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we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!!  we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!

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I am not sure I ever posted this zine piece either but this was a fun quick thing from summer!

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Today is the day / I’ve been waiting forever!

Happy Tuck Day!

as promised here is the official unofficial Tuck Everlasting Zine! We had a lot of amazing and talented artists participate and if there's interest, I'd like to do it again next year!

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being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five

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Not sure I ever posted this, so here’s my piece done for a zine last year

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Honestly the queue and schedule post options on Tumblr are extremely underrated. No other major social networking site has the ability to do that with the same ease as Tumblr does, and we've had them for like a decade now. They're fantastic features and Tumblr doesn't get enough credit for having them.

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Glaze is out!

Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?

Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.

I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.

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So Netflix is releasing this animated movie but here’s the thing - all backgrounds are done in AI. No actual BG artists were hired or credited for this work.

And here’s the kicker - I gave them too much credit. I realized that not even the AI users are credited apparently. Check this out:

“+Human”. No names, no nothing. 

I know it’s tempting, but please don’t hate-watch this thing. Numbers equal profit even if the people watching are just doing it to mock. Don’t give Netflix and other studios even more incentive to fire more animators and replace them with machines trained on their work and skill. 

Hilarously, the excuse used is ‘there aren’t enough artists’. That’s not true - there are more than enough artists, but the real issue is that no one wants to pay a living wage. Here’s a short video about the reality of animation in Japan.

The biggest winners in this equation at the end of the day are the AI infrastructure owners - owners of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc. Do not feed this machine, it creates more monopolization of entire industries, raises a powerful few and dehumanizes the rest.

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HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT whats your favorite place to find drawing references?

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i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

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what do you MEAN pantone locked its colors behind a paywall in adobe what do you MEAN

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I can barely contain myself right now

holy shit

HOLY SHIT

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fucked up how colors look different depending on what screen you’re looking at them on. that should be illegal I think

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How to Organize a Zine 101 - Masterpost

I am writing a series of posts, all talking about things that I hope will help people organise their own zines, especially when they’re new to this. I am talking mostly from my own experience and mistakes we did with our first zine.

I will update this post as soon as I wrote the next installment, so remember to save the latest version!

Part 1: Phase 1 - The Planning

Part 2: The Job Interview

Part 3: Web Presence 

Part 4: Finding Your Printing Service

Part 5: ALL the Merch

Part 6: Phase 2 - Applications

Part 7: Application Form

Part 8: What the FAQ?!

Part 9: Call for Submission

Part 10: Finding your Contributors and Sending Rejections

Part 11: How to Apply & Contributor Etiquette

Part 12: Phase 3 - The Creative’s Work

Part 13: Communication

Part 14: The Grey Area that are Fan Zines

Part 15: Designing your Zine Pt. 1: Software Picks

ALL POSTS including asks about the series

If you enjoyed the read, please consider tipping me a coffee on ko-fi!

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HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT whats your favorite place to find drawing references?

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HEY THIS IS IMPORTANT whats your favorite place to find drawing references?

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CLEX ZINE LAUNCH DAY!!!!

LEGENDS: https://legendszine.com/

(This is a digital zine with a FREE downloadable PDF version!)

On October 16th, 2001 the pilot episode of Smallville aired on the WB television network. WB had just lost its flagship show Buffy the Vampire Slayer to the higher-bidding rival UPN network, and the question loomed– could the WB survive without its most prized possession? Would Tuesday nights ever be the same?

As soon as Smallville aired to an audience of 8.4 million viewers– a network record– WB executives knew they had a hit, and scrambled to order what would eventually become a 10-year long series, cementing itself into television history.

From the outset, Smallville was not your typical “superhero show.” In addition to the show’s grounded philosophy (“No flights, no tights!”) Smallville filled in the high-school years of a young Clark Kent, but it also completely changed the way fans viewed Superman’s greatest enemy– Lex Luthor. Before Michael Rosenbaum’s stunning turn as Lex, Superman fans generally viewed Lex as an entertaining yet ultimately morally and philosophically shallow villain. Smallville’s Lex took a black and white comic book landscape and smeared it with a thousand shades of gray. Lex Luthor was no longer simply a villain; he was a young, ambitious loner caught in the shadow and nefarious machinations of his father; in need of a true friend, and as alienated as the young Kal-El. Despite his tragic destiny, viewers in the first season of Smallville weren’t rooting against this young villain; they were rooting for him. Oftentimes more than they were rooting for the show’s hero, Clark Kent.

That more nuanced writing dynamic between Lex and Clark also immediately spawned a thousand fic– and one epic character ship! Clex, or Clark/Lex! For many viewers, the soppy, mooning stares Clark sent Lana Lang’s way were far less intriguing than the strange, hypnotic connection stirring between Clark and Lex. Television’s most epic “meet violent” (“meet cute” car crash style) cemented what would become the fandom’s most popular ship, and result in the creation of thousands upon thousands of fanworks.

Countless Clex works were written, including now-legendary authors including (but not limited to): @astolat, @rivkat , @seperis, P.L. Nunn, Thamiris, Liviapenn , @lanninglurksnomore, @seepunkrun , Te, Henry Jones Jr., and danceswithgary. 

The relationship between Clark Kent and Lex Luthor has been explored in other universes (comic books, films, other television shows) but never as viscerally or as nuanced as in Smallville.Twenty-one years later Clex fanfiction is still being published, and Clex fanart is still being created and shared. This Zine is a love letter to that vivacious fandom, and hopefully a bit of a bugle call– that “Yes! Clex is still being written and illustrated! See us roar!” 

So. We hope you enjoy the contributions enclosed in this Zine. The moderators would like to thank first and foremost the hard-working fanwriters and fanartists that gave their time, talent, and treasure to make this Zine come together. 

We would also like to thank @chase2452 for his initial efforts to set up the 2021 Clex Zine, which became the 2022 LEGENDS Zine; Archive of Our Own for serving as a home and refuge for Clex fanfiction, especially the efforts of the Open Doors team to port the Smallville Slash Archive over to Ao3 in 2012. 

And we would like to thank any readers and fanart appreciators who have continued to comment, kudos, and share past and current Clex fanfiction and fanart around the internet. 

Thank you, you are the stuff of LEGENDS! 

museaway and Storyshark2005