#I'd make an NFT of it if NFTs were still around

[lordadmiralfarsight]

I (main blog of avantlalettre) will butcher you my beautiful saber and throw your remains in a river if you dont publicly denounce vaspider for calling ME,a female of 16 years,a perverted man. And furthermore your soul shall go to hell afterwards where it shall forever be trapped in a pool of flie's larvae,ice,and human refuse wherein you shall be tormented by your demonic hosts and force to pursue the Adversary's standard through this ocean of purulence for the remainder of eternity. However you can avoid this if you denounce vaspider,apologize to me,and delete your reply

Don't be surprised that people assume you're a guy when the name of your blog is Karl prince of darkness, Karl is a typically male name and people are gonna assume, doesn't matter how long you've been a female.

I didn't see anything about perversion in Vaspider's reply, so I'm going to guess you tacked that on yourself and that it's your opinion of all men. Nice essentialism there dipshit, but switching "woman bad" with "man bad" doesn't make you a genious or anything close to good, it makes you a narrowminded asshole. As a man, vas te faire retourner par une chèvre, suce-merde.

I don't believe in your soul thingy, so your threats mean fuck all to me.

Even if I somehow took into account your worldview, calling you an idiot on the internet wouldn't justify that severe of a punishment, especially for eternity, so you claiming that shows you are either exaggerating or you have an incredibly inflated opinion of your own worth on a metaphysical level. Either way, your threats are worthless even in your own belief system.

Reading the first line made me wonder if I had somehow gotten a yandere stalker. If you want people to give you the time of day, try not to talk like a deranged lunatic.

The overly wordy way you write is also doing you no favor, as it makes you sound like a melodramatic twat. You don't sound smart, you sound arrogant. Just in case, and so you understand, here's a TL;DR in your own language : I, Farsight, Lord Admiral by the Grace of my Shipping Heart, do declare that your vile perfidy and obtuse demagoguery are most unwanted upon these hallowed piers, that your hackneyed threats are as void of meaning as the soul of a gull is of decency, that your biases are a stain most revolting and that your very presence is neither wanted, nor tolerated. Begone from my dock. Or, for normal people : blocked. And if you somehow contact me again, I will contact the police regarding the very real and actual death threat in the first sentence of this bullshit. And as I live in France, where death threats ARE legally penalized, that means legal consequences :) So fuck off my dock, and never come back. Vas te faire voire chez quelqu'un qui en a quelque chose à foutre de tes conneries.

#My first death threat on tumblr! #This feels like a rite of passage #and it's pseudo-spiritualist religious bullshit too #I wonder if that's a collector #can I sell it ? #I'd make an NFT of it if NFTs were still around #it's utter worthless bullshit #which makes it perfect for an NFT #“ME; a female of 16 years!” #So what #I've been a man for almost 32 years #gender + age ain't an achievement #but seriously death threats have legal consequences in France #if that moron comes back or tries anything I AM going to the police station #and I'm a teacher #and considering how many high profile teacher murders have happened in recent years #they'll listen #they kind of have to

[thatdogmagic]

...that your audience won't hate.

This is a method I started using when NFTs were on the rise - thieves would have to put actual work into getting rid of the mark - and one that I am now grateful for with the arrival of AI. Why? Because anyone who tries to train an AI on my work will end up with random, disruptive color blobs.

I can't say for sure it'll stop theft entirely, but it WILL make your images annoying for databases to incorporate, and add an extra layer of inconvenience for thieves. So as far as I'm concerned, that's a win/win.

I'll be showing the steps in CSP, but it should all be pretty easy to replicate in Photoshop.

Now: let's use the above image as our new signature file. I set mine to be 2500 x 1000 pixels when I'm just starting out.

Note that your text should not have a lot of anti-aliasing, so using a paint brush to start isn't going to work well with this method. Just use the standard G-Pen if you're doing this by hand, or, just use the text tool and whichever font you prefer.

Once that's done, take your magic wand tool, and select all the black. Here are the magic wand settings I'm using to make the selections:

All selected?

Good.

Now, find a brush with a scattering/tone scraping effect. I use one like this.

You can theoretically use any colors you want for this next part, but I'd recommend pastels as they tend to blend better.

Either way, let's add some color to the text.

Once that's finished,

You're going to want to go to Layer Property, and Border Effect

You'll be given an option of choosing color and thickness. Choose black, and go for at least a 5 in thickness. Adjust per your own preferences.

Now create a layer beneath your sig layer, and merge the sig down onto the blank layer.

This effectively 'locks in' the border effect, which is exactly what we want.

Hooray, you've finished your watermark!

Now let's place that bad boy into your finished piece.

You'll get the best mileage out of a mark if you can place it over a spot that isn't black of white, since you'll get better blending options that way. My preference is for Overlay.

From here, I'll adjust the opacity to around 20-25, depending on the image.

If you don't have a spot to use overlay, however, there's a couple other options. For white, there's Linear Burn, which imho doesn't look as good, but it still works in a pinch.

And for lots of black, you have Linear Light

Either way, you're in business!

EDIT since this has escaped my usual circles, and folks aren't as familiar with my personal usage:

An example of one of my own finished pieces, with watermark, so you can see what I mean about 'relatively unobtrusive'-- I try to at least use them as framing devices, or let them work with the image somehow (or, at the very least, not actively against it).

I know it's a bummer for some people to "ruin" their work with watermarks, which is part of the reason I developed this mark in particular. Its disruption is about as minimal as I can make it while still letting it serve its intended purpose.

There's other methods, too, of course! But this is the one I use, and the one I can speak on. Hope it helps some of you!

#watermarks #artist tutorial #watermark #AI #art theft

[onemillionfurries]

not for nothing, but around 2021 the CEO of the studio behind palworld was tweeting about ai generated pokemon designs, and how he “can almost not tell the difference,” referencing that exact article, actually. I do not think every single design was ai generated or that any ai references were used from start to finish with no human touch, but the CEO is very openly interested in ai technology and its applications in game development! I don’t think its a stretch to guess it may have been used somewhere in the pipeline. and as someone who also messed around with fakemon generators when the tech was still a bit novel, some of the designs do have that ai stink to them, even from around that time.

yeah i chose that article specifically bc i knew that the CEO had referenced it in a tweet. I WANTED to get into it in the post, but it was also 9am and I hadn't gotten a wink of sheep that night (... bc i was up all night playing palworld WHOOPS--) (im writing this off a 2 hour nap so pls forgive me if it's incomprehensible)

I remember the whole "palworld used ai to gen its monsters" narrative literally started because someone qrt'd someone pointing out that CEO's tweet and extrapolated that because the CEO spoke positively on AI generated pokemon, then the game MUST have AI generated monster designs which... wasn't what the original tweet was saying at all. but unfortunately nuance and reason is like poison to twitter so the speculation spiraled from there. (not like tumblr is much better. but I at least have the space to explain myself here, however poorly that may be :P)

And like, the unfortunate thing is that nearly /every/ CEO is interested in AI. their whole job is to make money, not art. some are just louder about it than others. with the insane crunch that the pokemon developers go through, I wouldn't be surprised if AI is also used in those games somewhere in the pipeline, whether that's in the past or a future release.

Let's also not forget when the pokemon company international was interested in hiring simeone with knowledge in NFT/web3 technology. if we're automatically assuming that open interest in something means that it's implemented, or that it will be at some point, then we better get to boycotting pokemon now!

I wanna be clear that I'm not defending the use of AI art in game development. it may very well be that AI /was/ used somewhere in the Palworld pipeline. I just don't want people to be asserting something as true with little to no actual evidence. ever since I got "called out" by an ex-friend of mine for some heinous shit that i quite literally never did, I've been a lot more diligent in figuring out if something people are freaking out about on social media IS actually true, or if it was a mountain made out of a molehill, as it tends to be 99% of the time.

(btw I'm curious as to what pals you think have that AI stink to them? im generally trying to avoid spoilers for later game pals bc i wanna discover them on my own, but if you wanna send a list or something that I can look up when im further in the game I'd be interested.)

#lab notes #answered #anon ask #palworld #palworld discourse

[androdragynous]

ive been feeling some kind of way about AI art and NFTs and the general shittiness of having to exist around brands 24/7 and I just. okay a lot of this is going to copy from the rant I went on in discord earlier because I don't want to retype it all on phone but it's like

DA is the only existing gallery that I have that actually spans like. My entire time online. Which like yeah it's cringe or whatever but it's important to me since that's where I started and now it's like well do I fucking nuke that record because the alternative is some crypto bitch minting my shit for $0.76257358 in twitchcoin or something. I hate it here. And I say that with actual vitriol this time.

I hate that being someone who likes to draw means my entire existence is a profit margin for some bitch who has decided letting people rip others off is the most reliable business standard and the alternative options are to never share anything and live under a rock or just quietly tolerate it and hope it blows over before the global ecosystem fries because a motherfucker realized money is imaginary and decided to burn a metric ton of resources to count monopoly money. If you put me in a room with a CEO of Anything right now I'd rip their throat out with my teeth before you could even hand me a gun.

It's INFURIATING that like. the fact that there is art on dA of people who have died doesn't matter to them. It doesn't matter that people have moved on. It doesn't matter that things were gifts for friends who are no longer talked to, or showing interest in things that have been moved past. It doesn't matter that there are resources meant to be shared or communities meant to be fostered and it doesn't matter that this was made by people. Art isn't content that just appeared magically in the world and you can't just skim it off and slap it on to something else. There was reason in it. Things were made for a reason and so often that reason was love and that's irrelevant.

I do think AI art has the potential to be an incredible tool especially for artists who otherwise can't draw, of whose speciality in art isn't a visual medium. But the way it's been introduced was not done for them and never will be because the people who developed it don't care and have no reason to. There is a difference between accessibility made for people and accessibility made for profit and only one of them will last and only one of them should matter.

I am tired and I am livid and honestly I'm a little bit grieving because it should not fucking be like this! What people make to connect to the world and the people they care about should not be reduced to PNG metadata #84026 for some Bitcoin freak who doesn't even know their fucking name. The person matters the reason matters. All of it has always fucking mattered.

In 2016ish I was talking to someone who had had to euthanize a horse they owned and they said my reassurances were some of the best they'd ever received. That site no longer exists. If I saw the same words I'd typed somewhere else now I wouldn't remember them, I wouldn't recognize them, but that person probably would. It was a string of words in a comment section of an offline site. Not even a little bit protected by anything art usually is. But it still fucking mattered to someone! And the fact that it did still matters to me! It's about being fucking human!

It's like, fuck, what do you do if somewhere down the line you see the fursona of a dead person in some AI prompt art? Whose fucking ghost is it? The person who made it won't know and won't care but someone will and that's not a grief that comes with legal measure - how the fuck are you supposed to quantify love in a court of law to prove that art has meaning?

It's infuriating. It's beyond infuriating. It has to matter because it matters and there's no way to frame that in a way that someone who doesn't care about it will acknowledge because they can't, fundamentally, recognize that any of this matters without realizing that their own part of it matters too. One big fucking performance art piece on a giant rock that happened to have the right molecules on it for the rest of us. Fuck me running. The problem is that none of these people have ever talked to someone who is not sufficiently rich, that art is to be generated so it can be placed in a foyer and resold after we die. There is no place in that world for parents singing their children to sleep or kids creating elaborate playground roleplays or teenagers writing poetry to try and make sense of how everything feels. Art is about being fucking human and we have to remember that. We have to.

Take the time to love your work. Take up a physical medium or print it out and hold it. Know you made something that exists and will continue to exist, and know that you loved it. There is a humanity in it that can never be taken from you and I hope that it can bring you joy. Please take the time to remember that.

#patch me through to palaven command #long post #wanted to say these words somewhere findable and permanent. i think theyre important

[gaignunkukai]

you were so right to be disappointed in Babish still promoting Harry Potter like, 1 year & 4 months ago. now he's gone and wholeheartedly promoted the TERF blood libel game, how does it feel to have called it? (bad, I'd guess.)

Real bad, tbh.

Fun fact: I think it was around that time there was something going on with NFTs related to Babish? He didn't make them, AFAIK, but I wound up dropping him because of the Harry Potter video. The NFT thing would've been a bonus. God, I bought his cookbook before the HP videos too...

Like, I get maybe one happening before it became more apparent that she sucked as a human being, but in this day and age? You can't just plug your ears and not listen to those asking to do the bare minimum by avoiding the game. It's literally as simple as not spending money!

To my trans followers, my Jewish followers, my Irish followers, my Scottish followers, my nonbinary followers, and everyone else who's affected by JK Rowling, I love you. And I'm so sorry.

I'll cap off this post by recommending a game made by a trans woman that's significantly cheaper and infinitely better. I can't think of any games made by Jewish people off-hand, but feel free to reblog and add some if you know any!

#i dunno y'all. i'm tired of being disappointed. #play SLARPG instead of the blood libel game

[corruptedremnant]

…that your audience won't hate.

This is a method I started using when NFTs were on the rise - thieves would have to put actual work into getting rid of the mark - and one that I am now grateful for with the arrival of AI. Why? Because anyone who tries to train an AI on my work will end up with random, disruptive color blobs.

I can't say for sure it'll stop theft entirely, but it WILL make your images annoying for databases to incorporate, and add an extra layer of inconvenience for thieves. So as far as I'm concerned, that's a win/win.

I'll be showing the steps in CSP, but it should all be pretty easy to replicate in Photoshop.

Now: let's use the above image as our new signature file. I set mine to be 2500 x 1000 pixels when I'm just starting out.

Note that your text should not have a lot of anti-aliasing, so using a paint brush to start isn't going to work well with this method. Just use the standard G-Pen if you're doing this by hand, or, just use the text tool and whichever font you prefer.

Once that's done, take your magic wand tool, and select all the black. Here are the magic wand settings I'm using to make the selections:

All selected?

Good.

Now, find a brush with a scattering/tone scraping effect. I use one like this.

You can theoretically use any colors you want for this next part, but I'd recommend pastels as they tend to blend better.

Either way, let's add some color to the text.

Once that's finished,

You're going to want to go to Layer Property, and Border Effect

You'll be given an option of choosing color and thickness. Choose black, and go for at least a 5 in thickness. Adjust per your own preferences.

Now create a layer beneath your sig layer, and merge the sig down onto the blank layer.

This effectively 'locks in' the border effect, which is exactly what we want.

Hooray, you've finished your watermark!

Now let's place that bad boy into your finished piece.

You'll get the best mileage out of a mark if you can place it over a spot that isn't black of white, since you'll get better blending options that way. My preference is for Overlay.

From here, I'll adjust the opacity to around 20-25, depending on the image.

If you don't have a spot to use overlay, however, there's a couple other options. For white, there's Linear Burn, which imho doesn't look as good, but it still works in a pinch.

And for lots of black, you have Linear Light

Either way, you're in business!

As a note, I know it's a bummer for some people to "ruin" their work with watermarks, which is part of the reason I developed this mark in particular. Its disruption is about as minimal as I can make it while still being effective.

There's other methods, too, of course! But this is the one I use, and the one I can speak on. Hope it helps some of you!

I don't always do the border bit like I should but I learned my watermarking from [OP]. You can't stop art stealing, especially with bots that by definition lack brains, but you CAN make it so obnoxious they'll move on to someone else. If they have to retrace/repaint to get rid of your watermark then the time involved makes the theft not worth it.

Bonus points: if your work is used without your consent to train an AI then you will also pollute the knowledge pool. Depending on what parameters you put into these AI art generators you'll sometimes end up with a bunch of AI watermarks because they're pulling from artists that've tried to protect their work.

#reblog #art #tutorial #tools #cr reuploads #cr posts

[inwintersolitude]

- July 25th 2023 -

Do you have any plans for tomorrow? Not much. My husband gets home from his last flight around 1 p.m., then we're going to go to the nearby garden center to buy more plants, and I'm probably going to make Tuscan chicken for dinner. But that's all I have planned.

What's the longest movie you've ever seen? The extended edition of The Return of the King. It's a little over 4 hours long.

What movies did you watch a lot as a kid? The ones I remember watching the most were The Lion King, The Land Before Time, and Cinderella.

How many rooms are in your home? 11.

Do you ever experience imposter syndrome? Nope, I can't think of a time where I have.

What was the last place you rode to in a car? As a passenger? Just into town to run errands with my husband, I think.

Do you have a PayPal account? If so, how often do you use it? Yep, I set one up because I make a monthly donation to my state's abortion fund and PayPal is the easiest way to do it. I think I've also used it for a few online shopping orders, too.

Are you cold right now? Nope.

How old will you be at your next birthday? 34.

Before this one, when was the last time you took a survey? A few days ago.

Can you skip rope? I haven't used a jump rope since I was a kid, but I'm sure I'd still remember how.

Have you ever participated in a charity fundraising event? Yep, numerous times. Maybe like 10?

What is your hair like at the moment? It's in a ponytail.

Do you like cucumber? Yes I love cucumber.

What do you like and dislike about your job? (or your last job) I like that I hardly work LOL. It takes me only a few hours a week to check my stock positions, look for potential stocks to buy, etc. And I like that I can work whenever I want, and I can take huge chunks of time off of work. And some things I dislike about it is that it's kind of monotonous, and it takes a little longer to do my taxes and makes it slightly more complicated.

Have you ever had a dream job? If so, did you give up on it, and why? Or do you happen to have that dream job? Yeah, my first airport operations job was my dream job at the time. I absolutely loved managing ground ops at that little airport, and I had a great boss and coworkers. I didn't give up on it, but I left and got a similar job at a different airport when my husband and I moved to Virginia for his airline career in 2013.

What's the last sitcom you watched? I think it was Parks and Rec.

What car did your parents or guardian drive when you were growing up? They had a bunch over the years. They had two Saab sedans when I was really little, then they got a Chrysler minivan in 1996 and my dad had a company car provided by his employer. They'd update the minivan every few years - they had two or three Honda Odysseys after the Chrysler, and my dad also got a new company car every few years.

Do you have milk in your fridge right now? What kind? Yep. 2 percent.

Are you left or right handed? Right.

If you have your ears pierced, how old were you when you got them done? I was 14.

Do you have any other piercings? Nope.

What was the last thing you wrote down in the notes app on your phone? I have a note that uses a script that I wrote to record when I take my anti-arrhythmia medication (so that I never forget if I did/didn't take it). I use my phone to scan a NFT sticker on the prescription bottle, and then the script records the date/time in the Notes app. As for what I last wrote down in there manually… it was a funny nickname that I randomly thought of for one of my birds, and I didn't want to forget it.

Have you ever been on a winery tour? Yep.

When was the last time you were hungover? I've only been drunk/hungover once. It was in 2012, on my honeymoon. We went to an all-inclusive resort in the Caribbean (so, alcohol included), and I was like… hey why not, might as well see what it's like to be drunk. Turns out I hated the feeling of being drunk LOL. Never again.

Do you still have Facebook? If so, how often do you check it? Yep. I go on there maybe once a month.

Are you wearing your favourite colour today? My pants are navy blue, but they're a bit darker than the shade of dark/navy blue that I consider to be my favorite.

Would you ever want to visit South Korea? Eh, possibly. It used to be higher on my list of places I'd want to go, but the more I read about South Korea and the more I learn about their cultural problems with xenophobia and misogyny, the less interested I am in visiting.

How many times in your life have you been in love? Just this once.

Do you like your name? Yep.

#survey #surveys #random questions #personal blog

[sparkymediaseminar]

An Advanced, Dehumanized World [Module 7]

Considering how many technological advancements we've experienced in the past decade alone, it's honestly almost absurd how close we are to resembling the sci-fi worlds we've imagined for decades. Unfortunately, the way we're going has given the overall impression that our world will resemble Blade Runner rather than Star Trek. Granted, Star Trek takes place much farther in the future than Blade Runner [give us a few centuries], so the Blade Runner phase might be viewed as a rough but necessary step into a potentially better future. That is, assuming we don't nuke ourselves first.

Watching this video brought me some perspective on the matter. It showcases many of the new technologies that are just coming about in recent years, many of which will be game-changing.

Some of the entries are things I'd genuinely root for. Hydrogen fuel has me excited, graphene, regenerating concrete, and 3D printing all look cool. Fighting fire with sound is genuinely innovative, and caught me off guard with how genius it is.

Others, however, terrify and disturb me. Chat bots that could replace human writers? OH GOD NO PLEASE KILL IT NOW. AI "art" was already disgusting with how dehumanizing it is, we don't need to rub salt into the wound. Don't get me started on the blockchain, either. NFTs and the Metaverse have already proven themselves to be an absolute joke, we don't need anymore of that parasitic trash.

I want to have hope for the future, but certain things make me dread it. For all the fantastic, advancements in technology that will benefit society in legitimate ways, there's also technology that seems almost reductive in it's purpose. Sure, you could argue that a chatbot could be useful for rapid-fire news coverage, and it's just inevitable that countless journalists will lose their jobs and starve in the streets. But what kind of consequences will that have for humanity as a whole?

Advanced AI in general is deeply worrying in it's concept alone. I'm going to jump to the conclusion that Skynet will become a reality and drive us to extinction. What I will say is that our increased reliance on technology can result in humanity becoming infantile. If we'll no longer need other human beings to provide for our various needs, wouldn't that just end up draining us? If art and literature become replaced by mass-produced AI "art" and "writing", wouldn't we end up losing our incentive to be creative? Wouldn't that degrade us mentally and emotionally? If robots are able to carry out all labor for us, wouldn't be just become lazy and lethargic? Would people have any reason to live? If people don't become vegetables in this brave new world, what's stopping them from offing themselves instead?

Considering our current technological climate, it's also worth discussing the post-Covid world. As discussed in this article, the pandemic essentially forced rapid changes in how our society uses technology in daily life, primarily with the internet. Since so many people were barred from venturing outside their homes and communities, they had to work from home and communicate with coworkers through video calls and emails. As much as we'd like to just "go back to normal", the article stresses that this is unlikely. Working at home will become the new norm. When we have the internet and remote communication in our hands, is there any reason for workers to meet in person anymore? No, there isn't. Not from a business standpoint, at least. People might still want to meet up with friends in private, though. It doesn't change the fact that our lives are becoming more isolated by the minute.

I took up online classes just around a year before the pandemic started, back in 2018. High school. Nevada Virtual Academy. At first, I liked being able to attend class in my own bedroom. Seemed very convenient for a bit, but it wasn't long until I realized how closed off I felt. Students could still communicate with each other in the chat room via text, but it just isn't the same thing as being in a real room with other people who you can connect with. People with faces. People with voices, with body language. It was such a startling change compared to the 8th grade, which was bustling with activity constantly. I remember feeling that the 8th grade was too chaotic back then, but now I can't help but miss how ALIVE it felt. I used to prefer keeping to myself, sitting at my own little desk and drowning out all the noise to focus on my work. Now, I can't help but crave interaction. I miss it.

I've been taking online classes for a while, haven't changed much at all since I first entered in 2018. Five years later, used to it. I guess it was nice being already accustomed to online school just as Covid hit us. The lack of regular social contact has sapped from me, though. Sapped my sanity. I guess I just feel a lot less stable and happy compared to years ago. Lots of mood swings. Many petty delusions.

MacArthur Middle School...yes, I miss you so much.

My point is, the isolation that's becoming our new norm isn't healthy. Social and cultural climates always change, but it's not always for the better.

Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLlL46pYcg4

“The future of work comes early,” Bev White, Retrieved from: https://www.harveynash.com/latest-news/the-future-of-work-comes-early

[yeleltaan]

In order: - Etching: Yelel T’aan and Cayin’s name, “Autumnal Serpent”, Yig (two separate times) and Father of Serpents. - Psychic: Yelel T’aan. - HD: Father of Serpents, Yelel T’aan -Ukiyoe: Father of Serpents

Tagged by: @vilestblood​

#get a truckload of these because this was very cool #the url and his name were both translated... also used Cayin's original name for this #really like the etching effect... it's got that 'ominous record found in an investigation' feel #it's funny I feel like both of the 'Yig' ones with that affect vaguely look like a person... which works for Cayin #the psychic one looked like a fire in a library as it was being made- it lost the grounded feel of it but I still like it #the HD ones look dope though I think the one for Yelel T'aan could be made with whatever word the AI doesn't understand #still works very well... even words themselves can be associated with Cayin #the Ukiyoe makes me think of old art depicting Yig or Yig-adjacent creatures in places where his worship was far more low-key #also reminds me of Mappo no Ryujin (Yig's mom that is slumbering somewhere around Japan) who isn't strictly Lovecraft canon #but still rad as heck #anyways apparently this website supports NFTs and I'm not a big fan of that but I had some of these already done when I found out so eh #plus the way things are right now... it's so extended that I'd have to actively avoid like half of the platforms and videogames I like #oh well- this is already done so enjoy #AI meme #art #...hecc I forgot to add the readmore #that's fixed now #aesthetic

[umberandmochaagate]

Okay you know something I've noticed about people who don't use Tumblr really at all and those who do? And this will be referring to people who I have experienced rather and a super super generalized statement.

Anyways, it's being somewhat more conscious than others in social issues as a whole.

For example, from the second crypto and NFTs popped up, there were posts talking about it, the issues, the scams, the pollution, the stupidity of it all. There was a certain level of awareness brought up. Now if you chose to ignore it (or just don't have a dashboard that keeps up with certain things), then you'd miss it. But those I've talked to who are on here have at least considered how it's an issue.

Meanwhile, I'll see other platforms and there just... Nothing like that. The awareness posts are made but they aren't getting around the same way. As a matter of fact, I see more Twitter and IG posts against crypto ON TUMBLR than I've seen anyone in my life who uses those two platforms even bring up. I know friends of friends who can barely afford the cheapest (read: still very fucking expensive) rent in the county but have poured thousands into crypto cuz they heard it'll make them rich fast to invest. But they never—and I mean never—saw what the cons where. They didn't even look to see what the cons could be.

There's a queer couple on TikTok who started making NFTs, and when the comments were rightfully annoyed by it, they stated "[their] mission was different." But there cannot be a different mission because at its core, NFTs literally harm the environment. Forget the charging hundreds or thousands in extra fake money for an un-ownable digital photo that you'll give to charity. The fact of making the NFT is the problem from the jump.

Or let's glance real quick at queer issues. Imma start with saying the whole "queer is a slur" discourse was something I only saw on Tumblr. It was a public thing too, yes, but it didn't reach a lot of social media platforms at the same level. At all. Or how much queer history and knowledge is brought up and discussed in general. Tbh, if I wasn't on here at the age I started, I'd been much much much less aware of my biases and internalized phobias.

And now I have things I've learned in Tumblr years ago, reviewed, updated, etc, and can use in professional settings with queer kids/adults/families to the best of our abilities. It also makes it easier to talk about with kids in high school and lower. That doesn't mean I've solved homophobia, right. But I can point to another therapist who's in an older generation to resources about trans identifies or how different types of sexual and romantic orientations when asked. But we wouldn't find the same info on others places that Tumblr hadn't already brought up and at the same quantity.

It's really interesting to see. I'm not sure if it's because I'm been on here for so long, I've reached a point where those I follow are reached out in many topics and working on being actively progressive (however that looks). Or if it's that Tumblr can be very fast at information and also too radical at times (or just start up misinfo). But the conversations get sparked up. That's what I'm getting at. You can see the back and forth with the efforts being made to think more critically and rightfully call out toxic ideals and systemic issues very often on here.

All that to say, Tumblr is still a hellsite (disgusted) and there are beaucoup problems with some being on repeat for the last decade plus some and with new ones thrown in. But it also has brought up a perspective that is lacking in other platforms.

#I've definitely sustained damages from Tumblr okay #and I've had to unlearn being reactionary to a fault #but also I kinda like this place

[evilkid]

ok jus cuz i needed 2 write this down somewhere...

had the most eventful fucking night

art show opening. first time im gonna have my art on display in an exhibition

& also its up for sale

same night theres a punk concert and a band from israel is playing too so its different

gonna go to both events. first exhibition then concert then back to exhibition

the girl i like / am seeing is gonna drop by the art show

having a good time im seeing a lot of friends i love

bathroom line at the concert venue this girl i only know from instagram starts hitting on me. right after she goes in the stall a bunch of women come holding their drunk friend whos in a fucking wedding dress and she starts throwing up in front of the door since its occupied

my ex is sad over me

during the concert just in between songs someone tells me my artwork was sold and right at that moment the first guitar riff hits and im flown off into the crowd getting pushed around and im so happy and my piece is the first one to be sold and i wasnt even expecting it to be sold and especially not the first night of the show

the concert ended and i hugged all my friends and theyre all congratulating me and i get a text from my friend saying The Girl U Like Jus Got Here so i head straight to the exhibition

super happy still and i see her and i hug her and we go outside and i talk to other friends and

and i find out details abt who bought my piece

and its an internet famous person i guess? not really sure what exactly he does but everyone knows him ig?

and he asked the exhibition ppl to ask me if i'd do nfts.

and i fucking lost it.

like

i may literally be the most anti nft person in the scene and ofc this happens to me

anyways im still having a good time and i introduce girl i like to some of my friends but its awkward so i pull her aside and apparently she caught on that one of them was my ex so i was like oh cool she cares enough to remember details abt my past rships . theres a logic to this but it made me feel more certain that shes interested in me?

i tell her how seeing her enjoy herself so purely happy the other night when she was drunk really affected me

a friend tries to get back together w person they stopped seeing. it works. next to them is a designer (i used to love his work but then realized how uninspired and orientalist white turk shit it was). they live abroad now but were back in town. told the designer Oooh i know u. and pretended it was bc a friend of mine did a photoshoot for them (which is tru but its jus someone ive met once. not actually a friend)

more hanging out more having fun i love everyone im having a good time

it finally hits that. the guy my art was sold to. he didnt buy my art cuz it made him feel sth?? like yea im sure he liked it visually but like. now im just thinking mine was the first piece to be sold only bc its the only digital 3D work which is code for nfts in his mind i suppose???

and my art couldve been sold to someone who looked at it and felt something. even if its not what i intended to portray, they wouldve had a connection to it. but this guy took away my happiness of having felt like i touched someone. he stole it from me

somehow towards the end of the nigh the friend, the person, the designer, and i are spending way too much time just walking around / hanging out the four of us bc i have ket and they want ket.

almost go to a house party of some curator but we end up jus walking to the house, picking up an artist i met once before (i used to admire his artwork a lot. but then i was like no it would be good if a woman did this.) who is on thin fucking ice rn w certain allegations. we end up going to his studio.

im kinda thinking that the friends person theyre getting back together w was tryna make me stay over at their place w the friend to initiate a threesome?

#epic highs and lows of high school football