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[sturgeonposting]

Do you love the colour of the sturgeon?

Which one?

#sturgeon #sturgeon fish #fish #fishblr #i love pngs #i love sturgeon fish #I did not edit the colors of any of these photos but I feel like I should say: m #some of these are taken under water which makes the colors look different #do you love the color of the sky

[hoshioyoo]

let me tell you a story…

#comic i did a while back #good omens #good omens fanart #aziraphale #crowley #ineffable husbands #neil gaiman #aziracrow #might edit some lines for the zine #did i mention i’m making a gomens zine? #well now you know! #artists on tumblr

[abracadaze]

i feel so bad for nikola tesla like imagine spending years beefing with a guy who has conned the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and you end up dying broke and starving and alone and then 100 years later another guy cons the public into believing he's some sort of supergenius when in reality it's his overworked employees developing all of his world-changing inventions and he's doing it all IN YOUR NAME. he must be rolling in his grave like a fucking rotisserie chicken

#when penelope scott said ''you promised you'd be tesla but you're just another edison'' she was so right. she gets it #edit: now that this is getting popular i just want to say please don't deify/martyr tesla #yes he was dealt an awful hand but he also had some very bad opinions especially towards the end of his life. like eugenics #he was clearly struggling with untreated mental illness and was also a product of his time so i'm not trying to cancel him or anything lol #but people in the notes saying ''my poor baby boy tesla did nothing wrong'' is weird. you know that's weird right. #daze.txt #100 #500 #1k #5k #10k #20k #30k #40k #50k #60k #70k #80k #90k #100k #speechless btw. about the 100k notes thing

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME #there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing #and the writing is what i need to be doing #writeblr #this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to #edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol #i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!! #my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means #i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her) #hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong #i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet. #i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse #i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!! #i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO #i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness #and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it #im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us #i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer #and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art. #i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work #even if it means being miserable #but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.

[hayden-christensen]

It all started with a farmboy, a scoundrel, a princess, and a dark lord...

HAPPY STAR WARS DAY STAR WARS WEEK 2024 DAY 6: MAY THE 4TH BE WITH YOU

#sww24 #swsource #star wars #swedit #starwarsedit #star wars day #may the 4th #may the fourth #may the force be with you #may the fourth be with you #starwarsblr #userlumi #*mine #*2024 #*gifs #[layout] #4k #good lord there's so many shows and movies asdfkash I know there's some missing but I did NAWT know what to gif for them also they're minor #I had several ideas for may 4 this year but I had to go with the one that could be done in basically a day bc of the previous edits haha #release order this year bc the anthologies stuff things uppppp

[krysmcscience]

Call this the Whoopsie AU (it's barely an AU)

I mean. Narinder never explicitly SAID the Lamb would stay dead... :3c He probably should have been more specific. >:3c

Part Two:

Well. The Lamb tried, but...sorry, Nari, the crown hates you now. Shouldn't have been so quick to lend it out, I guess. :D

Aaaand Part Three:

'Isn't he just adorable?' -The Lamb, probably, while their followers smile and nod and internally scream at the brand new hellcat they now have to share living space with...

Anyway, nothing says 'Dead To Me' like following a person around to loudly remind them of how dead they are to you. Right? Right. Narinder's got this all figured out. <:]

#fanart #comics #cult of the lamb #cotl #narilamb #cotl lamb #cotl narinder #cotl yellow cat #this is my headcanon and i'm sticking to it #the lamb is a goofy stabby-babby goober and narinder is just a grumpy asshole who constantly velcroes onto them for hella snuggles #look - if you've been trapped in the afterlife void for over a thousand years - you are GONNA want a fuckton of snuggles #that's just science #the scribble comic i did with narinder and the yellow cat can technically work as part four i guess #only instead of the lamb Going Gremlin at the attempt to steal their other followers' devotion #they just comin' at him for Rad Cuddles OuO #someday i will draw these two with the proper height difference i imagine them having #today is not that day #today is also not the day i pin down exactly how long i want narinder's tail to be #(but i want it to be Very Long - just because) #there are inconsistencies here and there and probably some mistakes but i have been working on these for a week and i am So Tired guys #EDIT: haha yeah i forgot to color in narinder's fukken ears again #fuk :) #EDIT 2: i fixed it but it's probably too late at this point lmao #EDIT 3: THE LAMB'S FUKKEN HORNS JFC #i am not editing this thing anymore cuz i need sleep and the mistakes are already out there *dies of artist mortification*

[constantlyfalling]

Sometimes, it be like this.

#tbh #i have no idea how to tag this #space #cone #mood #my post #digital art #photo edit #i took a picture of a cone that was spray painted #i did edit the spray paint some #then i uh put that cone in space and made it wobbly #because i felt like it #and I feel like I am up in space crying sometimes #i feel like there is a dw joke in these tags somewhere

[rigorwhoretis]

#mine #did some experimental editing #Lilith

[tragicotps]

What age was Gillian Anderson in The X-Files? (x)

#gillian anderson #Dana scully #txf #the x files #wired #lol i cant believe they could just lie about their age and no one ever checked this beforehand 🤯 #thank god she did #she has a point there 🤣 #even at 27 this is pretty unrealistic #unless Scully was some kind of child prodigy #which i can accept #baby scully #my edit

[newttxt]

another comic for “utilities included” skfkskdjsjs

this time for chapter two 😅

masterpost

#one piece #sanji #zoro #zosan #narrator: and he continued to wait. and yes it was worse for him #i was humored that some ppl thought i had whipped up the last comic in less than 10 hrs #when in reality i had early access and had drawn it in advance #but then i DID make this one in less than 10 hrs so maybe im just rly inspired by this fic #also i will NOT screw the link up this time i swear… #i just have to wait to add it bc im scheduling this BEFORE the chapter is edited and posted— #which reminds me im supposed to go edit that arent i dkfkdkfkdkf #utilities included

[salamispots]

heard it was year of the dragon : 0 also been trying to learn clip studio more

#artists on tumblr #sketchbook stuff #no art summary this year haha got very chill? plus didn't draw a lot this year (or at least the past few months) #buT I did draw something for new years fdghjf #how the fuck do people use screentones hAHA #thanks to everyone who's still hanging around or found my stuff haha #also I think it's absolutely fucking wild some peeps are getting very close to following me for 10 years >:'D #edit: ohhhhhhh man I checked when my first post was in the archive which was november 2013 so this tumblr is literally 10 years old FDJFKH

[spiderrverse]

Spider-Punk icons 💥

#no credit needed obvs these are just ss lol #with some very minor edits to make them pop #astv #across the spiderverse #spiderpunk #spider punk #hobie brown #i did not mean to stick to just his masked appearance lmao #ill make an unmasked version too then #vark posts #atsv icons

[caeslxys]

“i will not let you go”/“what if i’m holding you back?”

yes i’m late on this one. woops

#critical role #imogen temult #laudna #imodna #i spent way too much time on this just to not like it in the end BUT. THATS GROWTH. anyway #themb… #oh also #delilah briarwood #i suppose. she is In There #edit: hm. that sure did get Compressed huh. I perhaps forgot to check some stuff before uploading but look. listen. I am DONE with this one #my art

[volchiitza]

clearly trying to stop fixating on "productivity" has actually improved my focus

#gradblr #phdblr #phd life #phd #studyblr #study motivation #listen tumblr's new thing where you can copy paste previous tags and they paste as tags instead of a line of tags is impressive #omggg you can also edit the text in a tag?????!!!! #hello when did tumblr actually start listening to our suggestions and implementing them??? #look i know those are fake flowers but hey my office is a little bleak and i needed some reminders of happiness and fresh flowers are #difficult because a) they dont sell them near campus and b) i go in pretty sporadic so they wilt and die so easily #even though the same flowers would last weeks when i get them for the house

[queenofinys]

"and then you look at it, and it looks... otherworldly. this is denis. he just creates this shape. it's not perfect. it's timeless. it reminds me of... do you remember arrival? you know those big alien creatures? that's the shape." — rebecca ferguson in an interview with hollywood insider

#arrival #dune #duneedit #filmedit #denis villeneuve #film #arrival 2016 #scifiedit #scifi #filmgifs #movieedit #userfnuggi #userbunneis #i truly do not know what to tag this.... #most random thing i've ever made but this comparison has been haunting me #where did she get this idea. i want to study her brain. #i'm perfectly happy for this to get 2 notes haha #thank you to everyone who helped me on the journey of this edit #which went from me believing that i had seen this as a quote from some random person on twitter and internalized it #to @kidbabygodforsakenmess finding the video of rebecca saying this #maya edits

[filurig]

instructional booklet for basal and listless ceteceans feeling like looking for porpoise

#cetacean #art #illustration #digital art #pakicetus #ambulocetus also shows up briefly #long post #digital illustration #this was for my school assignment this week LOL did this in 2 days x_x #its supposed to be formatted like a booklet so i did print one and had to edit some of the pages for it to work better digitally LOL #not oc stuff #i suppose ill tag everything that isnt oc art under that LOL #ALSO pls dont mind the probable inaccuracies in my depictions of pakicetus/ambulocetus i did Not have time to liek. #be supar accurate (never drawn a basal cetacean before) #also this all was based on the title given to me by a classmate FKJDSKFSJD i lucked out on getting a good prompt