Thank you to everyone who voted! I tallied up the total votes across all the sites where I posted the poll, and it’s clear most of you guys like puns as much as I do. 😉

I also found myself hoping @cmykenna would win.
Anyway, please bear with me while I slowly update my handles/links.

If I use something like CMYKenna I suppose that still works if I ever decide to professionally go by “CM Kenna” in the future!

Anyway as you can tell I probably really overthought this problem. XD

I also thought about doing Ckenna (taken basically everywhere already) and cmkenna. The latter I kinda liked…going by CM Kenna is very “literary” and I like how it sounds, but it’s also weirdly taken some places already though.

I kinda liked chelkenna but I was worried it would seem weird, given that I’ve never actually gone by “Chel” and wasn’t sure I wanted to actually officially start doing that. Using an alt handle seemed less extreme than basically changing the name I go by (despite my feelings about my first name).

I even considered chelkenna or chelskenna and other “nickname” variations. My name doesn’t really have a built-in nickname. Some friends call me Chels, but it’s more an informal/casual friend thing not something I actually use or ask people to call me.

It was super hard to come up with something! I’m envious of people like loish who have such a cool username just by using their name & initials.

I don’t really love my first name so I didn’t want to do chelseak (plus it’s not as snappy as some shorter name + initial combos, sounds like chel-seek)

Yeah I am personally leaning towards the CMYK pun, because I love puns and it’s more “general art”.

Cats are definitely my “brand” but I do sometimes do other things too. I can always use “kennacats” as a name for a specific set of art or merch line or something in the future, ;)

Yeah I dunno why I don’t like it. 😆 Just a weird personal preference. Plus I’ve had people get confused by it before (I used to use chelseakennaart as my email) and accidentally leave the 2nd a out.

I considered those originally but both end up looking weird when all lowercase unfortunately.

kennaarts has that same double “a” that I don’t like in chelseakennaart.
ckarts kinda reads like “c karts”

If I change my social media handle, which option sounds best?

1️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/awvfsg/1" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Use kennacats (when available) + kennacatsart
2️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/awvfsg/2" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Use kennacatsart everywhere for consistency
3️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/awvfsg/3" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Use cmykenna (an art pun using my initials: CMK)
4️⃣ <a href="https://poll.blue/p/awvfsg/4" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky">Keep current combo: chelseakenna + chelseakennaart

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Also it has the same “ADHD conflict” as Pinterest the Internet in general…TOO MANY OPTIONS.

What should save me time—stock assets—ends up costing more time because I KEEP SCROLLING FOREVER 🫠

It is fully possible to make functional art and design apps on a touchscreen (see: Procreate) so it baffles me that something as popular as Canva is still THIS BAD on the iPad.

Asset management, elements all being dumped into the center of the page in a giant stack with no way to easily select all or redistribute or select multiple from the layers panel (or group from the layers panel) is a NIGHTMARE as someone used to pro desktop design software. 😩

They both are tbh…

I don’t even know what’s happening with this creature. He’s such a goof.

Has she reached Maximum Toasting Level? Only time will tell?

Seriously though, they are great cats and I’m so happy they’re such good buddies!

I was considering looking into them! I’d heard good things years ago but never taken any classes with them myself.