#mouse drawing is OP

[wirtsauce4020]

Mouse-ified Tintin characters!

I had to get my grubby hands all over this as soon as I saw the designs (which, by the way, can be found here!) Thank you to @furiouskettle for giving me permission to draw them YIPPEEE

I hope I didn't butcher them too much ahauuha

[npdkondraki]

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[jaycrakhead]

2024 Art Summary

Got a fav month?

[anony-mouse-writer]

….. since creepers are shorter than most mobs and players, shouldnt doc be short?

[smilepebble]

ive mentioned the bohemian rhapsody pmv once or twice on here but i dont think i ever talked about the insane process behind it. i drew every single frame in ms paint, and added the words one by one (for example, the lyric "is this the real life" had six frames, one blank and one for each word) and after that i put each frame in windows movie maker and synced each word with the music. this continued for two and a half days. there was something wrong with me at age 12. ive tried making dozens of pmvs and amvs since but never had the energy to finish any of them

[pictopye]

Stinktober Day 21: Icky-Mickey

@chrispiascik In school I thankfully had the chance to talk with plenty of animators & storyboard artists who had worked with under the mouse, and or with fox animation studios - and most all of them to paraphrase said similar things 'don't ah-hyuck with the mouse.'

Disney as a company really hasn't really changed much tbh since the strike in the 40s. Outside of the technological advances they've created and mastered - with the help of military/gov subsidies. They pretty much have always been an 'industry standard' as to how much a corporation can get away with in regards to how they treat their employees.

That's mostly on the shareholders, C-suite folks, management and uncle Sam side of things. If we're talking the artists/creators/(the doers & makers) yeah those are often very dedicated, driven, and talented folks who deserve better, and more for their hard work! I like probably every other person who grew up in the US have enjoyed many of their shows and movies, I'm not saying all their content sucks; it's the treatment of their people, the actors, and us the consumers that I'm not fond of.

So please do try to continue to support animators, storyboard artists, writers, voice actors, etc... while waiting on negotiations to happen Nov 1st! Also as a CMA - This is my opinion based on prior employees experiences, I believe every company can do better, I'm poor AF, please don't sue me Disney.

[frozenwolftemplar]

*reads text*

*infers that OP is used to using a tablet with stylus/finger/whatever*

*recalls that I grew up using desktop computers where the only way you could draw was with a mouse*

...I feel old. 😅

THIS IS STILL FIRE IDC DRAWING ANYTHING WITH A MOUSE IS COOL TO ME

[osaemu]

GOJO SATORU: ❛❛ FINDERS KEEPERS, LOSERS WEEPERS! ❜❜

.ೃ࿐ streamer!au: the user "gojoslittleslut" tries to make a move on your boyfriend, but she doesn't stand a chance

contents: fem!reader. it's not too serious, nobody gets angry/jealous (except the comments lol). if u haven't already read the other streamer!gojo works u probably should so u understand the dynamic between satoru and his commenters !

author's note: reader is actually a mature person who doesn't pick fights with random ppl on the internet and i think we should all be more like her ꨄ︎

satoru leans back in his chair, idly chatting with people who pop up in his comments after he finishes his last round of the co-op game. his viewers are eager to chat, and some even shoot money satoru's way to draw his attention. whenever someone donates money, he gives them a quick shoutout and has a small back-and-forth with them, and he does that for everyone.

that is, until a user with a questionable username donates to his stream.

gojoslittleslut has donated $100.00!

gojoslittleslut: notice me pls

"shit, a hundred dollars?" satoru says, raising his eyebrows in mild surprise. "thanks, gojoslittl— oh, fuck, what is that?"

you look up from your laptop and see the way your boyfriend's cheeks have gone bright red. satoru laughs a bit nervously, so you get up and walk over, making sure to stay out of sight of the camera. you sit on satoru's desk beside his computer and peer at his screen curiously.

gojoslittleslut: im ur number one fan~

satoru's eyes flicker to yours for a second before he looks back at his monitor. "ah, well, thanks for the donation!" he replies, completely ignoring the user's advances.

suguru-geto: he has a gf ...

gojoslittleslut: yeah

gojoslittleslut: me

you cover your mouth to suppress a giggle, scrunching up your nose at satoru to let him know that you really weren't taking it too seriously. after all, it's just some random person on the internet—they don't stand a chance with your boyfriend. 

satoru reaches over and takes your hand, twining his fingers with yours off-camera. he ignores the sudden burst of comments that litter the corner of his screen, instead watching you intently. in response, you roll your eyes playfully and blow him a kiss, snickering when satoru pretends to faint.

eventually, he turns back to his screen, cerulean eyes doing a quick once-over of his new comments.

toji-fushiguro: ill take his gf any day

inumaki: we know gtfo

gojoslittleslut: toji i get gojo and u take his girl. deal?

toji-fushiguro: bet

"alright guys, settle down," satoru huffs, rolling his eyes. "for the record, i still have a girlfriend and i don't plan on changing that anytime soon," he clarifies, addressing the current feud going on in his comments. 

satoru's a good streamer—he does his best to keep things cordial and lighthearted with his audience, but he also knows his limits. one of his limits involves people trying to separate you and him, his one true pairing (of course satoru's otp is his own relationship).

your boyfriend leans closer to the screen and scowls good-naturedly, holding up the hand still wrapped around yours. "this isn't gonna change, so don't even think about it!"

satoru says his goodbyes and then ends the stream, turning to you with a sigh. "how down bad do you have to be to name yourself 'gojo's little slut?'" he grumbles, clicking through his stream analytics and finding the user. he opens gojoslittleslut's profile and studies it for a moment before hovering his mouse over the block button.

he leans back in his chair and tilting his chin up at you. "she just gave me a hundred dollars, so i kinda feel bad about blocking her," satoru muses, tapping his foot on the floor. he looks up at where you still sit on his desk, twirling a strand of hair around your finger. "c'mere," he mumbles, slipping his hands around your waist and hoisting you into his lap with a soft grunt.

satoru rests his chin on your shoulder and nudges his face into your neck, breath tickling your skin. "you know that i'm all yours, right?"

"of course i do," you murmur, settling into his arms. he's warm and comfortable, like always. satoru smiles warmly and kisses the side of your face, letting his lips linger.

"good. 'cause no fan account's ever gonna change that."

[shithowdy]

thinking about the interaction i had the other day on reddit where i complimented a young furry's art by saying i could see it in a children's book some day and OP was like "yay thank you i would love that" and someone replied that we shouldn't be putting furries in kids' books, especially something like OP's first drawing (a mouse in lingerie), and i was like. what are you talking about half of kids' media is anthropomorphic animals do you think the baby book would have undressed mice because they draw undressed mice sometimes. and they had the absolute audacity to reply "cartoon animals and furries are not the same thing."

they didn't respond when i told them to google osamu tezuka mice but if i needed confirmation that i do live in a cultural bubble, i got one by meeting someone who in 2025 still thinks furry art is some kind of internet-exclusive phenomenon through which only people who fuck in mascot costumes express themselves

[witchygagirlwrites]

How Dare You-Part 3

Jay Halstead x Reader (nicknamed Deuce/surnamed Barlowe no first name used)

Once the first mission is over successfully, you make it clear to Jay that you two are nothing to each other off the field. Will he hold to that? Your team stands strong to your side regardless and aren't going anywhere.

Warnings: Violence, use of explosives, killings, drugs, gun violence, I think that's it?

You were standing, looking over the layout of the house. You’d managed to get your hands on blueprints from about five years ago when the city had forced a renovation of the house, thanks to Roxie. Next to it you had an aerial view map laid out to try to plan how the fuck you were supposed to get your people in without getting slaughtered before you made it to the front door.

The La Mano de Sangre owned the entire damn neighborhood. A solid ten block radius around the stash house was their eyes and ears. You wouldn’t be able to have a hummingbird land on a windowsill without them knowing.   “What ya thinking?” Marcel asked and you scrubbed a hand down your face “I’m thinking we need to get their eyes somewhere else. Set off timed charges here” you pointed to an area of the map “And here” then pointed to another area of the map. 

“Draw 'em out and take' em down?” he asked and you nodded “Exactly. Remember that time in Moscow? When we had to play by the locals' rules and it turned out they had pretty decent ideas?” he grinned “Yeah I remember”  You turned to face him “Talk to Morrison, he’s the explosives expert on Halstead’s Squadron” he nodded, started to walk out then stopped. You raised an eyebrow “Something wrong Cel?” he shook his head “Are you sure you’re up to using explosives electively?” you smiled slightly, thankful for having people who cared enough to ask. “I’m good Everson, really”

“Ok Deuce, I’ll go find Morrison and see what he can get his hands on as far as timed charges go” you nodded and he walked out of the room.  

You were spending so much time between your office and the base, they’d issued temporary ids to you, Marcel, Travis and Samantha just to make coming and going easier and it’d only been about a week. This would be the first mission of the op. Your stomach was knotted up.  It would be fine, you had three highly trained agents at your back and no matter how badly he’d ripped you apart Jay was competent when it came to shit like this. That much you could trust and you’d ran his team. They were all solid choices, they could hold their own in the field. If this was pulled off without a hitch it would hopefully be the first domino falling. That’s what you needed, that first little push to actually hit the ground running. That would calm your nerves and push Jay’s presence to the back of your mind. 

“Deuce” you heard Travis’ voice as he walked into the conference room that Nolan had basically given you the run of. You looked over your shoulder at him and smiled slightly. “Hey, did you talk to him about the fact that you’ll be with him?” he nodded “Yeah, he didn’t seem too happy about it but I reminded him that his squadron is second tier to our team and that you’re SSA. Your call goes and that I support your call one hundred percent” 

“Thank you, I know I’ve got to woman up and face him but I want to get this first one under our belt successfully first” why you felt the need to explain yourself to Travis of all people you had no idea. He walked up next to you, looking over the map before he said “You don’t owe him anything. What did he expect? You to run into his arms after what he did?”

You laughed despite yourself “Hell, I don’t even know why he resigned from CPD. I’ve looked over his record, I got Mouse to do a deep dive with Voight. He got someone else to call of course, he was on track to take over intelligence. What the fuck is he even doing here?”

“Show him how you run shit, show him you do this better than anyone. Show him why the army trusted you to step in and have a team at your back” Travis offered and you nodded and held out your fist, he bumped it with his own before you said “Line ‘em up?” he grinned “And knock “em down”

“Halstead, you’re with Bailey” you spoke, forcing yourself to maintain eye contact with Jay considering all of you were prepping to go into this raid. Your team would be waiting at one ambush point, Travis’ team at the other. Jay raised an eyebrow, mainly because that was the first time you’d spoken directly to him since the team was introduced but just said  “Take Davidson with you” you were thankful he didn’t argue or push it.

The forces were divided. Your team consisted of yourself, Marcel and six soldiers. Travis’ team consisted of him, Jay, Samantha and six other soldiers. After the timed charges were detonated you would either take out or incapacitate the guards. You would meet in the middle and move together into the stash house. Morrison had equipped you, Travis, Jay and Davidson with stun grenades as well as a couple other toys you’d brought in your bag of goodies from the fed supplied treats.

“Move smart, if you get in a tight spot let it be known and just push forward do not let them get you cornered. Do not go into any place that has not been cleared by the dogs” you ordered, looking around at the group. They all nodded. “Move out and everyone make it back” “Yes ma’am” was repeated around the room.

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You stood next to Davidson, your com in to let you know when Travis and Jay were in place. “Trav, you set?” “Waiting on you” you nodded to Davidson “Hit it”

The moment you gave the order both charges went off and within moments you could hear hollering, men’s voices and the clear sounds of vehicles being loaded up to respond “Alright boys and girl, here comes the fun” this was what cleared your head, clarity in the chaos. The cars got closer and you whistled to Marcel, he whistled back and the soldiers got into place. The cartel wanted to see a fucking ambush, they’d get a damn ambush.

_____________________

After incapacitating what guards you could and securing them to ensure they weren’t going anywhere, you moved the bodies of the others to ensure they weren’t found before pushing forward. You hit your com “Trav, talk to me”  “Pushing into the stash house, what about you?” “Heading your way” “Meet you in the middle”

The soldiers fell in step with you and Marcel, half took the west side of the street behind you, half took the east behind him. Franklin, the handler was right on your heels with Rex. A German Shepard. You felt Rex nudge at your leg at every corner. Franklin had told you that meant he didn’t smell anything out of the ordinary when he did that.

You slid around the corner and spotted Travis leading one team along with Jay leading the other. You held up a hand to halt the teams behind you then motioned for them to circle up “Half of you follow me to Bailey, other half follow Davidson to Halstead. We move as one on the stash house. When we get to it, my team will take the front, Halstead’s team will take the back. Are we clear?” they all nodded then moved.

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When you got to the stash house you nodded to Jay and motioned for him to turn his com on. He clicked it and you hit your own “You copy?” “Copy” he led his team around the back as you got your team in position. “Hit it” 

The knocker and the dogs went in first. Then the rest of you went in. You took out one man as he was aiming for Young, the other dog's handler. She nodded to you as the house was moved through, being cleared room by room. You were zip tying offenders as you went and had them lying throughout the house, some were laying face to face with their dead buddies but not like their dead buddies had cared about trying to kill any of you.

“Headcount” you called out and Travis called back “All accounted for” Davidson cut his eyes at you “Your squad and my team” he nodded “Oh” you saw Jay look your way at that. You weren’t trying to talk to him. “Ok, Someone wanna get the humvees so we can start stacking these assholes up and roll out?” you asked and Travis laughed “That’s her talk for good job”

You were back at the base, finishing up the reports on the op. Nolan walked in “Good reports Barlowe” you looked up “Thank you” he nodded “So, are you still pissed?” you nodded “Oh I’d strangle you bare handed if I was given a chance” he laughed “Remind me to not piss you off when we’re away from the base or your office” you grinned “Oh, of course”

He leaned against the doorframe, despite the fact that it was his own office you’d taken over “Have you spoken to him? Since he is leading the squad and you’re the Agent over this whole damn thing?” “Enough” you replied, signing the bottom of the report and shoved it into his hand “Have a good evening Johnny” “You too”

You shoved past him and stepped out into the hallway. Samantha, Marcel and Travis would be waiting on you in the conference room.  Considering you lived with Samatha and Roxie, all of you just drove the twenty minute commute to the base together most days.

You walked around a corner and slammed into a hard chest, cursing as you dropped your belongings. “Son of a bitch” you hadn’t even looked to see who you’d ran into. You were tired, starving and wanted some sleep. It wasn’t until you squatted down and Jay squatted in front of you that you realized your mistake “Sorry about that, I wasn’t watching where I was going” he spoke, voice low.

He reached to help you gather what you’d dropped and you shook your head “No need Halstead. Continue on your way. I got this” “We worked well together in the field” he tried and you nodded “That’s in the field, when the lives of your soldiers and my team hang in the balance. I won’t risk any lives, no matter who I have to work with”

He moved back as you grabbed your stuff and stood up straight. When you managed to meet his eyes you were proud of yourself. “We have to face each other. We have to work together. Beyond missions, we owe nothing to each other. We are nothing to each other”

“Deuce!” you heard Samantha’s voice and felt your shoulders loosen. She walked up behind Jay and purposely slid between you and him “C’mon. Roxie called, she’s making stuffed mushrooms. Your favorite” 

She slipped her arm through yours and the two of you quickly walked away, leaving Jay standing in the hallway.  

Part 4

@allisonargent144

@nevaehstreater18

@alterna123

@leavemealoneplsandthx

[aposterous]

New DW OC: P33!!

Everyone meet P33, or as I like to call him, Pee! He is a computer, but more importantly, a hacker. He's a cool dude.

He started as a joke OC but I actually kind of like him (more than my other DW character... sorry Parker...) so I think he might stick around! His idea is that he's a relative of Vee, because I've always thought that Vee looks like a computer. And computers are just fancy TVs anyway. He's cool and retro though because DW is supposed to take place in the 80s-00s and it bothers me that none of the canon characters give that vibe.

He's partially inspired by the agent guy from The Matrix, because when I was coming up with him we were watching that movie at school. And I like to draw terrible doodles of Neo because he is the goofiest action movie hero I've ever seen. Inside jokes, yippee

ANYWAY. He's a main. I don't know his stats yet, but I do have his abilities: he can highlight players in panic mode (so we can see where everyone is), and if he gets gold on all his skill checks on a machine, all remaining machines on the map get half-filled. This ability caps at 8 machines; if there are more than 8 left on a map, he only fills 8 of them. He can only use it once per floor, and I think I'll give him an awful skill check to compensate for this ability because it's kind of op. Idk yet.

He also carries a briefcase which is the like, box of the computer (the bit with all the hardware). And I think he'd have a mouse tail, like Vee has a mic tail. But I'll design those later-ish.

Anyway if you read all of this, thank you very much!! I'd like to hear people's thoughts on Pee. Is he iconic. Do we like him. What alternative names could I give him (because Pee is a terrible name).

And I will be posting real art soon. Ok bye now

[normal-nightmare]

It's me again and please keep yapping this is the tasty content I come here for. lol I've been sitting here a while (longer than is polite) trying to form a proper response to my previous ask cause it was literally everything! I wish I could be half as eloquent instead of just yelling XD

like there are so many things that draw me to these two, and ngl it definitely started with the whole pseudo-incest vibe but they really are so complex and you really hit the nail with this:

Just... they're so complicated and it sucks that people don't wanna explore that because of the preconceived notion that they're brothers, nothing more, nothing less. Sure, legally they are, but they don't... act like it? They didn't grow up together, they weren't very close before Jason died, and they only recently started getting properly close. Jason also has his crush thing going on (seriously, how else am I supposed to interpret RHATO v2 annual 1??)

Look I will forever maintain Dick was Jason’s gay awakening and that boy has been in love with Dick since he was what 12? 15? Also the way you described their relationship to each other was so delicious and alterous is such a great term for them.

I feel like jaydick becoming canon one day would be a natural progression of their relationship. Especially since they seem to be getting paired up as a duo more often. Readers love them, comic artists and writers like them too- i feel like jaydick actually happening one day wouldn't be extremely surprising.

THISTHISTHIS!!! I hope this does happen.🙏

Also re: dickbabs and not making certain characters bisexual I feel that on such a spiritual level. Like I’m sorry but both Jason and Dick read as queer to me? Idk how to describe it. Which is why I love the little touch of bi Dick in Gotham Knights.

Also speaking of Gotham Knights, I finally finished it and holy fuck what the fuck? One of my few complaints is that I wish it was longer. I need GK2: electric boogaloo but this time with a Poison Ivy case file because reasons. I adored every interaction Dick and Jason had, from the emails to the flirting in front of everyone’s salad, plus how they were almost always near each other? (also Jason looked so good in that post credit scene in the Batcave I choose to believe every time he wears it, Dick can’t keep his hands to himself 🫣)

ALSO

I genuinely feel like the writers were intending for jaydick to happen in a DLC given how much setup there is.

I would love to hear your thoughts on this? I want to yell about this game so much. I wish I had someone to play co-op with me so I could see some of those Jaydick interactions too 😞

GOD honestly i have a million thoughts on Dick and Jason's relationship in Gotham Knights?? Because what the HELL is going on in that game!!!

It utterly BAFFLES me when other people read their interactions (Belfry, cutscenes, whatever) as brotherly/familial bc like... if you're interacting with your family like that I'm so concerned?? Bc they're gay as hell!! They flirt the ENTIRE GAME. Like... it's ridiculous how in-your-face they are about it. It's not even gay subtext anymore, it's just... text. Saying they're not gay in Gotham Knights is like saying Jayce and Viktor were 'just brothers' in Arcane to me LMFAO.

Like... the rooftop scene for one reads as really BAD flirting on Dicks part. It doesn't feel like he's being deliberately silly to cheer up Jason until he fakes falling over the edge, THEN he's properly silly. The entire scene otherwise, he's just... being really bad at flirting? And it's funnier that both that and then him being silly actually kinda WORKS on Jason. He laughs (laughs!!), relents and let's Dick sit next to him! It's so, so cute!!

And then the little interaction where Dick says that the Belfry needs a cat, and then Jason suddenly flirts with him?? Like the line "Listen, Grayson, if you're scared of some mouse you saw scurrying, I'll keep you safe." Is ABSOLUTELY flirting, and this is only supported by A) the tone Jason has and B) the way Dick stutters and stumbles over his words afterwards. Like, Dick is AUDIBLY flustered and surprised by this. He tries sooo hard to keep it cool but that boys BLUSHING.

And then there's the tension in some scenes?? When they argue in the beginning and when Dick puts a hand on Jason's wrist (after Jason jokes about making Tim a fake ID), and kind of the scene where Jasons mad, and he's sparring with Dick and Dick catches his fist and says "Easy, Tiger." Like.... the tension in these scenes goes crazy?? The physical closeness, the eye contact, the brief silence, calling Jason tiger?? Like I CANNOT be crazy thinking that there's at least a LITTLE sexual tension in these moments. Juuuust a little 🤏

And like! Yeah you're 100% on them being so physically close most of the game. It's hard to find scenes where they AREN'T standing right by each other. And their stories focus a lot on each other!! At least Dicks story focuses a lot on Jason! Like... a LOT, it's 90% Dicks story 😭

And the like,, nicknames. Dick calls Jason things like Big Guy, swole, and Miracules throughout the game, like, consistently. He points out Jason's size and strength a lot?? (His size and strength kink is so blatantly obvious, good lord this man is horny LMAO. I don't blame him though... 👀) and then Jason mainly calls him Grayson, but when he's being vulnerable he calls him Dick? Which is so cute?!

And a cute little detail is how angry Dick gets on Jason's behalf when Talia says they should be grateful she brought Jason back even though she took away his autonomy and used him. Like, Dick is PISSED! Lowkey he's so ready to throw hands right there.

And i think one of my favorite interactions is when Dick chooses to take Jason to a circus that's in town. Like! He's literally asking Jason out on a DATE. And it's the cutest thing ever?! Jason is surprised and it's just... it's so sweet.

And in general they have the sweetest interactions and emails. It's adorable how they kinda talk about Tim like they're proud parents, and it's also cute how they kinda bicker over the perfect sandwiches cause they sound like a married couple loll.

Just!! Auuggghhhh they're so CUTE in Gotham Knights! There's a mountain of setup there for a romantic relationship. It's very in your face, and honestly impossible to ignore if you have ears and eyes. I'm sure there's more i'm missing or just haven't mentioned, but it's so blatant it feels like it couldn't have been on accident.

Just... it's so cute, I'll never get over it 😭

[grey-cyrus]

✦Bear Hybrid Nikto Pt. 4

TW: Kidnapping, Branding, Cuts, Biting, Blood as well as mental instability.

Eyes slowly opening to the bright world, not registering what was happening around you just yet.

There he was. His tongue on your hip, licking up the blood from his marking. A traumatic sight. Mask raised up enough for you to see his mutilated skin, sharp mix of canine and incisor teeth. Often used to crush berries in the lush evergreen forest, now being used to sink into his prey. If his warm tongue wasn’t enough of an electric shock on your fear ridden, ice-cold skin. The bite enclosing around your marking sure as hell was.

A gasp formed in your chest but you weren’t gonna give it to him. You didn’t want the fucker to get any form of satisfaction, you didn’t wanna show any fear. As if you hadn’t been on the verge of tears before and he could see that. You honestly thought that boosted his small dicked ego. Cause what kinda man kidnaps women? A mentally disturbed one.

His piercing ice blue eyes looking up at you with a signature smirk, scalding tongue still on your skin. In any other circumstance you would’ve been blushing a light pink at the seductive look of what wasn’t concealed by the mask, but right now all you can think of is how this is your final moments. Arms tied behind your back as you sat on a bathtub with this sick bastard licking up your blood like it was the most delicious nectar he’d ever tasted.

“Моя любовь, you’re finally awake.”

You wanted to speak but the lump in your throat was restricting you, you tried to swallow but it was dry. All that came out was a gargle of struggle. Drawing a humor-filled chuckle from him, the first emotion he’s shown other than what you assumed would be considered “Alpha male dominance” from those shitty podcasts that carnivores did.

“What do you want from me.” You said in a shaken voice, no fear just raw emotion. Anger. Hatred. Resentment. And annoyance at how long this game of cat and mouse had been going on.

He laughed, finally withdrawing his mouth from your hip. “You have no idea, what I want from you, моя м��ленькая телка. You can’t comprehend what twisted shit runs wild in my psyche when I look at you.” He runs a trembling hand over his mask, a quivering exhale followed close by. “God.”

“Not even God can save you now…You know what. Fuck him, I’m your new God. You won’t pray to him to save you, you pray to me to make it stop. For me to not ruin your pretty fucking face that I can’t stop from wanting to rub the ashes of my destruction on. The shit you do me. You’ll never understand what it feels like to want something so badly, but yet, you can’t help but want to absolutely trash it. Make it pay for making you suffer, for waiting this damn long.”

He grabbed a bandaid box, hurling it at the wall. His eyes almost frantic, settling on you. Shuddering as he dropped to his knees, tears forming in his eyes as he gripped your thighs in a bruising hold. “I’m asking nicely.” He was almost choking on his own words, you’ve never seen a special-ops Spetsnaz solider break down this much. It was almost ridiculous. Not to mention the constant mood-swings, one minute he’s licking at your blood like a deranged bear. The next he’s on his knees, sobbing.

“Choose me, please, choose me. I’ll provide for you, anything you could ever want. Stroganina, Expensive clothes, bags, shoes, shelter, a family.” He sniffled, his fluffy ears drooping. A pathetic sight really.

You couldn’t even think of what to say, just staring in shock. Until you got a plan. Date him, earn his trust, use it against him, and why not enjoy a few little treats along the way. And then, run away and get him put in a place worse than fucking Alcatraz.

“Oh, my baby. Don’t cry, it’s okay. I promise, I know you would be a good little bear, providing for me. Anything I could ever dream of. But right now, I wanna see just how gentle you can be. Clean up my wounds, and not with your tongue. If anything you’ve probably already set up infection, it feels infected.”

He perks up, only to droop again when you say he set up infection. “But it is the way we bears clean our wounds.” He was so stupid, all you had to do was bat your eyelashes at him and he was on his knees begging for your approval. This would work nicely with your plan.

“Well, I’m a CMA, I think I know what I’m talking about when I say that’s unsanitary and takes longer to heal with risks of infection.” He huffed, almost annoyed with your reasoning. You wanted to make a comment about how childish he was, but you didn’t know if that would get you in deeper trouble so you just bit your tongue.

He grabbed some soap and a washcloth, wetting it before applying the antibacterial soap to it. Carefully washing the branding, for a 6’0 soldier and bear hybrid he was surprisingly gentle. He finished off the washing by tossing the soppy washcloth in the sink, laying his head on your thigh. “Please, love me. Будь моим.”

You let out a sigh, before you pretended to think about it. “Hm, I don’t know.”

“I’ll do anything, I’ll cut out my own eardrums if it means you’ll be mine.” Damn, you didn’t think he would go that far. But then again, he did kinda, ya know, kidnap you.

“Fine, I’ll be yours. Now get me out of these ropes.” He didn’t waste a second untying them, tail wagging happily. “There.” He yawned, sleepily. That could’ve been your chance to run but you needed to stick to the plan. You could tell his hibernation was approaching soon, making him more cuddly and emotional. Probably explains the situation earlier, or maybe he’s just really mentally unwell.

He stole you from your seat on the bath tub, throwing you over his shoulder again. Before changing positions, into a bridal carry. Almost embarrassed of his mistake, he walked with you with ease. Almost impressing you all over again, considering how you were a chubby cow hybrid.

He threw you on the bed, climbing ontop of you. “What are you—“

Words cut off as he…

—To Be Continued—

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[theokusgallery]

Wait, I'm a little confused on the tags of the AI post you reblogged, can you elaborate a little more?

Okay. The premise of that post is that AI bros using image generation aren't "real artists" because they have to use a technological tool whereas digital artists ("real artists") can draw without technology, on paper or rocks or whatever else.

Now let's imagine someone who cannot, in fact, draw traditionally (a.k.a. on a physical canvas). The example I was using in my tags was that of someone with unsteady hands who has to use heavy stabilisation (or vector tools — I've seen some real cool art and animations being made with a mouse and some vector tools), but any example will work. Do you consider that person not to be a "real artist" because they can't draw on OP's rock with burnt sticks? Or even just a digital artist who, regardless of their reasons, would not be interested in "finding a way" to draw without digital tools? Are those hypothetical people not "real artists" because they cannot or will not draw on a physical piece of paper?

Using AI image generation doesn't make someone an artist because they're not drawing. Whatever image generation software they're using is making the image for them. It would be like someone commissioning art from an artist, then claiming to be the artist because they had the idea for the commission they paid someone else to make. AI bros not being "real artists" has nothing to do with their ability to draw or not to draw on a rock. I'm sure there's people out there who are very talented artists and use AI image generation for fun — using AI isn't what makes them an artist, the fact that they draw is.

The "chef" analogy I was using positioned the AI guy as someone buying a meal at a restaurant, a digital artist as a chef using a food processor (= technological tool that makes your job easier in some ways) and a traditional artist as someone who'd use a knife instead. The client at the restaurant didn't make the food, so they're not a fucking chef. The chef using the food processor does make the food, so they are, regardless of the tool they're using.

Also let it be known that I will look suspiciously at any mention of the words "real artist" used in a genuine manner.

[givrally]

You can't say "Everything humans make is art" right after a whole tirade about how AI isn't art.

Hi op here

I CAN actually.

The machine made to make "AI" is art. Its engineering+programming. Which are crafts and a highly difficult ones.

What that machine makes however is NOT art. Its not even true artificial intelligence. Its just a bunch of stolen work cut up and pieced back together using complicated programming. What is produced is not art. What made it however is. Its a feat of accomplishment that we can get a machine to do that kind of stuff

But what it makes is not art.

Feel like @snitchanon would have a field day with all this.

So Photoshop itself is art, but works done in photoshop aren't art ? It's engineering and programming, but what it makes is not art. It's just clicking buttons and dragging the mouse until you get what you want.

As for true AI, yeah, I actually agree with you in no small part. What we call "AI" right now is nowhere close to having any kind of intelligence, we're basically making a very complicated math function with many parameters and tweaking it until it spits out the right output. There's very little explainability (it's a black box for the most part, we don't know what goes on inside or why this particular input), and every year there's a paper titled something like "We Fucked Up : How we evaluate [field of deep learning] is flawed and gives the illusion of progress".

As for the ethical issues with using stolen works, yeah, I'm completely with you, that's a dealbreaker for me, and unlearning (=getting from a model trained on a dataset to a model trained on a dataset w/o some data, without having to retrain everything, but being 100% sure the excluded data doesn't leave a single trace) is too new as a subject of research to even be usable for the next few years, so for me, AI Art generators are a big no-no.

(Also, the online ones take as much of your personal data as they can, so I'd avoid those like the plague)

HOWEVER, what "AI" image generation does isn't to cut up stolen work and put it back together, that's a myth. I don't know how this started but I've heard that said like three or four times already, it's way too specific a definition to have evolved independently so there must be a Youtuber out there to blame.

It's like saying Photoshop just takes pixels from stolen works and weaves them in the right order to make a new image. That's technically true, but it's a stupid definition that gives Photoshop way more credit than it's due. Likewise, AI image generators don't look through a database to find the right image, cut out the part they like, and add it to their final product. Otherwise, why do you think AI art would have all those problems with hands, buildings, etc... ? There can't be that many people out there drawing weird 7 fingered hands, I know some people have trouble drawing hands but not to that extent.

What they do instead (or rather what they did, because I don't know enough about the newest diffusion models to explain them in an intuitive way), is deconvolutions, basically "reversing" the operation (convolutions) that takes in a grid of numbers (image) and reduces it to a small list of numbers. With deconvolutions, you give it a small list of numbers, at random, and it slowly unravels that into an image. Without tweaking the thousands or millions of parameters, you're gonna end up with random noise as an image.

To "train" those, what you do is you pair it with another "AI", called a discriminator, that will do convolutions instead to try and guess whether the image is real or made by the generator. The generator will learn to fool the discriminator and the discriminator will try to find the flaws in the generator.

Think Youtube vs AdBlock. Adblockers are the discriminator and Youtube is the generator. Youtube puts out new ads and pop-ups that don't trigger ad blockers, and ad blockers in return fix those flaws and block the ads. After a month of fighting, it turns out ad blockers have become so good that other websites have a lot of trouble getting ads past them. You've "trained" ad blockers.

The most important thing to note is that the training data isn't kept in storage by the models, both in the adblock example and in AI image generators. It doesn't pick and choose parts to use, it's just that the millions of tiny parameters were modified thanks to the training data. You can sometimes see parts of the training data shine through, though. That's called overfitting, and it's very bad !

In the middle, the model won't remember every O and X out there. It drew a curve that roughly separates the two, and depending on where a new point falls compared to that curve, it can guess if it's an O or an X without having access to the original data. However, in the example on the right, even if you remove all the O and X marks, you can still make out the individual points and guess that those holes mean an X was in there. The model cannot generalize past what it's seen, and if there's ten thousand variables instead of just two, that means you could change a single one slightly and get nonsense results. The model simply hasn't learned correctly. For image generation, that means parts of the training data can sometimes shine through, which is probably how the "cut up and piece back stolen images" myth came to be.

The reason I don't like to use AI image generators is twofold : 1. Right now, all the models out there have or are likely to have seen stolen data in their training dataset. In the state of AI right now, I really don't believe any model out there is free of overfitting, so parts of that will shine through. 2. Even if there's no overfitting, I don't think it's very ethical at all. (And 3. the quality just isn't there and I'd rather commission an artist)

HOWEVER, that doesn't mean I agree with you guys' new luddite movement. "Everything humans make is art except when they use AI" is not a good argument, just like "It's not art because you didn't move the pixels yourself" or "AI cuts up and pieces back stolen images". The first two give "I piss in Duchamp's fountain uncritically" vibes, and the last one gives "Don Quixote fighting windmills" vibes.

[sumechiayuu]

Fellow artists let mouse sweep /j