#all i want to do is draw my favorite characters

[naamahdarling]

So, the other night in an effort to show a friend that LLMs can produce very credible fiction and relatively inventive ideas, I played with ChatGPT for about 10 minutes I was able to make my point flawlessly. Don't get up my ass about this, that's juvenile.

ChatGPT has watched enough Dropout to be able to reasonably (and genuinely amusingly) impersonate Brennan Lee Mulligan and, to a lesser extent, Sam Reich. It's successfully produced a script for Game Changer where the show was entirely about cats and Brennan couldn't win, and parts of it were actually funny. It also produced an AITA post from the point of view of Brennan Lee Mulligan AS DM OF DIMENSION 20 that was in places absolutely hilarious.

It is able to very successfully postulate a set of G1 my little ponies that do not actually exist, complete with colors, cutie marks, and back card stories. It had a little trouble with G1 versus G4 due to the sheer glut of content, but its ideas were genuinely appealing because the source material it was drawing on was designed to be appealing.

It generated a list of birthday party themes that would terrify an arachnophobe, two or three of which were really good. A request for it to generate a list of queer pride birthday ideas didn't produce anything particularly original, but it was all appropriate and convincing.

It produced a short script where Johnny Sims from the Magnus archives receives birthday gifts from his coworkers, and one of those was a knife-wielding tentacle. This script was in places a little less sharp than the actual writing, but it absolutely nailed the speech patterns, and each gift was appropriate to the character giving it. It was genuinely funny. In places it was clever. It actually made me laugh.

I have most of these saved if anybody wants to see them instead of playing with it themselves.

It really isn't a question of what has been dumped into the data set. We can just assume it has been dumped in there somehow.

We can't undo what has been done and we're never going to be able to name all of the people whose work has been used to train these datasets.

I have both positive and negative feelings, strong ones on both sides, about this technology. If someone wants to use this technology to create a script for a movie in the Predator franchise, or a sequel to their favorite book, or whatever, that is a neutral act. Profiting from that is highly questionable, passing it off as the real thing is completely indefensible, using this technology to replace writers and artists and real people doing ANY work where there is no benefit to humans (like identifying cancer cells -- "AI" does that) is the second worst thing that can be done with it.

That's what worries me about this. It could produce infinite Simpsons episodes without the need for a single writer. Eventually it will be able to animate them so accurately you could ask it to make it look like it had been recorded on a video cassette and it would be completely convincing. It would be able to imitate the voice actors perfectly.

We do not want corporations to have that power. Worker protections are critical. It isn't that AI produces art that is bad or soulless or whatever. Those are completely spurious arguments and irrelevant to any true discussion of whether or not it is ethical.

What matter is is that we keep this shit out of the hands people who want to delete us from the workforce. They aren't going to delete the data. We need to protect workers.

P.S. Artists, Disney and Adobe do not have your best interests at heart. Copyright issues are more complicated than they are being presented, and if you find yourself on the side of one of these companies in any capacity, re-examine literally everything you think immediately. Unions. You want unions.

For reference, because I think it's really important to bring this up as often as possible, the worst application of this technology I can think of would be deliberately or accidentally misapplying data that could be used to affect things like a person's medical care, criminal record, and credit score, all of which are actually currently things that a single company can do, APPRISS, now owned by Equifax, yes that Equifax, and fucking nobody, none of y'all, are freaking out about that even though it's the single most frightening thing I have seen in 20 years. I cannot overstate its potential to utterly destroy the lives of literally anyone who comes into contact with the system that uses it, and those are unbelievably common. They are currently selling their product to law enforcement so that cops and businesses can use it to predict who will engage in criminal behavior, I'm literally not kidding about that, they come right out and say it. It is being trained on existing data and refined constantly.

Enjoy breaking your leg and needing painkillers, which get you flagged in a medical database that will try to prevent you from accessing them in the future (already happening), and also entering you into a law enforcement database that knows you have taken them. Then add in whatever eldritch fuckery bringing credit bureaus into it would cause.

We aren't fucked, I'm not a doomer who insists that all people are terrible and that we have no future and we might as well let things burn, I do actually care about the world we live in and the people who populate it and I consider humans a delight rather than a plague, but we need to start seriously resisting the use of this shit by entities more powerful than us. They are already way ahead.

“I can now say with absolute confidence that many AI systems have been trained on TV and film writers’ work. Not just on The Godfather and Alf, but on more than 53,000 other movies and 85,000 other TV episodes: Dialogue from all of it is included in an AI-training data set that has been used by Apple, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia, Salesforce, Bloomberg, and other companies. I recently downloaded this data set, which I saw referenced in papers about the development of various large language models (or LLMs). It includes writing from every film nominated for Best Picture from 1950 to 2016, at least 616 episodes of The Simpsons, 170 episodes of Seinfeld, 45 episodes of Twin Peaks, and every episode of The Wire, The Sopranos, and Breaking Bad.”

😡

[nicoleknives]

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Hello, my dear farmers!

If you’re interested, please fill out the commission form to grab your slot! All the detailed information about this commission format can be found there too! Thank you all so much for the amazing support on my Stardew Valley art and sketches! I thought it might be a great idea to open sketch commissions to draw your lovely characters from the game. If you’ve ever wanted to see your character interacting with your favorite NPC or bachelor, now’s your chance—yaaay! Of course, you can totally have artwork of your farmer on their own too!

I'll do my best to finish all the sketches by next week! I might even open a stream while working on them, but I'll let you guys know!

As I mentioned before, these commissions are to help me with my current financial situation. Even though I have a job, things are tough right now, so thank you so much to everyone who showed interest in supporting me. It really means a lot! ❤️

[crazed4rsonist]

HEY YOU!

Do YOU want drawings of your favorite (non robot) characters?

Are you wanting pixel art?

Do you want keychain-esc designs you can use to make shit?

WELL YOU’RE AT THE RIGHT PLACE!

For the low, low price of 0.00 USD, you can send me a DM or ask (or even reblog this post!) and I will draw ANYTHING (sfw, of course.) for ANYONE! (Unless you fit dni criteria.)

I will in fact draw:

Original characters (with a reference)

Furries (poorly. I’m sorry)

Dialtown or Dsaf characters

Fnaf characters

Humans in general

Animals (again, poorly :()

Fandom characters (with a reference/fandom name)

Suggestive artworks (nothing outwardly NSFW)

Ships!! Tell me the ship /send an image :)

Adding on, selfships! (I’m not nonsharing, so yes, Randy and Harry are on the table)

Fanart!!

I will not draw:

Robots (again, excluding phone/ object heads)

Backgrounds

Borderline NSFW

Anything pro-shippy (I am not an anti, nor am I pro. I am neutral.)

Tbh that’s. Basically it.

How to ask:

Pixel art or not?

Who/what do you want drawn?

Where is the request from (fandom, community, etc)

Are you okay with me posting it, or do you want it DMed to you?

What ‘style’ (ie, keychain, or just plain ol’ art!)

Thats all!

If you use my art for things, please credit me! You may use them as pfps, make physical products, if you sell em? Cool, I don’t want any money (as. I’m a young lad :()

Anywho, if you could reblogs this even if you don’t have a request, that’d be much appreciated. I want to draw things ‼️‼️‼️

Examples of my art under the cut

[0maune]

I know that here on tumblr we don't usually comment much but some suggestions would be very useful and appreciated.

I've drawn Tom many times and none of them in the same way as the other one. Tom is my favorite character of all time and I love him so much. And I'm already getting stressed out because I can't draw him in a way that I like and feel comfortable with. But I'm not going to stop trying.

I love seeing Eddsworld fanarts from all of you because everyone has their own way of drawing the eddsword characters, and I'm not talking about drawing styles, I'm talking about the fact that each artist has their own character design, which I find fascinating. I've seen thousands and thousands of fanarts and I've loved absolutely all the designs, they all have their own thing and I also want to have designs that have some spark.

I always start with Tom because he's my favorite but I don't continue with the others, I always stay with Tom. And I'm sure that if I had them, I could have much more interesting Eddsworld fanarts than the ones I do.

I would also draw more Matt, Edd and Tord. And I would even try to make mini comics because I really love them. I can't wait to find my perfect designs and start posting Eddsworld stuff like crazy.

[sloppilyeatinggrapes]

This is my secret sideblog so I'm just gonna. Not do it as an ask game, I just want to talk about podcasts!

1.) what’s the first podcast you listened to?

Welcome to Nightvale <3

2.) what’s a podcast you’ve cried over?

So many, but recently, Unwell!

3.) Favorite podcast pet? (Idk if that’s worded weird but like if one of the characters has a cat or smth)

I'm honestly not the biggest fan of podcast pets but there is ONE EXCEPTION which is Dumptruck from Find us alive

4.) what podcast has the best soundtrack/music?

Aaah there are many I like... One some might have missed is Dreamboy, which have a couple of bangers, or In Strange Woods, which is a WHOLE MUSICAL and I listen to the songs frequently. But my go to soundtracks are Friends at the table (thank you Jack deQuit). Honorable mention to Wolf 359 and Hallowoods who I think uses their osts SO WELL, giving me VISCERAL reactions when I hear the music out of context.

5.) what’s a podcast that you really like but find it kinda hard to follow the plot?

I have tried to listen to What's the Frequence so many times, it seems so intriguing and interesting as a concept, but I still don't know what even the basic plot is. I think it starts with a murder?

6.) what characters from different podcasts do you think would be friends?

Maybe this is a weird combo but I do think Diggory would be great Friends with Kai and X from Girl in Space. It's something about identity and bodies and being made with a purpose, and somehow still ending up being a pretty chill person.

I also think the demons from Brimstone Valley Mall (especially the teens) would be best hatefriends with the Hrose camp polecule. They are opposite sides but same kind of mall kids. Maybe they wouldn't be friends maybe I just want to watch the world burn

7.) what characters from different podcasts do you think would hate each other?

hmmm. Elias TMA and Keppler Wolf359. They are boss middle managers who think very highly of their own competence, have VERY different ideological base and would kill each other with knives over a cornchip

8.) what’s a podcast where you mix up the characters voices?

I have had this problem with A LOT of podcasts in the beginning, it usually takes me a while unless they are very distinct. I remember it being a problem with Mabel (literally two characters and I couldnt tell them apart...) and Syntax with two of the women side-characters. It took me so long to understand what their personalities were supposed to be, since I couldnt tell who said what.

9.) what’s a podcast that you know the characters so well you can recognize their breathing?

oooh hmm. I mean, Nightvale. It's been like 11 years after all. And Deck the halls with Matrimony!

10.) what’s a podcast that you wish you could listen to again for the first time?

oooh maybe The Penumbra podcast, specifically Juno! I think I got a weird impression of it because I listened to the OG, much rougher version of arc 1, it was really confusing and I got a very different idea about the characters in my head. Now when it's finished, I think it would be a better listen to just go through all of it as a blank slate! I also liked the end, and I think it found what it is about during the journey.

11.) what’s a podcast you’ve listened to more than once?

Most... If I like it I'll listen AT LEAST twice. But I have listened to Deck the Halls SO MANY TIMES because it's short and wrapped.

12.) what’s a podcast you wish more people listened to?

Having many fans is a double edged sword, but right now, Hallowoods and Hymns for the road. I think both would be so visually inspiring for fanart and oc's.

13.) what do you like to do while listening to a podcast?

Draw! Always!

14.) who is a podcast character that you love?

Leon from Greater Boston!

Diggory Graves from Hallowoods!

Brnine from Friends at The Table!

15.) who is a podcast character you can’t stand?

Genuinely? I did not like Cassius from Syntax... sorry... I just think they are too stupid for me.

16.) what songs do you associate with a certain character/ podcast?

oh man, Hoziers Eat your young with Hallowoods, Moss by cosmo shelldrake (for obvious reasons) with Hymns for the road, Haunted House by sir babygirl with Friends at the Table

17.) what’s a podcast that you can’t stop thinking about?

Bluff city (friends at the table), Hallowoods, Greater Boston and The Silt Verses. It's something about imperfect communities

18.) are their any podcasts that you regret listening to?

Yes. We're alive. Zombie podcast. Was waiting for it to subverse all the boring and bad cliches it set up. It didn't. It was 100 eps a 40 min. I have never been more mad

19.) whose your favorite podcast couple?

In canon, of course Cecil and Carlos. The OG!

Shipping wise its Leon and Michael from Greater Boston, Harley and Lancaster and Love and Radager from Find us Alive, Brnine and Valence from Palisade, Heard and Hector from Bluff city.

I also ship Malik from World gone wrong with the alien replacement of his ex. I WANT TO BELIEVE.

20.) whose a podcast character that you think would dress really cool?

Actually cool? Probably Riot or Olivier from HFTH. Cool as in interesting/fascinating? Cecil WTNV again.

Podcast themed ask game cause I’m bored!

1.) what’s the first podcast you listened to?

2.) what’s a podcast you’ve cried over?

3.) Favorite podcast pet? (Idk if that’s worded weird but like if one of the characters has a cat or smth)

4.) what podcast has the best soundtrack/music?

5.) what’s a podcast that you really like but find it kinda hard to follow the plot?

6.) what characters from different podcasts do you think would be friends?

7.) what characters from different podcasts do you think would hate each other?

8.) what’s a podcast where you mix up the characters voices?

9.) what’s a podcast that you know the characters so well you can recognize their breathing?

10.) what’s a podcast that you wish you could listen to again for the first time?

11.) what’s a podcast you’ve listened to more than once?

12.) what’s a podcast you wish more people listened to?

13.) what do you like to do while listening to a podcast?

14.) who is a podcast character that you love?

15.) who is a podcast character you can’t stand?

16.) what songs do you associate with a certain character/ podcast?

17.) what’s a podcast that you can’t stop thinking about?

18.) are their any podcasts that you regret listening to?

19.) whose your favorite podcast couple?

20.) whose a podcast character that you think would dress really cool?

[whygalaxy]

HII!!! I AM A BIG FAN OF YOUR FANFICS!!, I want to make a small request (if possible) I need one Quackity headcanons with a female reader who has TDA and who does very poorly in high school (preferably in mathematics and physics) WOULD BE THE PERSON HAPPIER IF YOU DO SOME HEADCANONS LIKE THIS!!😭😭😭

Studies

♡⃕ Relacionamento} Quackity x TDA/ADHD!Fem!Reader

♡⃕ Summary} "Quackity helping you with school since you can't pay attention"

♡⃕ Notas}  Inglês n��o é minha primeira língua, pode haver erros. Peço desculpas por qualquer coisa. Como uma pessoa que tem TDAH, eu realmente me identifiquei com essa fic, espero que gostem

♡⃕ Alex tem um talento especial para transformar tudo em piada, mas seu humor é uma maneira de ajudar você a relaxar. Se você estiver estressado com a lição de matemática, ele dirá: "Nós conseguimos! Se não, nós inventaremos nossos próprios números. O que é um 'sete', afinal?"

♡⃕ Ele é ótimo em dissipar sua frustração com comentários tolos, garantindo que você não se sinta sobrecarregado.

♡⃕ He knows traditional methods don’t work for you, so he comes up with creative ways to help. He might turn math problems into a game, like using songs to remember formulas or drawing goofy characters next to equations.

♡⃕ Se ele perceber que você está distraída, ele lhe dará pequenos "intervalos para o cérebro" e até contará uma história engraçada para manter o clima leve.

♡⃕ He’s endlessly patient with your struggles. When you say, “I can’t do this,” he responds with, “You can, but the universe just wants to make it a bit of a challenge so you can flex on everyone later.”

♡⃕ Ele comemora até pequenas vitórias. Resolveu um único problema depois do expediente? “Amor, precisamos emoldurar esta planilha!”

♡⃕ He’s willing to learn alongside you if he doesn’t understand the math either. “Alright, let’s both be clueless. At least we’ll be clueless together!” He’ll Google explanations, watch videos, or ask others until he finds a way to make it click for you.

♡⃕ Alexis shares stories about times he struggled with something, making you feel less alone. “I once failed a math test so badly, I just wrote, ‘Pi is tasty,’ and handed it in. So trust me, you’re already doing better than me.”

♡⃕ Quando ele perceber que você está ficando inquieto ou distraído, ele gentilmente sugerirá uma pausa. “Vamos lá, a matemática pode esperar cinco minutos. Vamos dar uma volta ou fazer algo divertido — então vamos acabar com esse problema.”

♡⃕ If you’re ready to give up, he’ll make dramatic declarations like, “This math test thinks it can defeat my girl? Nope, not on my watch!” It’s cheesy but effective in lifting your spirits.

♡⃕ Ele nunca faz você se sentir mal sobre seu TDA/ADHD. Se você começa uma tarefa, mas esquece na metade ou perde o controle do seu plano de estudos, ele ri disso com um simples, "Igual. Meu cérebro é como uma máquina de pinball também."

♡⃕ After tough study sessions, he’ll surprise you with your favorite snacks or take you out for a fun activity as a reward. “You just battled algebra for two hours. Time to celebrate with ice cream. You earned it.”

Quackity is your biggest cheerleader. Whether you ace a test or barely pass, he’s there reminding you that your worth isn’t defined by grades. “Who cares if math doesn’t love you back? I do, and that’s all that matters.”

<3

[uhlillie]

oh yeah back to back art posts maybe my art block is finally defeated 🙂‍↕️

[beebeedibapbeediboop]

I just wanted to draw my pink ghostface again

[soni-dragon]

ive seen a couple pokemon character color wheels around so i tried one with some of my favorites!

[kurikorso]

nostalgia slapped me upside the head a little while ago so i had to draw my favorite dudes ft. the gecko effect

[jeebweezers]

regretting this elevator or whatever the kids say

[icewindandboringhorror]

I made a few new wax seal stamps out of clay (like the ones I did for my worldbuilding stuff forever ago), this time just of random symbols that I thought might look good done in the style of painting over the raised part of the wax or etc. :0c Some of them aren't carved deep enough to really show up that well, but overall they worked okay for being clay lol

[titaniumions]

hello again r1999 fandom here's a template you can use i just really wanted to have one of those for this fandom so i made one myself. you can draw them or put pngs of your blorbos or whatever just have fun with it. you can mention me if you do it but it's fine either way bc my username is on the template anyway

[moeblob]

I love Chris so much you guys.

[dailyjevil]

hello!! hope you're having a good day :D

since you're doing the pride flag challenge, I hope you don't mind me requesting the lithromantic/sexual flag!

left is lithsexual and the right is lithromantic, idm which one you pick :]

(it means to feel romantic and/or sexual attraction to someone but doesn't want the feeling reciprocated or stops once it is :>)

Day 297 of posting Jevil every day

[yi3248]

reflection