#I guess there's next year for it

[triskhellion]

Stuff I wrote over the last few months

For the Mead Moons event:

Second Chance Strays  E | 8.4k | magical stiles | fuck or die | getting together

Thunder E | 12k | werefox-kitsune stiles | rural montana | angst & fluff & smut 

While We Still Have Time  T | 3.1k | road trip | angst w/ a happy ending | getting together

Perhaps (Steter) E | 7.3k | strangers to lovers | mating bites | murder husbands

CLAIM! E | 11.9k | getting together | making up | angst & fluff & smut

The Depths E | 1.5k (WIP) | post-nogitsune stiles | sea creature derek | norway

For Flash Fiction Friday:

Awoo For You T | 1k | est. relationship | crack fic | eurodance

#sterek #sterek fanfic #steter #steter fanfic #mead moons #not me writing several things but not the fic that gave me the idea for the event in the first place lmao #I guess there's next year for it #and that sterydia fic #I'm still way too pleased with ulv equals luv #that's danish for wolf #it's like the stars aligned #I forgot about this in my drafts #trisk

[liquidstar]

If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)

At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.

Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.

#i think about this story sometimes like yeah I'm proud of them for that too actually. good job baby brothers #they're not babies anymore of course they're turning 20 next year which is crazy #but they're still the type of people who'd do something if they saw something of this sort happen for sure #respectful of women and everyone else too. they're good guys #I'm glad I ended up with them living in my house against my will for like 14 years #anyway i have no idea where i was for all this but my best guess is probably a friends house given the time period #i was always at my besties house lol #i hope she's doing well too actually. haven't spoken in forever... #bestie from greek elementary school... if you're out there... let's get muffins and fanta at the bakery across the street again someday 💜☮️

[october-cryptixx]

aro/ace themed valentine's day teddy bears ^^ because i just recently found out i might be arospec but also just cuz like..... why not

#this may be out of character for me because just a few weeks ago i strongly disliked valentine's day lmao #now that i know im probably some kinda flavor of aro? i.. dunno how to feel #how i feel about the holiday is complicated #while i still dont like the romantic aspect of it.. at least i dont find myself rolling my eyes at valentine's themed stuff as much anymore #idk maybe i'll go back to disliking the holiday next year who knows lol #i guess its just the catharsis i suppose.. #aromantic #asexual #aroace #aspec #arospec #lgbtq #valentine's day #valentine's #teddy bear #digital art #art #toby draws things

[aboutmercy]

driveway by richard siken.

#richard siken #i think the poems he dropped today are part of the new poetry book he’s releasing later this year?? #iirc they’re autobiographical so this is 😵‍💫 #my uploads #edit: he is releasing the book NEXT year. fall 2024. this is a snippet of what’s to come i guess! #poetry

[call-me-nineki]

Floyd is so silly lmao 💀💀💀

#guess who got more energy to draw for this event #I THOUGHT THIS PART WAS GOING TO BE RELEASED NEXT YEAR IM SJDSKDFSD #I love everything about this #this part got me wheezing for almost an hour I swear #twst floyd #floyd leech #twisted wonderland floyd #leona kingscholar #twst leona #twst ace #ace trappola #disney twisted wonderland #halloween event

[roseworth]

i love this one. btw. if you even care.

#no coherent thoughts just hhghhghjhfgmhghgh........ #btw i didnt realize it but its been nearly EXACTLY 2 years since i first read utrh #bc i first watched the movie ~late august 2021 then read the book a few days later #and now i read it again <3 so i guess we can all start getting ready for my next reread in august 2025 #anyways it hits even better now that i have a Nuanced Interpretation of the characters :) #during 'the son has not surpassed the father' scene i had to put the book down bc i got hit so hard with the urge to start ripping pages ou #so insane about this book it turns me into a rabid animal #jason todd #dc

[travellingtribble]

I'm in my feels thinking about how fucked up the TOS crew ended like

Kirk got stuck in the nexus from ~2293 to 2371 only to die again, for good, as soon as he got out? Come on. come on man.

Bones got old. like really old. and didn't get to see Kirk again??? It's been a while since I watched the TNG episode with McCoy, I don't remember what he says, but he was like 150 years old. Did he ever even see Kirk before he got stuck in the Nexus. Did he ever see Spock? (I'd hope so, Spock disappears years later, in Picard if I'm correct?)

Spock was... around doing Spock stuff. And then Kirk died and did Spock even know? did someone tell Spock that his literal soulmate died. twice. and then Spock got stuck in another universe, a reality slightly different from his own, where everyone is younger than him and Jim is not really Jim and he has his own Spock anyway and his planet is gone and he lived the rest of his days in the Kelvin timeline, alone.

And Scotty got stuck in a transporter buffer for 75 years. That's so long. They had to tell him Kirk was gone? (although, they were together when that happened, weren't they? they were on the Enterprise-B, technically Scotty knew that Kirk was "dead" didn't he? I guess spending 75 years stuck in a buffer mode will screw up your memory though.) Did he see Spock again? Did he see Bones again before either of them died?

Basically the only ones we didn't see explicitly (or implicitly) die or disappear of the OG crew are Uhura, Chekov and Sulu. Where were they? what were they doing? did they know about Kirk? about Scotty? about Spock?

Sorry but like. that is so fucked up. why does nobody talk about this!!!

#i may have the timeline a bit wonky #but like. it is a bit confusing #like i literally just found out that in Picard they exolain Spock's disappearance and how he appeared in the Kelvin timeline #i have to finish st picard now for that #but also like. Scotty basically had no moment of peace he saw Kirk die and then got stuck in a limbo #with the risk of being erased like his friend #for 75 years!! #like. somebody help I'm not. okay. #at least McCoy got to age and live his life #but they basically never saw eachother again???? #Spock never saw Kirk again. Kirk never saw anyone again because he FUCKING DIED TWICE TECHNICALLY. #did Bones even live that long to see Scotty again? did Dcotty even know that Bones was still alive? #probably? DID THEY EVER SEE EACHOTHER AGAIN IS MY QUESTION. #BECAUSE IF NOT. THAT'S FUCKED UP #maybe I'm just making stuff up idk #star trek spoilers #i guess? #SOMEBODY clear this up for me or cry with me or SOMETHING #star trek #star trek the next generation #star trek tos #star trek tng #james t kirk #spock #leonard bones mccoy #montgomery scott #scotty star trek #star trek generations #tribblerambles

[sumikatt]

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AI has human error because it is trained on “human error and inspiration”. There are models trained on specifically curated collections with images the trainer thought “looks good”, like Furry or Anime or Concept Art or Photorealistic style models. There’s that “human touch”, I suppose. These models do not make themselves, they are made by human programmers and hobbyists.

The issue is the consent of the human artists that programmers make models of. The issue—as this person did correctly identify—is capitalism, and companies profiting off of other people’s work. Not the technology itself.

I said in an earlier post that it’s like Adobe and Photoshop. I hate Adobe’s greedy practices and I think they’re evil scumbags, but there’s nothing inherently wrong or immoral with using Photoshop as a tool.

There are AI models trained solely off of Creative Commons and public domain images. There are AI models artists train themselves, of their own work (I'm currently trying to do this myself). Are those models more “pure” than general AI models that used internet scrapers and the Internet Archive to copy copyrighted works?

I showed the process of Stable Diffusion de-noising in my comic but I didn’t make it totally clear, because I covered most of it with text lol. Here’s what that looks like: the follow image is generated in 30 steps, with the progress being shown every 5 steps. Model used is Counterfeit V3.0.

Parts aren’t copy pasted wholesale like photobashing or kitbashing (which is how most people probably think is how generative AI works), they are predicted. Yes, a general model can copy a particular artist’s style. It can make errors in copying, though, and you end up with crossed eyes and strange proportions. Sometimes you can barely tell it was made by a machine, if the prompter is diligent enough and bothers to overpaint or redo the weird areas.

I was terrified and conflicted when I had first used Stable Diffusion "seriously" on my own laptop, and I spent hours prompting, generating, and studying its outputs. I went to school for art and have a degree, and I felt threatened.

I was also mentored by a concept artist, who has been in the entertainment/games industry for years, who seemed relatively unbothered by AI, compared to very vocal artists on Twitter and Tumblr. It's just another tool: he said it's "just like Pinterest". He seemed confident that he wouldn't be replaced by AI image generation at all.

His words, plus actually learning about how image generation works, plus the attacks and lawsuits against the Internet Archive, made me think of "AI art" differently: that it isn't the end of the world at all, and that lobbying for stricter copyright laws because of how people think AI image gen works would just hurt smaller artists and fanartists.

My art has probably already been used for training some model, somewhere--especially since I used to post on DeviantArt and ArtStation. Or maybe some kid out there has traced my work, or copied my fursona or whatever. Both of those scenarios don't really affect me in any direct way. I suppose I can say I'm "losing profits", like a corporation, but I don't... really care about that part. But I definitely care about art and allowing people the ability to express themselves, even if it isn't "original".

#i think its because i went on a open-source-only and self-hosting bender a few years ago that i think like this #the internet is built off of 'share-alike' software #so. i guess. i don't mind 'sharing' #like some sort of... art communist #ai art #long post #inflicts you with my thought beams #my art #responding to tags #ahha the ethics of labeling this ‘my art’ . lets just say #the tag is for so it’s next to the comic when you look in my art tag

[aroaceleovaldez]

HoO is so funny to me when you actually think about the ages of all the characters. Octavian is 18. Percy and Annabeth are 16, almost 17. Reyna is presumably 16. Frank just turned 16, Jason’s about to turn 16. Leo and Piper are like 15. Hazel’s like 14 and a half, and Nico is 13.

The Death Sibs are both the youngest and oldest on the Argo II. Octavian is a college freshman getting into petty drama with a bunch of high schoolers. He gets told to shut up at one point by a random 8th grader. Everyone is scared of the 8th grader. We Sent A 13 Year Old To Superhell and he came back weirder, Just Like Middle School. TLH was just three high school sophomores being sent to do a task and it going Exactly Like You’d Expect. Percy’s the only demigod on the ship who can legally drive (though Reyna gets her drivers license at some point before TOA). What Is Happening.

#pjo #hoo #heroes of olympus #riordanverse #my second favorite thing related to this is like every time Hazel references someone's age especially in SoN it's just. blatantly incorrect. #she goes into very specific detail about how she's 14. detailing like exactly how many months it had been since her birthday #and when she died and when she was brought back. just like ''okay. im 14 and a half. got that? good.'' #''anyways here's Frank. he's 3 years older than me'' like literal next chapter. we are told Frank is not 3 years older than her. #Hazel: Here's my older brother! [Nico is younger than her in literally every way feasible] #ive just decided Hazel is an unreliable narrator who is just really bad at guessing/remembering how old people are #which like. adhd mood. forgetting how old everybody is. #and she has the bonus excuse of saying her sense of time is skewed from being a ghost for so long #but it's just so funny every time she's just. with the upmost confidence. blatantly the wrong answer. #i want a scene of Hazel looking at Percy and just going ''hm. I bet he's like 20.'' and then learns he's 16 #and she's just [surprised pikachu] #also we know it isn't an error that she's 14 cause in TOA she's like ''oh yeah im learning to drive!'' #so she's 15 by then #it is however an error that *Nico* is said to be 14 in hoo cause he's 12 in TLO and 14 in TOA #but we know in HoO the reason that error was made was cause Rick hadn't figured out Nico's birthday yet #and he was flipping it between January or March #so he just forgot how old Nico is for a series and then we went back to normal

[itskindnessinfinite]

the recency bias in the f1 community is insane actually

#this is mostly regaring the comments i’ve seen about how ferrari are going to regret signing lewis over carlos for next year #like have people just forgotten everything lewis has achieved in his career??? #even last year! he came in third in the driver standings! #like #how can people compare carlos and lewis now and think that it’s a compelling argument #??? #the ferrari is literally the second fastest car!!!!! #but no just cause he has had trouble with his car in the last 3 gps he’s ’washed’ #let’s just disregard the fact that the merc is a tractor in disguise right now i guess….. #please be so fucking for real right now #formula 1 #f1 #lewis hamilton #this is not me being anti carlos btw. carlos is undeniably an amazing driver and i hope he gets a good seat next year #but please. we’re only 3 races into this season #we still have a long way to go #just chill #anyway #just had to get this off my chest

[miodiodavinci]

congration

you done it

#collapses to the ground and turns into 32 perfectly cut tomahawk steaks on impact #today was. a lot of things skjdflgjdfgh #i didn't think it was possible to pull your pectoral muscles just. sitting down. #but i guess that's what happens when your college packs you guys like sardines for the ceremony #i'm still not free yet ! ! ! ! #i have a major portfolio project to finish (unrelated to degree) ! ! ! ! #but the longest leg of the journey is finally complete and will ensure i can at least get my foot in the door now #god though. i'm tired. i've been at this for like 8 years now. #what pursuing a degree part time while working and also dealing with sudden trauma will do to a man #also weird to think that i am just. no longer a student now. #i'll be a student again in like 2 or 4 years when i go back for my next degree but like #damnb. ya boy graduated college.

[abtheb]

Haven't flexed for the internet in a while.

#me #i dont really like my new gym but i guess i dont really have a choice and its only for the next 8 months #i have to be considerate about balancing gym and art/school so i dont end up overexerting and injuring myself #ngl i was fantasizing about bulking up again to recover the 20ish lbs ive lost this year from injury and burnout #but i think its for the best to keep things where they are so i dont push myself too hard and hurt my joints again #i need to focus on art/school more than anything else since my life and future depend on it and i cant afford to fuck it up

[odinsblog]

#life of an artist #welp #guess i begin my #old weirdo phase next year #¯\ (ツ) /¯

[sunnydayaoe]

#tired + weird today... couldn't draw a Finished artwork so I just didn't draw anything much at all ... #happy birthday fresh.. #woof I'll. maybe draw something later [<-lying] #maybe next year I'll draw something real nice #jbird's art #I guess ??

[lunarharp]

clearout of drawings :)

#witch hat tag #orufrey #wha spoilers #witch hat atelier spoilers #exceedlingly mild but maybe ppl block that. like literally qif just has a headache dont worry abt it.. #i feel REALLY annoying putting my art online today...you know those days where its just like..CAN I EVEN DRAW???? Maybe you don't i guess. #people even said a lot of nice things lately about my drawings when i felt down <3...But what if they were lying #i'll work it all out...next year...

[swearingcactus]

I’ve created a monster, 'cus nobody wants to see Vincent no more, they want Johnny, I’m chopped liver— (well if you want Johnny, this is what I'll give ya.)

#*proceeds to be Arasaka's worst nightmare only fueled by spite and idealism* #cyberpunk 2077 #lil guy v #i drew this tag #been wanting to draw something based on a play on these lines #johnny shows back after 50 years dead like guess who's back! back again!! #v is the next best thing but he will never be johnny and vice versa babey