[skeptical-lynx]

Feeling playful

source of inspiration: playing with cat’s tail. I just remembered how funny it is to cover their tails with palm and watch them change its position. until you encircle it while they try to wriggle free. and then you “find out” with the teeth marks on your hand haha

4k HQ version on twt:

https://x.com/skeptical_lynx/status/1772340642020028851?s=46&t=EuBiJuFrpmM7JiLiuDbaCA

[han-ban-bam]

hey how do you guys feel about a baldurs gate 3 sketch dump. Yes no? Yes? 👀

[the-mschristine]

I’m BEGGING to see art for this…

[stillsundazed]

Vampires after spending five minutes with the owlbear cub they wanted to eat:

(Based off of this post)

[wheresmypencil]

Just a bunch of cats 🎈

[hymnsofheresy]

have y’all ever had communion bread that was just so….nasty? like i know we have to suffer as christians, but do we really need to have whole wheat bread as the body of christ?

[hymnsofheresy]

my old church used hawaiian bread. my standards are high

[missweber]

Some old housemates of mine were Syrian Orthodox. At their church different members of the church took turns baking the bread that would be consecrated for the Eucharist. This was all well and good until one woman baked raisin bread. This led to the memorable occasion of a rather flustered priest, who had not seen the bread until that moment, declaring, “This - except for the raisins - is the Body of Christ.”

[shiraglassman]

EXCEPT FOR THE RAISINS omg

[pastel-lavender]

Raisins are just dried grapes though, and wine is his blood so really its like a two in one shampoo & conditioner except with jesus

[biglawbear]

like a two in one shampoo & conditioner except with jesus

[the-mschristine]

This is the content I'm here for

[the-mschristine]

Day 19 - Dove

If you're an artist - please join in the #AIartNotHumanWar campaign (on Twitter and elsewhere)

[pidgeling]

i’m so upset

I just realized that the reason ghosts say Boo! is because it’s a latin verb

they’re literally saying ‘I alarm/I am alarming/I do alarm!!

I can’t

[life-of-a-latin-student]

present active boō, present infinitive boāre, perfect active boāvī, supine boātum

[interretialia]

Recte!

[flightcub]

if it comes from the latin word, they’re actually saying “I’M YELLING!” which is even cuter

[grizzlyhills]

do they speak latin because it’s a dead language

[feralkwe-deactivated20210912]

get out

[monticellomarshmallow]

This is exactly the kind of content I come here for like I want to print this out, frame it and put it on my wall.

[the-mschristine]

Someone messaged me on Twitter asking if I'd like to join their campaign for #AIartNotHumanWar in solidarity with the people of Ukraine. I have submitted a few images there, but wanted to share here and hope there will be more people to join the movement.

See Tweets about #AIartNotHumanWar on Twitter. See what people are saying and join the conversation.

[faintedincoils]

I've read a lot of tweets, Tumblr posts, and think pieces about AI generated art here lately. People have raised all sorts of interesting points but I haven't really seen anyone talk about how AI generated art can open up the world for people with aphantasia.

So here's the thing. I know what cats look like. I know what green and purple look like. I know what polka dots look like. My aphantasia is total in that I cannot picture any of these things in my mind--no, not even colors. And I certainly cannot picture a green cat with purple polka dots.

Statistically speaking, the vast majority of the people reading this can picture things in their mind. Which means that even if you've never seen a depiction of a green cat with purple polka dots, you can probably see it in your head, right? But me? I've never seen a green cat with purple polka dots. I tried googling the phrase just to see what would happen, and at least in the first couple of pages of results, I couldn't actually find a picture of a green cat with purple polka dots. And like I said, I can't picture it myself. So if I want to know what it would look like, up until now my options would pretty much have been to either grab a coloring book and make it happen, or get someone else to create an artistic representation for me. If I don't do either of those things, I'm just never going to know what this hypothetical cat would look like.

But if I can ever get added to the waitlist for Dall-E 2 or a similar program, I could change that. I could even specify that I want to see a realistic cat. Or say that I want a pastel green cat with dark purple polka dots. And an AI art program could show me that.

And I can do that with pretty much anything. And I'm not exaggerating when I say that when I think about that, I start crying.

When I was a little kid I used to daydream about someone one day creating some sort of a machine that could give you pictures inside your brain. I could never figure out why not only was there not such a thing, but nobody besides me seem to have even thought of it. People had all sorts of wild ideas about contraptions they could make, but being able to see things in your mind was an important enough to anyone else to make it happen?

I was in my mid thirties when I found out the reason why. What I have dreamed of my entire life is apparently a built-in feature for pretty much everyone else in the world. Which means no one is ever going to make a machine that will let me see things in my head. I'm just out of luck, and I've been trying really hard to get myself to accept that.

So with the sudden boom of AI generated art over the past few months, lots of people see a threat or a controversy.

All I can see is possibility and hope and wonder. All I can see is my eternal dream coming into existence, or at least as close as it's ever going to happen.

I'm crying now just typing all of this up. And it hasn't even become a reality for me yet, because I don't have access to any of the programs good enough to create representations of what I ask that don't trigger the uncanny valley for me. But in the next year or two maybe I can. I don't even care how much I have to pay for it. I've been waiting for this chance my whole entire life.

So I'm sure that people have really good reasons to protest or worry about AI generated art. But I am honestly so scared that those protests are going to shut it down before I ever even have my chance with it.

Sorry, I know this is a long post. And who knows if anyone will even read it. But I've been thinking about this an awful lot lately, and I just wanted to put it out there in the world.

[loish]

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