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dumbartistneedshelp · 10 months
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Someone talk to me
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jesterjaxx · 8 days
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Ok SO
Canonically his dad is a cop and there are a couple jokes about his parents not loving him, dudes dad straight up said "actually, do we love you?" Like sir damn anyways im taking that and running with it SO
Giving him a fucked up situation of him and his dad always butting heads and both of them escalating things constantly, and as he got older the ends to the arguments went from getting grounded or punished to getting kicked out or Duncan just leaving, probably escalating to his dad kicking him out semi regularly and eventually his mom or dad telling him to come back home to make a kinda fucked up cycle
And like i know they gave the convict kid a cop dad for the laugh like its not that deep at ALL
but like that sets up sucha fucked power dynamic and i want to use that
and we never find out what got Duncan sent to juvie for the first time, its said off screen while some characters are spilling embarrassing or dark secrets and in my fucked up world either he accumulated a couple charges while he was kicked out, indirectly the fault of his dad
or worse but more tempting
he got kicked out and his dad arrested him for trespassing
so like idk i just love the idea of a pyromaniac, vandal convict who has no respect for authority or mutual trust having the tragic backstory that his first time getting arrested was at the hands of his father
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blushblushbear · 4 months
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I feel like if you have a sexy voice, you're gonna be a main fav among the blush blush fandom
Case in point: Haru
Also see: Cole
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abusivelittlebunny · 10 months
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I got my interview tomorrow. Pray I get through it without embarrassing myself severely
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very-uncorrect · 1 month
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My friend wears a enby flag pin on their lanyard at school and my god I wish I had their confidence
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claire-starsword · 1 year
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Breakdown of Deviantart’s new AI policies
if anyone still thinks the deviantart thing is just miscommunication, i took the time to read carefully all their infuriating word salad, and here’s the important thing about their new AI:
“While DreamUp is based on third-party technologies (like Stable Diffusion) which have trained their models with the open web, DeviantArt does NOT and WILL NOT add images submitted on DeviantArt to these training sets, on or off the platform.”
Translation: of course we wouldn’t ever steal you art! We’ll just use the thing that has already stolen your art. The thing we said we disagree with. We doing it. Yeah.
Also, about that opt out form going around:
“Artists should be able to choose whether or not AI-images can be generated in your style. Artists who meet the criteria in our manual human review of applicants will be able to request an opt out of their username along with several desired pseudonyms linked to them be unavailable for use in DreamUp prompts.”
Translation: artists should be able to choose if their art style can be used by AI or not. But screw them, we’re choosing. Meet our criteria if you want to opt out. We’re not telling you what the criteria is. Except we kinda do, in the form, and it’s beautiful:
“Currently, we'll be approving this ability for free to artists who are most likely to have been sourced by Stable Diffusion. In this first version of the opt-out process, we will only be considering accounts that follow best practices, including but not limited to:
An up-to-date email (must be the same one associated with your DeviantArt profile)
Any social accounts linked in your DeviantArt profile’s about section”
Currently = this criteria may change at any time I guess! They will protect your art! They love artists! They’re just keeping their options open in case they wake up tomorrow loving them less. Reliable business model!
including but not limited to = they legit don’t wanna tell the whole criteria lmao. I know people are already filling out this form and I hate to say it, be ready for disappointment, because they clearly are paving the way to be able to deny it for literally any reason. This should be a case study of obfuscation via stupid vague legal wordy stuff.
The “for free” part is also terrifying as it implies they have considered and are still considering paywalling this. You’ve heard of $8 for blue checkmark, now get ready for $8 for basic art rights! Except for that part I covered early where your art is already stolen, of course.
The up-to-date email thing again means that people locked out of old accounts are being opted in against their will, and they know, and they’re deliberately enforcing it. Note that this form isn’t about your art being used in datasets though, it’s about your style being used as a prompt for the AI. Nevertheless both things should be opt out by default, as that how consent works.
I legit don’t know what to say about the social accounts linked in your profile. They are likely gonna say it’s to help verify the person’s identify, and it makes no sense at all as social media isn’t for that, as recent events have taught us more than ever. The email tied to your account should be all a service like this needs. As I said, they clearly wanna keep their options open to deny people through whatever criteria they pop out of a hat that day.
TL;DR everything DA says about avoiding art theft in their AI is word salad to confuse their users, their AI is based of one that has trained on stolen art anyway, and their opt out processes are way too convoluted to not be intentional.
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andthebeanstalk · 5 months
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"Oh, Jack. You silly boi. You know that help at the top of the stairs is no help at all."
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Art piece i may delete later about my parents offering money to me and my sisters to pay for either grad school (a thing I don't want and can't do with my disability) or my wedding (also a thing I don't need/want), but not for anything that would actually help me escape poverty and find stable housing and income.
Like, I recognize the privilege of being able to complain that my parents have offered me a bunch of money but in the wrong way.
But also if that money is on top of a flight of stairs that I can't climb (but my sisters can), then I haven't really been offered money, so much as I have watched money I need be placed somewhere I can't reach it. Which tbh feels worse than if it was never mentioned to me in the first place.
I was gonna send this art to them and i wrote this big long message to go with it, but then I decided to wait until my therapy session on Tuesday to talk it thru with her first, since I've literally never regretted doing that.
Besides, both of my parents are lawyers and right now they're providing me and my friends with a lot of free legal advice about this property we're trying to buy together, so I don't want to rock the boat currently.
I just wish I knew if I had access to that money as a poor person in need of stable housing and quality disability care, and I wish my parents weren't world-class hLepers who have a long and triggering history of engaging me in rigorous debate about the kind of help I should be allowed to receive from them as a disabled person.
Nothing like having to provide an argument that would hold up in court every time I'm sick and need help! Love that! Love that I can't even talk about money with them now without having invasive thoughts about it for days to come due to past incidences in which this repeated behavior of theirs literally endangered my life!!
Not like I need that mental capacity for working on the largest and most exciting opportunity of my life that also happens to line up with my hopes and dreams for the future!! It's fine!! What do I even need mental capacity for anyway?????
This wouldn't even be the first time this little Distrust Fund has caused problems for my relationship with my parents. They are very opposed to that money being used to help my disability and it has caused PROBLEMS for us that we have never quite recovered from.
It's just difficult to be reminded that although our relationship has gotten better (mostly thanks to me setting boundaries), that doesn't mean they now actually believe what I need for my disability when I tell them.
They really do love me, and they have only ever acted with the best of intentions . But good intentions cease to matter when the impact is harmful and repeated. And they have proven to be repeatedly incapable of providing non-ableist support for me again and again and again. They've even genuinely tried to learn; and sometimes it really seems like my mom has made progress with her therapist (who is disabled), but who knows when I can so jarringly be reminded of how quickly that toxic ableist thinking can show its ugly face.
It's so clear to me and they don't even know it's there.
It feels like I'm in a horror movie when I try to get them to understand their own ableism, and that is a good good sign that I may want to consider an approach that minimizes my mental damage instead. Even if it means I don't get their stupid, deeply-conditional-and-yet-the-conditions-are-SO-vague-and-they-won't-admit-it money.
#original#diary#ableism#ableism cw#if they actually trusted me they'd just give me the fucking money but WHATEVER#maybe it's cause of all those times i was really reckless and irresponsible with money-- OH WAIT. THAT HAS LITERALLY NEVER FUCKING HAPPENED#I GRADUATED BUSINESS SCHOOL WITH HONORS AND HAVE NEVER HAD ISSUES WITH OVER-SPENDING#maybe they subconsciously think I'm stupid w money bc I'm poor. but i doubt my sisters could just get the whole lump sum either.#I HAVE BEEN LIVING FRUGALLY MY ENTIRE ADULT LIFE YOU BASTARDS#I would say there's a 5% chance they pleasantly surprise me but I have to be careful not to spend too much energy on it#the invasive thoughts around my family's ableism are super aggressive and constant when they start#and so i would rather have no help than that stinky-ass hLep that hurts my brain and heart so bad for days after#hLep#anyway i don't want their help paying for a wedding bc i am housing insecure with no income and so is my wife#and besides that wedding planning is hard and stressful and involves either including or snubbing relatives i don't like#so like if you offer me thousands of dollars i would be like Great! More savings means more safety and security!#i would NOT be like Okay time to spend $2000 on fucking flowers I have SHIT GOING ON#if i have a wedding then the cost will be the cost of pizza for all the guests.#also govt says i can't get married or i lose my disability payments so ryan and I just decided we are married years ago#i need SO much disability care equipment that i don't have and i am unable to hold a standard full time job#but yeah sure maybe I'll go get another DEGREE despite my interests being completely non academic. fuck OFF.#i have been writing or making art about this all evening this is not how I wanted to spend the evening it is past 4am#hopefully this processing and drawing and journaling will allow me to remove this issue from the very forefront of my mind#it's a careful line to walk between processing and obsessing. but good processing helps you stop obsessing#hopefully I can save some of the more painful parts of this for therapy so I can focus on other stuff for the next couple days#listen if interacting with someone in a certain way makes you feel like you're in a horror movie then something needs to change#and sometimes the change is that we need to make literal and emotional distance between us and those people bc they aren't learning#okay okay time for edibles and a shower i fuckin earned it and even if i didn't I can do whatever I fucking want 👌#and also I deserve nice things by default#and so do you
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mwagneto · 2 years
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having an accent is saur embarrassing not coz i mind but coz it gets stronger when i talk to people who also speak w an accent and it's like. i Promise i'm not making fun of you i genuinely sound like this
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teleconhaikus · 10 months
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I really wish I had the ability to bend the ears of those in Hollywood to portray disabled and ill humans with grace and empathy and not who magically get better one day, or have only one episode story archs but ones where they actually are considered daily and their needs are thought of by all their friends and loved ones.. not because it’s the reality I know but because it’s the reality I wish I could at least see in a fantasy world at least.
I spent all day yesterday on my couch in pain from lupus, hands and feet just aching and no energy to do much else than sleep.. and it’s isolating and it’s lonely but it could be better if the world saw everyone for their flaws and supported them instead and the only they would is if they see it in their heros, and the fiction first. If you can’t even imagine it it can’t ever be real.
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theyuseifan · 2 years
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ascended soren is all well and good, but imagine: ascended oliver
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noxtivagus · 2 years
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i really really think i'm better now
#🌙.vent#i think. i think i really think#....nah. writing that n i feel like crying again#it really hurts?#no it really really really hurts i'm#i need better friends#an hour now before it's the 28th n they're just in their lil 2 person vc together#it hurts i really think they don't care#usually i'm the first to usually say kind words to them#i've been really struggling for a while n maybe hoping for once#for once maybe they'd. yeah. even if it's just once#i think it hurts even more bcs we've been friends ever since middle school so#i really doubt if they really care for who i am#i want to hold on n believe that they do care but it just gets harder n harder n#i don't want to cry on my birthday???? my bday has always had a lot of meaning for me#of change. something better#but this time around everything feels so much more different. lonely#this is the most i've been connected to my reality in years hut#it's the most i've ever been lonely#11:11 n maybe i wish that#i don't know.#for closer deeper n more authentic relations w others ?#every time i dip into even a bit more of that#life has a bit more meaning each time#my world is lonely. it definitely is#so those moments have ever meant so much to me#i'm not overly dependent on them. no. i'm very much independent#but everyone's susceptible to feeling lonely n i guess this is one of my weak points#i should be able to make and choose my own happiness. in who i am.#i guess. overwhelmed & tired & lonely. those are the 3 words i'd describe how i'm feeling right now.
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coffee-bat · 2 years
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still thinking about the time i saw someone dressed as oliver dialtown on the con and had to like. physically stop myself from approaching them like hey i was in that game!! bc that'd have been awkward
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valleynix · 2 years
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I actually kinda like how lady d talks about Miranda in To promise the moon. The whole 'yes I love her but I recognize that she's an awful person.' We've heard some things that Miranda has done to her followers and the Dimitrescu's, and IDK if it's gonna happen, but what would Lady d do if Miranda actually followed through with her threats???
ooh, this is a good one! i assume you're talking about what Cassandra said ("What good has she done for my family, aside from threatening to starve us if our experiments continued to fail?"). all we know is that these threats are, so far, quite empty, but what would happen if Miranda actually began to starve them?
i imagine the starving would take a long time. Miranda provides them with maids to eat and drain if they have no other source of food; other than that, she allows them to take any disloyal followers (ones that do not become experiments) and anyone who stumbles into their territory (like the Reader).
so, let's say she puts out an order that the Dimitrescus can no longer just take anyone found in their territory, as she needs more people for her own experiments. well, that's not too bad, right? Alcina has been preparing for a day like this; she faces the brunt of these threats, and she knew Miranda would follow through one day.
she puts herself and the girls on a rationed diet. Daniela is already used to not being allowed much blood unless it's incredibly diluted, so she would probably suffer the least. Cassandra and Bela would likely become irritable and snappy, the former more so, but they would be bearable. Alcina probably said not to kill or maim any maids during this time, at least until this foolish order had passed.
only... it doesn't pass. months go by, and their supply of blood-infused wine is becoming scarce. Alcina sends Cassandra out more often to hunt, but whatever she brings back, it's not enough. she watches her daughters becoming weaker and weaker, and it breaks her heart to be unable to do anything.
one day, a maid slips up and spills a bit of tea on the dining hall table. this simply cannot do. Alcina orders her daughters to take her to the cellar, allowing them to do as they see fit. the maid does not come back.
this becomes a bit of a norm around the castle for some time. when a maid does something out of place - no matter how big or small - they are sent to the cellar, and the girls are allowed to feed. they bring back enough for Alcina, and because of that, she allows this to continue.
but they stopped receiving maid shipments months ago, when Miranda had first spoke of this silly order, and their supply of maids is beginning to run low, too. Alcina still holds out some hope that this is simply a prolonged punishment, and that her leader would stop before her and her daughters perished.
unfortunately, it continues. there are fewer and fewer maids in the castle every day, and the girls are becoming more and more feral. they pace around, look for scraps around the castle, beg their mother to let them into the village.
Alcina is a smart woman. she knows that if she lets her daughters out into the village, if she lets them slip up once, that Miranda will find out and this punishment will remain everlasting.
so, she decides to go to Miranda directly. i imagine this can go one of two ways: either she tells Alcina that she and her daughters are no longer of any use to her, implying she wants them to die out... or she smiles wickedly and cruelly as she tells Alcina that their loyalty is to no longer waver, that they must accept that she will be the only person to ever provide them with what they need. they must remain obedient and their experiments are not to fail from here out.
it's a show of power, you know. that Miranda can do whatever she wants and not suffer the consequences. perhaps she did try to starve them before the events of To Promise the Moon, but i doubt it would have lasted longer than a month or two, at most.
we haven't seen our lovely bird mom yet... but we will, soon, and you'll see exactly why the Dimitrescu daughters are not loyal to her, and why Alcina may love and adore this woman but despise who she is and what she's able to do to people.
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derelictdumbass · 2 years
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Okay king you gotta tell me about heather bc I know she's a fc5 oc but Idk much else honestly she gives off big power hungry and rich vibes ngl
Honestly Alexys you hit the nail on the head she is power hungry and rich ajsjsjdjdj Okay so to start at the beginning she basically grew up in Atlanta, her parents were wealthy and also religious and just assholes tbh! They treated her more like a doll than a kid and they made every decision for her right down to how she'd wear her hair.
As soon as she's in college and she tricks them into letting her move into a campus dorm she goes feral and not entirely in a good way, she wants to do everything she was never allowed to do and MORE. Which means she goes to a lot of parties, has a lot of sex, does a lot of drugs and probably commits some low stake felonies along the way. She never gets caught doing any of those things bc she's smart and has learnt very well how to hide, charm and lie her way out of everything.
Her parents pushed her to be a lawyer so she does end up going into that and despite not caring for it at all she strives to be The Best because that's all she knows how to do. And who does she meet in the law firm except for John, who she may have met fleetingly during college a few times at a few parties. This begins the start of a horribly toxic, codependent relationship where they hate each other half way through and do much more damage than good. They are very similar and because of that they see a lot of themselves in each other and their self loathing turns outward.
Heather also hates how he's number one in their firm and is always trying to beat him at everything, she can hold a lot over his head but his ranking in the firm she just can't beat which really eats her up. And when Joseph shows up and whisks John away he says nothing and she just has to hear with everyone else that he left lmao This does bring on a little mental spiral and leads to her being more sloppy with work and due to this a few of her scandalous misdeeds get leaked and she gets fired!
Her parents basically then disown her and she never really made any bonds aside from John so she was left alone in the city filled with nothing but anger and resentment! :D She then decides in a stroke of genius her true calling must be just ruining John's life bc he deserves it and she packs her shit, moves to Hope County and starts her career in 'Taking Everything John Seed Loves and Making It Hers'.
For like a personality overview she's pretty confident, selfish, manipulative, petty, bossy, impatient and sadistic <3 (but she does, deep down under her layers of self protection, have a softer vulnerable side) and she does a good job pretending to be sweet as honey when she wants to win ppl over
She also loves spiders and snakes !! They are her fav pets but she also likes cats <3 And she hates red wine but she drinks it bc Public Perception even when she's alone ahsjdhdj
SORRY THAT GOT A BIT LONG I COULD TALK ABOUT HER FOREVER SHE IS TRAGIC AND I LOVE HER <3
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foxgloveteas · 28 days
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So I am writing an argumentative research paper for a class on AI Art.
I know tumblrs opinions on AI Art (trust me I agree). But I have some thoughts I need to scream into the void.
There is something indescribable about reading articles or papers about the ethical concerns of AI Art and Art Theft, that are very clearly written by non-artists. Sometimes you can agree with them, sure, like when they say "nothing is original" and "you can't steal an art style" both of which are true outside of context.
Then you read shit like "Could all Art be consider theft?" And at least I get this eery, uncomfortable feeling under my skin. The feeling I get only when I hear or see something truly vile. We all know how blatantly AI companies and AI "Artist" steal art to feed, Feed their machines.
The very sound of that is violating! So the statement "could all art be theft" fills me with rage. And how could I not be angry when I see works, people, human people, spent their time, their creativity, and a fucking part of their soul on, be put into a Meat Grinder so that some code can if-then statement its way into picking out a few things "worth" taking and slapping into a stupid barely parcible fantasy image, or an anime girl with 3 legs and 6 fingers, or the most hideous hyper realistic minion you've ever seen.
How does that not fill everyone with rage, artist or not?
Don't even get me started on the paper I saw that referred to human-made art (real art) as BIO ART. I gagged, outloud, in class.
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marshroom580 · 4 months
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when are we gonna get the nate, wade, frank, neena, and vanessa polycule fic?
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