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[magalinrafaela]

being a self-taught artist with no formal training is having done art seriously since you were a young teenager and only finding out that you’re supposed to do warm up sketches every time you’re about to work on serious art when you’re fuckin twenty-five

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One more thing! I am happy to announce that the Welcome Home website will reopen on: April 11 !!

We are decorating this Home to the best of our ability and hope it will be fun to peruse once our spring cleaning is through! (Spring drawing, spring typing, spring website maintenance, etc!)

One more more thing!- We are also happy to announce... We are getting our very own array of merchandise! (Julie and Frank... Julie and Frank...) Designed by both Huck and Myself! It's been a labor of love we've been working on behind-the-scenes and I am so, so pleased with how they look thanks to those who are helping us- I hope you folks will really like what comes out too!

Welp! Until all of this is revealed in a month or so, I will be gone! So I will see you then! (Or Wally will, I should say- You know how it goes, haha) But have a good day! Remember to wave up high! Even if it's raining!

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100 posts!

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So, Discord has added a feature that lets other people "enhance" or "edit" your images with different AI apps. It looks like this:

Currently, you can't opt out from this at all. But here's few things you can do as a protest.

FOR SERVERS YOU ARE AN ADMIN IN

Go to Roles -> @/everyone roles -> Scroll all the way down to External Apps, and disable it. This won't delete the option, but it will make people receive a private message instead when they use it, protecting your users:

You should also make it a bannable offense to edit other user's images with AI. Here's how I worded it in my server, feel free to copypaste:

Do not modify other people's images with AI under ANY circumstances, such as with the Discord "enhancement" features, amidst others. This is a bannable offense.

COMPLAIN TO DISCORD

There's few ways to go around this. First, you can go to https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/requests/new , select Help and Support -> Feedback/New Feature Request, and write your message, as seen in the screenshot below.

For the message, here's some points you can bring up:

Concerns about harassment (such as people using this feature to bully others)

Concerns about privacy (concerns on how External Apps may break privacy or handle the data in the images, and how it may break some legislations, such as GDPR)

Concerns about how this may impact minors (these features could be used with pictures of irl minors shared in servers, for deeply nefarious purposes)

BE VERY CLEAR about "I will refuse to buy Nitro and will cancel my subscription if this feature remains as it is", since they only care about fucking money

Word them as you'd like, add onto them as you need. They sometimes filter messages that are copypasted templates, so finding ways to word them on your own is helpful.

ADDING: You WILL NEED to reply to the mail you receive afterwards for the message to get sent to an actual human! Otherwise it won't reach anyone

UNSUSCRIBE FROM NITRO

This is what they care about the most. Unsuscribe from Nitro. Tell them why you unsuscribed on the way out. DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. They're a company. They take actions for profit. If these actions do not get them profit, they will need to backtrack. Mass-unsuscribing from WOTC's DnD beyond forced them to back down with the OGL, this works.

LEAVE A ONE-STAR REVIEW ON THE APP

This impacts their visibility on the App store. Write why are you leaving the one-star review too.

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Regardless of your stance on AI, I think we can agree that having no way for users to opt out of these pictures is deeply concerning, specially when Discord is often used to share selfies. It's also a good time to remember internet privacy and safety- Maybe don't post your photos in big open public servers, if you don't want to risk people doing edits or modifications of them with AI (or any other way). Once it's posted, it's out of your control.

Anyways, please reblog for visibility- This is a deeply concerning topic!

[magalinrafaela]

OH! One more thing; A reminder from last week, but as of February 14th, Welcome Home's website is down for refurbishment as we do spring cleaning and prepare for Springtime!

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MY SPOOKY BABY ARRIVED!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!

And like always Barnaby is being very silly. XD

Welcome Home belongs to @partycoffin

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IM LATE!!!!!!!

I know i know!!!! I really wanted to put a last 2024 art before midnight of the new year but i was busy with my family preparing for it and some other real life stuff!!! Im really sorry!:(

I know is a bit late but Happy New Year!!!!! I hope this Year everyone have great time and health!

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!🎉🎊

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It's my 1 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

Already a year!?!?!? Damn, time sure fly fast and i just check it now!!!! Thank you everyone who tolerate me for a year. XD

I hope you have amazing new year!

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MY BABIES ARRIVED!!!!!

And one of them decided to jump scared me. XD (And before anyone ask, no they didnt arrive together. I just think would be funny)

Sebastian Solace belongs to Pressure from Roblox

Hideaway belongs to Makeship

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MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!!

[magalinrafaela]

hey everyone be careful

I don't know if anyone has talked about this, but lately this has been happening in other fandoms too. There'll be these bot accounts that straight up steals people's posts and adds "expand" "read more" "continue" as a link in the end of the post - DON'T CLICK ON THAT, it's most likely a malware or something of the like.

so if you see a post like this: no profile picture, something that looks reposted (I've seen this happening to artists too) and a link at the end, even if the post has tags, that's a bot. Block and report it.

stay safe, and I hope @staff finds a way to stop these bots soon!

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Me: "Minors do not interact!!"

Minor: (interacts with the post)

Me:

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TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY!!!!🍰🍰🎂🎂🎂🧁🧁🧁🍰🎂🍰🧁🍰🧁🎂

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! THEY ARRIVE YESTERDAY!!!!!! MY BABIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you

Makeship and @thingsbydiana !!!!!!

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Guy im doomed. It was nice knowing you all. 😭🫡