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Emily and Wendell once again :)

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that previous ask fr has no idea what they're talking about 🙄 I've always thought your art was beautiful and that you have an interesting and unique style. seems like that person was just rage baiting imo

It might've been just that :) Thank you for the kind words! ‭❤

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Your art does NOT look AI-ish at all. That was a bitter anon troll trying to bring you down. It's so obvious that human care and emotion goes into every stroke of your work. I can't even believe they would think that, I really feel like this was just an attempt to belittle out of jealousy. So sorry about this, and I love your art!!❤️

I might've been a troll, yes, because when I scrolled down my blog there's a lot of anti-ai stuff I posted lately. Anyway, thanks, glad you like my art! ‭❤

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Not meant as a criticism of anyone else's opinion, but your art literally doesn't look anything like any ai art I've ever seen! You have a really distinct art style that seems like it would be very hard to replicate with ai (unless it would be mostly trained on your art I guess, fingers crossed it never gets (ab)used for stuff like that!

Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I have loved your art and style of drawing for a long time and that it's a great inspiration for my own art 💜 I fully understand that the whole ai bullshit drains your enthusiasm for posting or making art though, so don't feel bad about posting less. I will look forward to anything you decide to post in the future, whatever and whenever that is!

Hey, thank you so much for the kind words! I really appreciate your message ‭❤

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Let's be clear with one thing: I've never used and never will be using generative ai to create my art, drawing or writing. I expressed my opinion about this topic many times. Ai kills creativity, thinking and skills (not to mention all the etical and environmental issues that come with this technology). I don't want it anywhere near my art.

I know it's easy to get suspicious about everything these days and I don't blame you for that @aunt-patty but my advice is take a longer look at the person's art in general (older pieces included) and think twice before accusing someone of generating ai images, especially when you're not an artist yourself. I assure you that my pieces are drawn by me brush stroke by brush stroke and I'm against generative ai.

If anyone wonders why I post less at the moment, this is also why. Ai flood makes me not want to post anything and sometimes even draw at all tbh.

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Emily and Wendell from Emily Wilde series :)

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why does life suck so much

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i understand your feelings about AI. A friend of mine uses char.ai to talk to a character and they're like "haha its no big deal lol" but like.... ANY amount of ai is awful. ugh. the whole ghibli ai boom is the worst

Yeah, those comments under "ghiblified" Al tweets made me angry and then people giving advice how to use Al for "writing books" made it worse and then some video where a guy used Al images to "illustrate" a story (I'm not sure he was aware of the fact they were Al because they were "created" by his "hard working friend") made it even worse. Not to mention that annoying Al extension popping up on chrome every time I try to google something and Al generated poster for rabies vaccine they throw (the vaccine not the poster) around in my area made me scream (the screaming was because of the poster, not the vaccine). Anyway, yeah people behave like someone who kicks a dog and when you tell them "hey, it hurts the dog", they tell you to chill and say they can do whatever they like and besides, they like the sound the dog makes when they kick him. I wonder what's the appeal with talking to a character like that for your friend.

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idk, I'm so fed up with Al that I had to get it off my chest...

I hate Al, I hate stupid prompted images that flood every space. I hate Al popping up every time I open anything on the internet. I hate people who pretend that prompting is such a skill and so much work but are scared to actually disclose they used Al for their stupid images and text. What are you scared of? I hate people who think writing "make me a ..." makes them a creator of anything. I hate people who think generative Al is an improvement and innovation. It's not! The fact that something is new doesn't make it good! Do you know viruses? There's always a new one at the corner.

Can't you see it? It makes you dumber with every use. Your creative skills decline with every command you give to a machine. Your communication skills deteriorate every time Al writes an email for you or you talk to your virtual girlfriend. Your ability to decide about yourself shrinks every time you ask a machine what to do, what to buy, what to say. Your critical thinking vanishes (well, assuming you even had any to begin with) whenever you ask "grok, is it true?". Whenever a computer does homework for you, whenever it writes an essay for school (which you won't even proofread) or spits a picture you were supposed to make yourself for a class, you become more stupid and less skilled. It won't make you into a good writer or artist just as watching work out videos won't give you muscles.

And you mock people who don't want their brains to rot, who maintain their values, who don't want to destroy their integrity and planet, who improve their talent and skills and spend their time actually thinking and learning stuff.

You can't even see how big corporations fuck you hard and slow every time you pay them to improve their Al monster, dangling colourful pictures before your eyes like a cat toy, cackling seeing your pupils blow wide. They promise you money and lure you with a vision of fame that those pathetic, broke artists will never see in their worthless lives. But you will. You'll have it all! Just feed their wallets with your money and databases with yourself and turn off your brain. You really think you'll have money and fame? Who will ever see your pretty pictures under millions of other pretty pictures? Who will read your book, when John Pickle published 30 only yesterday using Al? Who will watch your great movie when someone else has already made one with their own face and now they're kissing their favourite actor in space in a ship with too many details? Well, at least you can use someone else's voice to scam their family. If you get caught by the police you'll have your two minutes of fame before the Al erection supplement commercial rolls in :)

Al is here to stay! Yeah, like the putrid smell of your rotten brains.

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Post it. Let us hate with you!

xD

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I wrote a rant about Al but I'm not sure whether to post it xD it's a lot of hate words...

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I do wonder how Polish came to have the same word for brocade and glitter. pozdrowionka <3

No idea, but probably it's because brocade can be sparkly and glitter is sparkly? :) ❤

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no you're right -- a majority of the men who complain about smut or romance in literature have literally zero issue with Stephen King writing an entire child orgy. They're being misogynists. They don't have an issue with sex they have an issue with women being autonomous in their sexual activity.

Welp :) that's actually sad.

What I've noticed about them complaining about romance, they are still okay with the main male character in books to have spicy encounters with different ladies and him ogling female characters and noticing their bodies during his journey, but no woman can become more important in his life (and even if he has the love of his life, she's conveniently left at home while he's away adventuring). And well, like what you like but why are they angry when someone isn't interested in such a dynamic?

Anyway, as you said, they have their issues xD

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I'm sorry but...

Grown men clutching their girlfriends' pearls just because a book has a smut scene will never not be funny to me xD

I'm talking about books other than erotica. And I'm wondering, because some books that men like also have scenes like that, where some details are explicitly mentioned. Many male readers though can't stand these scenes when they're written in a certain way, in a less detached, mechanic way. They will blush like a historical romance heroine who just got into the marriage of convenience whenever they read a more heated kiss in some books written by women. Why is that? Or am I wrong? (I'm basing my opinion on many videos made by men, in which they talk about how awful fantasy romance books are, how disgusting those scenes are, idk.)

And I'm not talking about preferences for spicy scenes in general. Like, you can like to read them or not or be completely indifferent about them, and you can have a different tolerance for them. People look for different things. I'm just talking about double standards, because I've yet to see a man commenting on a smut scene in some fantasy or si-fi or a classic book written by a man in the same way he does that with a one written by a woman. What's going on? xD

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Writing update! I... am still at the beta-reading stage but some people has already finished reading the text (which was a challenge because I made all of them write so much feedback xD) and... tbh I didn't expect such positive reactions. Of course there are critical notes and all of them super helpful and amazingly great! (I already plan the changes to the third draft.) But! People like the story and they go through the last 10 chapters like lightning! They also seem to like my characters. So I'm hopeful that I can manage to polish this story to something decent that would have the chance to maybe be published one day. Who knows.

It was a scary thing to show my writing to other people, but I'm happy that I'm not the only one that knows project Soulmate at this point. It's such a strange feeling but so satisfying that there's a stranger who read it and knows it and maybe likes it :)

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Sad, messy boy xD Kavar!

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Sometimes I really wonder if I can actually communicate with people and if my understanding of things that are being said is similar too other people's understanding of those things. Are my emotions or the way I see stuff correct? And I know people are different but when you hear "no one understands you", "you shouldn't have said that", "this sentence with a smiley face reads passive aggressive, delete it" you start to think "do I communicate wrong?", "what can I say", "isn't 'this might help' with a smiley face supposed to be friendly?". It's tedious to watch every word you say. But what if someone tells me I'm a horrible person because I had said "this is a solution to your problem" before I said "sorry to hear that" again? Or what if I hear again I should maybe overthink a tiny bit more before I react to anything ever? And am I actually too emotional or too cold?