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I hate AI wholeheartdly

Maybe I am too much of an art-oriented person, but I just cannot understand how people claim to be artists and use a computer to do all the job for them. I just saw a girl on tiktok saying you could use AI to write fanfiction for you, and someone posting a "stop motion" shortfilm made with AI... Art is to express yourself, to send a message without the need of words. Art is to canalize your emotions in a creative way by creating stories, paintings or even music. Art is to capture the human existence. AI can be many things, but it would never create art, because art comes from the human soul, and AI would never have a soul.

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as always I found a way to add vampires into another creative project which goes to show how awesome my brain is.

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Stuck on the idea of vampires as a kind of reverse fae, or like someone's twisted, perverse attempt at moulding humans into fae.

They're repelled by liminal spaces.

A vampire could never enter fairyland, not just because they'd never be welcomed, but because most of the usual entry-ways are naturally barred to them.

They can't cross running water. They can't be seen in mirrors. They will wait forever at a crossroads, unable to pick a direction to go in. They can't even step over a thresh-hold unless there is absolutely no ambiguity about whether they are welcome inside.

They crave human blood, iron and salt, but are repelled by herbs and plants. They are supernaturally prevented from harming you unless the rules of hospitality have been invoked.

A fairy may replace your newborn child with something unnatural and ever-hungry. A vampire will do the same, but with your grandmother's corpse.

The fae are typically associated, even in stories where they're the bad guys, with flourishing and purity. Vampires, even in stories where they're the good guys, are typically associated with decay and corruption.

The fae turn ancient human burial mounds into fancy halls for their courts. Vampires take ancient human castles and let them grow mildewed and cobwebbed, exchanging the beds for coffins, turning them into burial places.

Fae don't tend to live among humans, but can generally pass for them with relative ease if they so choose. Vampires nearly always live among humans, but tend to find not revealing themselves a huge struggle.

I can't think of many stories I've read where fae and vampires even exist in the same universe, let alone ones where they actively interact. I feel like their enmity is almost more inevitable than that between vampires and werewolves, however.

The rivalry between vampires and werewolves is, essentially, the rivalry between two apex predator species who share a territory. (Even in stories where the werewolves aren't actually hunting humans.)

The vampires hate the werewolves because the werewolves interfere with their access to prey. The werewolves hate the vampires either because they consider themselves aligned with humans (the prey species), or because they are also predators and the vampires are competing with them.

By comparison, I think there's some story potential in the fae finding something genuinely creepy and uncanny valley about vampires.

They're immortal, like them, but also dead. They can be beautiful, like them, but that beauty is something they actively require humans to sustain. They like to inhabit beautiful and ancient ex-human dwellings, like them, but they actively work to make those places dark, damp and empty.

Fairies who are unflappable in the face of all sorts of Otherworldly monsters, can look an eldritch horror in the eye(s) without blinking, and have never been phased yet by any human, but will recoil from even the weakest vampire.

Vampires who hate fairies just as much, but in a more envious way. The way that the creature for whom immortality is a curse is bound to hate the creatures for whom immortality is an eternity of sunlight and laughter.

Maybe their touches burn each other. Maybe vampires can't stand physical contact with anything so alive and vital. Maybe immortal fairies become ill from too much exposure to the undead.

Maybe they fight over the human population when their territories overlap. The fairy need for servants and people to make deals with, competing with the vampire need for thralls and blood to drink.

Just… fairies and vampires. We need more stories about them interacting.

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◇ Images taken from Pinterest.

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Clarice Lispector, from "Too Much of Life Complete Chronicles," publ. in 2022

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Visual development for Tangled (2010) by Paul Felix

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The awnser to who's more of a feminist king between Sokka and Zuko is neither Sokka nor Zuko but a secret third thing:they're both equally misogynistic.If any Atla dude is a standup woman worshipping legend,it's Aang-He not only never had a random sexist phrases phase but fell in love with Katara for her brown girl swag onsight and fell harder as he found out she's also a punk brown girl specifically,never complained about Toph's girly ass nickname for him even though it was meant to be taunting and looked up to her earthbending skills and take no shit tomboy attitude from the start,respects Yangchen and Kyoshi even when he disagrees with them on fundamental things,supported Kya as his lesbian daughter no problem when she came out to him and had Korra's back when so many dudes were giving her a hard time.Crazy how this is a legit debate considering Aang's literally the protagonist of Atla so we get to see him the most but y'all would rather focus on his nonexistent worst moments Zutradras made up🫰🏼

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Some notes for a post canon story for arcane! I’m coping. This pbbly wont get written but it’s super fun to daydream about, and yall know how I love daydreaming.

(Anyways i think that vi should have a cool jacket in every new arc like how jinx has a new haircut.)

((Story ideas include; Jinx finally decides to send a postcard from demacia, of all places. Caitlyn is a reformed war criminal trying to not continue war criminalling. Vi gets embroiled in political machinations on accident (all she wanted to do was plant some trees). Ekko is once again the mvp.))

Sketchbook available on Patreon for two whole dubloons!

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been trying to practice drawing aang in a more realistic style lately! I’ve loved seeing how so many artists have started incorporating Raava’s design into the Air Nomad tattoos too - I tried my best lol

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Look at love for Kataang

I try this to do something new in my art !

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"I have led a toothless life", he thought. "A toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on—and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone."

Jean-Paul Sartre

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fuck babe you’re so hot when you’re just ink on paper

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everyone crying over caitlyn dictator this caitlyn fascist arc that … everyone failed to recognize the power of a butch lesbian against generational cycles of violence. caitlyn most girlfailure dictator ever. saw her ex for 3 seconds and immediately folded. girl me too tf

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#kataangweek2024 day 3: parenthood/first-time parents

okay, this one took me too long and now I’m one day late, but it is worth it, I couldn’t stop smiling while drawing it 🥰

hope i’ll be able to catch up on it tomorrow 🤞🏼