Hiya Blotters! Xen the CM here just doing a check-in! My account is unfortunately dealing with technical difficulties so my blogs, posting, commenting, and sharing have been halted. But once things get fixed up I'll be back to poke all of ya again ^-^ How's everyone doing??? I hope the start of 2024 has been alright!

" In the name of InkBlot, I shall punish you! " ------ From the InkBlot draw pile on discord! Thank you for drawing Tuxedo Tai alongside my Sailor Bo, [Azure](https://inkblot.art/profile/azure) <3

Ever wondered which account on InkBlot is actually part of the IB team? Well I designed a new staff/volunteer badge to help you identify us! The rectangular blot badge is for all staff and volunteers which can sometimes be accompanied by our team badge (so you know which department we work with.) Stumbled across our account? Say Hi! I promise we don't bite...... much (jk jk) **-Angel Community Assistant Manager**

Howdy everyone! Xen here~ Sorry for the radio silence! I really wanted to pick back up my blogs for y'all but things got so busy! We successfully launched our annual Get Weird event, celebrated Bo's Birthday last week, and jump started the 2nd Annual Art Drive! Lots and lots of fun but also lots and lots of work Hope you're all doing well! Anyone have any interesting projects they're working on? I'd love to know!

I've been sick the last few days womp womp Hope everyone is doing alright~

Hi there everyone! It's been a hot minute since I've blogged so here I am~ Hope y'all have been doing well <3 Have y'all read the InkBlot Newsletter? We got some exciting stuff happening so be sure to check it out. ------ ## Updates and News I wanted to try and blog at least once a week but with school in season and me going back to get a certificate, I've been very busy. Are any of you in school? What level are you in? What's your favorite subject this semester? Tell me about it in the comments below! I do have some mini news that will be blasted at some point soon: I've been mini promoted! I'm no longer an assistant, I'm **_the_** Community Manager of InkBlot now! Which means, _we got a new assistant CM._ I'll introduce them in another blog, but be on the look out to find out who! What does that mean exactly? Let me tell ya all about it. Initially , I was onboarded from the support team to start a whole new team: Community Events. I wasn't comfortable taking on the role as CM so Jay allowed me to be his assistant CM instead. I would basically organize and run majority of the CE projects while also assisting Jay in partnership related work or any ideas he may have wanted to do. But now that I'm Community Manager, I'll be taking the load off Jay so he can focus on other teams and projects going on. That in mind, this meant I needed my own assistant mananger to help with everything I use to do. Just to alleviate the work load I personally put on myself (I can't help it, I'm booming with ideas with very little hands to work with - literally and figuratively lol). But I'm excited for what's to come with this position! I've been with InkBlot for 10 months (as of the 22nd) and I'm aiming to drop the agent name and be more front facing with InkBlot by my 1 year. I hope you all that are reading thiss will join me then! ------ ## Events Coming Soon I won't get too into the events happening - mainly because I had to type it all out for the newsletter so please go read that instead for more details. But I'll briefly mention them here~ ### **InkBlot Draw Together/ Draw Pile Meet and Greet** A mouthful, I know. But the team at InkBlot really wanted to give the community an opportunity to not only hangout with us but hangout with one another! Every two weeks, I will be hosting a draw together/ draw pile so we can all doodle and just vibe. You don't even have to talk on mic or text chat, just come witness some silly banter and beautiful art. ### **InkBlot's Multi-animator Project** And before you say anything, the abreviation "MAP" has been around for a long time now. Before you know what's claimed it for an acronym. Please don't associate us with that. Anyways, the project was pitched to us by our lead artist/CE Volunteer! I won't give names until I get their okay but it was something they were very passionate about. They managed to get together the storyboard within hours of me green lighting the project haha. A lot has gone into the project already and we haven't even opened applications yet! If you're interested, be sure to check out the newsletter that has the link to the interest form. The form covers general details on the project, provides the most of the characters that will be included, the song, and sneak peeks of the storyboard. ### **Halloween Collab Event Coming Soon** Y'all know we're always cooking up something for all of you to have fun with. Next month, we'll have another collaborative themed challenge so be on the look out for that! I wish I could've put together another picrew but alas, time is not on my side and nor do I have enough helpers to get that done. (Which btw, things like making picrews is part of what CE team does. If you wanna help out with that, you should totally apply <3) I'm hoping to get something else done for y'all but we'll have to see. Here's hoping for the best! ------ That's it for now folks! I'll be back again soon (hopefully aaaaaaahhh). Which reminds me: ## **COMMUNITY QUESTION**: What should the users of InkBlot be called? The staff and volunteers of InkBlot are called Inksters, but I'd like to be able to refer to all of you collectively aside from just saying "everyone" or "the community". Any suggestions? Let me know in the comments! Catchya later! 💙🦋

Hiya InkBlot! It's Angel (Community Assistant Manager of IB) coming to poke ya again~ Have y'all seen the new smaugust challenge?? I can't wait to see InkBlot covered in scaley pals! The CE Volunteers organized everything from the graphics to the write ups you read! I'm so proud of them and all the work they do to bring y'all fun on the platform! That said, would anyone wanna join the CE Team? *cough cough* I'll be dropping application forms again later this week so keep an eye out if you're interested!

Hiya InkBlot! It's Angel again~ I'm sure you all heard the news about Patreon and how that's made a dent in InkBlot's funding. I'm trying to not be a broken record but I do want to emphasize how important it is that y'all understand, InkBlot would not be here without all of you! We deeply appreciate and love the community for supporting us. We do need help from time to time because we're 100% community funded. Which means without y'all supporting and donating, InkBlot would not exist. Jay has talked about in past streams how whenever we're in a rut, he'll go out of his way to use his own personal funds to keep things afloat. Anyways, I just wanted to say, this community is amazing and I'm so glad to be here working along side all of you to create a wonderful place <3

Have you joined the InkBlot Secret Santa on Discord yet? 👀 (If you haven't but want to, head to the home page and click the SS image on the right side :3)

Hi, Blotters! Back to the grind!! I really want to know: how y'all are feeling about InkBlot? I wanna know the good, the bad and the inbetween. Let me know below!!

Peep the cute graphic I put together for our recent social push! Remember, fuck unethical generative AI!