Bulu

I like art and writing.

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Esaila Voret.

Fun fact: Esaila is a bastard.

(yeah, I decided to actually write the watermark from now on)

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Sirev Aeret.

Fun fact: Outside of work, Sirev is extremely softhearted and considers any leader who is not, weak.

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Rough sketch of the Aeret brothers. Syelan and Atan.

(Used this base:

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Guys when I say I hate archetypes I don't mean I hate certain types of characters, I mean I hate the way archetypes make people's minds immediately characterize a character wholly through one trait associated with a certain archetype. For example, if I say one of my characters is hopeful, they've flattened Asaye into the positive, optimistic, cheery archetype. If I say a (especially female) character is strong, they've flattened Neima into the hot-headed, stubborn, scary, aggressive archetype. If I say a character is socially anxious or soft, they've flattened Halaesa into the damsel in distress, constantly stuttering, naive, always blushing archetype often used as a romantic plot device. If I say a character is weak, they've flattened Syelan into the fragile, sensitive, emotionally expressive, helpless, incompetent archetype. If I say a character is detached, they've flattened Dakivi into the cold, stoic, brooding, never-talks-to-anyone archetype.

I'm not saying these archetypes are bad, I'm just saying I hate that media literacy is so low that people immediately default to popular tropes when they see a certain trait in a character instead of seeing the character as they are. They say they want complex characters, but they can't comprehend any kind of complexity that's not an already popular pattern

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Atan Aeret.

Fun fact: Cooking is Atan's least favorite thing to do, but he still goes out of his way to try and make something good for his loved ones when they're upset.

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Halaesa Ime.

Redrew her because I hated her previous one

Fun fact: Halaesa is a daydreamer. She is often seen just looking at the moon or watching clouds drift across the sky, lost in thought.

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Asaye Akaen

(edit: I fixed his hair so it's less vibrant and now tumblr ruined the quality)

Fun fact: Despite what you'd expect from someone with a gift of superstrength, Asaye is the most timid among all his peers. He is very easily intimidated by authority.

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Lyosen Morale.

Fun fact: Lyosen does not often look like he is enjoying a meal, but is actually very particular about the dishes he does enjoy. He is an exceptional cook.

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Neima Muran

(I FORGOT THE FUCKING SCARS)

Fun fact: Neima wanted to be a teacher. A music teacher specifically. She has an extraordinary singing voice.

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Siso Tottegun.

Fun fact: Siso's favorite hobby is drowning

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Syelan Aeret.

Fun fact: Syelan sometimes makes up words with convincingly elaborate meanings or blatant lies mid conversation just to see who would pretend to know them.

[solarsthoughts]

listen i may take 4 weeks to write a 3k word chapter, and i may take 45 minutes to decide whether i should use “laugh” or “chuckle”, but at least i don’t use ai and whatever you’re getting is pure chaos from a human brain

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No soul is capable of hating a piece of art more than the artist that created it.

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I just watched a video about students getting their papers falsely flagged for using AI, even when they didn’t, and the advice was things like, “Leave in incorrect grammar,” “If you’re quoting something, don’t copy and paste it, type it out manually because it leaves a metadata trail that you used the copy/paste function and that's a flag,” “Write in the cloud so there’s a version history,” and the one that really got me, “if you find you write in a manner that can sounds too robotic or professional and it gets flagged, go to the writing center so a writing tutor can help you sound more humanly flawed,” and like what the actual fuck.

Like I get that is practical advice, but people should not have to fucking do that. They should not have to train themselves around not sounding like AI, when AI only sounds like that BECAUSE it was trained on them.

I spent so much of my life learning how to write, I shouldn't have to unlearn that because some computer algorithm learned from me.

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reaching adulthood at peak capitalism is so miserable because I can't even remember what sort of worries I had before turning 18 besides maybe not liking the way I looked or some other shit I wouldn't be able to give a damn about even if I tried now. I wake up worrying about money, I spend the day worrying about money, and I go to sleep worrying about money. I'm only 18. Ts is not fair man, how do you even begin to call this a life

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Alright, I'm struggling. I'm a very perceptive person and can look at simple, everyday conversations, jokes, and situations from a much deeper perspective and grasp the subtle racism, misogyny and all that when it fuels people's everyday behavior.

The thing is, I'm a female writer, and my protagonist is male. I might be overthinking it but I'm worried that the fact that I chose to have a male protagonist instead of a female one might be internalized misogyny, but at the same time, it's like a lot of the other significant and complex relationships with my protagonist which happen to be male might be diluted in their neutrality if he was a girl and could be read as gendered even though that's not my intent. I don't know what to do.

[aropride]

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

[bladespark]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[conservethis]

Casting with all my might