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[amynchan]

ngl, I'm going for at least a month even if the AI policy is rolled back before then. I've gotten seriously dependent on YouTube, and unless my job makes me (unlikely but possible), I'm going to keep away from it.

If the AI policy isn't broken before then, at least my habit will be. If the AI policy is gone, then at least I'll have had a whole month for creation, hobbies, joy, sparkly stars, new anime, and more.

YouTube Blackout Update

KEEP THE BLACKOUT GOING FOR THE NEXT THREE DAYS! People unaware of this update are discovering what's going on. There's a reason why YouTube decided to do this on a Hump Day because viewers are either at school, work, or on vacation. Keep spreading the word!

[amynchan]

Like to charge reblog to cast

[amynchan]

Ready to recruit some sect members when I cosplay as Jiang Cheng at the next con!

[amynchan]

Commissions Open!

Hello everyone!

Most of the votes said that while you may not buy art for yourself, you'd be wiling to share the commissions page around. Honestly, that really does mean a lot, so I'm giving it a go anyways. I don't expect a lot here, but at least I got to spend at least 4 hours making some really neat art for this! *^_^* If nothing else, thank you for that opportunity!

All right. Enough about that. Time for examples and pricing!

Seriously, if nothing else comes from this, I got to draw Ralsei, Wei Wuxian, and Odile in the span of a few hours. I'm very happy with that. XD

My ask box will be open, so feel free to hit me up for commissions!

IDs for images are below the tag!

[Image 1 ID: Two original characters in traditional format. One is bald, has on a crop top and shorts, is on her tip toes, and holds a sign that says, "I'm $5.00 USD." The other is sitting down, is wearing a long sleeved shirt with boots and dark leggings, has long hair, and holds a sign that says, "I'm an extra $5.00 USD." The second character is also saying, "Talking is, of course, no extra charge." The text at the bottom of the picture says "Each sketched character is $5.00 USD"]

[Image 2 ID: One original character in a sketched, flat-colored, digital format. He is colored with brown hair, light tan skin, a blue tank top, and blue shorts. The drawing cuts off at his shorts. There is a sketched box around his head and another sketched box around the full drawing. The text says, "Sketches go to half body. $5.00 for the head. $10.00 for the half body." The words are hand-written.]

[Image 3 ID: A full-body, colored and shaded, digital drawing of Ralsei from Deltarune. He appears to be walking into darkness, though he is facing the audience with a gentle look. His head is encased in a black-lined box, and the rest of his body is encased in another black-lined box. The text says, "Full digital drawings take more effort, even if there's no background. Head shots will be $10.00 USD. Full body shots will be $20.00 USD. Additional Characters for full body shots will be $15.00 USD each." The words are typed.]

[Image 4 ID: The top left corner has a digitally sketched, flat-colored, digital drawing of Wei Wuxian from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (or Modao Zushi or The Untamed) twirling a flute. He looks sly with a grin as he looks at the text at the top of the page. The text says, "Due to lack of interest, BGs are not available at this time. But I will draw:" This text is handwritten and continues in a typed format below, saying, "Original Characters, Characters from Fandoms (Even if I'm not part of the fandom), Blood and Gore, Non-Human Characters (animals, robots, etc.), Ask about anything else!" The bottom right corner has a digitally drawn, fully colored and shaded upper body drawing of Odile from In Space and Time. She is looking tiredly at the typed words while holding a book in her hand.]

[Image 5 ID: The right side of the image has a drawing of AmyNChan waving at you with a smile. She wears a shirt with an eclipse on it that reads "Solar Eclipse '24," pumpkin-covered leggings, and blue and white socks with rainbow hearts. The text to the left says, "Thank you for your time and consideration! If nothing else, have a lovely day!" with a smiley face. The text is hand written.]

[amynchan]

Got tagged by @fireolin! Thank you! Now, let's see what we're doing! *evil hand rub*

Favourite first watches of July - Updating this to the last four weeks, since now it's half way through August:

...ok, so I hyperfixate for years, and it takes me a while to start new stuff, BUT!!! I have two new things I started watching recently! XD

In Stars and Time!

The Gorilla God's Go To Girl!

Okay, so I'm not done with either of these, but I'm having so much fun with both! I get the feeling that Stars and Time is about to shatter my heart into a billion pieces (just finished Act 2), and I am Here for it! Odile is my girl, btw! The Gorilla God's Go To Girl is very Anime, and I'm just having such a fun time with it! I'm laughing, I'm enjoying myself, and I've adopted Eddy. XD

So, let's hit up @encyclopika, @citrinediamondeyes, @izupie, @born-potty, @youngmasterwisdomperson, and @thesilvertophat!!

Tell us what you're enjoying if you like! *^_^*

[amynchan]

whoeven are these guys

[amynchan]

Commissions Open!

Hello everyone!

Most of the votes said that while you may not buy art for yourself, you'd be wiling to share the commissions page around. Honestly, that really does mean a lot, so I'm giving it a go anyways. I don't expect a lot here, but at least I got to spend at least 4 hours making some really neat art for this! *^_^* If nothing else, thank you for that opportunity!

All right. Enough about that. Time for examples and pricing!

Seriously, if nothing else comes from this, I got to draw Ralsei, Wei Wuxian, and Odile in the span of a few hours. I'm very happy with that. XD

My ask box will be open, so feel free to hit me up for commissions!

IDs for images are below the tag!

[Image 1 ID: Two original characters in traditional format. One is bald, has on a crop top and shorts, is on her tip toes, and holds a sign that says, "I'm $5.00 USD." The other is sitting down, is wearing a long sleeved shirt with boots and dark leggings, has long hair, and holds a sign that says, "I'm an extra $5.00 USD." The second character is also saying, "Talking is, of course, no extra charge." The text at the bottom of the picture says "Each sketched character is $5.00 USD"]

[Image 2 ID: One original character in a sketched, flat-colored, digital format. He is colored with brown hair, light tan skin, a blue tank top, and blue shorts. The drawing cuts off at his shorts. There is a sketched box around his head and another sketched box around the full drawing. The text says, "Sketches go to half body. $5.00 for the head. $10.00 for the half body." The words are hand-written.]

[Image 3 ID: A full-body, colored and shaded, digital drawing of Ralsei from Deltarune. He appears to be walking into darkness, though he is facing the audience with a gentle look. His head is encased in a black-lined box, and the rest of his body is encased in another black-lined box. The text says, "Full digital drawings take more effort, even if there's no background. Head shots will be $10.00 USD. Full body shots will be $20.00 USD. Additional Characters for full body shots will be $15.00 USD each." The words are typed.]

[Image 4 ID: The top left corner has a digitally sketched, flat-colored, digital drawing of Wei Wuxian from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (or Modao Zushi or The Untamed) twirling a flute. He looks sly with a grin as he looks at the text at the top of the page. The text says, "Due to lack of interest, BGs are not available at this time. But I will draw:" This text is handwritten and continues in a typed format below, saying, "Original Characters, Characters from Fandoms (Even if I'm not part of the fandom), Blood and Gore, Non-Human Characters (animals, robots, etc.), Ask about anything else!" The bottom right corner has a digitally drawn, fully colored and shaded upper body drawing of Odile from In Space and Time. She is looking tiredly at the typed words while holding a book in her hand.]

[Image 5 ID: The right side of the image has a drawing of AmyNChan waving at you with a smile. She wears a shirt with an eclipse on it that reads "Solar Eclipse '24," pumpkin-covered leggings, and blue and white socks with rainbow hearts. The text to the left says, "Thank you for your time and consideration! If nothing else, have a lovely day!" with a smiley face. The text is hand written.]

[amynchan]

Mozilla, in its finite wisdom, embedded LLM bots into recent versions of Firefox for the vitally-important purpose of… naming tab groups. Now, some users are noticing CPU and power usage spikes caused by a background process called Inference.

Ugh. Reminder again for Firefox users to visit your about:config page, search for the browser.ml.chat.enabled key, and set that to false:

If yours says true then double-click it until it reads false.

Doing that turns off the AI chatbot features in Firefox, but also the stupid new LLM tab-naming feature that's rolling out.

[amynchan]

"I love you but you're doing wrong in a way I cannot condone" and "I hate you but you're being wronged in a way I cannot stomach" are top tier and I need more of them.

[amynchan]

iHeartRadio is a good alternative for music. As is Pandora. These are radios, and we need to get back to Le Radio, methinks.

[amynchan]

The YouTube Blockout is still happening

Even if this is your first time hearing about it, you can still show your disapproval of the new policy by joining the blockout/boycott.

How?

Stop using YouTube. The best way to show our disapproval is by completely ignoring YouTube until they roll back this decision. There are lots of alternatives, and we are working on a masterlist. If you absolutely have to use YouTube in some capacity, I highly recommend using a front-end client like FreeTube. It gives you more privacy and doesn't have ads, but the best option is still to boycott YT entirely.

Use Google products as little as possible. I have switched over to Firefox, and there are lots of alternatives for lots of Google products. If anyone's interested in a specific list, I'll share what I find.

Sign this petition:

If you're interested, there's a Discord server for this, too, started by @gentleman-velvet. Look at their blog for more info about that.

But why are we doing this? Why should you care?

I'll let YouTube themselves explain it for me.

[Alt: A screenshot of the YouTube policies page that reads: "For all U.S. accounts, YouTube employs a dual approach by using self-declared age as well as the application of an age estimation model that uses machine learning to determine whether a user is over or under 18. Regardless of the birthday in the account, this technology enables us to deliver age-appropriate product experiences and protections, treating teens as teens and adults as adults. How it works: We use AI to interpret a variety of existing signals that help us to determine whether a user is over or under 18. These signals include the types of videos a user is searching for, the categories of videos they have watched, or the longevity of the account. When we identify a teen user, we’ll automatically apply our safeguards, including: -Disabling personalized advertising and restricting age-sensitive ad categories -Turning on digital wellbeing tools -Adding safeguards to recommendations, including limiting repetitive views of some kinds of content. Users have the option to verify that they are 18 or over by using a credit card or a government ID. We only allow users who have been inferred or verified as over 18 to view age-restricted content that may be inappropriate for younger users.]

Read that all the way through. According to YouTube, if their AI thinks you watch childish content, regardless of the birthdate you associated with your account, your account could be restricted until you provide either a government-issued photo ID or a credit card to verify your age. This is what they themselves are saying.

Personally, I don't want a private company to have images of my ID or my credit card. I feel that that is an invasion of my privacy. I fear what might happen in the case of a data breach. And Google has fairly frequent data breaches. Just search (with any other search engine) "google data breach recent" and see for yourself.

And consider adults who don't have either a government-issued photo ID or a credit card. What then? It would appear from the policies described on YouTube's website that they are just out of luck in that instance.

This could very well affect animation on YouTube. It could affect gameplay videos. It could affect anything and everything that their AI might deem "childish."

YOU SHOULD CARE

[amynchan]

Jiang Cheng 💜

[amynchan]

Commissions Open!

Hello everyone!

Most of the votes said that while you may not buy art for yourself, you'd be wiling to share the commissions page around. Honestly, that really does mean a lot, so I'm giving it a go anyways. I don't expect a lot here, but at least I got to spend at least 4 hours making some really neat art for this! *^_^* If nothing else, thank you for that opportunity!

All right. Enough about that. Time for examples and pricing!

Seriously, if nothing else comes from this, I got to draw Ralsei, Wei Wuxian, and Odile in the span of a few hours. I'm very happy with that. XD

My ask box will be open, so feel free to hit me up for commissions!

IDs for images are below the tag!

[Image 1 ID: Two original characters in traditional format. One is bald, has on a crop top and shorts, is on her tip toes, and holds a sign that says, "I'm $5.00 USD." The other is sitting down, is wearing a long sleeved shirt with boots and dark leggings, has long hair, and holds a sign that says, "I'm an extra $5.00 USD." The second character is also saying, "Talking is, of course, no extra charge." The text at the bottom of the picture says "Each sketched character is $5.00 USD"]

[Image 2 ID: One original character in a sketched, flat-colored, digital format. He is colored with brown hair, light tan skin, a blue tank top, and blue shorts. The drawing cuts off at his shorts. There is a sketched box around his head and another sketched box around the full drawing. The text says, "Sketches go to half body. $5.00 for the head. $10.00 for the half body." The words are hand-written.]

[Image 3 ID: A full-body, colored and shaded, digital drawing of Ralsei from Deltarune. He appears to be walking into darkness, though he is facing the audience with a gentle look. His head is encased in a black-lined box, and the rest of his body is encased in another black-lined box. The text says, "Full digital drawings take more effort, even if there's no background. Head shots will be $10.00 USD. Full body shots will be $20.00 USD. Additional Characters for full body shots will be $15.00 USD each." The words are typed.]

[Image 4 ID: The top left corner has a digitally sketched, flat-colored, digital drawing of Wei Wuxian from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (or Modao Zushi or The Untamed) twirling a flute. He looks sly with a grin as he looks at the text at the top of the page. The text says, "Due to lack of interest, BGs are not available at this time. But I will draw:" This text is handwritten and continues in a typed format below, saying, "Original Characters, Characters from Fandoms (Even if I'm not part of the fandom), Blood and Gore, Non-Human Characters (animals, robots, etc.), Ask about anything else!" The bottom right corner has a digitally drawn, fully colored and shaded upper body drawing of Odile from In Space and Time. She is looking tiredly at the typed words while holding a book in her hand.]

[Image 5 ID: The right side of the image has a drawing of AmyNChan waving at you with a smile. She wears a shirt with an eclipse on it that reads "Solar Eclipse '24," pumpkin-covered leggings, and blue and white socks with rainbow hearts. The text to the left says, "Thank you for your time and consideration! If nothing else, have a lovely day!" with a smiley face. The text is hand written.]

[amynchan]

Commissions Open!

Hello everyone!

Most of the votes said that while you may not buy art for yourself, you'd be wiling to share the commissions page around. Honestly, that really does mean a lot, so I'm giving it a go anyways. I don't expect a lot here, but at least I got to spend at least 4 hours making some really neat art for this! *^_^* If nothing else, thank you for that opportunity!

All right. Enough about that. Time for examples and pricing!

Seriously, if nothing else comes from this, I got to draw Ralsei, Wei Wuxian, and Odile in the span of a few hours. I'm very happy with that. XD

My ask box will be open, so feel free to hit me up for commissions!

IDs for images are below the tag!

[Image 1 ID: Two original characters in traditional format. One is bald, has on a crop top and shorts, is on her tip toes, and holds a sign that says, "I'm $5.00 USD." The other is sitting down, is wearing a long sleeved shirt with boots and dark leggings, has long hair, and holds a sign that says, "I'm an extra $5.00 USD." The second character is also saying, "Talking is, of course, no extra charge." The text at the bottom of the picture says "Each sketched character is $5.00 USD"]

[Image 2 ID: One original character in a sketched, flat-colored, digital format. He is colored with brown hair, light tan skin, a blue tank top, and blue shorts. The drawing cuts off at his shorts. There is a sketched box around his head and another sketched box around the full drawing. The text says, "Sketches go to half body. $5.00 for the head. $10.00 for the half body." The words are hand-written.]

[Image 3 ID: A full-body, colored and shaded, digital drawing of Ralsei from Deltarune. He appears to be walking into darkness, though he is facing the audience with a gentle look. His head is encased in a black-lined box, and the rest of his body is encased in another black-lined box. The text says, "Full digital drawings take more effort, even if there's no background. Head shots will be $10.00 USD. Full body shots will be $20.00 USD. Additional Characters for full body shots will be $15.00 USD each." The words are typed.]

[Image 4 ID: The top left corner has a digitally sketched, flat-colored, digital drawing of Wei Wuxian from Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (or Modao Zushi or The Untamed) twirling a flute. He looks sly with a grin as he looks at the text at the top of the page. The text says, "Due to lack of interest, BGs are not available at this time. But I will draw:" This text is handwritten and continues in a typed format below, saying, "Original Characters, Characters from Fandoms (Even if I'm not part of the fandom), Blood and Gore, Non-Human Characters (animals, robots, etc.), Ask about anything else!" The bottom right corner has a digitally drawn, fully colored and shaded upper body drawing of Odile from In Space and Time. She is looking tiredly at the typed words while holding a book in her hand.]

[Image 5 ID: The right side of the image has a drawing of AmyNChan waving at you with a smile. She wears a shirt with an eclipse on it that reads "Solar Eclipse '24," pumpkin-covered leggings, and blue and white socks with rainbow hearts. The text to the left says, "Thank you for your time and consideration! If nothing else, have a lovely day!" with a smiley face. The text is hand written.]

[amynchan]

ngl, I think it's pretty nice that no matter what you look like, you're still you.

Like, I decided to try makeup today and put on a cute dress, but I still sat down and shredded junk mail like I would any other day. XD

Congrats! I am still not a lady!!!!

[amynchan]

it's so Weird how ppl STILL make fun of the idea of alcohol-free queer spaces just because an asexual teenager suggested it in 2015. it was odd then and it's odd now. Why are you mad at the idea of a coffee shop for queer people. don't answer that i do not gaf

[amynchan]

Look me straight in the eyes and tell me your current music taste isn’t what your father played in the car when you were a kid.