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[l0stvegas]

Hey is anybody having trouble with those Captcha test things lately? Mine are getting kinda weird and I’m even not too sure what to click on

[l0stvegas]

Hi, a few people accused this of being AI generated and I would like to point out I actually painted this— it was inspired by how fucked up AI generated captcha images look, of course, but the final result was hand-drawn. Don’t mind that I have over 200 layers on this thing haha my painting process is a disaster

[l0stvegas]

I appreciate the people reassuring me in the comments so much haha but don’t worry I wasn’t upset! I found it funny + it was an understandable mistake anyway since I was deliberately trying to imitate that vibe, just wanted to clear up that it was art because I evidently forgot to when I initially posted it

[l0stvegas]

Oh yeah, extra details: the rock/leaf litter textures I used for the ground are actually static grain taken from MRI brain scans I had done years ago

[l0stvegas]

since this somehow hit 40k (what the fuck, thank you guys) i’ll give one last lore drop about this piece. you’ll have to click on the pics to expand and read all the text

[l0stvegas]

My thought process was like, I felt like the premise of AI and how it turns normal input into distorted nightmares harkened to how the process of dementia or prion disease would basically do the same— filtering everything through a lens where all your memories and everything you see becomes a frightening and unrecognizable, the few ‘normal’ things one can do or process being produced by something that’s a shell of the real thing, y’know?

[fillielitsa]

Colorized photo of Vincent van Gogh at his home in Arles in 1869.

[alpine-hoplite]

No it isn’t you lying ass

[therealraewest]

Other ai giveaways other than the fucked up hands-

Leaves have no form or order- they’re a green mass without reasonable veins or connection points to stems. See the weird bit that crosses Vince’s arm

Same with the yellow flowers tbh they look pasted on and are all the same level of blur despite the leaves being crisply in focus, and several seem to not have stems

The metal in the window has no actual pattern and isn’t continued into the second window

The chunk of rock texture in the middle of the wood next to the window

The folds on Vince’s clothes don’t seem to fall in a natural way and seem excessive, especially on his pants.

Overall the space is… Odd. Where is he? A random corner against a plain blue wall? Why is one wall made of wood and the other has no discernible texture? Why does the stone part have that weird corner and have the foundation so high up in comparison to where Vince’s feet should be? Why doesn’t the stone wall match the geography of its base? What is the fabric thing on the lefthand side that’s conveniently the same blue as the house and jacket?

Anyway, good practice to train your eye for ai generated images

[marzipanandminutiae]

also he was 16 in 1869. didn’t have a house of his own; wasn’t living in Arles yet. he was training to work for art dealers, in The Hague

this is the only known photographic portrait of Van Gogh, age 19 (c. 1872)

[rongzhi]

English added by me :)

[solardivulger]

they ate

[inkcurlsandknives]

Hi Tumblr I'm an Asian fantasy author fleeing the sudden death of all my other social media sites 👋 I've used Tumblr for years as a fandom lurker and rarely posted but in light of all my other communities imploding I guess I'll have to figure out how to be actually active on Tumblr and find bookish and writerly folks here 💜 say hi if that's you 🥺

If you love diverse filipino fantasy with bipoc leads, angry bi women clawing for space in a world that's always rejected them and soft boys who'd do anything for them, awesome elemental magic based on early Filipino shaman/ babaylan/katalonan mythologies and the Tagalog creation story, and the Bakunawa/Laho the 🇵🇭 sea dragon 🐉 and drowning colonizers then I hope you'll keep an eye out for SAINTS OF STORM AND SORROW coming in June 2024 from Titan Books

Gabriella Buba | Twitter, Instagram, TikTok | Linktree

Writing for bold, bi, brown women who deserve to see our stories centered🇵🇭

[apologiesnope]

odd, I thought stories should be centered because they’re good stories well written, but I guess claiming some identity or other is more important.  Silly me.

[inkcurlsandknives]

Hey! I know I’m not supposed to feed the trolls but attitudes about how books should all just have “normal” people and by normal they mean white-cis-straight and books should only be about the story, never about who the stories are about. Or at the very least they dislike when authors  talk about their “not-normal” demographics, because they’re convinced that because they’re starting to see diverse books on the shelves that there’s no space for “normal” books. 

These sort of writers seem to believe they are the injured party, that publishing no longer caters to them because a few diverse books have squeezed through the gates. When really the needle has BARELY moved. Despite lots of lip service and pushes for diversity over the last few years publishing has stayed massively, hugely white. 

So when you see authors pushing their identity to the forefront know that it is because we are searching for readers like us, the ones who grew up rarely to never getting to see characters like us in our stories, or seeing white authors use us as the butt end of jokes, as racist caricatures, token side kicks, or cannon fodder.  By pushing our books by their target demographics I’m hoping to find the readers for whom our books are a love letter.

[unicronyr-deactivated20150711]

people need to learn what the fuck the term ” body horror ” means. it does not mean ” arms and legs and body parts are missing “. its a fictional portrayal of anatomic destruction or degradation of the body. stop fucking tagging real life people with real life disabilities as body horror you asshooks

[romeoandjulietfan]

Romeo + Juliet (1996) Trivia: Shakespeare described Tybalt swordsmanship as “showy”. To transform this into flamboyant gunplay, John Leguizamo worked with choreographer John ‘Cha Cha’ O'Connell to create a flamenco-inspired style.

[fair-itself]

This is the new gender John Leguizamo invented that one time in case anyone was curious

[andonandon]

[thebibliosphere]

It's so funny getting into heated discussions about reading preference styles with some people. I'm in a Discord group chat, and the topic of different POVs in fiction came up, and it was apparently a popular opinion in the group that multiple POVs in a book is "garbage" and "hot trash."

I kind of laughed it off as a funny quirk, then mentioned I couldn't relate because I find singular POVs to be extremely dull and a major turn-off when it comes to reading. But y'know, to each their own. Brains like what they like.

The temperature of the group chat got noticeably chillier, and I was informed curtly that several people in the group write singular POVs and I should think before I speak.

I said I know, just like they know I write multiple POVs, but they felt fine trashing that.

"Well, that's different."

"Why?"

"Because you're a fluke. No one likes reading multiple POVs."

Oh-kay. Again, I didn't want to get heated over it and again reiterated that not everyone's writing style will vibe for everyone. I then helpfully added, "It's like, y'know. I don't particularly enjoy first-person narratives, either. They feel juvenile to me, probably because they're predominant in a lot of YA lit, and it's jarring to read in adult fic. Doesn't mean it's bad; it just means I don't like it."

Anyway. I'll let you know when they're done burning me at the stake.

[thebibliosphere]

I arrive at the Group Chat Multiple POVs in the book. Narrative third personed. Tits out. I am forcibly removed from the Chat.

[thebibliosphere]

It's been a scant few hours, and I've been sitting back from the comfort of another group chat (immediately got added into another one, lmao), watching the original group chat burn via relayed messages, but you'll be amused to know that as soon as I was booted they @'d 'everyone' to let them know I'd been booted for being "disrespectful to the group" (lol) and that the group was a "safe space."

Which others immediately pointed out was false because while the original instigators were being outright mean about styles of writing, I'd been polite and very gently tried to steer them away from shitting on the writing style of other people within the group.

My gentle nudge was viewed with hostility and treated like an attack because, apparently, it's only a safe space provided you agree with them.

It's also since been brought to my attention that their initial mean-girl act might actually have been staged to try and make another author feel bad because she'd just found an agent and was really excited about her book being optioned.

Basically, it was sour grapes.

They were trying to make it feel like less of an achievement by saying her style of writing (multiple POV with limited 3rd person narrative) wasn't good, and no one would like it. "It's common and trashy," etc etc. That kind of thing.

What they did not bank on was me speaking up and pointing out that their opinion was not a fact and that just because we don't like something doesn't make it bad. I basically ruined their attempt at bullying this other woman, and they didn't like that.

If this kind of behavior is making you think they're all young, barely out of their teens, you'd be forgiven, but alas, many of them are my age and older with kids.

Some people just never grow out of peaking as the high school bully, it seems.

Anyway, new group formed.

Different types of writing styles respected and uplifted.

Tits still out, etc etc.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

First humans ever to leave the solar system suddenly drop out of communications and the ship can't be found with any equipment. After one month of no contact their home countries start reluctantly holding funerals for the space heroes only for them all to turn up, healthy, well fed and extremely disoriented, in the middle of Tokyo, talking about alien abduction. Turns out that aliens found the poor humans straying out of their solar system, presumably lost, and took them to Alien Wildlife Rehabilitation before dumping them back in the middle of their native habitat.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#bonus points if none if the crew are Japanese#aliens just dropped where they thought was best

I literally just googled "city with the highest population"

[marlynnofmany]

I’ll bet they have cool new tattoos that turn out to be tracking devices too. Just in case these spirited individuals try to make another break for it.

[teal-deer]

... do the tats make them stupid popular, like that time scientists gave birds tracker anklets and it accidentally made them ultra fuckable

[marlynnofmany]

Let’s say yes. Those alien scientists are learning so much, and none of it is accurate.

[tinyclove]

realised I never posted this - video of me making my frog on a log lamp!

[spidermimi]

So I'm halfway through Gideon the Ninth and how come nobody has told me about Dulcinea?? She's so good, you'd think people would go bonkers over her

[spidermimi]

Ah.

[misanthropiczombie]

Ngl ive had Gideon the ninth in my to read pile on my kindle app for months and this post is what inspired me to finally open it now

[misanthropiczombie]

Ah, I see.

[ruffboi-mags]

......well now I'm curious.

[spidermimi]

[kayray-art]

[heartwarminganimals]

A bearcat (binturong) or as I’m going to call them, a long panda, are a species of viverrid similar to no other animal I have ever heard of but they’re basically one of those species that evolved into mustelids without being mustelids. And can look like cars, possums on in this case a scruffy long panda.

[jokeboy-deactivated20260221]

I dropped my phone in the shower and the water opened up instagram and changed my fucking PRONOUNS?????

[smolgroundsloth-deactivated2025]

[penroseparticle]

My favorite thing is that Europe is spooky because it’s old and America is spooky because it’s big

[meduseld]

“The difference between America and England is that Americans think 100 years is a long time, while the English think 100 miles is a long way.” –Earle Hitchner

[burntcopper]

A fave of mine was always the american tales where people freaked out because ‘someone died in this house’ and all the europeans would go ‘…Yes? That would be pretty much every house over 40 years old.’

‘…My school is older than your entire town.’

‘Sorry, you think *how far* is okay to travel for a shopping trip?’

*American looks up at the beams in a country pub* ‘Uh, this place has woodworm, isn’t that a bit unsafe?’ ‘Eh, the woodworm’s 400 years old, it’s holding those beams together.’

[bedlamsbard]

A few years ago when I was in college I did a summer program at Cambridge aimed specifically at Americans and Canadians, and my year it was all Americans and one Australian.  We ended the program with a week in Wessex, and on the last day as we all piled onto the bus in Salisbury (or Bath? I can’t remember), the professors went to the front to warn us that we wouldn’t be making any stops unless absolutely necessary.  We’re headed to Heathrow to drop off anyone flying off the same day, then back to Cambridge.

“All right, it’s going to be a long bus ride, so make sure you’re prepared for that.”

We all brace ourselves.  A long bus ride?  How long?  We’re Americans; a long bus ride for us is a minimum of six hours with the double digits perfectly plausible.  We can handle a twelve hour bus ride as long as we get a bathroom break.

The answer.  “Two hours.”

Oh.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

English people trying to travel around Australia and wildly underestimating distance are my favourite thing

[marzipanandminutiae]

a tour guide in France told my school group that a particular cathedral wouldn’t interest us much because “it’s not very old; only from the early 1600s”

to which we had to respond that it was still older than the oldest surviving European-style buildings in our country

[iguana-sneeze]

China is both old and big. I had some Chinese colleagues over; we were discussing whether they wanted to see the Vasa ship (hugely expensive war ship which sank on it’s maiden voyage after 12 min). They asked if it was old, I said “not THAT old” (bearing in mind they were Chinese) “it’s from the 1500s.” To my surprise they still looked impressed, nodding enthusiatically. Then I realised I’d forgotten something: “…I mean it’s from the 1500s AFTER the birth of Christ” and they went “oh, AFTER…”.

[ceescedasticity]

My dad’s favorite quote from various tours in Italy was “Pay no attention to the tower – it was a [scornful tone] tenth century addition.”

[copperbadge]

My last boss was Chinese, and she said when her parents came to visit her from Beijing they pronounced Chicago “A very nice village.” 

[blondegingersaxon]

This post keeps getting better

[kaimaciel]

European problems include:

- Missing a turn and now you need to cross the border;

- Towns built 500 to 800 years ago with really small roads where cars can barely fit;

- That road/parking lot/etc they were building is gonna take twice the time to finish because they found Roman ruins AGAIN!

[abz-j-harding]

European problems extended: 

 WW2 bombs.

[loverofmythology]

I love this post but also hate it because people never acknowledge the structures of native and indigenous people in America and Canada. We literally have pyramids here in Illinois that are thousands of years old.

There is stuff here from the Aztecs, but since it wasn’t made by settlers people think that America is only as old as when Europeans came over.

The population that got wiped out and displaced by Europeans is still here and needs to be acknowledged. America and Canada aren’t “young” and have more history than most ppl acknowledge.

[rivertalesien]

RT only for the last post. 

[tackedtothewall]

[Image description: headlines of WWII bombs either exploding unexpectedly in European towns and cities or being found during road works. /ID]

I went walking on some public footpaths in England and everyone was like “oh this one was a Roman roads, these are so ancient!” and I ended up cranky because there are ancient or at least hundred of year old roads in the Americas, we just don’t pay attention to them because Colonization.

To be clear - I don’t have any issue with OP’s statement (or even any of the reblogs). Im just cranky at the US educational system. And boomers, a little.

[theshehulkproject]

Where do you think the oldest shoes in the world are? China? Greece? Iraq?

they’re from Oregon:

Catalog #1-33612 and #1-31699 Sagebrush Sandals: Fort Rock Cave, Oregon, ca. 10,000 years old

[whetstonefires]

large portions of I-95 (runs up the east coast usually like a day’s walk inland) follow the route of a road that was already present (albeit with minimal engineering involved) and in regular use well before colonization commenced.

it is an interesting and vexed question on what levels we can consider interstate highway 95 to be an instantiation of the same road.

[h-e-i-r-l-o-o-m]

[hilariouslarry]

[dknightlight]

Posting this iconic piece of media that I just NEVER found online isolated except in an archived reddit thread