Ashley!

If you're new and you're struggling to get a foothold on how to find posts or new accounts to follow, I only have one suggestion: use the tag system. Both in your posts and in searches! Bookmark some tags! Make a feed of stuff you care about! Bookmark tags like #artistsoncohost to get a more targeted selection of art on your feed! (Since generalized tags like 'art' can obviously catch things that aren't just specifically media posts.)

Why is the site designed this way? @chirasul made a good post explaining why in context of users migrating from Tumblr. I won't tl;dr, go read the post! It's well written and you should read the whole thing to actually take in that information.

Want a Cohost 'app'? It's not on the app store but you can functionally have that REALLY easily!
^{IF YOU'RE IN THE EU I KNOW ABOUT THE APPLE THING. THE EU COMMISSION IS INVESTIGATING IT AND I CAN'T REALLY DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT SO PLEASE CALM DOWN ABOUT IT LOL}

Want some account recommendations to follow? Here are some folks I love following on here:

• @kuraine (my wife, also she composed Celeste, Chicory, and a number of Minecraft updates)
• @iiotenki (localiser/JP-EN translation with really insightful commentary on games in that space)
• @xeecee (developer of visual novel Misericorde and composer of upcoming action platformer Pepper Grinder)
• @IndieGamesOfCohost (blog that posts about indie games from users on Cohost or adjacent to it)
• @gamemagprintads (What it says on the tin)
• @shadsy (Phil does great work over at the Video Game History Foundation and also talks about FFVIII a lot)
• @objects (image blog of objects)
• @victoria-scott (wonderful car journalist and photographer)
• @dog (good tech and en/jp retro game posts)

Artist Recommendations

• @julian
• @MLeeLunsford
• @pallisia
• @Ratchetduwang
• @riki
• @koyorin
• @kyn
• @kohiu
• @gee-man
• @snippity
• @doodlemancy
• @robinandcat
• @battleguitar
• @APPARENTABSTRACTIONS
• @koh

NSFW Artist Recommendations

• @dieselbrain
• @roresu
• @Lilirulu
• @taylor-titmouse
• @Millkefats
• @ThirtyHelens
• @3amsoda
• @nozdraws
• @PotionSale

cleared the ending of p5s. i called the twist villain as soon as she showed up but i was not expecting her motivation to be an Autism Manifesto.
...i still dont know exactly how i feel about it. they handled changing her mind well enough but the premise feels so gross i dunno if that's enough to make it okay.
phase 1 of the final boss is boring as fuck but the rest of it was alright. weird game. i wanna dig into the postgame before i deliver my FINAL final thoughts but at this point it's a really mixed bag and i'd struggle to recommend it to anyone. might be better off just playing DMC with a fanfic audio book playing in the background.

it's weird to see that through to the very end the game seems upset at its own action elements. it forces you to engage PRIMARILY with the RPG elements: elemental weaknesses, mana bars, healing and buff spells. every character has a reasonably complex moveset and the best plan for almost every single encounter is mashing XXY to get the zero-mana elemental combo finisher because the only way to stagger things is to crit or hit a weakness, and stance damage is based on damage taken so hitting their weakness deals twice as much stance damage. and almost the entire back-half of the game is resistant to physical even if you did wanna brute force the crit route. i didnt even end up using the baton passes because the only benefit is increased Super meter and the downside of trying to use someone who cant hit an elemental weakness is so severe.
characters' movesets feel mostly good, smooth and responsive and cool to see, but everything pales in comparison to the power of color matching.

cleared the ending of p5s. i called the twist villain as soon as she showed up but i was not expecting her motivation to be an Autism Manifesto.
...i still dont know exactly how i feel about it. they handled changing her mind well enough but the premise feels so gross i dunno if that's enough to make it okay.
phase 1 of the final boss is boring as fuck but the rest of it was alright. weird game. i wanna dig into the postgame before i deliver my FINAL final thoughts but at this point it's a really mixed bag and i'd struggle to recommend it to anyone. might be better off just playing DMC with a fanfic audio book playing in the background.