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[erebus0dora]

hi, there's a lot of new people here, so -

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if you're not sure how to call me, call me doc; i am ace, she/her but ok with any pronoun, 35+ and always willing to hug; everything else you can find out via the links below

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and, most importantly to the current art flow-

😈 Devil's Minion masterpost (keeping it updated)

enjoy your stay

[erebus0dora]

your art is breathtaking I wish you a magical magical day and thank you for existing <3333333 Armand is beautiful and alive under you pen.

this is one of the sweetest messages i have ever received :'3 thank you! so glad you like it 🥹

[erebus0dora]

when life offers you ai, fiercely ignore it for the sake of wild trad arts, i guess..?

i remain very salty about ai - and rather normal in waiting for the old vampires in new wild situations, as you can tell

[caspercryptid]

I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird

[pine-branches]

things humans are known to do when stressed:

-hallucinate

-cry over what seems to be small things

-become furiously angry over what seems to be small things

-hit a self destruct button over and over again

-lose all sense of reality

-becoming straight up unable to communicate

-view every situation as life or death

-experience delusions/become vulnerable to irrational worldviews

-perceive hostility where none exists

-become extremely nauseous and/or throw up

-stop engaging in sleeping/eating/basic hygiene

-stop processing sensory input

-process way too much sensory input all at once

-lash out at others/themselves

-and more!

being able to recognize when a human (ie. you or another person) is so stressed out they cannot think clearly is VERY important for conflict resolution and diffusing emotional crisis. highly recommend trying to train yourself at being able to recognize that state of panic- there is a point in which logic and rationality is useless and you have to address the underlying emotional issue first. knowing that saves everyone a lot of pain and struggle.

[pronouncingitwang]

at some point in your life you will be boiling fruit, water, sugar, and lemon juice in a pot to make a syrup or jam. the instructions will tell you to simmer for a certain amt of time. your timer will go off and you will look at the pot and go, "hm, this doesn't look thick enough. maybe i'll let it go for another 10 minutes." this is the devil speaking. it's only so liquid right now because it is at boiling point. it will thicken when it cools down. learn from the follies of my youth and do not let this happen to you

[yokowan]

at some point in your life you will be making a sauce or a stew in which you need to add cornstarch to thicken it. and you will prepare a slurry of starch in cold water and think "this looks like way too little starch to thicken this amount of liquid." this is the devil speaking. cornstarch instantly polymerizes at 95°C and if you add too much it will turn into an impossibly thick goop.

[le-jardin-inculte]

at some point in your life you will be making some sort of cream based dessert that requires gelatin to thicken it. and you will soak some gelatin sheets in water and think "this is too few gelatin sheets for this amount of cream." this is the devil speaking. it will thicken in the fridge and if you add too much you will end up with milk jelly

[shithowdy]

at some point in your life you will be baking cookies. you will take the sheet out after twelve minutes as the recipe instructs and the cookies will still be glistening and soft. "these don't seem cooked enough," you will think to yourself, "i should place them back into the oven until their edges are nice and golden." this is the devil talking. this is how you get dry, overdone cookies. the cookies will continue to bake on the warm sheet for several more minutes and then harden up after sitting on a rack for a while. trust the process. trust the process.

[whitachi]

at some point in your life you will be adding a small pasta to a soup and you will think "that is not enough small pasta." this is the devil talking. the pasta will absorb the stock and expand. this is how you end up with a soup that is a solid mass of soggy ditalini.

[araceil]

At some point in your life you will be adding garlic to a dish and you will think "that is not enough garlic." These are angels speaking. They are correct. Add more garlic.

[erebus0dora]

had a couple of genuinely tough weeks, but finally crawled to good old relaxing portrait practice just to spite the algorithms

can neither confirm nor deny this was triggered by being accused of being an ai engine for creating arts

also: shhh, there's no blood, just a flower crown🥀

this one has an owner; but still, when it dries, i am scanning it and adding to my website as downloadable data

timelapse vid below the cut 🫀

[beardedmrbean]

Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real: Nature.com

I'm a bit frightened for the time when someone less ethical than the person that did this decides to repeat the experiment but leave out the part where they come in later and announce that it was fake and people wind up diagnosed with the fake condition and all kinds of wacky hi jinks ensues.

[hyrude]

i've searched every combination of words imaginable and i still can't find that gif of the german star trek parody where gay spock is quickly drinking coffee and smoking freaking out PLEASE send it to me i need it urgently

[lamphous]

matched set

[aralintheobsessive]

if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars.

i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf

you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing!

[aralintheobsessive]

getting a lot of responses to this going 'ok but it would be good as a metaphor though' so I will accept a metaphorical interpretation as long as you ALSO (!) promise to be considerate towards larval forms of insects specifically and biodiversity in general, deal?

[erebus0dora]

one of the most beautiful things that happened to me this week is a person making a translation of my ao3 fic into English 💜🩶🤍🖤🫀

[erebus0dora]

sorry not sorry in the slightest

[erebus0dora]

since i am extremely done with ai slop, i stuck my nose into a box of gouache and finished a full sketchbook, and hey, have some knights from the Seven Kingdoms, i guess..?

i know for a fact this post isn't going to do numbers, but i am really glad i tried this, it was... therapeutic

(gonna record the next sketchbook marathon, it's very relaxing as a process)

[orson-pope]

I wanna buy prints of all of them, these are sooooo good my goddddd

[erebus0dora]

pssst, i can't sell these, but i can scan them in hi res and give them out :}

[erebus0dora]

i have just realised i never updated the post...

here's a masterpost of Baelor scans (a link to my website, fear not), and hopefully imma scan the rest tonight

[yszarin]

if you use genAI in the cover/promotional art of your audio drama I am not touching it with a barge pole. have some respect for other artists, for the environment, fuck, even for your own artistic work, on the off-chance you didn't auto-generate that too

[erebus0dora]

working on a personal project now - and i know that algorithms love recognisable things, fan art, fast content

this, though? just some patterns i came up with back in my old house in the woods; if all works right, they become something tangible

at this point i am also painfully aware of how easy it is to plagiarise things, both by ai means and by simple human ctrl+c, ctrl+v, once the person copying doesn't have their own thoughts or ideas - but i'm uploading these online anyway

for i own myself, i own my mind, and i know i can create more

and there's a pattern there's a pattern there's a pattern here to follow a pattern there's a

[batsandboba]

“scientists don’t want you know” is a phrase that always cracks me up because if you actually meet a scientist they will be shaking and crying like an overstimulated chihuahua with the need to let you know

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

reblog if you have skilled writer friends and you're damn proud of them

[erebus0dora]

two facts you need to know:

1. for the longest while, i was convinced that heavily stylised cartoonish art isn't what i'm good at

2. things have been asked of me for fix-it reasons, and hooo boy i love me some fix-it

I HAD FUN

LOTS OF IT

[erebus0dora]

shaded bonus just because i can xD

lots of ppl are tagging this as Lyonel X Maekar, which is a surprise for me, but hey - i see why!

[erebus0dora]

....this is for @clumsycopy who requested Maekar's thoughts on the situation ;}