elyksina

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[elyksina]

Hey be sure to go to your blog settings, head down to visibility and turn on this little button that prevents Tumblr from stealing your posts and using it to train AI learning models. Good job, fuckheads, great update.

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To continue with my Beren and Lúthien josei manga idea, here are Celegorm and Curufin(who smiles at dear Finrod) in Nargothrond

(featuring Orodreth and Findulas ♥)

#still eating this like a famished golden retriever #orodreth sooo cute i will shrivel into a raisin

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I made gifs of them

idk if Tumblr will keep the boops going after today, but through the power of discord emoji, you can boop your friends in a server. or idk, paste them in someone's askbox.

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I think so many people spam me with boops NOT because I spammed them first but because they love me and are obsessed with me

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Would you please what are share some nice ProCreate brushes?

Oo yee certainly!!

I've collected a lot over the years, and unless you know exactly what you want and are willing to mess about making your own, it really is a case of trying everything until you find the couple that you absolutely love and will use for everything.

Brushes that I'm really passionate about and that I personally find really intuitive are Esben Lash's Leyendecker pack and Procreate Brushpack. I'd say two of my main multipurpose brushes are from these packs, Leyendecker Main brush for loose sketching & painting and Mr. Pizzawoman for cleaner lines & painting (I'd love to know why it's called that haha.) On top of those two the two packs give a nice range of brushes that are really versatile!

You can get both packs from the artist's store here

Other brushes I find handy are obvs the Max Packs. You get a lot in a single pack and they're really nice quality brushes. I only own the gouache pack and essentials pack and use them mainly when I need a little bit more texture for stuff like environments. I'd love to try more of Max's brushes, since they all look so great but right now I'm content with my two main brushes haha

You can get the Max Packs here

I do have a ton of other brush packs as well but I use them so rarely or use only one from a massive pack that I don't really know what else to recommend! Hope you find these helpful though.

#thank u for the ask!

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Bringing my sketchbook to work was a galaxy brain moment actually.

#sketches

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i need you to know, i need you to know, you are THEE orodreth person, to me.

It's true I am that to me also. It's a heavy mantle to bear but someone's gotta do it.

#elys nonart tag #thank you haha

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why orodreth?

(no disrespect, just curious why you like him so much)

I can't remember, it's been 11 years

#you dont choose your silm blorbo #your silm blorbo chooses you abd then never leaves #elys nonart tag

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Btw Orodreth fully believes & will readily tell everyone that he was not "born" (gross?) But rather Eldalote and Angrod found a beautiful iridescent clam shell with light shining from within while they were walking on the beach, and when they opened it, a perfectly formed child Orodreth reached out from a pile of fluffy feathers inside, as an angelic choir sang and harps played. This is how he came to be. They have tapestries of the event at their house.

#you can imagine his surprise when finduilas was born #there was no clam shell??? #orodreth #elys nonart tag #adds this to the pile of things i need to draw #just needed to let everyone know

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No to AI generated images, no to AI generated text, no to AI generated music, no to AI generated voices, no to AI generated games, no to AI generated videos, no to AI generated slop in all its forms. NO TO AI FUCKING SCRAPING I do not and will never consent to have my work used to train your fucking stealing plagiarism machines.

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Hay @staff

How do you feel about contributing to the pollution of the internet and the advancement of propaganda that will fuck the entire world over?

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They are already selling data to midjourney, and it's very likely your work is already being used to train their models because you have to OPT OUT of this, not opt in. Very scummy of them to roll this out unannounced.

#of course it's fucking opt out and not opt in

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i am begging you all to stop treating this site like instagram if you dont want it to be content free by next year

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What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

#fuck offff if this happens #where is there left to go #bluesky? #cohost? it's so ugly though

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I just have to share this beautiful thread on twitter about AI and Nightshade. AI bros can suck it.

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#it's angrod 🙂