#i have no art to post so take these screenshots because i Cannot get over them

[kayuripax]

Valve news and the AI

So. I assume people saw some posts going around on how valve has new AI rules, and things getting axed. And because we live in a society, I went down the rabbit hole to learn my information for myself. Here's what I found, under a cut to keep it easier. To start off, I am not a proponent of AI. I just don't like misinformation. So. Onwards.

VALVE AND THE AI

First off, no, AI will not take things over. Let me show you, supplemented by the official valve news post from here. (because if hbomberguy taught us anything it is to cite your sources)

[Image id: a screenshot from the official valve blog. It says the following:

First, we are updating the Content Survey that developers fill out when submitting to Steam. The survey now includes a new AI disclosure section, where you'll need to describe how you are using AI in the development and execution of your game. It separates AI usage in games into two broad categories:

Pre-Generated: Any kind of content (art/code/sound/etc) created with the help of AI tools during development. Under the Steam Distribution Agreement, you promise Valve that your game will not include illegal or infringing content, and that your game will be consistent with your marketing materials. In our pre-release review, we will evaluate the output of AI generated content in your game the same way we evaluate all non-AI content - including a check that your game meets those promises.

Live-Generated: Any kind of content created with the help of AI tools while the game is running. In addition to following the same rules as Pre-Generated AI content, this comes with an additional requirement: in the Content Survey, you'll need to tell us what kind of guardrails you're putting on your AI to ensure it's not generating illegal content. End image ID]

So. Let us break that down a bit, shall we? Valve has been workshopping these new AI rules since last June, and had adopted a wait and see approach beforehand. This had cost them a bit of revenue, which is not ideal if you are a company. Now they have settled on a set of rules. Rules that are relatively easy to understand. - Rule one: Game devs have to disclose when their game has AI - Rule two: If your game uses AI, you have to say what kind it uses. Did you generate the assets ahead of time, and they stay like that? Or are they actively generated as the consumer plays? - Rule three: You need to tell Valve the guardrails you have to make sure your live-generating AI doesn't do things that are going against the law. - Rule four: If you use pre-generated assets, then your assets cannot violate copyright. Valve will check to make sure that you aren't actually lying.

That doesn't sound too bad now, does it? This is a way Valve can keep going. Because they will need to. And ignoring AI is, as much as we all hate it, not going to work. They need to face it. And they did. So. Onto part two, shall we?

[Image ID: a screenshot from the official Valve blog. It says the following: Valve will use this disclosure in our review of your game prior to release. We will also include much of your disclosure on the Steam store page for your game, so customers can also understand how the game uses AI. End image ID]

Let's break that down. - Valve will show you if games use AI. Because they want you to know that. Because that is transparency.

Part three.

[Image ID: A screenshot from the official Valve blog. It says the following:

Second, we're releasing a new system on Steam that allows players to report illegal content inside games that contain Live-Generated AI content. Using the in-game overlay, players can easily submit a report when they encounter content that they believe should have been caught by appropriate guardrails on AI generation.

Today's changes are the result of us improving our understanding of the landscape and risks in this space, as well as talking to game developers using AI, and those building AI tools. This will allow us to be much more open to releasing games using AI technology on Steam. The only exception to this will be Adult Only Sexual Content that is created with Live-Generated AI - we are unable to release that type of content right now. End Image ID]

Now onto the chunks.

Valve is releasing a new system that makes it easier to report questionable AI content. Specifically live-generated AI content. You can easily access it by steam overlay, and it will be an easier way to report than it has been so far.

Valve is prohibiting NSFW content with live-generating AI. Meaning there won't be AI generated porn, and AI companions for NSWF content are not allowed.

That doesn't sound bad, does it? They made some rules so they can get revenue so they can keep their service going, while also making it obvious for people when AI is used. Alright? Alright. Now calm down. Get yourself a drink.

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Team Fortress Source 2

My used source here is this.

There was in fact a DCMA takedown notice. But it is not the only thing that led to the takedown. To sum things up: There were issues with the engine, and large parts of the code became unusable. The dev team decided that the notice was merely the final nail in the coffin, and decided to take it down. So that is that. I don't know more on this, so I will not say more, because I don't want to spread misinformation and speculation. I want to keep some credibility, please and thanks.

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Portal Demake axed

Sources used are from here, here and here.

Portal 64 got axed. Why? Because it has to do with Nintendo. The remake uses a Nintendo library. And one that got extensively pirated at that. And we all know how trigger-happy Nintendo is with it's intellectual property. And Nintendo is not exactly happy with Valve and Steam, and sent them a letter in 2023.

[Image ID: a screenshot from a PC-Gamer article. It says the following: It's possible that Valve's preemptive strike against Portal 64 was prompted at least in part by an encounter with Nintendo in 2023 over the planned release of the Dolphin emulator for the Wii and Gamecube consoles on Steam. Nintendo sent a letter to Valve ahead of that launch that attorney Kellen Voyer of Voyer Law said was a "warning shot" against releasing it. End Image ID.]

So. Yeah. Nintendo doesn't like people doing things with their IP. Valve is most likely avoiding potential lawsuits, both for themselves and Lambert, the dev behind Portal 64. Nintendo is an enemy one doesn't want to have. Valve is walking the "better safe than sorry" path here.

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There we go. This is my "let's try and clear up some misinformation" post. I am now going to play a game, because this took the better part of an hour. I cited my sources. Auf Wiedersehen.

#kayuri writes #infodump #valve #tf2 #portal 64 #team fortress source 2 #ask to tag #long post

[youredreamingofroo]

For those awaiting an answer on one of my more recent posts, and whether I'll be leaving, here it is. .....Under the cut, as it, in my usual fashion, gets lengthy, you can skip to the end for a TL:DR :)

I'm not going to leave tumblr/simblr, I'll be floating around and still liking people's posts, I'm probably gonna unfollow some people (not my mutuals ofc ilya) just because it's hard to keep up with my dash when I get over 10 notifications every 2 minutes or so especially when if I'm not going to primarily consume Sims 4 content. I'm going to put my mods folder into my external HDD, in order to preserve them ykwim, and I'm going to uninstall TS4, I'll try to make one more sim before the sims 4 gets poofed off my laptop, although as it stands even after freeing up 20 GBs of space, my space went back down to 400 MBs so 😭😭 I will probably be posting variety content, even though I know all my followers are primarily Sims content consumers (some of ya'll do other stuff, but I mean as a whole, my audience tends to be more Sims 4 related), I might play and share some of my Sims 1 content, which is not story oriented, it's just a little gameplay of Roo in the Sims 1 :) I'll also probably post Baldur gate stuff (if I can free up the storage for it LMAO), I'll post witcher content maybe, and plenty of other things, and like I said, I'll continue to float around, and I'll continue to reblog any Sims content I see and enjoy... as well as other things. .... So what about W.A.S? Yea. I dont know, while W.A.S IS supposed to be a fleshed out story, and while I know I AM leaving sims 4 behind, completely limiting what I can and cannot make story-wise (just cuz I don't know how to make scenes and stuff lmao), I will ATTEMPT to make W.A.S content, I will still make and post the Official teaser, and I'll probably introduce the characters myself sometime after the teaser (I'll take screenshots in CAS and just hope my storage doesn't dip TOO low). I may release some of the story in just text form, as I do really want to continue to post about the story. I'll try to come up with something tho, don't worry :)

I may also start getting back into art, I still need some hobby to preoccupy my time that isn't gaming, I will still do blender stuff (since I have a bunch of my Sims' DAEs) and I will maybe make more edits, but regardless, I still enjoy art and Sims 4 kinda consumed the time that I wanted to spend doing art, soooo yeah.

For the unrooleased tag, I have a bunch of sims that I've never posted, as well as renders that I've never posted, and I may, as Sims 4 filler, post those to fill the void that will become my Sims 4 content

and FINALLY. LAST THING I promise :) I know all of ya'll LOVE Roo, and I do want to reinforce the fact that ROO IS NOT A SIMS CHARACTER, I did NOT make him originally from the Sims, if you were at any point worried I would stop posting about him, I will not be, I will continue to share about Roo, probably with a lot less pictures considering I really only used TS4 as a visual assistant for his story, I do have his DAEs, so I can make SOME Roo blender content, albeit limited with Scenes and stuff. Roo is a character that I will continue to be passionate about, I never mentioned this but I LOVE to make Roo in pretty much every game I play (besides Skyrim................ and ofc games where u dont have customization), like Animal Crossing, I made a variant of Roo there, and in Stardew! You get the point, he will always be a prominent figure of my content. I may also bring back some characters I made from TS4, like Nirvana, I LOVE her character and would LOVE to continue to post about her, as well as Roo's family, I love posting about his family members and sharing their own story and what importance they are to Roo.

WOW, okay that was a lot, if you're skipping here for a clear answer, or a sort of TL:DR, here ya go, I don't want to leave tumblr, so I won't, and I won't necessarily leave the Simblr ring, TS4 is going to be uninstalled, but I WILL preserve my TS4 mods in my external HDD, and be on the look out for the last sim I make in TS4 :)

#not a goodbye to tumblr but a goodbye to sims 4 🫡 #yapping

[storytellering]

if it's okay, would you mind sharing your art process? your style is SO gorgeous dude. keep it up spardacest nation!!!

Thank you so much anon, and of course! I kinda posted about it on twitter a while ago, but for anyone not also on there, here's a paraphrasing of what I said there! (under a cut bc it's gonna get a bit long)

(speedpaint video from procreate mostly bc like I also said in that post, it's one of the few pieces I've done entirely on procreate and thus entirely recorded kdfjhdk I usually don't do the sketching + painting parts on there but every now and then I get lazy and want to get it all done quick in one program lol! It's not as good as it would look if I were using krita to render (which is what I normally use) but it gets the idea across decently of what it is that I do)

The short version of my process is: sketch, clean up sketch for lineart, then flat colors, then paint over the flats (i make the flats my shadows and paint on the light), then a multiply layer for skin details (like lips, eyebags, etc), then an overlay layer for skin transparency details (red over the ears/nose/fingertips etc), then i do hair over the lineart, then a multiply layer with the contact shadows in a light beige/grey/neutral tone on top of everything else, and then i unify layers, paint over the details, and color correct the HELL out of it The longer version is: SO, first of all, I will say, my entire process for a finished/fully redered piece is pretty scattered and uses a lot of different apps, because after many years of trying out different drawing apps I found that I just worked better when I could incorporate the parts I liked best from each individual one rather than having to adapt to another app entirely! In total, what I use is: autodesk sketchbook and procreate for the first half I do on my ipad, then krita and photoshop on my computer when I'm actually rendering (but any photo editing app instead of ps will do, I'm just used to photoshop bc that's what I learned as my first drawing app WAAAY back in the day lol), and then meitu on my phone for color filters (also any phone editing app with filters in it will do), AND also optional just for references: blender and daz3d on computer + magicposer on my phone The actual step by step of what I do: First of all, if I want to do a detailed, well rendered piece I will start by getting my references ready. That means either just grabbing a screenshot from the game if it's like, a simple portrait, or a photo reference, taking a picture of myself in the right pose/lighting, and if it's something more complex I will recreate the scene in Daz3D to simulate a realistic lighting, OR even just blender (i have the game models for the dmc characters downloaded, so I can just pop them in, pose them and change the lighting to get a realistic idea of what shadows their faces will cast in that specific angle/lighting.) Note: references are pretty essential to me, and there's nothing to be ashamed about for using them! Personally I don't struggle a lot with the drawing/sketching part of art, but my tiny little pea brain cannot fathom how to make an object 3D in my mind, and how to visualize shadows realistically... thus the reliance on 3D programs to do that for me, and then all I have to do is draw what I'm seeing lol. My art improved significantly ever since I started making 3D refs so I could get /exactly/ what I needed - there's still a lot of leeway you need to learn though, because as realistic as the lighting will be in a rendering program, you'll never really get a fully natural looking image, as far as stuff like the body stretching/squishing/pulling when it's in movement, facial expressions, folds in clothing/fabric, etc... so really it's more a guide than something meant to be followed 1:1.

Then, once I'm confident I know exactly what I'm gonna draw/have the idea in my head, I start sketching it in sketchbook. Not really getting very in depth, just blocking out rough shapes - I like sketchbook and to be on my ipad for that because it feels very reminiscent of traditional sketching on paper to me, which while I'm not super confident on my traditional art abilities, I do get the most natural/fluid/non-stiff figures out that way. Then when I think I have the general idea ready, I export the sketch layer as a png and import it into procreate - which is where I kinda start picking at the sketch and polishing it like i'm carving it out haha. Lots of liquify tool, flipping the canvas to check if it's even, blending out some of the lineart to help out with the rendering later, and then polishing up what was once the sketch into serviceable lineart. I usually reimport it back into sketchbook at this stage - while I like procreate for drawing I don't love the brushes I can use for lineart there, and so I usually only draw the "base" naked figure in there - when I'm in sketchbook I use a hard pencil to refine the details, then on a separate layer add all the things "on top" like hair, clothing, etc - usually I can get it pretty easily in one go, and once I'm satisfied I erase the naked body under the clothes and unify the lineart layers. Then I will just do the flats with a hard brush, turning the lineart layer into an overlay layer and coloring things in with the shadow colors. At this point, I export the file as a psd and import it on my computer - I give it a once over in photoshop first to see if there needs to be any adjusting (like whether any layer that has an effect needs to have a different effect, if all the colors look right since the ipad screen isn't the most faithful, if i wanna change the background color, etc), and once I think it's ready enough, I open it up in krita, where I do the actual bulk of the painting/rendering (as to why specifically krita: it's because I've gotten very comfortable with the brush/painting brush dynamics there and cannot seem to get as good results anywhere else, it's just the goldilocks spot of a brush for me haha.) If anyone's curious, here's the brushes I usually use for painting:

The one in the middle is my go to painting brush, left one for tinier/more refined details, right one for blending out soft shadows (though I learned the hard way to not overuse it, or it will look like I went ham with an airbrush tool lol). (I don't change any of the settings on these brushes, so if you wanna try out the exact ones I use! Just fresh off how they come out the app haha) I paint on the lights on top of the shadows, and just focus on that for the time being - once I'm done with the basic painting, I'll make a separate multiply layer for details like lip color, eye waterlines, makeup if there is any, eyebags, etc, and then adjust the opacity until it feels right - then I'll make an overlay layer with skin translucency details (like, when you hold your hands in front of a light and see the tips of your fingers become bright orange - many parts of your body are always a bit translucent to the blood underneath, specifically parts where the skin is thin like noses, cheeks, joints, knuckles, etc, and I found it makes the character look a lot more alive to add that subtle coloring in) - then usually I do hair on a separate layer on top of the lineart (because that way I can add small flyaways, more details, etc, and just use the lineart as a guide) After that, I'll usually make a multiply layer on top of everything where I'll add contact shadows in a neutral color (usually pretty pale, it'll be darker anyway since it's multiply), and once I feel like I've rendered everything out properly, I save the psd and re-open it on photoshop.

In photoshop, I'll mess around with the layers a little bit more (changing hue/saturation, opacity, etc), fuck around with the background to make it look pleasing, and once I'm happy with it, I'll unify the layers and start color correcting - usually by duplicating the unified layer and messing with the curve/hsl of the image and then changing the opacity of that edited layer until it's as strong or muted as I want it to be - then I also edit the RGB curves individually and adjust the opacity of that also (because I just really like how it ends up looking if I give a bit of a red/warm tint to the shadows lol), and at that point often I will reimport the finished image into procreate for some finalizing touches! Like, blending out shadows that came out too harshly, painting over anything that came out not the way I wanted it, redefining the lineart if it got messy during painting, and adding any extra small detail that might have gotten lost like catchlights, hair shines, hair flyaways, tears, etc. I also do one last round of flipping the canvas and liquify if needed! At this point, I export the finished image both to my computer and my phone - on my phone I open it up on the photo editing app, and add a bunch of different color filters - I don't hesitate from going completely balls to the walls here, and just kinda applying as many filters as will make an image look pleasing to my eye. Once I think it looks good, I'll export the edited image to my computer - and then open both the version without filters and the one with them on photoshop, and use the filtered version as an opacity layer, and adjust it until it doesn't look as crazy anymore lol. One last step I recently started incorporating was also changing the image to grayscale after I'm done, and doing one last round of curves in greyscale to make sure the values look right, and nothing is getting too lost because the values are too similar (because i know i get a bit swept up in getting repulsed by harsh contrasting lighting and can end up washing out all of rendering if I don't check myself kjdfgk) AND that's it! Yes it's a pretty long and chaotic process, but it's coming from years of trial and error and realizing I can just let myself fo whatever makes me happier with the results, and I don't have to stay constrained to one program if I don't like every tool it has to offer/don't have to accept the final image fresh off the painting app as the "finished" image with no adjustments allowed after, lol. I don't find it takes a lot more time than if I didn't do it this way, but YMMV. Hope this was helpful and sorry for taking so long to explain! I just wanted to give a thorough explanation dfhdkhkx

#asks #sorry i know its a bit chaos hfdgd #but i hope its helpful anon! thanks for asking #also for anyone wondering #no i am not paying for ps lmao #fuck adobe #it is always morally correct to pirate adobe products people #if you have an alternative photo editing app you like best youre welcome to use it #but if youre too used to photoshop. everything is free on the internet if you know where to look #i also wouldnt recommend meitu bc it feels like a pretty sketchy app all things considered #im just too lazy to care to change my go to app but i would look for a different phone app #p sure theres billions that let you add funky color filters instead #actually i think you could use photoshop camera raw filters for that too #its just way too intensive of a process for my tiny potato computer and it feels a lot faster + seamless on phone

[bearhugsandshrugs]

hey em! Could you please tag your fic posts and use the community labels, especially when the fics contain NSFW with dubious and non-consent? I know you placed the warnings inline to the post itself, but without the tags themselves, muting doesn’t work. I love your writing, your smut is one of the hottest things in the tavtash fandom microcosm, but I am beginning to find it difficult/risky to engage when your tagging and trigger warnings are so sporadic, and I keep getting surprise squicked :/

Hey! Thanks for your message. Applauding you for taking care of yourself!

A few notes.

First of all what you're saying is not true and it's unfair. I have tagged dubcon and noncon pieces I have written, especially in the past months. All original posts are always tagged for noncon. Self-reblogs have not been.

Tbh I just assumed the original tags carry over in blocking for self-reblogs and I'm sorry to learn that they don't, so I will of course tag dubcon and noncon in the self-reblogs going forward. That I can and will easily do. Sorry that this caused you problems!

But you making it sound as if I continuously and carelessly expose my followers to dubcon/noncon or triggers is not fair and not true. I care a great deal about this stuff and I think everyone who followed any conversation I ever had about this here knows that. If there are specific triggers you want me to tag (like, say, eating disorder - which I haven't written but would easily tag, or drug addiction, or similar stuff) please send it and I will make sure to do that.

But. And this might be a dealbreaker for you, which I understand. For kinks beyond dubcon/noncon: I will not include all tags of AO3 on here in the tags. I will keep them in the text. I've mentioned this a few times before. If I tag them I'm going to put myself into tumblr purgatory and I'm risking my blog getting flagged/taken down.

I try to include every single kink (and thus potential squick) very diligently in the description of the fic. I'm not perfect but I try. AO3 is usually better which is why I started screenshotting that.

I cannot protect you from reading single words in the description. I can protect you from reading the fic, which is why I use "Read More" after the first 1-2 paragraphs, so unless you specifically ignore the kink description and then click "more" you don't have to read what's happening.

It is a bit ironic, because I have never seen an artist being asked to tag their explicit art even though that's something you immediately see, while a fic you have to actively start reading.

If you don't want to see my fics here and rather filter them by kinks or squicks on AO3 I would suggest muting #my writing (or I can use a more specific tag like #bearhugs writes for just my fics if you want me to so you can filter me out more easily) so you don't see my fics anymore and you can then browse them to your liking on Ao3.

Completely understand that you need to take care of yourself. That is why I have a big disclaimer in my bio that this is a NSFW blog. As well as a disclaimer very early on in my pinned post that I write non-con, too. If the measures I'm taking are not sufficient for you, I completely understand if you need to unfollow.

However I hope you understand where I'm coming from, too.

Again, self-reblogs I will start tagging, here I was simply naive and that's on me. If you have a very specific kink you need me to tag, feel free to send that too and I can watch out to tag that if I write it.

To summarize:

I am already tagging dubcon/noncon and will start doing that in self-reblogs, too (my bad and ty for making me aware)

Other commonly triggering things like pregnancies, EDs, etc will be tagged and if there's something specific, DM me

I am keeping other kinks/squicks in the description, not tags

I recommend blocking the #my writing and/or #bearhugs writes tag so the dash filters out my fics entirely and you can click on them to display

If this is not enough I understand if you need to unfollow

Thank you and have a lovely rest of your day!

Edit: I’ve changed my policy on this (check pinned) but leaving this up for vis

#anon asks #bearhugs writes #my writing

[ofseafroth]

i don't use tumblr AT ALL but i think this is the one place i can show screenshots where everyone will see them.

i am tired of holly, ria, the original tumblr poster, and whoever this SadisticCupid is pretending theyre not at any fault for the recent idiotic drama.

holly is a person who is have had a falling out with some years ago. 2020, i believe, when the server was first made. the situation entailed her getting upset over a friend and i making jokes about white people. both my friend and i are half white. she claims i called her a cracker, i don't remember, so i wont deny or confirm that. she sent her friend ria to harass me on my message board after i made an all poc server. it immediately sprung into an argument of course and i blocked ria after ria compared me to my abusive mother. i have not spoken to her nor kept up with her until 2023.

however, holly joins my server AGAIN pretending to be someone else. she ends up leaving again after sharing art of UC ocs and i went "those are some white ass names" immediately following a compliment of her artwork. ss below. she leaves, she rejoins and claims she was bullied in the server. this was after she wouldnt let people promo the server on the UC insta and said the server was filled with bullies. i immediately took that accusation seriously and asked her to point out who bullied her because when we went back in the conversation, there was only that one thing i did. as soon as we pulled out screenshots, she began claiming she was bullied in dms and couldn't remember the conversation. she leaves AGAIN. she rejoins and a mod immediately recognizes her. when called out, she denies that shes the same person until i finally tell her i know its her. we have a conversation in the dms, every thing is resolved.

amidst a conversation about lucifer's flaws, specifically the rape of hades, holly jumps in and begins calling hades a whore. we all know how much holly likes lucifer. we tell her to stop calling him a whore, it was weird with the conversation we were having, and another member even explained it further.

she slut shames cain. i tell her to stop with the slut shaming. i have a rule in my server to be respectful on how you speak on fictional characters bc while they are fictional, there are things in the series that reflect real life situations. i.e : rape. i told her i dress similarly to cain. the constant slut shaming was just not a good feeling.

now the stupid business with the one shot. i have said repeatedly how i do not care how people feel about the one shot whether you like it or not. there was some valid criticisms esp with the first publication that i cannot have an opinion on because i did not read the pre edited version. we had screenshotted some comments that we felt were dramatic and found funny. not once did we come after anyone who genuinely had criticism about the one shot. she comes in out of no where and tells a mod to shut up and move on. of course we are not going to respond well to that. NOT ONCE did anyone treat her similarly when we disagreed with her. ill add screenshots as well.

i will also add screenshots of the conversation i had with the person who wrote that one tumblr post and anything i think is also relevant. claiming i manipulated them into taking my side is crazy.

#theunderworldchronicles #rotXinXpieces

[autisticempathydaemon]

hello! i am new to redacted and here for the ask game :)

my favourite song rn is the gothic surfarama by the vampire beach babes totally go listen to that

i usually dont like big video essays unless theyre about a topic im super into, like i have watched hours of essays about tmnt and mcr, bit if its about something im not so into, probably not

my favourite audio is either damn friendsgiving or damn bowling (im a sucker for good friends and found family lmao)

i just cannot get into blake. like aside from the cult stuff lmao just not into him

RISE OF THE TMNT i have episodes of that show memorised. you could show me a screenshot and i could tell u what ep its from and whats happening at that moment.

ollie my best friend hes brilliant. nerdy about board games? perfect please be my best friend ill listen to him tell me about catan or scythe for hours on end

no tired ramblings, i sort of just get sleep drunk. if im tired i am not talking for the world

im not american so i dont do gas station stuff instead my dokan (like a corner store i guess) go to would be a mango juice bottle and whatever knock off oreos they have.

my favourite playlist (music or redacted? ill do both) is a) my gothy music playlist from when i was 13 with a few additions lmao, and b) milos playlist his accent is just so fun to listen to even though i can barely understand it lol

NO guilty pleasures i enjoy what i enjoy without shame

annd uh. im an art student, i prefer popeyes over mac, i have awful hayfever, and i cant choose a favourite colour they are all beloved to me

Ooh, so this was a thinker. I could have gone in a few directions, but if we’re taking everything into consideration plus “Vampire Beach Babes”, it’s got to be Vincent Solaire!

First, Vincent is and always will be a total nineties kid at heart, so he would absolutely love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (Off the top of my head, I think he thinks himself a Miley and had a big crush on Leo as a tween.) He gets super hyped for every addition to the franchise and loves chill nights on the couch watching reruns with you while you draw.

Speaking of drawing, I think Vincent would be such a wonderful boyfriend for an art student. We have evidence that he was so supportive in Lovely’s studies, and he’d do just the same with you: always bringing you snacks while you work, offering to model for you, chauffeuring you to work in automotive style. Also, he’s without a doubt gorgeous- what better inspiration could you ask for?

Song:

Let's trash our whole afternoon/ Reciting recycled news/ Until we melt and go back to your hotel room/ I'll be your new favorite tune/ I'll be your black cloud by June/ But only when you miss the rain like I miss you

One. I like this to fit your goth/emo vibe but looking for something new. Two. This song is ridiculously singable and fun; I think Vincent would have a great time bouncing along to this with you in the car and grinning dopily when he says he’s stupid for you.

Runner-Ups:

Asher would be a cute runner-up because I think you two would like a lot of the same things, like TMNT and MCR. Asher’s more of a FOB-boy, but he’s not likely to be one and not the other, ya know? Lasko is an even cuter runner-up just because something about him would be so cute next to an art student; like, that’s an it couple right there.

note: thank you so much for waiting 💕

Read this post and send me an ask if you’d like a match-up of your own! 💌

#redactedasmr #redactedverse #redacted asmr #redactedaudio #redacted audio #redacted #busybee matches

[devilish-parrot]

introduction to the blog: (/ref)

name: Karl/Oris (neither of these are my real names but u can still use them)

age: teenager

pronouns: he/they (preference for he/him)

gender: boy

orientation: gay

furry (my fursona is a spider named fiction)

fav thing to do: LISTEN TO MUSIC RAAAHHH cannot emphasise enough how much i love music

special interests: (in order of intensity)

Tally Hall (and extended projects)

Will Wood (still new to it tho. dont know all the songs)

i listen to nothing but these two ALL DAY LONG. or im singing their songs. or im playing them on the ukulele

Likes: (random order)

men (i am so funny)

art

listening to music (my spotify)

reading (currently: picture of dorian gray.)

parrots

playing ukulele

fav movies: Cars (2006) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

flesh boy of salad fingers (i have the plush of him hes SO skrunk)

Music: (artists/bands i like in no particular order) because music is VERY important to me, and my playlists for them

mommy long legs

dazey and the scouts

bo burnham

lemon demon

tally hall (and related projects)

jack stauber

slutever

will wood/ and the tapeworms

cojum dip

Character playlists:

Monty gator (fnaf)

Stolas (helluva boss)

Argos . Mr Plant (twomp)

Gregor Samsa (metamorphasis (ive never read it (yet)))

Brutus (real life 44BC)

Playlists where the songs spell out a sentance:

charles x peter steele in hell

me when i get a boyfriend

im probably listening to music as you read this

stuff that i post (and reblog) about most often: (sometimes ill post other stuff but im too lazy to list them all + listing them all would make it really long) in order of frequency

tally hall

will wood

ashur gharavi stuff (i have a mr plant plush!!)

dhmis

and some other stuff but not frequently enough to be featured here

Devilish Tags:

#devilish rambles: original posts

#devilish asks: asks i answer or sent

#devilish dreams: my dream (i dont always post what i dreamt)

#devilish minecraft: that one time i played minecraft

#devilish book: announcing ive started or finished a book

#the birdie duo 🔥🔥: me and/ or just my awsome mutual @muzhda (we both have bird pfps)

#devilish liveblogs: my liveblogging tag

#devilish art: art reblogged from my art account

#are these words in tally hall: i have an explanation for it linked at the bottom

#devilish parrot: reaction image made from my pfp

as always you can block any tag if you want

My Fav Animals:

Sky: parrots

Sea: sharks

Land: cats

Insect: Spiders & Snails

basic dni, also nsfw blogs dni

dont follow me if youre over 25 because id feel weird knowing there are full grown adults following me

ask box always open :) PLEASE SEND ME ASKS I LOVE ASKS. if you dont know what to ask about, try something with music

if youve come here expecting parrots, you will be dissapointed. i made my url when i hyperfixated on parrots but that is gone now

sometimes i might reblog posts with queer slurs in them so if ur not comfrtable with that, this is not the blog for u, sorry.

my art blog @devilishparrot-art

my tally hall blog @daily-tallyhall

zubin blog @zubin-staresat-yourfave

explination for why my banner is the way it is

explanation for my blog title

rules for "are these words in tally hall?"

i cant figure out how to add blinkies so uuuuhhhhhh EAT FOOD DRINK WATER BRUSH YOUR TEETH TAKE YOUR MEDS WASH YOUR HAIR BE KIND TO YOURSELF XOXO <3 MWAH LOVE YOURSELF

(btw my pfp is a screenshot from this gif)

#pinned post #pinned info #about myself #devilish rambles #devilish parrot

[fauslayer]

2 3 7 11 & 12?

‼ theres some suggestive to downright implicative shit going on in this one (due to the nature of the first question) watch out ‼

2. a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom

it deleted my entire thang i have to type it.again hold on

ok this is a tough one. because i have like. insane people thoughts on faust guilty gear and sexuality mostly revolving around his canonical masochism and how that intersects with his atonement complex and his profession.

I Do Not Think Faust Tops In The Ways People Think He Would, Usually. theres been an exception or two where i understand fully where OP is coming from and it feels like they understand both why hes desirable and how he would wish to be desired rather than just wanting a size difference “”monsterfucker qualifier“” character to jump after. but these are exceptions in an already rare enough situation.

I Think He COULD Top If He Wanted To Though. talking pre-strive i imagine he could be caring about it but i think sex with him in a more traditional sense would lack closeness. i think there are some things you can only strip bare from him if you get a little weird. i have conflicting thoughts on the common placement of him in a sort of medicalplay or “sex as treatment” scenario where i think the only way it would be Truly intimate and not just him using his body as an extension of his profession without much care to his own physicality and such would be like. I don't know bro you have to get a little weird with him! am i even allowed to talk about fausts canonical masochism on tumblr dotcom.

TLDR there should be more serious character exploration of pre-strive faust and how he expresses himself as a vessel for servicing others and how that interlocks with his self-proclaimed “shameful” masochistic desires and the freedom that only actual selfishness in this regard can give him. and there should also be more exploration of sexuality with post-strive faust because You motherfuckers cannot be that afraid of him. If you already want his kidney scraper so goddamn bad you can care for him a little bit more.

What happened I blacked out.

3. screenshot or description of the worst take you’ve seen on tumblr

if this was on twitter (so many people are weird about faust there) or ao3 (i dont want to ask triptych_triptych_triptych why they're so mad that guilty gear doesnt show faust and may experiencing anti-asian racism as a result of 9/11, which did not happen in the guilty gear universe, because id rather not read another word of their pseudointellectual nonsense parading their lack of media literacy and completely unnecessary self-flagellation as Real Transsexual Art) i would have perhaps worse things to send but here you go

this post was so long and disgustingly descriptive while saying pretty much nothing at all. when i sent this to my friends to complain about i blur-stretched everything past the first couple lines in mspaint because i think looking at it unfiltered in the future (like now) would make me literally fucking tremble with rage and i have forgotten OPs url. i hope i blocked them but i have the memory of an ant. you only really need the first few lines to know this post is insanely bad. and this isnt a dig on it for being a Sex Post. i just think if youre the kind of rinse and repeat nothingburger blog whose entire outwards appearance is that of a postironic "im not like the other channies" 4channer who thinks theyre hot shit because theyre over 20 and Not Afraid To Say Slurz you probably shouldnt touch guilty gear because without love it cannot be seen and you desperately need to find love for yourself before you touch ky kiske again. ok

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

i really dont want to say bidget. i love bidget. bidget is a reminder of self love and discovery, of living and growth and understanding and all that shit. i look at her in-game or i listen to the town inside me and i think about that time daisuke said smth in that interview that amounted to “i make a lot of guilty gear characters because i want underrepresented people to see a vision of happiness for themselves“.

but oh my god nobody that Posts Her seems to get it. all i see are the same tired memes and using her as just boring-ass iconography. claiming that she SHOULD be more popular than the Mean Brown Protagonist because shes a transgender white woman who has a side-part in the main plot. like holy shit im SO grateful shes here and that They Fixed Her but oh my god dude ive genuinely heard more than one person say that they were glad that she seemed like the protagonist more than sol.

11. number of fandom-related words you’ve filtered

my only filtered tags are Goncharov (just didnt find it funny but not in an offensive way and wanted to let everyone have their fun) and umineko spoilers but back when i was a moreso mentally unwell teenager i had like every variant of zato-1 muted that i could possible come up with. i would say i dont know what was wrong with me but i was like 17 and going through some things.

12. the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them

I THOUGHT YOU GUYS LOVED TWINKS WHERES THE ADORATION AND CARE FOR MY GOOD FRIEND ZAPPA GUILTY GEAR!! not only is he, on a surface and aesthetic level, sooooooo kyute but i think hes genuinely very gripping. he had to be stronger for himself than i think he shouldve ever had to be and i kinda wish we got a light novel chronicling him trying to dispel the ghosts before landing his government job or something like that.

#asks #guilty gear #suggestive #nsft

[tomatosoupgroup]

screenshot saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so uhh

this'll be a short one

sorryyyyyyy

I DO HAVE STUFF FOR YOU THOUGH

for example....

you might be wondering what the hell this is

this is a background for the visual novel aspect of the game!

well, an unfinished one.

i based it off this screenshot i took off google maps!

some of the things i need to add are

well

pretty much everything lol

but let's be more specific:

you see how in mine, all the textures seem flat, while in the real photo, the textures are defined?

bit funky innit

the thing is uh. i have no idea how to add texture like this in pixel art.

ive tried many times and it just looks really bad lmao

so i've done some research, and i think what i'm looking for are called "clusters"

never heard of those before

also whenever i look up a tutorial for drawing them they just basically say "just draw these funny shapes!" and i'm like "okay but wHERE. YOU CANNOT JUST TELL ME TO DO THING. I NEED CONTEXT FOR THING. OOGA BOOGA BANG ROCK WITH STICK"

completely unrelated but i've noticed that whenever i get two ads on youtube, i can't skip them both at once

like when i press the skip ad button, it just goes to the next ad

don't know if this is only happening to me but it is REALLY annoying

fuck you youtube

i suppose i should dedicate the end of my post to the project itself.

ANOTHER QNA!

Q: Will you charge money for the game?

A: Complicated question.

this game is the epitome of a passion project in my eyes. it is a story i am telling not for any of my own personal gain, but simply because i feel like it is a story that needs to be told.

but enough of all this sappy shit, i'll just explain it simply:

when this game eventually comes out, i will either:

a: open the game up to donations (like the "name your price" thing), the majority of which will go to charity and anyone who helps on the project or

b: make the game 100% free.

Q: Do you accept fanart of the characters?

A: UH

YEAH????

if you draw my characters i will literally go bonkers /pos style

i unfortunately don't have an official ref sheet for any of them yet, but i'll be able to provide substitutes if asked

i think it would be cool to feature some of the fanart in the credits! (with permission from the artists, of course!) but that may take up too much space so i'll have to think it over.

tldr i fucking love fanart

Q: What about NSFW?

A: ...

Okay.

Listen.

I HIGHLY advise against it. I'm a minor and that's just like. weird.

Even after I turn 18, it'll still be weird because they were characters I first drew up when I was 16.

but at the same time, i accept that this is the internet, and that some gooner supremo will eventually stumble across this game :/

so i just have one definitive request.

PLEASE

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

DO NOT INCLUDE CHARACTERS WHO ARE UNDER 18

for example:

You may remember Silhouette.

they are CANONICALLY 13.

so like. keep them out of it.

i don't care if they're "just a character". you could say my fist is "just a body part" right before i bash your face in

if you want, i can provide the ages for any character you ask. i have a whole spreadsheet!

so please.

anyways that's gonna do it for today

to everybody who isn't youtube: i love you and thank you for being here

i will see you next week!

#game dev #gamedev #electric love #electric love game #godot engine #screenshot saturday

[cowardlybean]

your ask button is so tiny it’s so funny

anywho ask game mob psycho fucking all the questions. all of them. i didn’t even read it just answer them all i wanna know

This is gonna be a long ass post :3

the character everyone gets wrong: Tome is a speculative biology enjoyer. thats it thats the post! I also feel like Teruki is more violent than people portray him

a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom: I’mmmm not answering this (cannot decide a fav and most characters are minors lmaooo)

screenshot or description of the worst take you've seen on tumblr : the worst take ever is shipping Reigen and Mob. Gross! Die.

what was the last straw that made you finally block that annoying person?: I haven’t been here long enough to have any annoying people

worst discord server and why: not in any

which ship fans are the most annoying?: if you ship rei//mob. DIE!

what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?: i already hated Mogami (not from a narrative standpoint, i LOVE the Mogami arc its gutwrenching) but aBoT fic made me hate him even more. KILL HIM!!!

common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about: Tome is aroace i don’t make the rules (is projecting) but in all seriousness I Really prefer Mob being aroace because his relationship with Tsubomi really reflects my aromantic experience of making up a crush because that’s what I assume it’s supposed to be

worst part of canon: i love the entire show. sooo. i mean i guess its hard for me to watch Reigen on the psychic tv show bc of secondhand embarrassment kicking my ASS

worst part of fanon: sexualizing middle schoolers

number of fandom-related words you've filtered: idk but they’re all gross ships

the unpopular character that you actually like and why more people should like them: not unpopular in the “people hate her” sense but Tome needs more attention, shes so autism and i love her role in the Reigen manga

worst blorboficiation: I haven’t been here long but I haven’t seen a lot of Dimple character study content, usually he's just there because he's always there

that one thing you see in fics all the time: autistic Mob and trans Reigen (positive)

that one thing you see in fanart all the time: older Mob being taller than Reigen which I think is silly <3

you can't understand why so many people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc): idk how popular it is but mob sympathizing with Mogami just. is not my thing

there should be more of this type of fic/art: Reigen in mogamiland, its so interesting to me

it's absolutely criminal that the fandom has been sleeping on...: BROCCOLI ARC BODY HORROR!!!!!!!!!!! Honestly its fucking terrifying already when Mobs friends slowly convert to Dimple-ism but can you imagine. The roots creeping beneath. :3 AND ALSO Reigen having a fear of being on live tv is underrated 

you're mad/ashamed/horrified you actually kind of like...: not genuinely ashamed but my guilty pleasure is bashing Reigen over the head with angst

part of canon you found tedious or boring: cant think of any

part of canon you think is overhyped: also cant think of any rn

your favorite part of canon that everyone else ignores: the fact that spirits have the power to brainwash without possessing people?? like Dimples two cults are. terrifying!! bc Mob couldn’t sense a spirit changing their minds bc Dimple was chilling in the broccoli

ship you've unwillingly come around to: not genuinely upset about it but I was so surprised I ended up liking yoshieku (Dimple x security guard) the bond between an evil spirit and the man he randomly possessed is incredible

topic that brings up the most rancid discourse: dunno any

common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing: also dunno any

#mp100 #mob psycho 100 #cowardly speaks #i havent hung around the fandom long enough tbh its only been a couple months

[aidenknow]

Gonna say something before I get busy

With the situation going on with me with allegations such as inappropriate behavior with minors, stalking, harassment etc while also have involvement with the MoA group and Cashew, I have to say something about it especially since it seems like I’m the main problem to it. Though I cannot say much of it at the moment due to the complexity of the drama itself while also have to deal with IRL stuff like university

The main reason why I blocked the callout accounts was for the sake of my mental health and stopping myself from making myself paranoid and bothered going back and forth looking at what I had done, despite it was stopped a few months ago. Wherever you are, yes I am aware of what I had done, just that it really drained me a lot to process this. Most of the decisions were done with advices from others. Talked to my close friends and taking with someone and their advices on the things I dealt with lately. It takes a while for me to calm myself down to a stable state especially when things going on right now is busy for me. When this post is done, that is when I have calmed myself, though there are things in my head that still lingers in me.

Anything involved with Cashew was me fawning over her, mainly because I dont want to hurt her feelings. I was clueless on what is going on other than comforting Cashew, despite the things I comforted her ends up feeding the hate towards her victim. When Cashew said that we (me and the people in the MoA group) manipulated and enabled her, I was furious by it while she also provided screenshots of the MoA creators tracing the art from other artists (note that they only traced the poses, while also had a different understanding what tracing were in their definition) despite the fact it was from months ago. Plus, the issue regarding the “traced” art was brought up before to me by Fortress. Fortress did not brought the issue up directly to the MoA creators but instead at other people who are newly acquainted with them, one of which was me. I felt violated and I was shaken by it because its not something I was not supposed to deal with. People say they wanted to settle in DMs. If so, why are you settle with someone who is not responsible with that particular issues? Why did you bring up about the tracing issues as if its a big deal if the MoA creators already stop doing it since February?

The fact that someone attempted to call the police on me is too far, in my opinion. Thankfully it never happened since I lived from a different country. But even when they did called on me, that would’ve considered as doxxing. They probably aren’t aware that the country I live in is really lgbtphobic which could’ve got me into physical punishments and my family is pretty conservative. Additionally, I would’ve been discarded from uni if they tried to attempt it which make it difficult. Though, it is more likely it would not work since my country have laws that are possibly different to the laws in the US, and most of the situation happens online and not IRL.

To those who stayed, I am grateful for it and I wanted to thank to those who reassured me due to the situation going on while being at my side. Though I apologize if those issues I shared regarding the situation I dealt with bothered you, along with those people who also got into the mess similar to me. For the people who stayed neutral with the situation, I’m glad that people make the decision to analyze the situation going on and pointed out certain points that does not add up, or when something is missing.

I’ll be only lurking here liking and reblogging some art here. Art stuff will be posted less frequently and it’s mostly going to be doodles and possibly some art stuff I did for uni. Social interaction will be only done within my remaining online friends (mainly those from the MoA group and people who were in the server(s) I’m formerly in) on Discord, unless I decided to reconnect with the people I rarely talked to. Adding on, I’ll also be interacting with my IRL friends on Twitter and Instagram since those are the only social medias that they are active roaming around the most and I wanted to (re)connect with them esp since I’m in uni now.

I’m planning to do a response to the Cashew doc if I have time, since I already talked to the writer of the doc and it was already settled on the decisions before the acc itself deactivated, but the doc itself is still up. Once I made the response, I will also share the post my friend made regarding it too

Anyways, I’ll see you around.

#Aiden Rambles #Drama #Trying to stabilize myself for a few years while dealing with uni stuff #My English is crap to the point im losing literacy #I’m heavily drained from the drama anyways #and the drama itself still lingering me while also brought back memories of the past incidents #TW Doxxing #Also if I’m planning to make a response to me and the MoA situation I will do it on Tumblr since Twitter has some limitations to it #& ended up getting lost to a pile of retweets

[i-rate-horse-games]

rating Virtual Horse Breeding Game

first off, warning for Bright Rainbow Gradients in the screenshots below. secondly, you cannot play this game, because i made the game on Scratch when i was 12 years old and because i said so.

hope you enjoy!

welcome to Virtual Horse Breeding Game.

first off, you have to read and click through the entire tutorial and remember it all. not my favorite, but there's only like 3 buttons so it's not too bad. it does things like say "Click on the bottle to feed him." but then offers you no time to test it out because if you click, it just continues in the tutorial. there are several spelling mistakes, which i think is funny because 12 year old me was all about perfect spelling and capitalization and grammar and corrected people about it despite being dead wrong a lot.

how did this happen

we'll see about that

to progress to day 5, when your baby turns into a Stallion, you have to click the milk bottle, the water bucket, and the moon over and over again. each time you do so the item will float over to the horse's mouth, pause for a second, and then float back. it's not too slow, though. and on day 5...

ITS NECK JUST EXTENDS. THAT'S THE ADULT HORSE FORM

the tutorial comes back and explains that you can now take your horse to "the pasture of female adult horses (mares)" aNd

"If you do that, then you get to buy the horse your horse chose, and you can guess what happens after that! All you have to do is click the button in the top right corner."

if you look at the last big screenshot you can see that that button is just a tiny rainbow flag. you click that button, and you suddenly see a quick animation where your horse is in a field with three other copy and pasted horses of different colors. your horse takes a step towards one, then backtracks, turns and looks at a second horse, and then goes to the last remaining horse. from then on, this is what you see.

after feeding and watering the happy couple for 1 day, suddenly you see this.

no amount of feeding and watering will age the last creature into a Full Horse. naturally, the next step is to see what happens if your horse dies. this only takes 1 day of thirst

hes gone

at this point the game is over and you can't click on anything

what surprises me the most about this game is that six different people enjoyed it enough to leave comments

i rate Virtual Horse Breeding game 1 star out of 5!

★☆☆☆☆

the game only takes a few minutes to complete, and there is no background music or sound effects. There is one cut scene, and its animation was lacking at best. its art style is reminiscent of the early CD computer games, but as if the artist wasn't payed at all. the one star is because the author clearly had a passion for this project for at least a few days, going off of the passionate user base and bright colors.

i hope you enjoyed this joke post! happy new year

#scratch #horse game

[the-trashkin]

Small Reminder

When I was younger, I used to get upset at my older RP friends because it felt like they were never as dedicated to RP as I was. It was frustrating at times, hoping to help inspire them for something when it ended up being nothing.

Now that I am of said age bracket I completely understand why it is they were like that. As much as they would WANT to RP on the regular, they were also content with just talking about HCs, posting art/screenshots, and existing in a safe space -- which I fully respected then and respect now. I have found myself falling into that same head space.

But why? When did this happen? Well, because I just have a lot other things to worry about, and while I can't be made to RP all the time, I do think of it fondly and with adoration for those who CAN partake full-time.

Meanwhile, I sit at my desk, plotting my course of action for the potential of selling our house and moving elsewhere. The finances involved. The bills. Realtors. What will become of our mortgage -- all of which are REAL responsibilities and REAL anxieties that no one really wants to deal with, but one day, you gotta. One day, you will. So it's not that older people DON'T wanna RP, but because we're so overwhelmed with so much shit in our lives (and this year was a real eye-opener for me), and half the time, we're just as lost as younger folk who are also trying to make it out there - those folks who want to commit but simply hanging on by a thread. I feel you.

This all said, never stop being creative. Invoke and enjoy the things you love to do, even with moderation. And while your age should never define nor limit access to your hobbies and enjoyment, be mindful of the people of are trying to do the same - even if it's to a lesser degree. We all want to enjoy the same thing, but leave room in your heart and mind to respect those who cannot commit fully. We want to, trust me. But the sad truth is, reality takes precedence over fantasy - that has always and will forever be the main core rule of RP. In the same vein, please show love and patience for those trying their best to enjoy the experience, too.

♥ Zombie Dad

[198d]

...

So, working on a project and one aspect of it is making a really simple scientific poster. I'm the design guy, I do the front nd design since I'm the only person who knows basic html and css, the only person who has taken art and design classes, and I do this stuff for fun so I go ahead and take charge of the poster. Plus they really just don't have the intuition for design at all, even when I or the professors give clear instructions on How To Do Things Right. We have to make tons of drafts and get feedback on them, and its kind of a dripfeed because staff would make comments on some things, neglect to comment on the other things, and make us turn in another draft based on those missed comments.

Every single fucking time my teammates would work on it, I would have to go back and fix allllllll of the margins and padding they neglected, and I would have to remake every image of a diagram into a simplified, vectorized. Every time we had to change text or images based on the feedback, I would have to go back and change those as well. Today, while I was working on this, one of my teammates was literally trying to edit the same thing at the same time (using figma and diagrams.net). I was going to lose my mind because I was just trying to fix all of the issues, like I had to do multiple times, that my teammates would neglect from the feedback, and so this was actively happening while I was trying to fix them.

I had everything in their own groups, so that it would be easy to change things out. My teammates didn't know how to work with that. Earlier teammate literally did not understand that a file cannot have two different file extensions, and sent me a rasterized image of a diagram instead of the actual editable file, because diagrams.net just lets you have an "editable (so like, able to move around the individual elements) png" saved to your google docs, exported it as a plain png and posted it in the project chat. When I couldn't open it they then tried to tell me like, well it worked for me and well it has the other extension too so it should work. It was only the filename that had the 'extension' of the proper file format. (this is the big csc senior class btw)

The fact that we went back and forth so much on that diagram to begin with was frustrating because they could've given me access to the editable file at any time, and would constantly ignore or forget feedback which meant having to fix it many, many more times, and most of those fixes were still missing the core design feedback like 'make the text size bigger' and 'eliminate unnecessary whitespace'. If anything, it would've been much better if I went through with porting it to figma instead of relying on them, but I'm over here not wanting to be a total control freak so I'm like... whatever.

So when I get access to that diagram I fix issues from all of the feedback, but at the end of our final feedback they go and try to edit at the same fucking time as I am editing, and I had been fixing the diagram all day up to that point. Then the same thing happened on the figma document, and of course they deleted my group for the section the diagram was supposed to go in, so I had to make it again, fix the margins, fix the padding, fix the sizing.

They also completely trashed my design for a page I worked on for the project itself like waay earlier in the semester, so I was like. Okay. You guys do your thing, I can put in all my junk later. I would like to avoid wasting my time as much as possible, considering how mentally ill and exhausted I already am.

oh yeah and also the examples the professors put in the powerpoint for posters had the same (margins and spacing or text inconsistencies, bad looking screenshots, that kind of thing) or worse issues (think black impact font on a busy patterned background, for fucks sake) that they kept nitpicking us for, so its kinda like. please actually showcase something that's relevant thanks.

At least it's finally(?) over.

#born in hearts etched in cold

[beneaththebrim]

Some thoughts upon finishing my translation project

(I’ll also be posting this in a twitter thread, but I figured it would also be good to have it in blog post form)

I'd like to talk about my progress in learning through this project and where I’d like to go in the future, partially in the interest of transparency (this being a 'learning translation'), partially just because it's been a fun and engaging way to learn a language, and it's something that seems worth documenting.

I've already spoken about the general course of my learning Chinese over the past couple years in this tumblr post (the last paragraph of which I screenshot below). tl;dr of that is that I’ve actually been unemployed the past couple years, which is what has allowed me to churn out translations so fast despite learning as I go (it probably does take me a good 2 hours per 1k Chinese characters).

I should also make the addendum that that 95% figure I threw out at the end of that post was specific to the novel I was translating, whose terminology I got intimately familiar with; starting to read a new novel purely through the raws, even by the same author, was definitely humbling, and that percentage definitely dipped down.

You might also notice that the 20-70% jump in my first (private) project was pretty high—I think this was primarily due to most characters in an average sentence being fairly common connecting, functional words. So, basically, even if I’m reading/translating a relatively constant number of characters a day, my unaided comprehension level tapers off after that initial jump; I retain new vocabulary at a concave-down-increasing rate, because so much brainpower is dedicated to holding in my current, ever-growing level of vocabulary.

I’ve been immensely privileged to basically just ride on my savings from my previous job and hyperfocus on learning and translating the past couple years, knowing that these skills would not in any realm of the imagination develop to an employable level in that time, and that these projects were purely for fun.

I’d like to recommend what I’ve done as a good way to get at a level where one can reasonably read Chinese webnovels on one’s own, however, a major caveat is that it is something that would be much harder for people without as much free time. But it’s doable, and translation really is a fun and rewarding challenge.

For me, however, every banquet must come to an end. Now that I’ve dipped below the halfway mark of the savings I had when I left my previous job, it really is time for me to take the job search seriously, which means I cannot in good conscience take up a new translation project, as it would inevitably divert my focus away.

However, I have grown rather attached to the art of translation, and I’ve learned from my last job that I cannot fully give up creative hobbies in the interest of advancing my career; I have done it before (giving up visual art at the beginning of grad school in a STEM field), and it is a kind of dying, a death which over years burns me from the inside out until I find there is nothing left to propel me.

I’d like to stay in the danmei translation community, if possible, but perhaps in an editing capacity, which probably actually plays more to my current abilities than raw translation does. So, if anyone around is looking for a beta-reader for their translation, feel free to reach out.

One last order of business: If anyone is willing and has the time, I would eventually like to have my shangxian translation fully beta-ed (ideally by someone who knows more Mandarin than me), because much as I try to be faithful, sometimes there are sentences that throw me for a loop, where I exhaust my research options without coming any nearer to comprehension and simply have to make my best guess; I fear there may be some places where readers of my translation might be inadvertently misled. Maybe it’s too late to find someone to beta it, as the endorphin rush potential of newly releasing chapters is all exhausted, and as there are indeed two other ongoing translations by people who are fluent in Mandarin—rendering null the need for mine to be so polished. But if anyone is interested, feel free to DM me. If no one volunteers over the next week, I’ll probably just brush up on the Chicago manual, do a surface level polish of this thing, and call it done.

#translation #where I'm at right now

[gamerwoman3d]

Hello! I have a question, is it stealing when you credit the original poster even if there was not a watermark? I have been accused of stealing and I don't know what to do.

To my knowledge they have not mentioned anything about reposting and they have not been active for months. I am overthinking, please help...

Anon 🐈‍⬛

Hi, 🐈‍⬛️ !

TL:DR - Message the artist directly and move the posts to "Post Privately" until decisions are made.

Extended answer below the cut.

I'm coming at this ask from a place of compassion because I wanna make sure you feel okay by the end of the answer. Step one, deep breath and chill. It isn't the end of the world, and you are not a bad person. Bad people won't even bother asking if they did something wrong - because they legitimately do not care. So breathe in, you're gonna be fihe.

Judging by the number of asshole billionaires on the planet, I think it's safe to say that it's only stealing if you get caught. Otherwise it's arguably "Archival purposes."

However if you want to smooth things over with your accuser, begin by moving the post in question to "private." This stops it from being available for use outside your own blog. You can still archive it that way using a python script at a later date, but also it prevents *you* from accidentally distributing something that is not yours to distribute.

Distribution is the key word here. Taking something that an internet artist gave you/made available to you and using that thing for personal purposes only isn't Distribution, it's consumption. Giving that thing to others so that others can use it, IS distribution.

Some folks get mad if you redistribute their Intellectual Property [I.P.] without their consent/without a licence/without an agreement. Some don't. The only way to know for sure is to contact the artist - not the accuser.

If the accuser IS the artist, move their art posts to "Post Privately," inform them that the posts were removed, and ask them if there is anything you can do going forward to support them. Then just negotiate from there, every artist is different and may ask for different stuff. You are not obligated to do anything to support them, just try not to cause them injury [by for example illegąlly redistributing imagery that they charge a lot of $$$ to unlock on Patreon].

If the accuser is not the artist, reach out to the actual artist. You may even find the permissions you need in their pinned post [mine for example is in pinned and about pages at the end.]

In any case, don't lose sleep over it. Nothing on this hellsite is worth losing sleep over.

Also, all you can do is your best. If you reach out to the original artist and they don't respond in 2, 3 months, then... I'm not really sure they're using art as a career path anyway? Or if they are, they/their team is being a bit irresponsible for not replying.

And legally in the USA anyway they have to actually give you, in writing, a cease and desist letter, before they can take any further action. And if you DO desist [by putting posts private/removing posts] then there's not much else they can do to you at that point.

All that being said, I'm NOT a lawyer. And this is NOT LEGAL ADVICE. I hope it goes well for you. Promise it ain't the end of the world though.

If the person accusing you is not the artist, and you have permission from the artist to post the work... then tell the accuser that you took the necessary steps to ensure the artist wasn't injured by your post, and ask them to leave you alone.

If you haven't heard from the artist or the permissions are in limbo, tell the accuser you are waiting from a response from the artist. You can also ask the accuser for updated contact information for the artist, and if they cannot provide that info... then question wtf are they doing trying to represent them?

Permissions summary: YOU HAVE MY EXPRESSED PERMISSION TO USE ANY SCREENSHOTS, GIFS, ASSETS OR CONTENT THAT I HAVE MADE OF THE GAME MK1 [MORTAL KOMBAT 1 (2023)]. EVERYONE has my enthusiastic consent. You don't have to make something I *enjoy* with those assets. You're under no obligation to please me with your content, even if it's made with bits of my content. Enjoy yourselves, go wild! Any MK1 screenshots or gifs that I make can be used for your fanworks as long as you have the legal rights to do so. [I'm pretty sure you all have the legal right to make any fanart/icons/reposts/headers/photo edits/collages/parody that you like, but I do not know every single law for every country. You're on your own to research whether you'd get in trouble for SubScorp art in Indonesia or the PRC or Alabama or wherever you are where all the rules get weird. But as long as you're not getting punished for using my MK1 gameplay in your work, go nuts! You have my permission to use the assets I've made from the game.]

#asks #not legal advice