#but i haven't even got ready yet

[urlocaltannenbaumm]

#haikyuu!! #haikyuu #hq #new movie #HAIKYUU in the mafia world #BAHAHAHSJSJSJS #ok but now i wanna read a fanfic in a haikyuu mafia au #🕳️🚶‍♀️ #istg these two emojis *chefs kiss* #i need to leave in 20 min for my bus #but i haven't even got ready yet #YAYYYYY!!! #delete these tags if you ever plan to repost

[gamebunny-advance]

Today's Pikmin comic...

is so f*cked.

(link)

#pikmin #pikmin comic #mamuta #christ i just wasn't ready for that #but you know what. the 19th's comic was even more f*cked. #it was so disturbing to me that i didn't even want to post about it #it just touched on a very primal fear of mine #in other news i finally got enough requests to start the fanart thing #it's just gonna take me a little longer to get around to it than i'd planned #just a lot going on right now that i wasn't expecting #that said. i won't be reblogging reminders anymore #but if you've somehow read this far and haven't submitted a request yet #still feel free to do so~

[heavensbled]

Every time Zack does that little giggle I-

#me sobbing into my pillow at night #i'm gonna start tagging my EC posts in case you wanna block 'em lmao #there's gonna be so many #i haven't even bothered going through the sephiroth story all the way yet #just got through the rest of the msq while at work today #hoo-boy am i ready for some back story on our favorite murder boy #also tryna fix my pages and theme?? #why am i set for dash only #how...where is the setting for that?? #tumblr...what have you done... #you've massacred my boy #look what you've done to my boy #i feel like an old man wtf #HeavensBled plays Ever Crisis

[juuheizou]

hey! ^^ i really love hearing your thoughts on suzumutsu bc i feel like you understand their characters & dynamic so well, so i thought i'd ask a few random questions i've been thinking about, if u feel like sharing your thoughts on them. for one i've been wondering if animals would like/trust them bc honestly i can see both sides lol. juuzou clearly likes them and in the anime there was that cat in the zoo that liked him too but i can also see him constantly chasing after spooked stray cats... as for tooru i guess it'd depend on what we actually consider canon from whatever the hell his arc was💀 i've also been thinking about how they'd do with kids, like if they had to babysit or something lol. just awkward? terrible? surprisingly good? and finally, what do you think tooru's hobby would be? i can imagine juuzou with a bunch of different hobbies but i couldn't really think of anything for tooru... i think his character is a lot harder for me to understand than juuzou, maybe bc i'm autistic so i relate to juuzou way more lol�� anyways sorry for this long ramble and hope u have a good day<3

NEVER apologize for sending me a long ramble about suzumutsu! I'm so flattered by the fact that you would want to hear (read? it just doesn't sound the same) me ramble about these things, and to say I do their characters and dynamic justice is probably the nicest, highest praise you could tell me about my suzumutsu ramblings, so thank you! My heart is exploding right now, and I hope I continue to do them justice with this rambling haha.

for one i've been wondering if animals would like/trust them bc honestly i can see both sides lol. juuzou clearly likes them and in the anime there was that cat in the zoo that liked him too but i can also see him constantly chasing after spooked stray cats...

That's a super valid point to bring up-- as someone who interacts with a critical mass of people who often like animals but don't know how to do right by them as my actual job, I have to admit I never even considered Suzuya being one of those people. That being said, maybe there is some bias involved because, like you, I relate really strongly to him myself, but part of why I never thought of it that way is he very easily clicks in my head as a fellow cat whisperer. Meaning someone who can even befriend the mean ones and soothe them when they're scared or hurt, with a strong intuition for when something isn't right. And I think being as blunt as he is at times, he would be the one telling people to stop chasing after spooked stray cats, probably with some vulgar word choices and his glare that can unsettle a Washuu into giving him what he wants. I do think that even though being perceptive of their subtle body language and understanding them enough for strays to let him pet them-- which he does habitually enough in :RE that some of Hanbee's last words to him in that omake where he gets sick are to please wash his hands after petting them, is intuitive, he took some trial and error to nail down the practical side of caring for animals. I have no doubt that he would have wanted a pet of his own from the day he learned that humans could not just be pets, but have them. His first was probably a stray he found and smuggled into his dorm as a teenager one day and he figured that having been one himself, he was an expert on what pets needed and how to care for them. He can't bring himself to hurt this precious little creature like Mama did with him, even as a reward, but he has the other things covered. Except he doesn't. He sneaks bits of his school meals back to it because he thinks that since that's what Mama sustained him on, all pets eat their owner's scraps. He's 16 with no job and only lunch money he pickpockets off of day students, so this cat is unvaccinated and has no veterinary care. He tries really hard to make it a warm, safe nest under his bed and the nicest collar he can make out of that he has around, but animals need more than that. It's just not a great situation, and he can tell his newly adopted stray isn't doing well but he doesn't want to let it go because he knows what no one else knows/believes yet about Tokage and for some reason he really doesn't want that fate for this cat. Within a couple of days, he finally confesses to Shinohara that he smuggled a cat into his room and now something really bad is happening with it, what does he do? He does end up having to relinquish the cat to a shelter-- he didn't fully grasp it at the time, but he never would have been able to offer it any quality of life under his bed at the Academy even if he did know how. Shinohara is there as his ride, for emotional support, and to make sure he actually does relinquish the cat. Frankly, he's shocked that Suzuya would care so much about a living thing. It break's Shinohara's heart seeing how devastated Suzuya is over losing the cat, but it also gives him an idea. He is an advocate for rehabilitating Suzuya after all, and now he's found something that can live and die and suffer and Suzuya isn't indifferent to it. It's pretty rare, since Suzuya can only leave the Academy with supervision and Shinohara is a busy investigator/teacher (my excuse for it only being a thing in my head and not in the series haha) but whenever the pieces fall into place, Suzuya gets to spend some time cleaning up after, feeding, grooming, and giving some human affection to the shelter cats, which also teaches him how to take care of them when he can one day get his own. As an adult, with that experience and his natural affinity for his feline friends, he is extremely good with them, and while I see them being his specialty, I think he's good with other animals too.

as for tooru i guess it'd depend on what we actually consider canon from whatever the hell his arc was?

OKAY everyone but anon and I, I promise I did not write this ask to myself, because anon, it is absolutely sending me how much this sounds like something I would say haha. I think the “we've known Tokage was killing animals since the original series, but what if it was Tokage AND Mutsuki now? not that it makes any pieces of anyone's story click into place or anything” thing doesn't make much sense and nothing makes me happier than compartmentalizing it straight into the garbage. Although you might think he is good at gaining their trust with how gentle and patient he is, I don't think Mutsuki is an animal lover per se and his nervousness around them makes them wary of him. I see him as a blank slate. He didn't grow up with any pets even before he became a ward of the CCG. He doesn't know much about animals, and he has a kind of respectful fear for what he doesn't know. He feels sad about and wants to help the poor animals in commercials and news stories suffering in bad conditions, and if he did have any idea about Tokage as a child (which, for this reason, I doubt) he would probably do something as reckless as getting into Torso's cab to try and help just one because that's just how he is about helping others. However, had he ever gotten the opportunity to be a good samaritan with an animal, he would have no idea how to handle the creature itself and probably be nervous to even touch it for fear that he will hurt it or it will just bite him without warning. However, once they grow close and Mutsuki starts hanging out at Suzuya's apartment, he does slowly come to like Suzuya's cats. It terrifies him when Suzuya teaches him that animals probably don't come up to him or let him pet them because they pick up on his fear. Once he realizes that he is the reason these little beasts that Suzuya adores don't like him, however, he gets really dedicated to learning as much as he can about how to win over a cat. It's actually good practice in controlling his reaction to fear, trying everything his research leads him to until finally, finally, the cats start coming to him for affection too. He's not as bad as he was before he met Suzuya, but to this day, though, he usually doesn't approach unfamiliar animals out of concern that he will bother them.

i've also been thinking about how they'd do with kids, like if they had to babysit or something lol. just awkward? terrible? surprisingly good?

Complete reversal of roles compared to animals. There are a lot of things that are great about Suzuya Juuzou, but patience, empathy, and discretion are not among those things. And those are pretty important when interacting with children. Plus, in a babysitting-type arrangement, he has a hard enough time taking care of himself on his own and believes sometimes to a fault in letting people of any age learn from making their own mistakes, so something will probably catch on fire. As if the experience wasn't already infernal enough without literal fire surrounding him and the hapless child he's been left in charge of. On the bright side, he is calm and competent in an emergency, so while his limited child-handling skills probably contributed to something being on fire or the kid getting a big scary gash across its head, he's in his element once the disaster is already happening. He'll control that bleeding head like a professional and probably distract the kid enough to get a laugh while they wait to be seen at urgent care. He'll put out that fire and teach himself how to repair the damage enough that it at least looks like it never happened. If you've ever seen the live action movie of “The Cat in the Hat,” that sums up Suzuya's skill set with kids pretty well. I also just don't see him liking or wanting to hang out with kids when he could be doing literally anything else. If someone was desperate enough to guilt and beg and annoy him into watching theirs, which if they did enough to sway Suzuya of all people, they probably deserve a hard time, I wouldn't put it past him to let the children watch a very age-inappropriate scary movie or just go through his most recent case file right before the parents came home. Not that he wants to harm the kids or blames them for the fact that he's stuck with them, but their psyche is acceptable collateral damage to him if it means their parents will never even consider him as a last resort again. Mutsuki, on the other hand, is both good with children and likes children, and he really cares about making every one he meets feel safe and loved and everything he wasn't at their age. Honestly, whenever I start scheming an AU that doesn't revolve around a certain vocation already and I need to give him a job other than ghoul investigator, teaching, counseling, and childcare are up there with my top choices for him because we know he cares deeply about helping and protecting others. Helping professions have their own unique rewards and challenges and while I think he would at least try helping anywhere he could, working with human(oid) children would have the challenges he could handle the best and the rewards that would keep him wanting to come back the most. In canonverse, if/when he has friends with kids, in addition to being good with them, we know he can be a bit of a pushover, so he would often get suckered into babysitting. Sometimes it goes so well he even questions if he really doesn't want his own kids. That said, as soon as an emergency goes down or his squeamish self ends up splattered in any bodily fluid or child-related mess, he immediately stops questioning it, and the first person he calls (second only if he has to call actual emergency services) is Suzuya. Although the latter might not be as good with children, he at least fills in the few but important strengths Mutsuki doesn't have mastered.

and finally, what do you think tooru's hobby would be? i can imagine juuzou with a bunch of different hobbies but i couldn't really think of anything for tooru... i think his character is a lot harder for me to understand than juuzou, maybe bc i'm autistic so i relate to juuzou way more lol?

It is hard, and in addition to some characters just clicking and being more relatable to certain people, I think it's also hard because he canonically gives so much time and energy and even puts himself in danger for others. I can actually see him neglecting to carve out nice things for himself, such as hobbies, in the manga. It's not just us, it's him! This is also the reason why these headcanons are, frankly, much more based on vibes than any panel, illustration, or omake I could even loosely tie them to. I think to keep from giving up on life as a whole, he needs an activity that makes him feel a glimmer of confidence, like he is good at something. Also, as much as he shies away from any eyes on him, appreciation for something he did secretly lights him up inside. Training with Suzuya is one thing that fills this need, but something that he does by himself that isn't career-related is cooking. We know from Shirazu that he can cook, but I think he also likes to. It's less about what he's cooking or who for, so much as it is that feeling of executing something with competence and having the people around him enjoy something he made so he knows it's good. Plus, it's hard to ruminate on your worries and frustrations and secrets when you're concentrating so hard on not burning something. He definitely strikes me as the type to stress-cook or stress-bake. He also strikes me as a journaler. I couldn't even begin to try justifying why with logic, but he just seems like the type. Trying to make beautiful aesthetic doodles would probably just make him think about how he's not good at drawing, but he would have a guilty pleasure for cute sticky notes, motivating stickers, nice pens, stuff like that to decorate and organize his cathartic writing about his day. Probably no one whose opinion matters would judge him for liking to make his journal look nice or thinking some little frog stickers are cute, but he feels paranoid about it and carefully hiding his journal with all his stationery and supplies and moving it to a new hiding place when he gets anxious that someone is going to find it is its own entirely separate hobby. Another reason why I think it's hard to see him with the same amount and variety of hobbies as Suzuya is I think he would find a couple of things to give him that sliver of “me time” and stick with them. Suzuya's reasons for doing a lot of what he does for fun are different from Mutsuki's, so for him, bouncing around between several things helps him keep it exciting and avoid boredom. Those things don't matter as much to Mutsuki, and what does matter to him is having something that makes him feel competent and/or helps him feel at ease, so actually diving into something new on the regular would do the opposite of fulfilling some of the things he needs in a hobby.

#answers #anon #suzumutsu #suzuya juuzou #mutsuki tooru #do i start putting these in the #my writing #tag #i feel like i should since i seem unable to explain my thoughts without attaching an entire story to them #the other answers to other asks i haven't finished writing out yet are not much different-- some have even more of a story to them lmao #these are just so fun to answer i can't control myself and i'm not even being cute about it that's just what's happening in my openoffice r #glad i at least got one ready to post before bed but now i must sleep

[lilly-white]

Clearing up your fandom spaces so you can be more up-to-date about zines & events and such, for a more pointed kind of approach to it.... getting hyped to see all the zine teams & the artists and writers they work with...

.... then returning to Original Author land where you gotta hold up your OWN fandom with your two goddamn hands like

#i got 3 fanart pieces and i am SO over the moon about them i'm like #it's fucking magic #i need to repost them actually qlkjfhqsdf #i feel like *I* am the one who has to curate the sort of 'fandom space' for my series? #like put fans in touch with each other/centralise everything lol #ofc they talk about these books in their own bookclubs and such #but fan events and fan weeks? that shit gotta get organised #this is when the absolute importance of megafans comes into play #man we don't realise how we ALL hold up the media we love even when the creator has moved on #or doesn't have the spoons for their own marketing #i have an xcel sheet now to keep track of the people who are really invested & who i could ask for help with marketing #i haven't had the balls yet lol i will contact them when book3 is ready #but mannnn #megafans are so precious #indie adventures

[maraeffect]

haven't even been awake for two hours and this is probably the worst morning i've had in a while 🙂 cw EXTREMELY disgusting unsanitary tags.

#so like not only is my partner out of town which is already making me really fucked up #but my cat was mad i fed him like AN hour late. so he was scratching my bedroom door all morning #and (DO NOT READ AHEAD IF YOU ARE SQUEAMISH) i guess he decided to solve that problem #by eating poop out of his FRESH litter box and then projectile vomiting it back up EVERYWHERE 🙂 #like in the most inconvenient way. all over the bars of his crate that we leave out for him #AND his bed inside of that. and his cat tree. and the floor. like it took me HALF AN HOUR to clean #i haven't even had a chance to take my meds yet bc i fed the cats and brushed my teeth #only to IMMEDIATELY see the mess #so fucking disgusting and i got splattered in the face while cleaning it 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂 #trying so hard to not let this ruin my Saturday but I'm ready to go the fuck back to bed and cry #and i don't even have anyone here to comfort me or to talk to and i just ugh #ugh ugh ugh #i really wish my partner wasnt gonna be gone for so long bc im already exhausted managing the house alone #anyway sorry i just needed to talk about this SOMEWHERE bc i wanna cry so bad #chatter #negative #unsanitary tw #gross tw

[oculusxcaro]

Just a quick head's up that I've got a few of your 🖤 memes waiting to be answered! Today and tomorrow will be extra long shifts so if I don't answer tonight, tomorrow is a given. Thank you for being patient with me and consider this the start of more responses over the summer now medication's kicking motivation in the rear!

#;; mun bullshit #;; delete later #I will be deleting this later on just putting this here to let you know you guys haven't been forgotten #Got gnarledbite paleobird arkhmIcst draggeddowntothedark and arkhambird to answer #Feel free to send even if we've yet to interact or only interacted once! #My inbox is pretty much open always and I will try to answer as long as I know the meme #No time limit #OKAY time to get that uniform on and get ready for a baking 8 hour shift #Catch you guys tonight and have a great Friday! x

[trans-cuchulainn]

struggling right now to determine whether my new reluctance to talk to people irl about health/personal stuff is a healthy reassertion of boundaries i'd lost through years of oversharing or whether it's me withdrawing from people because one person inadvertently made me feel bad for sharing stuff and it set off the brainweasels

could be both tbh on some level. trouble is once you've set precedent of Talking About Stuff, it's hard to re-draw those lines and be like "actually i'm not going to talk about my mental health with you" without making the other person feel either really worried about you or like you no longer trust them and it's like. it's not that it's just suddenly unbearable to think about discussing this out loud

#some of it also is that things have got harder #in a way that i haven't come to terms with and am still like. processing #so i'm not ready to package that up for external consumption yet i guess #but am struggling to walk back my oversharing and set those boundaries #even though i feel like i want certain people (my boss) less involved in my health rn #for reasons both logical and emotional #personal

[bourienne]

independent and private mademoiselle amalie karlovna bourienne of tolstoy’s war and peace, written by meg.  low activity, book and headcanon based.  mutuals only, minors dni.  established september ‘22.

#sp. #lys has seen this already bc i love her w my whole heart and ass but hey i wanted to put smth out <3 #yes i'm aware i haven't even got slides or a doc or anything ready for her yet #but i do not care! if u are following me here u follow me elsewhere so U Know

[lostjulys]

also also also i WILL say. i am kinda fuckin excited 2 be going to the same college my dad is teaching at now :] (despite or perhaps because of the fact we are in Entirely different buildings and i dont have a single class in his department)

#realized that i gotta move into dorms in like. two days & i dont like.. know my schedule.. have done no packing no preparation thought #about Nothing head empty etc... #yelled 2 my dad in the kitchen 2 ask him if he was ready fr classes to start. he was like 'oh nahh i haven't even thought about it #yet. i got a whole week to prepare all my course stuff! thats plenty of time!' #we are. amusingly similar sometimes. drives everyone else crazy NNFDKSFKSDFD. #dot text

[tvrningout-archived]

my wee break turned into a big break, so i’m gonna get back to cleaning my room!! yes at 9 o’clock!! but catch me lurking here and there bc i don’t really feel like finishing my room up even tho i need to uvu

#i've got a lot of thoughts but sadly they gotta wait bc my room needs a bit more tidying before i can call it acceptable #also i have an urge to reblog another meme bc i have horrible impulse control but instead of doing that i'm just gonna say #feel free to peruse my meme tag if we haven't written together yet or in a while! or even if you just wanna spam me that's cool too uvu #i know i'm really slow but i always welcome asks bc sometimes they're easy for me to get inspo for #and they're a nice lil nudge if i haven't written with someone yet/in a while #anyway off i go to do the things i don't wanna!! #get ready to ramble | ooc #tbd

[dredshirtroberts]

y'know that post that's like everyone's got their special super power or whatever, it might just look a little different from the super hero movies? right?

yeah my bio family's version of that is Impeccably Bad Timing

#well i *was* excited for a meet up tomorrow #and i still am don't get me wrong it's just #slightly tainted currently by the fact that my family just... #trying to explain to my sister where i'm at with our parents feels like a hopeless endeavor and i just really do not feel like hashing it o #at 10pm on a Monday when the purpose of her reaching out was to give me the information i might need about grandpa's funeral #which i have already decided i will not be attending but i acknowledge that i did not notify my dad of receipt of his messages #and therefore he has no idea if i even got the relevant information he was trying to do the right thing and give me #even if he did it stupid and bad #i'm...frustrated by the situation i've ended up in and i know about half of it *is* my fault (the breakdown of it could have gone better an #i was the only person in charge of breaking things down between me and my parents) #but like... i don't want to be in this position in the first place where i'm having to cut my parents off because they're shitty people #like... id on't know if they think maybe i *like* doing this to the family but i don't #i do like not having them around but i don't like that i don't want them around if that makes any fucking sense #and i STILL cannot be sad about grandpa only because it's ALL THE OTHER JUNK TOO #like she's not innocent let me not paint her as a good communicator here #she also added in things between the lines i don't appreciate her doing because it makes the outreach feel shitty #and like i know i know i've gone completely dark after this and no i'm not actually doing that great now that grandpa's dead #like that still sucks really hard and pip hasn't super really processed it yet and it's going to hurt when she gets there and i'm not ready #for that yet and now i have a Nice Thing to look forward to and i have Nice People around me and all i want to do is just Have A Good Time #but i know i've been quiet i know i haven't reached out like i'm supposed to i know #but also... stop badgering me about it - i know. i know what i'm supposed to do they all treat me like i'm not doing it because i forgot #I WENT TO ETIQUETTE CLASSES I KNOW WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO DO #i'm either deliberately not doing it on purpose or i'm not doing it because I *can't* yet. #i can't talk to my grandma on the phone i can't do that absolutely not #i'm trying to work up to a *text message* or an *email* which is not in any way nearly the right thing to do #but like. it's all i've got and i can't give her *nothing* but i don't... have anything to give her outside of a condolences text message #because i don't even know where i'm at about it yet BECAUSE MY GODDAMN PARENTS AND SISTER KEEP BUTTING IN AND NOT LETTING ME PROCESS #i get it i get that they're probably worried i know i know i'm the asshole here #i get it #but also i am not their concern anymore they all washed their hands of me when i was nearby

[strawberrypaw]

its been over a month and i am still so sad it literally physically hurts

#i miss my kitty so so bad #finally got him an urn and i just broke down trying to paint it last night and cried myself to sleep lmao #i haven't lost a cat in over 10 years #last time a cat of mine died i was 16 and she was technically my dad's cat #i had already left home and he didn't even tell me until she'd been dead for 2 weeks #spanky cat..... my dad got her 5 years before i was born #she was 21 when she died..... stubborn little freak of a tortoiseshell #dear old spanky cat whyy did you have to give me such an unfair idea of how long a cat should live #i knowwww i know 18 is a good old age but i really thought i had more time. i wasn't ready yet #mau

[lovecolibri]

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#we are supposed to be transferring our stuff over to the outsource company on the 18th #we still haven't even received the offer from them with our pay and benefits quotes and job descriptions etc #i asked who would be taking over all the stuff outside our normal jobs we should be doing #and if a position would be created to do that stuff because i would like that position #and i got told no i would have to keep doing things for the facility even if i got rebadged to the new company #(aka they 'can' take over all these job duites but only if we stay on to do them because in all reality they CAN'T take everything over) #now with open positions at the facility filling up and no offer to compare with from the outsource company me and the other person #in my group still looking for another job both decided we were tired of waiting for the offer and took other internal positions #and when i tell you everyone started *scrambling* and are now pissed because they already said they could do all this stuff #that they absolutely cannot do without us i just 🤭🤭🤭 #this place fucked us around for months and pushed up our transition date from a year after the system switch slated to happen in july #(then pushed back to oct and then nov giving us until fall 24) #to 4 months later saying it would be sooner to then aug 18th saying it was gonna be a month #are now VERY much in the 'find out' stage of things and all i can do is laugh #good luck replacing nearly 50 years of experience between the three of us #with people we have repeatedly pointed out were not helping and were actually wrong about almost everything they touched #i feel like a weight has been lifted and it's not early enough for the 'learning a new thing' anxiety to set it yet #but that means i also am ready to sleep for a month now that things are gonna be less stressful #ANYWAY #gonna ask if i'm getting my yearly 3% raise just for all the shit they put me through the past few months

[rubys-domain]

you know the solution to depression: more genshin

#⇢₊˚⊹ 🩷∥ruby∥yo，ide yo !! #no officer i definitely do not have depression and totally haven't had it since i was 13 #and obviously i haven't been hopping from one coping mechanism to another #gaming addiction isn't even the worst of it #maybe i should play minecraft again #as lonely as it gets playing it solo #there's also something delicious about the pain #maybe i'm a masochist (non-sexual) #plus cherry blossoms purty so yeah #i already got my chongyun skin from skindex so i'm ready lmao #i played with an albedo skin at one point before switching to my usual cutesy girly fare #i hope i don't get bitten in the ass for not brushing up on what's been added in 1.20 beyond the cherry blossoms #i tend to play minecraft in particularly “down” seasons of my life #i play on mobile tho and i haven't gotten used to the new controls just yet #when i got a new phone suddenly no sensitivity settings seemed to work #oh well #also didnt want to make this into its own post but i just have to bitch about it #i ran out of lip balm today and i am going FERAL #i hate the feeling of my lips being dry more than i hate myself. which is a lot #i sure hope there's lip balm in the stores nearby. there will be casualties otherwise

[were--ralph]

why exactly do you dislike generative art so much? i know its been misused by some folks, but like, why blame a tool because it gets used by shitty people? Why not just... blame the people who are shitty? I mean this in genuinely good faith, you seem like a pretty nice guy normally, but i guess it just makes me confused how... severe? your reactions are sometimes to it. There's a lot of nuance to conversation about it, and by folks a lot smarter than I (I suggest checking out the Are We Art Yet or "AWAY" group! They've got a lot on their page about the ethical use of Image generation software by individuals, and it really helped explain some things I was confused about). I know on my end, it made me think about why I personally was so reactive about Who was allowed to make art and How/Why. Again, all this in good faith, and I'm not asking you to like, Explain yourself or anything- If you just read this and decide to delete it instead of answering, all good! I just hope maybe you'll look into *why* some people advocate for generative software as strongly as they do, and listen to what they have to say about things -🦜

if Ai genuinely generated its own content I wouldn't have as much of a problem with it, however what Ai currently does is scrape other people's art, collect it, and then build something based off of others stolen works without crediting them. It's like. stealing other peoples art, mashing it together, then saying "this is mine i can not only profit of it but i can use it to cut costs in other industries.

this is more evident by people not "making" art but instead using prompts. Its like going to McDonalds and saying "Burger. Big, Juicy, etc, etc" then instead of a worker making the burger it uses an algorithm to build a burger based off of several restaurant's recepies.

example

the left is AI art, the right is one of the artists (Lindong) who it pulled the art style from. it's literally mass producing someone's artstyle by taking their art then using an algorithm to rebuild it in any context. this is even more apparent when you see ai art also tries to recreate artists watermarks and generally blends them together making it unintelligible.

Aside from that theres a lot of other ethical problems with it including generating pretty awful content, including but not limited to cp. It also uses a lot of processing power and apparently water? I haven't caught up on the newer developements i've been depressed about it tbh

Then aside from those, studios are leaning towards Ai generation to replace having to pay people. I've seen professional voice actors complain on twitter that they haven't gotten as much work since ai voice generation started, artists are being cut down and replaced by ai art then having the remaining artists fix any errors in the ai art.

Even beyond those things are the potential for misinformation. Here's an experiment: Which of these two are ai generated?

ready?

These two are both entirely ai generated. I have no idea if they're real people, but in a few months you could ai generate a Biden sex scandal, you could generate politics in whatever situation you want, you can generate popular streamers nude, whatever. and worse yet is ai generated video is already being developed and it doesn't look bad.

I posted on this already but as of right now it only needs one clear frame of a body and it can generate motion. yeah there are issues but it's been like two years since ai development started being taken seriously and we've gotten to this point already. within another two years it'll be close to perfected. There was even tests done with tiktokers and it works. it just fucking works.

There is genuinely not one upside to ai art. at all. it's theft, it's harming peoples lives, its harming the environment, its cutting jobs back and hurting the economy, it's invading peoples privacy, its making pedophilia accessible, and more. it's a plague and there's no vaccine for it. And all because people don't want to take a year to learn anatomy.