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#shifter

“I took the moon, she said, between my teeth and now it is gone and I am lost forever.”

— Anne Sexton, from The Frog Prince; Transformations, 1971

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How to survive as a romantic autistic part 1

#romanticacademia #inaccessibleheart #fallinlove #loveme #lovesolitude

#autisticlife

(via violentwavesofemotion)

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Dreaming of Jack Frost climbing through my window.

#romantic #winter

it’s all so quiet

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Y’all bitches wanna hear some good news?

As of 2021, We actually reversed the progression of the hole in the ozone layer, and it is projected to be completely repaired by 2060. 🌍

Good job us!

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For anyone born after Shrek 2 (2004) who might not know. HCFC and CFC emissions from, well, pretty much all aerosol sprays, globally, were damaging a portion of our atmosphere call the ozone layer around the poles. CFC were banned in Sweden in 1978 and many countries followed suit. They were internationally banned in 1987 and the ban took full effect in 1994.

Ozone, being a relatively weak bond of O3 in the upper atmosphere, prevented a lot of solar radiation from entering our atmosphere. It is essential to maintain homeostasis for our current biosphere ecosystems —It counteracts the primary source of global warming.

This was highly publicized in the 00s. Causing the same level of fear and anxiety as the oceanic acidity, marine pollution, and overfishing problems we currently face.

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“Many people seem to think it is foolish, even superstitious, to believe the world could still change for the better. And it is true that in winter is still sometimes so bitingly cold that one is tempted to say ‘What do I care if there is a summer, its warmth is no help to me now’. Yes, evil often seems to surpass good. But then, in spite of us, and without our permission, there comes at last an end to the bitter frosts. One morning the wind turns, and there is a thaw. And so I must still have hope.”

— Vincent Van Gogh

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Sylvia Plath, Mad Girl’s Love Song

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There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

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My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.

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"But you see, there is a graveyard in my mouth filled with words that have died on my lips."

– Emily Palermo

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The broken will always be able to love harder than most. Once you've been in the dark, you learn to appreciate everything that shines.

Unknown

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sleeping nooks >>>>

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Entreaty To A Lover

Watercolor On Black Paper

2022, 11"x 14'

Mini Phals

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Orchid and Hummingbird near a Mountain Waterfall, 1902/Orchids and Hummingbirds, 1875–1890

by Martin Johnson Heade

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Fucking seen

no i have a method its just an extremely chaotic one that i am following meticulously