I Shine, But Do Not Burn

hello! let's see, this is just a bunch of stuff I like or that catches my eye. she/her, bisexual/demisexual college grad

[rhodeys]

OWEN WILSON and STEVE COOGAN as JEDEDIAH and OCTAVIUS in Night at the Museum (2006)

[boyd-stevens]

JURASSIC PARK 1993, dir. Steven Spielberg

[dimension20official]

everyone wants to help a little bit 😌

➡️ Watch this episode of Adventuring Academy on Dropout!

Three Timer's Club (with Aabria Iyengar) - Season 7 - Dropout

Aabria Iyengar returns to the show to talk about adversarial PCs, multi-classing, and embracing chaos. Content Warning: Mention of suicidal

[itscolossal]

Los Angeles Public Library Unveils the World’s Largest Pop-Up Book

[gamechangershow]

Whoa, it's DM stoner Brennan Lee Mulligan! 🌿😮‍💨

➡️ Go to Dropout to watch new Game Changer now

Noise Some Makes - Season 8 - Dropout

Josh, Zac, and Brennan return and make even more noise. Content Warning: Emetophobia (Gagging and animation of vomiting) - [27:57-28:02] Em

[dropoutdottv]

[animations-daily]

What exactly are you here for? To see with eyes unclouded by hate. PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997) dir. Hayao Miyazaki

[elbdot]

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Finally. I am FREE!! FREE OF THIS ARC!!! Another "MINI"-ARC COMPLETE, this took SO MUCH TIME and yet it was just meant to be a sEGWAY into new bigger stories afjdskjfdskjf 😭😭

Thank you all so much for your patience!! I'm so happy I still managed to get this huge update out while I'm in the MIDDLE of convention preparations (Polaris 2026 here I come) !! 🥹🫠😂 I'll continue to juggle comic, commissions and conventions in the coming months as best as I can! 💖 I'm VERY excited for what's to come next, I already started storyboarding it!! 😁🥰 Thank you so much for your support!

Comic updates like this are made possible thanks to my Patrons! 🥰 Patreon | Webtoons 🏝🌺

[coffinvows]

a lil on my process for illustrations !

sketch with idea of values -> lineart -> greyscale -> color overlay on top of -> linear light overlay with desired color pallet -> render -> render and bullshit around -> render & mess with gradient maps and color match setting/ texture overlay & done

[lackabella]

Some more random character collages. 😊

[fictionalauthorityii]

Finding out AI companies are chewing through - literally, they’re pulping and burning them as they go - millions of books often including 1/1s and old texts that cannot be reprinted

Meanwhile there’s always some dipshit telling me AI is the future and we’ve got to just let companies erase human history and literature so they can train their abomination machines to pretend to think like people because a judge said it’s fine

[wageronancap]

[odessa-edmundson]

'Modern Poisoning Tools': AI Firms Buying and Destroying Thousands of Books To Feed AI Models

AI companies are buying and scanning printed books for training data, raising copyright and cultural preservation concerns as rare volumes a

[sophiemars]

TLDR: company is bulk buying millions of books - including really old/rare/unique ones - to train AI. But in order to scan them quickly, they cut the spine out and trim the pages, effectively destroying these books, and then "recycle" the remains. A judge says it's legal. The company knows it's unethical and actively tried to hide the practice. None of the scanned copies are available to the public.

[2colde]

how it genuinely feels

[shinraalpha]

i do think lobbying for data centres over climate goals should be considered a crime against humanity btw

[mayasaura]

[ellewantsrevenge]

aadam jacobs's archive

[bravenot]

these scenes are two sides of the same coin to me. sudden and complete deviation from the tone of the campaign; everyone in hysterics.

[dent-de-leon]

agony--

[kropotkindersurprise]

July 22, 2026 - People around the USA are taking down Flock AI surveillance cameras. [video]

[orcboxer]

"trump dying won't fix fascism" neither would a big steamy bowl of pad thai but I still want it