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I'm not an artist myself and I don't have any say in this, but if you use to boost your favorites, please let's stick to some rules:

- Before repostig artworks please check on the artist's homepage and social media if they have a specific policy against reposts. Some do and we need to respect that.

- If an artist asks you to delete, don't argue.

- Always include the artist's name and link to their homepage/ko-fi/contact.

- Don't share posts that don't name the artist.

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I've bookmarked fan art on Twitter way after I stopped using my account. This was one of my favorite recent pieces: Three Seagrass from Arkady Martine's Teixcalaan Books. It captures something essential about the character that I hadn't really seen before and made me love the books even more.

It's by @hanasoh who I just found out is on Mastodon. You can check out their art here and they may even have commissions available: hanasoh.carrd.co/

I first encountered fan art when I was a teenager frantically downloading every piece of Tolkien art I could find. I still enjoy some of those artworks today, especially those by Tim Kirk, who somehow captures the goofyness of the story often ignored by other artists. I later learned he won five Hugo Awards for best fan artist.

It's . I sometimes fear for all the amazing artworks that may be lost if Twitter goes down. Many artists won't switch to Mastodon because they don't wanna build a new community from scratch. If you have a favorite artist on here, make sure to boost their work whenever you can.

Is there any fan art you're working on? I'd love to see it.