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🏳️‍🌈✌🏿 ★ ↑21 — 💌: hellohika👽hikatamika.com 💜: OCs, Cartooning, Illustration, Graphic Design, Web Design, 3D Modeling 🚫: AI Training/NFT Minting, thank you!

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HK★ThreadbareAug 24, 2026

GenAI and the Return to Analog Art?

In my case they're actually not all that related.

thoughts

HK★TMKJul 30, 2026

"Content" and the Engagement Wars

Why the word "content" has always been a red-herring, and comments are even better than Retweets.

social mediaonline community

Sketch-Savvy TechbookJul 25, 2026

Controllers for Creatives

Before I yap about TourBoxes and Stream Decks, let me convince you not to start off with one.

technologydigital art

HK★ThreadbareJul 23, 2026

An Eventual Return to Video

Tutorials and guides I have at-the-ready would benefit from me making video content for them, but how do I prevent editing video from burning me out again?

question

HK★TMKDec 23, 2025

From 2025 to 2026

Things I'm leaving behind in 2025. Things I've learned. Did I even accomplish anything? Yes, but it doesn't feel like it.

memoriesthoughts

HK★TMKDec 8, 2025

An Ode to Email

Internet friends are real. But moots and oomfies are not friendship at its fullest potential. Once again, it's the UX's fault.

memoriesthoughts

HK★TMKDec 6, 2025

2025.11 Journal

How I've been doing/feeling, November 2025.

memories

HK★TMKNov 23, 2025

Alienated Impostor

What if OCsky was an accident? What if Graphic Design was a fluke? My achievements feel like prisons.

diary

HK★TMKNov 17, 2025

Double Digital-Detox Report

I feel like Social Media detoxing was supposed to make me recentered and rejuvenated for a return to it… Now I just want to Quiet-Quit and be a Social Media visitor instead of a Social Media resident.

newsthoughts

HK★TMKNov 9, 2025

Small-Web Survival Guide for Social-Web Dropouts

SocMed Brain-Poison makes the Small-Web one hell of a withdrawal experience, but it'll be for the best.

advice

HK★TMKNov 6, 2025

Manifesto: An Online Creative's Social Web Dethroning

"Oh great, now he's writing manifestos…" Don't worry. It's just a personal one to solidify and manifest how I want to use the Social Web once my detox concludes.

manifestos

HK★TMKNov 4, 2025

My Posting Pains

Sharing became a stage, my peers became unwilling judges, and I developed a phobia of tomatoes, and even silence.

diary