Arc

Gen AI is the ultimate expression of capitalism in a machine. It steals everything to regurgitate lesser slop while is hoovers up all the water and it doesn’t even work. Costs massive amounts of money and everyone is being forced to use it.

the southern orrery

A digital drawing of a dark green background with some snowdrop flowers drawn on top. The stems are bright, light green with an almost electric colour, and there are sparkles and stars around the page.

Little snowdrop drawing I made in 2022 that has been going around on Pinterest a lot, lol.

#art #illustration

shells! 🐚

capacity

“I asked ChatGPT” “I asked grok”
Magic 8 balls are right there?? Like??

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

I'd really appreciate if writers these days took a look at their characters doing therapyspeak and whether that's appropriate for their work and their world.

By "therapyspeak" I mean speaking like this: "This is the emotion I'm feeling, and feeling that emotion makes me want to act in a way"

your other half

mortal

Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall sat down for an interview for Brad Falchuk’s new Netflix series, Famous Last Words.

The premise of the series is to interview people on the condition that the interview not air until the subject has passed away.

I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers:

NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.

and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.

A full illustration for Hades 2. It features Melinoë summoning her signature weapons in the middle of the composition and Hecate, in much larger proportion, right behind her.

✨⏳ Death to Chronos! ⌛️✨

a drawing of a rapier with a spiked white conch shell instead of a handle and some sea grass and coral decorations

day 1: shell rapier, my dudes

#swordtember

drawing of a strawberry being pierced with a plastic orange sword pick

day 4: a tragedy of a different scale

#swordtember

drawing of a sword with a skull of some giant rodent from another planet in place of a guard. its very long and unnaturally straight teeth are playing the role of a doubled blade. tldr: darth maul found ugly crying in the corner

day 10: rodent

#swordtember

drawing of a sword that looks more like something barely resembling a shape of a golden sword with a weirdly, spider-shaped (or star-shaped?) guard than a material object. the background is almost completely black and the sword has black stripes too, which kinda makes it difficult to see its shape? i might really be delusional though haha this is obviously something completely unrelated to the prompt smh

day 12: shape concealed by darkness

#swordtember

drawing of a thin sword that has an opened greenish white (white lily vibes) flower as its guard. the blade is where the stamen of the flower is supposed to be.

day 13: bloom

#swordtember

Cabbage

Watercolour painting of a person happily snuggling a huge snake-like creature that's partially wrapped around tyngden. The person has short brown hair and is wearing a loose white shirt tucked into brown shorts, as well as brown boots. The snake creatures shifts in tones of blue and purple and has branch-like antlers and a tail that also ends in branches. Pink and purple flowers and buds grow on the branches and all over the snake's body

Noodle 🌸

Watercolour painting of a black cat face with their eyes closed partially obscured and surrounded by soft clouds in blue, pink and purple. There's a bright orange sun right behind them and sparkles float around them

Head in the Clouds ⛅️💜✨️

sad to report that not creating anything for several months at a time is actually exactly what art needs sometimes, and that's why my art suffers deeply when forced into capitalist commercial frameworks lmao

Imagine what good could have been done with all the money Mark Zuckerberg has personally wasted

within the hour

sketch page of geno

my family’s new creature geno/gigi/gee

It's been exactly a year since my first Zelink fanart and this makes me feel quite emotional...

#zelink #リンゼル #totk #botw #zelda

looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out

Create NSFW art

Porn is not evil, sex is not abhorrent, pleasure is not a crime

Even if you don't agree with all kinks doesn't mean they should be allowed to censor art

This is why we have tags and the blick button, not megacorps deciding what we can and cannot like

Always resist oppression

Can I just say how fucking ridiculous it is that queer and nsfw art is more heavily regulated than the fucking plagiarism machine destroying our planet that is genAI