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my star ⭐🌠💖

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Hi it’s me. I do art.

Twitter has become such a shitstorm that I decided to activate one of my sideblogs and retool it into an art blog. I’ll be posting the most prominent art pieces over time and promote commissions once I’ve gotten things fully set up. In the meantime, please check these other places for updates:

https://iamtau.tumblr.com/ (my main blog full of memes)

https://ko-fi.com/iamtautech (for doodles and commissions)

https://artfight.net/~IamTau (for ArtFight in July)

https://www.twitch.tv/tautechnical (the place where I yell at videogames)

https://twitter.com/I_am_Tau (in case things get better)

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I made this with other context in mind, but honestly all I can say is that this is my current mood

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My boy Tariq (Ork oni) learning elves are just people and not to be put on pedestals is probably my most satisfying TTRPG arc all year

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YOU hate JK Rowling!

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caving as an extreme sport is sooo unfathomable to me why are u as a creature of the daylight doing that. were u born without the dread in ur bones or something

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it's a matter of pride.

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my sunday 

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Meet Qenherkhepeshef, an egyptian stone-cutter. He is unsettled by the customs of DogHead Island but is certain his amulet of Horus, worn smooth from centuries of rubbing fingers, will protect him from danger.

Its been ages since my last Hestia update, but things are going really well and I'm ready to start sharing some more of my process as I finalize my outline and start designing the rest of my cast of characters. Today on the blog I have three pages of sketchbook concepts, a link to a recorded stream that features my copic marker process, and a preview of a new series I'm writing on the craft of storytelling---using John Truby's Anatomy of Story framework and John Boorman's Excalibur (1981).

For $1 a month / $10 a year you can support me on patreon.

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I was gonna try and finish this but time's passing by so quickly and I just wanna share the MOTHMAN IS MY WIFE shirt

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Cover image for a friends' Eclipse Phase adventure, set on an alien world with mushroom-like trees whose tops are nearly perfectly thermally absorbent. Excited to find out what's there!

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New obsession unlocked. Ditchlings are freaky and awful. Lil oversized skinbags looking out doing not a lot.

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Actually, joke's on you. Talk to Animals is such fun and Georgia is much better friends with her cousin too, canonised.

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Bookmarking where I was in Scarlet Hollow, 'cause I think the next episode is ways away. René up here was my first playthrough, but unlikely to be my canon one. We'll see!

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more Wayne Scarlet Hollow nonsense

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Nodens Keegan for @ad-viennequepourra for an OC art trade event! 🎩✨️ He's an eccentric tailor, smuggler, grave robber, and necromancer. AND he can shapeshift into a magpie, so what's not to like really.

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So, Discord has added a feature that lets other people "enhance" or "edit" your images with different AI apps. It looks like this:

Currently, you can't opt out from this at all. But here's few things you can do as a protest.

FOR SERVERS YOU ARE AN ADMIN IN

Go to Roles -> @/everyone roles -> Scroll all the way down to External Apps, and disable it. This won't delete the option, but it will make people receive a private message instead when they use it, protecting your users:

You should also make it a bannable offense to edit other user's images with AI. Here's how I worded it in my server, feel free to copypaste:

Do not modify other people's images with AI under ANY circumstances, such as with the Discord "enhancement" features, amidst others. This is a bannable offense.

COMPLAIN TO DISCORD

There's few ways to go around this. First, you can go to https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/requests/new , select Help and Support -> Feedback/New Feature Request, and write your message, as seen in the screenshot below.

For the message, here's some points you can bring up:

Concerns about harassment (such as people using this feature to bully others)

Concerns about privacy (concerns on how External Apps may break privacy or handle the data in the images, and how it may break some legislations, such as GDPR)

Concerns about how this may impact minors (these features could be used with pictures of irl minors shared in servers, for deeply nefarious purposes)

BE VERY CLEAR about "I will refuse to buy Nitro and will cancel my subscription if this feature remains as it is", since they only care about fucking money

Word them as you'd like, add onto them as you need. They sometimes filter messages that are copypasted templates, so finding ways to word them on your own is helpful.

UNSUSCRIBE FROM NITRO

This is what they care about the most. Unsuscribe from Nitro. Tell them why you unsuscribed on the way out. DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. They're a company. They take actions for profit. If these actions do not get them profit, they will need to backtrack. Mass-unsuscribing from WOTC's DnD beyond forced them to back down with the OGL, this works.

LEAVE A ONE-STAR REVIEW ON THE APP

This impacts their visibility on the App store. Write why are you leaving the one-star review too.

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Regardless of your stance on AI, I think we can agree that having no way for users to opt out of these pictures is deeply concerning, specially when Discord is often used to share selfies. It's also a good time to remember internet privacy and safety- Maybe don't post your photos in big open public servers, if you don't want to risk people doing edits or modifications of them with AI (or any other way). Once it's posted, it's out of your control.

Anyways, please reblog for visibility- This is a deeply concerning topic!