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This is who is leading the NYC mayoral democratic primary rn

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Would you believe this wisdom came from Facebook? Anyway send this to anyone using conservative rhetoric in leftist spaces.

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alternate punchline was "it's because they're too hard to draw"

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alternate punchline was "it's because they're too hard to draw"

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if you're in Europe PLEASE consider signing the Stop Destroying Games initiative. the deadline is July 31st 2025. i've posted about it before; it aims to create legislation for publishers to stop killing the games you pay for and to provide an end-of-life plan for live-service products. thank you!!!

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It's pride month, which means you're legally obligated to read my queer trans graphic novel about a boy who gains the ability to manifest his dreams in real life, including the high school crush who got away, STRANGE BEDFELLOWS!

Bedfellows has been praised for its art, humour, portrayal of mental illness, and of casual queerness in a semi-utopic socialist future. I am told it has made at least 10 people cry.

see where to buy it here: www.arielries.com/books/

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[trying to fill in more alt text gaps] may i get a 13, 14&15, 19, 20, and 21?

lol yeah we're getting pretty close to finishing it out i think. (not that i want to receive all the remaining ones at once. i like getting a new ask every now and then)

13: i think i paid like $10 for a 3d model of sterling's car and i used it in 4 panels

14: the thumbnail for the panel of the captain, neeta, and emery was a screenshot of the dinner scene from the titanic

15: i regret this being the only scene set in the kitchen in my food/hunger/cannibalism themed horror but there was just no Time

19: emery's canon maid kink

20: continuity error: that waiter should have been pleasance but i guess i forgot while i was drawing him and made him Just different enough to be a separate guy. oops.

21: i really wanted to do a cats don't dance style desaturated==>saturated visual metaphor for kindness but unfortunately without animation or a more obvious grayness you can't really recognize it as semi-diegetic. oh well!

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Have you ever watched the X-Files? It's been about 15 years for me, but I remember there being a vampire episode that was extremely funny.

alt text: 97-99, please (love that double page spread! wick is so cute)

i Might have watched one or two like ten years ago, so Functionally, i haven't.

97: if you watch in slow motion you can see the exact moment emery became an antagonist

98: this spread wasn't in the first pass of thumbnails! it was added after i'd finished and we knew i had some pages to spare. there was a version of this concept in the original pitch, and my agent had loved it and suggested i bring it back. now i use this spread in all my marketing and everybody loves it.

boy i'm glad i figured out how to color comics better than this.

99: this honeycutt zoom in was originally just one big honeycutt but the team was worried it'd look like honeycutt had his face against the vent and knew wick was there. i like this final version much better. that is a Sinister Man.

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this is next sunday!

to all my librarian homies out there, of which there are apparently a Lot, i'm going to be at the ALA conference in philadelphia signing copies of hunger's bite! or really anything you bring me to sign. i'll sign your arm if i must.

i'll be at the Union Square Co. booth (716) on Sunday, June 29 at 11 AM! i'm blocked in for an hour, but i'll be wandering the halls for a couple hours afterward as well.

see you there!

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Worst part of popular left wing AI discourse online is that there's absolutely a need for a robust leftist opposition to use of cognitive automation without social dispensation to displaced human workers. The lack of any prior measures to facilitate a transition to having fewer humans in the workplace (UBI, more public control over industrial infrastructure, etc) is a disaster we are sleepwalking into - one that could lock the majority of our society's wealth further into the hands of authoritarian oligarchs who retain control of industry through last century private ownership models, while no longer needing to rely on us to operate their property.

But now we're seemingly not going to have the opposition we so desperately need, because everyone involved in the anti-AI conversation has pretty thoroughly discredited themselves and their movement by harbouring unconstrained reactionary nonsense, blatant falsehoods and woo. Instead of talking about who owns and benefits from cognitive automation, people are:

Demanding impossibilities like uninventing a now readily accessible technology

Trying to ascribe implicit moral value to said technology instead of the who is using it and how

Siding with corporations on copyright law in the name of "defending small artists"

Repeating obvious and embarrassing technical misconceptions and erroneous pop-sci about machine learning in order to justify their preferred philosophy

Invoking neo-spiritual conservative woo about the specialness of the human soul to try to incoherently discredit a machine that can quite obviously perform certain tasks just as well if not better than they can

Misrepresent numbers about energy use and environmental cost in an absurd double standard (all modern infrastructure is reliant on data centers to a similar level of impact, including your favourite fandom social media and online video games!) to build a narrative AI is some sort of malevolent spirit that damages our reality when it is called upon

It's a level of reactionary ignorance that has completely discredited any popular opposition to industrial AI rollout because it falls apart as soon as you dig deeper than a snappy social media post, or a misguided pro-copyright screed from an insecure web artist (who decries a machine laying eyes on their freely posted work while simultaneously charging commission for fan-art of corporate IPs... I'm sure that will absolutely resolve in their favour).

It would be funny how much people are fucking themselves over with all this, except I'm being fucked over to, and as a result am really quite mad about the situation. We need UBI, we need to liberate abundance from corporate greed, what we don't need is viral posts about putting distortion filters on anime fan-art to ward off the evil mechanical eye, pointless boycotts of platforms because they are perceived to have let the evil machines taint them, or petitions to further criminalize the creation of derivative works.

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So like, it's obvious to me reading the comments on my post that anti-porn people are largely like, afraid of porn. Like the concept of a sex video is really spooky to them. They're not making thoughtful critiques of the porn industry, which is genuinely a really fucked up industry, they're mostly just spooked by the concept of a sex video and what it could Do To You If You See It.

I said this in another post, but it's like, the difference between "a ton of coffee is produced using slave labor" (valid, important criticism of the coffee industry) and "coffee turns people into raving coffee addicts who forget how to interact with anyone because they're so obsessed with their coffee" (objectively not true, insane viewpoint).

It's literally just sex videos. They really cannot hurt you.

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that my boy!!!!!!

practiced using a base i downloaded sooo long ago and it turned into the hungry vampire from Hunger's Bite

character is Wick from Hunger's Bite / base is by @albanenechi

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What is the make and model of the train you are on? I like trains.

regular ol northeast regional amtrak

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apologies if you’ve answered this in the past, but did you have any inspirations whilst developing hunger’s bite (and its sequel)? i was finally able to get my hands on it recently and absolutely loved it!

i have to say the biggest inspiration was the call of cthulhu campaign @mortalityplays ran back in the day. it gave me an interest in the time period and a particular sort of paranormal horror. i started developing HB around the same time the campaign ended, so in a way it was to fill the gap in my brain.

it's funny i've seen people guess the magnus archives a few times but ive actually never listened to it

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Not a question, but just wanted to say that I LOVED Hunger's Bite! I just finished it, and after following you and Never Satisfied for a bunch of years (loved that too, obviously) it was SUCH a treat to read a story that you got to fully finish, and I literally enjoyed every page! I ate it up, pun intended. Suspenseful story, beautiful art, the way you emphasise moods with colours and textures, gay vampires... it has it all. What an achievement, congrats!!

it's not technically finished!! still have another book in the series and Hopefully a third. then it would be finished.

but thank you!!!! i'm very glad you liked it