Idesanya

[the-cosmic-yeet]

girl typing a very specific question into google search bar, scrunching her face as she takes time to make sure she hasn't made any spelling errors, hitting enter, shaking her head as google only presents her with unhelpful websites that don't answer her query at all, moving her cursor back to the search bar and clicking on it so she can carefully write 'reddit' at the end, hitting enter again, sighing with relief as she finds a link to a reddit post asking the exact question she needed answered posted in a subreddit for a very niche topic, finally moving her cursor to click on the link, wondering why she didn't go straight to the subreddit earlier, only to be met with a deleted comment with a reply from the OP stating 'that was very helpful, thanks', sighing with frustration as she moves her cursor back to the search bar so she can copy the link and paste it into the wayback machine,

[impossiblepackage]

Replace "reddit" with "reveddit" in any reddit url to reveal deleted or removed comments. If the comment/post was deleted too quickly after it was posted, it may not pull it up, but it works most of the time

[the-cosmic-yeet]

girl after reading a post on tumblr dot com with a reblog by user impossiblepackage, moving her cursor over to the url of the aforementioned reddit post, using her mouse to highlight the word “reddit”, typing out the word “reveddit” in its place, hitting enter, waiting with bated breath as reveddit loads, finally content as the deleted comment is displayed in front of her eyes containing the information she sought for so long.

[goatsandgangsters]

how to find literally any post on a blog in seconds (on desktop)

there are so many posts about ~tumblr is so broken, you can’t find any post on your own blog, it’s impossible, bluhrblub~

I am here to tell you otherwise! it is in fact INCREDIBLY easy to find a post on a blog if you’re on desktop/browser and you know what you’re doing:

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant. every single post, every single time. in chronological order starting with the most recent post. note: it will not find #croissants or that time you made the typo #croidnssants. for a tag with multiple words, it’s just /tagged/my-croissant and it will show you everything with the exact phrase #my croissant

url.tumblr.com/tagged/croissant/chrono will bring up EVERY post on the blog tagged with the exact phrase #croissant, but it will show them in reverse order with the oldest first 

url.tumblr.com/search/croissant isn’t as perfect at finding everything, but it’s generally loads better than the search on mobile. it will find a good array of posts that have the word croissant in them somewhere. could be in the body of the post (op captioned it “look at my croissant”) or in the tags (#man I want a croissant). it won’t necessarily find EVERYTHING like /tagged/ does, but I find it’s still more reliable than search on mobile. you can sometimes even find posts by a specific user by searching their url. also, unlike whatever random assortment tumblr mobile pulls up, it will still show them in a more logically chronological order

url.tumblr.com/day/2020/11/05 will show you every post on the blog from november 5th, 2020, in case you’re taking a break from croissants to look for destiel election memes 

url.tumblr.com/archive/ is search paradise. easily go to a particular month and see all posts as thumbnails! search by post type! search by tags but as thumbnails now

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio will show you every audio post on your blog (you can also filter by other post types). sometimes a little imperfect if you’re looking for a video when the op embedded the video in a text post instead of posting as a video post, etc

url.tumblr.com/archive/tagged/croissant will show you EVERY post on the blog tagged with the specific and exact phrase #croissant, but it will show you them in the archive thumbnail view divided by months. very useful if you’re looking for a specific picture of a croissant that was reblogged 6 months ago and want to be able to scan for it quickly 

url.tumblr.com/archive/filter-by/audio/tagged/croissant will show you every audio post tagged with the specific phrase #croissant (you can also filter by photo or text instead, because I don’t know why you have audio posts tagged croissant) 

the tag system on desktop tumblr is GENUINELY amazing for searching within a specific blog! 

caveat: this assumes a person HAS a desktop theme (or “custom theme”) enabled. a “custom theme” is url.tumblr.com, as opposed to tumblr.com/url. I’ve heard you have to opt-into the former now, when it used to be the default, so not everyone HAS a custom theme where you can use all those neat url tricks. 

if the person doesn’t have a “custom theme” enabled, you’re beholden to the search bar. still, I’ve found the search bar on tumblr.com/url is WAY more reliable than search on mobile. for starters, it tends to bring posts up in a sensible order, instead of dredging up random posts from 2013 before anything else

if you’re on mobile, I’m sorry. godspeed and good luck finding anything. (my one tip is that if you’re able to click ON a tag rather than go through the search bar, you’ll have better luck. if your mutual has recently reblogged a post tagged #croissant, you can click #croissant and it’ll bring up everything tagged #croissant just like /tagged/croissant. but if there’s no readily available tag to click on, you have to rely on the mobile search bar and its weird bizarre whims) 

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Begging people to stop reblogging this AI trash from “The Phantom Painter” on Instagram (instagram.com/phantom.painting). I’ve been seeing it on my dash more and more often from people who are otherwise anti-AI and either can’t tell it’s AI or don’t care because it looks cool.

This is the kind of shit that is VERY CLEARLY trained on the works of existing talented artists’ with distinct styles and this asshole is selling prints and making a profit off of stealing other people’s hard work.

Don’t give people like this money or attention and they will go away.

Please, if you’re going to buy art prints, buy them from an actual artist.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

@thegnat That’s the problem, it’s getting really hard to tell what’s AI and what isn’t. This phantom painter person at least says on each post on Instagram that it was created with AI, but when people re-post it on tumblr, it isn’t specified, and people end up reblogging it.

It’s not reasonable to think everyone should be vetting every single art they reblog to make sure it isn’t AI, which is why I made this post to let people know this artist specifically is AI, and I see it reblogged a ton.

[ex0skeletal-undead]

While we’re at it

and so is everything by that person, xis.lanyx on Instagram. They also sell prints of their “original images”

[ex0skeletal-undead]

That last one is for the people saying “you can always tell by the hands.” You cannot. The whole point is that it’s getting better and better at it. That’s what it does.

As an art curator on tumblr I now have to spend a considerable amount of time trying to decipher whether or not the art I want to share is AI or not and I still sometimes get it wrong.

[shithowdy]

To actually answer the question of how one can determine something is AI, particularly as it grows more sophisticated with anatomy: you have to train yourself to recognize artifacts.

There is no one single unifying giveaway beyond a strange sense of uncanny that you will eventually begin to recognize the better you attune yourself, and certain models have their own unique “styles” you can begin to recognize (midjourney and stablediffusion produce very different looks, for example). There are however a few things on which one can tend to focus.

Edges: AI, as of this post, still struggles with distinct edges of objects and figures and has a tendency to blend details together. Look for hair, ribbons, and other flowy details if present. Do they fade into other details? Look at how the hair fuses with the smoke:

Edges 2: Sometimes they will also have the edges completely avoid each other, with a foreground figure slightly warping along the edges in a way that matches the background edges, like repelling magnets:

Patterns: AI, as of this post, still struggles with patterns. Filigrees, mandalas, brickwork, scales, anything that involves a high level of intricate detail tends to get blurred together. This can be a tricky one, because a lot of artists will also fudge pattern details in looser renders, but usually in a way that makes sense as an impression and not…. this:

Architecture: Are there buildings present in the image? AI has a tendency to make Escher-esque nonsense structures, with pillars in places they don’t belong, arches that go nowhere, bricks that don’t align, and support beams that start on one plane and connect to another. It also struggles with perspective, but, so do many humans so I would not consider it evidence alone. Check out the placement of this pillar, and also the detail on the… window? Candle cage?? Thing?

Resolution and quality: AI cannot make high-resolution images. It just cannot. While most artists aren’t posting their full resolutions, generative images can’t be enhanced, and the “artist” will not be able to provide proof of work. You should be able to zoom into work by an artist and admire their strokes, relate to their errors, and appreciate their process at every skill level– zooming into generative images somehow makes them even less clear, a mess of pixels that are somehow both blurry and also look like they have been run through a sharpen filter:

Text and signatures: AI struggles with legible characters in any language, and the result is a simlish-looking approximation of characters at worst, and hilariously misspelled words at best. Since these models are trained off real artists, they will also often have artifacts of a signature that oopsed its way into the image. These signatures are always illegible or, if “legible”, are not actually the names of real accounts.

Things like this can be tough to spot at a glance if you’re not actively keyed into looking for them, but they’re the type of uncanny stuff that once you see it will start gnawing at the back of your mind. You’ll be scrolling your feed and suddenly take -1 psychic damage and you have to scroll back up to see why. Stuff that goes beyond inconsistent lightsources and bad anatomy.

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Reblog if you think public libraries are important and should be maintained.

[idesanya]

[Review] The Armored Saint by Myke Cole

[Review] The Armored Saint by Myke Cole

Either safety or peace

a review of “The Armored Saint” (The Sacred Throne #1) by Myke Cole.

  I hate feeling scared

The Armored Saint, is a story you know. You’ve heard it on the news, you’ve heard it from people you know of and for some, it’s a story you recognize. It’s a tale of horrible dangers, of unseen threats, and all the abominable ways they can destroy our way of life. But it’s first and…

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[idesanya]

[Review] Spindown by Andy Crawford

[Review] Spindown by Andy Crawford

How far can humanity run from its nature?

A review of Spindown by Andy Crawford.

  Why I don’t like science fiction

I have a huge problem with “science fiction”. A lot of people around me don’t understand that someone could enjoy fantasy and not be automatically interested in science-fiction. Don’t get me wrong, I like spaceships, lasers, surprising and often disturbing technologies as much as…

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[idesanya]

The Wheel of Osheim Writing Contest

The Wheel of Osheim Writing Contest

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[idesanya]

[Review] The Pen is Mightier by Andy Crawford

Lively Words

A review of The Pen is Mightier by Andy Crawford.

Before reading The Pen is Mightier, I went back to the author’s previous book to refresh my memory. I wanted to remind myself of the author’s style and the world he had built for Sailor of the Skysea. It turns out, that was not needed. I don’t think two books from a same author could have been further apart.

The Pen is Mightier starts…

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[idesanya]

[Review] Percy Jackson - Heroes of Olympus by Rick Riordan

A bilingual review of the Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series.

 Family above all else.

A review of Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus’ series.

This one review is not like my other reviews: instead of being about one book, it will sum up my thoughts about the whole of a book series. The lucky pick: one of Rick Riordan’s universes, the Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series. For those out there who have no idea what this is about, the Percy Jackson books…

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[idesanya]

[Review] Shadow Ops : Fortress Frontier by Myke Cole

[Review] A bilingual review of Myke Cole’s Fortress Frontier.

The lesser evil

A review of “Shadow Ops: Frontier Fortress” by Myke Cole.

In some books there is magic behind the story, and in others there is a story behind the magic.

The “Shadow Ops” series take place in a contemporary world where magic is a reality, and controlling it is the great issue. It stands to reason that in a modern-day world the use of magic would be codified and its most dangerous…

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[idesanya]

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[idesanya]

[Review] King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

[Review] King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence. A very late bilingual review of King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence.

Drink to forget, open to remember and slice to end.

A review of King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence.

In most things, lack of accuracy does not make a lie. I could say that Honorous Jorg Ancrath is an anti-hero, it would be true though inaccurate. I could write that Mark Lawrence once more trumped the stereotypes of fantasy I’m used to, it would still be inaccurate but true. I could even say that King…

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[idesanya]

[Review] Sailor of the Skysea by A.C.F. Crawford

This review was scheduled to be published more than a year ago. I wrote it when I had just finished reading the book, but I only translated it to French today. All things said, I stand by my opinion on the book. I'm sorry it took so long to publish, and I hope the author will one day forgive me, since he had graciously given me the book to review. One year later, here it is.

  Restless seas

Seago…

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[idesanya]

[Review] Skuldudggery Pleasant: Scepter of the Ancients by Derek Landy.

Raising Cain

“Life is a cycle, isn’t it, Skulduggery? We are all destined to repeat ourselves, over and over. You, at my mercy. Me, merciless.”

If you’re reading this review, there are chances you already read the book or that you are planning on doing so. If that’s the case then you must admit that deep down, inside of every and each of you there is the hope that one day you will stumble onto a…

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[idesanya]

Things happened, life happened - Des choses se sont produites, la vie m'est arrivée.

Hi, I hope this post finds you well,

It’s been a while since I posted anything here (or anywhere for that matter). Let’s face it, if there was ever anyone checking it, I’m pretty sure they have found a better calling and forgotten about this blog. But, when I started writing here, it was not about gathering a following and starting a cult. It was about sharing my view on most of the books I read.…

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[idesanya]

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