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Alex. Mostly a fandom blog. Icon by blatterburystreet ❤

[doodlemancy]

hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)

✨ good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trash 🌈

[zanthiakhalaplace]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I have been despairing as it is so hard now to find references and photos of succulents and other things for my designs!! T_T

[baraphalloplastyclinic]

I actually do think we should discourage women from becoming housewives. Do not become financially dependent on a man. That's how a lot of women ended up dead over the years. A man gets violent suddenly and you have to choose between homelessness or potentially dying at his hand because you have an enormous gap in your resume and no degrees or certifications or anything that will help you pursue a career that will allow you to be financially independent. He owns your bank account. His name is probably the one on the car. Try and leave and he can report it stolen. Where will you go then?

Don't become a housewife.

[ladyfoxfire]

And if you do become a housewife, take steps to protect yourself. Make sure you’re legally married, for starters; stay-at-home girlfriends have very little legal recourse to claim their partner’s assets in a breakup. Make sure your name is on the house deed/rental agreement, and have your car in your name, even if your spouse is paying for it. Have your spouse transfer money every month into an account solely in your name, so you can buy yourself things without needing permission, but also so you can save up to leave if needed.

If your spouse fights you on any of this, then don’t quit your job. The tradwife to poverty pipeline is real, and so is financial abuse.

[dressedupliketheking]

also, many women/people experience controlling behaviour and domestic violence from their partner for the first time during pregnancy. don’t risk thinking “he’s just stressed, it’ll get better when the baby comes” because it won’t. neither you and your child will ever be safe with that man. get out as early and safely as you can

[blatterburystreet]

Babies arrived home safe and sound!!

[blatterburystreet]

Do you like dancing?

[lifesgrandparade]

I want you guys to all start making a bigger stink about Tumblr's Age Verification Horseshit.

[lifesgrandparade]

Like they tried to change Reblogs and people rightfully got up in arms, this is a LOT worse. In order to have access to any sort of thing dubbed mature, and We haveALL seen what they think is mature, Everything from a black and white photo of a black woman's arm, to posts about IUD recalls, to a nude painted by a 17th century artist, to anything involving the word Trans; you have to send your personal information to a third party site that WILL get hacked, and you will be doxxed. And they can say "Oh shit, well it wasn't us who sent your name address and gender identity to Moldovan teenagers, here's a couple extra minutes in the ball pit.

That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.

"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.

This is a breaking point and it's going to be very interesting to see how we proceed from here.

[blatterburystreet]

yessss, I placed the order for my Stromhedge rotating standee, yes I'll bring it at dokomi and yes I can't wait to see them swrling on my table. I redid Lyonel's skirt like...4 times

[depsidase]

[blatterburystreet]

Will you sell akotsk merch at dokomi? Those Chibis are ao cute and I need them 😭😭😭

YES! Dokomi'll be the first con where I'll sell them. I'm also working on this silly spinning standee to enrich my booth👀

[exhausted-undead]

wyll!!! he's literally the sweetest and i want to see more of him

[drunkyeena]

NVIDIA REVEALED DLSS5 AND Y'ALL AREN'T ANGRY ENOUGH

Nvidia just revealed their next generation DLSS 5 and it is legitimately the worst thing to ever touch video games. Now, ontop of the video upscaling and frame generation, Nvidia is adding environmental and facial post processing and the results are fucking horrendous.

Grace DOES NOT LOOK LIKE GRACE she looks like every AIGenerated woman that is used to sell porn scams or what people 4Chan call the "ideal woman" - the ideal woman of them of course is a jaw lined, lip-filled and glossy, clean blonde woman with perfect white complexion. Because oligarchs (and those that blindly follow them) are built on white nationalism. This is their ideology, this is what the perfect woman looks like to them and what every woman should look like and they will stop at nothing to make it true...

Beyond this the end results are just straight up awful. Lighting is completely wrong, making environments unnecessarily bright and just removing shadows all together...

The use of the Oblivion remaster and Assassin's Creed Shadows are by far the worst offenders, every single usage of DLSS5 looks like they were taken from a Polaroid with too much exposure...

Above: Assassin's Creed Shadows

Above and Below: Elder Scrolls IV Remaster

Now you might be thinking "It's DLSS, it is an optional feature we can turn it off" and this is where I am going to have to put my tinfoil hat on for a bit and make a little theory:

Jensen has A LOT of money riding on AI being the future and on top of all the LLMs, consumer AI usage is also part of it, which includes GenAI photo editing - features that Samsung, Google, Apple and Meta all are trying to cram down your throats into thinking that it is normal to completely fake your life. This is just another method to that conditioning. Grace with DLSS5 is just another example of that slop and slapping it within a feature that in modern PC gaming has basically become a necessity, means that we will all be exposed to it - directly or through livestreams and let's plays. Nvidia has now introduced a scenario whether you either spend £5,000 to get what the actual game looks like, or be fed AI slop just to get your game to run.

In short, this shit is horrendous and is just a really shitty reshader with a 4chan woman filter built in. I just want an upscaler, that's all I wanted. Stop changing my game from the source material and actively making it worse.

It's an insult to my eyes, my monitor and the art team of the game I'm playing. Fuck you Nvidia. Fuck you Jensen.

And also absolutely fuck you to Digital Foundry to try and sell this as some innovative next step in gaming. I have lost all trust with that company.

[secondbeatsongs]

in case it's not clear to everyone, OPs can't even see tags unless they're on a post reblogged directly from them, even if nobody's added comments in the reblogs chain.

a post can have 500 reblogs, half of them with tags, but unless every single post is being shared directly from the original, the OP is probably going to think that nobody's saying anything

get ready for tumblr to feel like a ghost town, even when it's not

[dancinbutterfly]

Send Support tickets.

Send support tickets from the @changes page.

If you pay for ad-free? Say so.

Everyone needs to submit a ticket. And when you get an email? Reply over the line.

Zenddesk has to deal with you if you reply.

Don’t stop talking to them.

Get loud. This one is for the soul of the site.

We got rid of Tumblr TV. We can get rid of this. But we have to flood the support tickets. The official way.

[chestharrington]

PSA: For fan works, reblog and like from OP

Tumblr is rolling out a new reblog/notes system that completely disregards creators. In their new system, they're taking a twitter-style approach where reblogs will have their own notes that DO NOT contribute to the original post's notes.

Because of this, creators will no longer be able to see an accurate display of likes/reblogs/etc. This is completely altering the way feedback and responses to works are going to be received on this website.

If you come across a fan work that you enjoy, please take the extra step to go to OPs original post, and leave your comment/like/reblog there. Or go one step further and send an ask to OP directly to tell them what you liked!

I really hope Tumblr staff reverses course and reverts to the original reblog system for the sake of the large base of creators who use this site to share their works, but until then, please be considerate and make sure the creators here see/feel the love.

[blatterburystreet]

[theivorytowercrumbles]

Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online

The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship.

they are spinning up to try and pass KOSA a-fucking-gain, so we need to harass them swiftly and get them to knock it off

if you like any degree of anonymity on the internet, this has to be a priority

[anxident]

this month submission for vgen challenge (my third attempt..) so here's a full dao team going to another adventure! ♥ art print

[alexredgrave]

With these gymbro influencers and Marvel movies I think young men have now reached the level of body dysmorphia women where dealing with in the midst of the cocaine chic 90s/early 2000s.

I'm saying this because in the same day I saw guys online argue that 6ft tall and fit Daniel Ings and Ryan Hurst, who is built like a fucking strongman, are too small and skinny to play Lyonel Baratheon and Kratos respectively.

This is the fucking man dudes are calling "Kratos on Ozempic":

People can criticize the costume and makeup and whatnot but to call him skinny and saying he needs to hit the gym highlights the same extreme detachment from reality as the people who were calling Bridget Jones fat.

[eddie-redcliffe]

Meeting this guy, Dunk, has just opened up the tourney for him. He does this shit all the time, and it's fun, but then he meets this guy who reminds him that it's about something bigger. So I think it's true when he says, like, "There hasn't been a Trial of Seven for 100 years. I'm not going to miss out. This is fucking awesome," but it is also a convenient way to mask the inner context of what he's saying, which is also like, "You're awesome. You are the greatest thing that's happened to this tourney. And, for sure, I'll stand by your side." When he says, "I knew you'd be trouble," what he's really saying is, "I knew you'd be fun." - Daniel Ings