Optimistic Oneiroi

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Two part image: on the top is a screengrab of a Discord post that says "my friend said quote one of these days someone needs to make the biggest and burliest character to ever exist that can rival fucking kratos and make them canonically transgender so now I'm making him read the titan lol" Beneath is a drawing of The Titan's enormous, beefy cyborg main character, Ansel Dune. He's shirtless and wearing (ahem) well-fitted and low-riding sweatpants as he stands with a hand on his hip while ashing a cigarette with the other. He's blowing smoke and looking at the viewer and is saying "Eat your heart out, Kratos. I'll see you in hell."

THIS is how you do word of mouth, people!!! 🦾

At any rate, come join us for some fun in the Discord server (including stream notifications, which I do at least once a week): discord.gg/kcja6YzTQE

#TheTitan #TransMan #TransMen

Generative Al is being marketed as a tool designed to reduce or eliminate the need for developed, cognitive skillsets. It uses the work of others to simulate human output, except that it lacks grasp of nuance, contains grievous errors, and ultimately serves the goal of human beings being neurologically weaker due to the promise of the machine being better equipped than the humans using it would ever exert the effort to be. The people that use generative Al for art have no interest in being an artist; they simply want product to consume and forget about when the next piece of product goes by their eyes. The people that use generative Al to make music have no interest in being a musician; they simply want a machine to make them something to listen to until they get bored and want the machine to make some other disposable slop for them to pass the time with. The people that use generative Al to write things for them have no interest in writing. The people that use generative Al to find factoids have no interest in actual facts. The people that use generative Al to socialize have no interest in actual socialization. In every case, they've handed over the cognitive load of developing a necessary, creative human skillset to a machine that promises to ease the sweat equity cost of struggle. Using generative Al is like asking a machine to lift weights on your behalf and then calling yourself a bodybuilder when it's done with the reps. You build nothing in terms of muscle, you are not stronger, you are not faster, you are not in better shape. You're just deluding yourself while experiencing a slow decline due to self-inflicted atrophy.

re: generative AI

I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used.

And now, you can use it, too.

A comic. Emma is doomscrolling when Goosie comes up. “mommy… fireworks are scary…” Emma puts an arm around her. “aw goosie, if you feel afraid we could… put on some happy music?” Goosie looks excited. “Can we sing and dance?” Smash cut to Goosie dancing and Emma on her knees, cry-singing along to Chappel Roan’s Pink Pony Club

(doom)
#makeaterriblecomicday2025

Hi chums! As it’s Saturday once again, I will remind you that DMs are open all weekend to anyone new to making comics who has any questions or needs advice regarding writing, art or the industry in general. Ask ‘em if you got ‘em!

A conversation between Calvin and his mother from "Calvin and Hobbes". Calvin's mother says, "Life could be worse, Calvin," to which Calvin responds with an exasperated expression, "Life could be a LOT BETTER, too!"

mood

Cancel your subscription. Wordle isn't worth the damage this organization does to our democracy.

You laundered and protected a eugenicist in order to publish a hit job on a politician your editorial board opposed.
There is no context here. There is no trust here.
You have broken creduality and lied to your subscribers and readers.
The New York Times is unethical and racist.

YouTube video by Behind the Bastards Part One: How The Liberal Media Helped Fascism Win | BEHIND THE BASTARDS

NYT owner Sulzberger's grandpa did the same exact propping up for Hitler and fascism 100 years ago. Listen to the history included in this two parter
youtu.be/URABscYOjRE?...

Gonna talk for a second about Nazis, Republicans, DrivethruRPG, that Star Wars game, and more importantly, my grandpa.

Bear with me, the edibles are just kicking in. Might be a little thread.

It's so crazy how the comics, animation, and video games industries are wildly popular billion dollar profit type shit and yet there is no money and no jobs for the people who make that possible

Listen if you don’t want to write, stop wanting to be a writer. Go find something you actually want to do.

a comic depicting the artist's struggle with disability in which their arm seizes uncontrollably, sending a glass of matcha flying. at first he is dismayed by this, but eventually resolves to melt the skin from his bones to enjoy the matcha where it has spilled on the floor. one unified, and happy, pile of goop.

reposting the comic I made for #makeaterriblecomicday last week;

because you will never believe who broke their favorite glass this morning. again.

"it is what it is."

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at urging of friends, I'm making a difficult statement: I'm currently living under abuse, and it's deeply impacting my ability to function

I'm working on an exit strategy, and while it's hard for me to put this out there, you're welcome to donate via my kofi to help with my move
ko-fi.com/sephiramy

The disability pride flag with diagonal stripes in green, blue, white, yellow and red on a dark grey background.

The end of one Pride Month is the start of another one:

Happy Disability Pride Month!

I'd like to use this post to ask people to add ALT text to images. They are a tool to make things visible in text not all can see in images and hence improve the discourse and mutual understanding on socials.

An illustration - a bunch of overlapping veins and arteries with different translucent organs interspersed throughout the illustration, the effect is a tangled web of branching vessels with various 'organ' shapes overlaying on top, including a lung in the center of the page

Just finished this piece, a bit of personal work, digital illustration

"Systems"

#SciArt

We are at a red-alert moment with queer stories right now. Literally this morning, I was chatting with a seasoned Hollywood producer who just had a project halted b/c executives were skittish about it being too gay. Not only is a mass-erasure of queer characters plausible... it's already begun.

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A digital illustration in very comic book style. At the center is an 80s Punk/Mad Max/Tank Girl-type girl wearing a red cut up tee, lots of belts and a studded collar and bracelets etc, denim cutoffs over electric blue fishnets, and tall blue combat-type boots. In her hands she has a red chainsaw with a skull decoration on It that she's holding at the ready.She is reared back on one foot, having just delivered a tremendous kick to the head of a humanoid robot which is reeling backwards, face half smashed in and turned toward the viewer, arms stretched out, with flames and sparks shooting out of its neck. It's one of those retro-future streamline robot guys that you would maybe see Superman fight in a Fleischer cartoon. Behind on the left you can see from the waist up another such robot which has been dealt with similarly just before. Above and behind all this is jagged red lettering over a jagged yellow outline reading DESTROY next to dimensionalized sans-serif letters reading "A.I." (quotes included) over a 🚫 symbol. Under the reeling robot are some important anti-AI talking points rendered in rough maker-style hand lettering: 'Bad at Everything! Kill the Planet! Brain Atrophy!' I could go on but there's only so much space in one drawing. All of this has been worked up digitally to look like it's a vintage screen printed t-shirt design with cracked and worn plastisol inks. In conclusion, fuck your AI.

I've been getting mad a lot about hollow-eyed, artless money ghouls telling me what's inevitable and then I had an idea I had to draw about it.

I’ve been through 15 years of art school (cuz I went to an arts highschool, too)

And here are sites to learn that same information for FREE, and not be reinventing the wheel when Da Vinci figured it out for you centuries ago.

www.proko.com

www.ctrlpaint.com/library

grizandnorm.squarespace.com

Depicted in soft, pastel tones, a mermaid sprawls over rocks and roses, her tail barwly skimming the surface of a calm stream. Above her, a fairy dressed in billowing robes leans down to embrace her.

The Embrace 🌈

For the dearest @inoaart.bsky.social 💖

In the midst of catching up but it's my birthday today 🙀✨
Would love nothing more than if any of you would share some of my scribbles here to find some more eyes~ 💖

delicious in dungeon :3c

available as a print in my new shop! #dungeonmeshi #deliciousindungeon

I had the absolute joy of commissioning @patsux.bsky.social to help me with designing an aquatic form for my half-siren Caspian✨
I'm still not over the result😭💕