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Crowfangs

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33 | lady thing | possibly an actual crow | hella gay | perpetually tired | artist | might contain traces of blood, teeth & murder |
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There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

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I know this isn’t art or anything I usually post, but I felt like taking pictures of all my gw2 characters today and also put together a reference for my weaver because I have to make people draw the glitchy rainbow cat at some point in time.

Sylla - currently my fav to play because aoe spam \o/

Nathradas - first character I made on gw2, I probably hated myself for choosing mesmer

Pertinax - Wanted to hear the male charr voice, decided revenants aren’t my thing, he now acts as a bank slot expansion

Cilia - I didn’t have a guardian, but had a level 80 scroll so whatever

Kara - Literally a placeholder for a tengu name, should they maybe miraculously ever happen. She’s level 80 anyway though because I had nothing better to do at the time

Nerva - I thought deadeye would be so cool, camping somewhere in a corner and sniping people, wasn’t fun for me in the end

Grima - Once had the face skin with the blind eye, hence her name “one-eye”, changed her face though and now her name is kinda a joke

Glaslasair - Voiced by Jennifer Hale. Enough said

Lssai - Stealing my own characters’ names, thinking a holosmith has to be a smartass Asura. She said Amnoon should accept Joko’s help because clearly it’s the most logical thing to do, and the human gods are stupid.

Back to your regular schedule of art...except I have nothing new I can post because I’ve been doing a lot of secret work for a while now -o-

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What is the rp group you are a part of on dA and are they accepting new members?♡ I adore your art, it really resonates with me for some reason. Like I see it and am like "YES EXACTLY that it what I want and yes." Thank you, wonderful bird.

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Aah, thank you! I’m happy to hear you enjoy it so much 8]And the group is http://silver-and-bone.deviantart.com/ but I think it’s currently closed because the forum is being moved, the wiki needs work, species are being revamped, and there is an event still in process which kind of blocks new characters from moving into the city yet. Just keep an eye on things, but I can’t promise anything. x’)

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Bunch of pictures from my first fursuit outing with this character. I made the mask/neck and the paws I bought off of Zephyr and I gotta say they are really well made and super comfy to wear! 

Next up, making tails and feet and getting his proper attire done in time for NFC 8]

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Hello just a headsup that if you see this creep creepin along EF22 next week, that'd be me. Don't expect me to wave back at ya, I have no hands.

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Regarding #kin #me etc.

I know everyone is probably really annoyed by this already, I just wanted to make sure people knew what to expect from me regarding this, as I had a wave of such things in my reblogged tags lately:

I am well aware that people will relate to my art and reblog it for such purpose, and I am perfectly fine with this, but many of the things I draw are either commissions, or my own characters, including my alter ego. 

So if you decide to do the thing and reblog them, please make sure it’s actually obvious that this art is neither yours, nor that it was done for you in any way. Because it’s not actually you, no matter how relatable it may seem to you. 

I’m also way not comfortable with people using my art for their werewolf oc’s shifted form or whatever, because as it is, most of my werewolf art is already related to either my sona, or my original story.

I’m generally pretty relaxed about things, but if I see this happening anywhere I promise I will bite and it won’t be fun. 

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WELP it’s official, I am *the* werewolf. Went out to look at the moon tonight, because I felt kinda crappy and I don’t know if tomorrow night won’t be clouded over, so I decided to take a look at the not-quite-full-yet moon, and as I made my way towards the little bit of forest down the street, a police car drove up to me and stopped me. They asked me if everything was alright, because they found it very suspicious that a lone woman would go out into the woods without a dog, and I told them I just wanted to get away from the lights and look at the moon, because I’m that werewolf nerd. Then they ‘ah!’d at me, and asked if that was me in the photos eating their colleagues, and yes, it was me, I am that werewolf. Then they looked at some of my werewolf arts, wished me a good night and told me to call them if anything should happen. 

I am the werewolf. It is me. Apparently the local police knows this by now.

Then I sat down on the roots of a tree and had this view. The tree was on a hill, so I also had a beautiful view over the area around. I freaked out a little when I heard something running behind me, and turned around just in time to see a fox chase something, I couldn’t see what it what, but it made weird sounding yelps, and then everything was quiet again. On my way home I found a cool branch I took home and had a strange encounter with a cute little marten. Actually it was quite big, and it kept circling me. I just stood still and watched, as it ran around, then stood up and watched me, only to run off a bit, look again, return a little closer, look again, circle, and so on. Very cute! 

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Today I was asked if I wanted to go out and play knight with a friend and her horse, Sir Pantarhei of Independence (he is the actual knight, we’re just the people letting him stab us with swords and giving him treats for it)

I was gonna post pictures of us playing with the larp swords, but these are so much better imho. We’re playing “catch the fingers”, an all-time favourite game, and apparently my hands are very photogenic. Not to mention his cute nose, but Panti’s forever photogenic. 

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Because everyone keeps mentioning gw2 again these past two days, I decided it was time to give my charr warrior a makeover, there goes my life again. 

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