i’ve never listened/watched critical role but my best friend does and sometimes talks to me about it. i asked them for some characters to draw (from any campaign) :p
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if i may ask, how did you know your writing might have been fed to ai? tbh i'm uber paranoid about ai as someone who also posts their work on the internet so i guess i'd like to know if there's a way to reverse search (?) it somehow ... ?
i'm not entirely sure how widespread it is across the internet, but ao3 itself made a post acknowledging the issue and the precautions they intend to implement to help combat the problem. there's also this reddit post going into how they figured out this was happening more (omegaverse gave it away which idk if i should laugh or cry about).
i hate to be a Doomer, especially since i intend for this blog to be a getaway from life's various woes, but the whole ai ''''''''''''''''''''writing and art'''''''''''''''''''''''' thing is genuinely depressing to me and almost made me consider giving up publishing my work on the internet altogether. so i completely get what you mean.
however, i was able to cheer myself up (some) eventually. i know the nature of technology is to improve on itself and i'm sure ai ''''''''''creations''''''''''' will get better, but i'm going to stubbornly stick to the belief that it'll always remain inferior to works created by people. there is just zero soul to ai ''''''''''''works'''''''''. all i can see is the thousands of artists it stole from and tried regurgitating into something cohesive. idk how to explain it, it's more of a Feeling than anything logical.
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I was originally gonna wait till the poll was over just to not tamper with the voting or anything, but I do want to explain why I personally think that the player telling the truth to Kieran or not doesn't exactly matter in the end.
Spoilers ahead! Just to be safe
I mean. It does to Kieran. Someone he thought he could trust didn't tell him the truth and that hurts. Especially given that he already had trouble making friends before. But it wasn't the lying that caused him to spiral the way he did. It was ogerpon. Ogerpon was the thing that Kieran honestly loved the most. He wanted to befriend her, give her room in his own house for her, bc he probably saw himself in her too. While I personally believe that Kieran was projecting a little bit onto Ogerpon, and probably latched on to the idea of her a little too much, I don't exactly blame him. Kieran wants a friend, and before the player, he thought Ogerpon could be that.
But then ogerpon didn't choose him. And that's what pushed in over the edge, so to speak. Cause this whole time, Kieran's fears of being weak were only just growing. Ogerpon liking the player more just kept on edging him further down in his spiral. Cause what else would you do when the being that you really wants to be friends with favors someone else? The being that you thought would understand your loneliness and form a bond with? That would boost one's insecurities far more than a lie would imo.
Don't get me wrong, the lie definitely played a part here. I personally think it speed ran the inevitable( Yes, I think regardless of a lie of truth, what would have happened with Kieran would have been inevitable). Kieran lost a person he thought he could trust, and that hurts. I don't want to understate that. But given everything about Kieran, his social anxiety, his relationship with his sister, his own view of himself, I feel like the ending of the teal mask was going to happen one way or another.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that Kieran is/was a ticking time bomb waiting to happen. Telling the truth wouldn't have prevented it from happening. But of course that's just my opinion and my perspective!
There's lots more I want to say, but I often struggle with finding my words. This is the best I can do, and I hope you found it insightful!
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Yaaay my favourite season 😊 time to be hurt again! @a-mag-a-day
in s4 i love how everything sucks, and everyones at each others throats, but there's no clear saboteur between our protagonists; they're all making choices which are reasonable from their perspective, even if it hurts the people around them
like here, of course Jon deserves to be greeted by someone who's happy to see him alive - he just woke up from a fucking 6-month long coma, for gods sake! But instead of a hug or even a "glad you're back," what he gets is Tim dead, Daisy gone, Martin isn't there, Basira 'wants to talk later' about if she's disappointed he's back, and Georgie can't get out of the room fast enough. And all his clothes are gone. what the hell?
but at the same time, neither Basira nor Georgie owe it to Jon to be his friend. The last we heard of Georgie, she was telling Jon that he needed people around him, that she wanted to help him, that he didn't need to move out, that she didn't want him to cut her off. That was over 20 episodes ago!
Did he talk to her at all in the meantime, (inbetween kidnappings, to be fair, he did have other things on his mind, but Georgie's only sources are Melanie and Jon himself, and how much do you want to bet that they both exaggerated Jon's role in any of the situations they found themselves in)? She still visits him in hospital, she's there when tape recorders suddenly appear, she's there as he wakes up -
and the first thing he does is to refuse to even be looked at by a nurse, deny that he needs any help, refuses to admit that there might be anything worrying about being 'fine' after 6 months of being basically dead. Georgie has experience with someone walking around when they're supposed to be dead, and it killed her best friend and scarred her for life. so maybe she chooses here to get a bit of distance from Jon, for her own safety
Basira had some friendly interactions with him, but she was literally investigating him for murder and trying to keep him from fleeing the country. Then she's made into a hostage, goes to the Unknowing, barely makes it out alive of an exploding building, only to find that she's the sole survivor, if you don't count the body that's apparently not braindead.
It looks like Jon, but how can you be sure? She's done her research, it wouldn't be the first time the Stranger replaced someone. Melanie is getting more violent by the day, and Martin has decided that apparently it's a good idea now to work together with the evil manager. They're constantly under threat by evil cults and living meat, basically living out of the Archives. And Daisy, her partner of years and years, her solid point, is gone. So when the body that looks like Jon suddenly starts to breath again after being visited by an End Avatar, priority #1 is finding out how big of a threat he is, with 'worrying about Jon's emotional state' a far second
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thinking about pirate captain sea and surgeon jimmy like
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× just a friendly reminder: hate of any degree and/or type is not tolerated on this blog. that includes c*llout posts, anons about other people, r*cism, s*xism, any type of phobia pretaining to a group or groups of people, etc. there is already so much hate in this world & those that deserve to be blocked usually make that pretty apparent. let's be better & learn how easy it is to be kind ( also to utilize the block button when you need it ).
ANYWAY, hope everyone is having a good day and if you're not, know I'm sending you love ✨️ xo.
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This won't be like my usual posts, but I want to make one thing clear: this is a safe space for the LGBTQ+ community, and any minorities for that matter. If you hate any of them, if you speak out against them and actively try to make their lives miserable to fuel your own (fucked up) beliefs, you're not welcome here.
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Getting a good hit of indica that’s a little stronger than vapes I had last time after I ran out of my indica is Hallelujah Praise The LORD and that kid with ADHD
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got the cops called on me for the most hilariously sensible reason last night
So i have a new industrial piercing (my first piercing..! i love it •w•), and it got infected because of course it did, it's a cartilage piercing and i live outside. Context i've been living in my car for the past few weeks, which has been pretty good but one of the tradeoffs is i do not have a bathroom. The piercer told me if the piercing got infected I could soak it in saltwater, so i needed a source of 1. salt, 2. water that is warm or at least not the below-freezing ambient temperature i currently exist in.
Gas stations have both these things. (I have yet to purchase salt for my occasional propane stove cooking). Only problem is it was past midnight in a rural area, so I didn't find a 24 hour convenience store until around 100 miles into my route for the evening.
At 3 AM local time the store was inhabited by just One stern-looking employee who was mopping the floor. My grungy ass walks in carrying a small collapsible bowl and immediately begins casing the place like the world's shittiest thief, looking for those little free salt packets. I looked around the (empty, no hot food at 3 AM) hot dog stand and saw only wet condiments so i circled back around to the grocery section in case they were selling salt shakers I could buy. No luck so i desperately returned to the hot dog counter in case I missed the salt, and noticed a cabinet labeled CONDIMENTS below the dog cooker, which did conceal salt packets. I stuffed a handful of them in my pocket and hoped the mopping woman wouldn't ask, then pivoted to the bathroom where I locked myself for the next fifteen minutes.
I filled my bowl with hot water which was actually cool water but at least it wasn't frigid, and mixed salt into it and held it to my ear. After a few minutes the staff, who had been understandably watching me from around corners the entire time I was searching for salt, knocked on the door. I replied "hello?" and she didn't respond, so I assumed she was just checking if anyone was in there before she tried entering to continue mopping. I finished cleaning my sad little ear and bought a bag of yogurt pretzels as a gesture of good will because I felt bad for taking her salt and taking too much time in the bathroom when she needed to clean.
Enter The Pig. I had returned to my car and grabbed my first aid kit to apply antiobiotic ointment, when an officer entered the store. Trepidation when he arrived since I knew I was being a freak, but then i thought he was just doing his own shopping, then he came back out and approached my vehicle.
Rolled down my window and he asks what was going on in the bathroom. (What if i had been just taking a long shit??). So I showed him my ear and my bowl and explained, as Alertly, Calmly, and Soberly as i could after driving for multiple hours after midnight, to the face of someone who can ruin my life with a penstroke, that I was on the road and had to soak this infected piercing. Luckily it was a confused young cop who was too bewildered to inquire much further, not an old hardass who might start asking more challenging questions such as "where are you going" or "where are you staying tonight and why are you washing your ear at the gas station and not there." He clearly barely even looked at my car - asked if i was a local when my license plate is from two timezones away - and let me go without even collecting my information.
That was the sixth time that police have confronted me for acting outside social norms. The first time was because I was plucking an invasive plant species from the side of the road and he thought I was falling when I walked up & down the slope. The second time I was walking home alone at night, and maybe someone called because I had a backpack on and they thought I was trying to rob a house. I was just walking home from the train. The third time I had been biking home in the dark without a headlight, and i fell on my face and didn't know I was bleeding until a bastard pulled up and told me someone called because they thought I got hit by a car. The fourth time was when I fell in the river last winter and i was knocking on random doors asking for directions home to minimize my risk of hypothermia, and I suppose the woman who drove me home called to send someone to make sure i was okay? The fifth time was the first time I slept in my car, which ironically was before I started serially sleeping in my car. I was falling asleep on the highway after an all-nighter so I took the next exit and took a nap in my driver's seat at the end of a random residential street before I ended up on the news, and that's how I learned suburbanites are paranoid as all hell about anything out of the ordinary because a cop knocked on my window and asked me if I was drunk (who would say yes to that question?). Now I select my sleeping sites very carefully, which is probably the most annoying thing about hashtag vanlife, but I haven't gotten The Knock again yet and sometimes when I pull into random public lands after dark I wake up to mountains I've never seen before and that fuels my soul.
Lesson learned is that if you need to snort sodium chloride in a gas station bathroom at 3 AM, just have an ear piercing and dampen the hair around it and carry a bowl around, and you've got a story that's Too Weird To Be Making Shit Up.
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((As much as I *hate* the modern interpretation of the myth of Perseus (“MeDuSa wAs A vICtIm” no she wasn’t shut up) I feel like the story how i conceptualised it wouldn’t work if she actually was a monster. I jumped in this story with very little plot and basically figured it out as I went along and at this point it’s too late to back up and rewrite everything. So yeah, my Medusa might be a victim, but Perseus is one just as much.))
((Making them both kids makes the story so much worse, which is okay from the perspective of Perseus because his story is tragic, even if it ends well (as in, Perseus manages to have a decent marriage and die of old age unlike many other Greek heroes), but I feel like a hypocrite bashing the other Medusa apologists while doing the exact same thing))
((Anyway friendly reminder that this is just an askblog for an OC based on a game about the Bible of all things, as much as I love Greek mythology and try to incorporate it into this story don’t come here looking for correct and good representation of the myths, treat this blog like those little kids’ books that watered down the original stories to make them appealing to kids okay bye))
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I have decided to quit my stupid dumbass job and just live off of the sheer power of spite
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HELP YOUR ART IS SO BEATIFULLLL AJJWDIAGAIVKAKujui I CANT EVEN IT WAS ART BORN FROM HEAVEN I WANTED TO ASK DO YOU HAVE ANY TIPS FOR A STRUGGLING ARTIST?
AGHGH THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I'm sooo sorry for the time I took to respond to you. I've been busy and its also a very difficult question, i'll be honest. The thing is you're asking for tips for a struggling artist.... to a struggling artist... so. I'm gonna try my best to give you something concrete and that makes sense, but i don't know if ill be able to- and knowing me, it IS going to be messy, I'm really sorry for that!!
First thing I'm gonna say is, obviously, draw things for yourself. Draw stuff that makes you happy! When I get really into a piece of media, i've noticed that i can see my improvement over a significantly shorter amount of time than usual, simply because, well, i like this stuff, and i like drawing things in relation to this stuff, and i want to draw more because i enjoy this stuff, y'know? It's easy to say and it might sound like it's not really a tip, but from my personal experience, i can say it does make a big difference. So basically, obsess over something and draw it all the time- but then, don't only draw the same thing over and over again, rather insert it into your art and get creative? For example, since we're both Pokémon enjoyers- take characters or pokémon you like and try things out! Focus on different things; shapes, colours, lineart etc. But if you don't feel like making studies or changing anything today, that's also fine, you don't have to. The most important thing is to have fun, or else, you'll get stuck. You don't draw with your head, and that's something that I myself struggle with, so i can't really talk, but having fun when you draw and just not caring about if it works technically or if the anatomy is correct or if others are going to like it- THAT's when you're going to improve, because you're going to like what you're doing and you're going to want to do it even more!
Also, search for inspo! Open pinterest and collect artworks you like, and staaare at them for a very long time. I like doing this. Plus, it usually makes you want to draw, too. This is a very common "tip", but notice what you like about how this person draws that specific thing (hands, legs, noses maybe? or the way they do lineart, or the way they colour), and just slap it on your art. It's like a cool little upgrade and it makes drawing even more fun.
Art takes time... art is a fuck... and we all have sort of a hate-love relationship with it, i think. And you're always going to struggle to a certain extent, because it'd be too good to be true if you could do everything and anything without having to learn and try and fail before. And sometimes you're gonna feel like you don't want to draw, and sometimes artblock will hit you like a truck, and thats ok!! You'll come back to it eventually. Challenging yourself can be great and all, but don't force yourself when you really don't feel like it. Be patient, and be indulgent!! You got this!! We got this!!! We can do it!!
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every day, the desire to write a k/p fic where they’re explicitly half-siblings grows stronger
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okay so ive been following some character competition polls recently and for the most part i dont really care who wins but holy shit im having the time of my life. its like when i was actively involved in fandoms but i dont actually give a shit so im just watching people get into passionate debates over who has the most loser vibe or something and spiritually im sitting in the front row shoveling popcorn into my mouth
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Huge shout-out to my colleague, who I was locked into one car for several hours a few days ago, for coming in sick as a dog to work and not because anything like "out of sick days" but because "I have fun stuff planned for the weekend and I would feel kinda bad calling in sick and then being well on the weekend again", which. Arguably noble(???) but absolutely senseless.
So shout-out: If the reason I can't hear from my ears being stuffed and swollen is because YOU COUGHED YOUR DISGUSTING THROAT GERMS ONTO ME ALL DAY, I will come to your home and kick your ass.
Don't be an ass. If you're sick and CAN stay home then DO stay home instead of infecting all your coworkers.
Also if you LIED to me and everyone and didn't actually thoroughly test yourself that it isn't Covid, I WILL tell that to our bosses, all of them.
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Hey I do just wanna say like, I’ve said it a lot behind closed doors but I do want to put it out there that as far as I’m concerned, this specific blog is permanently inactive for the point of fantroll stuff. If you’re primarily active on here and have ships with me, I can rock either dropping ships or working to be more active with you off of tumblr.
If you feel the need to talk to me, either to discuss rp stuff or question me about rumors/accusations, I’m always available on discord (current handle weiner crunch teri#5357)
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