#but as for da art itself

[donutdrawsthings]

Say what you want about Tumblr's latest changes, but I think currently the support for artists big and small is one of Tumblr's strongest features. Showing featured art on Desktop at the side, @/art as a whole featuring artists and reblogging art with few notes, the badge that displays whether or not your commissions are open. I think it's nice! I mean, I'm really biased when I say this as Tumblr Blog DonutDRAWSthings... but especially now that it's so hard to find good art sites and with art getting massively overshadowed on various platforms, I really appreciate Tumblr is making an effort to bring artists into the spotlight.

#been talking about the state of art and the way it's treated rn compared to the DA days with friends a lot #and like how frustrating and demotivating it is to have your art treated as something to consume and not appreciate #so like getting artists I've never heard of recommended to me through tumblr itself #idk. it's nice #i appreciate the effort #talkies #tumblr update #artists on tumblr

[lunarharp]

scribbly first date type affair (continuation of my modern au stuff)

#witch hat tag #orufrey #idk when the next modern au thing will be so i'll just post this by itself. hehe #that art was one of qifrey's first drawings. it was of a creepy eye. (it was around the time he got glasses as a kid) #(and was told that he might lose his sight completely one day so he became an emo because he already wanted to be an artist #like beldaruit who ran his foster home where he encouraged kids to draw art to express their feelings.) #and an insidious deviantart group called The Brimhats idk stole it & reposted it. he never got to the bottom of who exactly did it. #but one day. they will fucking suffer. #(he believes their goal was to develop AI art as they said stuff like 'all art should belong to everyone anyway' & 'there shouldnt be rules' #but actually they were probably just regular mean ppl who have moved on to new things in life than stealing kids' art on deviantart. #who knows though.) i want people to retain their disabilities or general tragedies like beldaruit would be in a wheelchair #and coco's mum is in a coma. but its just so funny if qifrey just has regular bad eyesight #and it's so cute that he would say he doesnt think of beldaruit as a dad & is distant with him but now basically runs a foster home too #where he doesnt just encourage like he was encouraged but actively teaches kids from sad backgrounds to become wonderful artists one day #anyway i am so fucking hungry now goodbye #P.S. BELDARUIT IS NOT OLD !!!!!!! i mean if qifrey is late 20s or older in canon like i want... i guess he..but.... NO !!!!!! 😭 #*edits in some follow-up drawings* #oru: i couldn't c-c-confess my feelings bc it always seems like he's worried about something..i shouldnt bother him.. #qif: *always worried about how to confess his feelings* #ive decided meeting at 7 on da is kind of ridiculous actually. i think they probably meet at like age 10 in canon..not immediately =_= #since beru-sama is like 'he finally found a friend'. whatever... this'll be my last art post for a while probably so see ya <3

[sunsproutgarden]

man these brain worms wriggling relentlessly...

#self shipping #self ship #self ship art #self shipping art #self ship community #self shipping community #nblm selfship #nblm self ship #casper x faust #my art #romantic f/o #agere self ship #? technically..... #🩺🍀 #🩺🍀 faust tag #// #brain attached itself to da silly yet tragic doctor man due to a recent traumatic experience <3 #things r still kinda shit but he has been helping me through it #brain was fluctuating between regressed and 'normal' headspaces #so he's like...romantic f/o but also cg at the same time?? yes.

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

as my first act of 2023 im gonna expose myself: yes i did snap and wrote a vocaloid fic a while back, here it is

#my art lol #vocaloid #vocaloid fanart #oliver vocaloid #vocaloid oliver #halloween #candy #stars #pumpkin #THIS DOESNT COUNT AS THE FIRST DRAWING OF 2023 B/C I STARTED IT IN 2022. WAY BEFORE DEC 31ST #i just decided to finish it up on new years eve b/c why not. so the actual first drawing of 2023 remains to be seen #ugh i wouldve done better drawings like little scenes from the fic itself. that wouldve been fun #but at the same time its like... lowkey spoiler? idk. so this is an abstractish thing. looks like phone wallpaper material bruh #idk why anyone would have my art as phone wallpaper but. im just joking around #IF YOU CANT TELL IM VERY COMMITTED TO THE HALLOWEEN THEME JOKE. YES I KNOW ITS JANUARY. BUT LOOK AT MY BLOG BRUH #can you believe it guys? halloween! just a week away. halloween is in a week! woohoo! i am so happy about this information #listen its the horror holiday so its instantly the best. fck da xmas bullshit halloween where it at 😩 #as you can see i get more insane in the ungodly morning hours so. yeah. my sleep schedule's been fcked so there's been more of this lately

[moramaisis]

Okay, there have been some new developments in recent days. So, deviantart lauched it's own Ai. The backlash from the community was so big that they added a switch to user profiles, which tells Ais to not use people's art in their datasets. It's automatically turned on for everyone. Then they launched a noai directive, it's a html tag that lets third parties know that the artist wants their work to be left out of Ai datasets. And they also provided a opt out form, which everyone can submit manually.

The problem was, that they toggled the switch to be off at first, also people had to tick every submitted artwork to "not for Ai use" by hand. Basically, they had 10+ hours of time to train their Ai on all submitted art. Then the backlash happened and they made the changes. I was not online when this happened, so i was super confused at first. Sneaky and backstabby, if you ask me. Although, has twitter or instagram done anything about the Ais using images on their platform? Also no.

Someone commented the screenshot above. I tried my best to research that quote, but wasn't able to find it. If it's true, then i don't know what to say. It looks like the disregard towards art has come full circle. Honestly, such a backwards point of view. I guess, it's not that surprising since Ais are companies that make money off us.

This is all the more ironic, since Dance Diffusion, a Stable Diffusion music version, will not use copyrighted music to train their Ai. Clearly, there are opinions that some artists are valued more. Cough music artists who have money to sue cough. So, companies are giving artists the middle finger, yet again, since they have no money for legal action? Hmm...

This feels less like progress of technology and more like a hateful attack. People creating Ais just seem to despise art at worst and see zero value at best. It's not like artists have contributed to culture in the forms of games, movies, fashion, architecture; design of cars, phones, websites, devices, wallpapers, etc. I'm not against the growth of technology, but shouldn't it serve people, not take from them? I know it's a joke (at this point) that robots will take our jobs, and whatever, but it's not going to be funny when people start becoming unemployed. And families begin losing their income.

#ai art discourse #ai art debate #vent post #edit! so apparently da stated that DeviantArt did not #does not #and will not use deviations submitted to DeviantArt to add to third-party AI models or training sets #or on DreamUp itself.

[arytha]

[ID copied from ALT: A digital sketch of my OC Rian, who is a genderfluid (she/they) "fennec fox" person. She is sitting with her legs loosely crossed, arms resting on her knees casually as they lean back slightly and smile languidly at the viewer. Her tail, which is tan, fluffy, and has a black tip, sweeps in front of her legs. Her ears are fluffy, large, and tan outside with white insides, featuring small cuff piercings along the front edge of the ear. Their hair frames their face in the front and sticks out cutely in the back, dark grey in color with bright acid green tips. Their eyes are a bloody brown and she's wearing a casual brown long sleeved shirt and desaturated blue leggings. End ID]

The cuckoo who invaded the nest.

#mara's art #Rian #OCs #rian!!! who has a very solid personality and general setting bc i rp'd as them for a while in a DA chat based group. lol #she is! part of a very rare species that are born directly from an invasive tree species #and literally designed to mimic species located where the invasive tree has rooted itself #so she mimiced the fox family she grew up in but as she grew older her hair *gestures at* changed color and her tail too #also the goal of her existence is to spread her mother's species to other planets and rob resources #like zerg but not bugs and more stealthy #also they have no remorse for killing others (not her species!) and likes the adrenaline rush when they're on the run #so. they're wanted in. a good portion of my universe bc they keep running around and getting caught and escaping #and planting seeds that grow trees that look exactly the same as the wildlife around them #oh also she has a child. the child was born like a clone lol #rian tossing her kid out: ok go distract them while i work

[thecubes]

my controversial opinion is that ai generated images are just neither here or there in terms of Goodness. people like to be really mad about it but half the time these people are fanfic writer or fanart makers or gif makers or people who rp or make spinoffs of fave media or make ocs and self inserts for medias they like and. listening to these people. say with their full chest. that ai steals art and remixes it into a regurgitation of art. and that is morally corrupt. and we need copyright laws to protect us. makes me feel like finding tumblrs servers irl and just pulling the plug on it tbqh

#LIKEEEE HOW?? How have we reached this point in fandom adjacent circles. that we now think COPYRIGHT LAWS are friend?????????? #do we really have to go back to metallica vs nirvana Part 2: Electric Boogaloo????????? #if someone likes your art they will pay for it. someone who did not pay for your art is not a customer. remixing art is art itself #no art exist in an inspirationless vacuum. we are all machine learning algorithms. we know this bc people on here mock specific art styles #that circulate tumblr!!!! and circulated dA before then!!!!!! #there are real problems like electricity usage and games/art companies mass letting go of their human artists #but most people only care about arguing back and forth about whether ai art is real art. give me a fucking breakkkkk

[ratprincie]

Thinking about Adaia

#adaia tabris #tabris #warden tabris #dragon age #dragon age origins #da:o #dragon age art #da art #my artwork #i love adaia they should’ve had her in the game itself #even if it was just a memory scene #like imagine a scene where they show how your life was before adaia died #but i guess bioware didn’t wanna model kids very much which i get

[kadoodles-on-ao3]

Artist: Rinkara Source & Archives: Original Post | Broken Link with Image

#xenoblade #fanart #shulk #melia #shulkelia #this is the one i mentioned in the previous post #and i think it deserves to be tagged as ship art #if not because of the background surrounding it then because it's adorable and lovely #of the few shulkelia drawings out there quite a few feature them looking at the night sky together and i think that's perfect for them #i'm so glad i saved this picture because it turns out the original artist recently deactivated their da account #and this drawing is one of many that unfortunately didn't get archived by archive.org #it probably would have been lost forever if not for me being a strange obsessive nerd #(also if you're wondering why i made an archive of an archive and found it silly: so do i lol but #archive.org actually will remove captures from its archive if asked to by the site owners #whereas archive.today does not so i want to be extra sure this isn't lost #the image itself is gone forever outside of my backup unfortunately but i know for a fact that falling stars was 100% the title #and distinctly remember the comment section as previously described so the archive is for sure the right page)

[airoarts]

red mage my dearly beloved <3 <3 <3

#ffxiv #ff14 #final fantasy xiv #final fantasy 14 #miqo'te #red mage #warrior of light #art #2022 #my red mage glam is da bestie #although. the sword is not anything specific #the focus is based on the bluefeather rapier and then i kind of improvised for the sword itself #the rest is pretty faithful to its ingame look

[spectrearia-archive]

me: *shares my art of an original story concept that my friend and I are really happy with*

the only comments i got on dA: "this makes me think of -insert story i've never heard of-" and "is this inspired by -show i've never watched-?"

me:

#i mean? i get that not every idea is unique #especially in regards to sci-fi and the idea of virtual reality stuff and all that #but like #i didnt ask to be compared i just . shared the art because i'm excited about the idea #i'm sure ppl don't do it with intentions of being rude it's just sad that there's no like. actual comment about the art itself 😔 #but also it's dA so i shouldn't expect anything less fkjghfg #some folks tend to comment on a piece of art and not even have anything to say about whatever's in the picture?? #it's somethign that's happened on that site since i can remember. idk why ppl do it #anyway. rip i guess #probably delete later

[6ebe]

I do think modern audiences’ obsession with criticising movies for being ‘derivative’ (mostly from 20th century media) is. Misguided. As if most of those works weren’t heavily derivative too. I once sat through an entire rant from a friend who was ragging on jk Rowling (as one should), but her criticisms revolved entirely around how derivative her work was - especially in regard to lord of the rings. And I was really biting my tongue to not tell her that lord of the rings itself as a work is almost entirely derivative itself. Both from works of folklore and fairytales and from Wagner’s ring cycle which is itself an adaptation of die Nibelungen. Very little in this world is ‘original’, and chances are if you watch a film and think it’s original you’re just unfamiliar with whatever source material it’s been inspired by. Homage to old stories and reinterpreting them or rejuvenating them for the modern audience and context.. is pretty much how the entire history of storytelling as a medium has played out. Yet audiences today are so obsessed with no spoilers and having the rug pulled out from under them that somewhere along the way we’ve forgotten that it’s ok for stories to be … predictable in a way and for audiences to be able work out the plot twists themselves before they arrive. Few audiences today watch the original Star Wars trilogy without knowing Darth Vader is Luke’s father. That doesn’t take away from the quality of those films or that story. If a story can be ruined by a spoiler or by being derivative or whatever then it’s not a good story in the first place. But being derivative in and of itself should not be seen as condemnatory.

#genuinely will never be over the first time i went to an opera house to watch das rhinegold (ring cycle act 1) #and afterwards I turned to my dad like ?? but this is the plot of lord of the rings?? and he was like… yeah 😭🤣 #I get why Tolkien refused to admit to that given the works reputation and associations but man #he didn’t even take all the white nationalist stuff out of his adaptation anyway 😭😭😭 #btw this is not me being a lotr hater #just me pointing out that many works that people criticise modern media for being derivative of #(the assumption behind such statements being that the ‘original’ 20th century work was NOT itself derivative) #were in fact heavily derivative themselves just from works that mainstream audiences may be less familiar with #like how many non Germans know the plot of die Nibelungen ? #or I’ve heard it’s not even necessarily taught in German schools anymore bc of . ahem. associations with certain governments #it’s a big point of debate apparently. shame that art co-opted by fascists can end up being labelled as fascist art despite never having #been created with that intent. but alas

[heritageposts]

large zionist blocklist below

i've compiled a list of all the blogs positively interacting with the @/israel-palestine-bingo blog

there's more info about how the names were complied under the read more, but just to get an idea of how vile the blog is, i just want to quickly mention that the first prize offered in their pinned post, "eight hours of memi mamtera," is the song used in the viral israeli tiktok trend of kidnapping, humiliating, and torturing palestinians in the west bank.

and the "grand prize," which needs no explanation, is "all of palestine! for free!"

some quick info: all the names here have either approvingly replied to, reblogged from, or liked one or more of @/israel-palestine-bingo's posts. for likes, i've only gathered names that appear under their original posts; mostly ones that have not been reblogged, and some with 2-3 reblogs that have not left the immediate sphere of zionists. i've also made sure that these are blogs who have either liked more than one posts from them, or who frequently reblogs from other zionists.

you can also quickly look through the blog yourself (it doesn't have that many posts), or check out any of the names on the list with a quick 'israel' or 'palestine' in the search bar or their blogs.

there are more screenshots at the end of the posts, including ones showing who made the blog (ani-lo-daredevil / katenotbishop), and the bingo board itself (ashenpumpkin).

blocking tip: fastest way to mass block users (on desktop) is to go to settings -> the blog your blocking them from -> scroll all the way down to 'blocked tumblrs,' and then copy-paste the name your blocking

names listed below in alphabetical order reminder again, block don't engage

2peachy acleverforgery ani-lo-daredevil apollo-enthusiast ashenpumpkin <- credited for making the bingo board, reblogged/liked almost all of their posts. aureatecorvid avi-on-jumblr (main @/clear-what-i-was-seeing) awstheticshit bambahalva bleepiesheepie bluenorther blueredfetch bones-and-crows britneysmeanshirt cannibalism-is-my-love-language captain-navii casavanse celepito chubbybubba ciitrus--fruitz coffeelovinggayidiot da-socks davos-is-the-one-true-king dchan87 disregardenedgnostic elder-millennial-of-zion faggotry-enjoyer fdelopera flowercrownsandfairylights fluffel677 fluffy-art-moss george-lucas-is-god got-chavi icereader12 illegitimatetenenbaum inklingm8 its-hila jewishlivesmatter just-illegal karinhasdacookie

katenotbishop <- the main account of the person running the blog. her sideblog is @/ani-lo-daredevil

kelluinox kingofslush letaot-ze-magniv lingonberryjamistakenwhat lovelyhairedpianist magic-coffee marrymepadfoot marvel-ous-posts masters-puddle <- pornblog mixmangosmangoverse morganas-simp mossadspydolphin multifandermissesanakin nameless370 namiko026 nevleg32 notcrazyiswear oakstar519 perfectlynormalperson psychologeek queerius randomname3 redvodyanoi rhysaka sally006 sbinklebooper scp-1296 shinekocreator <- commented, 'but is this the 8 hour version?' on a post where someone ''won'' the song used in the tiktok torture videos. snakelung sort-of-a-demon soxiyy stuffandatherstuff tearsandice tedious-waffle thebejeweledwatercat the-library-alcove thirdmagic thisgingerhasnosoul timegirl tolaat-bli-toelet <- the person running the bingo blog. mainblog is @/katenotbishop transmascpetewentz tribulation-of-somnolence unexistencerpg viktorrotkiv wanderingmadscientist whiterose-blackrose whitesunlars why5x5

note: @/tolaat-bli-toelet changed her username to @/ani-lo-daredevil (her main is still @/katenotbishop)

and from the same post,

the last post was also reblogged by the creator of the israel-palestine-bingo blog

#zionist blocklist #block don't engage #after looking through the blog i began recognizing so many names from it among the liberal crypto-zionist crowd #which is part of why i decided to make this list to begin with #and again - if you're worried about the way i've compiled the names you can look through the blog yourself #it doesn't have that many posts and you'll get a better sense of why i'm singling out this blog and the people who interact with it #their latest bingo post rn is one where they've attached their meme game to a news article about that school-room massacre #where civilians were - including young children - were shot and murdered at point-blank by IOF soliders

[dragonjoys]

isabela art post over 100 notes... this is big for me what the fuck.... i post most my art in kpop and my best performing kpop drawing got under 40 notes......... wild...... happy ppl like the drawing i too love isabela i think she unlocked something inside me the first time i played da2

#in fairness i mostly post kpop fanart for a fandom that is described by many as dead (bc people dont want to interact with the fandom/group #altho the group itself is avg popularity outside of tumblr) #but all my worst performing posts r from posting in incredibly active and popular fandoms #so altho my last DA art got 45 (!) notes i figured it was a fluke? #bc if i get 8 notes AT MOST posting a drawing of an Active Very Popular group.. no way ill get a lot in DA which has an even bigger fandom #and sees on average way more fanart #but. #im incredibly happy ppl like the isa bela drawing :) #pomegranate-dragons