#mel shares art

[heart-of-tyria]

BEHOLD — "Draw two of your comfort characters like this" meme

10/10 absolutely recommend this if you're sad bc this consistently made me burst out laughing whenever I'd zoom out

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #ffxiv #trahearne #g'raha tia #mel shares art #also hi I awaken from my extended absence to drop random art as per usual #enjoy and farewell #meme art

[local-bard-main]

PICTOMANCER

#ffxiv #final fantasy xiv #miqo'te #pictomancer #Ada’ir Roza #mel shares art #Obligatory artist drawing their main as in the Picto AF gear

[melit0n]

What does Sleep, as in the deity, look like to you guys? Because as someone who's been around in the Sleep Token fandom for a while, I've seen a lot of different interpretations.

To me, Sleep doesn't really have a set, physical body outside of a person's (perhaps Vessel's) dreamscape. Afterall, why should something that dictates all the odd, horrifying, joyful and (sometimes) meaningful things that happen in your dreams be one thing? Sleep could be the shadow in the corner of your dark room you swear is moving, the tapping of rain as you're about to fall asleep, the creaking of the pipes inside your house/apartment as you slowly dose off at your desk, etc. Outside of a dreamscape; Sleep is only what you need it to be. Hence Its need for Vessel as Its mouthpiece.

However, in the dreamscape, I can see Sleep as a fish. Not a particularly alive looking one, per say, but the scattered remains of one. All bones, empty eye sockets (but are they truly empty?), rotting flesh and scales peeling off bit by bit etc. Specifically, a kind of deep-sea fish; like an angler fish, a sixgill shark or a Greenland shark. But! Along with its bones, Sleep has bioluminescent innards. Viceral that ebbs and flows in multi-colour fashion with each flick of Its tail.

The deep sea fish imagery mainly comes from the fact that the deep sea is almost completely unknown; many of the creatures down there are completely alien to us, like Sleep has supposedly become over the hundreds of thousands of years that It's existed. The deep sea, for the most part, is completely silent. Calm; the perfect place for a nap (if you can breath underwater of course).

It's the perfect habitat for the Unknown, odd and horrifying.

#just a bit of a ramble #I've had this thought for years so I finally thought I'd share it #I know it's completely out of the rink with ideas but I hope someone else sees it #also I swear to the dear God that someone made a comic/peice of art here in Tumblr with Sleep and Vessel as exactly this and I can't find i #I don't know if I'm going mad or not but I SWEAR someone had #if anyone knows or has seen something similar to that please let me know #because it's such an awesome artistic take and I got really excited since I thought the idea was just a me thing #also I just want to hear what other people think #looking at your artists with your funky wonderful brains #like I know Sleep could and would cause inhuman horrors beyond comprehension but Its just a neat little guy #terrifying #but neat #it's really late in the evening right now so I'm sorry if this is incomprehensible #I just want bossman to come visit me at this point #like dawg I've got a paper to finish and hand in tomorrow drag me into the drowsy abyss already #mel's rambles #sleep token #sleep token vessel #vessel #sleep (the deity)

[melancholia34]

I'm kinda getting obsessed help-

@kkolg 's Vigilante Au

#just some doodles from the server i felt like sharing since my blog is kind of dead #mel's art #doodle #not my ocs #please go check out the original artist #her work is really cool

[baskervilleshound]

Made some meat pies the other day. I had been listening to Sweeney Todd all week (the new cast recording), and every time I heard God That’s Good, it just made me want to try a meat pie so bad lmfao.

10/10 recommend- they were a smash hit at work. Everyone wanted my recipe, so I typed it up and will share it here too! (I guessed on the measurements for everything. I’m that person that just throws things into the bowl like a maniac, but these are pretty good guesses!)

#I know this isn’t technically art but #cooking is becoming a pretty big hobby of mine and I consider it art too tbh #so I’d like to start sharing my dishes and recipes!! #this is the first of many Broadway show inspired dishes I’m probably gonna make #I also am planning on making some of the dishes I talk about in my novel #like strawberry pretzel salad and Barry’s fish chowder #and Mel’s pumpkin pancakes of COURSE #ok bye sorry hahahahahaha #cooking #my cooking #my recipes #Broadway inspired recipe #sweeney todd #recipe #meat pie

[witherfide]

theyre dating teehee

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#roblox #roblox oc #my art #mels art #hehe i made them gay #sometime i just like to go on the roblox avatar creator and make a random oc #they usually don’t become anything developed and just sit in the back of my mind #yellow is mel (not a sona we just share a name cuz im unoriginal) #grey is jones #mel has no spatial awareness and is a horrible driver #he WILL run you over. #jones is aware of this and is just holding on for dear life #illustration #art

[mel-loly]

Hi! I hate having to ask for help, but without it what I'll do  .I have no where to go and i am asking for any kind of help for my daughter treatment diagnosed with sickle cell. but the worst were the THREE strokes to the brain. Kindly send donation and share if you're able🙏

Hello there! Hru??

Oh, that's literally so sad.. I'm so sorry for you... And I'm a minor, so I won't be able to help you in this case.. Even so, I will pray for your daughter, that I wish you all the best and that you have faith that everything will be fine! God will take care of your daughter and I'm sure on it, so, don't worry, she's in good hands! I will be here for whatever you need also if you need any support, okay? Please be safe and have faith!💛

I hope everyone who sees this ask, reblog and share this with their friends or someone, like- if you can't help, like me, I ask you to pray for this mother and her daughter! They sure are very good people and they didn't deserve to go through this, so please pray a lot for them and maybe send them positive messages too! Also- I know this might not be as helpful, but it's still a nice gesture and certainly worth a thousand words to say you care <333

#important post #important warning #pls share #pls reblog #i'm mel and this is my blog✌️ #my art blog #not an art post #asks

[golden-forge]

On Twitter there’s a Rift Gala and I’m in love with Mel Medarda’s outfit and the alternate outfits! 💕 Art by NekhuroDraws on Twitter.

#mel medarda #Mel arcane #not my art. shared with permission

[sunshades]

deep sea monster & normal cleric and patron couple 🦑🌩

#shades art #dnd #fanejoy #amihan #aasimar #twilight cleric #second pic is so old now (shrek voice) they dont even have the earrings on the right sides #but i never shared it soTDSYHFJDGF #first is. i felt possessed to draw it really fast b4 bed bc the jellyfish symbolism was driving me insane and mel was having dinner #and i couldnt annoy her so . ARGHHHHH SO FRAGILE AND SO EASY TO BE DESTROYED BY THE STORM !! #amijoy #dnd:amanthea

[mel-the-pirate-prompt-reblog]

Not to bring up "old" stuff, such as the OTW May Signal bit that was removed after some backlash, I wanted to see it. I threw the OTW into the Wayback Machine, went back to May 9th, and was able to see just what they pulled from the Signal after the community backlash to see what they regret adding to this month's Signal.

So I copy-pasted it, since I bet others who didn't read it wanted/want to, too. You can also read it directly from the OTW May Signal on the Wayback Machine here.

Quotes and etc are under the cut. All blue text is a link.

This is what they cut out of May 2023's Signal:

For Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, the OTW’s Legal Chair, Betsy Rosenblatt, was interviewed about AI legal issues*. Betsy pointed out that having AIs learn from works such as fanfiction meant that they weren’t only using old works from the public domain to learn about the world. “That means that machines will learn how to describe and express a much more contemporary, broad, inclusive, and diverse set of ideas.” What’s more…

"I’m also intrigued by some of the expressive possibilities that AI may create. Will DALL·E or ChatGPT become characters in fan fiction? Surely they will. I want to read the fan-created stories where DALL·E and ChatGPT fall in love with each other (or don’t), get into arguments (or don’t), buy a house together (or don’t), team up to solve (or perpetrate!) crimes….

Will fans will take up this challenge?"

Thought it might be worth noting that the OTW did add this about AI and Data Scraping on the Archive on May 13th.

*The interview is still up, but just in case, I'll be pulling the link from the Wayback Machine instead of the actual link.

I will be highlighting a few important points (imo) in case people don't want to read the entire interview. For longer highlights, I will be adding bold/italics/underline to help people keep from jumping around the text and read out of order (I know I do, and that tends to help me).

Because I'm having Thoughts about AI scraping, I might make a Tumblr-esque essay and put my English major to use looking into some of this interview (If I ever do, I might add a link to this post). Highlighting things and reading through this interview makes me want to pull my stuff from AO3, and I've only just started posting there a year ago.

Highlighting phrases and sentences does not mean I agree with them. It means I think they are important to see and consider.

Here's the interview that Signal links to:

...Betsy Rosenblatt is the legal chair for the Organization for Transformative Works (OTW), a nonprofit dedicated to preserving fan works.... The interview with Betsy follows.

Katherine: When you think about AI technology, fan works, and copyright, what excites you? And, what keeps you up at night?

Betsy: One of the things that excites me—which is probably a bit off to the side of what most people are talking about with AI and copyright—is that AIs are reading fan fiction now. For a long time, machine learning relied almost exclusively on data sources that were known to be in the copyright public domain, such as works published prior to 1927 and public records. The result of that was that machines were often learning archaic ideas—learning to associate certain professions with certain races and genders, for example. Now, machine learning is turning to broader sources from across the internet, including fan works. That means that machines will learn how to describe and express a much more contemporary, broad, inclusive, and diverse set of ideas.

I’m also intrigued by some of the expressive possibilities that AI may create. Will DALL·E or ChatGPT become characters in fan fiction? Surely they will. I want to read the fan-created stories where DALL·E and ChatGPT fall in love with each other (or don’t), get into arguments (or don’t), buy a house together (or don’t), team up to solve (or perpetrate!) crimes….

As for what keeps me up at night, I remain mostly optimistic. I think it would be a very sad turn of events if some of the newly begun litigation about data crawling and scraping ended up preventing machines from building contemporary, inclusive, broad-based data pools to draw on. I think it would be very sad if people turned to AI-created works instead of finding, exploring, and making fan works of their own. But I don’t think either of those things is very likely to happen. Fans make fan works because they love doing it. They feel compelled to tell the stories they imagine, and they want to share those with communities of other fans. They use fan work creation to build skills and find their own voices. I don’t think that the emergence of new technologies will stop them from doing that.

Katherine: Artists have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that AI companies violate copyright law when they create databases of copyrighted images to “train” their AI image products. At least one of the companies in the suit, Stability AI, says that this is a fair use: “Anyone that believes that this isn’t fair use does not understand the technology and misunderstands the law.” What questions would you like to see a court ask when analyzing whether ingesting copyrighted works to create AI-training databases is a fair use?

Betsy: I tend to agree with Stability AI’s statement. I would like to see courts consider the “training” process separately from the process of generating works. It is, of course, possible that a machine could generate an infringing work. But the process of training that machine involves something very different—turning expressive works into data and creating relationships based on that data collection. We call it machine “learning” for a reason. A well-trained machine won’t generate an infringing work, but it needs as large a pool of data to work from as possible to do that. The mere fact that an AI can create something infringing doesn’t determine whether the gathering of information is infringement. Consider the classic Sony v. Betamax case: The VCR can be used to infringe, but it has noninfringing (fair) uses, and therefore the VCR does not inherently infringe. I recognize that the analogy isn’t perfect, but I find it persuasive. In general, courts have found that “interim” copying isn’t infringement—that is, copying isn’t infringement when it occurs inside a machine and does not, itself, make copyrighted works perceptible to people—and I think courts should continue to follow that logic.

Katherine: Will the Supreme Court’s 2021 Google v. Oracle decision have any bearing on this case?

Betsy: I hope so. That case highlighted that we shouldn’t be locked into one definition of “transformative” work, and that copying for the purpose of engaging in a different technological use can be transformative copying.

Katherine: What would you say to online creators who might be discouraged by AI technology?

Betsy: You will always make your work better than an AI can. What matters about your work is that it comes from you. That makes your work irreplaceable, and it will always remain so.

#OTW Signal #OTW Signal May 2023 #betsy rosenblatt #ao3 works #archiveofourown #ChatGPT #ai art is theft #ai writing is theft #we write fanfiction because we want to share #but if AI will be scanning/scraping/copying our words #we won't want to share our stories anymore #and let me tell you #while you shouldn't write for an audience #you always like knowing that someone is reading your hard work #scraping ao3 #common crawl #anti ai #mel-the-pirate post

[heart-of-tyria]

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#gw2 #guild wars 2 #commander #Silas Arden #i havent been playing gw2 much so i dont have much else to contribute LOL #until the next update then #mel shares art #eod spoilers

[local-bard-main]

A new future with you ♥

#FFXIV #WoL #wolgraha #G'raha tia #Ada'ir Roza #Final Fantasy XIV #mel shares art #oopsies i forgot i had this sideblog teehee

[gaeldricge]

Mel/Grayson and long overdue nsfw content below cut. Hope you enjoy 😏😉

Mel’s hips were grinding furiously against Grayson’s thighs, her breathing sharp and rough as she chased her high. She tried to focus on the rhythm they had set, only to be interrupted by Grayson’s strong hands, gripping her thighs delightfully tight, fingers digging unforgivingly into her slightly clammy skin. For a fleeting moment, she wondered if she’d ever felt this aroused - she could still hear Grayson’s rough voice telling her to take it; work for it! A moan escaped her lips at the memory.

“Louder!” Grayson grunted, interrupting Mel’s thoughts. The muscles in her legs were shaking from exertion, but her body thrived from the command. She was close, and Grayson could feel it too!

It all felt so natural between them - a testimony of how close they’d grown, how well they knew each other, their bodies, desires, and minds. And Grayson was making full use of that knowledge; her own hips no longer able to remain still, she began thrusting upwards eliciting nothing short of an ecstatic cry of pleasure in return, the sounds driving her crazy as she watched the toy disappearing between their bodies, again and again. When she glanced up to watch Mel’s gorgeously curved back, she caught sight of a droplet of sweat running down the dark skin, and without thinking she leant forward, tasting the salty remnants on her tongue. 

The unexpected sensation of Grayson’s tongue against her skin was too much for Mel. Thighs shaking, body shuddering, her world started spinning as she was finally pushed over the edge. Grayson’s thrusts followed her hard until they became shallower and shallower, as Mel’s orgasm left her body, causing her to grow limp on Grayson’s lap. A whine at the overstimulation was enough to send Grayson into a crisis of her own. One last thrust, pressing into Mel as close as she could, her hands grappling for more - more of her! - before her muscles strained against the force of her own pleasure.

((thanks to @frooopsen​ for helping with the editing 😘))

#grayson/mel #as captain of this ship I found myself forced to do both now: writing and art #still would love to find other sailors sharing more contriubutions too #they're so beautiful together don’t you think? #arcane femslah #sorry for skipping the tattoos! #just regard it as au #mel medarda #grayson arcane

[sleepybunnymel]

AI 'art' is NOT cool harmless fun!!, it’s theft of many artists work and damages job chances for all of us looking for work, from artist’s of color, to queer and disabled artist’s, even dead artist’s are being harmed greatly by AI art being ‘trendy’ to play with and make ‘art for yourself’ off other’s works, our passion to live the dreams making grand art for others to see and feel seen in are being stolen and reframed as ‘new and orignal’ works by an AI and selfish people online, we all worked hard to make our art styles, putting out what we want to see more of in art only for someone who wants to make a quick buck on tiktok and reddit to stomp all over our craft and love by filling an AI with our works is a painful thing to have too experience and fear happening to you next online, SUPPORT REAL ARTIST’S NOT AN AI!!!! NO MORE AI ART!!!, Feel free to promo yourself in reblogs of this post please!

#mel draw's stuff #say no to ai generated art #it hurts to see my peers suffer from selfishness and money hungry people online once again in the art world #i'm going to try and share some support for us all in this time! it's what i know best is to uplift others

[dkettchen]

when u have a mental health breakthrough/ego death and figure out how to write one of ur self inserts better 👌👌👌👌

#(((disclaimer most of my characters are partial self inserts including all four of the main ones in the comic))) #no big deal just figured out the entirety of what has been going on in my stupid brain over the last like few years and why finally #no thanks to my still-not-sorted new therapist the NHS hasn't managed to provide me with so far #comic #mental health #GOD #good for me good for mel who shares that part of me #now I know what our deal is #we just like doing art #and break trying to focus on politics and theory and human misery #just need to do our art to be healthy #I'm already on the right track but it's good to be able to put it into words that make sense to my brain finally

[blujayonthewing]

a small personal recurring Thing for Melliwyk is that she keeps making tremendous strides in her research and feeling frustrated/ disheartened by a perceived lack of interest or appropriate level of impress from her companions, and it's a weird thing because it's not that she's upset that no one's impressed with HER (she crafted the first magic item in the vault's history by getting instructions from someone who knows how to do it, for instance-- as far as she's concerned, she doesn't deserve any special credit for that), but that The Thing is inherently impressive and she's just really excited and wants to share that excitement with others because it's something important to her

anyway I just realized this is the exact same way I feel about sharing art that doesn't get much/ any acknowledgement or feedback

#I have known both of these things separately for awhile but only just now connected them lol #'you shouldn't tie your self worth/ desire to make art to the attention it gets' okay yes sure in theory but #I want to show people because I want to share it because it makes me happy!! so when other people don't seem to care it bums me out!! #it's not about 'look how good my art is' it's about 'look at my/ my friend's OC I love her' #the fact that it's usually OCs is rough because on the one hand I can't actually expect most people to care and that's normal and fine #but on the other hand if I post dnd art where people who DO know the characters can see it and STILL little or no response... Feels Bad #I am a little kid holding up a macaroni art #it's not about 'tell me how good my art is' it's about 'I made this and I'm excited to share it with you! :)' #anyway yeah same for mel lol #mel: I have made A Magic Item. it is a gift for you #party member: oh thanks #mel: ... I mean yeah this is only the culmination of my entire life's work and thousands of years of fruitless research and experimentation #mel: NO BIG DEAL OR ANYTHING #it's weird because she doesn't know what to say about it (even if she was so inclined) without it feeling like fishing for praise #she doesn't want PRAISE she wants you to be excited for her and with her! #mel: for this important mission. you may borrow this rare and deceptively powerful magic item we found. because you are my friend #party member: meh idk #mel: OKAY BUT DO YOU EVEN UNDERSTAND HOW BIG OF A DEAL IT IS TO ME THAT I OFFERED-- #lmao #about me #my OCs #melliwyk