minty

Let’s go, Thursday.

illustration of a a fluffy white sheep baker making some bread, with dough and some bread making tools and ingredients. there is text next to the illustration that says "even dough needs to rest"

remember to take breaks to do the things you love

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation. "Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies. Text and image generation Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

I actually think it's extremely good and healthy to experience art that makes you uncomfortable. discomfort is not equivalent to real, tangible harm. at the very least y'all should recognize uncomfortable art's right to exist, and to carry on with your life without making it everyone else's problem.

How Genocide Happened

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

big fan of this angle 👌👌👌

This is all the serotonin I need for the rest of the year.. like wow.. things are really good sometimes

olly: remember, tense your shoulders, grit your teeth, take rapid shallow breaths and say to yourself 'oh shit oh fuck this is all my fault'

tre: i love pathetic men. like he's so sad and wet eyed and gross. he's my mostest specialest boy in the world. he's gonna put his head in my kap and cry. i'm gonna fuck him and make him breakfast

capybara

"What rights have trans people lost?"

regular reminder that the people who created your favorite characters were largely marginalized individuals with antifascist views

a digital drawing of a young character with a turquoise bow on her head. She possesses canine-like features and wears a white outfit with yellow gloves. To the right of her is text that reads "Fuck it, let's make a website!"

I've slapped together approximately 173 pages of material that aims to teach programming a personal website with HTML and CSS to artists, animators, writers, music producers, etc.

F*ck It, Let's Make a Website Part 1 is now live ✨
Go here to read: bit.ly/filmawPartOne
More info below 👇

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.

It aired in 1990.

Clip Studio Paint is on sale!
www.clipstudio.net/en/purchase/...

how I feel since 2016 or so

STOP.

This is the EXACT reasoning that was used to get us to this point in the first place.

I do not care what your personal sensibilities are. Art is allowed to explore gross and uncomfortable things and you need to take the puritan in your head out back and shoot it so this stops happening.

loose cartoony digital illustrations of the season one in-training Digimon. i gotta be honest i don't remember all their names but they mostly look like blobs with big eyes and feet or teeth or a horn. The drawings are colored loosely, and are on a bright red background with yellow sprinkles

pals

a comic. panel 1: spatzle, a duckling, peeks through a doorway. “Are you crying?” she says. panels 2-4: her mother, sitting mostly shrouded in darkness, wipes her eyes and says, “yes.” panel 5: Spätzle approaches her. She is tiny while her mother looms large, huddled in the darkened corner. “What’s wrong,” Spätzle asks. Her mother says, “everything.”

a comic. panel 1: Spätzle’s mother says from the shadows, “I wish I never met your father.” panel 2: “I wish I never left my parents.” panel 3: “I wish I never came to america.” panel 4: Spätzle site on the floor by her feet. “I’m happy you did those things. If you didn’t, I wouldn’t be here.” panel 6: from the darkness, Spätzle’s mother says, “go to bed.”

a comic. panel 1: Spätzle and Fanlee sit together. Fanlee is reading and Spätzle appears to have been drawing, but she’s distracted. panel 2: Spätzle says, “hey real quick can you tell me you like having me around”

10PM on a Wednesday

illustration shows the outline of a soaring bird, filled in with the colors of the queer and trans pride flags. text over the top reads "QUEER GAMES BUNDLE."

✨ It's finally time. The fifth Queer Games Bundle is live now. For $60 (or $10+), get over 600 games, TTRPGs, zines, and more. Support over 300 queer artists for their survival and future art.

itch.io/b/3062/

SITREP from 4Chan /v/ Re: Collective Shout.

Visa and Mastercard are taking on substantial damage to their sales quots and support times for this. Don't stop calling.

#SaveSpeech

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy. Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.

Itch.io did a statement. They were forced to remove VNs because of Collective Shout.

If you enjoy queer or adult visual novels or games, please sign the ACLU petition. They're gunning for 100k signatures and are very close! So, so close!

action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

You don’t have to like, approve of, or engage with porn and nsfw work to see how right wing extremists are using fear and stigma around smut to ban queer people from public life, define “good” sex as only between married people for procreation, and otherwise further force white supremacy on everyone

The artist's OC, Rivière, a transfem half-faerie teen, running and tugging their past self, a human still presenting as male, by the hand. The past human version has heavier bangs and a cap obscuring more of their face, and is wearing other drab boys' clothing of a vintage period. They stumble to keep up with their future fae self with a confused but enchanted expression. The faerie version on the right is vibrant, adorned in soft, frilly and feminine clothing, and looks back on their past self with a bright, inviting smile. The background colors are baby blue, pink and white.

A Lumiknight Rivière piece I really needed to get out of me. 🖌️

Never let go of who you are. 🏳️‍⚧️💝🏳️‍⚧️

Heads up for all of my fellow international VAs who might still be doing cons/fly in for work in the US. Not only is it unsafe for us to visit the US, it’ll also now just be extra bad for business. Focus on your remote home setup, tell your agent and ask them to inform clients if needed, etc…

Here ya go:

Touched this one up ONE MORE TIME. ... Watch Bsky just EAT THE QUALITY.