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Candy Cottontail, no proper art for her yet so this is the recoloured photo I've been using for now.
A living soft toy about 2 foot tall.
She wears a fancy little ringmaster coat (that's her job), and regularly has burning ash pour out through her seams, so is a little singed and sooty.

Example of two bust commissions of characters from the shoulders up: a woman with pointed ears, long blue hair and a green top, and a man with dark hair in a ponytail, a white shirt, red cravat, waistcoat and black coat.

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Illustration of a spiky-furred gray cat breathing out a toxic green smoke. His tail forms into a Thistle at it’s end.

Thistle claw - thorns that spill a tear

I used to use detectors before realizing they are also basically LLMs and hallucinate answers just like any other LLM

"I say! Are you Georgina?" The child in the opposite bed sat up and looked across at Anne. She had very short curly hair, almost as short as a boy's. Her face was burnt a dark-brown with the sun, and “Famous Five 01 - Five On A Treasure Island” By Enid Blyton 7 her very blue eyes looked as bright as forget-me-nots in her face. But her mouth was rather sulky, and she had a frown like her father's. "No," she said. "I'm not Georgina." "Oh!" said Anne, in surprise. "Then who are you?" "I'm George," said the girl. "I shall only answer if you call me George. I hate being a girl. I won't be. I don't like doing the things that girls do. I like doing the things that boys do. I can climb better than any boy, and swim faster too. I can sail a boat as well as any fisher-boy on this coast. You're to call me George. Then I'll speak to you. But I shan't if you don't." "Oh!" said Anne, thinking that her new cousin was most extraordinary. "All right! I don't care what I call you. George is a nice name, I think. I don't much like Georgina. Anyway, you look like a boy."

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

Letterboxd screenshot Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) Watched by Branson Reese 28 Apr 2022 Abrams isn't a man so much as he's an avatar of cultural entropy. If you make something popular enough eventually you will die or sell it off and and a person in thick rimmed glasses whose main artistic vision is that he loves to have meetings will take it and sandblast it until it's nothing. I hate to see this happen here but maybe it's good that this happened. Maybe every franchise should collapse into a version of itself that makes shareholders nod and shake each others' hands. We should learn to speak in a language that rich people who don't dream can't comprehend.

i often think about this review

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

Draw Steel has free rules
steelcompendium.io/compendium/m...
Pathfinder 1e & 2e, Starfinder 1e & 2e all have free rules. Here's PF2e, links to the others can be found on the same site.
2e.aonprd.com/PlayersGuide...
All the versions of Fate are free
fate-srd.com
And many many more!

Pathfinder Never Outsold 4E D&D (ICYMI) The myth that Paizo's Pathfinder outsold Dungeons & Dragons 4E endures, but it is a myth worth slaying.

Realistically, no game had the name recognition/branding legacy nor the WotC-Hasbro money to pull that off.
alphastream.org/index.php/20...
Even if PF and D&D both grow 5% each year, D&D is going to grow more. That's math.
However afaik Paizo have continued to grow each year, they're doing well.

Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon both helped start the modern anti-trans moral panic to distract from their paedophilia.
That is a fact. As documented in the files.
Also a fact is they hoped it would drive some trans people to sex work and into their arms.
Also a fact documented in the files.
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I just need some modern myth movies to give me the slightest dash of this✨

And in the space of those years of commercial availability, GenAI has not elevated a single artist. Nobody has found themselves in a successful, stable art position because of it. All it has done is erode existing opportunities and given people an alternative to clipart they never really needed.

There is money for "education" if and only if that money is being directly funneled to corporations. Anything involving actual learning, however, well there's no magic money tree

Iron Man meme, edited, Obadiah Stane yelling, "Your ancestors made timeless art in a cave! With berries and ash!"

"I need AI to make art, human art is only for the rich and privileged-"

Every American needs to watch this:

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives

All the Epstein victims have suffered even more as a result of reporting, while the perpetrators avoid facing accountability at every level. What do people expect everyday victims to do? The whole system is backwards. It helps perpetrators and hurts victims.

I think a network of millionaire and billionaire pedophiles that do sex crimes on a private island should be enough for people to realize “people shouldn’t have vastly more wealth than other people”

noooooooooo.
It really is not the magical brain that the branding claims. LLMs are predictive text machines, they don’t know truth from lies or safe from unsafe. Studies are already showing that LLM use damages critical thinking. In adults! Please don’t permanently disadvantage children.

I've been hearing this refrain lately about AI-

"Everyone uses it, some people are just honest about it."

Bullshit. I can't stop search 'summaries' popping up, but otherwise it's not something I use or want in my writing process.

Never prompted ChatGPT.
Never spent AI credits on Microsoft/Adobe.

Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all...

Physical media built secondhand markets, swaps, and libraries thanks to the First Sale principle. Without it, digital media is hollowing out those spaces and leaving us with cheap rentals.

When you uncheck Smart Features, all email sorting ends. Google changing Gmail’s BASIC sort functions just to force everyone to let Google train off your emails is insane levels of corporate self harm, rivaled only by Microslop

This however is the kick I need to get off gmail l, because screw this!

Matt mercer saying fuck ai. meme. Trust matt mercer, he's always right.

‼️ Friendly (or not) reminder that if you have an AI generated avatar/banner i'm going to banner you.‼️

Also, if you're not sure if an image is AI or not... Please ask an artist friend; I'm sure they have a better trained eye to be able to tell whether it is or not.

For everything else, as always...

When the author of a mediocre boarding school fantasy story seeded conspiracy theories and dogwhistles about trans women into wider public discourse, trans women were told we were overreacting all the way until she started funding anti-trans lobbying to influence Supreme Court rulings.