Every time you put yourself out there, despite the possibility of rejection, you validate your courage and willingness to take risks. Embrace rejection as a form of empowerment. Your journey is one of hope, not self-shame.

weird how nothing about u is like, too small or too dumb to know bc it all comes together to become YOU. sending your friend a picture of your favorite snack is saying something important whether u realize it or not. wheres that palahniuk quote

zoo wee mama...

I had an interview with a local paper this week about this rock snake I started on the longest street of a nearby city (where I work) because it's bringing people so much joy:

I said something during the interview that the interviewer seemed really shocked by, so in case it's important for anyone else to hear: When asked about the rock snake and some scavenger hunts that I've hosted for adults, I said -

"We don't stop enjoying the things we liked as kids; they just stop being offered to us. And when you're a kid, fun things like art projects and scavenger hunts are always brought to you, so you're not taught to make a habit of seeking them out as and adult."

She said "Wow yeah... life is so stressful... and you don't think to... wow."

So if anyone else needs direct permission to be a whimsical adult child today, I hereby grant it to everyone. ❤️

ive gotten so much mileage out of this tweet. every time i see something on the internet that makes me mad i just think to myself "people in real life: hey man how's it going" and i keep it pushing

practice

i don't understand what AI has to do with this, though? unless you're a teacher (trying to grade AI-written papers) or someone who actually lives on art commissions (the 0.1% of internet artists) generative AI tools are pretty easily ignored.

or someone who works in any creative field tbh,

I work in an animation studio and already the higher ups are pushing AI both for scaling up assets and for pitching new concepts (so far it doesn't do a good enugh job so they had to hire an artist anyway). And it's not only people who live off of commissions either, many freelancers are and will loose opportunities, book covers, animation assets, graphic designs, visual development works. Let's not forget the SAG AFTRA also fought against AI usage. It's voice actors, it's singers, it's writers, it's a lot of people and that's just the creative field. I know the buzz may have quieted down a bit, but to perceive AI as only what it is now is very shortsighted, it will get better at what it's doing.

And if you can count on anything it's the companies cutting corners as soon as it's possible.

Please, for the love of god, leave me CLEAR INSTRUCTIONS!!! If you think it’s implied, I promise you that to me it is not. If you give me poorly worded or vague directions I’m gonna spend half an hour stressing over the potential different ways to interpret them and either become paralyzed with indecision or inevitably interpret them the least correct way possible

2009 deviantArt artists telling you to fill an entire layer with neon green and place it behind your lineart to check if there's any unwanted stray lines or unfilled pixels were the elderly sages at the end of the spirit path atop a secluded mountaintop you reached just as the sun was setting

Cant get Misgendered if you dont Have a gander *finger guns*

.... I have learned that you CAN, but it's funnier now.

I’m comfortably she/her but work in a male dominated industry, so I’m not a he/him but I am a gentleman, a guy, a brother, or whatever masculine term someone is using to describe a group so that they don’t have to go “gentlemen and lady” or “guys and Stag”

The only exception is if someone says something about wearing pants and I’m wearing a skirt. I will make it known that I’m not wearing pants. Because that’s funny. It always takes people a second to remember that I’m wearing a skirt.

“the problem is its never gonna be what all the fans want” imo the problem is the majority of fans have bad fucking taste like. if you write a story with the intent to keep editing it in line with what fans want you’re gonna end up with a shitty story. obviously you can take in criticism from early access but once you publish the thing you shouldn’t constantly be retconning characterization wtf. good god

also even if they didn’t have bad taste where is your fucking spine. commit to the bit already you cannot avoid criticism

literally obsessed with the design of blobjects

It's like art noveau to me, but inspired by microorganisms instead of plants.

Pssst if you have ublock: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

Unfortunately, even after installing the list recommended above, there is zero changes for the specific Serval search presented above.

This very obvious AI generated image still pops up even if you have other sites blocked because, presumably, short of blocking every single website except for personal blogs, you physically cannot circumvent it.

using the -AI in the search result at least gets rid of the obvious header image mentioned above, but the image results still slip through the grate.

we need to be teaching kids to identify AI images/articles and how to filter them....this is a massive misinformation issue beyond just what a cat looks like.

I was googling for foods toxic to dogs the other day and found a slew of articles that were pretty clearly ChatGPT generated, some with straight up incorrect information. This is dangerous not only for people but for people's beloved pets.

As someone who was a pretty big proponent of 'just google it' I'm now actually beginning to not recommend that option because hey.... that's no longer a simple and easy way to get solid information unless you know/are good at trawling through the website credits to figure out if they're legit or not. :/

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