🎶the sun is a deadly lazer🎶

Illustration of some orcas, they are swimming happily. Colors used are mainly purple blue and pink

lots of orcas 🌊
#art #orcas

Important update: I have received word from insiders that Crunchyroll executives have deemed the user backlash to be small enough that their subtitle enshittification & OOONA plans will NOT be cancelled, only delayed.

I have added an update to the article. There's a summary at the top now too.

sorry for posting about The Character. yeah it's terminal. sorry. it'll happen again

Just a friendly PSA if you want to commission artists for Christmas presents, which is a great idea btw, you have to get on the ball about it BEFORE Thanksgiving. Like do it today. I'm not doing commissions personally I just want to save you panic or disappointment. Get on that dream artist ASAP 💛

fic masterlists are cool and a great way to engage in fandom but i beg of you to NOT add a rating system. fic writers aren’t published authors nor are they asking for the typical ratings/reviews that published books get. fics are often passion projects. please do not grade passion.

Donkey Kong Was Originally A Popeye Game Miyamoto says Nintendo's main monkey might not have existed Posted by Tom East on 25th Nov 2009 at 09:56 10 Donkey Kong is one of the most iconic games characters of all time but he may not have existed had Nintendo followed their original idea. In the latest 'Iwata Asks' interview, Shigeru Miyamoto admits that Donkey Kong was originally meant to be a Popeye game. "I sketched out a few ideas for games using Popeye," said Miyamoto. "At that point, Yokoi-san was good enough to bring these ideas to the President's attention and in the end one of the ideas received official approval. Yokoi-san thought that designers would become necessary members of development teams in order to make games in the future. And that's how Donkey Kong came about." "But originally it was going to be a Popeye game," Iwata continued. "That's right," Miyamoto responded. "But while I can't recall exactly why it was, we were unable to use Popeye in that title. It really felt like the ladder had been pulled out from under us, so to speak." "It was a really lucky break! So next we began to flesh out the idea for a game based on the concept we had come up with." Imagine a world without Donkey Kong. No Donkey Kong would mean no Jumpman. And without Jumpman we wouldn't have Mario! Tom East

jokes aside as popeye enters public domain a reminder we got mario and donkey kong because nintendo couldn't use popeye and bluto, like star wars happened because lucas was denied making a flash gordon movie

let corpos denying you recycling their stuff drive you to do better new stuff that's yours

I feel like the last couple decades of "is representation good or not?" discourse missed more important questions of "how fragile is representation?", "what do we do when multiple industries eliminate it as an intentional move against us?" and "how can we sustain queer artists when shit goes south?"

I fully support ppl who ship coworkers or friends to lovers etc
However, I LOATHE being asked: "why ship teacher/student when you could ship teacher/teacher!?"
why ship doctor/patient when you could ship doctor/doctor!?"
Those are totally TOTALLY different things!

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Illustration of a coelacanth dragon with little coelacanths next to them. Colors used are mainly shades of blue

Coelacanth dragon 🐟
#art

AI is the new motion smoothing

ARTISTS! You can DISABLE this feature! Protect yourself and don't assume that you're safe if you're an sfw artist!

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

It’s TDoR today and I just want to make sure you all know that we are important and loved and needed. You are beautiful and your life is so unbelievably precious. #codfanart #callofduty #transdayofremembrance

friendly reminder that you didn't waste your year. any moments of happiness or comfort. any small accomplishments, they all matter. this has been a really hard year, and simply surviving is something to be proud of.

Creatives: It's been a rough day and nothing can fix it.

Someone: I like that thing you created.

Creatives: [happily sobbing, weeping, wailing even]

A digital painting of a huge, starry, blue phoenix emerging from a glowing lake in a distant city. A group of teens with a dog watch the night-time scene from ruins on a hillside. The phoenix is sparkling with blue stars in front of a cloudy, dark gray sky. The city below glows gold.

Modern Phoenix

a woman with red hair is talking about a taste for men who are older . Alt: Lana del Rey, a woman with red hair and dramatic makeup, looks up at the camera She sings: I gots a taste for men who are older.

"age gap is romanticizing predatory relationships!"

I'M SEXUALIZING OLD MEN, GET IT RIGHT

I’ve been a FreeTaxUSA proselytizer for years and years and I strongly encourage everyone to make the switch. same kind of step by step “for dummies” interface, even for my complicated freelancer taxes, and you don’t have to give your money to one of our most evil lobbyists

"what's your schedule like? how do you squeeze in time to be creative?"

how I squeeze it in:

"who cares? no one will like my work I share" I bet there's bound to be some cool freaks who care. but giving up, that doesn't do anything. yeah, it's discouraging at times. I get it. but your self-worth isn't tied to engagement. you CREATED something. YOU did that bro. that's worth more than enough

a scene from Spider-Man 2 (2004). Peter Parker in his spider-man suit, but without the mask, is trying to stop a runaway train by planting himself at the front, and anchoring himself by shooting webs out from both arms, attaching to nearby buildings in hopes of slowing it down. He has a face on anguish and is screaming the whole way, struggling to hold on.

How it feels trying to connect the couple of cool ideas you have into a coherent plot for a new story you want to write

Hoping that the next test the universe sends me is seeing if I can handle a so so sexy demon who encourages and funds all the weird and fun creative projects I want to do, and who goes “oh wowww, so nice, so cool” when I show them what I created

before asking "how's that project going??" to any creative, just assume it's going like this

Xもタイツの画像も死んでるのでここにアップしにきました
1118はいいイヤホン（ヘッドホン）の日らしいのでウサ耳ヘッドホンの髭美人を描いたのでみてほしい🎧

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

It is so cute and funny and wonderful that people write stories about beloved characters FOR FREE JUST BECAUSE and share them with others CRYING I love fan fiction

LRP "Ask yourself: why do corporations get a pass and indie creators get silenced when it's the exact same topics?" I think this every day, both about payment processor bullshit and policiing of fictional content

as awful as it is, the folks who should be calling payment processors the most are the ones who DON'T create adult content for money, because they aren't in danger of this