i have emotional motion sickness

late 20s, queer poc cripple, plural, ion fucking know dude im just here

[antimasculist]

at work: i could be cooking and cleaning and coding and reading and working out and weaving tapestries and playing video games and climbing a mountain and having sex and filming a movie right now yet they keep me trapped in this prison. idle hands are the devils plaything and i am being forcibly molded into his perfect conduit. i must break free, seize the day and waste not the beauty inherent to finite mortal life

at home: my one true passion upon this pointless earth is bog mummy imitation

[luckyclovercollective]

This is an apparently hot take but like… can we stop normalizing the idea that all littles / syskids are genuinely all going to be mentally children or “innocent” and in need of sanitized spaces.

Systems are gonna have littles who are nothing more than kids in headspace, yet act and function like anyone else.

Systems are gonna have littles who are traumatized.

Systems are gonna have littles who are persecutors.

Systems are gonna have littles who are sexual alters.

Systems are gonna have littles who otherwise have no choice in the adult topics they have to live with.

and the list goes on and on like it could in any other case; Whether or not you like it.

It’s up to a system to deem what they want and think is appropriate for THEIR own system, not for someone outside to decide. Just like every other type of alter you can’t just blanket they’re all going to be some sort of way?

(Obviously, littles who ARE basically just normal children that exist, but this post isn’t about that.)

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Nachoooo!

[madam-quack]

I have a super cool, kind of whacky space/chemistry fact for people who have the patience to read this.

When satellites and other spacecraft enter Earth’s atmosphere, they get all burnt, charred, and blackened, right? Well, we (as in humans) have sent several satellites to Mars, and they don’t get charred at all.

Why do the satellites burn up in Earth’s atmosphere but not Mars’s?

Before I give you the answer, first you’ll need a bit of background information. At dry cleaners, one of the more eco-friendly cleaning methods they use is super critical carbon dioxide. (Super critical fluid is a state of matter that’s a combination of vapor and liquid). When it’s pressurized, the CO2 is liquid and gets the dirt off of clothes. When it depressurizes, the CO2 returns to vapor form, and the dirt falls out. As a result, the clothes get clean without ever actually getting wet.

This is relevant because what is Mars’s atmosphere made of? Carbon dioxide. When little robot guys (AKA satellites) enter Mars’s atmosphere… they get dry cleaned.

(Credit to my physical chemistry professor for teaching me this fun fact).

[subliminaldevestation]

don't think showing other people our writing while we're in the process of writing it, looking for what they think about it, is for us. think it's the enemy for us, lmao.

we've historically always gotten so caught up in what they think about it that we start pandering to what we think might interest them as opposed to writing what interests *us*. hard to get excited about your own shit when you're so caught up in whether other people will like it, or what they'll have to say about it, or what if they don't think it's good, what if they think we should change something.

collaborating on a story is different. getting compliments is nice. getting feedback is not a thing we can do unless we've got a full draft and are asking someone to edit or beta it

[deepseametro]

I actually LOVE looking at your art! It's amazing and I'm so grateful you are persisting despite the backlash! as a disabled person who used to hang out in ableist artistic circles, I had given up on my artistic dreams and internalized a lot of anti AI ableism... THANK YOU! YOU GIVE ME HOPE! I LOVE YOUR WORK! NEVER STOP TIL YOUR BONES ARE IN THE GROUND!

i'm going to take this as an opportunity to encourage you, and any other disabled artists (or even just people interested in the medium) who are wanting to dabble in this stuff but don't know where to go (plenty of AI art spaces are equally awful, to be fair) to check out @are-we-art-yet, or AWAY!

AWAY is an artist collective devoted to ethical AI art and image generation, and it is also full of lots of cool people and hobbyists with all kinds of experience, knowledge, and art styles coming together to make art in a supportive space, while also keeping out capitalists/NFTers/elon shills/etc. it's got plenty of people willing and ready to explain and teach, and soooo many resources of all kinds of AI art tools available for folks to play around with.

you can see our code of ethics here:

and a link to the discord here: https://discord.gg/E6MYZEqHz3

it's run by the wonderful @reachartwork, a fellow disabled artist who uses AI as a tool for her to make art she couldn't otherwise. i'm in there too, and there's lots of other disabled artists hanging around as well.

(it's also a nice space to bitch about AI discourse in a safe space where you won't get dogpiled like me lmao.)

we even have a discord role you can @ to get people to make things in midjourney for you, if you don't want to pay for a subscription!

don't be scared off by the weirdos. there is joy and fulfilment to be had with image generation, esp for disabled folks, and you should let yourself experience it. even if you don't join us, i hope this encourages you to start taking a look around at the tools available and find ways to make art again!

[reachartwork]

btw this should be obvious but if you are upset about the internet archive losing the appeal, but are also anti-ai training, you are holding two extremely contradictory views - either the law protects your intellectual property to the point where nobody is allowed to download it, or it doesn't - and you should try to examine where exactly the conflict is.

i've had the worst day in a long time so im not elaborating for now - if one of my many esteemed followers felt like getting more clear on the Ramifications and Dialectic here in a reblog i would greatly appreciate it but i did just want to strike while the thing was hot. either you think more IP protection is better, or you don't. you can't have it both ways.

[rhapsodyxvi]

i'll do my best to elaborate:

people tend to see archival as noble and necessary without actually analyzing the fact that to archive something, you need to be allowed to access and host it without the express permission of the author. there are plenty of authors in the world (such as the ones who set out the case against the internet archive) who would rather die holding the last copy of their novel than to allow someone to openly and freely distribute it.

the same freedoms that allow us to archive books or webpages online also allow for ai to be trained on works posted on the internet. intellectual property being protected by law would mean that you cannot use someone else's work for any reason, and that would include both "good" usage (such as archiving images/text/etc) and "bad" usage (such as downloading and using images/text/etc for training) and there would be no difference. danbooru is an archive, too.

we're in an era of "don't repost my art without my permission" and "don't take inspiration from my characters" and even "don't use my color palettes" when the simple fact is that if you made these things enforceable by law, immediately the same rules would be applied to things that the same people would go "but that deserves to be archived!" strictly against the wishes of the author.

you cannot pick and choose what kind of intellectual property does and doesn't count as something that can or should be archived (reposted, with or without credit) or used in derivative ways (collaging, tracing, referencing, using as training fodder). art is art is art. the people who cry art theft and demand that their art not be used for anything without their express permission are in the same shoes as the author gripping the last copy of their novel in the grave.

whether or not those demands are respected isn't, and shouldn't, be a matter of following the law. do you want the potential of jail time for having an art inspiration folder on your computer? do you really think blogs that repost art without credit deserve to have the police investigate them? do you want to live in a world where the simple act of having an art style that's juuuust similar enough to the art style of someone you've never spoken to, or having an idea that's juuuust similar enough to a novel you've never heard of, could ruin your life forever?

think about that.

[reachartwork]

good thanks

[homunculus-argument]

Things birds would make memes about:

when you're all fucked up and ready to GO but the male got too into doing his mating display and won't fuck before he's done dancing

when your hatchlings this year should be all grown up and you've taught them everything you know but they still follow you around beeping for food like GET A FUCKING JOB

lmao the stupidest fucking mf in the flock got stuck in a trash can

when your species mates for life and you just realised that your spouse that you imprinted on is a fucking idiot

stealing fluff for my nest straight off a sleeping dog because I fear no death and answer to no god

I think my huge idiot son is a cuckoo

THE SUN IS UP AND SO AM I, TIME TO SCREAM MOTHERFUCKERS

Birds of prey hanging around bird feeders waiting for rats, squirrels, smaller birds, and other bird food to show up.

I fucking hate seagulls, all my homies hate seagulls

suck my dick, I'm a seagull, fuck you

[subliminaldevestation]

caught. frozen. staring at the ceiling at the thing staring back. dark entity. pitch black. shape absorbing and reflecting the light thats around. beneath.

all it is is a face. its eyes encompass half of it... the enormity of them. ringed in a sickly yellow. they do not flicker. do not stir. black. glossy. unflinching... its lower half is a smile. teeth. ever so widening. imperceptible movement. growing.

cant turn away. cant move.

dont. it will drop.

its eyes... theyre bigger.

when did it get closer?

pray you dont blink first.