#and they just take it for granted

[mirrorthoughts]

On the AI stuff... On top of the unethical sourcing... It's so demoralizing to spend hours on your creations and get so few notes while people post ai shit and get hundreds.

I have seriously considered leaving the creative side of fandom lately because what's the point when my work gets fed into an algorithm to spit out things that end up with more interaction?

Oh I feel you, though tbf I think at least for me it'll still be a while until I'll leave fandom (just because as a rather small writer I don't expect there to be hundreds of interactions on my works? So I'm just happy if anyone interacts with it at all? Also writing still is a bit different than creating fanart for example).

But yes, it is demoralizing and frustrating to feel as if you are being buried beneath the flayed corpses of your own creation, ignored by the people whose monstrosities are based on your work. At the same time not making art (nevermind which kind of art) for me is like trying to stop breathing.

I don't make art to show it to people, though of course, showing it to others is an important part of enjoying art I made. But I also enjoy making the art. I need to make art. The only way to make me stop making art is to literally kill me.

Doesn't mean I will share what I'm doing with everyone.

Yes, art needs community. Art needs interaction. Art needs to be talked about.

But I can do that with those hand full of people I trust. That's actually one of the reasons why I don't post full story chapters anymore on Tumblr (though, tbf I also don't have the spoons for formatting and all that) and why I keep my fics locked on AO3. It's sad that I feel the need to do this, but currently that is how I feel.

It's sad that anyone has to feel like they can't enjoy fan communities anymore thanks to AI art and though I don't know your art (or maybe I do, I don't know?) I'm sure if not I then someone else who enjoyed it will miss it when/if you decide to leave the fandom 💕

Art is communication. One of the few kinds that actually helps me understand people, feel feelings I can't seem to find within myself otherwise and explore interests with the borrowed joy of the artist, even if that interest holds no meaning to me when I try it myself.

I will miss each and every single artist who will decide to close off their art from everyone else because they feel ripped to shreds by the callousness of those who use AI based on stolen artworks.

I wish you the strength to survive a little longer in the current very much hostile anti-art circumstances, Nonnie 💕

There's still hope it will get better eventually.

[lilybug-02]

It is strange to think something so intrinsic to humans may be so detrimental to another.

Bug Fact: The glow of artificial light does not actually attract bugs, it interferes with their natural sense of direction.

“Unable to secure food, easily spotted by predators and prone to exhaustion... Many die before the morning comes.” - The Conversation

Keep your lights off at night when you can.

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[bacchuschucklefuck]

while teen while goblin while aroace while injured while doing your best

[skarmoree]

a veritable flock of Robins

clap and cheer for me pls this took 75 hours

see explanations for the designs here

[whimsymazzy]

[idkaguyorsomething]

the convoluted doctor who lore gets extra funny when you realize that, at two separate points in the past, two different companions to two different doctors ended up running into rasputin but both came to the conclusion that he was a pretty nice and normal guy. which, depending on how you interpret the power of the doctor, is either a nice subversion of a lot of tropes of stories used in pre-soviet russia, or side-splittingly hilarious as you start imagining the master getting roped into various adventures with different versions of the doctor that he can’t fuck with yet or else he’ll destroy the timeline, forcing him to play nice with the humans as part of his 4D Time Chess Master Disguise Plan #3852

[macksartblock]

hey gang <3

[kyurochurro]

GOOD AFTERNOON!! TODAYS UNI SKETCH IS : a redraw/study/doodle/whateva you wanna call it of this very dapper image of Picard and Data!! first time drawing Picard so I struggled a lil but otherwise I had so much fun drawing Data! :Pc og pic under the cut!

picard you smoke too tough... your swag too different ...

[mercymaker]

me, coming to this website every single day: don't look at the like/reblog ratio don't look at the like/reblog ratio don't look at the like/reblog ratio don't look at the like/reblog ratio don't look at the like/reblog ratio don't look at the like/reblog ratio don't look-

[nimrism]

constantly thinking about the PERFECT setup supergirl season 1 had to make kara queer;

"oh my god, you're a lesbian" – winn to kara, in the very FIRST episode.

"hell, i wanna date her" – kara, about lucy lane.

"she does kinda give off a sapphic vibe, with that big old butch S chestplate" – leslie willis (livewire) about supergirl.

there were so many other instances in s1 alone, let alone in later seasons when lena showed up (recounting every queer-coded supercorp interaction would require a whole podcast). it was the PERFECT pretext to make her even just a little bit fruity, but the cw just couldn't handle it i guess

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

The four alignments of Tummy Hurt

[yo-yo-yoshiko]

He's so cute...

[johnslittlespoon]

Tough And Sweet (Like You And Me) ♡

'Gale looks unfairly handsome in the soft golden light of the late evening, but even more unfair is the fact that John can’t just bridge the gap between them and kiss his feelings away. The more time he spends around Gale, the more it feels like he’s being consumed by his overwhelming infatuation, and there’s not a single thing he can do about it that doesn’t involve the risk of scaring the man out of his life.

So he shuts the truck door behind him after promising Gale he’ll text when he’s safe inside, and he tries not to stare too forlornly as the truck putters off down the street and rounds the corner.'

[ AO3 ]

[whimsymazzy]

how I love being a woman 𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒

[feralmoonlight]

cowboys are ok I guess @castercassette