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just to make this perfectly clear and for me to have a post to pin:
I have nothing to do with iilluminaughtii, would prefer if that stayed that way, and have been using this design for my avatar/stand-in for longer than she has been posting on YT
which you can check by looking in my #commission info tag. thanks!
you know you don't have to do beginner shit with a hobby right. like I'm seeing a lot of "beginner tutorials" on Instagram for what is basically creative masturbation and it's like you're not welding here pal you can just attempt something complicated and grand right off the bat if you wanted to with zero personal consequences. I honestly think because of the advent of social media people have become so ashamed of themselves from lack of interface with anything analogue that they have lost ambition and have exchanged it for extremely flimsy guarantees. Like if you do beginner shit you're less likely to flop at it, which is more preferred as an outcome, than the steadily accumulated sense of achievement that might come from attempting things in an orderly chain of comprehension, which strengthens basic foundations for the skill in the first place, which is what doing beginner things was supposed to do for you from the start anyway. Sure everyone has to begin somewhere and it's good to have a framework for that, especially with something as finnicky as art, but it's not as if this order of events is stimying innately. You can do whatever if you don't like some part of the process trust me. You don't have to spend your life trying to kintsugi some bullshit that isn't broken in the first place. "But will it be good art if I skip steps?" Can you walk up the stairs just cause you're more than capable of falling down them when drunk? Can you hop up them? Can you bound up then on all fours like a dog because you're a freak? Come the fuck on. Live a little
who knows if i'll ever finish this atp so take this ulpipi
New DnD party, time for quick good-enough portraits. My character Alaswain up top, my best friend's character Keltin below. It's only been 2 sessions but the Wild beyond the Witchlight is already fire
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Once again @everyone: REBLOG stuff you like!
And DONT REPOST stuff that’s already here! WHY do we even have to go through this again huh? DON’T. DO. IT.
And if you share something from a different platform that isn’t on tumblr already you ASK the creator for permission and then give CREDIT!
reblog, don’t repost, this
Terminology reminder: reblogging is Tumblr's in-site sharing system but REPOSTING is saving a picture from a post and then making your own post
I have seen genuine confusion about this in the past (largely from ppl more used to other sites that don't have a reblog system) that's the only reason I'm adding the explanation
Hey guys let me tell you about advance fee scams
I hope y'all are familiar with these in this day and age, especially my artists out there, because they're incredibly common.
About half an hour ago I posted a drawing and tagged it #artists on tumblr, and very quickly received this comment.
My scam radar went off immediately, due to the generic blog name and lack of any emotion in the comment, but I decided it might be an entertaining venture so I dmed them. They asked for a drawing "of these", and sent me a random selfie. I got the details and told them it would be $15, and they promptly offered me $300. At this point I know it's a scam, but I play along for funsies and give them my paypal. Shortly, they send me this image for "confirmation" (I blocked out my email)
And they began to insist that I checked my email. I looked in my spam folder and found the following email.
This is fake. This is not a thing. And the "you're to refund the $200.00 back" is the scam. They send vaguely official-looking emails at you to "prove" that they sent you the money, then have you send them $200 (or however much the scam is for). Then, surprise surprise, you're out $200.
I continued to play along for a bit, and in the second email "Paypal" told me that I had to refund the $200 before they could "credit the $300 to my account", along with these lovely threats.
And yeah, it's silly. But it's not silly if you don't know and get scammed. So. Spread, please! And thank you very much to @mlaurel for the opportunity to get these screenshots.
This is a variation on a much older scam that often results in the victim being out money and also out whatever they were selling. It goes something like this:
- victim posts an item for sale on craigslist or w/e
- scammer contacts asking if a check is ok
- scammer then asks if they can write a check for more than the agreed-upon price and for the seller to give them the overage back as cash, often with some excuse about it being an out-of-state bank, they don't have a card and need some cash for something else, or whatever.
- scammer gives check, gets cash and item, and bounces
- guess what the check does, too
ANY kind of structure where you supposedly get money but have to give some of it back to someone should twig your scam radar, frankly.
Reblogging because some people need to refresh their scam radar, or start building theirs. I see far too many people fall for traps, and don't dare say for a second "this will never happen to me" because all it takes is a momentary lapse in judgement.
AI disturbance overlays for those who don't have Ibis paint premium. found them on tiktok
how do you use these?
Put these on the top layer above everything, set layer to 'overlay' then adjust opacity. You can put it on whatever opacity you want but usually 30%+ is most effective.
The point is to obstruct the picture so AI can't read your image because AI counts every single pixel in your art
By this post alone, in less than 5 hours.
I need you all to calm the fuck down
NEEDED AND NO WE WONT THIS IS BRILLIANT
vampires should be heavily freckled, because IRL people with UV allergies are usually heavily freckled themselves from sun exposure
I'm not disagreeing, BUT personally I got my mom's feomelanin and while she does have freckles I don't. We still both suffer from sunlight 🤷
Just looked at a blog where the header description said 'sometimes I reblog posts I like so I don't forget them'.
And I feel like that, right there, explains so much about how the site has changed in the last few months.
People now think reblogging is an unusual behaviour, rather than a default.
Tumblr newbies, please, for the love of baby Jesus, reblog the posts you like. That is the whole reason the site exists - for you to collect all your shiny fandom objects in a single space. Which you can organize to your heart's content. Or not organize at all, if that's your jam.
Our blogs are intended to be collections of posts, not collections of likes.
THE ENTIRE POINT OF TUMBLR IS REBLOGGING.
Liking does absolutely nothing. There is no algorithm like on IG that will use likes to throw content at people. If you don’t reblog, then no one who doesn’t follow that person (or happen to find it in the tags) will see that post.
Tumblr is supposed to be your bookcase where you show off all of your pretties: the posts you like and the ones that you want to promote to support the other creators in your fandom/community.
ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR
since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it
here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:
Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)
Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)
Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)
Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)
Good news, fellow artists! Nightshade has finally been released by the UChicago team! If you aren't aware of what Nightshade is, it's a tool that helps poison AI datasets so that the model "sees" something different from what an image actually depicts. It's the same team that released Glaze, which helps protect art against style mimicry (aka those finetuned models that try to rip off a specific artist). As they show in their paper, even a hundred poisoned concepts make a huge difference.
(Reminder that glazing your art is more important than nighshading it, as they mention in their tweets above, so when you're uploading your art, try to glaze it at the very least.)
Everyone reblog! Spread the word so more and more artists learn that in addition to Glaze that coats art against ai scraping mimicry there's also an offensive tool now, able to skew and poison data pools.
Now poisoning will need many artists to nightshade their art and it's most important to get this ou to those the most at risk of being scraped. Reblog!
Is it just me or are the new tumblr users convinced there's a penalty of some kind for using this site like it's meant to be used?
reblogs have always been in short supply for artists, sadly, but it's hitting the shitposts and even the cat pictures lately. Gotta keep getting the word out that reblogs are good and keep people posting new material that will be passed around for the next 12 years
They’re used to other social media sites, where the only equivalent of reblogging is straight-up content theft; so the idea that you can put someone else’s stuff on your page and have it not be a bad thing is a strange experience for them.
They’re likely also used to an algorithm recommending content based on what they hit “like” on, so they probably think that that’s how this works, too.
About your avatar: I think it's a similar situation to "i have a cat fursona avater and a bad someone else has a cat fursona avatar". Yes there are similarities, but i think it's distinct, and very nicely painted if i can say so myself. Don't worry, she doesn't own "humanoid body with a non-humanoid head" concept. I guess if you still feel anxious about that you could add a hat? (This sentence is a joke)
Absolutely, I'm aware it's kind of a broad thing— something about the layout and colours just... rubs me really wrong in regards to similarities. I DEFINITELY don't want people to think we're associated yanno? <_<;; Also thank you for the compliment, anon!
Oh no you are Correct I used to watch her and it struck me how similar your avatars are a while ago! Yours is way better though imo LOL
Oooh my god thank you I feel completely insane— I've had the prototype of this design since 2017 and the more current one since 2018. God fuck even the bisexual colouring she used in that fanart I've had as a twitter icon during one pride month.
GUYS can anyone who's watched the new hbomb video tell me if I'm insane to think that iilluminaughtii's avatar looks a fuck ton like mine
Love when artists put "reblogging for the morning crowd!" "Reblogging for the weekend crowd!" in the tags to justify reblogging their own art. But lets not lie to ourselves anymore. Im reblogging for the exact same crowd i just need them to know i mean business. Im reblogging for the didn't take a hint the first time crowd. Reblogging for the crowd that needs to understand i spent 20 hours on this.
