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hey guys so I’m back on that memory lane grind

kisses them both

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💗💜Better luck next time!!🧡💚

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There are a couple of things about current shipping culture that confuse me.  

1. The focus on whether or not a pairing will become canon as a reason people should ship something or not.  Do you not understand what the “transformative” part of “transformative works” means?”

2. This idea that saying “I ship that” means “I think that, as presented in canon,this is a perfect, healthy relationship that everyone should model their relationship after.” 

Sometimes shipping something does mean that.  Sometimes shipping something means “Person A is a trash bag who doesn’t deserve person B but I would love to explore how Person A might grow to deserve Person B.” Sometimes it means “I want these characters to live together forever in a conflict free domestic AU.”  Sometimes it means “I want Person A to forever pine after Person B.  Nothing is beautiful and everything hurts.”  And sometimes it just means you like their faces and want to see Person A and Person B bone in various configurations and universes. 

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NEVER GIVE UP

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Four bisexuals, a barking flower, and a sentient panda all walk into a bar.

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Water Element of my Traptanium infection AU, all art is commissioned from u/ji_jii on Reddit!

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I’m starting to become obsessed over their dynamic

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made a picture i will use a lot

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I love it when I’m forcibly reminded of the fact that Obelix is actually terrifying

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CUTIES!!!!!! ARGHHH

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Drew my favorite skylander, Knight Light!

Made a helmet and no helmet version for funsies

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omg is that Ilona Maher??

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cactus beatdowns are definitely the answer to ppl making her sister do unnecessary labor

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Why I don't do AI.

In the most plain and simple explanations possible that I would never use AI generation or any of that in my works. U - U

Blatant thief

This goes especially for the "This but in that artist's style" ones, the machine scopes the internet for many artworks, even if they have copyright and uses them discriminably in their datasets. This reason is what upsets many other artists besides myself about this thing.

It basically just steals and gets away with it.

2. Environmental damage

This may surprise some of you, but the data centers AI uses gobble up more energy than ENTIRE CITIES and even some whole darn COUNTRIES.

Besides electricity, these data centers use insane amounts of water in order to keep those computers from overheating and going ka-boom, water that should've been used to... Oh, I dunno... Give people something to drink? Watering veggie gardens? Something productive?

Google themselves even admitted their CO2 production went up by half because of the AI data centers!

3. The horrific labor conditions to keep it "safe"

I'd rather not get into this reason, so I'll be brief.

THEY. ARE. USING. SLAVE. LABOR.

Not joking, the folks training ChatGPT to tell the difference between what is and what's not cool are only paid two bucks an hour.

I cannot imagine the psychological scars those folks have because somebody has to be unfortunate enough to see ONE inappropriate image, but to have it be your job and be only paid 2 dollars per hour is just a massive, bright AND on fire RED FLAG to me.

4. Even I'm not THAT lazy.

... This one speaks for itself, while I DO prefer chilling on my bed or playing video games, if I wanna make art, I grab my pencil and sketchbook.

I'm sure if I didn't have drawing skills, I'd ask someone to draw it or even commission it.

And if I wanted to find out what something looked like, a search on my browser is enough for me to usually find what I'm looking for, and unlike AI it doesn't take THAT much power (or time.)