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Multifandom, writer, fanartist — any pronouns — arts, feels 'n' fairytales — sometimes gore|light nsfw|dark themes — recently repurposed as temple of poseidon [mostly an infrequently maintained collection of aesthetics with random bits of my own art]

[eintausendschoen]

Artist Manual plz rtfm

or: The Introduction. This account contains a tired bat too old for social media plz handle with care.

active Nicks/Pseuds: eintausendschoen/ein1000schoen/tausendschoen/ceentsh Pronouns: they/them/any

how to pronounce: ayn-tow-sent-shen - or just say ceentsh

Languages: GER/ENG, can read some french

Blog policy:

nsfw is labelled;

tags are explicit even for milder content and use "cw: ..." for content warnings;

do heed in general: don't like, don't interact;

on the spectrum and easily overwhelmed;

will reblog anything I like, so heed the tags, it's messy in here;

ask box is for asks that might be of interest for other's too;

ask box is not for spam (will block spammers with utter ruthlessness)

fanart for fanwork is a theme here (see point 3) and I appreciate it in any form;

Interests: Multifandom, writes and does some amateur art stuff;

🎆⏬ Art and fic directory, commission openings below ⏬🎆

generally open for the idea of commissions:

fic beta/editing

writing/art collabs

writing commissions

(fan)art commissions

please inquire specifically provide me a good pitch (aka 50-100 word summary of story or art piece, pairing) and specify what you need/expect as service from me. I'll decline anything without the basic info, and I reserve to decline if it's just not my cup of tea;

will do: sketch commissions, portraits (headshots, half breast half body, full body), ref sheets for chars/ocs, celebs as characters, light nsfw (just look at my stuff), gore, body and eldritch horror (to my ability); gay old guys any time;

won't do: your pet animals (i'm shit at that) and furry (won't look like you'll hope it to look), hardcore kink/nsfw and anything I have to google extensively; racist and queerphobic/misogynous stuff; anything I'm not into (will let you know at once);

dni: AI-pologists, queerphobic, minors; I've got zero tolerance for spammers

In case you wondered, "ein Tausendschoen" is a fancy german word for daisy flowers.

>> full name explanation post <<

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👉Fic Rec directory👈

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[calleido]

county clare, ireland

[aquatransmissaest]

[wildspringday]

paris paloma via instagram

[redstonedust]

for the record im not technially 100% anti-AI, in the sense that its a broad category of tech being lumped under one umbrella term so it feels over-zealous to say i hate all of it all the time forever. but i also think trying to discuss what it actually IS good for is difficult right now when i cant take one step without something trying to convince me to use chatgpt to summarize my life and speed up my hobbies and turn my friends into chatbots and optimize my life into oblivion. i am certain there is nuance to the topic but can we stop cramming the square peg into the round hole before you start trying to sell me on the legitimate benefits of the square peg. please.

[ralfmaximus]

Neural Nets have existed for decades and are genuinely useful. It's a form of AI that recognizes patterns, and can do stuff like identify cancer cells, tell whether an egg is fertilized or not, detect fraud, and optimize routes.

Those are Expert Systems, tuned to do exactly one thing. If you (say) ask a medical expert system a question about financial law, it's useless. The autopilot that flies a 787 has no idea how to drive a truck on the freeway. A Coulter Counter is excellent at identifying lymphocytes in a blood sample but can't predict the next card in a blackjack game.

And so on.

The problem with so-called generalized AI (AGI) is that we don't have that yet. It doesn't exist. It MIGHT some day, but AGI has been "10 years away" since the 1980s. The goals keep moving as we learn more about how people and machines process data.

But the current crop of AI techbros have been selling generative Large Language Model AI (LLM) as AGI because generative systems do a good job of faking it. There's no actual thought going on, merely the illusion of thought via predicting the next word in a sentence accurately.

If you let a human toddler listen to 800 hours of YouTube car influencer videos, that toddler might end up sounding like a car influencer. They'd parrot horsepower numbers and 0 to 60 times, mention EV range and MSRP numbers.

But they wouldn't understand any of it.

That's ChatGPT.

And yeah, it's worse than useless because it doesn't even know when it's lying or hallucinating. It just babbles convincingly until you stop it.

But for techbros to make money selling that as "AI"? It's the perfect scam, especially if you don't understand how it works.

I fucking hate it.

[splitterregen]

WIP tuesday Thursday

thanks for the tag @thiamsxbitch 💕

tagging @eintausendschoen and @peachysoymilk if you have a WIP of any kind you're working on and are incline to share it, no pressure though :D

[eintausendschoen]

Thanks for the tag :3

[eintausendschoen]

WIP tuesday. But on a thursday. Because.

Here's my superselfindulgent piece of ghosthunter fic with a Phasmo×Labyrinthine crossover setting. Likely the only part of it I'll ever publish.

Lovely @splitterregen tagged me - thx 🖤

I'd like to nominate @chaumas-deactivated20240115 nd @travellingwiththedead and @gauntlettoart just in case you're currently cooking something.

Rules are simple: If you have a WIP of any flavour, post a snippet and tag a select few fellow creators.

[requiem-on-water]

Waves by Reza Bassiri

[strange-house-art]

[famousfishathletecookie]

Artist Mikhail Kugach

[fashion-runways]

ASHI STUDIO “Fashion is Art” Dress 2026 pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com “This couture dress draws its inspiration from bronze sculptures in Indian culture and depictions of deities, reinterpreting their characteristic lines and draped forms in a contemporary way. The curves and folds have been carefully studied and translated into the structure of the garment, creating a silhouette that feels both fluid and defined. The entire piece is built around a bronze tone, treated to resemble naturally oxidized metal. Shades of blue and green are hand-painted using a trompe-l’œil technique to evoke the patina seen on ancient statues, giving the surface depth and variation. From the construction of the corset to the draping of the skirt, each element required precision and coordination. Over 200 hours were dedicated to crafting the garment, with an additional 200 hours spent on hand painting to achieve the final finish. Developed over several months, this piece reflects a balance between craftsmanship, material research, and a clear visual direction.”

[tokay-blog]

Some kind of old sketches x)

[389]

Conscious Exploration Al Mefer

[nicki0kaye]

Gradient Maps are OP; a tutorial

If you like my latest mermay picture [cw for mild gore], lemme tell you how easy it was to do the coloring for it. I used 3 layers to make it from black and white to full color, using a correction layer called a Gradient Map. This will be for the program Clip Studio Paint, but there's equivalent functions across programs, you just gotta do some research about where your gradient map options are hiding

In CSP, you go to Layer > New Correction Layer > Gradient Map

and this is what a gradient map does when placed above a black and white drawing;

It's a process that sounds complicated but is actually super easy to learn and exploit; gradient maps take a specific value (black to white and all the greys in the middle) and assign it a color. By adjusting where those lil ^ arrows sit on the gradient, you change which value is assigned that color, thus changing what part of your drawing is that color.

all the gradient maps I used are community made presets I downloaded for free using the CSP community asset portal

now pair that with layer masks, and you can isolate where on the picture the gradient map is in effect. Below is the gradient map that's Just the red for the couch, a few character accents, and the tail;

above in the orange is the layer mask button as well as where it is displayed on your layer (in CSP) once you apply it. When you want to change your layer mask, you click that second square on your layer; with that selected, you now can control what part of that layer is being shown without actually changing whats on that layer.

With the layer mask selected, you can erase whats there, then go over it with a brush or a selection tool and add it back as if it was never erased at all. The positive parts (what is visible on the picture) are displayed in white, the negative parts (what's been erased) are displayed in black. Obviously you Have to make sure you're interacting with the layer mask and not the layer itself (the layer itself is selected in the screen cap above, that's why it has that in-program white outline) or you really will just erase shit you can only get back by hitting 'undo'.

then you can add more gradient maps above or below the first one, depending on what looks best;

this is the bottom most gradient map layer arranged in my folder of gradient maps, because I wanted this orange as the foundation of the pic, the rest building off it.

the last gradient map layer is smushed between the red and the orange, and this is how I got those blue shadows and tail accents.

there is a Single value assigned that blue, but the gradient aspect allows it to be more versatile, and the browns making up the majority of the gradient help it feel like an extension of the orange layer. It's important to make sure your gradients harmonize like that otherwise it becomes more obvious they are two separate gradients interacting rather than the illusion of a more complex, selective color palette. While you can get a lot of depth out of a single gradient map, when you layer them, you're able to easily add shading, quickly change the color of a specific part of the picture and overall just cheat your way to a very cohesive, intricately colored picture with WAY less effort and color picking on your part.

taking this;

and turning it into this;

with 3 layers 8'>

And everyone say thank you for @spooky-beanz for inspiring this tutorial!

[alexanderwales]

I'm a big fan of wizards-as-programmers, but I think it's so much better when you lean into programming tropes.

A spell the wizard uses to light the group's campfire has an error somewhere in its depths, and sometimes it doesn't work at all. The wizard spends a lot of his time trying to track down the exact conditions that cause the failure.

The wizard is attempting to create a new spell that marries two older spells together, but while they were both written within the context of Zephyrus the Starweaver's foundational work, they each used a slightly different version, and untangling the collisions make a short project take months of work.

The wizard has grown too comfortable reusing old spells, and in particular, his teleportation spell keeps finding its components rearranged and remixed, its parts copied into a dozen different places in the spellbook. This is overall not actually a problem per se, but the party's rogue grows a bit concerned when the wizard's "drying spell" seems to just be a special case of teleportation where you teleport five feet to the left and leave the wetness behind.

A wizard is constantly fiddling with his spells, making minor tweaks and changes, getting them easier to cast, with better effects, adding bells and whistles. The "shelter for the night" spell includes a tea kettle that brings itself to a boil at dawn, which the wizard is inordinately pleased with. He reports on efficiency improvements to the indifference of anyone listening.

A different wizard immediately forgets all details of his spells after he's written them. He could not begin to tell you how any of it works, at least not without sitting down for a few hours or days to figure out how he set things up. The point is that it works, and once it does, the wizard can safely stop thinking about it.

Wizards enjoy each other's company, but you must be circumspect about spellwork. Having another wizard look through your spellbook makes you aware of every minor flaw, and you might not be able to answer questions about why a spell was written in a certain way, if you remember at all.

Wizards all have their own preferences as far as which scripts they write in, the formatting of their spellbook, its dimensions and material quality, and of course which famous wizards they've taken the most foundational knowledge from. The enlightened view is that all approaches have their strengths and weaknesses, but this has never stopped anyone from getting into a protracted argument.

Sometimes a wizard will sit down with an ancient tome attempting to find answers to a complicated problem, and finally find someone from across time who was trying to do the same thing, only for the final note to be "nevermind, fixed it".

[snailchimera]

Vital kingdom-wide infrastructure relies on an ancient arcane language with only three living speakers/practitioners; one of them quietly maintains the spellwork as a hobby. Everyone has forgotten that the wizard and the enchantment exist. Someday that wizard will finally pass away, as all things do. Within a month of their passing someone will try to implement some postal service reforms and every courier employed by the kingdom will spontaneously turn into a flock of doves.

The Duke has asked the local Wizards and Artificers guild to pave several new roads for him. The artificers have cleverly reworked a soup dispenser to cover the roads in a strong, even layer of paving material, but only if that paving material is a soup. It also bites people. The artificers maintain that taming the dispenser and de-soupifying the roads are wizard problems.

[littlebluebarista]

Ok breaking containment for this one because I need everyone who will listen to hear this.

Women who suffer bad cramps are told cramps shouldn't affect school/work/etc, but no one ever investigates further because no one can possibly know if what someone experiences is just typical pain or something much worse.

Well after 15 years of stage 4 treatment-resistant endometriosis that came with pain as bad as, if not worse than, actual labor contractions every month, all the while being told I was 'typical' and 'just had bad cramps', I've finally been healed (another post for another time). I have had what everyone describes as the elusive 'normal period pain' for several months now, and I am begging you to look me in the eyes and listen because I need everyone who can hear this to hear this.

I have been on both sides of this. I have the hard-earned knowledge of what a period 'should' feel like.

If you have to put in any effort to hide your cramps, you need to get help.

Even during of the PEAK OF CRAMPING (i.e., as bad as your cramps possibly get), you should still be able to stand, speak, walk, eat, work, and sleep with no problems. These tasks should require very-little-to-no extra effort beyond what you would normally do when you aren't on your period. When you do these things, you should feel grumpy and a little bit icky and maybe a twinge of nerves and NOTHING MORE.

If you have to sit in the corner and hope no one approaches you because you can't speak or stand without showing pain, even slightly, you need to get help. If your pain is showing on your face, you need to get help. And most importantly, IF YOUR PAIN DOES NOT RESPOND TO 1-2 TYLENOL OR IBUPROFEN, YOU NEED TO GET HELP.

Your period cramps should make you grumpy. Your period cramps should make you feel a little icky and tired. Your period cramps should make you feel your insides existing/moving a bit and a twinge of nerves that makes you groan slightly then the "pain" should stop there, NOTHING MORE.

If your cramps put you on the floor but you make believe you're the captain of a ship who has just been stabbed and has to hide it to fight on, and you force yourself to power through the day, please understand: you are not okay, that does not make you okay. Just because you can power through the pain doesn't mean you aren't sick. If you have to force yourself through any basic task beyond the effort it takes you to do when you aren't on your period, and I am holding your face and looking you in the eye as I say this because I need you to hear me: You aren't normal. You don't 'just have bad cramps'. You are sick and you need to get help.

Now most people will tell you if your cramps are beyond a 3 out of 10 on the pain scale, you should see a doctor. While this is usually true, you have to consider chronic pain CAN AND WILL BREAK YOUR PAIN SCALE. Most people will only compare pain they currently feel to pain they may experience one day but probably never will. "Sure these cramps feel bad now, but if I had a leg amputated with no anesthesia, that would hurt WAY worse, so this pain can't be that bad-" No. Your pain is what it is, objectively, full stop. My cramps were at a 10 out of 10 every. Single. Time. And nobody told me claiming they were a 6-8 because I thought to myself 'what if I lose a limb one day?' was completely wrong. 10 pain is 10 pain. And if there's something that hurts worse than that, guess what. The thing you are experiencing right now is still a 10 out of 10 on the pain scale. Just because you experience it every month doesn't mean it's magically not as bad is it is. And if your pain is worse than a 3 out of 10, you need to get help.

Now when I say get help, I mean find the root cause of your pain. You can't just throw drugs and hormones at it without knowing what it causing your pain. Endometriosis, fibroids, pcos, cancer, adenomyosis, polyps, thyroid issues, there is always a cause. And if you leave it untreated, it will grow and get worse to the point where it resists treatment and the drugs and hormones you've been throwing at it for years don't work anymore. You have to find a doctor that will investigate. If your doctor tells you you 'just have bad cramps' get a new doctor. I know you've been told that but please hear me: no one ever just has bad cramps. A healthy human body doesn't spontaneously cause itself pain so bad you can't stand up; there is ALWAYS a cause.

I was sick for more than 15 years. My entire life was put on hold and now I'm in my late 20s trying desperately to play catch up for everything I missed. I want to pick up 12yo me, spin her around, and tell her she doesn't have to die before she finally stops hurting. I don't want anyone to suffer the same fate I did simply because everyone told them they were normal. A little twinge of pain here and there is normal, suffering is not. I promise you your pain is real, it is not normal, and dear heavenly day I am begging you you need to get help now.

TL;DR: There is no such thing as 'just bad cramps.' If you feel anything more than grumpy, icky, and pain greater than a 3 out of 10, you need to find out what's wrong with you before it gets worse.

[anarchistmemedistro]

reblogging for all genders

[elljayvee]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I thought my cramps weren't that bad, because after all I had friends who couldn't get out of bed for three days. Meanwhile I could walk around. I only occasionally had a cramp so bad that I went pale and sweaty and shaky as I waited it out. Sure, those bad ones felt like a knife in the gut, but they only lasted a minute or so each one, and there were only two days of those per period. Not too bad, right?

After endometriosis surgery? Night and day. I haven't had a cramp like that in over a year. My cramps now, as OP says, are mild twinges and the vague sensation that standing up straight is more difficult and tiring than usual. Not painful, just harder to do.

Now Imagine me telling you "no one has stabbed me repeatedly in the guts for over a year!" that sounds insane, right. who would tolerate that. WELL. Lots of people with uteruses, apparently.

Also I've stopped being anemic. "Well, yeah," my doctor said, last week. "You probably had a slow bleed into your abdominal cavity constantly from the endometrial tissue, and now you don't."

[madgastronomer]

Also, DO NOT accept, "Being fat makes your cramps worse, lose weight and they'll get better." No. Some of the hormonal conditions that cause severe cramps also cause weight gain so there is a correlation between being fat and having bad cramps. That doesn't mean the fat causes the pain. Also, weight loss will not cure any of the conditions that make you gain weight.

And if you're fucking miserable before or during your period, that's premenstrual dysphoric disorder, it's not normal either, please get that checked out too. Any kind of "I feel like a disgusting blob monster" or "I am a horrible person and don't deserve to live" or anything even vaguely in that vicinity, that's PMDD.

In both of these cases, if your doctor doesn't fucking listen to you, get a new doctor, and don't stop getting new doctors until you find one that does listen.

[transcockiness]

additionally, transfems on estrogen can and do get period cramps, including extreme cramping, and there are options to manage it that don't involve stopping estrogen! switching from pills to injections can help, as well as starting progesterone. estrogen HRT doses are also chronically underprescribed by doctors, making sure you're on the right dose can help keep you healthy. here's the diy estrogen hrt guide which has info on dosage!

[lastoneout]

Wanted to add, if you have symptoms of Endo but tests come back negative, consider looking into EDS. I've had fairly painful and heavy periods for most of my life (though never debilitating or difficult to ignore and always regular) and it turns out what I and many others thought was Endo is actually just my Ehlers Danlos syndrome.

EDS loves to mimic other serious health issues! I have been in the ER several times behind chest pains I thought were an aneurism or heart attack only to find out that EDS just gives you random chest pain for no reason, and it does the same for periods. I've read up on it and it's actually really common for folks with EDS and a uterus to get misdiganosed with endo. You can ofc have EDS and endo, and you should get tested, but worth putting out there that if the tests come back negative you aren't doomed, there are other things that can fuck up your period like that and it's worth looking into them. You don't deserve to be in pain all the time!!!

Edit: Fibromyalgia can also make your period much, much more painful and heavy and intensify negative symptoms like nausea and fatigue!

[mads-schubert]

weeks 11-20 on my weekly poster challenge this year, crazy I've actually managed almost half a year of getting these done. 1-10 here.