#i don't know how to tag this...

[yardsards]

i had some friends vote on what silly phrase to write on my birthday cake...

other top contenders included "GAY DIVORCE" and "AUTISM SWAG"

[luinquesse]

ok time to get a bit salty.

I've already seen the most WILD guides on the new companions skintones, colorpicked from screens that have magic effect lights and are not even close to "neutral lighting". I understand that we are all exited, but can we please wait to see the characters in the game and multiple different lighting scenarios. So I made a thing.

THIS IS NOT A COLOR GUIDE. DO NOT USE THIS AS A COLOR GUIDE FOR SKINTONE!!

This is simply to demonstrate that colorpicking from a single screenshots is never a reliable way to get someones skintone correct. It's far better to compare multiple screens and also try to find one that matches the lighting in your own art the best. Never let anyone tell you that lighting doesn't change skintone, because it damn well does. No, of course it doesn't make anyone go from black to white or vice versa. But it does make a difference in shades of skintone. Also the colors surrounding the character change how we percieve color and even, sadly, our monitors have different color values and lighting.

Please please please use common sense when looking at art and don't dogpile on artist if they didn't draw someone the exact shade you saw on your "approved" artists drawing. Look at the whole art, look at the lighting. Look at the source material (not just one screenshot.) Look at the art on your phone vs. your pc. And then, maybe then, contact them PRIVATELY and tell them they might have made a mistake. I'm sure most people will be far more happy to correct their mistakes when they are not immediately recieving hate, because we all know how tumblr is with their witch hunts.

[edith-is-a-cat]

Yuu: *sitting in their tree* Rook: *also sitting in their tree* Rook: Trickster? What are you doing up here? Yuu: What are YOU doing up here, this is my tree? *Crickets*

[the-confused-little-anomaly]

I'm having a lot of fun with the pictures from the last post I reblogged and decided to share.

The quality is horrible, but does it look like I care?

Oh and please don't repost it!

For those who don't know, reblogging and reposting are different things

Oh shit also random-strange-guy don't look at this! DnD spoilers!!! I trust you!

I'm adding some more doodles that are based off Pinterest pictures

All of them are my OC's so I'm not sure why I'm even posting this... whatever

[maleficore]

#eternally delighted over kyvir being such a sub he made succession ezra into a switch lmao (via @crossdressingdeath)

No one can resist the bushbaby eyes!

[imekitty]

I think some people are confused about the corneal scar Danny gets after Maddie slashes his eye in Dissembled. It is in fact on his eyeball, like horizontally across the iris/pupil on the cornea, the skin around his eye is unaffected. As in when his eye is closed, the scar cannot be seen.

It's difficult to find images of this type of injury since it's very rare, but I did find a couple:

Danny's scar is between these two in appearance. It's thicker than the brown eye scar on the left but straighter/less chaotic than the blue eye scar on the right.

The blue contact Maddie makes him wear helps cover it up but it can still be seen across the pupil.

The person with the brown eye can probably see, it's just blurred by the scar. My memory of the person with the blue eye is that the injury blinded that eye. Maddie slit Danny's eye deep enough to leave a scar but not enough to blind him. However, his supernatural healing is probably what really saved his vision in that eye, although the scar still makes it blurry.

I've seen fanart that drew the scar vertically. Admittedly I never stated that the scar is horizontal until recently, I honestly didn't think that saying the scar "goes across" the center of his eye could be interpreted as vertical lol.

[aerypear]

What Ai program do you use for your art?

Pinterest for inspo, reference pose photography, lots of redrawing lines because hands we've been over this the legs aren't twice as long as the body!!!, and if I'm feeling fruity; streaming to my friends to watch my suffering.

Okay, I'll admit, I have no idea if you're asking because you're trolling or genuinely curious.

So I personally do not use AI to aid my art creation. I have, probably, an ounce too much pride for that. I'm personally not fond of AI for the whole progress of the piece but I can acknowledge that it would be a useful tool for figuring out wips for an idea to help build off of.

Afterall, using 3d models, using the auto generated color based on reference and suggestion layers, etc have been useful under layer processes for other artists. (Tools I barely touch but see other artists use quite often)

However, making the AI do ALL of the hard work for you is laughable and extremely lazy. And you might say "But it's great for those with disability!" to which it shows me you haven't done research on artists at all. Chuck Close has a muscle weakness of some sort (preventing the use of his finer mobile functions and pincer grasp muscles) and Prosopagnosia (inability to recognize or differentiate between human faces) yet paints BEUTIFUL portraits with his wrist.

If you have the want, you'll do it yourself. I have a plethora of sport related injuries that impede my ability to draw, drive, do massive amounts of movements- yet I'm doing all of that anyway. I have days that hurt more than others but that's apart of disability.

So... if you're trolling, Top answer. If you aren't, well hopefully I make sense in the longer read. But truly, you won't get better at certain processes of art making by relying on AI, so I couldn't ever recommend it. (and that's not saying anything about the ethics of not telling your clients about the use of AI vs telling...)

[einaudis]

Question: What is the greatest magic of all? Answer: Friendship, right? [B]: The greatest magic of all is not friendship, it's chronomancy, the ability to control and warp time. If friendship were the greatest magic, look, it's a pet peeve of mine (...)

DUNGEON MASTER BRENNAN LEE MULLIGAN ANSWERS DnD QUESTIONS (TECH SUPPORT | WIRED)

[shadesofmauve]

I want to step away from the art-vs-artist side of the Gaiman issue for a bit, and talk about, well, the rest of it. Because those emotions you're feeling would be the same without the art; the art just adds another layer.

Source: I worked with a guy who turned out to be heavily involved in an international, multi-state sex-slavery/trafficking ring.

He was really nice.

Yeah.

It hits like a dumptruck of shit. You don't feel stable in your world anymore. How could someone you interacted with, liked, also be a truly horrible person? How could your judgement be that bad? How can real people, not stylized cartoon bogeymen, be actually doing this shit?

You have to sit with the fact that you couldn't, or probably couldn't, have known. You should have no guilt as part of this horror — but guilt is almost certainly part of that mess you're feeling, because our brains do this associative thing, and somehow "I liked [the version of] the guy [that I knew]", or his creations, becomes "I made a horrible mistake and should feel guilty."

You didn't, loves, you didn't.

We're human, and we can only go by the information we have. And the information we have is only the smallest glimpse into someone else's life.

I didn't work closely with the guy I knew at work, but we chatted. He wasn't just nice; he was one of the only people outside my tiny department who seemed genuinely nice in a workplace that was rapidly becoming incredibly toxic. He loaned me a bike trainer. Occasionally he'd see me at the bus stop and give me a lift home.

Yup. I was a young woman in my twenties and rode in this guy's car. More than once.

When I tell this story that part usually makes people gasp. "You must feel so scared about what could have happened to you!" "You're so lucky nothing happened!"

No, that's not how it worked. I was never in danger. This guy targeted Korean women with little-to-no English who were coerced and powerless. A white, fluent, US citizen coworker wasn't a potential victim. I got to be a person, not prey.

Y'know that little warning bell that goes off, when you're around someone who might be a danger to you? That animal sense that says "Something is off here, watch out"?

Yeah, that doesn't ping if the preferred prey isn't around.

That's what rattled me the most about this. I liked to think of myself as willing to stand up for people with less power than me. I worked with Japanese exchange students in college and put myself bodily between them and creeps, and I sure as hell got that little alarm when some asian-schoolgirl fetishist schmoozed on them. But we were all there.

I had to learn that the alarm won't go off when the hunter isn't hunting. That it's not the solid indicator I might've thought it was. That sometimes this is what the privilege of not being prey does; it completely masks your ability to detect the horrors that are going on.

A lot of people point out that 'people like that' have amazing charisma and ability to lie and manipulate, and that's true. Anyone who's gotten away with this shit for decades is going to be way smoother than the pathetic little hangers-on I dealt with in university. But it's not just that. I seriously, deeply believe that he saw me as a person, and he did not extend personhood to his victims. We didn't have a fake coworker relationship. We had a real one. And just like I don't know the ins-and-outs of most of my coworkers lives, I had no idea that what he did on his down time was perpetrate horrors.

I know this is getting off the topic, but it's so very important. Especially as a message to cis guys: please understand that you won't recognize a creep the way you might think you will. If you're not the preferred prey, the hind-brain alarm won't go off. You have to listen to victims, not your gut feeling that the person seems perfectly nice and normal. It doesn't mean there's never a false accusation, but face the fact that it's usually real, and you don't have enough information to say otherwise.

So, yeah. It fucking sucks. Writing about this twists my insides into tense knots, and it was almost a decade ago. I was never in danger. No one I knew was hurt!

Just countless, powerless women, horrifically abused by someone who was nice to me.

You don't trust your own judgement quite the same way, after. And as utterly shitty as it is, as twisted up and unstead-in-the-world as I felt the day I found out — I don't actually think that's a bad thing.

I think we all need to question our own judgement. It makes us better people.

I don't see villains around every corner just because I knew one, once. But I do own the fact that I can't know, really know, about anyone except those closest to me. They have their own full lives. They'll go from the pinnacles of kindness to the depths of depravity — and I won't know.

It's not a failing. It's just being human. Something to remember before you slap labels on people, before you condemn them or idolize them. Think about how much you can't know, and how flawed our judgement always is.

Grieve for victims, and the feeling of betrayal. But maybe let yourself off the hook, and be a bit slower to skewer others on it.

[tex-now]

Do people care if u get inspired by other polls.... Anyway the red/blue poll I see going around is nice but I found that I associate my friends with all sorts of colors so. here

[fox-bright]

I am never going to be able to leave Reddit.

[salamispots]

it got turned into a 17" x14" pillow instead haha

[luwha]

Not telling y'all that you should be able to identify AI slop (but it is a valuable skill, you totes should), but if you're to be accusing artists of being AI left and right at least go and do your homework, or at least do the bare minimum and use AI identification tools like Hive Moderation, so you 1- don't ruin someone's lifehood 2- don't make a clown out of yourself maybe

Like, i get it, AI slop and "AI artists" pretending to be genuine is getting harder and harder to identify, but just accusing someone out of the blue and calling it a day doesn't make it any better.

The AI clowns shifted to styles that have less "tells" and the AI arts are becoming better. Yeah, it sucks ass.

They're also integrating them with memes, so you chuckle and share, like those knights with pink backgrounds, some cool frog and a funny one liner, so you get used to their aesthetic.

This is an art from the new coming set Final Fantasy for MtG. This is someone on Reddit accusing someone of using AI. From what i can tell, and i fucking hate AI, there is NO AI used on this image.

As far as i can tell and as far as any tool i've used, the Artist didn't use AI. which leads to the next one:

they accused the artist of this one of using Ai. the name of this artist is Nestor Ossandon.

He as already been FALSELY ACCUSED of using AI, because he drew a HAND THAT LOOKED A LITTLE WEIRD, which caused a statement from D&D Beyond, confirming that no AI has been used.

Not to repeat mysef, they're accusing the art above, that is by Nestor, to have used Ai.

REAL artists are not machines. And just like the AI slop, we are not perfect and we make mistakes. The hands we draw have wonky fingers sometimes. The folds we draw are weird. But we are REAL. We are real people. And hey, some of our "mistakes" sometimes are CHOICES. Artistic choices are a thing yo.

If you're to accuse someone of using Ai, i know it's getting hard to identify. But come on. At least do your due diligence.

[cassandraxiv]

Reblogging, as is my duty.

Anyone should be able to get bottom surgery for any reason, and it should be free.

Cis guy wants a vaginoplasty but nothing else, and still identifies as a cis guy? ABSOLUTELY.

Cis girl wants phalloplasty? WITHOUT QUESTION.

People should be allowed to have whatever relationship with their bodies and identities makes sense for them.

(this post MUST be reblogged by EVERYONE)

[brainrotcharacters]

the easy grip on the knife. the leg over the seat. the hand over the other seat. the sassy "come get it" move. you know the bitch is smiling behind that mask even as he said the line.

[sabertoothwalrus]

does science experiments on you (homoerotically)