in the trash since 1993

after 12 years i’m moving blogs - you can now find me here

see you later

I’ve decided my new years resolution will be to post more. Or to post far, far less. Depends how I’m feeling.

me normally: I will shut up about my weird headcanons, nobody wants to hear this

me two drinks in on New Year’s Eve: Jeb Batchelder and Roland ter Borcht fucked after an Itex Christmas party in 1990!! I said it in 2008 and I’m saying it again now!!

Yuzu Kato

'Borrowing from the Tiger's Majesty'.

かとうゆず 「虎の威を借る」

2023

1. BECOME 50% MORE GOTH

2. HANG OUT WITH FREAKS

3. ABANDON THE FEAR OF LOOKING STUPID

objectify that middleaged man

did i tell y’all that one time when my friends and i were making a joke mockumentary about a fake cryptid, my sibling and i got into a really bad hospitalizing car crash and instead of delaying it we just decided to film in the hospital and also convinced my mom and dad to play roles in it as well?

hey just wanted to say thanks for this incredibly chilling remark i’m so scared now

i’m using Internet Explorer, i hope this posts quickly. happy new year 2011

despite everything …. I’m grateful I got a chance to be alive… to experience love and good food and sunsets. isn’t that the point of it all really

makin my way downtown

slowly

In light of the current spam bot epidemic, it’s so refreshing to get a follow and see it’s from someone with a normal, trustworthy name, like “pikachus-third-nipple”

if you draw a baphomet with a fat pair of tittes but no nine incher to match then u are immediately sent to jail. this is true the other way around too btw

hang on i have to google something real quick

NO FUCKING WAY

To reiterate: Christopher Paolini, author of Eragon and other such books, blocked me on Twitter for calling him out about his AI-generated cover.

Tor has admitted he approved this cover and they have been consulting him every step of the way. He is complicit.

It’s honestly so fucking frustrating that this is going to go forward. That the cover to Fractal Noise is gonna be published with AI art that has ripped off other artists. And neither the author nor the publisher give one flying fuck about it.

I don’t think a lot of people really understand what this means. Book cover art is already nearly universally shitty. You go look at fantasy art covers, and they’re all photomanipulations, generally a single girl on the cover doing magic or looking into the distance. There’s no variety. But at least people get paid for them.

With AI art, artists don’t get paid. You know who does? The people who made the dataset. The people who sold the “cover.” Even though it took less than 20 minutes to make.

If this isn’t infuriating you, I don’t know what the hell else to say. Machine learning is coming for everyone’s jobs, and corporate wallets don’t care if it’s safe or not. Certain areas are already experimenting with AI Amazon deliveries, and it’s been hinted that long-haul trucking is next.

This is unacceptable. PLEASE. I’m not going to guilt you into sharing this, but it is CRITICAL that we take a stand now and STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING. If you follow me, I am asking you as a friend to share this, and to find it in your heart to put pressure on people who publish AI art without paying artists.

Tor could change the cover. They’re not, because they’re using Fractal Noise as a test run to see if they can get away with it. Don’t let them. I don’t care how much you like Paolini’s work (although I think Eragon was a boring slog, so I had no qualms about calling him out), you HAVE to do your best to make this stop.

When i tell y'all there is more to this story than I was able to write…