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STORY TIME!

I feel like randomly divulging a bit of my past and how I was before I was confident because I saw a post on my dash that made me want to share my story I guess…

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At my senior graduation I was trying my hardest to cover up my damn arms  and shoulders (I have prominent stretchmarks on my arms and upper back) so I wore this thick ass white jacket over my graduation dress and also covered my legs in thick white stockings. I graduated in the fucking summer, it was hot and I was sweating horribly. My dress was banging but I didn’t feel confident I felt ugly, fat and frumpy.

I always covered myself especially during the summer. I would wear a hoodie, black cardigan, jeans and so on. I didn’t care. I felt like I had to hide myself and be ashamed of my body because I was bigger.

I’d look on at other girls with envy and slut shame them for showing off their bodies because I wished that I had the courage to do what they did. I always cared what other people thought of me and my own family would contribute to my self-loathing I felt about my weight. My brother always threw a fat joke my mom and my mom while she didnt say anything she did laugh. And it hurt alot.

I felt like I was alright looking but I wasn’t enough. As a fat black woman, I felt unnattractive for both my weight AND my race. I straightened my hair, dyed it and just damaged it horribly. And I’d wear this horrid bathing suit in the summer trying to swim with a cover up and trying to hide my body. I just hated it.

I hated myself. And I hated how I looked. I thought the most worthy thing about myself was my “kinda cute face” and boobs.

And I’m still kinda unpacking but I KNOW I look good now. And I KNOW I am the fucking shit. There will be no cardigans or heavy ass jackets to cover my arms. My belly, my cellulite ridden legs shall and will be shown and my stretch marks will be in full bloom.

I’m confident in who I am and how I look. I’m fucking beautiful and shame on anons and fatphobic assholes and all the other douchebags who want to tear a people down for being happy with the way they look or try to tear down people who are just STARTING to become happy with themselves. 

 I’m getting slightly emotional now thinking about it. I was so unhappy with myself and I cared how others saw me that I tried to hid myself. And I dont want anyone else doing that regardless of their size. I dont want ANYONE to feel like they’re ugly and hide themselves like I did because of fucking society and some asshole makes you feel like you arent beautiful. I’m beautiful and so are you.

Because I don’t want to go back to being the girl I was in the photos above. I think the way I dress and carry myself now is a good road for me. I wanna continue blossoming and growing. I never thought that I could go from what’s above to this:

Haters be damned imma keep blossoming <3

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Very hot witcherlass shal is here

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The Way to Bahr Ezadir

"It's a great river, you know, that only glimpses the sun once before it cascades into the sea. A long time ago, the prince named the river for his knight, and the river passed its name to the city. Now no one will forget Ezadir, who fell protecting his love."

(An original illustration project of mine, with my OCs)

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Curious Zelda

https://twitter.com/curiouszelda

https://www.instagram.com/curiouszelda/

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Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.

(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)

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A very quick and rough guide on how i watermark my art. Additional points:

- Watermarks does not prevent art theft or reposters. The point of a watermark or a signature is to provide info on who made the artwork. Majority of reposters dont go extra lengths of removing watermarks, art thiefs on the other hand are more prone to do so.

- a watermark will stay on even if the image is screenshotted or reuploaded in ways that removes the files metadata. A watermark will outlive websites and links and qr codes. A watermark will last even if the image is printed on to paper. A watermark/signature is a very reliable form of information.

- A watermark also serve as evidence if you would ever have to prove you are the creator of a piece.

- Never, and i cannot stress this enough, NEVER upload the original high resolution of your art online. Not on discord. Not in DMs. Not on any fun silly website that can “animate your drawings” etc. The higher the resolution is, the easier it will be for ppl to remove your watermarks. High res images are also more attractive to ai scrapers.

- you should watermark doodles and sketches as well. Because it is common that silly doodles or loose sketches can get more attention online, so mark those as well.

- if you are a digital artist you should be able to know how to create a brush with your signature on it. You dont need an extra program or app to do this. If you can make your own custom brush shapes you can make your own signature. If not, look up a tutorial.

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Ppl: “Glaze and nightshade all your art!!”

Also ppl: * does not mention that you need to have a fucking NVIDIA GPU and running nightshade on one image takes at best 20 minutes*

Like the online version of glaze/nightshade requires an account. And last time i checked they arent accepting new accounts because of the high pressure.

Like i make my art on my ipad. My MacBook is from 2014. If i tried to download and run nightshade on my decade old macbook and go throufg 10+ years of artworks i might as well just set it on fire.

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Ppl: “Glaze and nightshade all your art!!”

Also ppl: * does not mention that you need to have a fucking NVIDIA GPU and running nightshade on one image takes at best 20 minutes*

Like the online version of glaze/nightshade requires an account. And last time i checked they arent accepting new accounts because of the high pressure.

Like i make my art on my ipad. My MacBook is from 2014. If i tried to download and run nightshade on my decade old macbook and go throufg 10+ years of artworks i might as well just set it on fire.

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shoutout out to all my buddies who have shitty dads or no dads at all this father’s day, you turned out just great regardless, you can’t choose your family and you don’t deserve any negativity from them,and you don’t deserve backlash or guilt-tripping for cutting them out of your life if that’s what you need/ed to do and i love you all 

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Signs as Cartoon Network Series

Aries - PowerPuff Girls Taurus - Chowder Gemini - Amazing World of Gumball Cancer - Courage the Cowardly Dog Leo - Adventure Time Virgo - Steven Universe Libra - Samurai Jack Scorpio - Teen Titans Sagittarius - Regular Show Capricorn -  Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends Aquarius - Ed, Edd n Eddy Pisces - Over The Garden Wall

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Big ed took the selfie for fun cus he big frien but eddy definitely made the caption lol

really old meme alert

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felt an urgent need to share some toast appreciation