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[bthwrlds]

* . . . I KNOW CHANGE CAN BE SCARY

#BTHWRLDS: an indie, private, and selective roleplay account for MILEY STEWART aka HANNAH MONTANA ripped from the disney universe and written as an original character for both ryan murphy's american horror story , julie plec's the vampire diaries and eric kripke's supernatural. extremely alternate universe and more adult centered, mature themed. predominantly meta based. disguised by sam. heavily under co.

A STUDY OF: where's my fucking teenage dream, the struggle of a double life, daddy's girl, rock and roll lifestyle, the object of obsession, the undying love and support of fans, magic and mayhem, untapped potential, the power of true friendship, textbook rebellion, girlhood vs godhood, the best of both worlds.

[hinips]

michelle richardson from skins uk, written by stu. eventually affiliated with my friends. not shying away from triggering themes such as the sexualisation of children, emotionally abusive relationships, parental neglect, and more — pls be cautious! 💝

[aeikon]

an   independent   and   highly   private   clive   rosfield   from   square enix's   final   fantasy   xvi.   high / medium activity.   due   to   the   nature   of   this   blog   and   verses,  there   will   be   dark,   mature,   and   triggering   themes   throughout.   heavily   headcanon and lore   based.   est  2022.   mutual   interactions   only.

[deathschallenger]

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[gizmotemusic]

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[iceslushii]

if you want you can add what usernames you've had and how long you've been on tumblr :]

ive changed my url 6 times and ive had 5 in total (unicornonthecobb -> iceslushii -> icefrucket -> polywxs -> polyvbs -> iceslushii); ive been using tumblr for almost four years (joined september 2020)

[cuppanova]

Verse Versa 101

Heyo!! I made a little slideshow that gives basic information about VV, its characters, and world! Check it out if you're interested!

[surfedoutbrainwaves]

dear gravity, u held me down in this starless city…

[st4ngray]

Hii I’m opening commissions! The details are below:

The link to my commission form is here, and the link to my vgen account is here! (or you can look around my carrd too aha-)

More examples in my account if you need some more aa

[pizzaronipasta]

READ THIS BEFORE INTERACTING

Alright, I know I said I wasn't going to touch this topic again, but my inbox is filling up with asks from people who clearly didn't read everything I said, so I'm making a pinned post to explain my stance on AI in full, but especially in the context of disability. Read this post in its entirety before interacting with me on this topic, lest you make a fool of yourself.

AI Doesn't Steal

Before I address people's misinterpretations of what I've said, there is something I need to preface with. The overwhelming majority of AI discourse on social media is argued based on a faulty premise: that generative AI models "steal" from artists. There are several problems with this premise. The first and most important one is that this simply isn't how AI works. Contrary to popular misinformation, generative AI does not simply take pieces of existing works and paste them together to produce its output. Not a single byte of pre-existing material is stored anywhere in an AI's system. What's really going on is honestly a lot more sinister.

How It Actually Works

In reality, AI models are made by initializing and then training something called a neural network. Initializing the network simply consists of setting up a multitude of nodes arranged in "layers," with each node in each layer being connected to every node in the next layer. When prompted with input, a neural network will propagate the input data through itself, layer by layer, transforming it along the way until the final layer yields the network's output. This is directly based on the way organic nervous systems work, hence the name "neural network." The process of training a network consists of giving it an example prompt, comparing the resulting output with an expected correct answer, and tweaking the strengths of the network's connections so that its output is closer to what is expected. This is repeated until the network can adequately provide output for all prompts. This is exactly how your brain learns; upon detecting stimuli, neurons will propagate signals from one to the next in order to enact a response, and the connections between those neurons will be adjusted based on how close the outcome was to whatever was anticipated. In the case of both organic and artificial neural networks, you'll notice that no part of the process involves directly storing anything that was shown to it. It is possible, especially in the case of organic brains, for a neural network to be configured such that it can produce a decently close approximation of something it was trained on; however, it is crucial to note that this behavior is extremely undesirable in generative AI, since that would just be using a wasteful amount of computational resources for a very simple task. It's called "overfitting" in this context, and it's avoided like the plague.

The sinister part lies in where the training data comes from. Companies which make generative AI models are held to a very low standard of accountability when it comes to sourcing and handling training data, and it shows. These companies usually just scrape data from the internet indiscriminately, which inevitably results in the collection of people's personal information. This sensitive data is not kept very secure once it's been scraped and placed in easy-to-parse centralized databases. Fortunately, these issues could be solved with the most basic of regulations. The only reason we haven't already solved them is because people are demonizing the products rather than the companies behind them. Getting up in arms over a type of computer program does nothing, and this diversion is being taken advantage of by bad actors, who could be rendered impotent with basic accountability. Other issues surrounding AI are exactly the same way. For example, attempts to replace artists in their jobs are the result of under-regulated businesses and weak worker's rights protections, and we're already seeing very promising efforts to combat this just by holding the bad actors accountable. Generative AI is a tool, not an agent, and the sooner people realize this, the sooner and more effectively they can combat its abuse.

Y'all Are Being Snobs

Now I've debunked the idea that generative AI just pastes together pieces of existing works. But what if that were how it worked? Putting together pieces of existing works... hmm, why does that sound familiar? Ah, yes, because it is, verbatim, the definition of collage. For over a century, collage has been recognized as a perfectly valid art form, and not plagiarism. Furthermore, in collage, crediting sources is not viewed as a requirement, only a courtesy. Therefore, if generative AI worked how most people think it works, it would simply be a form of collage. Not theft.

Some might not be satisfied with that reasoning. Some may claim that AI cannot be artistic because the AI has no intent, no creative vision, and nothing to express. There is a metaphysical argument to be made against this, but I won't bother making it. I don't need to, because the AI is not the artist. Maybe someday an artificial general intelligence could have the autonomy and ostensible sentience to make art on its own, but such things are mere science fiction in the present day. Currently, generative AI completely lacks autonomy—it is only capable of making whatever it is told to, as accurate to the prompt as it can manage. Generative AI is a tool. A sculpture made by 3D printing a digital model is no less a sculpture just because an automatic machine gave it physical form. An artist designed the sculpture, and used a tool to make it real. Likewise, a digital artist is completely valid in having an AI realize the image they designed.

Some may claim that AI isn't artistic because it doesn't require effort. By that logic, photography isn't art, since all you do is point a camera at something that already looks nice, fiddle with some dials, and press a button. This argument has never been anything more than snobbish gatekeeping, and I won't entertain it any further. All art is art. Besides, getting an AI to make something that looks how you want can be quite the ordeal, involving a great amount of trial and error. I don't speak from experience on that, but you've probably seen what AI image generators' first drafts tend to look like.

AI art is art.

Disability and Accessibility

Now that that's out of the way, I can finally move on to clarifying what people keep misinterpreting.

I Never Said That

First of all, despite what people keep claiming, I have never said that disabled people need AI in order to make art. In fact, I specifically said the opposite several times. What I have said is that AI can better enable some people to make the art they want to in the way they want to. Second of all, also despite what people keep claiming, I never said that AI is anyone's only option. Again, I specifically said the opposite multiple times. I am well aware that there are myriad tools available to aid the physically disabled in all manner of artistic pursuits. What I have argued is that AI is just as valid a tool as those other, longer-established ones.

In case anyone doubts me, here are all the posts I made in the discussion in question: Reblog chain 1 Reblog chain 2 Reblog chain 3 Reblog chain 4 Potentially relevant ask

I acknowledge that some of my earlier responses in that conversation were poorly worded and could potentially lead to a little confusion. However, I ended up clarifying everything so many times that the only good faith explanation I can think of for these wild misinterpretations is that people were seeing my arguments largely out of context. Now, though, I don't want to see any more straw men around here. You have no excuse, there's a convenient list of links to everything I said. As of posting this, I will ridicule anyone who ignores it and sends more hate mail. You have no one to blame but yourself for your poor reading comprehension.

What Prompted Me to Start Arguing in the First Place

There is one more thing that people kept misinterpreting, and it saddens me far more than anything else in this situation. It was sort of a culmination of both the things I already mentioned. Several people, notably including the one I was arguing with, have insisted that I'm trying to talk over physically disabled people.

Read the posts again. Notice how the original post was speaking for "everyone" in saying that AI isn't helpful. It doesn't take clairvoyance to realize that someone will find it helpful. That someone was being spoken over, before I ever said a word.

So I stepped in, and tried to oppose the OP on their universal claim. Lo and behold, they ended up saying that I'm the one talking over people.

Along the way, people started posting straight-up inspiration porn.

I hope you can understand where my uncharacteristic hostility came from in that argument.

[e-m-p-error]

HIATUS

Hello, everyone. I've got a lot to say but really, I want to keep it brief.

After a year and three months, the terrorists have won. Grandpa's tired of getting death threats for both himself and Valentino. I can't take the hate anymore. My muse is all but dead and I need some time away from the blog for now.

I do have a Discord that I plan on trying to rework some to use for rps and the like, if you would like to join it. I have not been on it recently but I intend on fixing that if I can.

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[yyshcul]

!! BLOG NAME CHANGE !!

my previous username (luchsyy) now belongs to my art only blog (previously known as luchsyy-art): @luchsyy

my main blog is now called "yyshcul" and i will continue to be active on here. i hinted at this when i created my art-only blog, but from now on i want people to be directed to my art instead of the other unnecessary stuff i reblog when they search my online alias. (i will still be referring to myself as "luchsyy" though. if that makes sense lol)

also you don't have to follow my art-only blog if you don't feel like it, because i will be reblogging all of my art to this blog.

[appleicecream]

AS OF OCT 27, 2023, THIS IS NO LONGER NEEDED! HE HAD REACHED HIS GOAL. THANK YOU!!

EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS FROM MY PARTNER

As of October 22nd, 2023. My partner, Biz, needs to raise money to repair or replace his broken drawing tablet. He is a queer, disabled, freelance artist and digital art is his only form of income. He doesn't have enough money to repair or replace it on his own, and he has art that he needs to finish urgently.

Oil pastel paintings for 15 dollars, set price. Cashapp only.

He currently cannot mail the finished pieces but he will take multiple pictures to send you.

If you are interested, please DM me here or DM alittavirens on Instagram. If you would rather just donate, his Cashapp is $CRYtoSURVIVE

Please reblog. Thank you.

[fluffytimearts]

To all people who follow me and don't:

I'm a hazbin hotel critical not supporter

Yes, I have a hazbin hotel pfp but it doesn't mean my support, angel dust is just my fave character.

Whatever action Viziepop, the fandom, etc... is not supported by me I do criticize the problems that are in the fandom. Don't let the bad apples think that ALL of us are the same.

Thanks!

-- Fluffy (OOC: Al)

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[whoredmode]

⚜️WHOREDMODE DIRECTORY⚜️

I'm Teddy (or you can just call me whoredmode idgaf) and this is my Saints Row sideblog. I post a lot of art, worldbuilding, and I follow my own canon on here. Here's a (hopefully easy) guide to everything on this blog.

Boss Profiles

Summaries of my Rewritten Canon (and AUs)

General Guide to my Tags

Contents on these pages will change as my stories develop, so I’ll be sure to keep y’all updated on any new additions. I’m very talkative about my interests and projects (if my rewrites don’t make that clear), so get used to it. With that in mind please feel free to ask me whatever about my canon, my OCs, my AUs, anything!