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magpiemalarkey · 3 days
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I don't CARE what genre your fictional world is, put a talking skeleton in it NOW
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magpiemalarkey · 5 days
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More of these weird little guys!
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Needed a chill project so went through a pages of weird little creature doodles and picked out some to fill a page to use to play around with gouache and colored pencil. (and felt pen for outlines).
These are technically concepts for a project I sometimes find time to work on, but basically they are just little guys. Canonically little creachurs.
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magpiemalarkey · 10 days
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Reblogging this too, because Negative is back! I'm so curious about what is deal is!! And I love everything that is going on with tv face eyeball thing......!
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Belated Day 11 of Inktober because I had some details I didn’t quite manage yesterday. Taking a break from the prompt list to do some fan art for @modmad‘s comic The Property of Hate. I’m very excited about this comic.
I’m sure someone’s done the tarot thing before, but shhhh. Tarot designs are fun.
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magpiemalarkey · 10 days
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He's back! Time to reblog some old art!
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Inktober Day 14, in which I wasn’t really feeling the prompt so more TPoH fan art ensued. Less fancy this time. Still very fun. 
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magpiemalarkey · 14 days
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The players on Tattered World have been battling hard and all five stages of Disdain have now been revealed! The final stage might be my fave. Love to draw spooky skeleton bits.
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Recent work finally revealed as part of the current Event on Tattered World! The Scourge of Disdain! A menace users can battle during the event...hopefully distracting her long enough for the NPCs to get away with the daring plan to disrupt her schemes!
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magpiemalarkey · 24 days
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Needed a chill project so went through a pages of weird little creature doodles and picked out some to fill a page to use to play around with gouache and colored pencil. (and felt pen for outlines).
These are technically concepts for a project I sometimes find time to work on, but basically they are just little guys. Canonically little creachurs.
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magpiemalarkey · 29 days
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Recent work finally revealed as part of the current Event on Tattered World! The Scourge of Disdain! A menace users can battle during the event...hopefully distracting her long enough for the NPCs to get away with the daring plan to disrupt her schemes!
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magpiemalarkey · 29 days
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This is depressingly true and part of why I'm not immediately packing my shit and leaving.
However, I do find it extra-scummy when a company agrees to take cash to sell my words and art to a company. We already find it scummy that companies sell a lot of personal data, data that many folks were not aware they were generating, to advertisers. And lots of folks are fighting against that and looking for sites that didn't do that. I think it's valid to want to hope that there is someplace where the scummy behavior isn't apparently baked into the infrastructure.
This attitude of companies viewing site users as some sort of farm for data and content to generate profit by selling it all to other companies who in turn think of site users only as something that needs to be gamed in order to extract the most money out of us is something we can and should protest. Like. Wait a minute. If we're producing all the actual content and raw material in this system, why don't we get a cut of the profits? Or at least a say in this process?
It may feel futile because a lot of extra scummy people are wandering around taking our data and our content no matter where we go, but I still think kicking up a fuss about it over and over again and abandoning sites that treat our information and our words and our pictures as their property is part of the (long, slow) process of making a change for the better and will help in making it possible to legislate against this scummy habit of treating anything on the internet as fair game for people who want to make money off of other people's information and work.
Now, as a freelance artist and writer, I am kinda in rock meets hard place situation, because I need an audience to see my posts and share them and hopefully buy stuff or commission me or hire me because this is my livelihood, but I also need to be able to retain control over my work because often what I am selling is a limited right to use my original work. In uploading to a site like tumblr or cohost, I am granting them permission to publish and share my work on their site, and also granting users here that right but I am not granting them ownership of my work. (Like, literally, the TOS spells out what rights we grant them. This is a contract that we agree to when we use the site. This is why periodically artists will get all up in arms about misunderstanding a TOS or get shouty about an unclearly worded one.) I am pretty sure I did not grant tumblr the right to sell my actual words and art to a third party who also want to make money by using my words and art without paying me or even acknowledging me. And I do not want this practice to become something we shrug at and accept as necessary for being online in the 21st century.
So, yeah, folks who are choosing a lesser evil and moving to sites that are, for now, not apparently participating in this shit have my blessing. Please keep moving and making it clear why you are moving. Make partnering with AI companies seem like a really unprofitable, site-killing business plan. We can't stop what's already happened, but we can discourage other companies from doing it in the future.
Also, this is a devastatingly difficult time to be someone who wants to make a living doing any kind of art. Please come find your favorite artists and writers, etc, on other sites and share our work in ways that don't utterly shaft us! Please tell us where you're going so we can follow you there. I have to be where the people are, and I would so much prefer to be in places where inevitable content theft by outside parties is still viewed as theft and not part of the shitty agreement I have to make in order to have people see my work.
I said this elsewhere but
not to be That Guy but I don't really see the point of moving platforms anymore.
There is no where we can hide on the internet from the silicon valley bros. There just isn't. Patreon is VC-funded and could announce tomorrow that oh of course they've been partnered with Midjourney for months already. Twitter actively scraps everything for AI learning. And even if you trusted the other big players like FB/IG to tell the truth about shit, people are going to use these platforms for datasets anyway. They'll just do it quietly and hope no one notices.
And places like cohost or whatever-- honestly, if it makes you feel safer/better, go for it, but I don't think cohost has the sway or capital to build the type of legal team you need to fight against scrapers. Hell, you wanna retreat into private discords? Discord wants in on AI too.
Everyone big is already dealing in AI, and everyone small doesn't even have a seat at the table. In my opinion, we are all collectively holding out for Brussels or any of the many court cases to do something about this shit, because it's no longer a thing we can just hide from.
I'm going to keep my writing on the AO3 because they are the odd case of having an actual legal team in place for this shit. For artists, I have nothing but sympathy. I suggest glazing and nightshading literally everything you post.
But beyond that, I'm unsure what we can do. This is a matter for legislation. Silicon Valley doesn't care if we all go to cohost, and even less scrupulous data-crawlers will just grab our shit from there too.
So I'll be here.
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magpiemalarkey · 30 days
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*deep sigh*
Not moving offsite yet, but reblogging this again after recent news.
Given recent nonsense, I have updated my pinned post to mention a couple other social media platforms I am on for folks who would be more comfortable following me elsewhere, or who are in the process of setting up back-up accounts elsewhere.
If you like my art or whatever, please do follow me elsewhere! I can really only juggle a couple of social media platforms at a time, so the more followers and interactions I am getting at your favorite social media, the more I am likely to post more art there!
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magpiemalarkey · 1 month
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Added this guy to my Redbubble shop! Trying to get back in the habit of making art I do available to purchase in some format. Redbubble (and other print on demand services) aren't exactly generous with the cut they give me, but everything helps keep me alive and fed and all that!
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Was in a painting mood, so painted a magpie!
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magpiemalarkey · 1 month
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Thinking about my Red Rider 'verse which has a lot of beings bound by rules and complications of will.
The Fae in RR are actually a big step to the right towards machine rules. And maybe a bit up towards Angel rules. Breaking their own rules hurts them and, at the very least, alters them.
Demons get their ability to enter the human world via a magically-binding contract. Breaking their contract usually snaps them out of the human world. Trying to get loopholes into contracts or finding loopholes is how demons try to extend their invites and freedom to do what they want instead of what their summoners want.
I don't think Spirits have true free will. Even the ones that can seem like intelligent persons of a sort. A river doesn't question being a river or what that means. It never dreams of being a tree or a woman. It's a river. It does river things.
Gods are kinda somewhere in the middle? It's a very bad idea for a god to break the rules, or fight too much against the limits on their free will.
Really gotta find some more time to work on my story! But first, gotta do some writing for work, lmao!
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been thinking about fantasy/scifi rule systems and free will
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magpiemalarkey · 1 month
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Given recent nonsense, I have updated my pinned post to mention a couple other social media platforms I am on for folks who would be more comfortable following me elsewhere, or who are in the process of setting up back-up accounts elsewhere.
If you like my art or whatever, please do follow me elsewhere! I can really only juggle a couple of social media platforms at a time, so the more followers and interactions I am getting at your favorite social media, the more I am likely to post more art there!
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magpiemalarkey · 1 month
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Given recent nonsense, I have updated my pinned post to mention a couple other social media platforms I am on for folks who would be more comfortable following me elsewhere, or who are in the process of setting up back-up accounts elsewhere.
If you like my art or whatever, please do follow me elsewhere! I can really only juggle a couple of social media platforms at a time, so the more followers and interactions I am getting at your favorite social media, the more I am likely to post more art there!
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magpiemalarkey · 1 month
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I would like a button to press that says "I am already part of Marginalized Community X and active in Political Issue Y, please do not show me all the posts about horrible things happening to people like me and my loved ones that are directed at Dominant Group A to raise awareness, because I have already cried about Horrible Thing Z twice today, I do not need to be more aware."
That probably wouldn't fit on a button, huh.
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magpiemalarkey · 1 month
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Was in a painting mood, so painted a magpie!
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magpiemalarkey · 1 month
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Time to update my commissions info and prices!
Please check out my Commissions Guide for full details and information, but here’s a brief run down!
As you can probably tell from my examples: I love drawing fantasy stuff and would love to draw your ocs or ttrpg characters or even your fandom blorbos!
I don’t draw explicit sexual or violent content. I have a few other things I am ehhhh about and reserve the right to refuse to do a commission for any reason!
My prices for full body drawings range from $40 USD for an inked image to $100 for a fully colored one. The painted busts start at $150! Complex designs, backgrounds, and additional characters cost extra. Check out the Guide linked above for more detailed info on prices.
I will always go over what you’re looking for and give you the price based on what we discuss. Half of the full price must be paid before I begin working.
Okay, that’s the basics! Please do read through the guide before contacting me. It answers a lot of basic questions in more detail and has a few more example images to look at!
I am also open for commerical work for folks looking for an artist for a project or for work you plan to make money off of! Rules are a little different for that, but do feel free to send inquiries my way!  (mcm[dot]illustration[at]gmail[dot]com)
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magpiemalarkey · 1 month
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Been experimenting a bit with chibi style stuff! Here's the main characters from my current WIP novel. Vera and her gf Bianca. And Frisket and the human they are flirting with, Rhys.
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