I need help with my Chocolate Box art

[ratcreature]

So the good news is that I actually managed to finish a sketch for my recipient before the deadline tomorrow. I even managed to get my finicky scanner to work (after the simpler phone photo attempt just produced a somewhat garbage result). So now I even have a file.

However, the exchange is supposed to be anon initially, but of course the AO3 does not support fanart, and unlike the fanart-only anon exchanges I have participated in, chocolateboxcomm does not come with mod-provided temporary hosting. Normally I upload to my website, but of course my domain that would be visible in the URL is "ratcreature.net" so that would destroy the anonymity, ditto for dreamwidth image hosting.

I thought I could just upload it to Google photos temporarily, and set it to sharable, and eventually delete that and upload it to my website with a sig once the anon phase ends, but the share link that Google gives me doesn't get me the image, but some Google page showing it, that also shows my username.

So now I need to figure out, how I can anon host my image, so that it is embeddable but I can also easily delete it afterwards (because obviously I don't want the no-signature version out there permanently). And I also don't really want to have to create yet another account somewhere.

Comments

[sholio]

I think some people use imgur for anon image hosting still.

If you have a Tumblr, you can also do it by uploading it in a Tumblr text post window (you won't be actually posting it), then switching from RTF to HTML posting mode in the Tumblr window, copying the image URL, and then closing the post without saving it. The image URL is still good and is not connected with your username; it's just a string of numbers. While it's completely ridiculous that they keep images for deleted posts, it does come in handy for this sort of thing.

[ratcreature]

I don't really want to make another account I don't use, and figured if I upload some image without an account I can never delete that, and it also might show up in some of their random image galleries?

And what, Tumblr does not delete files you have never even posted?!? I had wondered whether saving a "private" post or a draft with the image might still leave the image itself public, but them just never discarding anything, is not exactly expected behavior. Though I probably should not be surprised by that.

And thanks for that tip, I might just do that.

With the google thing, I now actually managed to get a ridiculously long URL for the picture itself from the display site source code, but it doesn't have a proper file ending, and the AO3 FAQ says it won't embed images without proper file endings.

It kind of sucks that so few exchanges seem to actively consider making their infrastructure art friendly.

[goss]

I can host it at my web space if you want? The url would be http://igoss.net/host/image.jpg

You can always email the file to me at goss [at] igoss [dot] net

[ratcreature]

That would be awesome! I'll mail you the image right away.

[goss]

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