#so this sure is a thing huh

[cuppajj]

i had a vision

#id make this a full comic if i could i just need more substance #shadow milk discovering pure vanilla and black raisin's close bond and going after her... teasing her... #like i know he already has his whole thing with white lily but i bet black raisin is pretty bullyable #there are so many things about pure vanilla that smc could torment her with that she doesnt know #healer cookie huh... #anyway i know black raisin doesnt have a sword but i gave her one just for this #what was i supposed to do draw her pointing the bird at him? literally giving him the bird? LMAO #crk #shadow milk cookie #black raisin cookie #pure vanilla cookie #(spiritually) #cookie run #cookie run kingdom #cjj arts #i gotta stop posting so late no one is gonna see this... anyway morning reblog inbound for sure

[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

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 211

The figure looked down at Billy. Billy looked up at the figure awkwardly from where he was digging through a trash can. 

“Um… I can explain!” 

Okay he honestly couldn’t, and instead threw a bag at them and booked it like his life depended on it. Which it might! Living in Fawcett meant that there were magical entities everywhere, even if they looked human, and he wasn’t going to get stolen by some fae! 

…

And they caught him. Great. He’s going to die now or get thrown back into foster care- huh? Food? They’re offering- no no, this is some fae bullshit, isn’t it! … But he’s also hungry, so maybe it’ll be worth it…

#DCxDP #DPxDC #Prompts #Dan whose on parole seeing gremlin child: Huh why does he smell like magic #Dan: I’m going to get the weird child food #Dan listening to Billy complain over a sandwich: Oh no I can’t get attached #Dan: So I’ve gotten attached like finding a feral cat #Dan finding out Billy is Marvel: Oh no this kid is like 9- I was at least a teen-adult when I started doing hero-villian things! #Dan: Kid I’m getting you back into school even if it’s homeschool #Billy who thinks he just got adopted by some sort of fae thing: Sure why not Mr Fae-Dude #Time travelling hero who sees World Ending Threat getting dragged around by Smol Child several weeks later:

[josephtrohman]

idk the most coherent way to phrase this but rn i’m randomly thinking about how emotional it is to me that pete has referred to both andy and joe as the glue of fall out boy. like patrick and pete love each other so much and have this magical creative relationship, but even something so cosmic needs glue to hold it all together sometimes. peace and love on planet fall out boy <3

#so much love :( #i was thinking about that friendship post where pete calls joe the glue #from like 2006 #the post that makes me cryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy #and then i was like huh didn’t pete say the same thing about andy and im pretty sure he did #in the polaroid questions thing in 2018

[kirby-the-gorb]

#kirby #daily kirby #my art #digital #hal laboratory #nintendo #my wife and my partner said I can go to the fancy korean bakery nearby and pick out lots of snacks #*and* it's right next to a taiwanese grocery store that probably has a lunar new year candy I've been idly looking for for like. 20 years. #not a joke btw #one year we celebrated lunar new year in school because blah blah white people school with like 2 chinese kids #it was meant as like a cultural exchange thing but it feels very tokenizing in retrospect #but Anyway #there was one specific sweet they brought that I've been wanting more of Ever Since and I'm pretty sure it was candied lotus seeds #but I only pinned that down for relative certain like. this month #and we mostly shop at american korean and japanese groceries #so I had one one time over 20 years ago #and haven't seen them since. #until jessica kellgren-fozard's recent video with her wife about lunar new year traditions #and I was like 'oh dang I probably can actually just look that up now huh' #cuz I remember the shape very distinctly #and I've been kind of looking for it since before I was on the internet lol #so it genuinely didn't occur to me that I might be able to look it up. #point being - a brief break in The Horrors for Snack Excitement :)

[tkbrokkoli]

so is this an autopsy or a threesome

#disco elysium #I'm feeling feelings and they are weird and idk what to do w them. love this game btw #fandom related #personal log stardate #edit: so this post blew rly off huh! i didn't expect to get any notes at all tbh. this is my most famous post! for now... #I love your tags guys idk what the locked tomb is and all these other things you're tagging but I'll make sure to check them out ✌

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

another Unnecessary Purchase sorted and jarred!

#now this one was a challenge #a lot of the 'sprinkles' had verryyyyy slight color differences #so much orange #AND ONE SINGULAR RED CIRLCE. HUH???? #all of this and there was One red??? im mad! #ill have to get like. idk one of the valentines mixes or whatever #im so tempted to just... buy a bunch of mixes online #cause a lot arent available in stores #and then get a bunch of tiny jars to sort them by shape and/or color #i have a space for them. the perfect drawer. #each section could fit four tiny square bottles #I HAVE IT ALLLLLLLL FIGURED OUT #photos from the bog #with these clay sprinkles i can do so much #glue them onto things. make shaker cards. #uh. um. uh #other things as well im sure #and hey they sure do add some nice color to my room! #now if yall will excuse me i need to take a hammer to the wall #and needlenose pliers to keychains

[driftingballoons]

Some creatures are more difficult to perceive than others

#Treecko #skitty #dusknoir #chatot #pokemon doodles #original art #context: I’ve said this before but explorers was the very first pokemon game I ever played #I wasn’t watching the anime then so it was also the first time I ever saw a dusknoir #And for whatever reason I just couldn’t quite….comprehend what he was supposed to be #Thought he was some kind of robot until he did his ghostly disappearing act #Definitely a fun game to play when you know nothing about pokemon! #Everything was so new and exciting! And you don’t know what anyone looks like until you meet them! #The other thing in a similar vein was with dialga #I didn’t know what dialga was SUPPOSED to look like so when they’re all talking about how fucked up he is I was like damn #He DOES look pretty fucked up. Some kind of beast #And then after fixing time you see he looks THE SAME except with a palette change #Like oh. i see. That’s just what you look like #Dialga should’ve got a special form tho #Maybe something replacing the steel type with ghost #Bc without time he’s technically not alive #And I read somewhere the steel typing might’ve represented the steady nature of time or something #So with time being stopped it’s not flowing so steadily huh #This wasn’t supposed to be abt dialga tho. Get your own post #ANYWAY dusknoir is a weird looking guy especially when you’re not quite sure what you’re looking at #but he is canonically handsome so do with that what you will

[orokay]

Summer Ko-fis!

I’m currently unemployed! If you’d like to help me out you can get one of these for yourself when I open them again or donate to my ko-fi! Thank you so much for all of your support!🌺

#i was so surprised the last time i posted ko-fis was the may batch like wow this summer sure just. zipped by huh #my art #finished commissions #i try to keep the sizes consistent but every batch ends up #like slowly zooming in ;w; #probably going to open two halfbody comms for $50 this month #to change things up so keep an eye out for that #until i figure that out minis are still open

[unclewaynemunson]

Thinking thoughts about Nancy Wheeler again. About how she was the most Teenage Girl ever, gossiping with her bestie while twirling her phone cord around her fingers and kicking her legs in the air. About how she lost everything that embodied her Teenage Girl self in one night: her virginity, her best friend, her carefree smiles and giggles. How she turned into a soldier, got consumed by guilt, and could never return to the youth that she lost.

#when will i ever be normal about her huh #thinking about her s1 high ponytail and her eyeroll to her brother at the breakfast table #and about the grimace on her face when she's in hell facing a monster pulling the trigger of a sawed-off shotgun #i don't even know to explain what i mean by that but #natalia dyer made us Understand for sure #she was never meant to become that way she was just a girlie #and yet here she is #hardened and wise and in so much pain all the time #if someone has better words to explain this please do bc i can't find them #don't mind me rambling about stranger things #nancy wheeler #natalia dyer #stranger things

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

Mark and Cesar in The Thing au!

Brief descriptions below the cut:

Mark (34 years old): The mechanic at the station. He's friends with Cesar, and they have been friends since high school. Not super social with his peers, and only really talks to Cesar casually. (Though their friendship is. strained at times. they're trying to work things out though.) Doesn't trust new people easily. Mark's also estranged from his family, aside from maintaining contact with his sister and contacting her sometimes.

Cesar (35 years old): The Dog Handler at the station. Because of this, he spends a lot of time with the dogs. (definitely an animal lover.) A bit more social than Mark, but not incredibly so. He's nice, though definitely speaks his mind on things going on, and isn't afraid to be kind of rude about it if necessary.

#the mandela catalogue #mandela catalogue #tmc #tmc The Thing au #Thing Mark #Thing Cesar #(still not sure on these tags but I’ll change them if we come up with anything better /lh ) #shmorps art #YIPPIE!! NEW AU!!!! #pretty plain sketches but. just getting an idea of their designs first and foremost /lh #Mark's kinda. the Macready of the group. basically the main guy in the station in this story. #Also side note this is ANOTHER au co-owned with Rufus (@Anotherr-side) so thats funky huh- #sory alt au. sory Mandela Prophet au. sory Lab au. HSH and Thing au are my new best friends /LHJJJJJJ

[cloud-based-and-rainpilled]

Every casting director to to David Tennant:

Kid, you’re great! Love that wiggly thing you do. But that accent? That’s got to Go

#groundskeeper willie type beat #they still oppression the scots huh 😔 #doctor who #dr who #10th doctor #david tennant #good omens #good omens 2 #i’m sure he’s in other stuff i just don’t know lol #crowley #ineffable husbands #staged #staged bbc #tfw you do an accent so much everyone things you’re cockney (and by everyone i mean me) #bbc #<- NOT THAT KIND WAIT

[sincerely-sofie]

*gently places angsty Twig comic in your hands*

There comes a point in healing, sometimes, where you must grieve the child you never got to be, and bury her along with the desperate hope of one day somehow becoming her.

It isn’t fair. And it never will be.

But you grieve the child, still.

#hey so do you think the PMD universe has a concept of PTSD or #I gotta admit I’m not so sure about posting this one either ;w; #i like. never make my angstier works public. so this is very new to me #man this AU really is just Twig Going Throught It huh #I promise it gets better #there’s a happy ending pending #Twig just has to get to a point where she can’t keep pushing things aside #she’s got to hit rock bottom so hard it knocks enough sense into her to ask for help #also when Young Twig appears beside Adult Twig she’s not literally there! #not sure if that was clear #Twig talking about how she feels messed up just reminded Grovyle of something she said while a human #it was a lil flashback on his end #*slips tumblr a $20 bill* please let this be less blurry than the last comic #stuff by sofie #the present is a gift AU #pmd2 #pmd eos #pmd explorers #pmd sky #pmd #pmd au #pmd comic #pmd grovyle

[kagoutiss]

what if undercover sheik au had a cute sheik/malon subplot….more likely than u think………

#tloz oot #ocarina of time #sheik #malon #ganondorf #undercover sheik au #sheik/malon is underrated…………….imo……….. #also while working for ganondorf sheik has to go to the ranch sometimes to make sure things are running smoothly #ingo hasn’t reached his maximum Asshole potential yet but he keeps getting worse #but malon and sheik get along rly well and sheik kinda senses that malon is doing most of the work #one day sheik is like. ‘ok this is getting out of hand’ and tells ganondorf that ingo is making malon do everything #and ganondorf loves to go to places completely unannounced bc it scares everyone #and he loves horses anyway. so they go to the ranch #ingo gets his character development so fast that it literally almost kills him #sheik and malon get to spend some quality time together and its cute and awkward #sheik & ganondorf ride back and ganondorf is like ‘so you & the lon lon girl huh???’ and sheik is like ‘i have to leave right now BYE’

[writeouswriter]

*Sighs dreamily* Writing dialogue, my beloved.

*Hisses with intense malice* Writing all the dialogue tags and actions between dialogue, my beloathed.

#writing #writeblr #writing humour #writer things #relatable #textpost #my characters sure do look at each other a lot huh #the actions of today’s fic brought to you by our sponsors: #looking ; staring ; glancing ; gazing ; looking again but in a different direction ; etc #also for your promotional consideration: leaning forward ; snapping ; looking again ; shouting ; leaning back ; tilting head ;staring again #only one eyebrow raise though ☝️ #writing humor #dialogue #yes it’s almost 3am again leave me be #i wrote so much dialogue

[daily-hanamura]

#p4 #p4g #persona 4 #persona 4 golden #hanamura yosuke #yosuke hanamura #uh huh. i mean. yosuke are you sure youre only talking about teddie here #i love when teddie functions as a proxy or substitute for yosuke sometimes #and idk like im always so hung up on yosukes need to “not create trouble for others” #and how its a standard he imposes on himself but also tries to impress on teddie (albeit unsuccessfully) #and IDK LISTEN you can just see so much of yosuke in teddie and its my everything. #and the game knows this. and i think yosuke also communicates things that he wants to say to yu through to teddie #yknow??? #he's good with his queue