A Piece I Made A Little While Back While Waiting For EoD To Drop

I went through my folder of WIPs and found the first version of my art for the 2023 Inquest calendar that I ended up scratching in the end.

It most likely won't ever get finished anyway so I might as well share~

Found this on Twitter. In my opinion, a great reference for asura art XD

Soon it will be time for a brand new calendar!

Made with love by artists of the community: The Profession Calendar of 1337 AE (2024)!

Start the new year like a professional with this new calendar featuring professions and elite specialisations!

Coming soon!

The true reason behind choosing ele as my main is that I get to draw these effects whenever I please. Lightning charged punchies, wohoo. /o/

I remade an alt into another alt, this one an elementalist named vito! hes a farmboy and for now just bag opener until i cave and boost him to 80 :V

top: testing an herbal nutrient on crops 🌽🌽🌽🌽 bottom: default outfit screens right after i made his face over 🐱

Some cute rats I found at the EU art party! Thanks for brining such cuties that I can draw <3 Pëlkk belongs to @its-really-skrool Sage Ani belongs to @commander-luna Mia the Gravedigger belongs to @jack2570 Ookie belongs to me! <3 Thanks again for hosting and have a great weekend everyone <3

They grow up so fast…

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.

ADDING: You WILL NEED to reply to the mail you receive afterwards for the message to get sent to an actual human! Otherwise it won't reach anyone

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!

End of Dragons? more like "End this Conversation, or me. Either is fine."

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Thinking about interspecies families