A very, very excited Volk finally gives in to his long-suppressed desires and pulls Zayats very close for something a bit more than a warm embrace.
Feeling the rabbit's heat pressed upon his body makes the scruffy wolf's brain short-circuit - he's never been so happy!
I like this one way more than the drawing I did nearly two years ago (how time passes!) - for one thing, the color palette is way more appealing, for another, I tweaked their appearances a bit and made everything ✨spicier✨
A very, very excited Volk finally gives in to his long-suppressed desires and pulls Zayats very close for something a bit more than a warm embrace.
Feeling the rabbit's heat pressed upon his body makes the scruffy wolf's brain short-circuit - he's never been so happy!
I like this one way more than the drawing I did nearly two years ago (how time passes!) - for one thing, the color palette is way more appealing, for another, I tweaked their appearances a bit and made everything ✨spicier✨
Latest reblog reminds me of how much it pisses me the fuck off how every queer person alive has to adapt to the usamerican style of queerness lest we get shunned by the community for being too different. I bring this up a lot but bro that time I got death threats for having ele/dele in my bio bc "by using neopronouns I was making a mockery of REAL trans people" when those are literally just my pronouns in my native language, and when I said that I got hit w the "well you're on the internet so speak english" I HATE GRINGOS I HATE GRINGOS I HATE GRINGOS
I feel the need to miss out a crucial detail I missed out in this post I made out of anger, and no, it doesn't add any silver linings or good context, it honestly only serves to make it worse.
In portuguese, much like spanish, we have no gender neutral pronouns. People who do not use ele/dele and ela/dela (he/him or she/her) all use whatever neopronoun suits them best in portuguese (ie elu/delu, eli/deli) because we have no access to a universal gender neutral pronoun like gringos do. When I brought this up upon them making fun of my "neopronouns", they said to suck it up, and that being foreign does not make neos valid.
In mocking people who use neopronouns in english, you are mocking a very large sum of latin american genderqueer and trans people.
I know various latin language speakers that struggle with their identities in their native tongue due to us not having they/them equivalents, so they are forced to let go of their, in example, brazilian queerness, to appease to anglos who would harass them and call them mockeries of trans people for not sticking to what The Cis want.
When non-anglos tell you the usamerican and british dominance over queer spaces ruins things for them, they mean it. We are forced to repress our identites because you people think they're too "out there and problematic". We are forced to suppress our own queer culture because we don't fit into your neat little boxes of what makes someone gay what makes someone a lesbian what makes someone trans or what makes someone anything else.
You tell us to remember "our queer elders", but do you know of any queer latin american figures? We learn your history, and you refuse to learn ours because you already have "too much on your plate". You disregard us and shame us for not fitting your ideals of queerness and using labels for ourselves you dislike, and try to baby us and tell us the proper way to be gay.
Your culture is not universal.
You are not saving queer people by making jabs at other queer people you don't personally get. Odds are you are harming an entire group of foreign queers you never bothered to consider, because your anglo bubble is too self important.
If you want to do queer people a real favour instead of getting mad at identities that existed long before you were even born, here. Make yourself useful. Donate to queer brazilian housing and support programs. Your beloved dollar is worth a lot more than the Real. Even five dollars help.
This is Damien, the sphinx cat. He has chosen you as his pet for the day. You don't get to tell him what to do - you listen and obey.
Whatever you do, you don't fuck with him. He'll use you until he's done, and you better like it.
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I was banging my head against the wall with this one until I fixed the color palatte, then, voilà, everything fell into place! Very satisfied with the final result.
This is Damien, the sphinx cat. He has chosen you as his pet for the day. You don't get to tell him what to do - you listen and obey.
Whatever you do, you don't fuck with him. He'll use you until he's done, and you better like it.
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I was banging my head against the wall with this one until I fixed the color palatte, then, voilà, everything fell into place! Very satisfied with the final result.
*three seconds away from falling sideways to the floor* "I'm not really a morning person"
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I have not posted here in forever and I haven't drawn anything in a long while either. This is a drawing I just completed after going back to an unfinished work I had left dormant for months.
David Lynch just passed. If everyone could spend the next few weeks becoming a little more offbeat, a little more in touch with the strangeness of our world, maybe we could begin to replace the massive void he leaves. We may not see another artist like him reach prominence within our lifetimes, so please go out and search, in the world and in yourself. Embody the truth, lead with love, hold the hands of those outstretched to you, and go as far as you can, no matter how deep and how dark, face it with love.
this is your periodic reminder that for all the artifacts and errors and "tells" one could possibly list, the only reliable way to actually determine if an image is ai generated is to investigate the source. it is becoming increasingly common for "fake classical paintings" to circulate around curative aesthetic blogs, and everyone should be using this as an opportunity to not only exercise their investigative skills but also appreciate art more in general. you're all checking out the artists you reblog, right? 🫣
so what are some signs to look for? let's use this very good example.
what a lovely late-impressionist piece blended with evocative leyendecker-esque themes! why haven't you ever heard of this artist before? surely tumblr would be all over an artist like this. who is justin brown?
your two options from here are to do a search for the name, or a reverse image search. i prefer reverse image searching, particularly when it comes to a common name like "justin brown". so what does that net?
Immediately, without looking at any text, something is wrong: it barely exists. an actual historical piece would turn up numerous results from websites individually discussing the piece, but no such discussions are taking place. Looking at the text, though, does show the source-- and at least in this case, the creator was honest about their medium.
But let's also look at the "exact matches", in case a source doesn't make itself apparent in the initial sidebar results like this.
This section will often tell you post dates of images, and here it can be seen that the very first iteration of the image was posted 15 days ago. It did not exist online prior to that.
Seeing how long an unsourced image has been floating around is a skill applicable to more than just generative images! See a cool image of an artifact or other intriguing item with a vivid caption? Reverse search it! If all the results are paired with that caption and only go back a few months, you might just have viral facebook spam.
Sometimes generative creators are dishonest about their medium and do not tag it like in the example, so that's when establishing "jpeg provenance" becomes important. While it can be a little trickier to determine if someone is using generative images and not admitting to it if they aren't trying to pass it off as a classic, something to consider is the age of their account and the frequency with which they post. Here are some account red flags:
-Did they only start posting art after 2022, or if they did before, did their style/skill level WILDLY change? Not gradual improvement-- I'm talking amateur graphite portraits straight into complex digital renders. Everyone starts somewhere, newness is not a red flag alone; it's newness combined with existing in a vacuum away from any community.
-Do they post fully-finished paintings several times a week?
-Do many of these paintings seem iterative of a similar theme or subject matter ("three well-dressed young men face each other under shade and dappled sunlight")?
-Does their style change in inconsistent ways? An artist that can swap between painting like Drew Struzan and Hokusai should be pretty well known, right? Why is no one hyping this guy?!
-Do they have social media besides the source instagram? If so, what are they posting about? Are there any WIPs? Doodles? Interactions with other artists? Gallery dates? 3am self-doubt posts? Or is it all self-promo? Crypto? Seemingly nothing art-related at all for someone pushing out 3 weekly paintings?
Basically, if it's important to you to omit this stuff when you curate, please don't just smash reblog if the source doesn't seem to be the OP themselves. Seeking out sources was important even before this became an issue, now it is more than ever.
Drew Ermes Costello doing a cute pose for the entertainment of her dear "roommate" Jolyne Cujoh (because that's what roomates do according to history textbooks).
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Shout-out to Kristen Stewart and her brain-melting photo shoot for Rolling Stone back in February for providing me with inspiration!
Without further ado, here cometh Sybil, the acrobatic goat-bunny-cat lady (🐐🐰🐈) from PSEUDOREGALIA. Couldn't decide on a pose, so I went ahead and did three!!!!! 😩😩😩
I hope to have made a worthy addition to the veritable sea of AMAZING fanart that she's gotten since the game's launch (seriously, you should look it up, there's some impeccable stuff out there).
Cute player character aside, you should absolutely play the game when you get the chance. It's a superlative metroidvania platformer with some of the best movement mechanics I've ever seen, so give it a try!!!!!
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