Inclusive Future Magazine: Visions from a Gender-Inclusive Future is an anthology of speculative prose and art in the guise of a pop-culture magazine from the future. All of the creators involved are trans, nonbinary, and/or genderqueer, and it provides a collective vision for a gender-inclusive future by answering the question: What might gender look like fifty years from now?
We're open for preorders via Kickstarter right now! This Kickstarter is our sole method of taking orders for both the print ($12) and ebook ($5) versions of the zine, so if you want a copy, you have until June 21 to order one.
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
Further, some authors may never even find out the lawsuit is happening. The court's suggested notification scheme "would require class claimants to themselves notify other potential rightsholders," groups said, overlooking the fact that it cost Google $34.5 million "to set up a 'Books Rights Registry' to identify owners for payouts under the proposed settlement" in one of the largest cases involving book authors prior to the AI avalanche of lawsuits.
If you're an author, please use this database to see if you could qualify for that sweet GenAI lawsuit money.
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
I have never ever ever in my life asked someone to blaze my posts.
But if you want to throw me some pennies blaze this. I want ALL OF THE AUTHORS to know that they have the opportunities to get some sweet sweet GenAI lawsuit money.
Like to charge. Reblog to cast that Anthropic will have to pay out the ass.
there are many reasons to reject AI but one that goes underadressed is that imagination is a powerful political tool. to create a better world, to strive for change, you must first conceive of its possibility. everything around us, every single thread woven into the fabric of society, was an idea before it became reality.
becoming increasingly reliant on a machine that can only regurgitate, to use technology that is at its core unable to create something new, will slowly but surely strip us from the ability to constructively imagine the different realities possible for the world around us. condemned to stagnation by the lack of ability to think of an alternative.
maggie smith is right - this place could be beautiful. we could make this place beautiful. but radical change requires the creativity to see its good bones and the imagination to create that beauty. don't let AI take that away from you
Cover Reveal for A Truth Universally Acknowledge: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”
HAPPY COVER REVEAL DAY! Duck Prints Press’s next anthology, A Truth Universally Acknowledged: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, will be crowdfunding starting November 20th, 2024. We’ve been hard at work on this collection for a loooong time and we are thrilled to finally be making it available for y’all. The gorgeous cover art, made by artist Aceriee, was inspired by the classic 1898 “peacock edition of Pride and Prejudice – but of course, we made it queerer. The, spectacular, cover is wrap around.
(spoilers: this art will be offered a postcard as one of the Kickstarter campaign backer rewards!)
This awesome book features 21 stories each up to 5,000 words long and 20 full-page color artworks. Our campaign features six merch items, too, with peacocks standing proud on much of the art.
Want to be sure you don’t miss the campaign? Follow our Kickstarter pre-launch page now!
Become a Patreon backer to get behind-the-scenes access to sneak peeks and more!
We’re making a super gay super inclusive TAROT DECK!!! We want every card to be in a fantasy world and featuring at least one LGBT person. We’re looking for up to 78 artists, potentially one artist per card, but we may choose to have some artists do up to 2 cards.
Applications open October 10th at 1pm Eastern time and will remain open until October 13th at noon eastern OR we reach an application cap of 1000 entries.
Apps will be open for 24 hours minimum.
The application will NOT be available until that date - we will post it here, instagram (nova_mali), bluesky, and tumblr (novaandmali). Please be sure to set an alarm and get your application in ASAP - we will not be able to take any applications through email, dms, or after they close.
A tentative schedule:
Results emailed to EVERYONE on October 15th.
Sketch due Nov 31
Finals due Jan 15
Kickstarter running Jan 1-31
We are looking for up to 78 artists (who MUST be 18+ years old by October 15th) to join us to create a piece of digital art and/or merch. Traditional art is also accepted if scanned or photographed at a professional level.
We're looking specifically to increase the diversity of our artists, both in regards to race and gender - we want to be including all kinds of voices. Same thing with our art - we're looking to increase the variety of cultures, body types, and disabilities represented.
This is a PAID job. We’ve paid in the range of 200-300 for similar projects in the past, based on a set contract amount plus anything left over after production and shipping, split between everyone. Example: $150 in the contract and $100 extra per artist share. The additional amount will depend on how successful the Kickstarter campaign is.
Your app will ask you what you’re thinking about creating. This is not a final answer but we want to know what vibe, what era, etc what you’re thinking about. You’ll get the option to pick 2 suits you’re interested in working in, and 1-2 cards you very much do not want to illustrate.
The application will include things like: a link to your portfolio (instagram and twitter are NOT accepted as a portfolio) and if you are interested in designing any merch as well.
We also ask for a short artist bio: think twitter style - short and sweet. Please don’t talk down about yourself or your skills - talk yourself up! Make me excited to see your art!!
Reminder about our applications: PLEASE do not submit porn or gore in your highlight art. Blood and nudity are ok, porn and gore please no.
Hopefully it goes without saying but we do not accept NFT art or AI generated art.
About us: we’re two non-binary lesbians who really love cats and gay art. We’ve enjoyed our work as a queer publishing house and can’t wait to do more! We’ve completed 9 projects including tarot cards and books! Some of our previous works include classics but make it gay, And They Were Monsters, and Cover Me Queer.
1 - 100% pantser/I never plan what I'm writing ahead
2 - panster most of the time, planner incidentally
3 - pantser some of the time, planner more than incidentally
4 - plantser - about 50/50 pantser/planner
5 - planner some of the time, pantser more than incidentally
6 - planner most of the time, pantser incidentally
7 - 100% planner/I never write without planning first
Voting ended onAug 22, 2024
I suspect this one'll end up normal distribution, but I'll own I'm curious anyway. I've seen some people talking about this recently so it's been on my mind.
(reblog for sample size, all that jazz, you know the drill)
✨️We have 6 days left!! To grab the Butch Fairy zine of your dreams!✨️
we have 60+ pages of beautiful art and writing of fairies, and faeries, and critters galore! This book is full of queer fairies and queer and butch celebration! We have a bunch of stretchgoals to unlock, and evensome secret ones! 👀
Kickstarter ends on the 21st of August!
Have a look at the rewards now before you forget! the last couple days will catch up with you before you know it!!!!
So excited to share with y’all that this weekend, Duck Prints Press will be vending with a half-table at Flame Con in New York City! Flame Con is the largest queer fandom convention in the world, and I’m expecting it to be a really great time. If you’re going to be there, I hope you’ll stop by and say hi – and don’t forget to take part in our con game! There are ducks involved. I’m sure you’re shocked.
(If seeing us there isn’t enough to sell you on attending, check out the full guest list and the exhibitors list. There are sooooo many awesome folks and vendors who’ll be there, I’m so !!! myself, I hope I get a chance to see a few of these folks!)
Wondering what events DPP will be at? Check out our upcoming events page.
As most of you know, I have and always will write disabled characters. It is my personal experience, it is my work, it is something I feel very passionately about and thus will always include.
[ID: A poem written by Jesse Hawke in the form of dialogue. It reads as follows:
"There is a werewolf in the town.
Is that bad?
There is a werewolf in the town.
I'll take that as a yes.
How do you suggest we resolve this?
Well, what exactly is the issue?
There is a werewolf in the town.
Yes, okay, I heard you the first time. Is the problem that he is sometimes a wolf, or that he is sometimes a man?
A werewolf is a werewolf. How do you suggest we resolve this?
Work with me here.
The problem is that there is a werewolf.
What do you expect? Do you want me to un-make him? There are many men in the town, and a good number of domesticated wolves. What is the problem? That he was first a man, or first a wolf? Does that even matter? Why is the werewolf an issue?
He was first a man, and now he is a werewolf. There is a werewolf in the town.
Has he actually done anything wrong?
There is a werewolf in the town.
Was this forced upon him? Or did he choose to become a werewolf?
A werewolf is a werewolf.
I see. I think I understand now.
How do you suggest we resolve this problem?
You do not want there to be a werewolf in your town. As I see it there are three options. You could force him to pick between wolf and man, an agonizing divorce from his true being, simply so you do not have a werewolf in your town. You could force him from the town, which may come to be a blessing in the long run - for him, not you. Or you could allow him to integrate and accept that, in our society of men and wolves, there also live werewolves.
There is a werewolf in the town.
Yes, there is. Isn't that beautiful?
How do you suggest we resolve this?
I am beginning to believe that the werewolf is not the problem here."
WOW. Thank you all so very much for making this dream come true!!!
124 people pitched in to raise a total of $1,959 to make this zine possible, not counting those who have supported us financially prior to the Kickstarter and in other ways throughout this process.
163 zines were purchased through the Kickstarter, about half of which were print copies. Including the copies we're sending to our artists, authors, and major donors, there will be almost 200 copies of this zine out in the world in one form or another, when all is said and done!
Since the Kickstarter ended a little over a week ago, we've been taking some much needed rest. Now, we're jumping back into it, getting those finishing touches on the zine so we can send it off to the printer! We plan to have digital rewards sent out by the end of July 2024, and physical rewards mailed out by 15th of August, 2024! Stay tuned!
If you want to support me, a trans, queer artist you can check out my shop!
https://society6.com/laneandlucia
I have tons of cool stuff available, t shirts, phone cases, beach towels, stickers, prints & more. Just tap/click on the design you like & the scroll down to see it on all other products!
I have to say- I’m so happy to see my art continually reblogged.
Every now & then when I’m feeling creative block or just down in some way I’ll get a little notification that someone liked/reblogged one of my pieces & it helps! 🌼
Inclusive Future Magazine: Visions from a Gender-Inclusive Future is an anthology of speculative prose and art in the guise of a pop-culture magazine from the future. All of the creators involved are trans, nonbinary, and/or genderqueer, and it provides a collective vision for a gender-inclusive future by answering the question: What might gender look like fifty years from now?
We're open for preorders via Kickstarter right now! This Kickstarter is our sole method of taking orders for both the print ($12) and ebook ($5) versions of the zine, so if you want a copy, you have until June 21 to order one.
Hi, I’m Diana (they/them), a cartoonist, illustrator, (budding designer!), art mentor, and teacher. I love doing art studies, writing poems, and making comics! Recently found my passion in teaching art and have put out a few tutorials, and I’m working on teaching workshops and classes.
Pleased to meet you, Diana! Check out some of their artwork below.
For more of Diana’s work, be sure to go to their Tumblr, @daitsaisan, and give it a follow!
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