#but a lot of it is personal creative stuff

[meshaamem-li]

yeah sure, because y'all never used the free tool that mimicks human dialogue because instead of talking to a Human Being or using google.

googling "how to do groceries" isn't going to give you any productive results, your parents aren't always gonna be available to baby you or they might have never been there for you, and yeah some people are not good at preplanning this shit when they also have a full time job and have to pay bills and take care of a million other stuff, asking chatGPT how to manage groceries is better than surviving on instant ramen and takeaway (like how boomers used to make fun of college-aged millennials)

sometimes you have no clue where to start searching for a topic, so you either make a post on social media asking complete strangers for guidance (hence the Reddit forums) then double check it to make sure you didn't get answers from an idiot, orrrr you use the Free Tool that might have some sort of information on it and then double check it to make sure it didn't hallucinate.

have trouble summarising shit? I used to have a friend who was better at writing than me while I understood the materials of the lesson better, so we covered each others' weaknesses whenever we studied together, I'd help them learn and they helped me summarise (not exactly, and we didn't study a lot together, but kinda). I may have failed creative writing but I did pass my physics exams.

use... a fucking calculator.... why do you need a language model to be a calculator.....

chatGPT is free and it's convenient especially if you don't have friends and if a search engine has trouble giving you results. is it still a fucking language model that's pushed everywhere and is a massive problem? yeah. should you avoid it? absolutely. but it's also inevitably helping all these people, as long as they don't over-rely on it and learn to develop their skills, its not harming anyone.

we dreamt for years about personal assistants and intelligent robots. Siri was always meant to be AI powered eventually, all of these futuristic movies where they ask the computer to do something and it answers like a person is AI, this is the direction people wanted to go towards for DECADES, and now you're surprised it helps people with little things that they probably could've done on their own? it's its entire point of existing!

the problem with chatGPT is that it's used to replace people in the ART FIELDS where HUMAN CREATIVITY is key, used to replace HUMAN CONNECTION with apps like character.ai when it CAN'T ACTUALLY FEEL, and that it's being presented as a DATABASE that knows FACTS when it DOESN'T KNOW HOW TO ANSWER "I don't know" or provide proper sources for what it "knows". that and the fact it was illegally trained on data that - while public - was still owned by hundreds of thousands of people.

[jitterbugjive]

Okay... I'll Accept Holiday Letters...

So, anyone who has followed me long enough knows by now how I get around the holidays. Seasonal depression kicks in, and bad memories of old toxic Thanksgivings and Christmases flood my brain any time I see or hear reminders of them. Plus there's some trauma from living in poverty and having very little around the holidays and the only people willing to exploit my mentally ill mother for work was the Salvation Army who basically pay pennies. And there's a whole lot more I don't like, like the cold, Christmas Carols, etc.

However.

The last couple of years I finally got to have proper family holiday get togethers since the toxic people in the family are gone now, and it was very healing for me. I still despise the holidays, don't get me wrong, they are mostly miserable for me. I generally tell people to not address the holidays with me.

But... I've been going through a LOT this year. Especially the last 6 months with my mother being manic and getting her whole life messed up. I've also been dealing with another family member experiencing psychosis on and off as well that I haven't felt comfortable talking about. The results of the election and things Oregon was voting on are not helping me feel any better, and I fear that winter depression is going to be hitting me like a truck. I can feel it creeping in already now that the weather is getting under 40F. On top of that, my family isn't in a state right now where anyone can feasibly host Thanksgiving or Christmas, so it's a bit of a lonely one this year. Sure, I have friends I can spend time with, but I was just getting used to the family dinners. Overall, this is just going to be a very hard winter for me.

And for once, I'm going to ask people to lend a bit of the Holiday Spirit (tm) my way, because I really need some pick-me ups to get through the rest of the year. Basically all I'm asking for is for people to send me letters of encouragement through my PO Box. Gifts and fan art are welcome too, I keep all my fan art safe. I'd prefer not to get flat-out christmas cards unless the cards are really nice or creative and have a lot of thought put into what's written in them. I could just really use some kind words and there's something that feels a lot more personal about physical letters that I can store away and pull out on a rainy day.

Please note I have a pea brain that can't read cursive very well, so if possible I'd prefer it be in plain print or typed out.

If you send treats they need to be shelf stable and properly sealed, no home baked goods.

My P.O. Box: (Can be addressed to Jitterbug or Jack)

16055 SW Walker Rd #274Beaverton, OR, 97006

And if anyone's feeling generous I do have an amazon wishlist that people should be able to buy and send stuff from without needing to be the middleman. I don't update it much and a lot of stuff is outdated but you should be able to organize it by priority to get a better idea of what things I'm most interested in. You can even add other stuff to the order that isn't on the list and it will still be shipped to my P.O. Box!

AMAZON WISHLIST

[halfdent]

Personal stuff below / delete later

/ okay a lot going on today but I really want to be active . Im sorry I keep saying that just a lot going on , I’m really exhausted irl && it doesn’t help that I set myself unrealistic standards about how I present the blog. Im not like this about anyone else’s blog but my own . && I think most of it has to do with the fact that I have to make all the scars on Oscar’s face myself && then translating that into a graphic is so hard . && in general my art style && creative style is incredibly messy im very insecure about that && I know it’s about the writing tm && believe me I put 110% into that too it’s just that tumblr seems to be so obsessed with it these pretty grain overlay gif effects && other extravagant graphics which may be easier than they seem but for some people that’s just an enigma ! I don’t know the point is I want to focus on my writing && try kick the lack of self esteem because it’s exhausting. Sorry I know people don’t like these kinds of posts on main

[nikarawrrrr]

I know people really don't like reading these types of things, but I think it should really be said that AI does not belong in fandoms, and it absolutely should not have a place to be used in the Life is Strange fandom.

Every now and then, we see people using AI to write LIS fanworks, using character.ai for Max, Chloe and other characters. using AI to 'make' art and stuff, or even stealing art and using AI over it. Or again using AI to imitate the actors' voices to make tiktoks and stuff.

Enough said, this fandom has so many talented and creative people. You don't need to be the most talented person in the room to create the things you want to see! It's okay to be messy and quick, the point is to have fun and make things you like and hope that others will like too! Most importantly this fandom needs to seriously pay its to basic respect to actual artists and fanworkers who put blood, sweat, and tears into their art. Minor note this fandom has an huge art theft problem that could be talked about some other time, but mostly engage and be friendlier with your fellow artists who deliver already a lot to the LIS fandoms!

Literally just stop using AI and be original for goodness sake, it's the right thing to do!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

With the end of season two comes a second redraw!

[Nov 2022] [June 2023] [June 2024]

[puppyeared]

u know when youre bored of everything and it feels like theres a hole that youre trying to close but it just keeps sucking everything up

[judasisgayriot]

sometimes before it gets better, the darkness gets bigger, the person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

yeah like some of the stuff is heartbreaking bc like. it’s personal trauma shit. but while it’s sad as shit it’s very much like, in a therapeutic vent way and he’s both happy to have made an impact and working to move on into healthier creative and like. life directions. i think it’s just a lot of people know the pain of that personal trauma and it’s extremely sad to see someone so publicly be openly treated inappropriately (and I don’t mean sexually, though that was also an issue-there were people admitting to being emotionally reliant on him at 15-16) and experience the same confusion and hurt you did bc it really makes you think how widespread it is. even if we are all getting though this.

The fast clips in Tommy's new music video

[silusvesuius]

this tree from my new drawing looking goated afffffff 👑👑

[sableprince]

assorted NMS oc doodles backlog that i guess i forgot to post? i'm really bad at putting stuff in tags, like this comparatively more serious lore compilation post thing. haha. this trio is stupid.

slightly more serious teluya backstory WIP comic under the cut because it's less goofy

[wszczebrzyszynie]

Maybe 18 and 19 for the ask game?

18. what’s your favourite thing about the fandom?

the creativity, probably. theres so many artistic projects going on they are all very lovely. it feels very focused on the art, which makes it easier for me to draw a little something almost daily. very hyper and useful for me personally ...

19. favourite hermit design? (whether yours or someone else’s)

i love all my designs ... thats why i draw them. that being said i am most happy with my barn owl grian and dungeon master tango. probably favourites of mine. Generally i like more animalistic features... so very avian grians (but not parrot wings), monsterous cleos, half moon pearls... fully furry zedaph and doc too i think they are very fun. i like when people try their best to make etho look less like kakashi and more like a person who used to cosplay kakashi and later re-puroposed their clothes, but i do find 1:1 kakashi etho fanarts very very fun. i also like when people horror-ify hermits a little

as for everyone elses... i dont know if aus count? ill pretend they do. i really like stiffycks vodnik scar. and the way applestruda draws mumbo and screachogreilige draws grian. all cultural/folk inspired designs drawn ever (make me feel very happy).

[friendlifyre]

jingrenheng modern au where the astral express is a coffee shop and the stellaron hunters are an up-and-coming band and jing yuan is an exchange professor. and they wind up co-existing in the same small city for a year or smth. is this anything

[cupcakes-and-pain]

Shoutout to my siblings for putting up with my neurodivergent ass. Just now I remembered how multiple times I tried to convince them that we should roleplay a complex trading system between towns and/or nations. I wanted no plot, one dimensional characters, and all the focus on trade. It's a miracle they didn't tease me more lol

[valiant-portabella-pirkko]

alright. know what? with Secrets of the Obscure right around the corner and plenty of new Mists-related sky island settings coming with it, I'll just bite the bullet and interest-check a little something I've been turning in my head for a long, long while.

would YOU be interested in a Mists-based GW2 roleplay guild that uses a lore compliant multiverse system to allow canon, canon-adjacent, lore-breaking, and otherwise 'contradictory' muses to coexist in the same setting?

simply put: every writer's cast would be set in their own self-contained universe. as such, everyone could bring whatever muses they want with their own personal headcanons, and no one could dictate what is or isn't canon for anyone else. so long as your muses are GW2-based, you're good to go! bring your Commanders, bring your canon-divergent OCs, bring your canon muses-- and yes, even the ones that are 'supposed' to be dead. who can say what might have happened in a strange world far across the Mists, after all?

neutral hubs and in-character safety guardrails would be in place to keep all muses on a relatively even playing field regardless of their power, history, and prestige, too. play hardball if you like, but it might not end quite the way you'd hope. the main rule would be to maintain good OOC etiquette at all times: no godmodding, no metagaming, no theft, don't blend IC and OOC, and so-on.

if that sounds like something you might have interest in, please interact with this post! and if you've got questions or concerns, I'd love to hear them; feel free to send an ask or a DM, or just reply to this post!

[prolibytherium]

People who say 'music was best in the 60s-80s' etc are wrong of course but I do think there's a grain of truth to it in that at least pop/mainstream music in general has gotten distinctly shittier in the past decade or so?

Not that there aren't mainstream artists who are incredibly creative and talented but I feel like it's a lot more homogenous. And like pop/popular music has ALWAYS catered to trends and had a degree of homogeneity and it would be ridiculous to claim otherwise, but there seems to be a distinctly greater aversion to risk taking and more of a mass-manufactured feel to a lot of it. There's more fantastic music being made than ever before but less of it's penetrating the core mainstream? In my opinion.

[valtsv]

i don’t think i’ve ever seen anyone else share my fixation on angels as you have i was wondering if there was any angel related media u read/or watch to feed ur fixation !! also u don’t have to answer if u want lol

unfortunately i don't really have any recommendations because a lot of it is just stuff i've picked up from tumblr posts, youtube videos, doing research online, being raised by hardcore catholics, and studying theology and religious textual history as a hobby (it's actually pretty interesting from a historical and literary perspective). i guess neon genesis evangelion was very influential to me but that's about it.