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this post altered my brain so now whenever i have a bowl of any food i think Oh fuck yes it’s a little bowl of seeds for me

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me on ao3 after the season 24 cinematic waiting for Ashe/Tryn fanfics

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I was thinking about this sort of thing just the other day - I had so many experiences (particularly in elementary and early middle school) like, not where someone insisted I was illiterate or couldn't talk, but just in general where a teacher or other school faculty member either refused to believe I was capable of certain tasks without checking, or upon seeing I could do something I 'shouldn't be able to do yet' they kind of told me off or I was essentially told to hold myself back for their/other kids' benefit.

When I was in kindergarten I was already able to read at a 5th grade reading level and the school's librarian tried to refuse to let me check out a Harry Potter book because it 'didn't have any pictures in it :)'. This was after my grandfather had come into the classroom toward the start of the year to check things out and straight up asked my teacher "Where are the books?" after seeing an empty or almost empty bookshelf in the room.

I also knew how to at least write my name in cursive in kindergarten, and by second grade I'd learned the full alphabet and started doing my assignments in cursive. The first one I turned in, one of my teachers took me aside and told me I couldn't do that because we weren't supposed to be learning cursive until the following year, so I was told to return to writing in print.

In third grade, my science teacher tried to give me an F on an assignment because she claimed that the handwriting on it was too neat to possibly be mine and that I must've had my mother do my homework for me. It took one of my parents or grandparents complaining to the school to get her to take it back because she wouldn't even let me write something in front of her to show her I was telling the truth.

Fourth grade I was, according to my 'homeroom' teacher at parent teacher conferences, 'the first kid I've ever had to take a book away from' because she caught me multiple times reading outside of silent reading time when a lesson she was giving was stuff I already knew and I'd rather be finishing a book I was working on than just sit and be at risk of nodding off.

And in sixth grade when we got into long division, I could do it in my head but couldn't figure out how to show my work so the teacher, instead of finding another way of teaching me or being wowed by it, just told me the same thing she'd been saying to everyone and told me that if I didn't show my work she'd mark each question as wrong.

I also had to switch back from writing cursive in 7th grade because in one of my classes (science) our teacher made us trade papers with others at our table and peer-grade stuff and the person who always got my paper straight up didn't know how to read cursive. So I went back to print again.

Growing up as a 'gifted kid' or just being ahead of the curve in certain areas is wild because you sometimes end up with whole grown-ass adults being fully adamant about 'No that's like, a baby. They couldn't do that and no I don't want proof, I know what kids are like at this age."

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Me, required to practice 2D animation (which is also one of my interests) in a course going toward my 3D animation degree? Couldn't be.

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Lmao cool arguments, thanks for taking zero accountability during like any of that for yes - going after individuals. The crusade bit? The definition of ‘crusade’ is ‘a vigorous campaign for political, social, or religious change.’

If I see people on here making direct accusations and getting called out about it, even if it’s against someone I don’t follow and have never directly interacted with before to my knowledge where the accused seems nice enough and is trying to provide proof of their innocence while you’re out here literally demanding further proof because you claim their initial one was insufficient for you to stop being a dick about it?

Yeah, I take issue with that.

Also, I don’t care if you’ve been ‘mostly inactive for over a year’ - if you have followers who are gonna see that and YOU are their acquaintance, friend, mutual, or fave and/or they don’t have critical thinking skills? Then yeah it is kinda your fault if one or more of those people wanders off and harasses that person based on your potentially flawed testimony.

Also, I never said I supported Madasama, anywhere in my reblog or mentioned them at all, even though I did see their reply to your post - I just said I didn’t support you going and accusing individuals without proof. Though it is funny to me that you used them as an example of ‘You think people who use AI have the decency to own up to what they’re doing???’ when Madasama... literally in that reply to your post openly said ‘Yeah I use AI for my work, what about it’.

Seeing everything in black and white kinda... sucks, historically speaking, and while you seem to think that it’s impossible, I’m here to tell you that... you can dislike something without taking it upon yourself to shame, call out, demonize, or otherwise rail against individuals that you see engaging in that behavior. Or in this case, people you think you see engaging in that behavior. You are not some divine authority on what human-driven art should look like and have already admitted that the tools you used later to try and prove that image was AI-generated aren’t always right so the fact remains that neither of us has true proof on our stances.

In my personal experience, it super duper sucks to be accused of what essentially amounts to art theft after putting time and effort into a piece - someone I considered my best friend at one time accused me of tracing a piece of their art when I did a sketch of their character for them because the nose looked too similar to the one they’d drawn, and on another sketch where I’d had a photo reference up to the side while drawing which is something I don’t usually do so surprise surprise - the image turned out looking different than my usual sketching style.

They only backed down after I literally laid the photo-referenced sketch over the original image to show them how off some of the proportions were in comparison - one eye right on but the other lower and slightly tilted, head shorter and a bit wider, etc. Initially, I brushed it off as “Oh, they’re just protective of their art and their reputation and it’s for their webcomic so they don’t want us to get in trouble and wanted to make sure I wasn’t up to no good :)” But the more I thought about it, the more it was like...

“Huh... this person really thought I would do that to them...”

Obviously the situation is different here in that you’re two strangers on the internet, but my point is that if you’re wrong?? You are directly harming someone who’s just taken a bunch of time and energy to make something and put it out into the universe only to be told essentially “Oh I know you didn’t make that because you aren’t that good and it looks too different from your normal stuff, why don’t you stay in your box if you don’t want people to think you’re a liar and a fake?” and no amount of apologizing afterwards if they DID provide you proof would put you back in their/my good graces.

For the sake of protecting my peace? I will no longer continue to interact with you, because you seem far more determined to maintain your stance on the issue that you are good and right and should definitely be doing this than I have the patience to dispute. I’ve got too many things to be doing with my time that are more important than sitting here arguing with you about whether it’s good to potentially bully someone off a platform in the name of ‘justice’.

And in case you take my future silence as proof that I’m wrong and you’re right like you tried to do with Skykashi?

Good job, you defeated me 🙄 Enjoy the view from your high horse, Grand Inquisitor

Logging in after a busy weekend irl, and seeing no further responses from @skykashi presumably they've blocked me after I asked to see the layers of the artwork. I was anticipating it, but it's really funny nonetheless.

The easiest and simplest way to disprove my theory would've been to post a screenshot of all the layers in the art file, or better, in a video like here, but instead they went off on a lengthy 30 min video about irrelevant topics.

At the end of the day, they know what they have done, and no amount of defensive posts or deflection will take away from the truth. AI art obtained by a few clicks of the mouse for social media validation may feel nice temporarily, but I hope one day they truly improve their skills to match those of the artist they entered as prompt on mid\journey or the likes.

Going forwards, they will either have to use AI for all their future arts to maintain style consistency (or rather, inconsistency, since they said in their explanation vid that their style actually varies dramatically as per their wishes, which is. Cool?)

Or, the more desirable, but less likely route - they'll revert to their original art style, in which case, AI won't be used, which was the original point of the conflict.

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Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I loved your reblog comment. It's wonderful to see bullies get their comeuppance.

Thank you! I know I kinda went off in a big long way, but sometimes you see something that makes you go, "Ummm... that's a nah for me? Here's 95 reasons why."

For anyone reading, just in case it wasn't already abundantly clear? This blog's a bully-free zone. I have such a low threshold for that kind of foolishment both because of personal experience and because... kindness is free :) The block button is also free if you feel the need to keep from seeing content you don't want to :)

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Okay this got longer than I thought, but... no.

They probably blocked you because no artist owes you proof of their process or any explanation whatsoever to defend themselves from that shit. You claim you’re trying to keep these spaces safe from art theft but really it just comes off as this holier-than-thou witch hunt situation that can have really harsh consequences for some artists who’d rather back down and leave a fandom space they’ve been in for years than sit through all that negativity.

This isn’t the Ol’ Wild West where you can just go around vigilante-style making up whatever rules and regulations you like to try and ‘round up them there criminals’ because in the end you have... no proof. And just because you tried to demand the artist provide you with proof to get you to retract your statements, they aren’t obligated to respond to you in any way whatsoever. Choosing not to interact with someone who’s determined to make you look bad isn’t an admission of guilt.

It’s protecting your peace.

I get wanting to have your voice heard on matters like these - AI is a problem, and we all know it. But instead of just making your opinion known by say, creating a post openly denouncing it and the people who utilize it as a mass entity, you’ve taken it upon yourself to set out on some sort of crusade to target individuals. You’re going after real people, directly, and using whatever sort of platform you’ve made for yourself here on this site and particularly in the Naruto fandom-space on here to hold a single person up into the spotlight and go “This person is bad because obviously they did something that we all hate and no I don’t have solid proof but it’s their fault if you all think it’s true because if they just gave in to my demands then maybe they could clear their name :)”

Don’t do that, maybe.

You could just vibe, like the rest of us, and if you don’t want to follow them or even want to block them so you don’t see any more of their content, then that’s fine? But it’s really not cool, I think, to directly call someone out like this just because you want people to think you’re ‘protecting this space.’ You’re not. You’re part of the reason people leave spaces like this and never come back.

If you really felt that strongly that this was a situation that needed to be investigated, you easily could have phrased it as a question like, “Hey, genuinely curious, but did you use AI for any step of this process?” It still might come off a little rude or like an assumption, but I feel like it’s much less likely to come off as a direct, “I know what you did~” sort of thing and the artist might even volunteer to show some proof of their process to show what they did, even though again, they are not required to do so at all.

Even if I found out at some point in the future that, for whatever reason, they were lying about not using AI? That’s not gonna be some kind of ‘GOTCHA’ moment for you. I would still not be on your side in this scenario.

People’s styles do change, and can literally do so on a day-to-day basis. People might do more research on new rendering techniques to try out, go lineless to see if they like the feel or see to what degree they feel most comfortable with, try out a new program, download or create new brushes, study another artist’s style they like to try and see if they can use a few steps from that process to change something up. People are... people.

Wild, huh?

Tl;dr - Just... don’t go accusing random people of using AI art and claiming you’re trying to protect a fandom space when your true motivation is to feel morally superior. It’s not a good look, whether you turn out to be right or wrong in the end, and can alienate people from the space you claim to be ‘protecting for other artists.’ Also, look up the legal definition of slander if you’re feeling brave, fool.

Logging in after a busy weekend irl, and seeing no further responses from @skykashi presumably they've blocked me after I asked to see the layers of the artwork. I was anticipating it, but it's really funny nonetheless.

The easiest and simplest way to disprove my theory would've been to post a screenshot of all the layers in the art file, or better, in a video like here, but instead they went off on a lengthy 30 min video about irrelevant topics.

At the end of the day, they know what they have done, and no amount of defensive posts or deflection will take away from the truth. AI art obtained by a few clicks of the mouse for social media validation may feel nice temporarily, but I hope one day they truly improve their skills to match those of the artist they entered as prompt on mid\journey or the likes.

Going forwards, they will either have to use AI for all their future arts to maintain style consistency (or rather, inconsistency, since they said in their explanation vid that their style actually varies dramatically as per their wishes, which is. Cool?)

Or, the more desirable, but less likely route - they'll revert to their original art style, in which case, AI won't be used, which was the original point of the conflict.

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Got a festival scheduled for a DnD session I’m running later today, so last night before bed I decided to work up a design for the new outfit one of my favorite NPCs (Haera Revani) will be wearing. She’ll be playing a fairly important role in a couple events during the course of the evening, including likely being reunited with the love of her life by one of the PCs who’s her ride or die best friend~ Did an slight alternate portrait where I gave her big round glasses on a whim, and freckles because I’ve thought about giving her some, and I think both look cute but the glasses make her look very precious???

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THIS JUST ENDED UP IN MY RECOMMENDED FACEBOOK GROUPS TO JOIN AND I JUST WANNA KNOW WHO TF LET THE ALGORITHM INTO MY HOUSE???

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After 3 full years of outrunning Covid, it finally got my ass U_U

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Sorry no fanart recently, too busy painting an iPhone as my second-to-last mandatory assignment for this semester’s advanced photoshop course LMAO You know I had to put my digital painting of Serenity from last year in as the lockscreen image. I’m hoping I get to use the techniques I’m learning with this project and the last assignment (a portrait painting) to come back and make even more beautiful fanart for y’all once I’m done

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Did some preliminary Critical Role/TLoVM designs for Worra and Skyhaal (Zanror’s wife from the campaign and the daughter they later have together) last night before going to bed. Might change at some point, but these are what I’m working with right now. I wanted to make Skyhaal look a lot like her dad with a bit of her mom thrown in, and I’ve been told I gave her ‘Chad Energy’ which I highly appreciated. I envision her as very helpful, outgoing and charismatic but has a low insight so when her feats of strength make people swoon over her she’s bad at noticing.

I like the idea of Worra being a Path of the Beast Barbarian, possibly with the ‘Origin of the Beast’ option where one of her parents was a lycanthrope and she inherited part or all of their curse because at one point I really, really loved the idea of her being a werebear or weretiger. Also kind of like the idea of her having been from the Rivermaw Tribe originally, so when the Herd of Storms conquered them that’s how she met Zanror and there was a bit of hostility at the start before they realized “Oh, actually we enjoy each other’s company and can bond about emotionally distant fathers. Interesting!”

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Kevdak saying the name ‘Strongjaw’ using the same barely-concealed rage and venom with which Mr. Turner from The Fairly OddParents utters the name ‘Dinkleburg’

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HEY, I WAS JUST LOOKING AROUND ON ZANROR’S WIKI PAGE TONIGHT AND LIKE, WAS ANYONE ELSE AWARE OF THIS AND JUST NOT GONNA TELL ME OR IS THIS DEEP LORE?

ZANROR GIRL-DAD REAL???

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I’m also ecstatic (and devastated) that season 2 of TLoVM is completed because now I have all the screenshots I need/clips available to finally make my animatic/AMV for Grog to the song ‘Eight’ by Sleeping At Last whenever I have extra time outside my classwork. I don’t know if I can properly convey just how in my feelings for Grog Strongjaw that song makes me

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You ever find a character from a book, show, movie, etc. where you know they're like, a background character, but you are 100% obsessed with them because you personally can see what a huge amount of potential their character/story has? Like "(pats their shoulder twice) This baby can fit so much trauma in them" Because personally, I watched season 2 of The Legend of Vox Machina on Amazon Prime 2 whole days ago and one of the NPCs, Zanror, has always been one of my faves from the time I spent watching Critical Role Campaign 1 (made it up to about session 80 before I lost my drive to continue, still plan to finish eventually) and it's so funny AND tragic to me because NO ONE writes fic or draws fanart for him. I've found maybe 4 other people who barely even acknowledge his existence let alone actually like him as a character Meanwhile, I'm over here with songs for him on my Campaign 1 playlist, 3 story concepts floating around in my brain, a cobbled together character turnaround sheet of his design from TLoVM, and the start of a 3D model attempt based off said turnaround sheet I will carry the torch if I must