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sometimes tiktok is actually incredibly good

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i mean this so seriously if you have any sort of creative project you can and should be a little obsessed with it. you should reread your own writing and look at your own art and brag about your ocs its literally good for your health

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Been reading this and enjoying the heck out of EMT (Emergency Medical Twink) . The art is so beautiful too.

AKUROKU DAY!!!!

These are for nowjkjkjklololols Fic!!! I'm so happy to finally share them, The story is so so good, thank you so much for being an incredible partner!!! I enjoyed a lot drawing them <3

READ THE FIC HERE

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Happy AkuRoku Day for those who celebrate! Have a little gift for @twilight-town-zombies 🫶

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Happy 8/13 day! ❤️💛

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Here’s my contribution for the Akuroku Bigbang 2025! Linked to this post if the story this illustration is based on, from my lovely partner Carochinha! Please go read it!

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"I trust Axel has given you the old Nevermore welcome?"

Axel still needs to get used to Roxas Addams' particular brand of humor. He'll get there.

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Happy akrk day! I made the bois into my favorite other sunshinexgrumpy ship. Life has been fucking me but I managed to do this.

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they are celebrating Their Day!

happy 8/13 🙂‍↕️❤️‍🔥🧡

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My entry for Akuroku Big Bang 2025.

Thank you Grim for making these wonderful illustrations!!

Yes, it's furry akuroku 😉 Enjoy and Happy Akuroku Day!!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/69110911

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The Priest and the Porn Star: Chaptern 24

Rated: Explicit Ship: Axel/Roxas Summary: Running away from your problems isn’t always the best solution… but sometimes, it is. Roxas is looking for a new start in life. A hot priest was not what he expected.

Chapter 24: A Parting Gift Roxas prepares to go home.

Every day Roxas wakes up in a glowing haze, knowing Lea cares for him, loves him, can’t get enough of him. The exact same feelings live in his heart for Lea. The warmth of affection is a pool of gooey goodness in his chest threatening to choke him with how much he yearns to be with Lea. The fact that their rendezvous have to be carefully choreographed and orchestrated are a pain, but at least they can still be together.  That’s all Roxas lives for and the incentive acts as a carrot while he slogs through each day, trying to crawl out of the mess he got himself into.  Roxas looks at what options are open to him regarding doing something to let him earn a livelihood again. He considers getting the laptop fixed, which takes him as far as a repair shop. He’s told he would be better off getting a new model… It might be cheaper. This is no help as Roxas still needs money and he’s still screwed. He gets through his workload, grateful he can access the nearly finished edited pieces via his cell, but the broken screen makes it a nuisance to make minor touch ups on. At least his images don't look horrendous once he’s printed them off. They are terrible, and sub-par quality, but not horrendous. He wants to offer a discount because of how deeply unhappy he is, but before doing so, he runs the photographs past Lea during a quiet moment at Youth Group. They sit together by the registration desk while the kids watch a film. The close proximity without physical contact is hard on them both: they steal touches where they can, passing things to each other, sitting close; letting their arms or legs touch. “Roxas, your passion, integrity, and professionalism are all virtues, but under no circumstances should you be offering a discount. These are great!” Lea’s flicking through the digital files and some test prints Roxas brought along. “You really think it’s okay, even though I know I can do better? I’m not giving them my best work.” “Even your ‘not best’ work is great. You have so much talent. You're amazing. But if you don't believe that,” Lea responds to the growing frown etching onto Roxas' face, “then at least consider the amount of time you’ve put into producing these. Time is money. You are putting in work. You deserve to get fairly compensated for your work.” Lea is the amazing one. Roxas vibrates with the warm validation Lea piles on him. Paul always nitpicked. Always told Roxas he wasn't good enough and needed to try harder. But here is Lea, telling him the opposite. He wants to kiss Lea, but instead takes back his cell and prints, with maximum hand touches, and squeezes as the items are transferred.

Keep reading on A03

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Happy 8 Years to My Shoegazing Boys! I've been re-reading and made some illustrations for chapter 15 and AKUROKY DAY is the best time to share this with you.

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Happy Happy AkuRoku Day!

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HEY CREAMMMYYYY GUESS WHAT DAY IT ISSSSSSSS

What day is it? Oh yeah...

HAPPY AKUROKU DAY TO YOU ALL!!!

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expedition 33

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If you are an Australian English speaker, please consider taking part in this survey for my Linguistics PhD study!

You can also go into the draw to win one of five $50 gift cards :))

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a future memory of us

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GenAI v. not GenAI round up.

So you can avoid them stealing things from you, the artist/writer, etc.

Pro GenAI websites/Programs:

Facebook

Instagram

X/Twitter (Remember, Grok gives people cancer)

Threads

Pro Writing Aid

Grammarly

Duolingo

Google Docs

Microsoft Word/all Microsoft products Takes from and will feed their machine.

Youtube (taking advantage of people who are hearing impaired. ==;;)

Adobe Products. All of them. If you HAVE to use them (Some businesses require it), save offline because there is a film of at least some privacy protections there, so if you have to sue, you can say it violates US privacy law. Remember, contracts do not circumvent US law.

Corel won't feed the machines, but still uses AI stolen from other artists. Which sucks since Corel Draw is the second best overall for vector programs. (Plus I love Painter, but I bought the offline version to avoid AI). (Canadian company)

Canva Takes and feeds their machine.

Deviant Art Not only supports AI, but put a tool in and said they are going to steal your work if you like it or not for their machine.

Sketchup went Pro-GenAI. The thing is that you can do the same thing in Blender these days with precise measurements.

Autodesk has stated they are Pro-Gen AI here. It is not clear if they will use your models to feed their machine. But be on guard. They make Maya and 3Dmax. You can replace it with Blender.

Neutral ground:

Tumblr (there is a way to opt out [Link] and they don't have an active AI machine.) https://www.tumblr.com/dookins/743519550598987776/heres-how-to-disable-third-parties-like-ai

Etsy allows GenAI, but still has some (minor) restrictions. I'd still be cautious. (Also be cautious of drop shippers). Complaints about too much AI and AI images+patterns made by Ai still exist on the website. They lean slightly more pro-AI, but still won't let it run completely amok, say like Facebook. They won't feed your work into a machine, but also don't ban it through robots.txt.

Bluesky They don't use an AI algorithm except for in the "Discover" section of their website, but while they are anti-GenAI strongly, they don't seem to block the Gen AI bots from entry, so you'd still have to use Nightshade or Glaze (links below). There is no opt-out because they don't need an opt out. (Leaning towards strong position on AI, but I wish they would block GenAI bots).

Searxng- If you super want to screw over Google, in general, and have some tech savvy, you can set up your own search engine through searxng. It's easier on Windows and Linux than it is on a Mac. (Mac you need Docker), but if you're determined on privacy, Searxng adds a layer of privacy. Some of it sometimes uses bits of AI, but most of it doesn't and you can fuss with the settings so it doesn't spit out AI results. At sheer minimum Google will stop spitting out weird videos on Youtube at you because in your private browsing, you searched for the origin of ball bearings while not logged in for a book and Google likes to break privacy laws.

Strong positions against AI:

Scrivener (Creator vowed against AI) Writing program. There is an active forum, and versions for Mac, Linux and PC. It is paid, but at ~60 USD, it's cheaper than most programs. There is usually a holiday sale around Christmas. It has a learning curve, but with an active forum with the programmer of it there to ask obscure questions it's not a dead zone. They often take suggestions and implement them over time. (Especially if you rank the importance, applications, etc) US company.

LibreOffice Open source and free Spreadsheet and Word processor program that can replace Microsoft Word. Some people might have seen older versions where it was called Neo Office (now extinct) and Open Office. LibreOffice is still populated, plus the forums are super helpful if you get stuck. The UX is pretty intuitive if you've used Microsoft Word. Scrivener, BTW, supports exporting to odt (the native file) as well as .doc, and this can open both. The slight thing is that sometimes it doesn't export to .doc smoothly. And I DO wish more magazines, and agent (big clue here) supported .odt files since it is free. Part of the reason .odt isn't as supported is because Microsoft and Adobe have a deal with the devil with each other, so Adobe's Book formatting program InDesign doesn't support ODT. (BTW, if you have a good open source replacement for InDesign that supports ODT, let me know.)

Dabble (as suggested by SF stories, see reblog) is a writing program. Similar to Scrivener. Has vowed against AI and to resist it. 108 dollars a year for Basic. It is almost twice the price of Scrivener who lets you update for fairly cheap. 29 dollars a month, v. 59 dollars for the whole program (Scrivener) for the same features of Premium. You choose.

yWriter is a free Writing program and like Scrivener, and has vowed against AI Last I looked it had some UX issues, but some people swear by it. The learning curve is higher than Scrivener which is saying something.

Ellipsus is an online writing program and vowed against AI. The main feature I like (which Scrivener doesn't have) is the ability to change spellcheck based on region/language. It is a requested feature of Scrivener, but lower priority. So if you have a Brit, you can get the spelling for the character. They are a British-based company.

Cara.app (The creator of the website sued GenAI there is no chance they'll convert) is an artist website. Cara is trying to institute an auto Glaze/Nightshade into the website if given enough funds. People see it as a soft replacement for deviant art. (which went fully AI) If you believe in human art, please donate if you can. Zhang Jingna, the Creator,is Chinese-Singporean. She lives in Singapore.

Clip Studio Paint added AI, but saw the light and decided to protect artists instead because of protest and removed it. There are tutorials and a good forum if you get super stuck. Based in Japan, so the UI and UX is really clean.

Davinci Resolve Pro is a film editing software that's super good. There is a free version and a paid version. The forums are responsive. The programmers aren't always present. There is a healthy group of tutorials. US company. Clean UX. It does take a little bit of time to remember the shortcuts.

Tahoma2D is anti-AI and open source animation program. Takes a little getting used to, but is good for animations and doesn't crash as often as Animate. Programmers are in the forums and some bugs are fixed within hours. The forums are super responsive and helpful.

Krita open source and free, no AI. I'd rank it secondary to Clip Studio Paint (which is paid) I haven't tried the forums, but it's pretty intuitive and can stand for a lower level replacement for Painter, and do a lot of the basics of Photoshop. It's usually ranked higher than the equally open source Gimp.

Writer P AKA Writer+ (app for when you're on the go) is a simple word processor app for your phone that doesn't use AI. The original programmer stopped updating, so Writer+ person took over and isn't out to make a profit since it's free in the spirit of the original app. It has subfolders you can use. Since it was programmed before GenAI it doesn't have AI. Intuitive, easy to use. Fairly easy to upload the files through three dots->share. The files can save to your card or phone with some settings fussing. Simple word processor.

Inkscape is a free vector program and no AI. It is harder to use than illustrator and has less features. But if you're doing smaller vectors for one-offs with less complexity, it'll do you after some learning curve. Best of the lot. I hate Affinity Designer which is the same thing, only paid. (Neither Affinity program was worth the money paid)

Affinity (Designer, etc) swore to be AI-free and does Vector and Photos. The UX is messy, I dislike the program and regret paying for it. Inkscape and Krita are better UX and do the same thing. The forums aren't as friendly since there has been an onslaught of people seeing it's supposed to be a replacement for Photoshop and Illustrator, but the programmers aren't present. The people on the forums are often on edge about this assertion. And the capabilities of the program don't outshine basically Krita or Inkscape capabilities (both free). What is usually intuitive is not. UK company. If you're going to pay for a program, go for Clip Studio Paint which rivals Corel Painter.

Blender is a 3D art program and does not use GenAI. It can do 2D animation, but Tahoma is easier to use in this regard. It's open source and free. Plus there are plenty of tutorials. The forums can be touch and go sometimes, but there are plenty of sub Blender communities that might be responsive. It can also do animation.

Handmade vowed against AI and promised to never sell itself for stock prices to prevent AI (as a replacement for Etsy.)

Proton (to replace Google Suite) as suggested by SF Stories (see reblog) Vowed against AI. They are missing a spreadsheet, but have online and offline capabilities, plus a built-in VPN.

But you need a pro website...

Look up robots.txt and AI bots: https://www.cyberciti.biz/web-developer/block-openai-bard-bing-ai-crawler-bots-using-robots-txt-file/

Use cloudflare:

Use Nightshade:

https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/whatis.html

which will poison the algorithm

Use Glaze:

Take Away:

The thing is you think you doing it alone will do nothing, but the more AI feeds on itself, AI images, the worse they become, and the less detailed so, denying it the images, adding poison or not being able to read the human text is eventually going to lead to an AI collapse.

And why not help that along?

I don't want to give cancer to poor people [Link] or make the planet burn faster [Link]. So GenAI collapse is everything I dream of. GenAI apocalypse is not.