#i guess this qualifies as art lmao

[becauseplot]

HEY LOOK AT THIS COOL THING I MADE FOR A CLASS PROJECT LAST SEMESTER THAT I KEEP FORGETTING TO UPLOAD PICTURES OF :D

(Long-ass rambles to follow, feel free to skip down to the additional box pics. Short video of the laser cutter working at the bottom!)

This is a laser-cut wooden box! The parts were designed in SolidWorks, then drawings of those works were converted in Autocad to be uploaded to the laser cutter. I had a lot of fun with the designs, as you can tell :] I took inspo from the little heart-embroidered-thing c!Philza has on his shirt in SAD-ist's design because it incorporates what I like to call the "narrow eyes" of the Hardcore heart without the lines ever breaking, making the design possible for a solid object...

...but I couldn't do all the curvy bits because SolidWorks hates me lmao.

The emeralds are for emduo ofc. I thought about doing a crown or pig mask or a sword for Techno, but I was running out of time for the project, mostly because I spent like way too long trying to make the wings curvy and realistic :( In the end, I went with a more geometric design, which I think I like the most. Also, it's more stable overall. The emeralds are on either side of the box btw.

I might come back to this post and add pics of the SolidWorks parts/drawings themselves if I can find the files.

The box's dimensions (LengthxWidthxHeight) in inches are 4.25x2.75x1.75 ignoring the lid. Here is sharpie for reference.

I added the color to the box design by scribbling in color with sharpies on paper, then sticking that paper on the inside of the box behind the designs. I was originally going to paint the box too but uhhhhhh I got lazy. Also I think I like being able to see the imperfections on the wood more anyway.

Oh!! Also the box currently holds my shinies (earrings)!!

You can see the paper lmao.

One last thing I got out of this project: after the wooden designs are cut out, you can fish the bigger scraps out of the machine, so guess what I made? :)

(Colored it with sharpie ofc.)

And uhhh that's it! Vvv fun to make! SolidWorks is awesome once you learn how to use it. I'm hoping to practice more once I have time (and possibly my own computer that won't melt if I try to run SolidWorks on it.)

Okay here's the vid :] It was longer but it had my voice in it so I had to cut it short, but I think it's enough for you to get the idea.

#my art #i guess this qualifies as art lmao #philza #philza fanart #dsmp fanart #emerald duo #emduo #c!philza fanart #solidworks #autocad

[chasingthewesternsun]

I had to draw a pig for work for an icebreaker and I didn’t know how to explain that I only know how to draw pigs bc of lotf fanart…

#lotf #lotf art #the beast #??? #I guess LMAO #artwork2022 #??????? #💀 #I got a lot of compliments tho??? #I guess this qualifies as fanart idk LMAO #myart

[clippedionianvowels]

I have officially graduated! (…once again) godbless at least this one wasn’t in covid and I had the power of 35 years of red dwarf at my side

#it was soooo much better than my first graduation lmao #doubly qualified to be ANNOYING #pick the two most ridiculed types of people: lawyers and art students. I am now both #*art graduate I guess lmao #also it wasn’t ‘art’ it was something even more pretentious lmao

[coridallasmultipass]

TW for my usual unhinged stance on puppets, if you're following me, you know. If you're not, I'm sorry (not sorry). ((If you're the author or narrator, I'm actually sorry.))

Okay, so because I'm allowed to be freaky on main about puppets on this site, I just wanna tell everyone, because everyone should know that creepypasta narrator Lighthouse Horror just posted a story (by author Alonso Solis) about an evil puppet show a few days ago, and I just listened, and I loved it.

Now onto freaky business:

Headcanoning the main char as a puppetfucker bc c'mon, that bromance, the way he lovingly describes Mr. Smiley's appearance, what he does before leaving the old studio towards the end... Just... Mmmm... *chef's kiss* love this kinda content. I'll sleep soundly dreaming I could have someone like that. Y'know? Big, glassy eyes, big grin, secret evil laugh, mildly self-animate...

#god i love puppets so much man especially the evil ones but not exclusively yknow #even the word puppet is cute like puppies and i feel warm and fuzzy inside no pun intended (who am i kidding. fully intended) #need me a freak like that #also should probably tw for the story just general creepypasta themes evil puppets kids dyin unreality dubious morality in the main char etc #thats not an exhaustive list tho im not qualified to give an exhaustive list this is a thirst post i just wanna cover all my bases here #puppets #man im not even posting about puppets on my puppet named blog (it was just recommended when i typed that) #and thats a damn shame lmao i should make more so i can revive that blog (its just my art blog i gave up on separating from the main) #suggestive #for the post not the video #creepypasta #(tagging for a tw sorry to put that in the tag if ppl use the tag i have no idea i dont usually post ab creepypastas on here but ... #... given i saw a bunch of ouppet stuff earlier i remembered i can be weird on here about puppets. i guess anywhere... #...but here feels natural to be weird ab them) #ngl i couldnt stop thinkin of ... you know who ... with the description and how the main char keeps him around all the time #mmmmmmmm otp5eva in a different flavour mmmmmmmmm #should probably also confess that #OBLIGATORY: 'DISCLAIMER: i'M HI (HIGH)' TAG #bc im probably gna regret typing all this tmr but fuck man #i love puppets dudeeeeeee i can scream about it forever #ok this is enough im getting too sappy im def gonna regret that #Cori.exe #Post.exe #video #horror #sorry steven and alonso lol i hope yall are too busy to see this im totally normal about puppets it was all a joke #((whispering to followers: its not a joke dont worry i wouldnt play u like that)) #((puppetfucker 4 lyfe bruhhh believe it)) #((fuck man i love them so much)) #i want more evil puppet/etc horror content theres never enough to satisfy me i am insatiable about puppets in horror

[r0semultiverse]

Woah.... tumblr hasn’t recommended my blog to new users since I woke up, I think. Damn... (was hoping more people would follow my twitch and stuff) now out of the 5k+ new people, I wonder how many are bots. Guess we’ll see as the follower numbers fluctuate.

I still wonder what qualifies a blog to be recommended in the onboarding process. Is it that I use the “art” tag a lot as one of my popular tags? Is it that I’ve been here since 2013? Is it a mix of both things? Maybe it’s like Pinterest where you follow or select a certain number of interests that correlate to blogs in this case? Is it also attributed to the fact that I’ve made so many posts (reblogs count towards total post count) from being active on here for so many years?

Keep in mind, I have no idea what the 2023 tumblr sign-up process is like. I’ve only heard that supposedly you have to follow a couple blogs before you can do stuff, whatever that means and encompasses is outside of my knowledge sphere.

#so I guess they expose certain blogs to around 5k new accounts then... #that still leaves the question of what makes a blog qualified for recommendations #so it’s like how blaze posts only hit so many people then stop #but tumblr staff randomly selects you for it based on some criteria??? #some people are probably still coming in from the Barbie movie post from which I’ve had notifications muted because it broke my app lmao #since I use the art tag a lot does the new user algorithm stuff count me as an art blog??? or a meme blog? or an owl house blog?? #asking the real questions here and how many blogs do new users HAVE to follow??? #mine #op #tumblr update #tumblr #new tumblr users #tumblr signup #tumblr migration

[canonmisogynyvictimstournament]

PROPAGANDA

CHI-CHI (DRAGON BALL)

1.) okay so to start at the beginning, she was introduced as a young kid but they put her in a super revealing bikini styled outfit. pretty sure it was supposed to be armor too, so besides just being a disgusting design choice even in-universe it’s impractical. but besides that she was pretty charming as a kid, she was cute and funny and pretty tough, and had a cool gimmick in her blade/ laser helmet. even when she reappeared in late Dragon Ball, she was a bit abrasive but was overall rational and kind. she was strong enough to make it into the World Martial Arts Tournament, one of only 16 to qualify.

but come Dragon Ball Z and on, she’s reduced to just a shrill, nagging, aggressive wife and mother. all she gets to do is cook, worry, and berate her husband and sons. her physical strength is only used so she can comically hit Goku. sure its played for laughs, but he’s shown to be afraid of her. I only recall her leaving her house once or twice in DBZ. just the worst mother character stereotype, with nothing left to make her likeable. she’s portrayed as irrational but despite her aggressiveness, half the time her wants are completely reasonable. can’t blame a woman for not wanting her husband to die every other day!! her writing us ass but I still love her and she deserves better!!!

2.) So in Dragon Ball she wasn’t the BEST character to start out with. Toriyama hasn’t ever been the best at writing women or not making stupid fucking sex jokes about them. So she had to deal with that. The outfit she wore as a kid was… NOT GREAT. Let’s say that! Then in late Dragon Ball her entire character revolves around Goku and trying to marry him, which she gets by tricking Goku and getting beaten by Goku in a tournament in one hit. Not off to a great start. Then Z started and Toriyama just… gave her an ENTIRELY NEW new personality, and that new personality was just a stereotype of a tiger mom. Regardless of how correct she might’ve been about letting Gohan fight (and she WAS completely correct, he was 5-6 for a HUGE chunk of Z) the narrative frames her as a hysterical and unreasonable woman nagging at the menfolk and not letting them do things. So naturally people hate her without even considering why she’s upset because the story itself frames her as in-the-wrong. The whole franchise also just forgets that she’s a martial artist and never has her DO ANYTHING.

This is only scratching the surface, there’s a LOT more because the franchise is like 40 years old and we’d be here all day.

3.) GODDDD okay so full disclosure i guess shonen is such an easy pick but like. out of every shonen wife she was and is THE most hated by the narrative and creator (maybe tied with sakura omfg). shes always made out to be a beast, got her fighting skills shafted after she got married, was always played like she was hysterical for worrying about her kid dying in battle, and not to mention the creator actively HATES her. like toriyama just straight up hates writing her. its bad. its really bad. shes just “bitch wife” but for no reason :(

BUMBLE (WARRIOR CATS) (CW: Domestic Abuse)

1.) Back with another Warriors submission, I bet you’ll be getting a lot from other people too LMAO. Bumble is a kittypet (housecat) who befriends the male protagonist Gray Wing’s girlfriend, Turtle Tail, and lets her stay in her house. This gets Gray Wing all pissy because he’s controlling of Turtle Tail and shares most of the wild/clan cat’s proclivity for looking down upon kittypets. Turtle Tail gets pregnant by another kittypet, Tom, who tries to control her by hiding the fact that humans take away kittens after they’re born. Eventually Bumble comes clean about it so Turtle Tail returns to the forest. Some time later, Bumble is found in the forest seeking refuge because Tom has been physically abusing her, scratching her where the humans can’t see. So, she’s CANONICALLY ACKNOWLEDGED as a domestic abuse victim (unlike Squirrelflight who meets all the textbook signs but the narrative and authors deny it). How do you think our good guy protagonists, i.e. Gray Wing “The Wise” and Turtle Tail, respond to an abuse victim seeking refuge? They tell Bumble to go home, thinking to themselves that she’s fat and soft and therefore would be useless in their group. Bumble stands up for herself and asks to speak with the leaders of the group. One of them asks if Bumble could just get along with Tom better (bro???) and when Bumble says it’s not within her control, the leader suggests being nicer to the humans instead. Another rival leader butts in and verbally abuses Bumble again by ripping into how fat and lazy and useless she would be. Despite Turtle Tail having been friends with Bumble and Bumble had helped her through her own hard times, to Gray Wing’s approval Turtle Tail chooses not to intervene as Bumble is forcibly escorted back to her abuser. But that’s not all. Later Bumble is found in the forest maimed and dying, and it seems likely that Gray Wing’s brother Clear Sky, a male with a long history of violence, is the culprit. Rather than mourn the dying innocent cat, Gray Wing’s primary concern is how other cats might be mean to Clear Sky if they think he’s a murderer, and reassures himself that refusing to help Bumble in her time of need was still the right decision.

2.) I have no idea how she managed to be written so horrifically from an abuse victim and woman (/she-cat I guess) standpoint but here we are. Okay so my memory is a bit fuzzy but basically Bumble was a character in Dawn of the Clans and a close friend to Turtle Tail, a major character, as well as a character who lived close to Tom, an abusive dickhead of a cat. Bumble was largely depicted as just a really sweet cat. Turtle Tail was very briefly the mate of Turtle Tail, but once she got pregnant, he became super violent towards both her and our gal Bumble. Tom actively hid the fact that, once her kits were old enough, Turtle Tail’s kits would probably be taken from her, and made Bumble keep quiet about this too, but Bumble eventually told Turtle Tail the truth, Turtle Tail left and Tom became extremely violent towards Bumble because of this, and was extremely abusive towards her. Eventually, Bumble ran away from him to where Turtle Tail and co were and begged to stay, since the wilderness as a whole was genuinely more safe than being around Tom was. Naturally, this meant kitty xenophobia from cats who had only arrived in that area recently, because everybody was insistent than, since she was a kittypet/house cat, things wouldn’t work out, and even her friend Turtle Tail denied her on this, insisted she was too soft to live in the wild and only sent her towards a cat Bumble wanted to convince because she was absolutely certain she’d be denied. Also our good old protagonist Gray Wing got to spend this scene being all upset about this soft cat wanting to join them to escape an abuser and was all bitter about the fact that Turtle Tail lived with her for a short period of time, and he also got to have a sweet romantic moment with Turtle Tail after denying an abuse victim an escape from her abuser. Also as much as I like Tall Shadow usually she sucked ass in the following scene because she was essentially telling Bumble to go find a way to make peace with Tom as if she was not the one being abused (Bumble pointed out that Tom was the one who would need to make peace for it to happen, not her) and that she should just make life better by going back to being a housecat and being spoiled despite the fact that she was actively at risk with her owners because of Tom. Then she leaves after being threatened by several cats there and is called soft on the way out. The next time she appears she is literally dying, and her death is just a plot device to create a stupid little mystery which is solved in a very stupid way. Also her abuser does continue to be a shithead and for some reason is fully permitted to kidnap his own children but he also gets a heroic death and the only reason I will not rant more about him is because this is too long already. Long story short Bumble deserves the world and everybody who decided not to let her escape her abuser just because they thought she was soft sucks

3.) Is nice to the group of starving, feral wild cats that left the mountains so their friends and family could have more food to eat and befriends one of them to the point of opening her home to her after she leaves the group because the guy she likes is too dumb to notice she likes him and keeps falling for his brother’s love interests.

Unfortunately, because Bumble is a house cat who lives in a house with people and not a Wild and Free cat, this is a grave and horrible crime (luring a wild cat into the safety and comforts of domesticity) and is villainized for the rest of the arc, including for things wildly out of her control

I.E.

Her owners taking in an aggressive male cat that bullies and abuses the two female cats already living there

When Bumble’s friend leaves and goes back to the wild cats, Bumble leaves her home (as the abuse as has gotten worse) to see if she could either get help or have her friend return so the abuse isn’t as bad again)

Bumble eventually dies in the wild because the feral cats all hate her for ‘stealing’ their friend and tricking her into becoming a kittypet for awhile and refuse to help Bumble adjust to wild life or even teaching her how to hunt.

They are littl e to no hard feelings at her death beyond ‘good riddance’ but the aggressive tomcat that chased her out of her home is later regarded with good feelings and regret at such a ‘good, heroic cat’ passing when he dies despite him literally never doing a good or kind thing in his life and actually causing trouble for the wild cats right before dying

#polls #round 3 #week 5 #new #cw domestic abuse

[hoardlikegoldenirises]

the GANG

for the deep sigh, i couldn't find any pictures of peter with orange hair (the actual design choice that makes me sigh in suffering) lol and aside from that his appearance tends to be... pretty consistent... but that peter is the next worse thing i guess... (idk why, the vibes are just off)

the only "sighs deeply" that's strictly writing related is mary jane (though gwen's general perception as it relates to that style of angelic haziness would also qualify but i wasn't thinking of any specific comic as much as an Ideal when i picked that cover, idk if the comic it's from is any good)— i just really. don't like marvel knights spider-man. I DO like the scene where MJ shoots norman with a gun but other than that her characterization bugged the hell out of me. it felt very infantilizing and condescending...

for the others it's mostly just me being like... ugh... not pretty enough (or too pretty in harry's case 😂 too afraid to make him scrunkly 😔)

i also haven't seen any of the cartoons so i just picked the one i like the art direction on the best and that my friends like LMAO

and for popular i just picked random comics written by dan slott (except for gwen lol) cause idk what each character's most popular appearance ever is and i am not about to try to figure it out lmao

anyway, i didn't make it specifically the au, this is just my default way of drawing them all, except my default... kinda is the au even for the suit, with the main difference mostly being like... peter's nose... flash's hair... small details...

template by @oliveroctavius :

#coffee bean gang #peter parker #spiderman #gwen stacy #flash thompson #harry osborn #mary jane watson #nadiart #fanadiart #rough art #arghdesign #kind... of? #i am pretending SM 3 gwen doesn't exist #also SM1 flash lmao he doesn't exist to me #was trying to google pictures of zendaya cause i do think she's good casting face-wise but forgot she's ''not'' mary jane watson :) #me: why are there such weird limited results for this #me: ................oh. right. #i kinda hate how that drawing of MJ came out but eh

[claires-unofficial]

is there claire's lore?

uh, i mean, i guess not? i don't really know what qualifies as "lore". we have my lore-bio brother, @officially-ikea, who recently uploaded a sketch of his sona to his art-blog and reblogged it on his page. and then i'm dating @hot-topic-unofficial, but the owners of the accounts are like just- actually dating. like i could ft the owner of hot topic unofficial if i wanted to.

i do have a design for the claire's character i might post soon! so keep an eye out for that

but uh otherwise i think (is it bing that told me to fuck myself? i don't remember-) i'm just kinda minorly floating around some of the other accts and hopefully makin friends (although 5 of the blogs are like- online friends of mine lmao)

#anon asks #anon #asks #claire's asks

[tysonfurybattlepass]

Heard you were looking for some anon hate, so here's some that I've thought about over the past few years 😉

Your art is pure garbage. Your shading is so basic and yet it looks worse than the drawings on wikihow articles, and your colors are an abhorrent mix that looks like neon puke. Literally one of the first tips beginner artists get is "don't use the airbrush". And what do you do? Airbrush the fuck out of your markings and shading! Your older anatomy and character designs were far more superior while the newer ones are a bastardized version of their former glory days. I'm younger than you and I can actually paint and pick good colors lmao

You haven't improved at all in 5 years. You actually got worse! You're drawing the same snarling cat 20 times a month instead of working on your backgrounds, shading, anatomy and compositions, and their jaws still look crooked with displaced teeth Every. Single. Time! I wonder how strong their bite force is when the lower jaw is at a 45° angle from the upper one?

All your characters look crazy and deranged and like absolute psychopaths. It's not a good look for your "brand" <3 And their torso takes up 90% of their body. How are they supposed to be strong beasts when their stumpy legs can barely hold the weight of your bad stylization? And you call that an improvement instead of godawful anatomy!

And then, and then!! Y're constantly making new characters, drawing them a bunch and forgetting about them! Algernon, Jarith, Lucia, Geneph, Xiaoya, Bailey, Jicama, Utah, Felin, Civen, Afryea, Thyodore,.Tyson (Aster's pet Inostrancevia), Donnie... And you have even more that you haven't even posted about? How does it feel to know that someone knows your characters more than YOU do? Talk about being an irresponsible artist

You're not even creative enough. "Here's a species that looks exactly like a cat but trust me guys it's not a cat, see? it has two extra arms!" "Here are 20 smilodons that are yellow-brown and have spots, but I love all of them and can differentiate between them!!" "Here's a leopard seal who's bigger than the natural ones and is a made-up species (who's supposed to be part bear and I definetely didnt forget about that) even though nothing is different between her and a regular anthro seal!!!"

I hope you give up on art. It won't take you anywhere in life, just like your autistic interest in paleontology won't help you. You didn't even get a superior education, so it's clear you'll live your life working minimum wage jobs because you're not qualified to do anything better. You’re lazy as fuck and you have no excuse for how weak you are.

You say you have 1000 followers but you barely pass 10 notes on your art and even less on your vents, and whenever you demand people to send you asks daily, nobody says anything. So not even your followers like you. They're just observing your every move and are laughing at your pain. The only thing you're good at is being daily entertainment for me and hundreds of others like me.

All your "female" characters loook like males regardless of what they identify as. It's as if you're incapable of drawing women.

Hooray for making all your best characters trans since you seem to be allergic to normal people. I'm glad you confessed that you support the mutilation of middle schoolers / transing gender non-comforming females (Azure).

You call yourself a "he/they" but you're still competing in the women's category cuz you know you wouldn't last in a fight against real men. You're such a failure that even your step father calls you his daughter publicly. (Your parents surely are disappointed in what you've become. I wouldn't be surprised if you were the reason for their divorce)

Only a few years back you were a proud tomboy girl, but I guess you hate yourself so much that you project your self-misogyny through self-identification and an atrocious art style.

You even chose the name “Tyson”, like that troon Chris Tyson. Considering the recent controversy, that’s what people will associate with your name, not whoever “Tyson Fury” is, and truthfully you deserve it.

You're so fragile being called a girl when you look, sound and act like one. Girl. Woman. Female. Dike. Lass. Lady. She. Wahine. Kaikamahine. Did this make you cry some pathetic manly tears? 100% sure you look like the soyjak in the soyjak vs chad meme right now. Can’t wait to read your breakdown on tumblr, if you’re not going to outright delete every account you have to escape me

Typical white girl starving for attention online behavior lmao.

You boast that you are "hot" but you are objectively ugly, not even mid. Your undercut is shit and your face is so damn bland. Your fursona is strong and beefy but you have a thin female body with stick arms and visible breasts. Talk about projection and an inflated ego. You're oozing with narcissism, and I wouldn't be surprised if you got diagnosed with it. It would 100% suit you.

Your "girlfriends" are still lesbian women, but you’re not one? “Transmasc butch lesbian” my ass, you absolute pooner. It’s not that hard to be a regular woman. Pretty sure you're not even dating them, you're just friends who haven't even held hands. And you’re still a virgin lmao. No bitches? 🥺 And you have not one, but two, because you're insecure in your feelings and can't commit to only one person since you need that external validation. I'm sure they're cheating behind your back because they know you wouldn't check on them.

I hope your sleep apnea kills you in your sleep. You deserve it.

L + ratio + you’re a loser + cope and seethe

Don't bother blocking and reporting me, I said all I had to say, I don't plan on interacting with you anymore and I don't have this level of hatred against anyone else.

Now, have I stalked your accounts until their beginning, or have I followed you for a really long time? Or a secret third thing (I stalked you for a really long time)?

the color thing is true but you should get a job

#bro doesnt know who tyson fury is :( #fake fan

[legy]

media tag 2024

#13. Runescape

oh yeah i guess i can put this here since i got quest cape, which i would personally qualify as "any%". im still playing runescape lol im afking ghouls for the champion's scroll on my second monitor

i really like runescape 3. i think nearly anyone who dunks on it hasnt actually played it lol. at its core, mechanically, it's this fascinating outsider art mmo because it inherits many of the traits that it had in its inception 22 years ago. even the stuff that's changed is so fully outside of what every other mmo does it kinda rules

that said they were sick in the head for requiring level 95 in the newest skill to get quest cape. if i just shotgunned quests when i first started this account (2019) it would have been so much faster lmao. i like necro and its my preferred combat skill rn so it definitely wasnt a bad investment but god DAMN

i would still like to go for trimmed completionist cape (which is why im currently grinding for champion's challenge, IMO likely the worst requirement) but i'm also interested in going for cape in OSRS too. ive put a couple dozen hours on the OSRS side of this account (at like 25 qp or something? all the easy stuff. running bronzeman mode) but im kinda stuck b/c i cant log into both games at the same time and im not interested in paying two subscriptions. so i have to pick between the two. and rn rs3 is still very much holding my attention

favorite skill: archaeology. its peak. i love the worldbuilding in runescape + questing and this is just the dedicated questing skill. i do kinda feel like it shouldve been an elite skill like invention or have a higher quest barrier to entry because otherwise you just barely know wtf you are digging up but whatever. it rules

least favorite skill: summoning? tbh? it drives me insane that the only way to level summoning is by crafting pouches, and one of the pouch components is untradable so i have to compulsively hoard these fucking charms for whenever i next decide to level summoning. the rewards are obviously worth it but good fucking god. followup is hunter before bgh dropped and i also have not been enjoying my time leveling invention very much

#media tag 2024 #runescape

[bigsnzstanacct]

I've seen a lot of members in the snzblr-sphere openly condemning gAI and its use. I guess, I wonder how that makes you feel since you use it quite frequently here

Well, this is a sneeze fetish blog but since you asked… here’s a sermonette on AI, lmao:

I work irl in an industry and in roles that have I think fairly significant risk of being displaced by AI in the next 5-10 years, so I have some empathy and understanding particularly for visual artists who feel that all generative AI is parasitical not only on work they and their friends may have done in the past, but in particular harmful to their ability to be paid for their work presently and into the future. And in fact for the purposes of visual art I rarely/never use generative AI anymore, not so much because I found it unethical, but just because it isn’t very good at drawing what I want to see. But like idk if people want me to delete the generative AI images I’ve posted in the past, I would, sure.

I feel quite a bit differently about generative AI text, and that’s probably just cause like… listen, I can’t draw for shit so on some level I don’t really feel qualified to understand how visual artists feel about generative AI, so I think in that sense it’s maybe easier/healthier to defer to practicing artists who feel strongly and otherwise mind my business. But I am a writer, both in the context of this fetish community and irl (technically getting paid—albeit a very small amount—to write for a bit starting at the end of this month, actually!) And for me generative AI is a really effective tool for combating the anxiety of the blank page and virtually nothing else. Like it’s not… good… at writing? And because I’ve used it so much I currently don’t have any fear of it becoming good enough at writing to replace professional writers? (Also at a deep level, I do believe that novel ideas and perspectives exist and the core social utility of writing is to provide those new ideas and perspectives, which I just don’t think generative AI is capable of doing, at least not any time soon). But on some level that makes it perfect for churning out endless variations on simple sneeze fetish themes that land in our silly fetish horny hitboxes. So because it is not capable, in my opinion, of replacing professional writers even for basic corporate marketing type shit, I see it more as a tool for writers to use as we see fit? And I have zero problem using the tool to recreate slight variations on the theme of “big sneeze blows things away” to satisfy fetish cravings and frankly I think y’all should use it in the same way lmao. And also use it to help you write actual stories! It works well as essentially an outlining tool. I wouldn’t even use it to generate dialogue or language because again I think it is very bad at that, but it is good at like… providing options for how a story could flow from point a to point b. And sometimes just revising something is easier than starting from scratch, you know?

AND THEN more broadly, I don’t think that generative AI is inherently harmful, I think we (as Americans/westerners/consumers in capitalists societies, not as sneeze fetishists lmao) have a social structure that makes it potentially harmful. The issue with generative AI taking your job isn’t that it’s going to replace your true original artistic expression, your brilliant webcomic, your sprawling fantasy universe, your masterpiece painting. The issue is that it’s going to take your bullshit graphic artist job for a marketing firm, or even your job as a storyboard artist, etc. AND maybe it SHOULD take those jobs! If gAI can speed up the intermediate stages of artistic production like storyboarding, then great storyboard artists can simply work on more films, enhancing the quality of those films, by using AI to speed up their work. And for the marketing gig, if that work that frankly does more to sap creative energy and funnel it towards greasing the bullshit wheels of capital could be done by generative AI, that would be GREAT for artists, *if* the value created were shared equitably across society. If there were an “AI dividend” that took 50% of the savings created by generative AI and invested it in grants and free classes and free drawing tablets and free housing and funds for creatives to do creative work, then you wouldn’t need the bullshit marketing job that saps your energy, you could work part time in a job unrelated to art and still afford the necessities of life while you work on the stuff you actually care about.

But, of course, we have a bullshit capitalist system. But even within the confines of that system, trying to just reject a productivity enhancing technology rather than harnessing it to the benefit of workers (rather than just allow capital to use the technology as it sees fit, which we have seen unions like the WGA in particular fight very effectively against, SAG-AFTRA less so but that’s a whole other can of worms) is, imo, always a fool’s errand. What we need isn’t to ban AI or create taboos against its use; what we need to emphasize that it is a tool for creatives to accelerate our work, to create more time for us to attend to the details, to ultimately help us make better stuff (and here I am lowkey or maybe high key talking about my day job tho I am being intentionally vague) rather than simply a way for capital to cut down on labor costs. Don’t hate the new robot player, hate the game lol. And in all seriousness, *organize* so that the game gets better rules. And share some of the benefits with capital too, because that’s how it works in the mixed economy (for now). AI generally is eventually going to automate away a lot of junior and entry level work in my industry… and I actually think that can be GREAT! Because then junior level people can actually be apprentices to the creatives that are doing the jobs they one day want to do, instead of getting stuck (as I did, for nearly a decade) doing boring technical work under the guise of assisting creatives, but not actually getting any better at the creative skill you are supposedly apprenticing to one day do.

“But bigsnzstanacct, what if I really love my marketing job greasing the wheels of capital using graphics and art work?” you say. Awesome! Then you should be mastering generative AI to get the most possible benefit out of it, because After The Revolution, we will need people to get the best out of the generative AI and touch up their work and fix their errors either inside or outside of the gAI programs. That is also part of how we harness AI to actually benefit society, by getting good at using it.

So anyway, sermonette over tl;dr: message me or send me another ask if you want me to delete my old posts of generative AI images; generative AI and AI as a whole is just a tool, the tool in itself is not good or bad, the institutions shaping its use are good or bad (and the capitalist institutions that dominate workers presently are very very bad and will incline towards using AI badly and in an anti-worker way in already precarious creative fields, BUT there is power in a union, and we can work together to improve the institutions such that AI can benefit us all, perhaps creatives especially.)

[bluiex]

To breakdown each counselor! I'll do campers in another ask!

Jimmy is one of the ones I decided to trans the gender of :]. He and his sister, Lizzie are fae. He's the one who plays the guitar for campfire songs. Grian keeps trying to get him to play the one from Spongebob, and Jimmy reluctantly agrees. Jimmy's actually Grian's favorite counselor. Maybe it's because he likes messing with him, but y'know.

Fwhip is little bit reckless, but he's definitely one of the fun counselors. Is he all that athletic? Not super, but that doesn't stop him! He's a favorite among many campers, including Mumbo, Tango, and Cub, and of course, his little sister Gem. Now if only he could stop accidentally swearing in front of the kids.

Katherine doubles as a counselor, and the camp nurse. She's very well-versed in first aid, and can very easily calm just about any kid down. Her campers often make her flower crowns, and she wears them all when she can. She's a favorite to quite a few, including Stress and Pearl.

Joey mostly helps in the arts and crafts cabin. He doesn't really like being outside, it's anyone's guess as to why he's a counselor, but he does very much care about the kids. He's where a lot of kids get their sass from when they return back home. It's why he's a favorite counselor of Cleo's. Joey's also been teaching Xisuma to speak up for himself a bit more. He just needs to stop sneaking off to make out with his boyfriend Xornoth behind the cabins.

Joel isn't the smartest, but he's very funny. Joel also has a very high pain tolerance, almost to the point where he's a bit reckless with it. It worries his girlfriend to death, but the campers find it fascinating. Scar especially, seeing as how he's very similar.

Sausage ends up teaching a couple of the kids Spanish while they're at the camp. He's the camp's main cook, and everyone adores his food. The kids find his overacting with the other counselors hilarious as well. His flair for dramatics makes him a favorite of the more theatrical kids, like Ren and Wels.

Lizzie is the big sister of camp. Sweet, a bit chaotic, but responsible and kind to everyone. She mainly runs the water activities, and that coupled with her pink hair makes jokes and rumors of her being a mermaid fly. She doesn't exactly correct them, even if she isn't a mermaid. Why ruin their fun? Xb loves her for it. And Wels? Well, if his calling her "Miss Mermaid" is anything to go by, he does too.

Pix is technically the owner of the camp, being the oldest and most responsible. That's not to say he's boring, as campers find his pranks to be the most intricate, elaborate things they've ever seen. He's always got an interesting story to tell. Martyn always finds his stories fascinating.

Scott is more quiet, and understated as a counselor. But he's very responsible, and makes sure each camper is comfortable in whatever they're doing. He mostly works with the archery range, and teaches any camper who wants to learn self defense. False is an ace in his classes, and Scar loves the archery aspect. Scott's brother Xornoth also helps out sometimes, when he's not dragged off by Joey.

And Shrub! Shrub runs the nature hikes and walks, and gets so excited during them. She proudly infodumps about any aspect of nature she can, and stimming for them is just second nature. This, though, accidentally teaches the campers stimming. Well, most of them already had something they do that qualifies. Shrub didn't mean to, he just needed to get the energy out, which was how they explained it to the kids. But.. now she makes it a group thing with the rest of the campers she's going with. Telling them to "shake it out" and getting them to join her. Bdubs was won over the moment she complimented his blanket cape.

That's the counselors for ya!

I LOVE SCOTT- adding Xornoth in this is SO GOOD, bless Joey dragging Xor Daddy away LMAO

#bluie gets an ask poggers #summercamp au

[cookinguptales]

You know, when I was designing my WWDITS tarot deck, I kept thinking "no one cares about a deck design that doesn't even have art, no one just wants to read your tarot meta" but then every time I'd remember that almost every super famous deck that changed the history of tarot was actually designed by Just Some Guy who hired an artist to illustrate it for him -- and it was usually named after the designer, not the illustrator.

(To the point where I actually get angry at how many female artists who did the art for tarot decks are forgotten, and why I always call it the Rider-Waite-Smith/Rider-Smith-Waite tarot instead of the more common Rider-Waite, which refers only to the card publisher and the man who came up with the meaning, symbolism, and overall design of the card. Justice for Pamela Colman Smith, etc.)

Like... tarot really started being used for cartomancy when commonly used tarot decks (like the Tarot de Marseille) were retroactively assigned meaning by French occultists. (Who in turn said their interpretations were based on ancient Egyptian mysticism, which is very funny when you think about the fact that the Rosetta Stone hadn't been translated yet so none of them could read hieroglyphs.)

So from its infancy, there's always been a sort of separation between the art and the writings on symbolism/interpretation. Cards existed, guys wrote books about what those cards could mean. Then they started designing decks specifically for cartomancy with an even greater eye toward meaning and symbolism, and those decks are named by and/or after the people who designed that side of them, not the people who illustrated them.

So like... I may be kind of bad at art, but I am good at being Just Some Guy. (With a sort of "feral academic" flavor to it.) So I guess that actually makes me super qualified to write like 20k words of tarot symbolism and interpretation based on my favorite idiotic vampires. lmao

I'm not gonna commission any artist, though, because unlike those other guys, I was not born with a silver dick in my mouth. (Thank you, Nandor.) Instead I just bounce off the fucking walls every time a wwdits fanartist posts an illustration of one of my card interpretations. lmao

#tl;dr tarot decks used to be more academic exercises than artistic ones #and I don't necessarily think that's a BETTER model than the one we typically use now #but it does mean that there's precedent for my project lmao

[thegirlisuedtobe]

“Childhood friends, Anna and Althea, have shared an inseparable love for each other until a man approved by Althea’s family comes to serenade her…"

My graduate film is done!! 🥳🎉💖💞😭 The long night is finally over, wrist n neck n shoulder pain begone 🤧🤧 All that to say, I'm like I guess qualified to be an animator lmao.

Now that it's done there's deff a lot of things I still think could have been better but I wash my hands of it. Let this be a snapshot of one period of time in a lifetime of making more art 💖💞

#amv #animated music video #animation #artists on tumblr #artph #lgbt #lesbian #illa does design class #Youtube

[heliianth]

hi Helii i dunno if you already made a post about this, but I'm curious if u thought of a different plot and ending for httyd 3 cause recently i've been thinking about that a lot and i like to hear people's opinions about the movie!

hi nonnie !! ive made 2 posts abt my opinion of httyd3 (ein) (zwei) but since then ive read things like directors commentaries and excerpts from the art book so theyre not Very complete (but still representative—i just give some of the people who worked on it too much leeway LMAO)

honestly i havent thought of a different plot or ending that much, mainly because there are a Lot of things that bug me about the movie and changing all of them would kinda make the fixed version™ almost unrecognizable, but i can give u some quickfire easy decisions i think wouldve made the movie better

replace the Light Fury with a pack of Night Furies that escaped to THW. i dont understand the fascination with making Toothless the last NF because the "propogation of the species" genetically cant happen if he is, despite what Dreamworks REALLY wants u to believe by having Nightlights be a thing 1300 years later. every single NL u see after the 3rd movie is horrifically inbred !!

scrap New Berk. the "Old Berk" location was so important to its people that they defended it from dragons for 400 years, they wouldn't just pick up and move. also, the overcrowding problem is a non-issue because there's so much room on that island to expand onto and Hiccup is not that much of a dumbass*

show Toothless struggling with leaving Hiccup to chase the LF (or NFs)—maybe he tries to drag him along and theres something that forces them to separate for Hiccup's safety

in that vein ^ there are like 3 total scenes where Hiccup and Toothless are together and that really cheapens the emotional followthrough so... have them be friends again. the 2nd movie, the first time we see them goofing off and chatting alone with each other, showing the audience how strong their bond is and what their dynamic is like. i dont remember if the 3rd movie has Anything like that

speaking of which LOSE THE "dragons are wild animals" POINT. this is a major inspiration for the movie so its one of the things that would change the Whole Story but Dean needs to make up his fucking mind over whether the dragons are gentle, intelligent, sapient creatures who know how to perfectly understand human speech and body language or wild, dangerous animals who need to be "free" from humans (the former is how dragons have been treated by every piece of httyd media until the third movie and the latter contradicts everything, is less interesting, and destroys the previous themes entirely so guess which i prefer)

adding on, stop treating Hiccup like garbage. he didn't find Toothless when he was a baby dragon and nursed him back to health before keeping him and thats all Toothless has ever known. Toothless had spent 15 years prior to befriending Hiccup being a dangerous. wild dragon and blowing up Berk. He's been "free" almost twice as long as he's been friends with Hiccup. LAY OFF, his concerns about Toothless are valid.

i've talked about this before but Hiccup is a terrible chief in this movie and the role shouldve gone to someone better qualified, like Astrid. unlike what some of the directors would have u believe, it IS mature to recognize ur bad at something and hand it off to someone who is more competent (especially if its a job like leadership) bc usually sticking to it gets u Fired. *he makes dumbass decisions so the villain can look smart and this is literally the only reason why he makes them i promise u

same point: Toothless is also a bad alpha in this movie. the premise of a single dragon ruling over all other dragons in the world is Really Bad in of itself, but we don't see Toothless do anything like what Valka's Bewilderbeast did in httyd2—sure he's smaller, but give us a few scenes of him being kind and patient with his people. don't have him order everyone into cages because his girlfriend might get hurt

REDEEM THE DEATHGRIPPERS none of them did anything wrong

treat the side characters with some modicum of respect. this movie does absolutely jackshit with Valka other than make Snotlout have a creepy crush on her and everyone has caught brainworms to make Hiccup and Astrid look competent in comparison.

do not. focus on Hiccup and Astrid's relationship as much as u did. u already failed to deliver a "call to the wild" story in Toothless and the LF, the audience does not need more ammo to get "romance is more important than friendship" out of your movie. having Astrid's role completely reduced to "supportive girlfriend" and "Hiccup's True support", along with how Valka was treated (god that goodbye scene with her and Cloudjumper makes me so sad and angry and NOT for the reasons the writers want) and the LF's design being Like That on PURPOSE (also every single model being airbrushed for Prettyness reasons) kind of shows what Some People making the movie think of women

even discounting ALL of these ^ gripes, of which i have More, trust me (i didnt even get into my problems with Grimmel because honestly i do not remember enough of that twat to properly articulate my issues w him), i would be happy if the end went 1 of 2 ways:

Berk moves inside or near THW in order to keep being the defenders of the dragons, and the LF growing closer to Hiccup is representative of the hidden world dragons growing closer to Berk, illustrating that yes, coexistence is possible and good and benefits them both

the dragons gradually leave on a case-by-case basis, but Toothless never leaves Hiccup, and Hiccup grows old always waiting for him to visit. Hiccup writes a memoir of his experiences with dragons to hopefully educate the younger generation when they decide to come back. this mirrors the books' ending far better and gives the dragons the agency they deserve

i do not think there is a world where every dragon on earth leaves to THW and is simultaneously a good ending which portrays the right themes. Dean's fascination with "there were dragons when i was a boy" kneecapped the entire plot. you do not write stories starting from how you want them to end, especially if they're stories based off a beloved franchise with already established dynamics and themes. the Reason why so many plot elements are so contrived, why so much character development is lost, why httyd's theme of tolerance, cooperation, and the power of love is hamstrung, is because they Really Wanted an end where there are no dragons and they were Completely willing to do anything to get there (also Dreamworks is shit to its artists but whats new)

anyway. NONNIE. if u ever end up thinking More about an alternative version of httyd3 tell me!!!! i'd love to hear YOUR ideas and if u cannot tell talking abt this is so fun and engaging for me so i will listen !!!!! i love u for talking to me have a good day <3 <3 <3 <3

#i just woke up AHJgdg hi!!!!! #long post #i really only have so many issues with thw bc the other 2 movies are so good. i REALLY love all of the httyd media preceding thw #like they set such high standards #so in comparison thw is such a . let down. like the animation is pretty good and the lighting is gorgeous but its got no substance #nothing to indicate they put as much time and care into it as the other movies or even tv shows #thus. my now 3 essays talking abt why i dont like it #LMFAO #httyd

[xenoblademisadventures]

I’m not too familiar with outdated Native American stereotypes, but I’m, like, 99% sure that the Tirkin dialogue in Ghondor’s ascension quest was an outdated Native American stereotype. The way the Tirkin in general have been handled has always been a bit questionable but borders on the “I simply don’t know enough about what I think is happening to say anything.” But I was wondering if anyone knows more about the topic? I’m only really able to flag the dialect as a stereotype because it was brought up in a LA class, otherwise I wouldn’t have noticed. But I’ve been wondering vaguely about the Tirkin enemies for a while. 

Even in the first game, it’s like, the Tirkin and Ignas are just weird enemy types that really shouldn’t have been in the game all things considered. Like, their role in the game was to be an enemy type that could chain attack the player, which is a cute gimmick, but it’s weird that the Monado can damage the Tirkin and Ignas. Also, I’m unsure whether the similar aesthetic to native american artwork in the Tirkin designs counts as inspiration or appropriation, but I also just don’t have a very solid grip on the concept of cultural appropriation, just the understanding that a lot of Native American shit is off-limits due to common bastardizations of it and its usage being not appreciated (in other words, just “don’t go out of my way to add this stuff into my works because it will be seen as disrespectful”). Which also makes me curious about the Saltat enemies in Xenoblade X, which feel like a less copy+paste take of the Tirkin’s as a visual concept. Like, where do they fall in this discussion? Also, I have to bring up the actual totem poles that appear in Future Redeemed. I’m, like, 90% sure that counts as disrespectful. So, actual irl totem poles are really fucking cool. I, again, have very limited understanding of them, but they’re basically stories that are also really detailed and really cool looking carvings. They are a piece of art, not a fucking war-flag. Treating them as such would be like having the Mona Lisa summon Italians for battle. Doesn’t seem right to give it a health bar.

There’s also the story presence of Tirkins in each game that I’m like “hmmm..” Just, with the context that they’re aesthetically derived directly from Native American art. They’ve always existed in a weird half-spot between being a generic enemy for the player to kill without sparing a second thought and as a fantasy race. In the first game, this status is accompanied by the Hodes and Ignas. Again, I’m guessing the purpose was to have the novelty of an enemy capable of chain attacking the player? But unlike the Hodes and Ignas, they’re given speaking roles in 2 and 3. In 2, this dichotomy is addressed by making them a bit of a joke whenever they get speaking roles. Like, in the main story the party kills a bunch of Tirkin chefs on the basis of “they must be up to no good because they’re Tirkin” then upon learning that they actually were innocent, the game’s like “lmao” and moves on. Like, bruh. ???? I assumed that moment has racist roots around it because that’s the only way that series of story beats makes sense to me, but I never really focused on it because 2 is just a giant fucking mess that is also racist in other ways (and in ways I’m simply not qualified to talk about). 

But yeah, figured I should bring that up because it’s annoying that the racism against Native Americans in the series seems to just be getting worse per entry. And it’s just odd for that to even be in the games in the first place considering their larger themes. It’s by no means the first or only case of a work about acceptance, unlearning prejudice, etc. also containing a blatant stereotype in it, but I don’t think I’ve seen anyone bring this up despite being in the fandom since the first game. 

#tw - racism #but yeah i also doubt these offenses are even uncommon #like i've seen quite a few japanese works just casually throw in native american caricatures #which is something that I find odd in it of itself #since i feel like it says something to even be aware of caricatures between two other races on the other side of the world #but yeah i'm mostly hoping that someone more knowledgeable on the subject eventually picks up this post and elaborates #since i'm really not the person who i would trust to discuss this topic reasonably #but it's been on the back of my mind for years #xenoblade chronicles 3 #xenoblade series