Breathe and Exhale; You are alive. You are okay.

An art blog, saftey net, and personal blog aside from my normal one. :3

[utopians]

not to be pedantic but it annoys me so much when people talk abt how chatgpt is "lying" or "making things up". or esp when people say it "refuses to admit" to lying. like girl that is a toaster oven

[utopians]

"it REFUSED TO ADMIT that it LIED to me" it is a line of code generating letters in the most algorithmically probable order

[titkoks]

obsessed with the line “if i can continue to be a minor nuisance to the forces of nature trying to decompose me, i’m gonna consider that a win. the wheel of time will continue to turn, and i with it, like a nail in a tire”

[philliplight]

I watched the Jim Carrey, “Grinch” a couple weeks ago which made me want to draw some 1830’s inspired Whos

[catasters]

[hisiheyah]

(mostly) based on a true story

[deanu]

If you’re a real human person still using the default tumblr avatar, consider changing it.

why should you change it?

When you guys pop up in our notifications, most seasoned tumblr users will suspect you’re a bot and block on sight.

why do we block immediately?

tumblr has a history of bots trying to infiltrate and establish a connection to a valid, existing blog in order to populate google searches. Simply liking or reblogging a post, not just adding a scam link to it, establishes this connection. Tumblr users don’t want this to happen, especially if it’s a scammy p*rn bot. So, we often block on sight.

So now I have to reblog stuff AND change my pfp?

Well, of course that’s up to you! I just want to explain why you may have been already blocked by an artist/blogger you may have discovered recently, and how you can avoid it in the future.

Reblogging does help creators more than likes because your reblogs will show up on the dash of those that may follow you. Plus, reblogging puts that post on your own blog, and in case the original gets deleted or edited by the OP, it’ll be on your blog like that–forever (or until you delete your blog). Nice.

Here are some free icons created by catalyststuff on freepik. Highly recommend their art for a simple replacement!

[furbearingbrick]

see, this is how you inform without guilt-tripping

[dimpledthings]

one of the current bot name trends is a word or name followed by two numbers (e.g. lizziebear61), so bear that in mind if you find yourself getting blocked by blogs you’re following!

[emotimau2]

Howdy. Y’all can now find me on my true personal, @emotimau5 ! I’mma be Reblogging this to my other blogs now.

[semba-b]

As an autistic person I do not identify with the “autism creature” meme. I am an autism monstrosity, I am an autism beast, I am even an autism horror.

[heatheniousmaterials]

These are not mutually exclusive

[semba-b]

I know

[semba-b]

I’ve decided it’s name is GTFO to represent how I feel when I have a sensory overload, this is serious and canon

[silkirose]

:/

[silkirose]

:0

[silkirose]

:)

[silkirose]

A little update <3

I still read all of your lovely replies! I have not given up on art my friends! I have even started my own webcomic on webtoon! It’s called Seth In Space and it would mean a lot to me if you would support me there! Love you all and happy halloween!!

[silkirose]

I’m so happy to tell you all that I’ve made great progress with my mental health!! To genuinely be able to say that I feel happy is so liberating and free! I know a lot of you are still in that dark place. I’m here to say that it does get better. Much better! I still have some tough days but progress is progress! Be kind and gentle to yourselves. I love you all and thank you to everyone who’s supported me over the years!

Here’s links to my commissions and projects! Commissions Animal Crossing Commissions Animal Crossing Tarot Cards Tarot Readings Seth In Space

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

[silkirose]

Happy halloween 2021 everyone!! As for some good news, I came out as genderfluid this year!! I hope everyone has a magical halloween!! Patreon

[silkirose]

I didn’t know what to do for the update this year as I felt I would just be repeating myself from last year, so I was advised to go balls to the wall

Happy Halloween!!

[brakken]

skeletons

[alinahazy]

THIS IS WHAT I WANT ON NY HALOWEEN DASH OMG

[alinahazy]

I’ll never stop reblogging this

[chiaroart]

I told myself I’d wait until October to start putting halloween stuff on my blog. I’m a dirty liar.

[galacticsabc]

Overly Sarcastic Production's Apollo, the god of prophecy.

And the dodgeball he throws at random internet users.

[zero-gravity-zero-chill]

@comicaurora

[comicaurora]

lookit that face. he knows what he did

[teruterusky]

what the heck

[coyotetale]

[beyonce-knowles-carter]

82 YEARS AGO - BATMAN DEBUTED FOR THE FIRST TIME Eighty-two years ago on March 30, 1939, Detective Comics #27 hit newsstands, introducing the Caped Crusader for the very first time in a featured story called “The Case of the Chemical Syndicate.”

“And for all that fierce exterior, I’ve never met anyone who cared as deeply about his fellow man as Bruce Wayne.”  - Amanda Waller, Justice League Unlimited, Season 2 Episode 13 (2005)

[carolinskyy]

“If you cant imagine your batman comforting a scared kid, thats not Batman. Thats the punisher in a silly hat”

[drawingden]

ClipDrop Relight allows you to change the lighting of images (including artworks) for free with their AI lighting tool

This could be super useful for artists if you want to play around with potential lighting/colours! I tested it out a bit and it seems to work with both portraits and sceneries, however it doesn't look like it works with flat sketches. Still really impressive though!

[drawingden]

Right, I'm just going to go over this once then not talk about this app again because I really didn't think much of it when I posted this, and I don't have the time or willpower to start discoursing on a dozen different esoteric questions about the implications of tools like this because it's exhausting.

I've been running this blog for almost a decade, which is wild actually, and I think I could count about a dozen times when a random art app or website got popular followed by a mass panic about art theft.

(Spoiler: it doesn't, I checked)

So we're at this stage, again. Every single time some art related app or website trends someone misunderstands the terms and conditions of one of these websites, it starts getting passed along and abstracted/exaggerated further with each person that quotes the last, then it goes to the most extreme possible outcome (aka how information generally works on the internet)

Every single website that you upload media is going to say in the terms that you're giving permissions for them to physically host the image on their website, that's needed for websites and apps to work. This website has an AI so yeah, it's going to learn from your image too when you upload it. Within the context of this particular AI we can assume it learns to relight images better over time.

It does not however, mean that you're forfeiting your copyright over the image and that they now have unlimited license to use your work for commercial purposes indefinitely and that you forfeit all right to pursue legal action over this. Obviously if it said that it would be massive cause for concern, but it doesn't and not one of the websites I've seen that people freaked out about actually did in the end iirc.

(Just as a general rule I don't think I've ever actually genuinely seen such thing as a sneaky website that instantly gains complete legal control over your work as soon as it's uploaded onto their servers.)

Now people are saying that because one developer on the project has done other things related to NFTs, that now means every image uploaded will be made into some kind of NFT? Why is that a given?

Even if it turns out that one of the developers likes to create NFTs in his free time, that doesn't mean he has permission to just start stealing data from the users of a website he works for. That also doesn't mean he has intent to do this, or even personally finds it ethical to steal art (two of the co-founders worked for Google Arts)

Edit: They've now confirmed exactly this:

Edit: Also as I was drafting this post I just saw this under my own post:

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Wow that sounds really alarming! Machine learning to help photographers and small businesses! It must mash up our artworks and make free art for businesses to sell since that's the only thing AI does 😱

Let's look up the app mentioned in this website they linked...

It's a background remover. It removes backgrounds using AI. I don't mean to be rude because I'm sure they had good intentions, but why did you add this massive red lettering and go as far as to link the website when you didn't even look at it yourself?

It doesn't look like this company even makes any kind of generated images, it's all image editing tools - where did anyone even get the idea that they're in the business of making generated content other than because they heard the word AI?

Anyway I've seen this happen with every website or app ever that's recommended to artists and I wanted to point this out. It's good to want to protect your art, but please stop listening to people writing in big capital letters going "omg guys X website is going to steal your art" without looking into it yourself and actually digesting the information in front of you.

[drawingden]

I just want to boost this one more time because one of the people spreading this rumor just outright blocked me when I sent them a DM asking to give my post a read:

Just one final TL;DR - the website uses your image to keep training the same AI to relight images better - there's no NFTs, they confirmed they don't have any intention of making NFTs, the company doing this isn't even in the business of making AI generated art, and there's zero indication that they want to start making generated art and this is literally all rumor

Software developers aren't all nefarious art thieves trying to trick you into uploading your art to their website, please give it a rest guys

[thegaymertrainer]

This website has ruined me because I was not expecting a child to speak when he called himself daddy…

[elodieunderglass]

I can’t say I felt the same, but I have tremendous admiration for his composure

[socksolotl]

[Transcript:]

Person filming: Can you again ask me what you just asked me? What was that question? I don’t think… Daddy didn’t hear you.

Child offscreen: When can we have lesbian?

Dad: Mhmm. Okay. Maybe I did hear you right. Um, I don’t know what that is, Sweetie, I don’t know what you mean. Child, emphatically: Lesbian!

Dad: No, I know– I know what you said, but I don’t think that word means what you think it means, okay?

Child: It’s like… spaghetti.

Dad: [Clears throat] Oh, excuse me. [Audibly restraining laughter] Do you mean lasagna?

Child: Yep!

Dad: Okay. Um, yeah, [high pitched with amusement] I’m sure we can have– [serious] I’m sure we can have lasagna really soon, okay? We’ll– We’ll try to… Yeah, we’ll make sure that we can– we can eat that soon, okay? Does that sound– does that sound good?

Child: Yeah!

Dad: Okay, alright. Thank y–

[end transcript]

[quietly-kelpie]

My favorite part of this is that he doesn’t show his kid’s face. In an era when so many kids are used for funny videos, where their faces are splashed across the internet before they even know what the internet is, it’s really refreshing to see people respecting their kids’ privacy.

[wolfofartblock]

OH YEAH look at this screenshot of some tumblr ad

Is this not.... him? Like what the hell....

[catgirl-catboy]

No, kids should not have unsupervised acess to the internet.   Yes, I got that and it was the best thing that ever happened to me.    Its a paradox.

[fiovske]