r/arttocope • • Mar 12 '24

About Us ⚠️WARNING!: REDDIT SELLS YOUR ART TO AI ⚠️

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Before posting on Reddit, you need to know that ⚠️Reddit will now sell your content⚠️ (images, video, text, chats) for training "AI" models. This is part of Reddit's contract, in an attempt to make $$$.

Reddit user content being sold to AI company in $60M/year deal - 9to5Mac

Please keep this in mind before sharing your personal art on this site! This is in addition to Reddit's poor history of protecting minorities including teens, mentally ill, and LGBT users across the site.

"I don't think we should support Reddit. And I don't think Reddit supports us."

*We have stripped back some of the subreddit styles like banner, background, logo and community galleries to protect those users' assets.


r/arttocope • • Feb 28 '24

Meta We have a Lemmy community!

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TL;DR, Access the new community here: https://lemm.ee/c/arttocope

Eight months ago this was posted about moving off of Reddit. As far as I am aware nothing major happened since then.

A few days ago now I contacted u/TranZeitgeist about making a Lemmy community (communities are the Lemmy equivalent of Subreddits). Now I have moderator, and I'm telling you about this.

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What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a Reddit alternative that is based around being pro-user. Lemmy is decentralised, which means lots of people can join from different websites (or 'instances') and still talk to each other, like how emails work.

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How do I sign up?

The community was made on https://lemm.ee/, however if you plan on posting right away I recommend signing up at another instance (Here's a list) as lemm.ee blocks image posts for new accounts to prevent spam. If you sign up at lemm.ee you can access the community at https://lemm.ee/c/arttocope, or if you sign up on another community just copy paste that link into the search bar.

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Why switch?

Like the other mods said in the original post about moving away, Reddit certainly has some issues. Most of these issues centre around the fact that Reddit is a company that has to make money, which Lemmy is not.

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How can I access it? Is there a Lemmy app?

Lemmy can be accessed through websites, or through phone apps. There is an official client, called Jerboa, or you can use one of the community made options.

A list of apps is available here: https://join-lemmy.org/apps

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Feel free to ask questions :) See you on Lemmy.

From https://lemm.ee/u/kali

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edit: formatting


r/arttocope • • 19m ago

Suicide The moon NSFW

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r/arttocope • • 1d ago

Trauma something that happened earlier Spoiler

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r/arttocope • • 1d ago

Trauma Unwanted

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r/arttocope • • 2d ago

Suicide I'll keep on breathing for you (cw: nudity) NSFW

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52 Upvotes

I decided I'm going to start putting some of my sketches online, otherwise they would just rot away in my journal.


r/arttocope • • 2d ago

Self Harm The only two things I am good at. NSFW

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Collecting Lps and having the most harshest scars out of my friend group.

Dunno if I'm allowed to vent here, so brief story. I feel so undetermined with my interests compared to my friends. That the only thing I "win" at is bodily destruction and collecting littlest pet shops. They collect fairies and mlp, and also have their own struggles with self harm( bitchy ik)

I don't want them to be diminished just so I can feel better. Ultimately, they are right when I share these feelings in a small way to just do it, and get invested. My investments are so different to theirs, and theirs are shared. So it's hard to feel like im valued or seen as inspiring as they are to me.

Also any classic lps fans will see the finger at the top dropping down tears for the lps since that was pretty important back in the good old lps yt series.


r/arttocope • • 2d ago

Art to Cope "The Addiction" wanted to show beautiful hallucinations and how the beautiful escape is a trap, through butterflies stuck in spiderweb

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r/arttocope • • 2d ago

Suicide TW(SUICIDE)Un mio oc dopo tutta la merda che ha dovuto supportare a soli 16 anni NSFW

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Purtroppo tutti i miei oc hanno avuto una adolescenza difficile:(


r/arttocope • • 2d ago

Self Harm Lines

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r/arttocope • • 3d ago

Self Harm Bugs in my veins NSFW Spoiler

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Trying not to do anything irrational to myself.


r/arttocope • • 3d ago

Self Harm urges [spoilered for sh and eyestrain] NSFW Spoiler

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theyve been loud tonight


r/arttocope • • 4d ago

Remake and protect me

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TW EDAnorexia protects me from the disgusting flesh and intestines and pain of all that horrific stuff while I shrink into a powerful, beautiful, FREE butterfly during the slow and painful transformation in the cocoon.

Cerulean butterfly, any of you OG pro anas? ... I should be too old for this


r/arttocope • • 4d ago

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r/arttocope • • 3d ago

Writing to Cope places that me

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Places where I lost things

Motel in the corner of the valley

I was awake and sleepless you had ample opportunity to take advantage. I was all too aware.

You'd come out of the Pen for doing god knows what. Out of money and out of options till the next business day. All I knew is I wanted a roof over my head. So I bargained with my safety. 4her. For me.

Dignity who. My safety was gone.

The airport in Taiwan

My book. I annotated it to tears. I talked to myself the whole flight to Penghu. Steadying myself. Someone had died again and I was in a different country with no one watching out for me. But I had a book. The one thing I asked for that year. I felt understood. I saw my growth in the same dashes and squiggle's id seen in my books back home when I was surely smaller than this. (abuse era)

It was my comfort object.

by the time I opened myeyes; my book was gone.

I lost a book.

The empty apartment in the bay

You broke my heart right there. First heartbreak-still there were many to come.

No more fight to give for us, for me, and you wanted me to know it too

Sweater atop my cold body. Door slammed. Window remained unshut.

My faith was gone.

Florida starter home

Behind a bed I left the necklace I'd asked my parent for. It was gone.

And I was too troubled to care. This was the first of many trips you were allowed to take me on despite temporary restraining order. Despite losing the right to be near me. Despite the fear in my eyes.

My routine was gone.

The Room on the Second story

All I wanted after the smoke cleared, was my fucking stuffed animal. Alot of my books my clothes everything under the sun got taken but I asked for the one thing and it was denied. Smoke can live inside things like that. It wasn't even close to the flames. On the other side of the property. The faint baby pink thing with a friendly face was gone.

Another bit of my comfort was gone.

Hotel fkn California

I lost the privilege to not fall under that statistic.

There I was. Naive and small and trying to figure out how to leave without a phone or wallet. And there he was. Pulling my hair, Doing the act. Too tired to keep it up for too long. Legitametly. It lasted less than 5 mins... about there. While he slept off his liquor. I adapted to the new reality that I was a victim of a new type of reportable offense I had yet to experience and for the life of me, I couldn't find my mind. I couldn't find where my thoughts were.

I lost my head. (and my good name)


r/arttocope • • 4d ago

Art to Cope The Second Sex NSFW

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RIP Simone DeBeauvoir you would've liked modern society more than the 1950s

Drawn while reading The Second Sex by Simone DeBeauvoir, which is about women's inferior place in society since the dawn of time pretty much and what, if anything, we can do about it.

Usually I try to leave my drawings up to interpretation and hope people will get it right or get something good / helpful to them out of it, but this one is very abstract so

men are like fish. sperm. free to swim around in the ether of the world. no one necessarily drawn to them and trying to penetrate them. this frees them. they get to go where they want and be their own person, as represented by the different colors of each fish.

on the other hand a female is a glob, stuck in place, defined by her genitals, hence i tried to make it look like she's in a vagina, and the outer edge is the boobs thighs and feet (im dating a foot fetishist trans woman). and a drooling mouth cuz i hate how we just keep eating and let ourselves be in these fat gross sexualized bodies (my past of anorexia and bulimia). inside the female, who the fish (men) only see for her sexual parts (boobs and vagina etc), there is an actual human, stripped of fat and disgusting flesh and genitals etc. she is skin and bones (representing how, in anorexia, men stop being attracted to you and you get to uhh BE AN ACTUAL PERSON FOR THE FIRST N LAST TIME IN MY LIFE). and so as i sit, stuck in place, as the disgusting glob i am, and all the men swim around me, pursuing their identities, life, thoughts, abilities, and ambitions, i feel i am in stasis, waiting for when i escape my disgusting body by becoming anorexic again, so i can swim free like them. until then, no one will ever see me as anything more than this.


r/arttocope • • 4d ago

Art to Cope Vent art (marked for NSFW for mentions of suicide even if I scribbled them out) NSFW

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The red text is what I wish I could say / do and the gray text is of my abuser

I'm not sure if this is a appropriate community to post it in, I just wanted to share what I made last night

Be gentle, I'm new to drawing


r/arttocope • • 4d ago

Art to Cope exactly

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r/arttocope • • 4d ago

Writing to Cope A poem about menstruation and society's perception of womanhood

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r/arttocope • • 4d ago

Art to Cope die silently NSFW

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The Japanese text says "die silently"

feeling weighed down and suffocated by how im just a vagina to you hahaha


r/arttocope • • 4d ago

Art to Cope Trying not to let my demons win

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Today's little doodle


r/arttocope • • 5d ago

Suicide You'll keep letting me drown NSFW

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10 Upvotes

r/arttocope • • 5d ago

Writing to Cope this won’t even end, when I’m deemed finished goods (TW-SA) NSFW

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r/arttocope • • 5d ago

Writing to Cope (grandparent death) Emotions Spoiler

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on october 5th, my grandma died. this was written about seeing my family (mom and sister) react to the news. for me, i didn’t feel or cry much about the news itself, but i felt so sad seeing my families reactions, especially my moms and grandpas (i didn’t write about his reaction, but it hurt so much seeing him like that.) i’ve never seen my family that devastated in my life.

i love my grandma, however we were prepared for her death so that’s probably why the news didn’t affect me as much. i did end up crying a little afterwards, though.


r/arttocope • • 6d ago

Art to Cope It's been a year since I tried to end it.

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In that year, I've done so much self growth even strangers are proud of me. I still don't like myself very much, I still hurt myself sometimes but this version of me has me very curious to what sort of person I'll be in another year from now.