#its art without an artist. and it IS it really is

[hellinistical]

6:53

a/n: thank you vm for your art, @box-artist. farmer phainon made me all giddy and eased my woes for him. now it's stuck in my head and i need to write it. i'll probably do more too. check out their art here!

Your grandmother left you a lil old house in her will. It’s overgrown. The porch leans. You’re convinced something lives in the shed. You move anyway—burnt out from city noise, breakup drama, or just ready to disappear for a while.

You meet Farmer Phainon on your first day. You’re holding a crooked box of god knows what, and he’s standing at the fence line with a jug of water and a fluffy white dog at his heels.

"You're not her." He says, plainly. "She had stronger arms."

You squint. Blue eyes- pretty blues and snowy hair with a smile like the sun was saying hi. "Who the hell are you?" "Phainon. Neighbor."

He hops the fence, takes your box like it weighs nothing, and carries it to the porch without being asked. Immediatley suspicious of how attractive he is with his sun tanned skin, freckled shoulders, and a white tank that sticks to him like its got nothing better to do, he smells like cedar, soil, and something sweet you can't quite place.

He catches you staring, cracking a laugh. "Somethin' the matter?" "No- no, sorry." "'s all good. No worries honey."

When you can't keep a plant alive to save you (and you tried. you really did), you get frustrated. Your grandmother had whole gardens. Yours shrivel in protest.

He notices. Quietly.

One morning you find a small potted rosemary on your porch. A note tucked underneath: “Try again. This one forgives mistakes.”

One time, you argue over a fence line. He’s building a new one. You think it’s too close to the garden path. You march over with a print-out of a property line, hair a mess, coffee in hand.

He listens, then hands you a ruler. "Then measure it." You do. You were wrong. He doesn't say told you so. Just adjusts it anyways.

The first winter that comes in, you get snowed in.

The power flickers out. Pipes groan. You’re wrapped in blankets on the couch, cursing yourself for moving to the country just cause it was cheaper.

There’s a knock.

Phainon.

He's got a thermos of soup, extra fire wood, and a flashlight. His cheeks are rosy from the wind. "Told ya this place ran cold."

You let him in. He warms your hands by the stove. He doesn’t leave until the lights hum back on.

He teaches you things slowly. How to split kindling. How to listen for rain in the wind. How to tell when the chickens are lying about laying eggs.

Sometimes he stands behind you, guiding your hands. Sometimes he just watches, arms folded, smirking when you mutter under your breath.

He never teases meanly. Always just enough to make your stomach flip.

Your porch becomes shared.

You drink tea there at sunset. He brings over honey from his hives. Leaves jars without a word.

You leave books on the steps. He brings them back with dog-eared pages.

Sometimes neither of you says a word. You just sit there. In the quiet. Together.

And it feels… safe.

He fixes your leaky roof. You try to help. He won’t let you. You bring him lemonade instead. He drinks half of it. "You put too much sugar in there, sweet girl."

You roll your eyes.

The first kiss is unexpected honestly. You’re barefoot, holding tomatoes from your garden (finally thriving thanks to him). He says something low and nice and full of weight like: "You messed up my routines and cycles."

And you laugh too softly. And your eyes meet. And he steps close. And the kiss is slow, and quiet, and says everything you’ve both been avoiding.

You hold the tomatoes between your bodies. He smells like sun.

Eventually, you stop calling it your grandma's house. And when people ask about the man always fixing your fence, feeding your dog, or sneaking into your kitchen to make coffee just the way you like it—you just say, "Oh, that's just Phainon."

[electric4claw]

Hi!! Now that I have a little more time, I'm going to talk a little about my participation in the @harriertail contest, share some details, and take the opportunity to talk a little about my past with my Ocs and Warrior Cats hehe (I wrote a really long post, you don't have to read it hahaha)

I should say that it was my friend @xemo-wc-08x who introduced me to the contest.

She's already participated, and I really recommend checking out her cover, as she did a really good job.

I'm re-uploading a revised version of my cover and the version without the words so you can better appreciate the illustration.

I also wanted to upload the two illustrations that make up the cover separately, as both took me a long time.

I discovered the Warrior Cats fandom on YouTube, watching the incredible animations that fans made back then, and another friend from school and I wondered if they came from a series that wasn't broadcast in our country haha. We started drawing our own cats and ended up making a comic in school notebooks.

(They're those little notebooks over there; all but one are complete, and one of the big red ones is a comic I made with my school friend, linking the universes of our comics)

While that was happening, I stumbled upon the first volume of Warrior Cats in a bookstore. They were just starting to be brought to my country, and I couldn't believe those videos actually came from a book series!

Of course, I ended up buying the first six and I loved them. That's when I met @xemo-wc-08x at a drawing class, hehe. And for a while, we were three friends enjoying being part of this beautiful fandom.

Over the years, I learned to draw humans and started watching anime, so we gradually abandoned our kitties.

And while I limited myself to hoarding the books and comics, @xemo-wc-08x never completely forgot and even returned to the fandom!

So by the time she got me back into the mood to read the series, I had the books ready on my shelf to be read again!

So, when she told me about the contest, I didn't hesitate to participate. I needed this opportunity to pay tribute to my OCs and design what would be a possible new cover for the first volume of the comic hehe

Back then, I was very inspired by what I saw, imitating the styles of my favorite artists, and even copying some characters hahaha (I'm not proud of it lol)

Over time, I developed my own drawing style, which I've recovered and improved. Luckily, I'm now a concept artist, so I've been able to give some of my characters a good redesign.

SYNOPSIS Claw is a young cat, who was being raised to compete in beauty pageants. She escapes from her domestic life just before being sold to someone and flees from a greater evil, until she stumbles upon a large tree. She uses it as a hiding place, but soon discovers she's not alone. Inside, there's a huge feline colony, with its own customs, which don't exactly welcome her. She must find a way to return to her old life, where she knows her worried parents await her, while she faces her new enemy, alongside the feline colony, which ends up taking her in "temporarily." I hope you like the cover a lot and that I can continue uploading art of Warrior Cats and my Ocs for a long time to come! <3

[disastrid]

Your argumentation is shallow. In your view, because both corporations and myself use the legal system, we're exactly the same. That doesn't follow. It's a false equivalence. You say indie artists are arguing against their own interests (as if it's self-evident, when it's not)...for saying it's wrong for companies to use their work without permission. That was the original position, and Disney has taken up that argumentation.

We are agreed that Disney is a terrible company, and has manipulated the law for their own gain. I think you take this a step further tho in saying that, by using that argument, Disney has tainted it. I don't think that's true.

Disney is not "increasing copyright" as far as I can tell in the discussed case. They are using that framework in their legal argument, but not advocating for any expansion or change. Their argumentation is similar to many other Fair Use cases.

Re: democratization, it's a red herring here because the issue isn't really whether someone can have access to art. Anyone can create art. The issue is whether these tools are ethical.

Think of the previous discussion about obtaining a picture of a goblin in terms of like, ordering shit from amazon. Some people really do need that overnight service (emergency workers, disabled folks), but if you're not those people, it may be a good exercise to consider whether you really need that thing, and need it immediately. Do you really need to patronize a terrible company that abuses its workers? Similarly, do you really need that picture of a goblin with a fat-ass, to the detriment of our environment and community of artists?

You can extend this out to shit like fast-fashion as well. Some say it makes clothing more affordable. They overlook, of course, the fact that these clothes are a) poor quality and b) created through awful working conditions and exploitation. Fast-fashion tactics have contributed to the world's emissions and increased pollution. Similarly, do you really need that Shein haul?

I think these are questions worth asking.

I don't ususlly do asks over shit like this but i have to ask why youre going to bat for people who 'don't want to commission artists' or why one of your arguments big points is that a lot of anti-ai sentiment just exist so people 'don't use gen ai'. I'll be frank, i don't give a shit thinking about a world where people dont litteraly rely on shit like that for a living because as of right now a lot of people do, and a grand majority of the places providing gen ai directly fund shitty hyper capitalists and start ups trying to ride the wave of this trend

Can you please tell me why exactly its bad to stop this, because in the world we're living in, telling a bunch of people to stop supporting the sevice that hinges on paying workers pennies while you get your fun little toy doesn't sound like a moral conundrum that will actually damage people who use AI as a tool.

If a person just wants a picture of a goblin with a fat ass I don't think they're morally obligated to commission an artist to do that for whatever reason they might have. Implicit in this discussion there's often the idea that only people who can afford to commission an artist deserve to have art. I don't think the person who asks the silly machine for a picture of a goblin with a fat ass is morally compromised, despite the fact that they might have been able to pay someone to draw that picture for them.

And a lot of people treat it as like natural that of course you should commission someone for a picture of a goblin with a fat ass instead of asking a generative algorithm to make one for you. But to me the logic under that assumption is very similar to the anti-piracy logic of "it's stealing a corporation's profits." Nothing was stolen, some profits simply failed to manifest.

And like, is the person who asks for a picture of a goblin with a fat ass your enemy? Nah. The issue is far larger than this one single technology and that one person with a great taste in goblins, and I think regardless of how people might feel about generative AI as a technology it is important to articulate that the technology itself is neutral, and its uses being bad isn't an emergent property of the technology itself. That way we can better focus our energies on the real issues.

Like, the issues with OpenAI and Midjourney are not "they are AI companies." The issues are "their business models are based on exploitative practices that our economic system empowers," right?

[zorangezest]

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here we go! the longest comic i've ever drawn and one of my favourite things i've ever made! and it's. for this crack transformers au. what have i done. ive spent so long on this

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[marciaillust]

trapped in amber

[collophora]

Do yourself a favor and go read the entire fanfic work of @fanfoolishness

(In order: Under sun and shade, Blind Side, and Breathless (patching up is one of my fav too, I just had no cool sketch idea for it)

[seasonalmoss]

Thank you!!

And yeah, me and my twin just aren’t OC people, I’ve tried I’ve definitely tried so hard but I never got deeply attached and was always more attached to the AUs me and my twin made! Honestly it can be pretty hard doing certain things (like art trends) or even making friends because a lot of things are OC centric or for example a lot of creative clubs I look at (because I really need to socialize more) are under the assumption that every artist or creator has OCs so the description would be something like “create characters and make stories with other club members” and that’s something that just- won’t really work well for us 😭😭

And I hope you like them!! We try really hard to make every character in character! And to keep things canon compliant as much as we can without damaging other things. See we make crossover AUs specifically, and I know that’s cringe and has a ridiculously bad wrap, but I promise it isn’t like most other crossovers! At least- we’ve been making crossovers since we were 7-10 (depending on how you want to define that) so we kinda have a lot of “experience” I guess?? IDK BUT LIKE- YOUR NEVER GONNA HAVE TO KNOW ANY OF THE OTHER FANDOMS OR EVEN TMC ITSELF! When we plan to actually start posting our main AU it’s going to be formatted in a way so that anyone can read it even if they don’t know any of the fandoms! The only thing I can ask of you is to treat it like any other story! Because it’s going to be told no differently! If you don’t know something wait! It will be explained! Idk a lot of people in fandom culture seem to struggle with that concept 😭 if you don’t automatically know something then it’s going to be told to you later

I know “crossover au” turns a lot of people away, but I promise (at least I hope) it’s worth it! We haven’t started posting much yet as we are still very much planning everything out (and have been for the last two years) but I promise we’re treating this how we would any other story, with just as much passion and work as anyone making a story with their OCs would!!

IDK SORRY IM JUST SO WORRIED NO ONE IS EVER GONNA GIVE IT A CHANCE BECAUSE TO THEM THEY HEAR “crossover au” WHICH EQUALS CRINGE AND CRINGE EQUALS BAD

BUT LIKE FJFBDHDHDHDHDH ITS GOING TO BE NO DIFFERENT THEN ANY OTHER STORY GUYS YOU DONT EVEN HAVE TO KNOW A SINGLE FANDOM (in fact for some instances it’s better that way!) 😭😭😭 PLEAASEEE GIVE US A CHANCE

everyone's missing the real tmc analysis here. when adam and jonah were going on investigations in 2009 poker face was already a hit

[stargirl230]

interlude

Lost focus and drew a consensual workplace relationship (the inherent intimacy of hanging out in an artist's studio to watch them exist in their element got to me)

Zoom in for details I poured my soul into <3

(no reposts; reblogs appreciated)

[sunlit-mess]

sick(?)

[tsubomiiiii]

Vampires are allergic to Garlic like how some people are allergic to lactose.

It tastes far better to them than it does to us, but the aftermath leaves them with a really upset stomach.

With this being stated, Silver and Espio deserve to get some pizza or something together

I had to at least doodle all this down thank you for your big brain anon

[creativesplat]

I would also like to see some miphlink, if that's okay!

I was really struggling with what to draw, and then I remembered your ask from ages ago (dang ADHD brain...) anyway, sorry its such a late answer, but Miphlink inspired by Dicksee's La Belle Dame

[yourlocalkiwi]

『Look at me, you can't ignore.

Be with me forevermore.』

If you like this post, consider reblogging it to help me grow! :] Thanks <3

[milfygerard]

my advice to ppl who feel angry or doomer-y when frank iero opens his big fat mouth without thinking to think back and consider: do you trust gerard ways artistic integrity and instincts for mcr? Bc thats why i pretty much never react to the band being quiet or weird announcements or whatever. Gerard takes the integrity of the art and performance of mcr very seriously, if they were in it for the money they never would have broken up mcr at all, they wouldn't've bothered with the swarm tour, and they wouldnt have made the TBP tour as unmarketable and confusing to the general public as they could get away with. To be blunt, if this was some artless sellout we would have had an album by now and it would have been good if not disappointing and derivative. Gerard is very obsessive over the integrity and honesty of the art they create sometimes to a detrimental and obsessive degree, and does not take something like My Chemical Romance lightly or cynically.

ALSO we wouldnt have gotten two high quality high concept clearly expensive highly enigmatic promotional videos with bizarre extremely hostile fascist imagery along with promotional imagery and posters that don't even have the bands acronym on them in a readable text. TBP tour is clearly going to not just be Something but is going to be Something Very Big.

[soggy-fishsticks]

guys ive been drawing so much lately I've been starting to actually hate it 🙁

[toasteaa]

Maybe another eclairette comm will fix me...

[wackywatchdotcom]

what i think was fun abt designing my jax is that i wanted to make him more bunny-like but i was trying to avoid making him bunnylike in a way that made him seem more approachable