#*trying to draw and brainstorm ideas to draw

[dominaexmachina]

Disclaimer: I don’t know the exact audience of the original poster who created this poll. Maybe their followers lean toward anti-AI views — maybe not. But let’s assume, just for the sake of the argument, that this is a random cross-section of the internet. Not a curated anti-AI bubble.

And here’s where it becomes obvious:

📌 Real AI users — those who’ve actually spent time learning and exploring the tools — make up 3%.

📌 Their experience is what’s worth listening to. Everything else? Just fear, fantasy, and “someone told me it’s bad.”

I’m not counting the “rarely” or “only for work” crowd (total 9%) — because let’s be honest: that’s like saying you’ve “used Photoshop” because you once cropped a photo in 2014. If you haven’t gone deep into prompting, testing, breaking things, and actually generating at scale — you’re not in the arena.

The problem isn’t that some people are against AI.

The problem is that the loudest critics are the ones who haven’t even tried it.

(Or “tried” once: “Well, I typed something, it didn’t turn out like I imagined — must be garbage.”)

I couldn’t find any well-documented cases where someone used generative AI extensively, then responsibly chose to abandon it after deep immersion and solid experience. Most strong statements I found are from people who:

• Tried it once or twice, didn’t click with the experience, and then proclaimed it “not for me”

• Or those who’ve never used AI at all—and made blanket judgments

🌱 No rich, thoughtful “I used it extensively and then quit” narratives. It seems that most early adopters either:

1. Keep using it, integrating AI as a tool.

2. Try it briefly, decide “this isn’t for me,” and move on.

All the rest never try it—and loudly criticize from the outside.

What would be far more valuable are stories like:

• “I leaned on AI for a while—planning, drafting, content ideas—and then realized I preferred a hybrid approach, so I scaled it back.”

• Or: “I used AI regularly for research, brainstorming, and coaching. When I realized it was limiting my creative voice, I intentionally pivoted.”

🙏 If anyone in audience comes across such real, nuanced case studies, I’d love to dive into them. Until then, most arguments against AI devote more space to fear and dismissal than to honest, experienced reflection.

Turns out, only 3% of the information about AI is truly worth trusting.

But how do you know which 3%?

You can’t. Every author claims they’re the one to trust. They say they’ve tried it and know what they’re talking about.

But do they, really? 😁

So if you don’t want to be a puppet of someone else’s fear, moralizing, or half-baked panic —

Start.

Experiment.

Make mistakes.

Compare.

Only then draw conclusions.

Because parroting someone else’s voice isn’t an opinion. It’s just an echo.

[unknown-uno]

I don't want a headache confound you i want to draw more.

[i-dont-even-know-by-this-point]

Idk guys something about a Beauty and the Beast Helnik AU is really tickling my brainworms (spoilers ahead for CK)

Not a 1-for-1 adaptation — I think it’d be interesting if, like in SoC, they both got stranded together somewhere rather than Matthias holding her hostage for the whole thing… or at least, it’s got something to do with the drüskelle & Nina getting captured, and then they end up stranded somewhere afterwards, like in the book.

Anyway, it could work quite well with Matthias (beast) learning from Nina (Belle) and changing his views about Grisha and stuff. Maybe he got cursed by a Grisha or something? Maybe Nina has something to do with why he’s in whatever beasty situation he’s in?

It might also be interesting if Nina is actively being pursued by drüskelle, and that’s what drives her into staying with Matthias — a lesser of two evils kind of thing? Maybe?

And then the parallels with ahem… the Beast getting killed at the end… BUT! The Beast survives so Matthias can too. He will. He must. He— [machine gun fire]

[yuseirra]

"date"

the genre turns into romance when I draw them together(but that's exactly what their social link is about..) you can flirt and tease yukari a lot as the protag and I like that.. I actually take that as a part of his characteristic

+oh, his last line is a reference to this! ↓

[thegrinningghost]

I think Starscream would like my cuddly kitten.

… I’ll post more headcanons about my pets and certain Cybertronians as soon as I finish this story.

[verflares]

i think one of my favourite loz fanartists things is when people draw the fairies as cute little insects/critters instead of just little poofy balls of light.... la creatura appeal

[yellowvixen]

What if Rime had her own version of team dark. What then. What if she had friends...

[saturdaymorningcartoonz]

I really need to start drawing in my sketch book again bwuh

[arolesbianism]

Some more team captain ids! This time with the middle layer gang 👍

[yeslordmyking]

I'm not going to pretend I knew the source of every picture I was inspired by, but scrolling through Pinterest and getting 95% AI art has officially made it feel unethical to have a vision board

[doggo-game]

10/10/2023

I love forgetting about state machines until i see a video about it on youtube and now I gotta relearn how to use those because oh god my game isnt even that big right now yet im letting my scripts have endless ifs and bools from left to right

[cup-o-stars]

I have so many ideas about these two and their unexplored dynamic, but Doflamingo is hard for me to characterize AND draw.

These were the only bits of brainstorming I had that were legible (my rough sketches/writing get ROUGH). Featuring:

1. Doflamingo using the power of love as yet another reason to kill people.

2. Rosinante being incapable of distinguishing between true evil and the things that simply piss him off.

If you want to see what overthinking looks like, I also spent like an hour trying to decide which of these dialogue options were more fitting. I had to ask for assistance (hence the red writing) and could still barely do it.

It's nothing in the end, but details bug me, ha.

[ellipsus-writes]

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[afloat-at-sea]

I’ve had ‘sorry, we’re closed’ swimming in my head for a while now so honestly these were initially inspired by that game – at least like loosely. In any case, it was perfect timing for me to insert crk right back into everything I do!!

(more art under cut btw)

right SO I didn’t mean to make this a full fledged AU but they’ve been so fun to draw and that plan went immediately straight out the window. I don’t have a name for it yet but I do have a lot of disjointed ideas I’ve been throwing together 🤷 🤷

in any case I’m placing angels and demons as like a fun aesthetic foundantion for the whole AU but I don’t super want to rely or base it on too many preexisting religious contexts. feels more fun this way. I’ll come back and make a tag for this when I’ve named it

+ more AU brainstorming :)

I’d imagine the beasts and ancients would still be each other’s counterparts in this but it’d be much less about the souljams and more about balancing each other out. let’s say we’re talking about shmilk and pv; they’d have a back and forth spreading deceit and truth. the closer they get to each other, the more they settle somewhere in the middle. knowledge after all is not that cut and dry. I also think they would probably be in charge of widespread knowledge as a whole. the way it’s kept, distributed or skewed. pretty big responsibility but they have their whole existence to learn to get it right

it’s a process. they’re not close immediately or even on speaking terms for a long while. I’m sure shadow milk doesn’t make it easy to be. without the souljam being a plot point, things are a lot more about resenting being replaced. being discarded and tossed aside with no second thought and then a shinier, prettier thing taking his place. they’re meant to guard each other, make sure the other doesn’t go too out of line.

shadow milk is typical shadow milk so I’d expect beast-yeast eps 7-8 would most likely still happen in some form or another. it’s only after that that they even begin to try and mend whatever grievances they have with each other. for pure vanilla it’s pretty much the motivations he has after he’s awakened in canon, for shadow milk it’s about being stuck together. hold your friends close and your enemies closer type deal. plus he’s debilitatingly lonely. I don’t think some grand romance would happen anytime soon. give these little freaks another century or so to work on it. eventually I do believe they become pretty inseparable though.

+ ALSO I still think beasts would have been made with their powers and purpose there to begin with and ancients would have to prove themselves worthy kind of closely to the way they would in crk.

plus I’d like the ancients to be a little less benevolent in this. they’re flawed people regardless but I think inherently being placed in a role that was created to hold someone else in line would do things to people. esp if said people want you super dead

that’s as far as I’ve thought up. I’d love to sit down and properly brainstorm about how the rest of the cookie world would function under the beasts and ancients

[revelboo]

HI REVEL!

New to the fandom and just recently finished TF Prime! I'm an Opti girly to the end but gods Prime Megatron just does things to me 🫠🫠 (Reading fics about him didn't help either lol)

Seeing your cute blokees and everyone's cute figurines and pics made me want to start collecting too and so far it's been so much fun (wallet thinks otherwise) and I've recently got my first transformable figure and surprise! It's Prime Megs 🤭🤭

I saw that you put your blokees in a dollhouse and wanted to suggest this cute spaceship plush/pillow I saw at ikea! The plush can zip open so you can place things on its cockpit and I just know it'll be a perfect fit for several blokees figures (planning to get it on my next visit!)

Thank you for all the writing and work you do! Your fics have been one of the first things I read in the morning and last at night with how perfect and comfy they are 😇😇 (the uno reverse kept me up with how much I cackled at each one tho lol)

That’s so cute and that Megs looks so good. I have the RED version and his hands are awful 🔞

MTMTE Scenario-discussion

• “Any idea what they’re talking about in there?” Rodimus asks, staring at the closed door. And Whirl glares at him from where he’s got his head against the door trying to listen in. ‘Well, if someone would shut up,’ Whirl mutters, pointing right at him with a claw. Not that he’s having any luck eavesdropping. Brainstorm had already tried. So had Chromedome. Twice.

• “Definitely us. I pretended I’d left something in the bar and they all immediately stopped talking at once,” Swerve says, miserably. Because the fact that they’re all out here waiting and worrying would be funny if it was happening to someone that wasn’t him. “Just stared at me until I left.”

• Polishing his lenses, Rung glances at the closed door. “Humans are social. They’re socializing,” he says. Ratchet has said it was healthy and normal. Even if the closed door and no bots rule bothers them all a tiny bit. “They need this.” And Tailgate makes a noise, looking like he’s on the verge of a breakdown just from being banned from his human. Driving home how attached they all are. Even Megatron is waiting, the former warlord leaning against a wall, arms crossed. Pretending indifference even as a ped nervously taps.

• “They’re socializing about us,” Swerve grumbles, pacing and Drift vents tiredly, moving his legs out of the way where he’d seated himself on the floor to wait. ‘You’re paranoid,’ Drift says, removing a whetstone from subspace and drawing a blade to give his hands something to do. ‘They’re not talking about us. Probably reminiscing about their home world,’ he adds. Why would you talk about them? ‘They’re all pretty homesick.’

• “I mean, it’s kind of like thick sprite with a sort of metallic bite? And it glows.” Lifting a hand and waggling it in a sort of gesture, because sprite isn’t quite right, but it’s the closest example you can think of for it. “Tastes a lot better than those stupid nutrition bars.” And the rest of the refugees are just staring at you in a mix of horror and interest. “And don’t freak out if you swallow, but I think it’s okay as long as you don’t swallow too much?” Someone you can’t remember the name of slowly raises their hand. “But yeah, shit’s going to glow until you can wash after.” And someone makes a choking sound, doubling over laughing.

[bodhi-devotee]

devotional journal tips!

they can be great for having no altar space or supplies! here are some ideas of what to put in it to get you started

prayers -

this is good for those who don’t feel safe speaking their prayers out loud. it can be meaningful to keep a written log of all your prayers instead of keeping them in your head. some day you may be able to look back at all the prayers your deity has answered, or at all the ways your prayers have evolved. if you want to memorize a prayer you can write it in the journal to repeat later!

aid + questions -

are there times in your day that you felt like you received your deities’ aid? or, are there times where you wished you’d received help and felt like you hadn’t? will you need aid in the future? similarly, do you have any little questions? write down the question or request, and then what symbols or signs you’ll be looking for as an answer. this can help you keep track of what certain signs mean and what questions you’ve asked/requests for aid you’ve done in the past that have been answered.

symbols -

have you noticed any symbols of your deity in your day that made you think of them? what did seeing that symbol make you feel like your deity was trying to communicate? this relates heavily to the section above. this can include historical symbols or signs that you’ve personally learned to associate with your deity!

offerings -

it might be helpful to record your offerings, past present & future! perhaps journaling IS the offer? if you want to offer your deity writing, do it here! out down your poems, short blurbs, brainstorming, doodles, etc. and dedicate it to your god!

drawings -

as mentioned a couple times above, if you like to draw, feel free to! you can draw the symbols you’ve seen, images of your god, and offerings you’ve given or plan to give, or just whatever comes to mind. the art you create for your deity is personal and yours to make!

divination -

jot down the results of any divination with your god specifically! if you do tarot, what cards did you pull, and what did they mean to you? what answers did your dice, smoke, or pendulum give you? it can be fun to look back after time has passed :))

i would recommend having a journal per deity for organizational purposes but also i’m not a cop! your relationship with your gods is yours alone, develop it as you see fit

happy worshipping & journaling!!!