the rare pirate

where a screamy animation graduate talks about art, birds, mythology and plants 🇭🇺29

[runfreebirdrun]

clean up crew

[honey-rat]

Hahaha last season my character set Rahadin's desk on fire (bless him, he had a menty B moment because Rahadin's burned his home and killed his husband in the past) and the ghost of Rahadin (who we already killed but are being haunted by) watched the whole thing. That guy is in for a RIDE. Also our DM voices him as an angry french man... I love and hate him so much

[iv-eyes]

[silvisays]

guys stop canceling strahd on twitter dot com he was just feeling a little silly

based on this meme

[fosterova]

akotsk made me remember that knights is a thing i like and it exists love those two, very gentle very nice

[hansoeii]

lyonel and his hedge knight!

[winedarkgod]

[br0ps]

[smoureart]

i was inspired by that one mads mikkelsen meme

[juunipupu]

The Last Son of Zaro

- Strahd von Zarovich from DnD for anon-

[julesofnature]

If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb. ‘Don't Hesitate’, by Mary Oliver

[everyday-cutephoto]

[mollyjames]

I feel like the big push for AI is starting to flag. Even my relatively tech obsessed dad is kinda over it. What do you even use it for? Because you sure as hell dont want to use it for fact checking.

There's an advertisement featuring a woman surreptitiously asking her phone to provide her with discussion topics for her book club. And like... what. Is this the use case for commercial AI? This the best you could come up with? Lying to your friends about Moby Dick?

[lesbiananimeism]

One of the big pushes tech companies are making for AI is entirely in the tool of convenience. Take Gemini for example, one of Google's really big pitches for it is in features like Help Me Read and Help Me Write, which are like the lowest tier use case for deep learning models but are also the two AI features that the average consumer will actually care about. Sure they advertise the GenAI stuff Gemini Advanced is able to do, but they've woken up to the idea that the average consumer does not care about GenAI and non-AI Bros fundamentally loathe GenAI.

Every company with a language model got sucked into the venture capital pitfall of AI and now have to market the one set of features the general person actually cares about.

[rageagainstthechristine]

I work in advertising and the culture shift surrounding AI even from January until now (end of March) has been drastic. At the beginning of the year, the company I work for was using AI to design most of their assets. Clients started coming back and requesting that we no longer use AI generated images or videos for copyright liability reasons. Basically, there's no way to tell whose art or photography was scalped to make an image, so as companies who are trying to make a profit using potentially stolen images, it puts them in a gray area, legally.

Also, companies do look at their comment sections. Anti-AI commenters on social media ("this is not a real image" "I don't trust companies who use AI" etc) are seen by higher ups of a company. Basically, keep bullying brands who use AI, it's working. Now my company uses almost no AI for deliverables, which is a huge win.

[anae-art]

Just for fun, I decided to draw strahd brides with different hairstyles than usual And YES, I know Esher here looks a bit like an Alucard

[victusinveritas]

[razielim]

oh i'm going to misusle and straight up fuckle this knowledge so badly

[finngualart]

stay defiant babes

[honey-rat]

and just like that, I am instantly cast back into Black Sails hell

[hackfurs]

me in the. me in. the. uhm.

[orcboxer]

it's snow i think

[vaspider]

So… I got a notification from the State Department at like 8 PM Pacific that my passport was approved, and I was quietly thankful and stunned bc my legal gender in Oregon is listed as X, or undeclared, and that's what's on my passport. I'm pretty sure someone(s) worked late to get the X passports done today.

I was already really grateful to whoever in the Seattle Passport Office worked late to get these things processed on the last Friday before That Man gets back into office... and then I got a notification that my passport shipped at fucking midnight Pacific and whoever got that shit out the door so it couldn't be picked up on Monday and like, denied and shredded?

They're my fucking hero.

[honey-rat]

I think something similar happened to me too, when I submitted my name and gender marker change application in Hungary. For context, the far right government changed the constitution so that it doesn't recognise trans people anymore while my application sat in the paused processing queue for like two years, and when they automatically started sending out the application rejections from everyone's hometown offices, somehow mine slipped through an acceptance. I got my new birth certificate and passport soon after. I think I was one of the last ones to successfully apply, despite it being technically against the new rules, and to this day I wonder sometimes whether someone didn't get the memo about a whole ass new law, or secretly pushed it through to help me out. Office angels out there quietly resisting the system, thank you. I was literally having a difficult time flying home to see my family because the airport didn't like accepting my old documents after I've been on T for two years. Literally life changing.