Dear YouTubers, If you put an AI thumbnail on your video, I will go out of my way to avoid your channel. :) It tells me instantly that you’re okay with taking shortcuts and I can’t trust the content you create. So… thank you for helping me streamline my routine viewing experience! :)

🐟🌊 ̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶L̶i̶t̶t̶l̶e̶ ̶M̶e̶r̶m̶a̶i̶d̶ ̶ 🌊🐟 [#art #artist #OC #digitalart 🖊️✏️]

i made a new emoji to capture a feeling

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

HOLY MOLY! The first 2 chapters of 'Hidden in the Sound,' the more-than-a-little Homeric sidestory FFXV fic that @forgetthelyrics.bsky.social and I have been concocting for ages, is finally up on AO3! --> archiveofourown.org/works/700815... Mixed media on hot press watercolour paper

Blade of Fraldarius #FE3H

Took Eldest Birbling car shopping and not only did he find a make and model he was happy with under his budget in under 2 hours, he was able to pay for it in cash, do the DMV thing, and drive it home before rush hour and now I feel as though I've failed at every car shopping trip I've ever been on

So The animation in the Hades 2 game trailer is SO EXQUISITE

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That’s it! I came up with a new drawing! #ffxv

But what if Ignoct Your Name AU ... #FFXV #FFXVArt #FF15 #Ignoct #foxloreart

Don’t know who needs to hear this, but it’s a good idea to pull your refrigerator out of its cubby now and then to clean the floor and dust the walls behind it so that when it’s comes time to replace the thing it’s not a hugely disgusting reminder of all your kitchen sins

#MSH45 | Aug. 1980 On a mid-August afternoon, a helicopter settles onto the Pumice Plain—the dead north slope of Mount St. Helens, buried by avalanche, seared by pyroclastic flows. Out steps USGS volcanologist Dan Miller, 37. His goal? Cook a 50-lb pig in the ash.

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

The biggest adjustment to not having a reliable fridge is having nowhere to keep milk. And not cooking just enough for the family to eat in one sitting. I’m used to cooking enough to have leftovers, but I have no safe way to keep them.

Second dinner without a fridge… with a bunch of great finds from the farmer’s market yesterday! Lion’s mane mushrooms & yellow squash sautéed in butter; fresh carrots & sunflower micro-greens; & an over-easy egg, served over rice seasoned with soy sauce & toasted sesame oil. Plus peaches.

a less fun what if......unless? #kh #ffxv

a what if......... #kh #ffxv

Happy Birthday to the Chosen King 👑 Long live Noctis Lucis Caelum CXIV, Scion of Lucis #hbdnoctis #finalfantasyxv #noctisluciscaelum

Family movie tonight was the Minecraft Movie and it was both the stupidest and most awesome dumb movie I've ever seen... It knew exactly what it was, and didn't pretend to be anything else, and I laughed the whole time and so did the rest of the family.

One day, many, many years after the dawn has returned, the bride and groom will awaken to a house full of familiar faces and get to have the reception they all truly deserved..... Rule well, young king⛅️ #ffxv

Looks like this week’s meal planning will focus on fresh fruit and veg, and things we can keep in the deep freeze, like instant meals and stuff. That’s okay, I guess.

Welp I guess we're replacing our refrigerator. But at least it died just in time for Labor Day sales at the furniture store. I am not looking forward to appliance shopping on one of the biggest appliance shopping days...

立ち絵風にした。

Welp All my Clip Studio files that I’ve started in the last year are kaput thanks to a botched operating system reinstall due to a failing update.

Did you hear? Today is Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day!! If you're able to, take some time today to read some fics, leave comments, and tell your writer friends that you appreciate their hard work 💛 #FFWAD 🐚 #fanfictionfesta

If I see gen AI compared to the advent of the camera one more time they are getting an elbow to the face. The camera did not require billions of dollars of infrastructure, training, stolen data, and environmental destruction to operate.

Big update on our situation: In short, we've had to leave our apartment early and our move is delayed, but we still owe rent for August and need to pay before the lease ends next week on the 28th. More details below. We’re very close to the end, anything helps so much 🙏 ko-fi.com/neutruel

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Kurt Vonnegut’s definition of what makes something “art” is one of my favorites I’ve seen - from a letter to his brother in 1995.

re: generative AI I have finally fully and accurately explained my problem with how it’s marketed and used. And now, you can use it, too.

Me, wanting to want to go to the craft festival today because I *should* want to do fun things and get out of the house, but I really just want to not...

Could you be someone I could cling to In moments of despair? When the world looks temporary Built to be repaired - ▶️death by the naked and famous #ffxv #promnis

shell shock #super's #FFXV #fanart #comic

연탄고양이

To help pay rent (now late) I've brought back oc photocard commissions, the custom cardholder charm and prints are available as optional add-ons. These will have a wait however—started late Aug/early Sept at the earliest. There are two slots left if anyone is interested! 👉 ko-fi.com/c/801d4dfc05

Someone went through my fic Breathless and left a comment on *every single chapter* and they have my whole entire heart 🥺

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

This is such a good analogy for AI because both fishermen and artists will, in my experience, both actually tend to be like "oh, you haven't done this before? Here's some advice and ways to get started!" Someone literally gave me a fishing pole once bc I brought the wrong type to the lake.

Twilight for fun. ♥ #mlp #twilightsparkle #pony

ARE YOU READY FOR COMMENTFEST???? GET STARTED EARLY BY PICKING ONE OR ALL OF OUR BINGO CARDS TO FILL IN THROUGHOUT THE WEEK!!! CARDS IN THE REPLIES!

looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out

You want it darker? We kill the flame. (Mixed media, 2022) (Reposting my older stuff with proper tags this time!) #FFXV #FF15 #ardynizunia

I think I might put up a couple slots of these with an acknowledged wait time of a few weeks to a month before I can start them, if anyone would be interested...rent is due in 2 days and I'm still very short so I'm tryna find a way

Salve Regina (2021; ink, pencil, and gouache on hot press paper) I'm still so proud of how the lines and shading worked out for this! #FFXV #FF15 #noctis #ignisscientia

#MSH45 | May 18, 1980 Thirty Forest Service and contract crew members were planting noble firs just five and a half miles south of Mount St. Helens—seedlings grown from cones collected above Spirit Lake. At 8:32 a.m., the mountain erupted. Supervisor Kathy Anderson radios: “We’ll leave."