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I'll be opening up commissions due to my current job situation c: feel free to dm me if you're interested/have any questions. For more info and examples that are better to see check out my carrd (link below) reshares appreciated ;v;/

I'm going to do a little thread on how the money from books works for traditionally published authors because people have questions, and this is always useful info to share IMO. First, a big disclaimer that every contract is different, and there are a million factors that can change things. 1/

The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste

• “I didn’t watch it, but TikTok told me it’s problematic.” • “I didn’t read it, but here’s my take based on screenshots.” • “I didn’t follow the narrative, but I saw a gifset and that’s enough.” • “I don’t understand the plot, therefore the writing is bad.”

Just so you know... Art directors, Art enjoyers, Art buyers and Artists talk with each other. Nobody wants AI slop, specially when there is real art out there as an alternative. You can totally get blacklisted, not only on the industry, but inside fandoms for defending AI precarization and theft.

The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.

With the recovery mission still underway and hundreds of people displaced, you can send help to those affected by Hong Kong's Tai Po fire. Feeding Hong Kong: feedinghk.org Hong Kong Red Cross: donation.redcross.org.hk/onlinedonati...

Spoke with a source who told me the call volume is so high, a call center for both Mastercard & Visa is bringing out pizza and ice cream so agents don’t quite amid the rush. Long waits are causing dropped calls. What you’re doing is working. Call MC & Visa.

It would be extremely cool if a bunch of people called payment processors over Black Friday weekend to ask why they're telling people what they can and can't buy with their own money. This holiday season, give the gift of calling payment processors over Black Friday weekend

I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

A relevant gift for all your holiday needs~

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like

True dudes recognize that a brittle and hostile patriarchy hurts *everyone*, and by becoming better, kinder, gentler, wiser, they uplift not only themselves but marginalized communities as well, in a cycle of healing

When ever one of those AI bros tires to tell you that artist are gatekeeping art remember that pros, armatures, hobbyist all stopped what they where doing to provide guidance to a newbie artist over the shared experience that "this one angle is hard to draw"

imagine being a multimillion company who asks their disabled players to do their work - can't make this shit up

🎨 made a new token for orionis. Considering making painted vtt tokens a comm type but unsure!

Strapping Couple (2022)🧡👩‍❤️‍👩🤍 #nsfwart #pinup

Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.

This is being required of trans teens in the UK in order to start puberty blockers. There is a limited time period in which PBs are even useful. Are there ANY medical treatments that require this many pre-requisites? This is designed to exhaust patients so that they age out of the system.

this. also, if you care about disability justice, hope you’re also pro-fat liberation. do you know how many people have gone to the doctor for troubling symptoms, been automatically dismissed and told to lose weight, and then developed late-stage/severe chronic and acute illnesses?

It also fucking sucks that so many people on the Left(s) refuse to understand anti-fatness as a system of oppression, and fat liberation as a legitimate anti-oppression movement. It sucks, because it's all connected, and if you don't see this part, you don't have a clear understanding of the whole.

happy halloween!!!! please come to his party tonight... #b3d #pokemon #art

NEW: A proposed regulation would have denied disability benefits to at least 830,000 older blue-collar workers. But after reporting from ProPublica and others, the Trump administration has killed the plan.

What I say: "I want to be rich" What I mean: "I want a life where I'm satisfied and content and the means to make life a little easier to allow for that"

🎨 Beloved [they/them only, please] -- my threadborn bard for an upcoming crooked moon game that i was invited to. it'll be a while before i can play them yet but i'm excited regardless. :)c -- [ #dnd #dndart #oc #ocsky #thecrookedmoon ]

Donate to your local food bank instead.

every author in the class action, please file the claim.

I’ve only heard it once in my life to my face; and if I hadn’t been in-person (displaying my skill face-to-face) it probably would’ve cost me the consideration for the role. But it was also one of the most significant gigs of my whole career. And it almost didn’t happen b/c of my looks vs my voice.

I have the voice & efficiency of a professional. But I don’t have the “face of a celebrity”. That doesn’t mean I look bad. But it does mean I don’t look GREAT, in the opinion of people who have power over my marketability. And I hate that it has any influence at all on my livelihood and success.

Feels like it should be bigger news that a journalist known for being loud about her investigations into banks/payment processors appears to be getting financially stonewalled by the entire industry unaminously right now.

Amalthea, in the combat form of her warpsteel shell [ #art #oc #sketch #colorsketch #DijdarbSaga #Patverum ]

I've always said that the government expects you to die before they're forced to help you. This all but proves it. #EatTheRich #CongressMustStarve

Not "misplaced", rather "forwarded to ICE". There will be hundreds of thousands who will see that possibility and decide not to apply.

To process those applications again is going to cost so much time and money. They are spending money to starve people. And given the level of corruption, I have no doubt that applications with names indicating certain backgrounds will be conveniently "misplaced" for weeks if not months or years.

Our feature tutorial/artist for today is this set of IRRIDESCENCE references by @mileskitaro! A great ref for your own digital painting, and a useful reminder that there are SO MANY different materials out there for your character and world design! #gamedev #illustration #COLOUR

Good morning everybody! Im here to announce publicly that my commissions are open for the holiday season! Feel free to check out my rates on my formal website @ drgriswald.com!

I am currently running a 50% off sale on everything but stickers until the end of the month! All purchases will include a freebie of some sort, depending on what stock I have at the time. Any shares would be much appreciated ❤️ beehawcandleco.etsy.com

please don't do this. MAGA hats are made from an acrylic blend, which will release toxic chemicals when set on fire, potentially harming you and downwind woodland creatures

well said

this goes right along with my theory that the AI obsession in *users* is often bc… 1. they were never educated (esp "ipad generation") & don't know how computers work 2. our tools and services are all SO AWFUL NOW, degraded at best, actively user-hostile at worst

globally, indigenous people are left out of the conversation when it comes to OUR land. they treat us like WE'RE incompetent. lift indigenous voices WORLDWIDE.

crazy IG em_clarkson

there should be a button where if enough of your mutuals press it you have to stop posting and go to bed

this is fucking ghoulish

so many people are lending a hand to fascists when they police each other on "acceptable" nsfw content and get too scared to stand up for sw'ers and artists when the worst thay could happen to them is get called problematic by other puritans

the duty of taking care of each other should be community based not blood relation based, and should depend on the ability of the individual if you treat me like dogshit i simply don't owe you a fucking thing just because of shared dna. eat shit