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Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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pssssst hey. hey. free and expansive database of folk and fairy tales. you can thank me later

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An impressively large image, but here's the official height chart for Rejuvenation's cast (as posted on twitter earlier)! Best viewed when opened in a new tab (or view the full resolution thing here!)

Couple of things of note: 🔷 Heights take footwear in account; characters with high heels/platforms are a bit shorter in truth. 🔶 Heights are based on posture when standing upright! (puppet master pls.)

I know character proportions are inconsistent between characters but many were drawn during different time periods and similarly weren't drawn with heights in mind so please don't pay attention to the discrepancies if proportions feel off between characters 💀 Maybe one day I'll be crazy enough to go and fix the discrepancies up but TODAY IS NOT THAT DAY

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Tumblr is doing some stupid AI shit so go to blog settings > Visibility > Prevent third-party sharing.

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Automattic will sign a contract with OpenAI for Midjourney to learn off of Tumblr and Wordpress

Hello! Automattic, Tumblr's parent company, will sign a contract with OpenAI and Midjourney so Midjourney can learn off of Tumblr's and WordPress' art and other user data. :) (The full text of this article is copy/pasted in the cut below). You can opt out! but I truly cannot imagine a more idiotic or out of touch decision on the part of Tumblr's CEO.

First thing's first: When/if this goes live, opt out of this immediately. Do this even if you're not an artist. The more people opt out, the less valuable this contract is to Midjourney. in an ideal world, literally all of the active users would opt out, but if we can even get to 50% that's pretty delicious.

Second: Contact Tumblr Support. It's vital that you do this politely. Tumblr staff is not responsible for this decision and the point of doing this is to show the userbase's unwillingness to be involved in this, not harangue Tumblr staff. (Seriously, stop haranguing Tumblr staff). Here's a script:

Hi, I'm writing in to express my disappointment in Automattic's pending contract with OpenAI to sell user data. Midjourney is already embroiled in copyright lawsuits, and it is not possible to train it without compromising copyright, including violating the IP of artists on this site. I strongly protest this contract and will opt out if it goes live. Depending on the privacy terms around what user data is sold to OpenAI and why, it is possible I will leave the platform entirely. Thank you for your time.

Third: Download Glaze and start poisoning them prompts, my friends

Fourth: Stare into the middle distance for a second with me because holy fucking shit? How stupid can one decision be?

Tumblr and Wordpress are preparing to sell user data to Midjourney and OpenAI, according to a source with internal knowledge about the deals and internal documentation referring to the deals. 

The exact types of data from each platform going to each company are not spelled out in documentation we’ve reviewed, but internal communications reviewed by 404 Media make clear that deals between Automattic, the platforms’ parent company, and OpenAI and Midjourney are imminent.

The internal documentation details a messy and controversial process within Tumblr itself. One internal post made by Cyle Gage, a product manager at Tumblr, states that a query made to prepare data for OpenAI and Midjourney compiled a huge number of user posts that it wasn’t supposed to. It is not clear from Gage’s post whether this data has already been sent to OpenAI and Midjourney, or whether Gage was detailing a process for scrubbing the data before it was to be sent. 

Gage wrote:

“the way the data was queried for the initial data dump to Midjourney/OpenAI means we compiled a list of all tumblr’s public post content between 2014 and 2023, but also unfortunately it included, and should not have included:

private posts on public blogs

posts on deleted or suspended blogs

unanswered asks (normally these are not public until they’re answered)

private answers (these only show up to the receiver and are not public)

posts that are marked ‘explicit’ / NSFW / ‘mature’ by our more modern standards (this may not be a big deal, I don’t know)

content from premium partner blogs (special brand blogs like Apple’s former music blog, for example, who spent money with us on an ad campaign) that may have creative that doesn’t belong to us, and we don’t have the rights to share with this-parties; this one is kinda unknown to me, what deals are in place historically and what they should prevent us from doing.”

Gage’s post makes clear that engineers are working on compiling a list of post IDs that should not have been included, and that password-protected posts, DMs, and media flagged as CSAM and other community guidelines violations were not included.

Automattic plans to launch a new setting on Wednesday that will allow users to opt-out of data sharing with third parties, including AI companies, according to the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, and internal documents. A new FAQ section we reviewed is titled “What happens when you opt out?” states that “If you opt out from the start, we will block crawlers from accessing your content by adding your site on a disallowed list. If you change your mind later, we also plan to update any partners about people who newly opt-out and ask that their content be removed from past sources and future training.” 

404 Media has asked Automattic how it accidentally compiled data that it shouldn’t share, and whether any of that content was shared with OpenAI, but did not immediately hear back from the company. 404 Media asked Automattic about an imminent deal with Midjourney last week but did not hear back then, either.

Another internal document shows that, on February 23, an employee asked in a staff-only thread, “Do we have assurances that if a user opts out of their data being shared with third parties that our existing data partners will be notified of such a change and remove their data?”

Andrew Spittle, Automattic’s head of AI replied: “We will notify existing partners on a regular basis about anyone who's opted out since the last time we provided a list. I want this to be an ongoing process where we regularly advocate for past content to be excluded based on current preferences. We will ask that content be deleted and removed from any future training runs. I believe partners will honor this based on our conversations with them to this point. I don't think they gain much overall by retaining it.” Automattic did not respond to a question from 404 Media about whether it could guarantee that people who opt out will have their data deleted retroactively.

News about a deal between Tumblr and Midjourney has been rumored and speculated about on Tumblr for the last week. Someone claiming to be a former Tumblr employee announced in a Tumblr blog post that the platform was working on a deal with Midjourney, and the rumor made it onto Blind, an app for verified employees of companies to anonymously discuss their jobs. 404 Media has seen the Blind posts, in which what seems like an Automattic employee says, “I'm not sure why some of you are getting worked up or worried about this. It's totally legal, and sharing it publicly is perfectly fine since it's right there in the terms & conditions. So, go ahead and spread the word as much as you can with your friends and tech journalists, it's totally fine.”

Separately, 404 Media viewed a public, now-deleted post by Gage, the product manager, where he said that he was deleting all of his images off of Tumblr, and would be putting them on his personal website. A still-live post says, “i've deleted my photography from tumblr and will be moving it slowly but surely over to cylegage.com, which i'm building into a photography portfolio that i can control end-to-end.” At one point last week, his personal website had a specific note stating that he did not consent to AI scraping of his images. Gage’s original post has been deleted, and his website is now a blank page that just reads “Cyle.” Gage did not respond to a request for comment from 404 Media. 

Several online platforms have made similar deals with AI companies recently, including Reddit, which entered into an AI content licensing deal with Google and said in its SEC filing last week that it’s “in the early stages of monetizing [its] user base” by training AI on users’ posts. Last year, Shutterstock signed a six year deal with OpenAI to provide training data.

OpenAI and Midjourney did not respond to requests for comment. 

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Pixel art version of @a-tale-of-legends's Pokemon Reborn OC Leo Champion!ver for the secret santa exchange. With bonus teammates in canon proportional sizes!

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for those who don’t know, there is a pokemon alphabet (that’s used in the anime as well as some cards)

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Aaaaaaaaas thank you so much

it's secret Santa posting time!

I made this for @araelinn !!

got that Christmas salt

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Small Shelly headcanon

I've seen people in the fandom talk about the very cute sibling-like relationship she has with Titania. (Which it is very cute)

I just have a slight headcanon addition to it.

Hardy takes a look at it, and is like "Fuck it I have a little sister too now."

So Shelly is pleasantly confused when suddenly she also has a Rock-Head (pun intended) big bro out of nowhere. Much to Titania's exasperation.

(Also I just realized how many puns are incorporated into Hardy as a character lol)

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Vidar Comission

Here's a comission by my dear friend @civicrose of my Pokemon Reborn OC Vidar. Loved how it turned out!

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it's a lot of stuff...

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pretty much if you’re completely anti-porn i think you’re a goober but if you refuse to discuss the downsides of porn in a patriarchal society then i think you are a weak minded simpleton

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Been thinking about Ariadne recently.

Especially the fact that she's part Fae due to her soul's origin as a changeling that failed to escape Arcadia from the Changeling the Lost ttrpg.

Like I've been thinking about her having developed sociopathic tendencies as a result. Along with other behaviours as a result of the form she was forced to take during her durance.

Like, it makes the Paragon vs renegade interceptor divide a bit more interesting. Because her being an inherently selfish person, makes her choice to be Paragon more interesting.

It also makes it so I have to craft a moral code that she follows. Based on her beliefs plus Fae stuff.

I think if anything she would hold freedom as the most important thing. Hers first of all ofc.

It's what I think would be her tipping point about why she would decide to go renegade.

Idk might elaborate some more later.

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What a joke

Recently I've been limiting my checking of the Israel-Palestine situation (I will not call it a conflict, that implies two sides with mostly equal power) to once or twice a day for the sake of my mental health, since previously I have become obsessed with this kind of stuff to my own detriment. As such it was quite late when I found out about the finalization of Israel's raid on the Al-shifa hospital. And the picture they showed of all they found during it. And let me tell you, when I saw the picture... I couldn't help but laugh

This is the extent of what they found? This?! I am mexican. I know how raids work. We all know how raids work, and ask any mexican and probably they have seen the result of raids on organized crime on the news at some point in their lives.

And let me tell you. for how hyped the raid was from Israeli statements about why the raid was necessary to do with such violence. This laughable. Let me show you how a major successful raid on a palamilitary or criminal base looks:

This is from a raid on a sicario training encampment

Now a minor camp:

This are both from this year. I could show more impressive one from less incompetent mexican goverments. But I think my point is made. Now look at this and tell me which one approaches more what the IDF found?

Not to mention the fact that most of them were found in an MRI room with a, as doctors in the hospital claimed. constantly used MRI machine. If you don't know what I mean search MRI metal accidents on google images and see what you find.

As my mom put it. "Even I that don't know that much, know that is bullshit"

Now let's assume, in good faith that what the IDF is saying is true, that it was a main HQ of H*mas and that they escaped by the tunnels they claim connect to the hospital. Then they're even more incompetent.

Because if what they claim is true. While the IDF was shelling the hospital, claiming the lives of doctors and patients. H*mas had all the time in the world to get everything out.

Time and time again it has been proven that razed earth tactics dont work with these kind of groups, the element of surprise is necessary in some way or another. It has been proven with organized crime, it has been proven with terrorist groups, and it has been proven with raids on politcal groups.

I'll put it this way: with the IDF statements, assuming they're true, we can only assume one of two things:

Either A: They were lying through their teeth and the intention was to shell the hospital and later planted evidence to justify it.

Or B: They were telling the truth, but the 2nd most funded army in the world used tactics that let H*amas slip away in a show of complete incompetence.

So either A, they're absolute monsters morally speaking. Or B they're blubering bufoons despite all the funding. So much for the great Israel army.

Either way... Not a good look. But I'll let you decide.