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thank you for the outpouring of support!

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

About Teen Vogue,
I don't read or care much for a lot of mainstream media, but Teen Vogue is the only consistent non-Native media outlet that has always done an incredible job reporting on Native issues and giving our talent a platform to shine and not just to fill their "diversity" quota.

The thing is like if we want to fight back against prudery and sex negativity we also have to stop referring to stuff as 'gooner art' and accept that nsfw shit that reads as 'for the male gaze' has as much a right to exist as your favourite yaoi

Low key, this is why I think you should send fan mail to the niche people you love and not huge people. Bts is gonna get thousands of letters, but that soundcloud rapper may go there entire career getting nothing.

Tell your niche favs you love them in a way that is not weird!!

Hey everyone, here's a real simple way to disable "Super Resolution" on your channels:

• YouTube Studio
• Settings
• Channel
• Advanced settings
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance visual quality"
• Uncheck "Let YouTube enhance audio quality"

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my friend just let me know i never linked yall to my ko-fi. this may be why the fundraiser is stagnating. lol. lmao XD
ko-fi.com/kikissh thanks Ki! <333

Our feature artist/tutorial for today is this WONDERFUL & ESSENTIAL page on the placement of BODY FAT on figures by the talented @marinscos! REAL BODY SHAPE VARIETY is a part of what makes us all beautiful, and that should be reflected in our art. I LOVE this. #ART #anime #ARTIST

I think about this advice a lot: start your project now, today, even if it'll take you 10 years to do, because the time is going to pass anyway. Time is going to march on! Might as well have something in progress!

"[South Asian + Southwest Asian Features] Please note this is not a comprehensive list! but rather a compilation of what I have observed while drawing and within my own family. I am punjabi, most punjabi people are from north India + Pakistan and so they have both South Asian and Southwest Asian features. Because of this, we can look very diverse! (the image shows two faces with varying features and a check mark next to both) Both arew punjabi. The left has more southwest asian features while the right has more south asian features.

[Deep-set eyes] (The image shows a set of eyes, one with double lids and one with triple lids. An arrow points to the triple lid.) I have this one. Many SA + SWA people have naturally deep-set eyes. This results in very prominent eyelid creases above AND below. Deep set eyes are also called "hooded eyes" because the upper skin tends to droop down over this space. (A comparison drawing is shown of a face in side profile with shallow set and deep set eyes. Another diagram shows the eyeball in the socket and the skin around it with the fatty upper eye area puffing out slightly.)

Colours. A palette of colours is shown in a row, next to them are the labels "skin, eyes, hair". Below is a table of eyes and eyebrows displaying various combinations. Three are labelled "My dad" "My cousin" and "Grandma (Dad's Side)" respectively. The next row says "More examples I have seen." Although dark brown eyes are the most common, other eye colours show up too.

[hyperpigmentation] Hyperpigmentation is when areas of skin are darker than the rest. Many SA + SWA people experience this, those with light AND dark skin, especially around the eyes in the form of dark circles. (An illustration shows eyes with and without hyperpigmentation.) Because many people already have deep set eyes that are shadowed, the result often makes the surrounding eye area quite dark. A lot of comments about if I sleep enough or that my stare can be a little scary or just a bit intense. (A diagram shows eyes labelled "bare" and "applied", one without any makeup and the right with black makeup in the waterline.) Traditionally wear black eyeliner (surma/kajal/kohl) for special occasions or as a medicine.

My guide on how I draw punjabi people (1/2)

#arttutorial #artguide #drawingtips

Reminder that za/um is made up of businesspeople that stole disco elysium from the creators, kicked them out of the company, are currently suing them, and are making a mobile game of disco elysium

Do not pay money for DE, and do not give za/um a cent otherwise

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The Gamer was pretty much the *only* outlet willing to stick their neck out for us adult game makers. Their coverage was invaluable in getting the word out about payment processor censorship 😥

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

People act like all the men are gone. The men are attending protests. The men are putting together scooters for their kids. The men are getting a set of turntables for the first time. The men are buying Nikes. The men are getting super into noir. They're not Nazis and they're fine. Keep your freaks.

Howdy, ten year food bank veteran here

mercia's listed items are absolutely true and good and if you have them, bring them

If you plan to go out and buy stuff, take that $ you plan to spend and give it direct as a conditionless donation. We got networks and can make that $ go very far

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Here's the findings of the 2024 Comics Worker Survey!

Anyone can read these findings on income, rates, royalties and more--online or as a PDF.

"They're trying to convince people they can't do the things they've been doing easily for years - to write emails, to write a presentation. Your daughter wants you to make up a bedtime story about puppies - to write that for you." We will get to the point, she says with a grim laugh, "that you will essentially become just a skin bag of organs and bones, nothing else. You won't know anything and you will be told repeatedly that you can't do it, which is the opposite of what life has to offer. Capitulating all kinds of decisions like where to go on vacation, what to wear today, who to date, what to eat. People are already doing this. You won't have to process grief, because you'll have uploaded photos and voice messages from your mother who just died, and then she can talk to you via AI video call every day. One of the ways it's going to destroy humans, long before there's a nuclear disaster, is going to be the emotional hollowing-out of people." - author and filmmaker Justine Bateman from a piece by Emine Saner for the Guardian

Author and filmmaker Justine Bateman on generative AI

Dear CEO, there's an active subset of Bluesky that routinely harasses trans and queer folk, even doxxing them. This person in particular is a huge problem and even was cited in federal documents harming trans folks. What are you doing to address this?

"lol, are u a sad PEPE! Le epic meme, right?!?"

Go in: Settings > Languages> Content Languages and make it *unset* !

IMPORTANT PSA: You will NOT see posts from non English speaking artists if your content language is set to English!

Make sure it's *unset*!!! If you're following Chinese artists or whatever and wonder why their posts never show up on your feed this is why!

OPEN ULySSES + Follow back ••• Open Ulysses Follows you @ou4u.bsky.social 2.6K followers 27.1K following 88 posts Creating a Portrait of Our Time Add your website, channel, or blog. See who's there: ko-fi.com/Post/Chapter... Join us: ko-fi.com/Post/Creatin... Follow: linktr.ee/openulysses OPEN ULySSES 4 Pinned Open Ulysses @ou4u.bsky.social • 15h In Open Ulysses, we're painting the BIGGEST PORTRAIT OF THE WORLD - built from links, shared by people like you. Add your website, podcast, blog, YouTube channel, or just someone's article that matters to you - and it will stay with us FOREVER.

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They post AI slop, proudly tag things AI, and want you to add your content to their “library” where “it will stay with us FOREVER.” The most sinister shit ever.

Do NOT feed your art, writing, video into the plagiarism machine FOR THEM - they will say you consented!

Anyways the true message I pray people get and internalize is giving, often messy and raw, queer narratives by queer creatives the same grace, enthusiasm and patience that folks routinely show massive corporate media for representation or even queer subtext. One is far more important than the other.

Uni has smudge-resistant mechanical pencil lead! Their HB smudges a normal amount in my experience but their B lead smudges waaay less than normal B lead, they have leads up to 2H.

Comics that are fun and informative, and have very applealing colour palettes, I really admire how you choose your colours.

Pregnancy is terrifying to me, but people who actually want to get pregnant have all my respect, they’ve got an iron will. Seahorse dads are awesome! I personally see carrying a child as a gender neutral thing, I just wish other trans people saw it that way too :(

I 100% agree with you as someone who is scared of kids. If I saw an unattended kid get hurt I’d ask if they want help.

But as an autistic person if someone waves, in the moment it doesn’t register as them waving at ME kid or adult, even if I know them, so not waving back isn’t always out of malice.

listen I may get blocked for this but: you don't actually get to hate kids and be an okay person. you can not like being around them. you can avoid interaction. you can feel uncomfortable. but if you HATE kids: sorry dude you fucking suck as a person

@bsky.app hey can you do something about your new, and old, unclear TOS? You’re hurting queer creators and survivors who wanna tell their story in an artistic way. Let them have a space on this platform too.

A source familiar with internal workings at MasterCard notes the company is paying attention to calls around the payment processor issue. These calls continue to make the company uncomfortable internally

Bacially almost all the major black and white characters were born out of homages to minstrelsy. I talk about this in my Character Design classes actually

Glaze is a style protector and nightshade is a poison, AI can still guess at what’s in your drawing but it can’t recreate it 1:1, unless the shield gets bypassed. They’re tools to interfere with bot scraping.

The goal of glaze/nightshade has always been to protect your style so ai can’t mimic it and poison the AI slowly, it’s not meant to protect the art content directly. Unfortunately like another person wrote AI bros are always trying to tear it down so it’s a constant battle :(.