MadWest

they/them, local cryptid digital artist who occasionally feels bold enough to post warframe/genshin/hollow knight

[yardsards]

but i stay silly! *←said in the most world-weary voice you ever did hear*

[fizzlepop-frog]

“but I stay silly!”

[sensiblereblogifposts]

Reblog you stay silly

[madwest8112]

Hooray for depressed whimsy

[mad-scientist-council]

killing all of those ai chat ads that are sporing themselves across tumblr with a maelstrom or rocks. Fuck you and fuck your product. I do not want to replace my mutual with ai chat. I do not want to simulate my cats inner monologue with ai chat. I do not want to talk to my blorbos with ai chat. Fuck your and fuck your product.

[madwest8112]

Jokes on you, ai assholes! I'm mentally ill, which means I don't have to use ai, I have unhealthy coping mechanisms!

[markmentomoreef]

Something something new meme image something

via andrewhulshult on instagram

[madwest8112]

Me on my way to be thrown into the Torture Nexus and be shown Horrors(tm) beyond my comprehension

[shadowen]

This is an anti-despair checkpoint! You must share something you're looking forward to before scrolling on.

[madwest8112]

We finally were able to hire another person for work, so my schedule should be improving soon! Here's to a better work life balance :)

[retquits]

so don't get too comfortable.

high resolution free to download [ here ]

[alyxisdraws]

Forget ai, I make art with genuine stupidity.

[madwest8112]

Fuck it, that's my mantra now

[formerlyluckymanticore]

Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.

[clinical-space-podcast]

Reblog if your art project has not, does not, and never will make use of generative ai at any point in your creative process.

[madwest8112]

I didn't do much of tennotober this year because work had me majorly burnt out in the worst way, but I did manage to get some of them done!

[toboldlynerd]

[madwest8112]

My new life philosophy

[whatacartouchebag]

Crawling out of my hole to remind people that with this current update to Firefox (version 144) they've gone and dumped in their lot with a buncha lil AI tools, namely Perplexity as a new search engine.

So if the sound of that leaves your mouth tasting of tar, here's what you want to do:

In the url bar, type in about:config

It'll give you a big scary warning page that you might poke holes in your browser. Good. You want to do that. Click continue.

One by one, you're going to need to put each of these into the search bar in the page, not up top:

browser.ml.enable browser.ml.chat.enabled extensions.ml.enabled browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled

Each of these are gonna have a lil toggle icon on the right hand side that looks like a funky double-ended arrow. Click that and the value next to it should change to false. It all auto saves as you go. Some of these might already be set to false by default and that's peachy.

The next best thing you can do for yourself is to set your default search engine to udm14 or Qwant, but for now, we're just tidying the garden a lil bit.

Edit: This wildly broke containment for a post that was supposed to be me basically ranting and grumbling like an old man on my porch to my homies. If I’ve inspired you to follow through with this, peachy. That was mildly intended. Better yet, I hope I’ve spurred a buncha you on to do your own bit of digging and research.

If you were one of today’s lucky ten thousand to learn something new, I hope you keep doing it. I won’t be here to hold your hand through it, as I simply don’t have the time nor spoons for it, so I implore you to go down your own rabbit hole and chase knowledge wild wild abandon.

[scutesketch]

YOUR ART ON TUMBLR IS BEING USED TO TRAIN AI!

The setting that prevents your work being used to train AI models is turned off by default! I had no idea about this until now! Artists, go to your settings, click “visibility”, and turn on this setting! Protect your work!

[sodachemust]

Yeah, AI is a big no for me, so this was much appreciated.

[madwest8112]

Sharing this because fuck AI.

[redstonedust]

merry "it's getting cold enough to wear oversized hoodies again" to all northern hemisphere trans people who celebrate

[madwest8112]

The arrival of colder weather heralds in a season of many layers and much gender ambiguity

[frogwhomp]

If you'd like to participate in my Wizard Survey to help me out with my thesis I would very much appreciate it! :D

[rontology]

I love asking friends, without context, "what are you really into this week?" I'll go first. this week I'm really into mouthwash and sudoku. Last week I was into peaches.

[rontology]

we used to be a society on here!! reblog, don't like! I want to hear what you're into!!! I'm literally looking into the nyt game Pips!!!

[madwest8112]

I think this should absolutely be a thing because nothing is a more perfect window into a person's soul then when they're talking about their interests!

This week I'm really into shared journaling with my spouse and juice

[i-am-a-fish]

I don't think pots and pans should get dirty when you use them

[sodachemust]

Day 100!!! Of posting my warframe art everyday COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!

If you're interested in commissioning me, check me out at https://vgen.co/SodaChemust

Or if you wanna leave a tip, I've got a Ko-Fi as well!

https://ko-fi.com/sodachemust

I'll also be uploading on my YT more!

[madwest8112]

This is my spouse and I'm so proud of him y'all! Please go check his work out, he does some really neat stuff