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residentinsomniacartist · 1 year

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Quick sketch of Juno from my sketchbook today!!

I used some markers I haven’t gotten out since I was a screaming crying infant so that was an experience and idk if it looks that good, and I have no idea how to format tumblr posts so please be gentle with me if I fucked it up XD

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homophobicwarios · 4 months

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Love posting my Spotify receipts for the month bc you can always tell when I’ve had smth big to write for one of my classes bc the one Jash song (Dream (Outro from Calamity)) will make the receipt. I did not end up a Jashinator but I do like having a song I can rely on to make me write things.

#rian’s slay compilation #the first time I heard the song I was in a mood all da time so I really identified it w what splitting felt like #idk it doesn’t hit as much now bc I’ve undergone a different sort of mental illness lately (more tired than actively harmful to myself)#^it’s the way it picks up in intensity. that’s what it feels like when you try to communicate how smth feels but they don’t listen and then #go have fun at a concert and you feel so nauseous that you have to leave a shared group chat while you sob your eyes out for several hours.#y’know? anyway June/July was fun. I need four hours of build daily to keep me occupied (tired). it does actually do me wonders.#I’m so big and strong now. idk how big you are my lovely mutuals but I could lift the smaller ones I reckon.#right now I could pick up (not for long) anyone around or under 150 pounds. also preferably not super taller than me but I think it’d work.#it’s a start! I should start lifting. makes me feel big and strong. I wanna pick my friends up.#^sorry to derail this in the tags but I typed that up and was like ‘that’s such a King statement’. it’s bc someone liked a post where I #talked about feeling all overgrown and how King being half a foot shorter than me but still picking me up like a brides made me feel Not #Overgrown #I don’t worry about feeling overgrown so much anymore but I do kinda miss the bride lifting. it was nice every once in a while #it’s small things like that.#side note I think I could pick King up now bc they’re roughly my weight and as we established I can lift ppl about my weight very briefly #it’s the build. it makes me big and strong. it’s all the wood holding and platform throwing

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kakusu-shipping · 11 months

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You’re all getting another unpromted headcanon dump because I’m very personally tired of the “Mario would hide his struggles and trauma post Movie from Luigi because he doesn’t want to look weak and keep up the appearance of the Strong Older Brother” take. Don’t Eldest Daughter Syndrome Mario. He and Luigi are a team. A pair. He would tell Luigi everything.

Anyway here’s everything I think Mario personally struggles with and would rely on Luigi for

The Mario movie put it very blatantly on the table that Mario’s a little touchy about his height. It’s probably more so because he’s use to being picked on as The Short Guy on the sports team rather than it really actually bothering him all that much. He’s just assumes someone calling him short is an insult. The only personal problem he has with it is being shorter than Luigi. They spent a lot of their childhood the same height, and Luigi being taller still messes them both up from time to time

This is another left over from Highschool; Mario and Luigi (accidentally) kind of fell into the trope of the Smart twin and the Sporty twin, with Mario being the ladder. This messed with his head in a way he couldn’t really articulate, being expected to be a Meathead like the other guys on his sports teams did actually cause his grades to go down, especially in Math which use to be his best subject, which of course caused a lot of concerned backlash from their parents, especially his dad. Now he has it locked in his brain somewhere he’s stupid when he’s not.

He’s bad with people. Luigi’s a lot more of a people person than he is. He has a hard time connecting to people, or making simple small talk. He can be pretty blunt, or awkward, and maybe a bit aggressive sounding, especially to someone not use to how loud and confidently he speaks. As he gets older he gets quieter, speaks less, falls into a much more comfortable selective mute life style, and it suits him much better than trying to fumble through talking to people. He prefers to listen

He’s definitely a workaholic, he’d gotta be busy busy busy all the time. A lot of people will see him run from one project to the next, never turning down a request for help with something, constantly juggling tasks and working on something in his spare time and think it’s all because he’s such a nice, hard working guy. But no. It’s the stress of not doing enough. Or because he anxious being alone. Luigi’s the only one who knows Mario will keep going till he crashes, and is the one to always stop him and remind him he’s doing enough, he’s enough. Take a break.

Mario’s always struggled with separation anxiety. He’s never been one for the whole concept of “alone time”, he’d much rather be near people he loves and trusts and can relax around. He use to joke it stems from being born first, those few moments before Luigi was born was more than enough alone time for a life time. He tries to wave it off occasionally, but it really is a problem. If he is ever left alone, say Luigi goes off on some grand adventure without him, he finds things to work on until he passes out, and then just sleeps and lays about until Luigi comes back.

#Mario #Headcanon post #Emile's Writing #I forgot to tag my last few random headcanon dumps with that oops kfdjgkdfjkg #Also included of course is any insomnia and nightmares the movie and other such adventures would inflict #My personal Mario timeline is the Less Mario talks in any given game the older he is #Minus the first 3 2D platformers where there's barely any dialogue #Those are early adventures to me as well just also with Luigi #So we start at like 23 Movie Mario and eventually get to Early 30's Super Paper Mario #With any game with Jr in it being later in the timeline as well because Jr was born After Mario showed up personal headcanon #and is like 6 in Sunshine so kfdjgkfdgk #I do NOT have the mental energy to be talking about a purely headcanon based Mario Timeline actually #Here's all my personal ideas for Mario's mental weaknesses because to me he's a 3D human person with flaws and struggles #While also being just a Really Good Guy #I love him #Aight it's 2am I should be off to bed now I GUESS #Thanks for reading if you did #Lemme know if you ALSO have any Mario personal struggles would LOVE to see more headcanons from people #And Luigi too I know we all have a MILLION headcanons for Luigi Insecurities

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virtuaquarium3d · 10 months

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Images made exclusively for 2012 me

#scribblenauts #doppelganger scribblenauts #I have been very predictable throughohut the ages (obsessed with the Copy)#Me and my sibling (though i think ----- did it first) both made liek. Custom stages in super scribblenauts #That was literally just a platform and then the doppelganger #just because we thought it was so awesome for him to generate random shit #We were right for this. <- guy who also love the pokemon move Metronome #Anyway can you tell most of this is padding because i dont have many actual tags i can give this.#Super scribblenauts so awesome (i need to actually play the others)#draws #2023

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thepaintedsable · 11 months

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‘elp, Old Tumblr users. Rebloging question!

Uh, Howdy! I am quite the new user compared to some of y’all, and I want to see if I can compile a little help here. For my own sake and I suppose whomever may ever run across this.

Why is rebloging so important? Why doesn’t liking suffice? The overarching questions of this! I almost completely understand Tumblrs other functions, but this one evades me. Is it due to the lack of algorithm? Some side questions are below.

Is liking and not rebloging viewed as rude? From what I have gathered, I’ve seen this is fat yes, but I understand things better when there’s an explanation and I haven’t actually found a blog compiling the dos nd donts on this particular issue! I’ve seen that it’s because users, especially artists, won’t get as much traction without a reblog, which is fair, but then what does the like function do? I thought I was being nice by liking, but I’ve seen a couple of blogs that they find it relentlessly annoying and I went “awh shit oh no”

Is there a way to keep your reblogs in a separate space? I seriously don’t want this to come off as rude, I’m just genuinely curious. I post art, myself! I’d love to show off other artists work, but I also don’t want my own stuff to get drowned out in my tirade of showering someone in the plethora of reblog hell (I can and will death scroll way too deep into artwork or fandoms; the large compiling of just everything is the reason I came here! Inspiration galore!). I’ve seen some blogs with no reblogs of others, but who say they want to be rebloged themselves and seemingly take part in the practice somewhere! Which just has me curious. Would it be rude (to standard… standards?) to use a side blog to repost instead? I understand the point is to push the posts to people who follow you, and this would technically go against that. I just want thoughts!

No clue if anyone will see this. Not actually sure what methods you’ll use to respond. But rest assured, if anyone does, you’ll be doing me a favor so I can leach off of your responding habits also because I’m a little fool who wishes to learn and interact.

#tumblr etiquette #tumblr etiquette question #how to tumblr #I'm honestly extremely curious about the answers #I’m not coming from Reddit nor Tik Toc #My dumb brain decided Tumblr would be the best “baby’s first social media platform” for my art #because Twitter is scary Instagram is kinda poo #And the lack of an algorithm and most censorship here allows for such a catharsis #I can say poo poo words on this one and not get my a double s clapped into the damn void #And being able to talk in the tags is filing my whole need to talk in parentheses (because now the extra thoughts have somewhere to go)#help lol #i need assistance #Why reblog?#Also please bottle feed me Tumblr etiquette/history please and thank you I’ll enjoy it

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pepprs · 1 year

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i am now a cookie run kingdom girl. 🙈😭

#purrs #i prefer ovenbreak in terms of the gameplay bc i LOVE play formers and hate strategy games and the resource grinding where u basically just #have to sit there and wait for a ticking clock instead of doing things urself. but im gonna be honest i took one look at milky way cookie #and i KNEW it was over and i would have to play this game. and it’s not as bad as i thought like the graphics are so much better and i love #the designs and the auto mode takes me away from having to deal w strategy stuff bc i literally don’t care and hate the battles etc etc #but im having a good time i think. im at like lvl 15 with a lvl 4 kingdom and i have milky way and some other rly good characters and im #doing well for now. it’s just intimidating looking up tutorials and stuff bc ppl in the discord are all so advanced and talk in shorthand i #don’t understand and i feel like shit for being a noob but that’s also the case for ovenbreak and idc abt competing w ppl anyways. so w/e #one very annoying aspect is like.. how EVRRYTHING requires stuff at the smithy even when you’re trying to access new levels but it takes so #lo ng to make the damn pickaxes 😭 so im just spending all my crystals on those + expanding territory quickly bc all the buildings are #stressing me out. im probably gonna regret it but again im not competing w anyone and if this is what i need to do to enjoy the experience #then so be it. also the moments in levels where it makes u jump and stuff to replicate ovenbreak are so funny to me 💀#like it’s so lame compared to what ovenbreak actually is it makes me giggle every time. i wish these games were combined and i wish milky #way was in ovenbreak she’s genuinely my new favorite cookie of all time i think. i love her SO much #well but i feel bad putting her above pistachio cookie 😭 so they’re tied i guess #also *platformers in my first tag #cr

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dentixvoxel · 10 months

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fun Wangan Midnight fact!: in episode 21, Akio is on screen for only 49 seconds!

#ivan.docx #wangan midnight #wangan tag #i posted this on my tweeter at first but its too good im posting it here too fuck it #i gotta post the same shit to different platforms to maximize my wangan propaganda #i also know that bcuz i cut every episode down to just akio

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imagine-nerd · 11 months

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The yiga schematics are one of my favorite things in totk, behold instant kitchen

#totk spoilers #totk #tears of the kingdom #I don't think it's anything that deserves the spoiler tag but I guess it could be?#Also yes it is all green I used the autobuild function and zonaite to build it #It still makes me giggle like it did when I first found the schematic #Who's gonna tell them the portable pot works in any weather so it doesn't need to be covered?#Why is there a stake in one side of the platform? Are the cooking on the side of a mountain?#Like maybe I shouldn't question the creative genius behind the schematic as one of my default solutions is build bridge #I have a completely normal and healthy amount of time on this game <- lie #Also so upset abt not getting a screenshot of 69.69% bc it jumped from 69.66 to 69.70 bc I found a new cave #The percentages are for % complete for those who are confused

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came0dust · 2 years

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local guy who only really draws organic humanoids inches shakily toward mecha in the name of blorbo

(more sketches, alternate colors, and just general thoughts under the cut)

the purple of hot rod's boots for his g1 design always kind of felt like it came out of nowhere to me so, as much as i love purple, i tried some different color arrangements for them. the problem (used loosely) of the purple not being referenced anywhere else on his design could probably be better solved by introducing more purple to him in general rather than Just reducing/removing it but i decided to try using other colors that were already on him instead, but not before taking some inspiration from transformers go! go!

i came across transformers-translations's translations of tfgg and haruka oda's art for it, along with screenshots i took from a recent rewatch of the transformers movie, was my main point of reference for design and style (mainly for the sake of relative simplicity bc as Much as i love cyberverse and prime i dont think im ready for that level of detail ^^')

i then tried using the magenta-ish colors on him instead

i'm partial to the first option, which uses more of the darker, redder shade and i feel has better contrast with the orange as well as bringing out more usage of that color in general when compared to how hot rod's arms are Just the pink basically, but i tried the inverse just to see how it'd look. i would have tried adding orange but i got sleepy and oogh ouch my spine

i feel i should mention, also, that the headshot i colored was done by chipping away at it throughout the day on my phone, cross referencing with my movie screenshots as well as having taken some notes on oda's work beforehand. here's one of the rougher versions of it, and then the cleaner one i colored

and then that full body was me trying to apply the things i learned on my own (no references, basically just remembering and guessing, which probably shows 💀 no robot muscle memory)

last and. okay saying that it Is least is a bit mean but this was when i had less knowledge and direction with how i wanted to do things. the things up there are from like the last 24 hours after doing some more coherent studying and assessment of how things might work, but these are from as far back as 5 days ago where i was basically just working off of instinct which does not exactly include an understanding of transformers..... anything visually. i still want to share them but i didnt want them to be my first impression bc i feel like ive already learned a lot since doing them

#my art #maccadam #first post in this tag after like a year of being a transformers fan shfrjegjfs #hot rod #g1 hot rod #The Bee is also here but under the cut so i feel like i shouldnt mention him by name since he isnt the focus and tumblr search... you know #samsung notes #csp #ive been missing my brush over in squirrel program and for territory im this unfamiliar with i wanted something i knew #colored sketch #the formatting seems to differ based on platform but if nothing else i hope the readmore works at least bc thats the most important part #for context though the images that are clustered together are supposed to be side by side

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isabellehemlock · 2 years

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Promotion or interaction

I've been contemplating a bit about this aspect of fandom, trying to find the labels that most resonate with what I'm hoping to convey, and I sort of stumbled on them by accident yesterday as I researched some links about how to help build engagement for discord channels.

Basically the line discussed what you want your purpose to be: promotion or interaction.

Now of course you might counter, in a perfect fandom world it's a bit of both and maybe depending on the definition of each word to you, that could be the case. But the point they were getting at was a sort of performative reduction of your own content vs nurturing community.

Before I go on too much more, let me pause here for a moment to add a disclaimer: just like content creators do not owe anyone their content, fans do not owe reactions either. The moment it slips into these caveats of being made responsible for someone else's feelings, and/or shamed, guilted, into anything, we have filtered what was once a personal hobby meant to add to our lives, and let it fester into something akin to an unpaid internship you had never agreed to work for in the first place.

SO all that said - what I'm referring to are content creators like myself who want the interaction in forums, channels, platforms. And not in a performative way, but a mutual effort of encouragement, of sharing the process, of talking about WIPs, showing rough drafts, exchanging resources. Like our own personal little artist commune. And yet, we don't want it to be exclusionary, there are so many content creators who just haven't built up the courage to share their work (I didn't for years!). So it's not about being an "art club" with exclusive membership either.

But more like - building a little club house out back of a wider fandom space. One where you bump knees as you tell jokes, pass around new brush sets, and scribble on notebook paper that someone found from the stack in the corner.

It's waving others over, and encouraging them to join in simply for the sake of art, and art alone. It's for the laughs, for the creativity, for the community.

And then if there's a finished piece to share down the road, it's still something to celebrate of course - seeing something created out of nothing is a joyous thing and please allow yourself to enjoy it - but it's almost the icing on the cake at that point. You know, that sentiment where they say it's about the journey, not the destination? Yeah that.

Because for some of us, sharing the finished piece is like a sign post along the way of an otherwise winding, fun, exploratative journey of creativity. And for me, that road looks more fun when I get to do it with others.

And though there is nothing wrong if you do not want those things - I certainly am not here to suggest one way applies to all, that's not possible - I know I have spent months contemplating what it is I want in my shifting community. And who knows, maybe it'll shift again as I grow and evolve.

But right now, I know I want a playhouse, and an encouraging community filled with laughter and comraderie where some of us just happen to make art along the way. And I'm 100% ready to be the change I want to see.

#I'm very grateful for the platforms I've had to explore fandom spaces for the last two years as a content creator #I have been - and continue to be - part of some really lovely places that bring me a lot of joy #and I'm a varied creature like the next person lol #no one place can be the place to service all the needs #but I'm grateful for the opportunity to have praacticed building communities and nuturing friendships #and as I prepare for the long winter I am excited for things around the corner :)#fandom stuff #personal #eta also for my mutuals - I'll be getting to tags and asks throughout the day lol I just needed to write this out first 😅

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wataeichis · 2 years

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I love enstars (just came across another gore card edit account on tiktok and is genuinely triggered)

#im gonna go on a fun little rant in these tags okay #i dont care if youre using the excuse that ur mentally ill #ur also creating and sharing triggering content on a public platform where its recommended to random people #go private ur account or go to a social media that isnt as heavily algorithm based #????#they were taking requests too and making charas have sh and random injuries snd this isnt the first time ive come wcross accs like these #they trigger me so bad and i come across them UNWILLINGLY brcause of the fucking algorithm #i hate you if you make thede kinds of edits fyi #i get it being a coping mechanism for some people i at times have created triggering content to cope #dont share it publicly?#dont go post it on tiktok for clout to get popular for it knowing its triggering?#seek help literally #you KNOW youre triggering people cmon dont post that shit publicly #used to know someone who made these kinds of edits if you somehow come across this post know i hate you #they run a meme page now!! everytime a post of theirs lands on my feed i want to die #i hate the internet so bad #gore mention #sh mention

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blackpearlblast · 5 months

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you can give seven days of internet connection to someone in gaza for just 6 USD

gazaesims.com is a website dedicated to helping people donate esims for people in gaza. (for the ultimate guide to donating an esim, see http://tinyurl.com/gaza-esims) there are multiple options for where to purchase an esim to donate, for the price i listed you want to use nomad esims. you can get a $3 discount by using someone's referral code from the notes of this post. it also will give the referrer credit to buy more esims! (you can only use a referral code on your first purchase) @/fairuzfan also a tag for esim referral codes here, some of which are nomad. BACKPACKNOMAD is another code to get $3 off your first purchase, it's been working for some people but not others so try out a referral code instead if you can't get it to work. also it took over an hour for the email with my information to come through so don't panic if it doesn't show up right away. (logging back into your nomad account seems to have helped some people get their emails to send!) NOMADCNG is a code for 5% off any middle east region nomad esims from connecting gaza. it can be used on any purchase, not just your first but is generally going to give less off than the first-purchase only codes, so use those first. it can be used in combination with nomad points. (nomad promo codes do not work on plans that are already on sale, unlimited plans, and plans under $5)

weekly tuesdays only code on nomad web, PST timezone! it gives 10% off plans 10gb and above. NOMADTUE

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#esims for gaza #free palestine #free gaza #palestine #gaza

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crowcryptid · 9 months

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damn they got a glassing beam in this

#oh yeah tag essay time my favorite #perhaps this is heresy but dare i say this game does doom eternal better than doom eternal..?#its like doom eternal but without the ammo issue (which wasnt really an issue tbh) and even MORE fast paced #but to be fair the last time i played eternal was with the dlc so perhaps im remembering it being slower than this.#tho some of the weapons in doom eternal are just way better. ex: super shotgun and the sniper mode on the rifle and the rocket launcher #this game does have a sniper but its not really a proper one. what it does is teleport you inside of the enemy #it does have some issues #there is too much back tracking for something this fast paced. it would benefit greatly from a map. and im not crazy about fps platforming #and some performance issues. i assume its cpu related cause a 4090 should not be getting 70 fps at times in a retro low poly style game #but the gunplay goes crazy. also you have a chainsaw leg that insta kills any fodder enemy and this can heal u with the right perks #i kind of regret not playing on a harder difficulty tho #im playing on street cleaner which is hard mode and its way too easy. my deaths have been environmental ones #theres only 2 enemies so far that have clear 'you gotta counter them this way specifically' gimmick. and 1 boss so far with a gimmick #it should go without saying if u like ultrakill u will like this. it is more like doom eternal tho #i am on episode 2 and i think theres 3 but tbh i dont see how they can add even more guns and enemies at this point????????#and yes i am aware of maw. yes. i know. i recognized the voice immediately. i havent fought him yet.#dont worry if i was going to get infected by brainrot it would have happened at first sight and it didnt. youre all safe.#turbo overkill #edit: ok LOL i just heard one of his monologues oh god he is like a 4chan user about to end up on a watchlist. reaper/revenant type of edge

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dduane · 11 months

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Had an idea you might be able to use for something: Klingon Soap Operas.

(sigh)

Thanks for the thought. I appreciate your kindness!

But unfortunately, because you've sent me the idea and I've read it, I can now not use it, ever. No matter how much I might like to.

This isn't about you, you understand. And in its way it probably seems like a cruel paradox. You were only trying to be helpful! But if I was working on something for Trek and this concept came up even in casual discussion, I would be honor-bound (and contractually required) to inform them that the idea had come to me from a reader or fan. And then—rightly, from their point of view—they would forbid me to use it, because the idea's originator might some day, despite all their friendly intentions now, sue them over it. And the evidence that I was at fault would be easy to obtain. Sending a DM on any major platform generates an electronic "paper trail" that will confirm its target has opened and read the message in question. And that electronic record can be subpoenaed and submitted as evidence, and would stand up in court.

"Oh, come on, who'd do a thing like that, what are the odds...?" people will say. But it's not generally known that I've already been involved in a high-stakes lawsuit in which someone tried to sue Mattel over material I wrote when developing the initial form of the "Barbie: Fairytopia" universe (and the first Fairytopia film) for them. I'd never so much as met or communicated with the person suing them, had never read even a word of their work... but they still went to great trouble and expense attempting to prove that I'd had access to their material and used it without permission.

Mattel won the suit (as I'd frankly been expecting: the attorney handling their defense was one of the most expert IP lawyers in the US). But it gave me the chills... and made it clear how very wrong things could go, and the kind of damage that could be done to my career and my personal life, if I even accidentally used ideas from unauthorized sources.

Seriously, folks. I know you all mean well! But please don't make me tap the sign. DO NOT SEND ME STORY IDEAS, no matter how vague or general or unformed they may be. To do so is to absolutely guarantee that they will never, ever happen.* (And in my own universes, your innocently-meant suggestion could mean that neither you or anyone else will ever see that particular Young Wizards or Middle Kingdoms plot, no matter how much you'd like to... because I take this stuff seriously.)

...Thanks, all.

*This is also why I don't read fanfic set in my universes. Which you also shouldn't send me: please and thank you.

ETA: I would really, really appreciate it if y'all would refrain from giving @eldritchcatpossumamalgam grief in the tags. They made an honest, well-intentioned mistake, that's all, and they don't deserve to be personally raked over the coals for it. (And any of you who think I would derive any kind of satisfaction from that happening plainly don't know me very well.) So thanks in advance for your cooperation.

#fanfic #story ideas #Don't.#Just...#you know...#DON'T.#(thanking you)

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smellslikebot · 1 year

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how to keep following people when a major social platform implodes

(...and you don't want to join 20 new websites)

First, get an RSS reader*-- here are some free options:

Desktop: Feedbro (browser extension), Fraidycat** (browser extension/web), Thunderbird, Dreamwidth (web)

Android: Feeder

iOS/Mac: NetNewsWire

You'll be able to make a custom feed to follow blogs, webcomics, social media feeds, podcasts, news, and other stuff on the web all in one place. To follow something, find its "feed URL"-- often marked by an icon that looks like this ↓-- and paste it into your reader of choice as a new feed.

Some feed URLs for social media/other sites:

Tumblr: Use username.tumblr.com/rss or username.tumblr.com/tagged/my%20art/rss to follow a blog's "my art" tag (as an example)

Cohost: Use username.cohost.org/rss/public

Mastodon: Use instance.url/@username.rss

Deviantart: Info here

Spacehey: Info here

Youtube: Go to a channel in a web browser, view page source, and use Ctrl-F/Command-F to find a link that starts with "https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id="

Reddit: Info here

Lemmy: At the top of a community's main page, there's a small RSS link next to where you sort posts/comments.

Some additions thanks to @innumerablewounds:

Dreamwidth: https://username.dreamwidth.org/rss (users can opt out of this).

Ao3: Tags have an "RSS Feed" button.

Bluesky: Add /rss to the end of a URL.

Neocities: https://neocities.org/site/username.rss

Sites that won't work all that great:

Twitter: Feedbro and Fraidycat** may be able to use Twitter profile URLs as feed URLs. Otherwise, use nitter.net/username/rss (or other Nitter instance) Public Nitter instances are dead/dying, and Twitter is now very hostile to pretty much anything that makes it easy to generate an RSS feed. For popular accounts, try this workaround using Google News...?

Instagram: Feedbro may be able to use Instagram profile and hashtag URLs as feed URLs. Check Feedbro's "scan interval" setting-- you could be rate limited or temporarily IP banned from Instagram if it makes requests too often!

Facebook: Feedbro may be able to use public Facebook group/page URLs as feed URLs, but see the warnings for Instagram.

Threads: Come on.

Also see how to find the RSS feed URL for almost any site. Try using public RSS-Bridge instances or Happyou Final Scraper to generate feeds for sites that don't have them (Pillowfort, Patreon, etc).

*You can set up your subscriptions in one reader and import them into another by exporting an OPML file. **Fraidycat's intended use is following a lot of people across different sites, so it's well-suited for this post and I'd recommend keeping an eye on it-- but I didn't recommend it initially because I had some issues with it, and it hasn't been updated in a while. The last time I used it, it didn't have a setting to change how often it makes requests to websites, causing me to get IP banned from Twitter and Instagram...

#silly storie #twitter #rss #long post

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rhysand-vs-fenrys · 1 year

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Opinion on AI art?

Hum (and know that 'hum' encompasses the minutes I sat here staring at the wall sorting through my feelings on AI art)

First and foremost, before I say anything else, know that I'm no artist. I can't draw to save my life.

On it's face, it's a really cool concept that has really wonderful potential. People like me who cannot create artwork but who write- we can have a tool that lets us visualize scenes and work out stuff. Any creative person can have that- from writers to tabletop gamers to really any number of people.

I do think it's a good thing, I do think it's a promising thing... that just wasn't done the smart way.

I know they would have needed a lot of images to train the systems, and there are a thousand reasons they would have just used any image they could find.

But... it would have been smarter to put limits on the images drawn from. There were always going to be original artworks caught up in it all- the way people steal and repost art across platforms, things were always going to be caught up in it.

But to my knowledge, no effort has been made to rein it in and limit what it's drawing from to only image libraries that it can subscribe to vs dragging in original creations.

It sounds like a wonderful tool (I haven't tried it at all, not curious enough to hunt it down), but it just wasn't handled properly in its development. There were ways they could have done it to try to at least lessen the original creations being pulled in, and those steps simply were not taken.

Or at least not yet, I'm open to changing my opinion if they make a more ethical form of it. It makes the "creation" (generation) of art more accessible to the un-artistic and can open creative outlets for a lot of people, if it is done properly.

Art is a relatively exclusive industry, just because the talent for it is fairly rare. AI generated art will open that wide, sure, but there will always be a demand for artists. Every technological leap has led to cries of "this is the end for art", and it never is. Creators will always create, and there will always be a consumer demand for their creations.

So yeah. I wish the engines were produced ethically, and overall I'm not bothered by the existence of it. But again, I'm not an artist, so what do I know?

#ask #also just hurling this in the tags but #all the blogs i've seen preaching the evils of AI art that steal from creators #sit around reblogging art that has bullshit 'credit to whoever made this!'#or 'credit to this person on this platform!' well did you post it with their permission? 'no'#reblogging stolen art isn't as bad as stealing it sure #but you're just enabling the asshole who took it and reposted it in the first place #'but i tried and i couldn't find the original source!'; then tough tits- that means you can't repost it #my feelings about the points made in the post are completely set aside by the hypocricy of the people who act so holy for hating ai art #and who then turn around and reblog or post stolen artwork

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