Volt's Commonplace

|Resident Alchemist| Illustrator |Demon Enthusiast, Monster Enjoyer

[monsterlogic]

New outfit idea

[lightningman17]

[sugoichappy]

Yours is the only funny and correct addition to this post

[azzyfree-art]

Done.

[catchymemes]

[kilaroka]

[tinybed]

ahhhh!!!! ooooooh!!!! oh noooo!!!!! eeeeeek!!!!!! oooooooo!!!!!! omg

[lonelyroommp3]

imo a discord server should be like a breakout room for fandom. like the place to run your wips by your besties or discuss your otp in more detail with a few people who were insane about it on your post or organise events with a handful of trusted mutuals etc etc. if it’s where ALL the fandom activity is going to happen it will inevitably foster a cliquey environment where the fandom is divided into “those in the server” and “those who aren’t”, lurking is disincentivised if not made outright impossible, people who feel uncomfortable joining in conversations and would rather interact with fandom through reblogging etc are largely excluded because there’s no repost mechanism, and the fandom itself becomes an enclosed space so new fans are limited in how much content and meta they can access without having to make the plunge into Joining The In Group, there’s limited scope for interaction between different communities within the same fandom, god it’s just an altogether dogshit stupid idea. what if we moved all fandom activity to really massive private groupchats. STUPID

[lonelyroommp3]

the children yearn for forums but they forget the good thing about forums was that anyone could browse them at leisure and there was absolutely zero pressure to contribute if you did not want to

[lonelyroommp3]

also if you concentrate all your fandom activity in a discord server you basically grant the mods the power to effectively excommunicate anybody they dislike (whether for legitimate or entirely bullshit reasons) from the fandom as a whole which strikes me as uh, not really the best idea

[beefsen]

A fallen aristocrat and a fortune-telling slave must both forge new lives from the ashes left behind by the collapse of a nation at war. But not everything in their pasts managed to burn… Uneven Keel is a mature slow-paced fantasy drama; exploring the complicated intersections between queer romance, friendship, mental illness, personal identity, class, and power. Help support the printing of the first volume on Kickstarter!

Uneven Keel Volume 1: From the Ashes

Not everything in the past managed to burn...

You can read the comic at https://uneven-keel.com !

[young-replica]

[mokubaskaiba]

[potatoes-tomatoes]

your average unconventional cartoon family at the beach 🏖

[killz0ne3-deactivated20250521]

Some of you guys have never burned a CD and it shows

[killz0ne3-deactivated20250521]

Some of you guys don't even realise I don't mean setting a CD on fire

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

why do i end up sitting straight up in my sleep. ignore how many blankets I use.

[femmeharlequin-deactivated20240]

Bestie it is impossible to ignore the amount of blankets you use at first I assumed this was a meme and those were the layers of the crust of the earth

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

I actually have 4 more blankets I sometimes add but I didn't want to make my blanket number look excessive

[femmeharlequin-deactivated20240]

Are you okay

[the-eldritch-it-gay]

The results are inconclusive on that.

[chasingtheskyline]

Bestie. the reason you end up sitting up is your lungs think you are being crushed.

[tundrakatiebean]

OP making the bed

[theambitiouswoman]

[iamwhatismissing]

made me think of this

[id: x/twitter qrt from user styloshka that says "I read a forum post about art once, that it's a product of the dialectic between the effort of the artist and the friction of the medium. You push on the thing and the thing pushes back on you, it has its own voice. The weight of a piano key, the tension of a guitar string." original post from user colleen_daves says "Don't you want to skip over the mindless drudgery that is making art?" I do six stand embroidery and break like 10 needles a day, would I prefer that activity didn't hurt my hands and make me angry? Sure. But that's what makes having the finished piece after so worth it to me."]

link

[jollyfurydragonballer]

[iminthetunnels]

ur future nurse is using chapgpt to glide thru school u better take care of urself

[lucyaudley]

Yep. This is terrifying. I’ve caught nursing majors, engineering majors, architecture majors relying on ChatGPT to do their homework. These are people who need to know their field well to ensure people don’t die and they’re letting a glorified algorithm cheat them through school. It’s so dangerous

[redwinterroses]

hey. hi. I work in academia. and there are a lot of student-age folks on this site.

don't do this. don't use genAI. even if your professors give you permission. even if they ask for it or suggest it. if they do anything short of directly requiring it (and I weep, because I've already seen assignments that require it) don't touch that crap. if they do require it, stick it to them. be as maliciously compliant as possible. be a nightmare.

I know it might sound easier right now -- just plug in your assignment and get the answers. you don't care about this class anyway, it's not for your major, you don't see the value of the assignment.

but for your own sake, for the sake of your education and mind, and for the sake of the future world we want to have: learn the stuff. you are not as stupid as the corporate bizzaro kings who want to rule the world think you are, so don't give them reasons to believe it.

and odds are good genAI is gonna give you corrupted info anyway -- more and moreso as the machines cannibalize themselves.

just don't do it. not even "I just do it for XYZ--" no. stop. there is no valid use of generative AI, and even using it for memes or lolz feeds the system and directly feeds the pockets of the people who want to replace you anyway.

[aaaaaadhd]

Rage reblogging this. Yesterday i got into an argument with one of my college friends who is using chatGPT to do all her work. We're psychology students. The whole group chat laughed my arguments off as if they didn't matter because "she's an artist, of course she's anti-AI" and i had to deal with it. This is a warning. If your therapist graduated in 2023/2024, ask about their opinions on chatGPT. They might lie to you if you ask "did you use it to graduate" directly, but try to make jokes about it and play it cool. If they're into it, DROP OFF. FIND A NEW ONE. Do not trust your brain to someone who didn't bother to use theirs.

[empress-of-dark2005]

[girlnephew]

[env0]

[asingularcanadian]

do people who live in countries that don't have snow know about the snow silence? When you get a nice big dumping of fresh snow and you step outside into an infinitely harshly contrasted world and there's no sound because the snow absorbs it all? I believe it fits the traditional use of terrific both wonderful and incredible but also causing a great terror.

[petermorwood]

It's the amazing stillness where the only sounds are your breath and Fromp-Fromp-Fromp or Cronch-Cronch-Cronch - possibly combined with Ziff-Ziff-Ziff if you wear that sort of outer gear.

After enough stillness, the KrrricksssFLOMP of an overstressed branch dumping its load of snow might startle you out of your thermal undies.

Especially in the Black Forest, and especially when the sun's setting and the shadows are stretching dark...

...because it'll take as long to get back to your Gasthaus as it's taken you to get where you are right now.

And you've read all the stories.

And You Never Know.

After all, that red North Face parka you're wearing comes complete with a little red hood...

AaaOOOOO....

[teawitch]

Growing up in Panama and Puerto Rico, no I did not know about the snow silence.

I have experienced it once as an adult and I'm not sure it's possible to translate the snow silence to the tropics where the air is always alive with the buzz of insects the crash of waves or the patter of rain.

[depsidase]

[inthefallofasparrow]

[wolfythewitch]

This too shall pass but like holy fuck