#i should go edit it

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME #there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing #and the writing is what i need to be doing #writeblr #this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to #edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol #i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!! #my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means #i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her) #hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong #i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet. #i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse #i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!! #i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO #i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness #and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it #im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us #i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer #and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art. #i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work #even if it means being miserable #but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.

[sabertoothwalrus]

does anyone wanna hear my chilshi thoughts

#edit: I typed it check the notes #debating whether I should type it up or just draw it and hope that's Enough to convey what I'm going for #I may do both anyway depending on what school allows #dungeon meshi #chilshi #chilchuck tims #senshi of izganda

[ruikasas]

project voltage - hatsune miku icons

#project voltage #hatsune miku #vocaloid #pokemon #vocaloid edit #vocaloid icons #uhh what should i tag this as #mine: all #mine: icons #mine: vocaloid #im going so crazy over those designs i want to edit so much with it #and the concept arts too theres some cute stuff there #might go crazy and post transparents for all of these but i def dont have the time for this lol #anyway. tried to keep the mikus all close to the same side but looking at the icons now. its kinda messy isnt it kjagdkasgdk

[shatouto]

i've seen a poll about gale and anders but i feel like this one is a more difficult one to answer

#baldur's gate 3 #dragon age #see i think astarion wouldn't want to damage his nails. but also he has vampire reflexes #on the other hand fenris is.... fenris #personally imma go with fenris #edit: ok apparently y'all think this is an easy question sjdjsksk #no i legit was trying to be fair to astarion! he is pretty strong in melee (especially when he fights dirty)! #i mean it he's the dps in my party full of casters (maybe that's the problem...) #edit 2: my soul is pledged to fenris but istg y'all are so mean to astarion in the tags 😭😭😭 #edit 3: okay fine i should've said a fight instead of a fistfight..... sorry astarion #you all should know that every mention of fenris's strength makes me 🥵 btw. as it always goes #edit 4: the astarion roasting is starting to feel more like me being roasted personally and ya know what i deserved it-

[xan-from-space]

Senshi is probably the most fandomized character in Dungeon Meshi, and while I don't exactly mind it, I do think he has more depth than that. I find all his little quirks and idiosyncrasies to be fascinating; he's very stubborn and set in his ways about things that seemingly don't matter, he thinks about things that other people don't, he has a deeply set value system that informs everything he does. He cares A Lot, like, this man cares So Much. That's the kind of person you have to be to drop everything to help a random group of adventurers save one woman. But because he feels so strongly about things, he can also be surprisingly immature at times (although he's also the character most likely to admit he was wrong about something). I think part of that is because he's lived in the dungeon on his own so long that he's not used to working with other people. He will extend empathy and friendship to almost anyone, but he does things his own way, and he doesn’t always feel the need to explain his way of thinking because again, he's usually on his own. He's both incredibly wise and kind of childish in ways that seem contradictory at first, but make more and more sense the more we learn about him. Major kudos to Ryoko Kui's writing and pacing to make that transition so seamless and have all those details from his backstory click into place perfectly. And on a wider thematic level, Senshi is kind of a perfect counterpart to characters like Thistle (or any other dungeon lord). Senshi understands the dungeon in ways that even its creator doesn't. Although everyone is scrambling to take control of the dungeon, Senshi is the one who actually takes care of it. He's the one who thinks about things like nutrition and proper sleep and the ecosystem, all those things that it's easy to ignore when you get swept up by the grandeur of it all. He's the most important character to have present in a story that explores life and death and hunger. His constant, invisible presence holds everything together.

#I'm not finished it yet so I don't want to make any big sweeping claims about what his story means in the greater context of the manga #but. I really like him so. Senshi thought dump #I really thought this was going to be shorter...idk if I really got what I wanted to say across but once I started writing I couldn't stop #dungeon meshi #dunmeshi #delicious in dungeon #senshi #senshi of izganda #edit: yeah I should probably tag this #dungeon meshi spoilers #shouldn't I

[technicalgator]

Doing your research before stating information as fact can make a world of a difference.

#made this for funnies #most of it was made before op made the apology post #but i spent a lot of time editing so i didnt want it to go to waste #it should go unsaid but #dont harass h0ly-tea #big thanks to the tf2 community for coming together on this #tf2 #team fortress 2 #trans history #transgender #lgbtq community #lgbtq #lgbtqia+ #gator bellows #technicalgator edit

[the-meme-monarch]

loop my beloved

#i don’t think ​I’m anywhere near being done with this game but if anything happens to any of these characters i’ll bite my hands off #the art gallery #in stars and time #i tried to do some dappled lighting but idk if i like how it turned out 💔 so i included the sketch #EDIT i feel like i should mention i know Full Well shit is going to happen if all the art of siffrin crying is anything to go by. i just kn #i just know that once i actually get there it’s gonna fucking wreck me JXSJSMXJMSSMXJSJ #ans i mean art of siffrin crying as in In The Game. i think it literally opens on an image of them crying ?

[flownwrong]

CALLUM KEITH RENNIE as Captain Rayner in Star Trek: Discovery

#when you see this and think what the fuck is that colouring and why this weird selection of moments please consider this: #i cannot gif #also you should see for yourself how yellow (and/or dark) those shots are #(not an excuse lol i've seen people colour much worse with much better results) #and i am also not sane about ckr so i don't choose moments that would look cool in an edit #it's not an edit #it's not even a gifset #it's just me going ahhhhhh! over a guy #thank you kindly for your patience #star trek discovery #callum keith rennie #rayner #itsmegiffing #c6d

[royalarchivist]

Phil: What I find really funny about it is that like, the QSMP logo for some reason– like, the little- this thing, this thing, they class as an Egg for some reason on the website, which- which—

Phil: Now I'm a little bit concerned about because on the server, I have one of these in the game. I have one of these in the game. So does that mean I have three Eggs now? Have I accidentally adopted another Egg?

Phil: I need help!

Phil realizes he might be a single dad of not two, but three Eggs because of a technicality on the QSMP.Shop website.

#QSMP #Philza #Phil #RIP in piss #March 27 2024 #Pissa #Mentioned #Edited #EDIT: Quick reupload because there was a rendering error #and I decided to go with the short version #Having some weird audio issues with Vegas sorry about that. Audio should be fine but it's not as HD as usual

[cozylittleartblog]

swatch is cool and suave and handsome and one time they touched a mouse and they were SO brave about it

#deltarune #swatch #swatchlings #spamton #art #comic #gif #highlight reel #maus #animation #hey i saw a swatch cosplayer at a con who painted the bottom of their shoes pink and decided they were Correct #i could never figure out how to add one more splash of color to their bottom half but That Does It #perfectly balanced as all things should be thank you random swatch cosplayer #also i was not going to add spamton in the last frame there but i thought it would be funny #i mean i already had a dumpster there #if they see him in there they're gonna kick the lid down so hard he's getting his 12th concussion #nobody's supposed to see them losing their shit!!! #edit i put the doodles tag on this by mistake when i scheduled it at 5am #no i put effort into this tyvm wbhjdfjbh #also hi if ur reading this my swatch uses they them pronouns exclusively

[bluespiritshonour]

reposting (again, duh) 'cause i'm just—not satisfied with this. will leave it alone now, i promise. Since Zuko was too hurt to even dress himself I bet Mai did his hair.

Edit: y'all my mother said I didn't fuck up the hands this time HAHAHAHA—

#avatar the last airbender #atla #artists on tumblr #zuko #fanart #mai #ink blot #atla maiko #atla mai #maiko atla #so yeah i thought mai did zuko's hair the day of his coronation #kinda figuring out how to do daytime lighting #mai's (and mine) aesthetic clash with it #edit: i should really really let go of my prejudice and give in to warm colours this looks so much better with warm colours #trying to make it work with cool colours drove me up the walls

[expelliarmus]

#mine #doctor who #dwedit #david tennant #catherine tate #the doctor: I WAS RIGHT!!!! we may die but I WAS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!! #i've been meaning to gif this all week but then other gifsets got in the way lol #HELLO FRIENDS IT IS VERY COLD #yesterday it took me 3 hours to drive home from work #it was an absolutely terrible experience. do not recommend #so then i took the day off today because i didn't want to go back out there #but it seems to be a lot better.... just very cold.... #i should add it took me 3 hours because of a tiny amount of snow that turned the roads to ice #fun times!!! #edit: oh no... not showing in the tags #i hope it magically fixes itself later :(

[wrenisnotdead]

idea: (excuse to draw eefo with black streaks in his hair hehehe )

#yk etho should take advantage of his natural white hair just saying #the guy could dye it a million colors without going thru the trouble of bleaching it #next idea: rainbow etho #ultra rare edition #its like collecitng pokemon #good night i need sleep #ethoslab #hermitcraft #mcyt #hermitblr #wrensdoodles

[bleh1bleh2]

"Go get your own peanuts!"

"WE'RE IN SPACE!!"

Keiths belt pouches 1/2

#i think keiths belt pouches should be like batmans utility belt #they have whatever the situation needs #OR whatever is funny To Me #voltron #klance #keiths belt pouches #'go get your own peanuts' -> lance #'here you can have some' -> literally everyone else #poor lance #my art #edit: please let me know if the ID is weird and ill fix it

[steppesliver]

true detective (2014) / disco elysium (2019)

#ok i have found my new passion. making edits of rust cohle to disco elysium quotes that only make sense in my head #anyhow i always found curious how the show ends with “the light is winning” quote and how the last frame you see of carcosa #is the hole where rust sees the cosmo and its darkness when he first enters there but now with a golden light sent in help #it reminds me a bit of the phasmid in DE and how comforting the talk with her is. the same way the light the cops sent to find these two #probably was to marty and rust (if rust was not out of it by then) #“in dark times should stars also go out?” :)) #true detective #rust cohle #marty hart #mine

[bookwormcosplays]

Temptation Crowley Cosplay

Do not repost.

#good omens #good omens cosplay #good omens season 2 #go2 #closet cosplay #my photography #my cosplay #pictures of me #crowley cosplay #anthony j crowley #black cosplay #black cosplayer #saw people were liking my previous crowley cosplay so i decided to give yall another #im trying something new with my editing tell me if you like it or if i should go back to my unedited ones #tw: mimicked alcohol drinking #also this is a closet cosplay everything came out of my closet #i wanted to post something go2 related so people can yell at me about good omens #bildad the shuhite