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This is making the rounds on BlueSky, but I haven't seen it here yet.

Twitter is rolling out a "Recreat this with Grok" button directly on images now when you open them. Also, some people have experience their artwork getting labeled as 'made with Grok'

I understand why some people have tried to stay but, please at the very least start transitioning your work to other places so at the very least you have a exit without hurting your finances too much.

Twitter is only going to become more hostile towards artists. It's full of poison and it's only a matter of time before it fully erodes.

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Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook. (ETA: Gaining inspiration from other authors is great. Lifting passages and avoiding giving credit isn’t.)

Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here in paperback or here on Kindle.

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In one of my film classes last semester we had to tell a story in 3 pictures for a mini assignment so my friend and I did this

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That's a big boy right here. Vent post I did a while ago, finally felt the courage to post it I hope it'll reach the people who needed to read this.

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princess tutu: die jahreszeiten 🌸 kind of a companion piece to my 2022 ptutu drawing | it's on inprnt this print was at anime north; next con is otakuthon! (oh yeah it's also my bday feel free to send me wishes if ya like)

oops so my hand slipped and i made another princess tutu drawing. i admittedly don't watch that much anime so my catalogue of work is gonna be the same 5 animes LMAO. what can i say, i love "dark" fairy tales, and i've been really enjoying the more fine art approach to a lot of my drawings as of late (and the watercolour brush i've been using has been so perfect for that...!) as my first princess tutu drawing is now 2 years old, there are some areas i've grown to have ... qualms with, particularly the anatomy and the faces... although both drawings as a whole are pretty much exactly what i envisioned, and that's always satisfying!

both of these were drawn in roughly a week's time (yes really...) for con crunch period (and i went back to this drawing after the con to touch up some areas that were a bit rough!). i wanted a different approach to this new pt drawing, with the focus on the line work, rather than on colours and lighting in the 2022 drawing. this was both to continue the style i adopted in my witch hat atelier "lantern bearers" drawing (which i promise i'll post in full soon as soon as all of the zine artists get their go-ahead to post their pieces!), and to emulate the art nouveau movement's heavy emphasis on line work, albeit not a 1:1 style replication of course.

the seasons also aren't a 1:1 representation, as i didn't necessarily pick flowers or colours that are most strongly associated with the season (e.g. summer being a dark tone is a bold choice?). but it's kinda whatever, as i said before i drew this in a week, there may be more appropriate flowers with better meanings. I'LL WRITE MORE ON THE FLOWERS LATER... - spring: apple blossoms, tulips - summer: deadly nightshade flower, yellow rose - autumn: douglas fir needles, orange calla lily - winter: birch tree, snowdrop

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Zoozve, my beloved

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Full Video: Riekko mukana hiihtoreissulla, Tolkuton Willow ptarmigan included in ski trip

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India the Moonstone Fairy

(print here)

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Jasmine the Present Fairy

(print here)

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Storm the Lightning Fairy ⚡

(print here)

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Pearl the Cloud Fairy ☁️

(print here)

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Ruby the Red Fairy 🌹

(Print here)

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India the Moonstone Fairy

(print here)

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there's just something super nostalgic about drawing rainbow magic fairies again as a grown adult?? it's just so much fun i can't stop hehe