#other people's machines

[oh-a-very-toxic-octopus]

By Calaiss on Reddit.

People talk about timeless fashion but what about timeless trucks?

#trucks #4x4 #overlanding #camper rig #travelling with your dog #hilux #offroading #other people's machines #pickup #toyota

[uncanny-tranny]

The leftism/anticapitalism leaving people's bodies the zeptosecond you imply that disabled people who aren't "productive" still matter in society and need to be treated like intrinsic equals who have a place in this world:

#disability #disability advocacy #described images #image description in alt #ableism #ableism tw #my full-time job is my disability and you're lucky that i am still 'productive' as-is #your boss doesn't care that you think you're superior for being hired by them. they're still going to treat you like profit machines #it astounds me how people will capitulate for oppression because they place their intrinsic value in their ability to be at the top... #...or at least 'at the top' compared to others. it's the same impulse that makes people think their cisgender status makes them superior... #...you are placing your worth into systems which not only oppress others but offer you no true sense of worth... #...ESPECIALLY if you're also being exploited (even if just a bit)... #...you have a job sure but... do you actually get treated like a human being? are you actually paid? are you actually safe?... #...if the answer to any of those questions and more is 'no' then why do you place your value in capitalistic production. genuinely. #and why would you DEMAND disabled people to have the same exploitation you experience. why do you DEMAND productivity if you are proletaria #yes being a leftist and anticapitalist are linked but. some people still internalize capitalism without questioning it #being a leftist is about challenging that rather than assuming you're correct i think #also scientists were very silly when describing time that's like. less than a millisecond i think

[weirdmageddon]

help whats with him clinging to shit. almost every panel he is shown theres something hes clinging to

#something something naturally soft passive physically clingy temperament shoved down and inhibited due to living conditions #he gives me the same feelings as tbh autism creature but baby dave is cuter because of the wide set eyes in the style #hs #and then dave is out here near the end the comic snuggling other people over multiple pages #he is innately physically affectionate :] thats his temperament even as a baby #hes first clinging to the paradox slime machine he was made from like its his mother and Then to john who is babysitting it up

[inkskinned]

the rise of AI art isn't surprising to us. for our entire lives, the attitude towards our skills has always been - that's not a real thing. it has been consistently, repeatedly devalued.

people treat art - all forms of it - as if it could exist by accident, by rote. they don't understand how much art is in the world. someone designed your home. someone designed the sign inside of your local grocery store. when you quote a character or line from something in media, that's a line a real person wrote.

"i could do that." sure, but you didn't. there's this joke where a plumber comes over to a house and twists a single knob. charges the guy 10k. the guy, furious, asks how the hell the bill is so high. the plumber says - "turning the knob was a dollar. the knowledge is the rest of the money."

the trouble is that nobody believes artists have knowledge. that we actively study. that we work hard, beyond doing our scales and occasionally writing a poem. the trouble is that unless you are already framed in a museum or have a book on a shelf or some kind of product, you aren't really an artist. hell, because of where i post my work, i'll never be considered a poet.

the thing that makes you an artist is choice. the thing that makes all art is choice. AI art is the fetid belief that art is instead an equation. that it must answer a specific question. Even with machine learning, AI cannot make a choice the way we can - because the choices we make have always been personal, complicated. our skills cannot be confined to "prompt and execution." what we are "solving" isn't just a system of numbers - it is how we process our entire existence. it isn't just "2 and 2 is 4", it's staring hard at the numbers and making the four into an alligator. it's rearranging the letters to say ow and it is the ugly drawing we make in the margin.

at some point, you will be able to write something by feeding my work into a machine. it will be perfectly legible and even might sound like me. but a machine doesn't understand why i do these things. it can be taught preferences, habits, statistical probability. it doesn't know why certain vowels sound good to me. it doesn't know the private rules i keep. it doesn't know how to keep evolving.

"but i want something to exist that doesn't exist yet." great. i'm glad you feel creative. go ahead and pay a fucking artist for it.

this is all saying something we all already knew. the sad fucking truth: we have to die to remind you. only when we're gone do we suddenly finally fucking mean something to you. artists are not replicable. we each genuinely have a skill, talent, and process that makes us unique. and there's actual quiet power in everything we do.

#also pay plumbers more. and electricians. and other devalued occupations #idk that this makes sense #but im like #people being so fucking pleased with themselves about the fact they can ''fake'' art #n im like #sure #but what if we stop making things for you huh #what if we stop giving u this stuff anymore #what happens to ur ai art? does it keep growing? does it keep making choices? #why do u need to see us as machines? #''i want X to exist but i don't have the skill to do it'' #okay spend literally years of your life studying #''i don't want to do that'' #okay pay someone who DID do that #''no i don't think it's a real skill'' #okay so. YOU can't do it. and a LOT of people can't do it. but you think WE should be able to? #FOR FREE? #either it has value or it dont baby make up ur OWN mind #btw studying here is not used academically. i think if ur like. constantly knitting. #thats studying #do u spend hours reading and find urself taking notes and learning about writing #ur studying #do you follow other artists and spend a lot of your time trying new things (even unsuccessfully) #that's also studying #etc #was weird to write this thing about choices and then be like. wait why DO i like that

[venomous-qwille]

Palette flats, costume and proportion ref for Misuta from Ghost in the Machine.

#these are the basic colours and values I use for misuta! #Will be trying to gradually put out more of these for the other characters #I know some people have been after them for a while #misuta moon #gitm au #ghost in the machine au #ghost in the machine #dca fandom #fnaf dca #fnaf moon #qwilledraws

[ryllen]

summary of me playing love & deepspace

#love and deepspace #love and deepspace fanart #zayne #xavier #rafayel #even tho we can see it; i honestly don't know what xavier's evol do with the claw machine; but i saw people wondering about rafayel's #rafayel is winning in fun department #zayne is winning in cold but dependably caring department #xavier is winning in comforting guardian department #i really love playing the kittycards with them #one time i was winning in the beginning but in the end xavier reduces my point to 0 I''M DYING #while i love burning RAFAYEL kitties to the ground EVERYTIME #and only win against zayne's when lucky enough to outsmart him #fanart #love and deepspace mc #love and deepspace zayne #love and deepspace xavier #love and deepspace rafayel #xavier really pulled 2 SSR kitty badges while the other two have none #this guy has no earthly desire #that's how he pulled them

[berlingotesque]

YOOOO, WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I LOVE YOUR SAMMY AND NORMAN DESIGNS, THEY'RE SO COOL!!! THEY'RE SO SILLY AND I FREAK OUT WHEN I SEE YOUR NORMMY ART HYKDFKHDKH

ZHGSVZGH THANK YOU SO MUCH !! THEY DO ARE SILLY TOGETHER

#also relatable I do freak out too when I’m confronted to some normmy content (I’m the one making the content) #thank you for the lovely ask anon !! #it really made my day I’m always glad to see other people sailing with me on this ship <3 #sammy lawrence #norman polk #normmy #batim #batdr #bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival #ask response #berlingot’s asks

[sidewindes]

Florence + the Machine by Jess Gleeson

#these are just incredible and people dont post concert photography on tumblr like they used to and it kills me so im gonna start doing it #anybody who has a tracking tag and would rb florence and other concert photography plz lmk #florence and the machine #florence welch #concert photography #fatm #useroptional #sersh #useriselin #i didnt edit these bc as a photographer its fuckin annoying when i edit photos and my clients edit over my edits and then post their versio #and i will always credit and link the photographer and you should too 🤺 #*

[ingravinoveritas]

I am entirely floored at the discourse that's been happening on social media (mainly Twitter) since Michael confirmed that his first crush was on John Taylor, to where I actually saw someone describe Michael as a "non-practicing bisexual."

Not only does this go right back to what I wrote last year about how in the past it was only okay for men to be gay/bisexual on TV and in film as long as they never acted on it, but I am nearly 100% certain that if Michael had said his first crush was a girl, no one would think he hadn't thought about kissing or having sex with them. In one fell swoop, this manages to disregard every other comment Michael has made about finding men sexually attractive, not to mention him going to the Scala Cinema in Kings Cross in the '80s--a place known for having late night gay orgies and nicknamed the 'Sodom Odeon'--and coming up with an entire head canon for Aziraphale and Crowley revolving around that.

Also, Michael Sheen has not spent the last five years making it extremely clear--both on and off screen--that he would fuck David seven ways from Sunday (and probably already has) just to have his sexuality erased by calling him a "non-practicing bisexual"...

#michael sheen #welsh seduction machine #david tennant #soft scottish hipster gigolo #and you best believe there are more examples than this #but my god #i can't even with this nonsense #'non-practicing bisexual' i mean #what does it take at this point #other than Michael being photographed with his lips vapor locked around David's cock #i'm having war flashbacks to David's 'not an active participant' BAFTA interview #do people honestly think that means neither of them have actually been with a man? #i think Michael has been telling us exactly who he is for a long time now #david is lowkey bi and Michael is highkey bi #ineffable lovers #thoughts #discourse #gifs by me

[meruz]

waiting for the train arguing abt vending machine drinks

#vending machines r very highschool to me #i did a lot of subsisting off of one (1) pack of pretzels when i was a teen #my hero academia #midoriya izuku #bakugo katsuki #meruzart #bakudeku #??? #NONE of my art feels shippy to me but i am tagging for other people

[justmenoworries]

Small neat detail I noticed: Vox's and Sir Pentious' use of their hypnotism kind of reflects their characters.

Vox actively uses his hypnotic eye to influence people into believing him and buying from him. And he uses it very often. To the point that when any kind of obstacle comes his way, the hypno-eye just seems to activate on instinct.

Pentious has only used his hypnotism once so far and it's when he's defending himself from Angel Dust. His hypnotism is also much weaker than Vox's. Whereas Vox seems to be able to brainwash people and the effects last for some time, Pentious's hypnosis only stuns Angel and Angel manages to break out of it after like a second.

I just thought that was really interesting.

#hazbin hotel #hazbin hotel vox #hazbin hotel sir pentious #just #something about vox being very reliant on a power that is ultimately in itself reliant on other people #much like vox is implied to owe much of what he has to the other vees rather than his own power #whereas pentious tends to put others off but actually has some solid abilities of his own #like being able to engineer giant war machines #yeah he has the eggbois #but ultimately pentious is the brains of the operation while they are just followers and not very useful ones at that #yet pentious still keeps them with him out of choice #whereas vox's relationship with the other vs is incredibly toxic but he can't afford to lose them #i'm having so many brainworms rn

[oh-a-very-toxic-octopus]

Spotted looking beautiful.

#other people's machines #Honda Civic #Old cars best cars #I wish things had this sort of longevity in the UK #my posts #Notes from the road #Portugal 2022-2023

[uncanny-tranny]

The thing that gets me about history and humanity is that you never know what is immortalized, and the things that will be immortalized are things you would never think.

I saw a person sharing a new tattoo, and it was one of Onfim's drawings. A boy who lived so long ago he is barely a blip now, but his drawings meant so much to people that somebody is now permanently marked in their skin with one of those drawings. Do you ever look at the things you make and just sit there and wonder if this is the thing that future people look at? Do you ever look at your art, your writing, your schoolwork, or anything that is yours and just wonder who will find it, who will fall in love with a piece of your humanity and become overwhelmed with emotion over? It's not unlikely. It's not totally unlikely that somebody will find a piece of you in the distant future and devoid of any other context of who you were will still love you because you were here. You were here, and you are still here, even hundreds or thousands of years later. Treat yourself with the same love that so many have for dear Onfim.

#positivity #gentle reminders #if anybody has ancient children's drawings beside onfim let me know they melt my heart #i have always wanted a tattoo of that kind of thing too and i want ideas #see if archeologists dig me up or whomever else they won't find significant tattoos or other things. they will see i have loss.jpeg on me #and i think that's just as important. these people must know that people are silly and weird and don't make sense and that's IMPORTANT #i'm just. so obsessed with this because it's instantly humanizing #what little child hasn't drawn humans with twelve fingers per hand #or those kids drawings where it's only a torso/head conglomerate with stick legs and hands #i just really lived seeing how their tattoo turned out because i wasn't sure if it would look good in ink and skin #i feel the same way about archiving the internet. i was looking for the written crochet pattern for something #and the person who wrote and created it passed away and their blog has been scrubbed #their blog only exists on the archives. their pattern is only accessible on youtube because somebody made a video tutorial with the pattern #it's an eerie feeling. they've been gone for two years but their blog has been tethered by the wayback machine

[brother-emperors]

CAESAR AUGUSTUS AND MARCUS LICINIUS CRASSUS

this is about the spolia opima that crassus was robbed of lmao. like, yeah okay octavian could've asked him not to claim it, but nevertheless. a kind of theft happened there.

Fact and Fiction: Crassus, Augustus, and the Spolia Opima, Catherine McPherson

#this is one from the vaults I started a few months ago and finally finished. it’s always the furniture details that put things on hold lmao #the former co consuls are fightinggggg (?) #rome is built on top of other people. this is about both the imperialism-slavery machine and the way that all these guys would #politically devour their own generation to sit on a throne. etc. anyway. octavian specifically sits on a throne of other people’s #accomplishments. that’s a specific kind of debt to carry around your neck. or theft depending on who is doing what #this was theft. anything involving Agrippa was a gift so there’s an obligation to succeed which is it’s own kind of currency so to speak #sugghrhfh. every crassus always has to be like this. in my heart i always root for whoever decides to go up against rome #and then i'm stuck with the guy who should've got a spolia opima like. congrats on your win. i guess. i think. RIP. #ACTUALLY YOU KNOW WHAT. while im talking about this crassus. domina fucking sucks. what an absolute clusterfuck of a show #anyway. if anyone ever does augustan age politics again. octavia would be a great character if you want to invent shit #but also more importantly octavian should seduce crassus for this. thank you. #octavian #marcus licinius crassus.....christ how do i write down that he's the grandson of my crassus. i'll figure it out later #roman empire tag #drawing tag

[guardian-angle22]

Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly) | December 2021

#colson baker #machine gun kelly #mgk #mgkedit #words of wisdom right here okay #I've never made gifs of him before... mainly because I'm not a strong enough soldier to deal with the intense hate this man gets online tbh #but this has just been sitting with me for awhile now #the way it seems like everyone (mostly online but also irl) expects other people to always be perfect #to always have the most correct and perfect opinion. or always put out the best image of themselves. #or share the most perfect version of their art #to immediately know how to properly execute a new skill #what happened to growing together and encouraging growth in others? #we shouldn't be scared to be seen TRYING #and responding to people who don't have it all figured out yet with just hate or mockery doesn't encourage growth or change #I'll stop now thank you for coming to my ted talk #my gifs #I’m gonna queue this up for a random day and forget about it I’m sure #queued post

[littjara-compleated-sage]

It's not clear whether Realmbreaker was fully conscious/sapient before Wrenn reached out to him, but it would be very reflective of Norn's particular strain of evil if her entire invasion plan relied on bullying a (Phyrexian) child into compliance.

#norn isn't scary because she's some unknowable alien invading force #she's scary because she is very much a person who forces other people into her own idea of perfection #mtg #magic the gathering #march of the machine #elesh norn #realmbreaker #new phyrexia