#I don't think that's excusable
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"
like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.
"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."
... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.
and i'd still keep writing.
i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.
i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley
"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"
and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.
it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.
you create because you're greedy.
#every time someones like ''AI will replace u" im like. u will have to fucking KILL ME#there is no replacement here bc i am not filling a position. i am just writing#and the writing is what i need to be doing#writeblr#this probably doesn't make sense bc its sooo frustrating i rarely speak it the way i want to#edited for the typo wrote it and then was late to a meeting lol#i love u people who mention my typos genuinely bc i don't always catch them!!!! :) it is doing me a genuine favor!!!#my friend says i should tell you ''thank you beta editors'' but i don't know what that means#i made her promise it isn't a wolf fanfiction thing. so if it IS a wolf thing she is DEAD to me (just kidding i love her)#hey PS PS PS ??? if ur reading this thinking what it's saying is ''i am financially capable of losing this'' ur reading it wrong#i write for free. i always have. i have worked 5-7 jobs at once to make ends meet.#i did not grow up with access or money. i did not grow up with connections or like some kind of excuse#i grew up and worked my fucking ASS OFF. and i STILL!!! wrote!!! on the side!!! because i didn't know how not to!!!#i do not write for money!!!! i write because i fuckken NEED TO#i could be in the fucking desert i could be in the fuckken tundra i could be in total darkness#and i would still be writing pretentious angsty poetry about it#im not in any way saying it's a good thing. i'm not in any way implying that they're NOT tryna kill us#i'm saying. you could take away our jobs and we could go hungry and we could suffer#and from that suffering (if i know us) we'd still fuckin make art.#i would LOVE to be able to make money doing this! i never have been able to. but i don't NEED to. i will find a way to make my life work#even if it means being miserable#but i will not give up this thing. for the whole world.
18K notes
·
View notes
Note
time for skeleman
with the lack of any other info yet, all I can focus on are those Charles Lloyd-looking sunglasses. they are absolutely sending me. I feel like we're gonna fall through a tree or whatever and this stitched-up boney gentleman is gonna pop out from behind a gravestone and start serenading us with some smooth jazz on the saxophone.
or should I say...the saxoBONE???????
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#doot#i drew this so fast i'm so sorry#god. we don't even have an event name yet what do i tag this with.#the only thing we know about him so far are 1) glasses#2) ~*wagahai*~#(is wagahai a jack thing because that's incredible)#(hold on i gotta look up the japanese dub)#i have zoomed in and i THINK he's got orange eyes but the pixels are defeating me#anyway excuse me for a moment while i vibrate so intensely that i start phasing through the floor#nightmare event is nigh!!!!#this is the number 1 event i have wanted most i can't believe it's real and it's actually happening#i've been dreaming of halloweentown boys for forever i am SO excited#slightly bummed it looks like there's not going to be a sally too but we can't have everything i guess#(unless...? 👀)#stream on the 29th let's GO#and for once it's not at like 4 AM my time thank you for small mercies twst#i wanna see my guys in fancy halloween suits!!!!
3K notes
·
View notes
Text
I think it's important to remember that just because you find someone basic or boring or whatever, you're actually very wrong and they are a unique and layered person with their own complicated life, emotions and interests. They don't have to perform anything to show you how interesting or special they are.
That straight white girl with her stanly cup and sephora makeup doesn't have to show you what makes her 'unique'. The older gentleman who shares conspiracy theories on facebook and mows his lawn early in the morning doesn't have to prove he isn't an 'npc' to you. The woman with the 'Karen' haircut and her son who watches stupid youtube videos don't have to drop everything to demonstrate to you that they can break the stereotypes you've associated with them.
Every person is a real person. Even if you never see them do a thing other than what you expect them to do, they are just as deep and emotional as you are because they are ALIVE! They're real! And they don't owe you a tour into their lives just to prove to you that they have thoughts and feelings! Just because you lack the empathy or understanding to see that someone who doesn't share your same lifestyle, hobbies or stereotypes might actually have a rich and detailed life, doesn't mean you're right.
#if I see one more idiot call people 'NPC's I'm gonna smack them#'but all they do is follow trendsss'#you follow trends too! it's just that the trends you follow are the ones you personally think are fun!#hypocrit you are for not understanding that humanity is diverse and people can have different lifestyles and interests#don't be a fool!#stop making excuses for your own lack of empathy and start training yourself out of this dangerous habit
1K notes
·
View notes
Text
"A New Day Will Dawn."
-Said some guy named Luke probably.
Welcome to my #HHStargazersAU! Stay Tuned~♡? -Bubbly💙
#spacebubblearts#HHStargazersAU#hazbin hotel#chaggie#radioapple#lucifer x alastor#charlie x vaggie#queerplatonic#or not as long as you enjoy this really#hazbin alastor#lucifer morningstar#charlie morningstar#hazbin vaggie#human au#angel#demons#let me COOK#world building#hopefully this was worth it#if ya'll want more do please let me know#I need the motivation haha TvT#vaggie x charlie#alastor x lucifer#appleradio#duckydeer#duckiedeer#humor#mystery#we barely scratched the surface of this AU and I am gonna BURST if I don't share it with anyone else I swear to GOD-#You think you know what's gonna happen? Excuse me while I laugh behind your back for a second NO YOU DON'T XD
3K notes
·
View notes
Text
For curiosity's sake...
#marvel#deadpool and wolverine#x-men#venom#deadpool#poolverine#cherik#symbrock#poll#movies#reblog to reach more voters#poll is a result of me having thoughts while walking and realizing i legit don't know the answer#i am usually not a marvel person and i dun really go here but curiosity is what it is#and each of these have had their Gayness spotlights on Tumblr dot com#please vote based on gayness of movie#not just which movie u like better/which ship is more established etc#actually u know what after making this poll#i think personally it might be D&W for me#the reason is because all of them are pretty gay BUT#with regards to a ''gayness to other stuff like plot'' ratio#D&W tilts the furthest gay#the others are gay but also have a decent amount of other stuff happening that is unrelated to the gay#for D&W i feel like the whole thing was an excuse for D and W to be gay and there was very little other plot#or rather the plot's sole purpose was to give D and W reasons to have very gay scenes together? am i making sense#anyway that need not be your criteria for 'gayness' since that was not specified in the poll#not meant to bias the votes but this is my current thinking#i made the vote and voted all pretty gay
632 notes
·
View notes
Text
Do you want to hear my story?
#armand#armand iwtv#assad zaman#louis de pointe du lac#daniel molloy#eric bogosian#jacob anderson#interview with the vampire#iwtv#no matter what armand did/say#I think this was a line neither of them should have ever crossed#not gonna be surprised if armand doesn't mention what they did to him ever again#sa tw#child abuse tw#and louis has an excuse#daniel not so much#like I love him but... no#don't be like those redditors that said armand was lying about what marius did to him#myiwtvedit
732 notes
·
View notes
Note
do you think when cherik fuck all metal items in the room an maybe in the house starts to fly..... bc i do and i can't imagine what's going on with charles's powers help please
idk what happens on charles' end but this was my immediate first thought regarding erik
#nsft#xmen#xmen tas#cherik#In Essence theyre the subject matter vjaelvkjla#morph#wolverine#was this just an excuse to draw logan and morph And If It Is. Sue Me About It I Love Them#snap sketches#but charles... rather maybe i dont want to think of what might happen on charles' end .....#if i think about it i might just start laughing ohmy god#maybe hes just really careful about his powers and nothing happens beyond the room ... one can hope#unrelated note i think ima dedicate saturdays to drawing asks and sundays to personal stuff .. that might be my schedule#depends on how busy life gets but anyways. poor logan this is a weekly occurrence#it's why bro don't hang round the mansion </3
373 notes
·
View notes
Text
i've discovered a quite large category of people who never got into The Good Place and the only way they could articulate their disinterest was, "there's no stakes cause they're already dead." i'm obsessed with the idea the only reason they could enjoy seinfeld is they imagined kramer could beef it any fucking second
#the good place#even the implications of what happens in episode one of this show have the biggest stakes of any sitcom ever but some people are like#idk my usual model for how much to care about people who have reached this point is not at all so you may as well be tortured for eternity?#i think a ton of people generally when they don't vibe with something and feel the need for an excuse just say literally the opposite thing
566 notes
·
View notes
Text
Miraculous Lesbians
#miraculous ladybug#mledit#evie's gifs#julerose#marigami#eminath#zoenette#i don't think we have official ship names for the others#lots of tags incoming for organization please excuse me for that lol#also ignore that there's captions on one i didn't have a hd download of it without subs#juleka couffaine#rose lavillant#barb keynes#olympia hill#marinette dupain cheng#kagami tsurugi#emilie agreste#nathalie sancoeur#zoe lee#caline bustier#gif
3K notes
·
View notes
Text
CALLUM KEITH RENNIE as Captain Rayner in Star Trek: Discovery
#when you see this and think what the fuck is that colouring and why this weird selection of moments please consider this:#i cannot gif#also you should see for yourself how yellow (and/or dark) those shots are#(not an excuse lol i've seen people colour much worse with much better results)#and i am also not sane about ckr so i don't choose moments that would look cool in an edit#it's not an edit#it's not even a gifset#it's just me going ahhhhhh! over a guy#thank you kindly for your patience#star trek discovery#callum keith rennie#rayner#c6d#fwgifs
669 notes
·
View notes
Text
when everyone thought frenchie would secretly bring lucius food as he hid in the walls, but then we got frenchie sneaking izzy medicines, and something in the universe suddenly shifted.
#ofmd#ofmd spoilers#ofmd season 2#our flag means death#izzy hands#frenchie#ouizzy#frenchizzy#frenzzy#izzy x frenchie#ofmd izzy#ofmd frenchie#and with “something in the universe” i meant me slapping my face trying to wake up from this hallucination#the first aid kit was such a poor excuse but i couldn't ask anything better#also i think i can check “Izzy & Frenchie have something fruity going on” from our ofmd bingo. i don't make the rules
3K notes
·
View notes
Text
I saw this in my twitter timeline
#i think we all know who this is about#by the way I'm a complete fatass *and* draw her as you wish so please don't come after me LMAAOO i just thought this would be funny#is this too woke#/j obviously#dungeon meshi#dunmeshi#delicious in dungeon#dungeon meshi falin#delicious in dungeon falin#dunmeshi falin#falin dungeon meshi#falin delicious in dungeon#falin dunmeshi#falin touden#falin thorden#i love chubby falin though#it just makes sense#to me at least#and it gives me an excuse to cosplay her /j
253 notes
·
View notes
Note
Since book 7 part 5 (the part where we meet Meleanor/Maleanor 👀) is coming to EN this month, i would love to see your take on lilia’s proposal to meleanor! i mean they were like little kids right? it couldn’t have been that serious…i think the only reason she even brought it up again is because she could tell lilia still genuinely loved her…(even if he didn’t realize it himself?) but, oh well! Let’s think about silly childhood shenanigans to numb the pain! ^_^ (orz)
oh shit?! get ready for a doozy guys, it's comiiiiiing ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
I chickened out of posting the whole thing (look, I get VERY carried away when it comes to these wacky kids and their Tragedy), but I do believe that it probably ended with Lilia getting embarrassed and just shoving the first thing he sees into his mouth to try and cover for it.
(we're just lucky it wasn't a frog this time)
#art#twisted wonderland#twisted wonderland spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 spoilers#twisted wonderland episode 7 part 5 spoilers#twisted wonderland book 7 part 5 spoilers#please excuse the Dissertation that's about to happen (i have too much headcanon about them)#they've been ambiguous about most of the fae aging/developmental stages (plus lilia and mel's species age differently)#so this is entirely me assuming based on context#but i think that lilia being ~99 was probably about the equivalent of 9-10ish?#(i don't think his age maps perfectly onto 'human age times 10') (if only because i absolutely do not believe general lilia is 29)#(but in this case it feels right to me)#and i think of meleanor as being just slightly older (like ~11-12ish)#so like...kids but not LITTLE-little kids#so i think lilia was serious in a 'i have a huge crush on you and i haven't thought beyond that' kind of way#and meanwhile mel was more cognizant of how their dynamic was basically#lilia: i would die for you#meleanor: that's dumb#(lilia 600 years later: man she was right. that was dumb.)#but yeah I think she might've assumed (or hoped) he would grow out of it#except whoops oh no it just got worse#and then raverne made things MORE complicated and you know honestly maybe getting murdered was kind of a relief#meleanor in heaven: well at least he won't accidentally raise my kid to have the exact same -- are you kidding me#(i have too many thoughts to express properly i'm sorry) (i just. love these morons a lot okay.)
1K notes
·
View notes
Text
When Jesus pretended to be dead for 3 days it's a miracle and everyone is sympathetic. But when I, James Somerton-
#james somerton#hbomberguy#Sorry#just to be clear i dont wish somerton any harm#for the money he tricked people into donating i'm sure there will be a lawsuit. maybe??#for the plagiarism idk if and how the law applies#for his personal mysoginistic racist etc views i've seen maybe one of his videos years ago and i don't remember his claims#i just think that as an influancer / youtuber he's a public figure and it's not the public's responsability to cater to his mental health#whether his mental health issues are real or just excuses#i'd rather he change career and be held accountable than he hurting himself#being in a bad mental state doesn't justify your actions#especially if the bad mental state is directly caused by the conequences of said actions
453 notes
·
View notes
Text
requested by Anons
#there was no saving this lighting but it think it looks fine all things considered#now HE looks MORE than fine#Rick Grimes#The Ones Who Live#*#rg#S I R#excuse my wild cropping but i hate credits#sad you can't see the fuzzies because they're there in the closeup before he sits up#the slope of his shoulders.....#is that weird#i don't think it is and even if it was it's not like i care anymore#i'd say hey nice torso but then i'd sound like hannibal lecter#...biting him anway#michelangelo could never#the artist sculpt something this beautiful...not the turtle#nice rack rick#still want to blow raspberries on his belly#hid the t h i g h s so i wouldn't entirely go off the deep end#bed head 💜#god he just the perfect level of fit#stab me with an entire home depot section of rakes
493 notes
·
View notes
Text
ANDOR APPRECIATION WEEK 2023 | @andorappreciation
↳ Day Six - Favourite Quotes
#Star Wars#Andor#andorappreciation2023#StarWarsEdit#AndorEdit#SWEdit#Mon Mothma#Cassian Andor#Syril Karn#Dedra Meero#Karis Nemik#Maarva Andor#gif#edit2#excuse my poor typography skills lol#not all my favourite quotes of the series are here (the gifset would go on forever if i did that)#but these are definitely some i think about often or don't see hyped enough#the 'ive learned from palpatine' line gave me everything i've been wanting from sw for years
919 notes
·
View notes