On another note THIS SUNDAY: light social RP if you dare to beat the Balmung queues #ffxivrp #ishgard

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some of the last things I drew last year 🥰

oh i had this realization once

This American Truck Sim run is incredible. Anarchy and Lazlo getting stuck on the same guardrail truly is the yuri content I hoped for this AGDQ.

A reminder to any canadian (or any) #watercolor artists. Beam Paints is an Indigenous owned company with beautiful plastic-free hues. Their sparkly metallics are to die for www.beampaints.com

my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility

“Yes, spectacle has always been a part of politics and the broader exertion of power throughout human history… I'd argue that The Spectacle has genuinely grown to such an immense size that it has consumed the entirety of American politics.” Many excellent insights from @faineg.bsky.social in here.

I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.

If you need a reason not to enlist, there's many.

Princess Mononoke is such an incredible movie with a fantastic message. It was the first Ghibli film I ever saw and it’s stuck with me ever since.

Random wolf guy design i did on my old first gen ipad since my current main ipad is charging #art #digitalart

thinking about every aspect of your lore beforehand ❌ bullshitting your way into answering questions about OCs and making shit up on the fly that never existed before but it's canon now because you said so ✔️✔️✔️

I have a zero tolerance policy for GenAI. If you don't know in 2026 why this shit is bad, show yourself the door. You are not welcome here. I will evaporate you from my existence and not look back.

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

E-books are reading. Comics are reading. Genre is reading. Fanfic is reading. Text-based games are reading. Audiobooks are reading. Braille books are reading. Non-fiction is reading. Picture books are reading. There is no single way to read, nor is any reading style more worthy than another.

Mariyaoi oh no fuck my hand slipped #gdq | #agdq2026 | #mario | #yaoi | #okayimalittlesorry

Thanks to @gamesdonequick.com here is my first drawing of 2026, Yurigi. Lez-a go. #gdq | #agdq2026 | #luigi | #sorrynotsorry

BROOOOOOOO #AGDQ2026 gamesdonequick.com

Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.

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me every single day

Come see my elf wife perform!! Do it!!

You really need to gtfo Twitter.

As we enter the New Year remember fear of making bad art is holding you back. Fear of people not liking your work is holding you back. Rejection is holding you back You'll make bad art, you'll have people not like your work, and you'll be rejected. Moving past it is half the job of being a creative

hi there, i made another guide ! exactly what it says in the title; shows how i upscale vanilla items (pre-existing gear or mashups) and i hope others can benefit from it. on XMA only atm, but will add the link to my carrd later. www.xivmodarchive.com/modid/152730 [ #keyworks ; #XIVmods ]

I made a hummingbird ornament for my grandma, since they’re her favorite animal. #crochet | #amigurumi | #hummingbird ✨🦎🎨

I don't want gen AI in my browser I don't want gen AI in my pc I don't want gen AI in my art I don't want gen AI in my games I don't want gen AI in my music I don't want gen AI in my movies I don't want gen AI in my books I don't want gen AI in my cart I don't want gen AI in my life

Movers were payed (and did a great work) but I'm in the red now so I would still welcome any help, not matter small.

You really need to gtfo Twitter.

I don’t wanna shame anyone into leaving Twitter - mostly when I see people staying there i feel like I’m looking at someone stuck inside a burning building and I can’t get to them so I’m like waving my hands frantically like “dude get out the flames are comin”

If this doesnt convince those remaining artists to move from X/Twitter or at least stop posting their art there, then nothing will 💀 Pretty much selling your art and soul to the crap AI machine at this point if you're still posting your artwork there. I understand some people don't care, but yeah.

Just to tl;dr it for some: posting art on X going forward means you are giving up all rights to that art, whether you made it or own the characters in it. It will be used for AI and AI training. It will be used by the X editing program. Please stop ignoring the obvious. It is owned by n*zis.

why did you transition, wrong answers only Turns out it's contagious.

they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

Obviously, this is amazing BUT the thing I love most, is that it's directly poking fun at the desire/fetish to overanimate overlapping action & smears. Asking someone of James Baxter's calibre to *intentionally* do this (as well as mess up the spacing on a bounce) is funny in the nerdiest way.

Tale of the tape ... Crow vs Raven. Good to know, aye. #Birds 🪶🌿🦉🦅🐦‍⬛

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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

Yeah sorry I don’t like strangers on the internet implying that my 6’ tall catboy is due to toxic masculinity. Fucking ridiculous.

I'll make Mhalv'to even taller just to spite you. I hate this judgy bullshit, let people play their characters however they want.

personally think any ai use at any stage in the creation process should be criticized so companies don't get comfortable with even the smallest amount of it in their works

Most of all, drop that "we're fucked" mindset. Time to leave that doomerism bullshit behind and focus on doing good.

Gen Ai music is not real music Gen Ai art is not real art Gen Ai writing is not real writing Gen Ai is not better than human creativity and soul. Fuck gen ai and fuck all the billionaires/corporations trying to forcibly shove this shit down our esophagus.

Every writer who generates a slop image for their work is a class traitor. "I can't afford a visual artist" So your solution is stabbing artists in the back? Stealing from them? Furthermore, slop-generated imagery suggests slop-generated writing. That's how you're presenting yourself.

Gen AI is trained on the collective knowledge and creativity (stolen) that humans have ALREADY accrued. It has NOTHING new to offer beyond retrodding existing (stolen) concepts and recombining "facts" incorrectly. It has no originality. It is useless in creative fields.

Very important question for y'all: If you were offered a 1" button pin or magnet at a convention that has a FFXIV Bard buff on it, which would you take? 🏹 Poll here! Reposts appreciated for more responses!