its not important. Just silly. lol

Overall, I would love to be more active on furaffinity, aethy or even here. I want to create more, I want to share more. But I don't want to keep wasting my time on twitter. Doesn't mean I will totally leave, just i'll keep it only for announcement (excluding my Elden Ring twitter, Im keeping this one!) Insta is a bit crappy, but at least, there's a gallery (and most people in cons prefers insta) big 2024 plan will be: be more creative, more invested in doing things and less in trying to run after big corpo websites I don't like anyway. (never worked for me!)
I have many comic ideas. Many merch ideas. i'm really motivated!
All thanks to creative people around me!
Please! Keep sharing your unhinged art!
Fuel me!!!

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Touching grass is not enough, grass needs to be available for everyone

2023-09-01T12:45:38Z

HEY SO with twi/x slowly sinking, websites (specially billionaires websites) being shit and with me doing more conventions and indies things, I decided to try to be more creative... and sharing!

I changed the FAQ on my own website, allowing my drawings to be reposted (as long as you don't profit or make nfts out of them)... I think if people care enough to save my art, and repost it, just for the sake of showing to other people, where's the harm? Mocking how cringe it is? Fine, but my art with outlive me. I want to exist outside of circles I already know. I want to meet new people, learn new things.

I joined mastodon and finally I found a community from artists to artist. Finally i'm having cool convos instead of seeing the same meme over and over on twi/x . I'm not leaving twi/x yet but the HUGE DIFFERENCE makes it hard to come back on that shit website...
Im mostly active on my Elden Ring twi/x account (with a back up on tumblr) but the more time passes, the more i'm thinking of bringing my Elden Ring-obsessed ass elsewhere...
Speaking of which, i'm trying to do a little list of popular website alternatives, the pros, the cons, because i'm thinking of making a quick guide on my website on how to just detach yourself from the mass. If anyone know of this, please comment (or lets talk about it elsewhere)

This is a WIP:

( Ranting and philosophing about social medias... )

That's it... for now! Later on, I would love to make the same thing for deviantart-like alternative. What about pillowfort, inkblot, itaku, inkbunny, furaffnity, newsgrounds and all those websites everyone forgot lol

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Barely active lol

2023-04-17T11:58:28Z

I'm barely active anywhere, twitter is annoying, instagram is annoying...
only thing not annoying me is playing Elden Ring and drawing my waifus.
Im just active on my Elden Ring related twitter (I hate twitter but its the only place the fandom lives)

Now thats I've paused Blood Klot, I tried to make a back up on my own website but I can't even figure out how rarebit works...

(so yeah hi, i'm not dead
i'm just
*sits on the floor*)

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Not dead, just a BUSY BEE!

2023-03-08T13:53:09Z

Of course I haven't abandonned dreamwidth, I mean, its a chill place where I can word-vomit with out anyone QRTing me to DUNK on me!
Anyway, except for my THIRD Elden Ring replay (3 characters, +600h of gaming) i've been trying to update the website and add a few "fun pages" (such as a Elden Ring fanpage) and I haven't abandonned the 2006-fun page either! I //still// need to do a back up page of Blood Klot (in case comicfury dies)...

Anyway here's a little W.I.P of my progress:
The embarassing Elden Ring fanwebsite!

And the 2000's website!

Oh, now I want to do a shrine for every embarassing brainrot i've ever had!

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Website funnsies

2023-02-01T13:52:25Z

Getting back to listen to System of a Down & Insane Clown Posse made me think of 2006 and how ugly and dumb my old websites used to be so I decided: HEY. Why not make a 2006- version of my very own website?
So it's what i'm currently doing:

The plan is to use this very retro look to post a list of what I like, my waifu, and maybe in the future, shrines.
Other things I want to on jakechirak dot com:

Host Blood Klot entirely on my own website. Comicfury is fine but I dunno for how many time it will remain (or how smackjeeves just miserably died, deleting millions of webcomics that weren't existing anywhere else)
A "fanarts" page on the Blood Klot section. I mean, I received (and commissioned) so many cool artists, its too bad they just exist 5 mins on twitter??
Add more drawings on the website! It's here for that!
Fucking fuck I need to decide either or not i'm making a e-store and If I do I NEED TO UPDATE IT
lol imagine a Elden Ring fansite

Thats it!

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Social medias blues

2023-01-25T16:30:01Z

Once again, i'm facing the eternal problem I have since I quitted deviantart like 10 years ago and joined tumblr (and quitted):
I don't know where to fucking post my drawings or if I should post them.
Obsessed for years with websites that displayed likes, comments and views, I underestimate the anonymous viewer, the shy fan of my art, the person who forgot to like but enjoy the art anyway, I forget how some little post it drawings can be fun to look at, no matter the subject, and how numbers on a big website means so little (I don't have many followers on twit/insta but a lot of people come to see me at cons!)
And now with all the porn ban, the fandom drama and how SHITTY TWITTER HAS BECOME (I mean, it sucks, but now its worse) I don't even want to bother to post my new obsession (~~ELDEN RING OLD MEN FUCKING~~) on it.

Maybe I should post a few there?
I like DW because I can just word vomit my thoughts and take my time to reply and view posts.

Or maybe I should try mastodon. Someone pointed me to newsground but idk how its worth.
I think i'm too old to try and be active on a new website.

Anyway, webtoon censured YET AGAIN one of my page, this time because of a character butt, lol
Seriously....

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2022 art summary

2022-12-30T01:55:27Z

Been doing this one for years!
As usual, most of the art, I don't know where to post it/forget to post it, some of the nsfw is on my furaffinity, the Blood Klot webcomic is on webtoon/comicfury/tapas some pictures are scattered around on insta, tumblr... anyway, here it goes!

Oh and I guess you're super curious about past summaries of art??? Well, say no more, i've got your back! So you can see how my art style changed (or how I just exactly the same tastes as when I was a teen!) (image heavy, but the images are small, sorry about that!)

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Dangerous way to live

2022-12-23T20:19:51Z

Who's ready for a meme? A meme I made myself. Okay, not really a meme, but I was inspired!
Here's five ways how I'll probably stop existing:

FALLING ASLEEP IN MY BATH
I know its almost impossible to just slip into the water and die but what if the whole building collapse on my nakked, sleepy head?

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Website update!

2022-12-13T18:50:40Z

Been months since I had to do it, but I finally updated my website!

Update include:
- An archive of my old drawings. Noticed some of my old art (I still liked) weren't posted anywhere! I used to keep an archive on deviantart, but regarding what happened recently (the website sucking, and AI drama) I decided to almost delete everything on my DA gallery. Staying out of nostalgia!
- I updated the link page as well... and added my comrades' stores!
- The about me page haven't changed much but I got rid of facebook and added dreamwidth!
- The store doesn't work yet because my stocks are low / and i'm still figuring out ecwid (shame, I wanted to open it for Christmas!) ... so.. it's coming very soon!

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Shippy ships

2022-12-11T12:40:01Z

Totally stealingtempural's meme of my old obsessions. So everybody can cringe with me/at me (i'm lying, I don't cringe) Also 10 years ago could mean older because i'm old.
// WARNING // some ships are horrible. You're warned.

MURDOC (GORILLAZ) X ME

My first ship! My first obsession! Gorillaz! Yes! I was totally shipping myself with Murdoc! My first gay obsession, and OF COURSE I had to pick the green pickle who smell like feet! He probably much define my tastes today: gross men.

Gorillaz was my very first big fandom, met a lot of friends thanks to it, but also met a lot of weird people I wish I haven't met. Thanksfully the good surpass the bad.
Never shipped 2DxMurdoc but today (thanks to a friend) i'm pretty much into Russel and Murdoc.

FAULT, EDWARD (OC) X YOURS

One of my number one ship was shipping Fault (my demon oc who had grey skin, purple hair, red eyes and pointy teeth) with my friends's ocs. For some reasons I changed Fault's name to Edward and made him human (but kept the grey skin and red eyes). I think today I would separate the two characters. Oh and I think I like better Fault's overdesign. The RPs we did at the time were horrible, it included rape, necrophilia, killing each other ocs, and cannibalism.

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Bullying

2022-12-07T16:31:48Z

I admit it:
I already bullied people in my life.
I was young, and being part of a group against ONE person felt so good.
Everyone wants to be part of something, nobody wants to be left alone, even if it means stomping someone else. Most bullying groups have a guru, and most of the time it's always someone who's older (and is either desperately jealous, or just self hating)
The thing with bullies is: they will turn against you. You cannot trust them. You might laugh at other people's cringeness, but they will laugh at your own.

Now, that's being said, I grew up. The more I meet people, the more I accept them. But also the less I can't stand bullies and manipulators. The more I can sense when someone is off. I'm not scared anymore, I don't have any skeletons in my closets, but all of them do.

Maybe it's divine karma, but I got bullied.

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Long live the king

2022-12-01T22:59:12Z

*drinking tea from my "I told you so" mug*
Oh hi, about twitter and other social medias downfall.
I remember ~~(to read in a old man voice)~~ a few years ago, when tumblr appeared, I thought "okay tumblr isn't really an art website, I think I miss the good old internet days" lot of people told me I was just old and angry. (I am)

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The obligatory pinned message

2022-11-30T18:34:34Z

Hello, i'm Jake, i'm old (30+), french, a bi/pan guy, but also a giant rat in a human costume. I draw a lot of nsfw, but I also occasionally sell goodies in cons or draw comics.
If you want to know what i'm made of, there's MY WEBSITE.(everything's here!)
I also have a instagram & a tumblr for my art. My greasy embarassing nsfw is mainly posted on furaffinity or niche half closed mastodon servers.
I made a webcomic called Blood Klot about the spicy slice of life of gay slashers, it's on my own website (uncensured), webtoon, tapas and comicfury (uncensured version)

Catch me on Mastodon too!
If you like what I do (THANKS!) you can toss a few coins at my ko-fi or buy things on my store.

Hello, feel free to message me, or DM me. I usually respond (if i'm not busy playing vidya games or drawing porn) English can be wonky because i'm wonky (and french)

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