Streaming some ink drawing tonight! Late start, but working on Drawtober !? www.twitch.tv/gawkiart

Fun update on the James Mulligan situation, If you don't know he is the alleged AI/ Plagiarism Disney artist I guess he didn't like my coverage of the topic. He is attempting to remove any trace of his alleged bad behavior from the internet. We of course will fight this as it falls under fair use

James C Mulligan is going after vids and people who call him out for selling AI images. He’s using copyright as an excuse to get them removed, which is so baffling considering he’s a serial tracer. He has claimed official Bambi background art as his own, but there’s so much more. A long 🧵

Welp that’s a solid week of research after dragon con out in the open. 😅 That’s all the tea I have, though I’m absolutely sure there’s more if people kept digging it up. Probably missed a lot. Fake-it-til-you-make-it-but-keep-faking-it types are fascinating research-wise, but so harmful.

Now, here’s an excerpt from a James C. Mulligan interview — his words. “I hope I lie to the world beautifully with my art." www.artistcloseup.com/blog/intervi...

The final one. Another comic cover. This really shows the difference between good art and copied art. Art is good when you can understand context. Copy cats don’t always make sense: Why is someone in the water? What is he pointing at? Why is his outfit not accurate? It may also be partially AI.

Bsky keeps erroring when I upload vids lol I have like 30 more to share lmao.

James C Mulligan is going after vids and people who call him out for selling AI images. He’s using copyright as an excuse to get them removed, which is so baffling considering he’s a serial tracer. He has claimed official Bambi background art as his own, but there’s so much more. A long 🧵

The funniest thing about this is how legit terrified ICE looks.

Manifestation ✨

King Slayer!!!

Cult of the Trash 🔥

Sorry for being gauche but if you want to get invested in media about witches that isn’t racist garbage that enables a transphobe, check out a game made by a majority of trans people including yours truly. Bonus it helps fund my hopeful escape from this hell.

New tank just dropped! Available for preorder until October 10th ✨ gawki.etsy.com

New tank just dropped! Available for preorder until October 10th ✨ gawki.etsy.com

Friday night stream ✨🫶 www.twitch.tv/gawkiart

📣My shop is open until October 10th! Lotsa new goodies and it’s all designed and fulfilled by me. 🫶 ✨ gawki.etsy.com ✨

It’s Tuesday! So glad I get to chill and stream for a bit. www.twitch.tv/gawkiart

The impulsive urge to pause my limited shop opening to use Shopify is loud (thx adhd), but I have zero clue how Shopify works so it wouldn’t be well-planned. If you use it regularly and know of the hiccups to look out for, I would soo appreciate it. Most likely moving there before the year ends. 🥺

Just say no to Etsy if you ever want to run an online store. Their support has zero power to really do much of anything and half the time they have no idea what is going on when I’m having issues. And if you end up going the email route for communicating with them enjoy being ghosted. 👻👍

“Hey Etsy my star seller was broken for 4 months can you compensate me due to my shop being shadowbanned-lite because of it? Etsy: Here’s $6 worth of listing fees covered. This is the best we can do. lol the greed of this company and other companies is driving me absolutely batty

📣My shop is open until October 10th! Lotsa new goodies and it’s all designed and fulfilled by me. 🫶 ✨ gawki.etsy.com ✨

An older drawing, but still very much applicable to right now. 💩

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

The rotisserie chickens are cuddling

Learned that maybe opening my shop and starting a stream at the same exact time wasn’t the best idea, but now I know I should make specific graphic next time to post about both; I apparently will not post about either if I don’t lmao.

Running a shop solo is sm I’m tired lmao but it’s also exciting! So much left to do in the 24 hours before I open. 🏃💦

My shop officially opens TOMORROW at 6 PM CST with lot of new goodies! gawki.etsy.com

HERE IS HOW TO CONTACT YOUR REPS ABOUT ANTI-TRANS BILLS (both email and phone): bsky.app/profile/auts...

Unstoppable Joy 🫧

NEW GHOSTCATS are dropping on OCT 15TH 12PM CST! These new designs are both collaborations with @andou.gay and @gawki.bsky.social 💗💛 Want to get notified of when the drop happens? Sign up for notifications below!

I LOVE THEMMMM!! ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Working on shop assets tonight. Come see what’s new that I haven’t revealed yet! www.twitch.tv/gawkiart

Party Raccoon!

Dreamily yearning for a crop chainmail top like Lee Pace has in season 2 Foundation. 🥺✨🤲

Also posting a bunch of new art that I’ve been hoarding this week ~ 👁️👁️

Fall starts tomorrow, which means I’m opening my shop soon! This Friday ~ www.etsy.com/shop/Gawki

actions that will contribute more to pushing against bluesky's censorship than a blackout: -submitting a feedback request -@ing moderation about it -commenting on mods posts about it -making and sharing memes (ex: "i consent!" sticker) -leaving an app store review -just generally posting about it

I’m feeling burnt out like a used match stick, but somehow keeping the flame going, ykno.

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Painting Ginger the raccoon tonight ~ www.twitch.tv/gawkiart

He traced Bambi and thumper clip art and then copy and pasted official backgrounds from the movie in. Won’t be surprised if he did that with his other pieces sadly. I overlayed the first 2 images over his piece in the second 2 images.

We already have 1000+ reasons to hate """artist""" James C Mulligan (see below), but it was extra enraging to see him stealing and taking credit for the work of actual Bambi artist and all-around Disney legend Tyrus Wong, so here's a mini Ted Talk 🧵

I’m back! Let’s catch up. ☺️ Painting today in Procreate! www.twitch.tv/gawkiart

Metaphorically tired of the same old song and dance, can we have a new song and learn a new dance please. 😭✨

Right-wingers really seething at their mouths just hoping the next shooter is a trans person. Their obvious scapegoating and hatred is so blatant, and then somehow we’re all supposed to feel empathy for them, but not anyone else, or even ourselves, because that’s a weakness? No thanks. 🫩👍

1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun. Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found. WSJ owes a full retraction and apology. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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