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Received these goodies a few weeks ago just after my birthday! Winking Pedrito now lives at the back of my kobo and the exact same one lives at the back of my phone. I looove the concept of the tarot cards but haven't found a home yet for Harry and Acacius keeping them somewhere safe for now.

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OHHHH STOPPP HE LOOKS SO CUTE WITH ALL THE OTHER PEDROS !! 🥹🥹

thank *you* for supporting me and showing me what you got!! i love seeing it <3<3

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[wip] want you down on all fours

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Max Philips, Death (XIII) 🪦

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Beldro Ramscal + the glasses

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spotting ai generated art - part 2

hi everybody! i'm here to moan and complain about generative ai again... sigh. here's part 1, about ai generared art by chatgpt.

today's protagonist will be google's gemini ai assistant, which i've just found out is able to create art. as always, i'm doing this for illustrative purposes, please refrain from using any ai softwares!

now, gemini allows for pretty much any kind of artwork to be generated. i'll ask to create a sunset on the beach done in watercolours:

thank you gemini! that's a pretty palette, not going to lie. can this software also create images of people? of course it can. and what i've found is that it's also very accurate: no extra fingers, lines being weird or whatnot. i'll ask to generate a portrait of pedro, both in pencil and watercolor:

okay, first of all, just like the last time with chatgpt: who is this? it looks like pedro but it isn't...? i don't know, it rubs me the wrong way. and just to be clear, i haven't put in any original images of pedro to alterate, the software is creating these by itself.

let's try something else, something more complicated. i want to see what pedro could look like in that movie about a cellist:

... if these look familiar it's because they are. i've seen worse, and by worse i mean images of sexual nature that i could very well recreate, at least to make you see how far this can go. i honestly don't even feel comfortable writing the prompt, let alone let the app generate an image.

"but valentina! this artist is showing me their process, this can't be ai!" and that's exactly where we need to look! i've said it before, but no process guarantees you that a work is completely human made. what i've found in common, though, is the defensiveness, the concealment. these posts are usually followed by an extensively detailed description of their process, thoughts and emotions. other signs to look for might be:

- the image looks *too* clean. let's take the last two pictures as an example. yes, it might seem like a loose digital watercolour piece, but if so, how is the cello so perfectly detailed? how do his curls look so perfect and defined?

- lines look weird, inconsistent, shaky or trembling. look for these especially in an initial sketch. a sketch is exactly that, it's supposed to be loose and relaxed, you're getting your idea out. if lines look odd, they start somewhere and end weirdly, elements get confused... that's usually a telltale sign.

- expanding the previous point, look for the details. i'll use this picture as an example:

be careful about very small things: her shoulder dips weirdly, there's a line on her neck that's supposed to be hair, but it isn't. the inner corner of her eye fuses with the pupil, so does the hair with her ear. this is the stuff ai usually gets wrong, hair, shadows, small particulars. a curl might take a weird shape, a shoulder, an arm or a shadow might merge with the background.

- the amount of work that's being posted. this obviously goes for fanfics too, and it's usually the most obvious and known sign, but still. the stuff i've shown you before, if done properly, would take at least a day and a half, probably more - and i say this as someone who's been told is very quick when drawing. if you see that a certain piece took 12 hours, and the next took 10 and so on, make sure the time adds up, it often doesn't.

now, the purpose of this post was to show you that any image you might see in this style is created by ai. if you're still unsure, there's this website that i've found pretty reliable when it comes to spotting ai generated art (it also tells you which technology was used), or, and that's what i usually suggest, ask an artist! you're more than welcome to come to me. <3 ai is getting increasingly more difficult to spot, what might seem obvious to some might not be for others, and that's okay! that's the whole reason why i try to spread awareness with posts like this. i would love for my socials to be a place where people only find entertainment, something (hopefully) nice to look at, but when this is what i was faced with, i got so pissed off i couldn't keep quiet anymore:

if you want to use ai, fine, i know i can't stop you. but lying so blatantly? mocking? fooling the ones who support you? that's where i draw the line. people just don't see nor understand the dangers of gen ai and therefore won't stop what using it. what i can do, though, is warn and educate whoever this post will reach.

behind every artistic product (writing, painting, sculpting, video making, animation etc) there's research, that's the most important part. don't let artificial intelligence deprive you of the pleasure of research, don't settle for a stale and stolen result. hayao miyazaki said: "to be an animator you have to love life".

thank you for taking your time to read this, and thank you to @whocaresstillthelouvre for listening to me ramble and complain about all of this lol

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about the damages of gen ai

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oh mr vampireee!! bite me mr vampire!! 😫😫🫦🫦

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harry struggling to understand john's play took me OUT lmao

PEDRO PASCAL as HARRY CASTILLO Materialists (2025) dir. Celine Song

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rb to tell prev they're being so brave right now and pat their head a little please

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six non-selfie pics 💌

ty for the tag @whocaresstillthelouvre <33 🫂

1. visited a museum with my best friends on saturday! that's my soulmate francesca matching with the plants and looking like the goddess she is <3

2. same museum, a marker and paper were offered. i went stupid

3. i'm babysitting my girlfriend's bunny, she's called patata (potato). i already have 300 pics of her, but had to choose this one as she looks adorable. we have 30 minutes cuddling sessions every night. she's been driving me insane because apparently she's in heat and she's trying to claim me as her property and trying to pee on me 🫩 looked into it, seems like it means she loves me, like, a lot. i'm flattered...?

4. saw the mouse cheese knives, laughed, then saw the "whiskey balls". thought, "my mutuals on tumblr would like this".

5. pizza date - parmesan fondue i 🩷 you

6. pretty sunset over my city!!

npts: @bergamote-catsandbooks @perotovar @vindictivegranny @nonbinairyboi @cosmickid-inmotion @68saturnism <3<3 mwah !

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ready to be his immortal wife!!

(i definitely stole this from someone here on tumblr but don't remember who, i am so sorry, op if u see this please tell me)

npts <3 @bergamote-catsandbooks @vindictivegranny @nonbinairyboi @penvisions @whocaresstillthelouvre @ohhoneypascal

^tagged by @soctherapy but the post was getting too long

this isnt a win for me.......

Tags!: @rae-unbeloved @lil-gae-disaster @fictionalcharactergraveyard @livelaughlovelams @alexanderhamiltonhasafatass

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sunshine incarnate 🌞🤍

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Pedro arriving at the HBO x Deadline FYC event for TLOU

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when you grew up as a lonely uncool girl it will never stop haunting you by the way. you will meet a cool person at a bar or the train station or at a friend's party and you can wear your most stylish outfit and striking eye makeup and you will swear that they can see through all of the facade and see the lonely terribly insecure teenage girl you used to be who desperately wanted to connect and you will swear that they know that there is like an insurmountable gap between you. this will happen forever

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for your silent battles

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Pedro Pascal as one of The Birds Of Omen ⏤ DEMETER'S DAUGHTERS (1998)