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❝You rise with the moon, I rise with the sun.❞

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#zuko #katara #zutara #atla #fan art #art

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in another life you would have been more than just a dream

#the legend of zelda #link #zelda #tloz oot #tloz tp #the legend of zelda ocarina of time #the legend of zelda twilight princess #twilight princess #ocarina of time #art #fan art

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ffxiv as a whole is like a ghibli movie. not in the way people usually describe ghibli movies like they're just peaceful and cozy and light-hearted but like. in the way it's a post-apocalyptic world and an active apocalypse story on like a dozen different levels and it's also all about society rebuilding after the apocalypse never quite reclaiming what it used to be but making something new all the same. and also it's about how gay catboys are equivalent to nuclear missiles

#ffxiv #studio ghibli #final fantasy

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#ao3

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Sekiro's resting existential malaise face never gets old to me. yeah this guys so so tired and has the hardest job ever he was raised by mean geriatric assassins and he kills 500 people every morning before breakfast (and his breakfast is a handful of loose uncooked rice and a single persimmon)

#sekiro #sekiro: shadows die twice #fromsoft #fromsoftware #your honor he's just a broken scrungle of a man

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#corvid #grackle #meme #gif

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To my fellow fic writers,

I just had an experience with plagiarism of one of my stories and thought I'd share in case this helps someone else.

Okay story time:

I received an email from AO3 about a comment from the "Esquire Bot" on my biggest Naruto fic, A Twist in Time. The comment started with "Unfortunately, your work may have been stolen by content farms" and proceeded to link to a YouTube video that had allegedly plagiarized my work, as well as steps I could take to initiate it getting taken down.

Maybe this is common knowledge and I've been living under a rock (probably), but I was skeptical of this Esquire Bot at first and refused to click any links in the email. So I searched up the video manually and, lo and behold, the video was indeed a plaigarism of my story. The video was called "What if Sakura saved Naruto in the Chunin Exams Part 1" or something like that by a youtube acct called Kestral Fiction. It was published one day ago. The video was literally an automated voice reading out the first four chapters of my story, with random images from Naruto playing in the background. There was no credit to my work whatsoever and the video had racked in 50 views and a couple of comments so far.

I followed the steps outlined in the Esquire Bot's email, which explained how to make a copyright claim to YouTube. I cross-referenced the steps with those outlined by YouTube for reporting copyright to make sure there wasn't anything scammy about the steps, just in case.

Long story short, I followed the steps and they worked. The video was removed within a couple of hours.

My take-aways:

AO3's Esquire Bot is legit. Thank you AO3 for supporting this type of service. Doubtful I would have found out about this otherwise.

YouTube acts fast when you submit a copyright claim. Only the author/creator of the work is able to submit the claim though. And you do have to provide a bit of personal info about yourself in order to submit it.

Look out for "What If" style videos about fandom content. Apparently they're a common format for plaigarising fanfics.

This era of content farming and AI is so frustrating for creators. I feel like I'm out of the loop on how to best manage this stuff (recognizing that it's probably impossible to catch every instance), maybe partly because I've been out of the fic space for awhile and partly because issues like this are evolving so fast nowadays.

Anywho, thought I'd shout my story into the void in case it helps someone. Take care out there. ❤️

#fanfic #plagiarism #art theft #ao3

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leitmotifs never get old to me like holy shit dude there’s this melody that corresponds to this one guy and if you hear the melody it means the guy is there. holy shit. and sometimes it refers to ideas too not just guys. has anyone heard about this

#music #motif #leitmotif

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The most annoying part of Sekiro fandom discourse is that like 40% of it consists of "Genichiro could've saved Ashina if he just-" No. He couldn't have. That's the point. That's the entire theme of the game. Ashina was always going to fall, and Genichiro's fatal flaw is that he's incapable of accepting that. He's not an idiot because he failed to retain control of Ashina, he's an idiot because his desperate obsession with retaining control of Ashina has blinded him to the fact that he's actively rendering the country uninhabitable. He's willing to subject commoners to fucked up experiments to create red eyed monsters as last ditch defenders. He wants the Dragons Heritage even though he knows what kind of damage the Dragon Rot will do. He literally set a fucking bulls horns on fire just to buy his armies a little bit of time when the Ministry invaded. Genichiro was always doomed. He just refused to see it.

#sekiro #genichiro ashina #tragedy #fromsoft #fromsoftware #I don't know if the similarity to the Orpheus and Eurydice 'you wouldnt be orpheus' post is intentional or not but same vibe #Ashina was doomed to fall just as all things are doomed to die and even if it could have been saved the costs would have been too great #Its a parallel to the nature of Dragon Heritage and immortality itself #In that preserving life or a dynasty beyond its natural expiration date results in untold havoc and the suffering of innocent bystanders #I have a LOT of feelings about Genichiro my beloved mud eating fail grandson

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I mean to be fair, imagine being a humble shepherd's son. Tending to the flock and going about your normal life when the Dravanian Horde descend upon your village. Rending it naught but ash and killing your entire family. You then are driven by the feeling of hatred and vengeance. You let it lead you to becoming a knight and fighting to defend Ishgard. The Holy See recognizing your talents and your vigor for the cause to send you to train with the old Azure Dragoon who teaches you readily but cautions you against your hate. But you are growing restless and wish to exact that vengeance. You steal away one of Nidhogg's eyes and are hunted by an Adventurer also destined to be the Azure Dragoon and Nidhogg's Bane. You grapple with this feeling as the eye over takes you but the Adventurer stops the corruption in its tracks. Knowing how well you have to guard yourself you prefect the art of mentally and emotionally closing yourself off. You appear in the lead up to a conflict with another Horde invasion at the behest of an old companion who has risen to the station of Lord Commander of the Knights.

You aid in beating back Nidhogg's finest and give chase shortly thereafter. But after finding no path forward and knowing not where the Aery is. You return to Ishgard and over hear a young, naive little lord speaking on making peace with the dragons. You shrug it off as folly but with his adventurer friend seems to of encounters the heretics hideaway. With no other lead you follow them on their peace mission. Slay heretics and meet with their leader Lady Iceheart. You bicker and your eyes begin to open to possibility that the Holy See is also at fault for your village's demise. You learn more and more until you discover the root of it all. You fight the consort of Nidhogg and then the beast itself. Paining your armor red with his corruptive aetheric essence. And then it is over...your long siege now finished. But the job of the Azure Dragoon is never done. You submit to a life forever in service to the Holy See. For those who caused the Dragonsong War are now all dead and gone.

Until the current Heavens' Ward and Archbishop make their intent known. An eternal Dragonsong War with Thordan as its god and propigator. Eternity of tragedies set to unravel and the death of Lord Haurchefant. You join the Warrior of Light in their own quest for vengeance. You see the sacrifice of Icehearts' sacrifice for the future of Dragon and Ishgard peace. You aid in breaking the barrier to Azys Lla and you aid in fending off the Garlean forces. Knowing, just as with Nidhogg, the Warrior's vengeance of the Heavens' Ward is their mission alone. You return to meet with them afterwards, a kinship in vengeance fulfilled. But at the slightest relief that the fight is finally over Nidhogg's essence takes over you. Twists you, corrupts vengeance and years of hatred with its own. Ruining any chance at peace between Broods willing and turns your lance against Ishgard. Which you had never wished.

But the fool Little Lord and the Warrior of Light fight off the shade. And with the eyes removed. You can finally place the mantle away and take up a better cause. To make the future worlds be not fooled by holy surmon and vengeful malice. You armor yourself with Ysayle's namesake and go forth freeing dragonkin and man alike from their missions of wanton carnage. Until you hear word of the Eyes of Nidhogg causing a Storm of Blood in Ala Mhigo. You disable a cannon to enable Resistant forces to cut a path between you and your objective. Once again your allies lay low Garlemald and false Gods. And with a strike of your lance, the eyes of Nidhogg and the spectre of vengeance is vanquished.

You leave to bring Hraesvelgr and Nidhogg's remaining broods back together in harmony. Becoming fond of the dried squid of Kugane. Only to hear Ishgard is at war with Garlemald. You make a mad sprint onto the battleground and find the Warrior about to be struck down by a demon possessed corpse of the crowned Prince. Spiriting them away in a nick of time and quickly leaving as to avoid Aymeric's pestering. But that doesn't save you for long, because Tataru and Krile arrive in Kugane and harass you into taking up the Scions' cause as the Warrior and their companions are in another world. You meet the fabled Black Wolf, Gaius van Baelsar. Who is on his own path of redemption by slaying the Ascians who fed him the right words to become so foolhardy and reckless to go forth in conquest of Eorzea. Not content with such words as he has many a crime to pay for but time is short and the Scions are still gone. So strange bedfellows make better allies than the enemies that close in around Ishgard. You both make for the capital and find the Emperor slain, Zenos empowered and the both of you framed for the Emperor's murder. You break out and return to the Scions to deliver the news where Krile and the returned Warrior of Light. Disliking the Echo as it whispers in their ears and envisions them as Nidhogg did yourself you make your excuses and take leave.

And after ALL OF THAT you now find yourself passing through Ishgard to investigate and question Tiamat about her corrupted brood being used against Eorzea once more. You stand being yelled at so loudly by a person you thought was the Little Lord but isn't. While a miqo'te is singing your praises and acting like you're a living legend. You have no idea what is happening, who these people are or why you are worthy of such praises. But oh god here you are anyway and thank the Fury, here comes the Warrior of Light. HELP! PLEASE!

#FFXIV #estinien varlineau #estinien wyrmblood #Ishgard

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yeah sorry your princess came back wrong :(

#Princess Zelda #The legend of zelda #the legend of zelda tears of the kingdom #tloz totk #art #fan art

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

#art #references #helpful things

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An older drawing that I never got to finish properly but I think it's alright as a sketch too

#princess zelda #the legend of zelda #tears of the kingdom #tloz totk #fan art

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"if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around" yes you would. if you were orpheus and you loved eurydice, you would. to love someone is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them. whichever version of the myth — he hears her stumble, he can't hear her at all, he thinks he's been tricked — he turns around because he loves her. that's why it's a tragedy. because he loves her enough to save her. because he loves her so much he can't save her. because he will always, always turn around. "if i was orpheus i would simply —" you wouldn't be orpheus. you wouldn't be brave enough to walk into the underworld and save the person you love. be serious

#orpheus #eurydice #orpheus and eurydice

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Shipping fictional characters isn’t representative of your moral values. It’s representative of your particular psychic damage and the themes and motifs that haunt you. Hope this helps.

#writing #reading comprehension #media literacy #shipping #fanfiction

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Life and death

#zuko #katara #zutara #atla #avatar the last airbender #fan art

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Sekiro scenery [7/?] 菩薩谷 / Bohdisattva Valley

#sekiro: shadows die twice #sekiro #gif #gif set