ravennowithtea

[ravennowithtea]

Hi! I'm running an Explorer's Guide to Wildemount campaign soon and was wondering if I had your permission to use the lovely Empire vs Dynasy stained glass art you made a few years ago as the cover image. Credit given, of course. It's just a game among friends, but since it'll be your art as the cover image on feel it's only polite to ask.

The art in question is this, by the way:

Thanks!

Thanks for asking and glad to hear you like the artwork! <3

While I was one of the artists who worked on this project (Christian Brown did the 3D/VFX parts), I do not hold the copyrights for this-- Critical Role does.

I suggest you refer to their extensive content policy for any related questions regarding copyright, licensing, or general use 👍

link: https://critrole.com/critical-role-content-policy/

Again, thanks for reaching out! I appreciate it. :)

#critical role #questions and answers #asks and replies #etidyrue

[ravennowithtea]

comic inspired by [THIS] tumblr post. <3

#reblogging in honor of kitty boops! #tumblr #april fool's day #boops #tumblr drops are enabled - come get your kitty paw badges! #previous tags: #bg3 #baldur's gate 3 fanart #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #tara the tressym #sequential art #reblogging myself

[ravennowithtea]

a sleepy tara covered in cherry blossoms 🌸

(partially inspired by @falmarindecarme 's very seasonal cosplay photo [link] )

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate fanart #tara the tressym #im several days late but regardless-- happy spring!

[ravennowithtea]

🌸 awesome cosplay!! 🌸

thank you for tagging me so Id see this 💕

bloodweave request pool, After Hours version for [THIS] post 🌘

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #gale of waterdeep #gale dekarios #bg3 gale #cosplay #falmarindecarme

[ravennowithtea]

AI Scraping Isn't Just Art And Fanfic

Something I haven't really seen mentioned and I think people may want to bear in mind is that while artists are the most heavily impacted by AI visual medium scraping, it's not like the machine knows or cares to differentiate between original art and a photograph of your child.

AI visual media scrapers take everything, and that includes screengrabs, photographs, and memes. Selfies, pictures of your pets and children, pictures of your home, screengrabs of images posted to other sites -- all of the comic book imagery I've posted that I screengrabbed from digital comics, images of tweets (including the icons of peoples' faces in those tweets) and instas and screengrabs from tiktoks. I've posted x-ray images of my teeth. All of that will go into the machine.

That's why, at least I think, Midjourney wants Tumblr -- after Instagram we are potentially the most image-heavy social media site, and like Instagram we tag our content, which is metadata that the scraper can use.

So even if you aren't an artist, unless you want to Glaze every image of any kind that you post, you probably want to opt out of being scraped. I'm gonna go ahead and say we've probably already been scraped anyway, so I don't think there's a ton of point in taking down your tumblr or locking down specific images, but I mean...especially if it's stuff like pictures of children or say, a fundraising photo that involves your medical data, it maybe can't hurt.

If you do want to officially opt out, which may help if there's a class-action lawsuit later, you're going to want to go to the gear in the upper-right corner on the Tumblr desktop site, select each of your blogs from the list on the right-hand side, and scroll down to "Visibility". Select "Prevent third party sharing for [username]" to flip that bad boy on.

(If someone wants to post a link in notes to instructions for doing it on the app, I haven't updated mine so the option doesn't appear and I don't know where to find it.)

#tumblr

[ravennowithtea]

RE: Tumblr selling data to GenAI companies. (prev reblog.)

At this point I'm truly wondering what to do, really. (Glaze your art and so on, sure) But even the words we write, our personal thoughts, asks, everything is getting fed into these fucking machines from any site available. "Make your own page!" - Services like Squarespace, which are what I and most of my peers use, have sneakily added the option to allow third-party crawlers to harvest data. And portfolio websites are not social media. I want to interact and I have to reach clients.

Are we reaching the point where we have to post only previews and send finished art via Newsletters or post behind paywalls? Print it out and send a pigeon to our followers' homes?

I'm so fucking tired. So angry.

I've been an artist through life-threatening depression, through working and studying full time, through moving house and country, through the pandemic.

And this? This might just be what breaks me.

#same

[ravennowithtea]

Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

Here are the important details:

We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner. 

We want to represent all of you on Tumblr and ensure that protections are in place for how your content is used. We are committed to making sure our partners respect those decisions.

To opt out of sharing your public blogs’ content with third parties, visit each of your public blogs’ blog settings via the web interface and toggle on the “Prevent third-party sharing” option. 

For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc. 

Please note: If you’ve already chosen to discourage search crawling of your blog in your settings, we’ve automatically enabled the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.

If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.

#signal boost #this looks REALLY bad tumblr

[ravennowithtea]

JUST A REMINDER, as tumblr prepares to potentially shoot itself in the face.....

you can find me on bluesky

[ravennowithtea]

dedicated to @buhloodweeeave who gifted me [this] fic 🔥

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 fanart #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #astarion ancunin #bloodweave #a return appearance of that cleric of mystra's dog collar #nsft fic link

[ravennowithtea]

your gale in fishnets is CHEFS KISS im gonna cry your art is so friend shaped and squishy. idk how to explain it. ur style is so squishy. 10/10

I'm glad folks are enjoying it! I certainly had fun drawing it :)

also

ehehehehe "friend shaped and squishy" --yes! goals. thank you! 🧡

#asks and replies #oc tag #candelasobscura #gonna be smiling about this all day #thank you #“squiiiiiishy�� #hehehe #delightful

[ravennowithtea]

I just wanna let you know that I absolutely love your art and style! You do an amazing job capturing emotion and comfort and just... I love it all. Thank you for sharing your art with us! 💜

awww what a lovely compliment to get! thank you!! 💜

#asks and replies #im so glad to hear when people are enjoying my work #warms my heart~

[ravennowithtea]

Hi! So, I'm a Bloodweave fic writer and I was wondering if you'd be alright with me basing a fic off of that lovely after hours art you made! The stockings are making me go absolutely feral. Plus. The mage hand. Plus the collar. Plus. All of it it's all of it actually? it's all of it I'm obsessed.

I hope it's okay I answer this publicly.

I just want to make it clear to anyone else possibly wondering-- my policy with inspired-by fanfiction is a resounding yes! please go right ahead!

(also I hope folks send me links if they write inspired by fic, cuz I wanna read stuff! (⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠)b )

#questions and answers #buhloodweeeave

[ravennowithtea]

bloodweave request pool, After Hours version for [THIS] post 🌘

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 fanart #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #astarion ancunin #bloodweave #because the vote for fishnet stockings was so close ✌️ #also bonus #improper use of mage hand

[ravennowithtea]

more from the bloodweave request pool ☀️

plus a bonus [after hours version] ✨

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 fanart #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #astarion ancunin #bloodweave #y'all voted for those stirrup leggings for this one ✌️

[ravennowithtea]

I love the way you draw your characters there's a certain charm to them that I can't really place into words... just. The roundness of them, the way they feel lived in. The way the lines are so neat... like you can tell you really enjoyed drawing this scene or this character from the amount of love you pour into it? And your coloring is also!! so good!! i love it all a lot you have one of my favorite art styles ever i am so thoroughly charmed by your work!!

oh gosh, what a wonderfully thoughtful message to find in my inbox! you have made my day dear sweet anon-- thank you 💕

#asks and replies #goodness gracious #<3 #*chin hands* #gosh

[ravennowithtea]

a combination of several bloodweave requests 💜✌️

#bg3 #baldur's gate 3 #baldur's gate 3 fanart #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #astarion ancunin #bloodweave #valentines day #wavemothers robe #commissions and requests

[ravennowithtea]

🌿 a little something sweet for february 13th 💜

#oc tag #ravenno #ravennowithtea #square crop because IG forces me to put things in boxes #idk what else to tag this