Bunch O' Vampire The Masquerade Sketches

Just for a min

killing myself slowly

Okay that's totally not possible at all and stupid but IMAGINE If John's inability to notice stuff is because they actually lost the eyesight in one eye during the sandstorm and John just decided not to tell Arthur about it cuz he feels bad about it.

Like that would be so funny

Using art without compensation/ permission for your own gain is theft, full stop.

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

Thinking about them <3 Characters of all time, both of them.

[ID: a digital, fully coloured drawing of Yaretzi and Polly from Hello from the Hallowoods. They are facing each other with their hands resting at the others elbow.

Yaretzi is a brown-skinned woman with longer, black hair and wolf ears, she is wearing gold and turquoise jewelery. She is wearing a red waistcoat over a white shirt and is looking rather serious at Polly.

Polly is a white man with pale skin and freckles. He has bright ginger hair that falls in ringlets on his shoulders and is held back by a blue ribbon. He is wearing a blue suit with a light pink floral pattern. He looks worried.

The background is a plain beige. /End ID]

ghostkid

GOLDEN BOY

getting ready with the girrrlllss

part 1

Me: Mizu’s gender in Blue Eye Samurai is complex and ambiguous even to him/her/them and that’s part of the richness of the story, not a reason for the fandom to get upset at one another or especially at the show creators for saying they envisioned Mizu as a woman struggling to survive in a society hostile towards her racial background and women in general. Mizu’s upbringing was, to put it lightly, supremely fucked up and I respect the show for leaving Mizu’s gender identity and sexual preferences fairly ambiguous because I think they’re ambiguous even to Mizu, who doesn’t exactly lead a life or display an internality in which this question is any kind of priority for Mizu to answer, even if Mizu had a cultural context that gave the tools the answer it, which Mizu does not. Mizu’s relationship with all aspects of their identity, including their race, gender, sexuality is an ongoing question and dialogue being actively explored in the show itself, without a strict conclusion offered, and a conclusion might never be offered, even in later seasons, as Mizu continues to grapple with identity. In this essay, I will…

Also me: Mizu’s gender is revenge.