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Two of Cups preview for @revivaldivinations's Garden of Insight tarot.
I'll be posting a preview every week this April. If you're interested in Bloodborne or custom tarot decks, give the project account a follow for updates. We have loads of gorgeous art to show you!
*crawls bloodied and bruised from my desk and slides this under your door*
I saw the J.C Leyendecker "Lune De Miel" illustration and became rabidly possessed to draw a (simpler) version with Karl and Hazel before the year's end, enjoy
(you can read the fic they feature in here)
original illustration:
Y’ALL!!
THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!
Jack Dorsey funded this with his nonprofit AndOtherStuff. The home page for the organization explicitly lists AI as one of its pillars, saying a goal is "making NOSTR the best social protocol for open source AI development and implementation"
A collaborative Nostr funding initiative to develop strategic pillars for the Nostr ecosystem
What is open source AI?
It's a program that publicly shares its code for free online, so that anyone can use it for themselves. This means that anything this AI is trained on could eventually make its way into any business, social media site, etc. That uses this code. Or, if not, it'll have the ability to harvest content as well as this.
Even since the app doesn't allow AI openly on the videos themselves, the app is likely to use our original content to train its AI. You might have seen that some AI have experienced a positive feedback loop of declining quality, training itself on other AI slop until anything it produces is unintelligible.
This is likely an attempt to prevent that in video format
Then, any other company that wants to use the code can use this better trained AI to make it even harder to recognize AI across the board.
You can read about the connection to AndOtherStuff, as well as the developers' reasons for the project here:
Jack Dorsey backs diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive of six-second, looping videos. A new app called diVine will give
TLDR; do not give Jack Dorsey any credit for this, do not download the app, and tell others not to either. It's a nostalgia-bait attempt at fueling another AI model
Spread the word
attention all vocaloid fans that follow me: that miku figure is getting a rerelease. this is not a drill. preorders drop at 8 pm pst tonight and resellers are already pissed. this is the happiest i've felt all month, i think.
(for context, this is one of the most insanely coveted miku figures and frequently sells for like $1000 on mercari)
Adobe is going to spy on your projects. This is insane.
For general graphics: use GIMP For vector graphics: use Inkscape For drawing and illustration: use Krita For print and web publishing and design: use Penpot For PDF authoring: use LibreOffice For PDF reading and form filling: use Okular
All are free, open source and cross-platform. None use AI.
Reblog for everyone
friends don't let friends use GIMP. use photopea
Gonna pop my favorite reference for Adobe alternatives here, lovingly compiled and updated by xDanielArt since at least 2020:
lord reblogging on main bcz fuck adobe (PROUD csp user)
Regarding the cancellation of Yharnam Sunrise
We, the contributors of Yharnam Sunrise: A Bloodborne Tarot Deck run by Elliott Cassel as Vermilion Zines, would like to address the current situation the project finds itself in, including the cancellation engendered by the actions of Mr. Cassel.
We, the contributing artists, have found ourselves at an impasse: Mr. Cassel has refused to be transparent in his management of backer funds or share responsibility thereof, and refused to honour previous agreements in writing. These agreements included paying us, the artists, for our labour, and protecting our rights. By declining an honest, transparent dialogue, demonstrating an unwillingness to negotiate, and failing to address our concerns in a professional manner, Mr. Cassel put the entire project in jeopardy.
We, the contributors, deeply regret the situation. We apologise especially to our generous backers. We have sent a Cease & Desist to Mr. Cassel and Vermilion Zines. The artwork submitted and created by us for this project remains our own, and we do not allow it to be used by Mr. Cassel or by any project associated with him or Vermilion Zines.
We want to honour your trust and our promises to deliver, and be as transparent as possible. It is important to us that the reasons for this cancellation are clear to everyone who supported it. We had hoped that we were wrong, but started contingency planning when the situation became clear.
We are doing our best to remedy the situation and provide our backers with a stunning deck on an adjusted timeline. We owe our backers immense gratitude, and we've only come this far with your support. The future of this project will feature existing works alongside new ones. We will be as transparent regarding our production and planning process as possible, alongside providing spotlights for all our contributors, new merchandise, a preview of the physical deck before launch, and regular updates before our new and improved launch in May 2026.
Thank you so much for your understanding, as well as the enthusiasm you have shown for this project. We look forward to sharing a stunning new deck early next year.
Hi there. It's been something of a hectic week. I'll have more to say about this later, but, if you were unaware: please see the above post regarding the Yharnam Sunrise tarot. Thank you so much to everyone who has backed, shared, or otherwise supported this project. We are going to make sure you get the product you deserve, and I hope you'll come with us on the journey a while longer.
If you are still interested in the project, please do follow Revival Divinations. Project updates will be posted there first and foremost. We have a team of amazing artists and writers working to make sure this happens.
Thank you,
-Rococo
shoutout to the slow artists. the artists with hardly any time for art. the artists who reach the end of the day with no energy for art. you got this i believe in you and you are no less valued than anyone else
to be clear. when i say artist i mean every kind of art. drawing writing music sculpting embroidery idc this post was for you and i am sending my love your way
i feel like we as a digital society have forgotten the important rules of the internet
Don't feed the trolls
Never give out personal information
Anonymity is the best defense
Don't click suspicious links
Don't click popups and ads
Just because it's written doesn't mean it's true
You are responsible for your own experience
There is porn of everything, act accordingly
remember kids
In regards of the Trump government scraping all trans inclusion in its queer information portion of its websites I have made this thing. Spread the word. Don't let them pretend we never existed.
P.S: Don't like! Reblog! <3
I did not know…
Here’s the link:
The American Medical Association (AMA) is the largest and only national association that convenes 190+ state and specialty medical societies
Pay attention please, this is going to get real bad real quick and we literally have anti science assholes now in charge so don’t expect help from DC.
seeing all the 14-17 y/o queer kids who don’t know what v for vendetta is…. u mean the blockbuster film written by two trans women about a masked vigilante who decides to singlehandedly take down a fascist alternate version of england set in the distant year of 2020… and his driving force was getting justice for a lesbian who he never met but whose diary he found, who was separated from her wife before being killed by said fascist gov…. and it stars natalie portman…. okay
the movie is great, with amazing acting:
and the original graphic novel is phenomenal:
I highly recommend them both
and they’ve never been more relevant
“People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”
There’s strong subtext that V is a trans man and A)the lesbian from the diary or B)her wife.
frankly I prefer the movie over the comic, for three reasons:
1) lewis prothero as a rush limbaugh/glenn beck/bill o’reilly type is both more applicable and way funnier than a 1940s radio propagandist
2) it has stephen fry as gordon detriech, and makes him explicitly gay and pretending to be attracted to evey as part of being closeted than actually attracted to evey and having sex with her while she hides in his home.
3) the movie came out in 2005; that is, only four years after 9/11, while the Iraq war was still in full swing, and while xenophobia and Islamophobia were not just acceptable, but tacitly encouraged by the administration at the time. which makes the following exchange even more poignant and sweet:
Evey: [seeing a book in a glass display case] What is that? Gordon: It’s a copy of the Qur’an, 14th century. Evey: [shocked] Are you a Muslim? Gordon: No, I’m in television. Evey: But why would you keep it? Gordon: I don’t have to be a Muslim to find the images beautiful or its poetry moving.
just… the easy acceptance of it. the idea that a religion that he doesn’t believe in and that has been explicitly outlawed in-universe is a source of beauty. I’m not Muslim, either, but that particular moment really stuck with me emotionally.
Love this movie
“…I remember how different became dangerous. I still don’t understand it, why they hate us so much. They took Ruth while she was out buying food. I’ve never cried so hard in my life. It wasn’t long till they came for me.
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years, I had roses, and apologize to no one.
I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An Inch, it is small and it is fragile, but it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the world turns and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you. -Valerie”
SOBBING
Thi movie changed me so much. So so much.
rip legend
Made a little thingie of WoL!Edine and Pancake
jp art haul so far
love when a mutual has a new blorbo and they keep putting posts on my dash that are completely incomprehensible. it's like watching a friend win a game show in a language I don't speak. I don't have a fucking clue what's happening to you but it's nice to see you happy
