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[inorheona]

sketched coco because wha took over my brain

[saewokhrisz]

senki se menekül

[nyancrimew]

yo bro lets just dillydally later when ur free

[unfamiliarsculptures]

A little green badger sculpture! This little critter will be available this Friday, January 23rd at 8pm Eastern time!

[accessible-art]

[ID from Alt: A photo of a ceramic badger on a white background. The badger is green with vines painted on its back. End ID]

[ursiday]

It's my kitten's first birthday today 🧡

[cleverreports]

We report: we now get around to a month of short nights, a handful of hours between the two ends of nautical twilight. We wonder whether this is enough time for the thermometer to go down. It still smells like sunshine on our skin, even as the sun is getting further away from us.

[helenvaughans]

[itsmistybitch-deactivated202605]

These posts are sisters

[lierdumoa]

[can-i-make-image-descriptions]

[Image IDs: Image #1: Tweet from bitchyByers reading: i fear everyone on this app needs to read this

Tumblr post from jesncin reading: my high school english teacher would often critique our literature analysis work by pointing out: "you're treating these characters like they're real people. They're not. They're characters." And it took me a long time to understand what he meant by that. Because I always thought "isn't that the point? That writers want to write characters to be so three dimensional that they act and feel like real people?" but that's not it.

Characters are tools a writer uses in service of a story. Of course characters can be written with depth to the point the feel real to us, but they exist in service of their narrative. Something real people aren't beholden to at all. When discussing characters, I think it's easy to accidentally see these characters as "real people" and not extensions of the author's beliefs. Tools for a narrative. Means of storytelling.

Quote tweet from Inkfy (@/ inkfyCreates) reading: People have developed unhealthy attachments to fictional characters. "A character can't be a narrative tool, they make you Feel things so therefore they are Real to me" is a major problem for literature nowadays. People can't engage with what's actually being showcased.

Image #2: Tweet and reply from rea (bubbles emoji) (@/ lyfjiaberg) reading: Half the reason why we cannot get genuine readings of characters anymore is because people project too heavily on them and treat them as extensions of themselves so when the character is criticized it feels like a personal attack on their own personhood

No matter how strongly you relate to a character you are not them you are not the one anyone is ever talking about. Who are you. We don't know who you are. /End IDs]

[sminny-wew]

It's so funny being a shipper when you're aroace it's like you're an anthropologist, like hey fictional blorbos who live in my head let me study your bonds under a microscope and take notes on what happens when I throw Valentines Day into your enclosure

[promptcalender]

Piece of advice to all writers who need a cover but don’t have the money to hire an artist: use the public domain.

Online, you can find quite a lot databases for photography in the public domain that you could use (always check their specific rules regarding commercial use), like Pixabay, Unsplash, or Pexels.

But, even a tad more charming, there are also hundreds of thousands of paintings in the public domain. If the artist has been dead for over 70 years, the image is (typically) in the public domain and can be used however you want it. This is not a new concept, big publishers like Penguin and the Oxford’s World Classics do the same!

When you use such images, always make sure that 1. the painting really is in the public domain (sometimes the art itself may be in the public domain, but the photograph you are using to see it is not!), and 2. that it is an appropriate image. Sometimes, an image may look innocent and fitting, but would actually cause irritation, like accidentally using a painting of siblings for a romance or using a controversial image for different reasons.

Some places you can find art in the public domain (always double check!): National Gallery of Art, Artvee, Public Domain Image Archive, and most websites of bigger museums.

[Prompt Calender: April 23rd, World Book and Copyright Day]

[thebaconsandwichofregret]

Your cover will look so much more professional and interesting if you use public domain imagery rather than AI.

Your hard work deserves thoughtful presentation.

[talvin-muircastle]

Also check the Wikimedia Commons. Alot of Public Domain stuff there!

Wikimedia Commons

[alexseanchai]

a clarification: if something is in the public domain, that means nobody holds the copyright on that thing anymore. this is not the same thing as the thing being available for anyone to use as long as they follow the rules.

the entire reason photographers put their work on places such as Unsplash and Wikimedia Commons is to make the photos available for anyone to use as long as they follow the rules. each photo being helpfully labeled with what the rules are, which on Unsplash is usually either (a) "pay for a license", or (b) "free with attribution for non-commercial use, but for commercial use, pay for a license". note that non-commercial use of a category b photo is still a licensed use, it's just a different license.

on Wikimedia Commons, many photos are in the public domain, thus available for anyone with no rules to follow. the rules on the rest vary, but Wikimedia Commons requires those rules to include that modified versions of these photos must also be available for anyone to use and modify. again, that's licensed use. that's the copyright holder saying it's available for anyone to use, here's the rules. anything in the public domain, there are no rules because there is no copyright holder.

I would be very surprised to learn any images available on Unsplash are in the public domain.

[redstonedust]

love wearing all black in public i hope no large gaseous heat emitting orb in the sky comes along and makes my day worse

[ttnn77]

DESTROYING YOURSELF ALL BY YOURSELF? HANDSOME?

[homobuckybarnes]

[Image ID: a meme of two men holding hands, text over the man on the left says “aromanticism” and text over the man on the right says “polyamory”. Over their joined hands it says “relationship anarchy”. End ID]

[soymoss]

emo heron in boots

[literalliterature]

[ID: A digital illustration of a black-crowned night heron wearing hiking boots that are too large for its feet. The heron is mostly grayish white with a black head and back, red eyes, and a hunch posture when its long neck is retracted. The background is bright red with a few small yellow star shapes. End ID.]

[ursiday]

Pajama shark I have grown quite fond of you

[blunky]

hate

[blunky]

aberrant friend