finally finalized the inks at least haha

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

Gotta love that "are you unique" translates to "are you a different race or one of them gays", both things you're born as It's almost as if there's been a culture shift amongst these men that told them anything you do to be unique and interesting is just performative and a waste of time, hmmm

And to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, but was relaunched in Ultimate Tiny Tim #1, which takes place after Amazing Tiny Tim #332 and All-New Tiny Tim #200, and don’t forget to read the Scrooge / David Copperfield / Great Expectations crossover event minis otherwise the Miss Havisham bit won’t make sense

I am very amused that the overarching criticism of this site is that you actually have to use it for it to be fun As if mindlessly scrolling through posts you're not interested in for hours or days to hit the Jackpot of A Single Post From Someone You Actually Follow is a better time? Okay lmao

伯仲で 八重桜の耳飾り #とうらぶ手芸部

I made a new sticker

Y’all, the Castlevania: Awakening In The Moonlight musical by Takarazuka Revue is available legally on VOD with subtitles starting today until the end of March, this is a great adaptation and the women in this show are so good, PLUS this is a rare experiment globally Please see it if you’re curious

CASUAL REMINDER AS MORE JAPANESE FANARTISTS APPEAR HERE— Do not quote repost! Just repost art you like and then make a separate post squeeing about whatever art you like. Quotes are considered rude and can get you blocked or just put someone off a platform.

#FFVI #FF6.

I love Christmas and it will always make me a little sad that the part of Japanese culture that makes Japan very livable the rest of the year (everyone is an expert at ignoring everyone else until there is a direct 義理 in play) means it will never, ever get The Spirit of the Season right. Anyway.

🎄に乗じて2024年、2023年、2021年の🎄絵再掲 2021の見るとちょっとは成長感じられるような…！

⭐️🎄 #MerryChristmas

LRT: I don't want to quote post one with replies disabled in case the OP wants their peace but. From a reader perspective, from a company perspective, even if LLM translation is "good enough" for you, just know that you are adding to the sum total of human misery by that choice.

Deep breath Ok I'm going to try and stay calm But I'll point out that AI translation is literally causing translators to be fired (see the whole Harlequin line in France) (1/?)

Last working day of the year and it seems everything is a sign that I need rest. From the obvious (an overuse injury that, as it turns out, is actually months old, a completely separate massive knot in my shoulder) to my keyboard being on its last legs and even my hair clip breaking. I HEAR YOU 😭

This is the cover art I did for NOVA, a manga zine from the 1980's. I was a huge fan of Patalliro, and had the albums, laser disc film, and most of the manga. I don't keep up with it anymore, but I really loved the unique art style.

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees 🧵

QTP with a robot that's not Star Wars or Transformers Hard Mode: No Gundam series, Battletech or Macross allowed.

America’s war against Venezuela next to intro to BL…

Because I have been far too angry-frustrated on here lately I really enjoyed this (and what a great cover!). I love how punchy it is, the connection between the characters, and the strong voice. I usually don't like literary fiction but something made me pick it up and I am glad I did.

"Break things means break people." Behind every LLM, LLM "assisted", "we use genAI BUT it's human checked, no one is losing jobs!" is exploitation, deskilling, wages whose only way is down, the virulent return of crunch and decimation of job satisfaction while being gaslit by your peers and bosses.

A huge part of the book-banning project aims to make work that provides a public good feel impossible and unsafe! It targets authors, absolutely, but it’s also trying to add unreasonable administrative burdens to the work of teachers and librarians.

It's the last work day of the year so post a video game banger. Not the last work day for me yet and oh my god this was so hard because I love jrpg music and I am still not sure if I made the right choice but Asellus's great storyline being topped off with this? So good. youtu.be/M3DD2vDWwOM?...

My response to anything over the next two weeks

A) expressing ideas is literally the fucking job B) if you can’t communicate it with doodles, words, or messy photoshop, the idea isn’t fully baked and you need to explore it more, not use the plagiarizing lie machine that poisons neighborhoods to do the thinking for you.

"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out pick up a pencil and a napkin

The more I am forced to deal with AI people the more I think it's just fragile egos at play. They want people to think that they CAN do everything, they're just deigning to come down from their cloud because they're very kind and see your value, of COURSE they do! (In glazing their failson ass, but)

You know what, I'll bite. It's BECAUSE it's a top studio that this matters. Because other studios will watch and either go "oh shit, not even this really famous acclaimed studio can recover their reputation after AI" or "meh, all we need is one popular title and it's all slop all profits forever!"

There's a disgusting idea in the translation space that as long as a human combs through the slop for you, well, it requires SO MUCH WORK it's not REALLY AI (but deadlines are tighter because it's "just checking" and it's "practically done for you" when it comes to said people's pay or hours...)

"i only use AI to come up with ideas" dude come on that's literally the easiest and most fun part. why would you even WANT to not do that part

"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you

To quote @lukeplunkett.com :

AI translation has taken away my ability to actually sell my experience, my connection and respect for other artists and cultures and replaced it with prostituting my time to the empty toil of the same errors over and over, raking through the slop it puts in my brain instead of discovering ANYTHING.

The shame of certain generations regarding animation is bullshit and awful. It hasn't had the rebrand that games did as being for SERIOUS ADULTS (though they tried it with shonen anime). The answer is simple, the people with money want to be known for making *~movies~*, not silly stupid cartoons!!

I think the fundamental gap here is that non-creative people think that creative people make things for the end product, when in fact it’s the act of creation and not the end point that makes it worthwhile.

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Randomly, if you’ve not seen Wally Wood’s Snow White orgy drawing… I’m going to post it in replies

When I was starting out as an erotica writer, I hung out a lot with an older gay man who'd been writing smut forever. He told me that without straight women writing gay paperbacks in the 1950s, gay culture as we know it might not exist. He insisted gay men owed these ladies a huge unpayable debt.

Man seeing all the discourse around that hockey show just makes me sorry so many people will never experienced the OKAY!! LET'S GO!! I felt when Suddenly Ewan McGregor was getting railed in Halston (very good)

As one who believes in the power of love, ridiculous outfits, and silly phrases backed by absolute banger BGM in equal measure there is only one choice I can make here

I got this message just now and can think of no better representation of what I bring to this website

AI automation =/= AI generation. the scripts to automatically transcribe voice to text or whether your party character prioritizes Attack or Defense isn't the same as algorithms generating randomized results out of an amalgamation of existing data. conflating them is intentionally misleading.

Anime you’ve watched more than six times with a gif

you will be visited by three spirits

It's still like a drug if you're over 30, too. Pair it with not having to download data, your game not having midroll ads somehow AND being able to play any part of it whenever you want knowing it'll still be there in six months right where you left it without the pressure of limited events or EOS?😩

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar. (HBD Mitsuishi Kotono!)