Rykha Firehand

Commandah Rykha. Orcsiest orc this side of Draenor. I like fire and crazy Warcraft tinfoil hat theories. Commissions OPEN

[ogalvy]

"I like my whiskey straight, and my sex gay."

Jacob Drawfee quote of the night

[yuliciagaming]

positive affirmations

[vaethryn]

darion after the legion campaign

[fus-mar-hoz]

While political agitation must at times be adapted for a public steeped in propagandized precognitions, I believe the common liberal's point that Harris would not have kidnapped Maduro and Flores shows the very shallow limitations of an understanding of imperialism that boils down to military, and to a limited extent economic, aggression. Speculating if Harris would have done x or y thing differently of the same is useless insofar as you're looking to uncover the mechanisms and conclusions of capitalism's imperialist stage. A Harris administration would have unequivocally pursued a continuation of US influence in Latin America, as every single US presidency has since Haiti's revolution. The question of the specific methods and forms are secondary to the exact same underlying motivations for the preservation of a global economic system that hinges on the unequal relations between capitalist states, as important as they are to pick apart within that framework. If you understand imperialism as being identified with military intervention, you'd believe imperialism is a policy like any other that disappears and reappears according to the whims of foreign policy makers. Imperialism is the very foundation the current capitalist world economy which will spend both blood and diplomatic goodwill in the pursuit of its self-preservation.

[thecrystalwoods]

not to ruin a very good point here, but i feel like she would have gone with the age old tactic of "find a group of upset people and give them arms" rather than "display a outright disregard for international law and then post about it on Twitter"

[rykhafirehand]

That's exactly the thing, what's happening now *is* exceptional, we really shouldn't pretend it isn't. The US has built its hegemony largely on soft power and proxies that they can tactfully pretend to not be directly affiliated with.

What Trump has done and is doing by threatening Greenland and Cuba and basically everyone in what he decided was 'his' hemisphere, as though international politics is a mob-style shakedown, isn't just aesthetically different. It's a way of approaching global politics and empire-building that fell out of fashion with WW2. Hell, even Nazi Germany invented a complex (if absolutely moronic) ideological reasoning for their invasions. It wasn't outwardly a direct "Fuck you, I want your shit."

Italy and Japan's WW2 invasions were more blatantly fueled by expansionism and not really justified by much more than might. In that way, they were more in line with the sort of imperialism we saw in the 19th century, the fallout of which was a major reason for why WW1 happened.

While a liberal government would gladly have removed Maduro if given the chance, this is very much not just a matter of underlying motivations. This sort of national shakedown is ultimately bad for the capitalist class, which we can see in how oil companies have been very lukewarm about the prospect of capturing Venezuelan resources. An oil rig doesn't just spew out fuel; that requires storage, refining, transportation, etc., all things that they would need to pay out of their pocket to build up before they can actually access the resources in question. And let's not forget that we're talking about a resource that is notoriously susceptible to market crashes if too much of it is introduced into the market all of a sudden.

In short, as I said in the very beginning, this *is* in fact a unique situation and we really shouldn't be pretending it isn't.

[bogleech]

Damn he's right, artists were wrong to have always taken credit for manufacturing the tools themselves. All these artists always claiming to have personally carved their brushes or programmed their own photoshops. wait did he say grow the pai

[weasterberry]

this is actually something that bugs me about "AI artists" (on top of the normal stuff).

You didn't make the art. You gave a separate agent a prompt and it created art based on it. That's not drawing. that's commissioning. You commissioned the AI to draw you something (and didn't bother wondering it why it wasn't charging you anything for the work). The AI is the artist. You are their client.

[fipindustries]

well, actually many versions of working with ai consist of a much more involved process than just giving one prompt to an ai and calling it a day, many artists train their own scepific loras feeding the types of images they want the ai to learn from, iterating multiple times over the process, making the ai do corrections the ai wouldnt know to do and playing with the different settings in terms of randomness, temperature, etc.

there is a complicated philosofical argument to be made in terms of "is the person using a tool here or asking someone else to do the work for them" like the ai is obviously not a person and it cant really make desitions for itself so it feels weird to say "you asked another agent to do something for you"

but beyond all that, if merely giving instructions to other agents makes you not an artist then would you say that a movie director, an orchestra director or a comic book writer are not artists either? a lot of art installations in museums were not actually made manually and put in place by the artist, many of those installations where just the conceptual artist sending instruction to the museum, are they not artist either? same with art directors and showrunners, a lot of the time they dont even write the episodes of the show themselves, they write and outline for the episodes and after that tyey just aprove or deny what the writers room, the art department, the director of the episode, etc made

i think its a very complicated matter that cant be simply boiled down as "if you didnt do x youre not an artist"

[thecrystalwoods]

you're right! we should give directors less credit and put actors on a higher priority than directors and we should give writers more credit also!

wait, that's not what you were trying to get at was it

[rykhafirehand]

Ruining your vocabulary by prompting a brainrot machine that 'learned' language from a bunch of techbros and thus requires you to talk like a fucking idiot to get anything done doesn't make you an artist.

It really doesn't matter how much work you feel like you put into making yourself dumber, it still won't make you an artist.

(And also yes, directors ABSOLUTELY get too much credit for movies they're involved with.)

[spooky-cowfish]

A recreation of what I saw when I was passing my boss's desk

[letsrevince]

[vibrantstarfire]

ugh we need more manipulative characters that aren’t evil. lie and cheat and steal for a good cause. control every narrative. use narcissism for justice. ruin all of your personal relationships for the good of the mission.

[dilfosaur]

yule be sorry

[duckprintspress]

no nuance...

yes, I use generative AI as part of my creative process

no, I don't use generative AI as part of my creative process

Voting ended onDec 29, 2025

I should probably define what falls under the umbrella of generative AI here but I kinda don't feel like it, but like. using an image generator to make references. brainstorming by talking with chatgpt. generating images of characters as inspiration. all that kinda jazz counts. as of course does full-on using genAI to make your stuff.

remember that your vote is anonymous, so you don't have to out yourself on one side or the other when you share. I'm just curious what the spread is actually like when there's some anonymity. if you're wondering my own opinion it's in my original tags, but I'm attempting not to be judgemental in this accompanying text.

[duckprintspress]

just remember that if y'all want to see how bad the genAI users get ratioed, you need to reblog it...

[occudo]

Fanart for The Drawfee Variety Hour, The Holiday Special

Still not sure how to get real people in my style, but this video had so many fun moments, I wanted to draw some of it

[tigirl-and-co]

[yourl0calqueer]

[apolladay]

Do you have an identifiable* local accent** in your native language?

yes

no

i used to, but don’t anymore

i didn’t before, but i do now

other/nuance

Voting ended onDec 21, 2025

If you are so inclined, please tell me your thoughts and feelings about having/not having a local accent in the tags/comments!! I would love to hear!! This, of course, goes for other/nuance voters as well!!

*as in someone can identify where you are from just based on your accent** (no matter how obscure of an accent you have)

**as in the way you pronounce/sign your words(creek vs crick), NOT dialect i.e. vocab and grammar differences(soda vs pop)

ALSO, EVERYONE HAS AN ACCENT DIPSHIT IT CAME FREE WITH YOUR FUCKING LANGUAGE :P

[technofeudalism]

god forbid 5000 year old girls do anything

[flamei7]

[postpoeticparadox]

holy shit bronze age pro sheep bone gamer girl

[roach-works]

this is hilarious but also im gonna cry like this teenage gamer died and they buried her with her high score. no one took back the pot or divided it up because no one would play against her again. her family and friends buried her with her wins. im crying

[yanklbonkl]

so I'm on linkedin a lot now and coming across a lot of dumb "memes", so this is now a thread for them

let's start off with "uh uh, here's a picture i just drew which proves you wrong!!"

[machine-unlearning]

It’s over for you. I have depicted yourself as the soy temporary spike and myself as the chad exponential growth

[phoenixyfriend]

Challenge for leftists! Criticize Melania Trump without using the following against her:

Eastern European/Slavic

Immigrant

Does not have a Master's degree

Rumored history of sex work

There's nothing shameful about being Eastern European, an immigrant, a sex worker, or not having a graduate degree.

Insult her for her actions, her choices, even her taste in interior design. The hypocrisy of her cyber bullying thing, the plagiarism incident, the Christmas decor that looks unnerving at best.

The blatant hypocrisy of her marriage, if you think she's not under some kind of legal pressure to not divorce. The greed we can read into her staying.

But if I see one more post calling her an "undereducated Eastern European hooker" I'm going to lose my shit.

He education is fine, her background is fine, and sex work is fine.

Criticize her amoral actions, not that!

[elodieunderglass]

I saw a yellow stop sign while driving today and thought you'd want it for your leucism channel.

No photo, for obvious reasons. It was also shorter than average.

My goodness!

Thank you for the word picture; I’m visualising it so hard.

[rykhafirehand]

Have you seen the yellow sign?