The storm approaches

Header by squareenixes// Inbox closed due to bot influx. AI bros DNI.

[nyxcaelum]

No you can't get free commissions. No I'm not drawing your dog, your kid, the backyard you hide the corpses of your enemies in

[nyxcaelum]

People openly saying they think SE used AI for the promo artwork is interesting because

A) we got people so good at noticing something is wrong immediately

B) we lost the world of tracing and lump it in with AI now

Like hell nah that is NOT AI, even if SEs "recent" pro AI shill makes you think so. The art is clearly rushed, human mistakes, they force that man to go out there and draw something real fast and cut bad corners that appear more visible in today's day and age of AI poo and fart.

[nyctoheart]

one of the annoying things about this false accusation of AI Nomura thing is aaallll people saying "well I'm still disappointed" you don't even know how AI WORKS. You refuse to learn anything about it because you think learning about things = supporting it (it doesnt! In fact learning about things you dislike can even make you more effective in counteracting it!). So instead you accuse anything that "looks off" as AI. Sometimes... artists make mistakes! They make the occasional bad piece! They make flaws! Stop "being disappointed :///" because YOU don't know wtf you're talking about, but you're desperate to join in on the finger pointing!!

OR, its not actually AI, it is a photomanipulation tool that software has had for YEARS and everyone just thinks that any tool a software has is now AI. YOU GUYSSSSSS

[nyxcaelum]

They did it, they made Luxord even hotter

I wanna yell" Nomura you hack!!!!" upon seeing the umbrella scene. This is the illustration he did for Xeanhort, all on purpose, damn he can't get away with this!!

[wordfather]

idk if this is an usamerican thing or not but it always blows my mind as a small european country resident that yall have many names and types of apples???? what do you mean its not just red yellow or green??? why is it so complicated??? who is granny smith????

[wordfather]

'whats your favorite apple' 'red' 'no i mean like what type' '??????' actual conversatiom i've had with a mutual from usa

[wordfather]

THIRTY TWO??????

[phillyphillyphilly]

Listen that doesn’t even account for all the weird shit local farmers are getting up to.

May I present the best apple:

[wordfather]

the world is so big and beautiful

[lemonscribs]

Lemon snek cuteness 🍋

fruit snake series next?

[inconveniently-discorporated]

Me: *agonizing over whether a semicolon goes here, what the proper dialogue should be there, other assorted rules and semantics*

Terry Pratchett: "!" said the stranger.

THAT'S ALLOWED?

[serricoj]

Writing is for communication. Sir Terry knew very well that anything's allowed if it helps you communicate something effectively.

[rpepperpotshipssciencebros]

[kn0wmore]

[nyxcaelum]

adding to my last reblog

really insane to read about someone being mad there was an untagged fetish in a fic. People should be glad i already tag my noncon, and to have them admit it was just a fart fetish? goddamn.

that was on reddit, dont seek out that person but i do think it was quite hilarious

[blackheartbiohazards]

➡️ Content warnings on fiction are a courtesy. 

➡️ Not every medium of fiction and storytelling has or is expected to have content warnings or extensive tagging.

➡️ Print novels do not traditionally warn for content in any way.

➡️ Until AO3 came along, fanfiction did not traditionally warn for content in any significant way.

➡️ An author is only obligated to warn for content to the degree mandated by the format they publish their fiction on.

➡️ Content warnings beyond the minimum are a courtesy, not an obligation.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is a valid tag that authors are allowed to use on AO3. It means there could be anything in there and you have accepted the risk. 'May contain peanuts!'

➡️ Writers are allowed to use 'Creator chose not to warn' for any reason, including to maintain surprise and avoid spoilers.

➡️ 'Creator chose not to warn' is not the same thing as 'no archive warnings apply'.

➡️ It is your responsibility to protect yourself and close a book, or hit the back button if you find something in fiction that you're reading that upsets you.

➡️ You are responsible for protecting yourself from fiction that causes you discomfort.

[maxmorkson]

Happy Pride, bite a transphobe today 💙

[cleo-fox]

Writing tips:

“You feel the bulge in his pants” - implies that you are feeling some guy’s penis, may be sexy depending on context

“You feel the bugle in his pants” - implies that this guy has a military horn in his pants, invites confusing questions like why does he have that and how big are his pockets

[maple-seed]

Both options convey that he's horny

[cleo-fox]

How dare you be funnier than me on my own post

[goldcrescent]

I also think that the strength gap is at least partially manufactured women would in fact be stronger overall if little girls were encouraged to do physically taxing games and activities and eat their fill while they’re growing vs having to constantly diet and be sedentary indoors (or god forbid do intense cardio while under-eating). The amount of adult women honestly afraid to lift weights bc they think they’ll get bulky as though bulking isn’t a full time job that athletes have to spend all their time on and anyone on earth gets shredded from just using their adult muscles for their intended purpose, girl your bone density 🥀

[goldcrescent]

if you say women are intentionally nerfed from birth in 2026 people look at you like you’re insane and start condescendingly telling you about how women are just better at different things (but not during their periods haha) but this was a completely basic feminist talking point I grew up with like “girls can do it too! [shot of little girls climbing and running with boys]” nickelodeon commercial tier base level I hate it how is everyone suddenly dumber than the average 7 year old

[straytheskies]

its 3 am and im tire d and someone posted this strategy board in ffxiv and im crying

[itsdappleagain]

[itsdappleagain]

people in my replies arguing for their fav white guy???

[estro-boi]

we gotta get back to torrent distribution, i just watched someone eat eight grand in bandwidth charges because they ran a direct-download piracy site with local file hosting through cloudflare. torrents were invented literally for this exact reason

[estro-boi]

torrents work like this

i have a file or folder on my pc that i want to share with other people. let's call it gayshit.mp3

unfortunately gayshit.mp3 is 750mb and im not paying for discord nitro so i need another way to send it

i put it into qbittorrent and it makes a torrent file. this is essentially a very small file that points to gayshit.mp3 so other computers can find it. kinda like a treasure map

i send this tiny file to my friend, who loads it into qbittorrent. their computer takes a moment to find mine over the vast expanse of cyberspace and then (as long as my pc is running and the file is still where it should be), it gets copied from my hard drive to theirs

this is the cool part: if somebody else loads that tiny file, they can download it from both of us. if i'm offline but my friend is on, the third person can still get it. this also means that if two people have separate halves of the file, they can download the other half from each other. as long as some combination of people have the pieces between them, they can all have the whole thing.

crucially this does not require a server!!! you can just upload the file to a few people and as long as they keep it, it's still accessible. as long as somebody, somewhere is still connected, it's available forever. the only way it goes away is if everybody disconnects from it.

please learn to torrent

[macleod]

How to Use Torrents (with Pictures) - wikiHow

An expert guide to get started using torrentsTorrents are one of the most popular forms of file sharing on the internet, accounting for over

always use qbittorrent, do not use bittorrent or utorrent.

[tieflingkisser]

[pardalote]

Mine was buried even deeper, under Devices -> Typing -> How AI has helped you.

(Spoiler: it hadn't helped me. But it was on by default.)