Maxim Falk

This project is BEYOND incredible! I’ve had the chance to peek at all the art in this book and it is not only all stunning, but incredibly global, cultural, and historically accurate too!

Proof that we really have always been here, and always will be. 🥰

Please share, to spread this queer joy! 🌈

Doing a little more digging. It's from 1921.

The more I learn, the more I'm convinced that the only true representation of people in power isn't even Bond movies. It's fucking Austin Powers.

[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.] JANET: Ugh... LIZ: What's up? JANET: I am so bored of cooking peas! LIZ: Have you tried... AI peas? JANET: AI peas? LIZ: They're peas with AI! [Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI]. LIZ: Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas JANET: What LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines] Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas? [Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it] LIZ: Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine [Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas] LIZ: With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas! JANET: What LIZ: Shut up LIZ: Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow From opening the bag of peas to boiling the peas to eating the peas To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means. JANET: Is it really necessary to- LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]: THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET [Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan: AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas. [Ends]

Every ad now

And every time you use ChatGPT, an artist dies a little.

Best of luck!

Yeah, for about 50 years or more, "besprizornik" was a very common term for a child or a teen living literally on the street.

So I'm not buying your Pride Burger, your LoveWins monthly subscription, your trans flag Mickey Mouse ears.

And if you try to borrow our struggle for your aesthetics again, expect to be held accountable.

Those are powerful symbols you need to earn. You do not deserve them. 3/

We all knew it was hollow and meaningless. But watching just how quickly they dropped all pretense as soon as they sensed a move to the right?! We won't forget.

We won't forget how queer folk, trans rights and progressive beliefs about our livelihoods were used as set dressing. 2/

When, at some point, the Overton window shifts left. Even slightly. What we're NOT going to do is allow all those big companies, brands etc suddenly put their rainbow flag cosplay back on.

We are NOT going to allow them to pretend they didn't just drop us as they decided we weren't fashionable. 1/

It's all about context and tone. You can call someone Lenochka, meaning that she is a sweet person - OR that she is a bitch.

You nailed it!

Andrej, not Anlrej, sorry

Oh, then it's not relevant. :)
I wanted to say that for a native Russian speaker Andy and Lexi refer to different names. Andy = Anlrej, Lexi - Alexey.
But here it doesn't matter, as those nicknames were given by non-Russian speakers.

Or you can make a patronym from the actual name (Michail = Michalych), if you are really close old friends, no matter the real age.

May I give a small tip about the variations of nicknames?

And you can even make masculine or feminine form Gender Neutral to show the distancing, like "I don't know wtf is this and I don't want to deal with it".

Yes, absolutely. The Russian language has this crazy gender switch, when you refer to smth masculine as it's feminin to show your emotional connection. And you can refer to smth feminin as it's masculine to show that you're protective about it, or you have a special interest in it.

Aleksandr, especially in Russian, has dozens of nicknames. Literally! Sanya, Sasha, Shurik, or Shura is the most common. But then we have Sanchik, Sashik, Sashok, Sashulja, Shurochka (that one is feminine, BUT an elder woman in the family can use it, adressing to a male). And the list goes on...

Filled this out, it's a really quick and easy survey to tell Discord no AI.

This feels like an important science.

PSA on ao3 scams ran by bots. turn off guest comments if you can, be safe ♥️

Okay, I'm ready.

If that doesn’t make artist quit this cesspool I don’t know what will. What amount of humiliation and being treated worse than dirt would be enough.

Digital cover art of "Goldheart" MM romantasy by Tess Carletta. It features a knight guardian kneeling before a handsome dark skinned prince in an environment that reminds of a palace green house

A book cover art for a MM romantasy by Rita A Rubin "Of knights and books and falling in love".

ook cover art for "The prince and his groom" by J.E. Ridge Two handsome men stand at the green lawn with a vague shape of a wizard's tower behind them. One man, with brown skin holds the other one by the neck from behind. And seems to have him tied by a red shibary cord. The other man with fair skin and red hair leans back into him

igital cover art for "Silver Blood" by T.L. Morgan It features two men wearing Victorian-gothic clothing. They barely touch fingers in a romantic yearning gesture. The rest of the cover reminds of red leather with golden flowery filigree.

Four books with my covers were nominated for Indie Ink Awards this year in the best cover category.
If by any chance you would like to vote for my work, please do so!
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And we do it proudly!

Reposting this with alt text.

Delete your Twitter. Now.

A.I. is the golden idol of cargo cultism.

It recreates images without any true understanding of why, as to what purpose, as to what context. It cannot comprehend the tools of the art, or the meaning of it, or the motive.

It can only clumsily and thoughtlessly replicate what it has seen.

Just your periodic reminder that AI generated "art" is theft and any creative person, artist or writer, using it still needs to really re-evaluate their ethics and where they stand, cos yikes 💀

if you have a billion dollars you should be legally designated a dragon and any human can adventure against you