#free block list for me

[efteris]

I freaking don't understand all the anti kink thing. Let people have fun omfg ???

[puppppppppy]

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

[icedb1ackcoffee]

to my fellow creatives: never stop making art. art is an act of protest.

[ardinwriter]

A particularly annoyingly evangelizing vegan colleague of mine got me wondering what exactly the end plan for these people is.

Presumably they want everyone on the planet to go vegan.

Okay, did the math and growing the world's densest (most calories per acre) crop, potatoes, on every acre of the world's arable land you could more than achieve the majority of the nutrition side of things.

You'd still have to deal with the B12 issue (the required human nutrient that potatoes lack), which depending on your level of veganism could be a problem since there are only three sources of B12: meat, dairy, and pills and the contents of the pills is bacterial cultures so that might be a no go, I don't know. Maybe that's fine.

We'll ignore for the moment the distribution issues of getting those spuds to people in non-arable areas.

So say you've completely solved the nutrition problem of being vegan.

How do you plan to open up the arable land currently used for animal production (roughly 75% of currently arable land is currently used for grazing) and what do you plan to do with the existing animals? Being vegan, you can't kill them or harm them in any way, so you can't sterilize them either. So they're just going to keep breeding with no culling other than natural deaths.

In the US alone, we have an estimated 308 million commercial laying hens. Each producing roughly an egg a day. At the moment, with the majority of those eggs going to stores to be consumed as eggs, the US has a fertilization rate of 13%. Even if that didn't climb after egg eating was stopped, that means 40 million fertilized eggs a day. If even 5% of those hatch, that's 2 million chicks after the first 20-21 days of this.

If we aren't eating or killing them, that's a problem.

And since the larger the predator, the longer the gestation time and smaller the number of offspring in a breeding period is a general reality, we are hosed on chickens alone if everyone just stops eating them because there won't be enough predators in the food chain without humans to stem the the chicken tide.

And that's just one livestock animal. It'll be a problem with the others as well.

And all this is ignoring all the other non-food products we get from animals. What are we replacing those with? And don't say plastic (or vegan leather or it's equivalents, cuz those are just plastics), I'd say relying even more heavily on fossil fuels isn't a good strategy here.

So, really, what's the end game here?

[rexonalapis]

idk man, who are you to dictate what people can write or not 🙃 if you have a problem with fluff stories and want to write some absolutely deranged story that fulfill your own personal fantasy, just fucking do it. these people write stories for free and they are passionate about it. clone of each other? isn't arts fundamentally about getting inspired by something that speaks to you and making your own iteration?

your desire for more edgy dead dove stories does not make you special to the fandom, btw. someone who belittles other people's attempts in creative writing does not deserve to do it themselves so idk i hope your ao3 account got hacked and your invitation queue would not get through until 2025 ❤

[desertduality]

i took a little break from Ad Astra but I'm trying to get back into it and I'm excited so!! I want some input akdjks according to the lore i've made up for my own story, wings in the watcher realm appear different that wings that players would have in an actual world.

So I've been trying to think of what wings I should give Scar when he's in the Watcher realm; i wanted something flashy and like. celestial feeling? to go with the slight star theme the fics got going on. My first option was common starling wings but i have too many options that i like now and I want help so ajskdkj please let me know which one of these you'd like to see the most in the fic!!

(examples under the cut)

click to see full images :]

Wallcreeper ^

Common Starling ^

Magpie ^

Violet backed starling ^

[p1harmonie]

i was tagged by the lovely @dojaejung thank u lia this was so much fun !! 🤭💞

tagging (of course feel free to ignore this!!) @ningtual @kimsuyeon @oddinarys @leegahyun @jaebeomtual @hwangchoons @neonsbian @sheawolfmp3 @28reas0ns @bj-wnjn and whoever wants to play <3

this is the template !!

[arcane-vagabond]

Still thinking about how someone tried to tell me, a QUEER author, that I can’t talk about politics that affect ME personally on MY blog (where no one is forced to be), all while stating that they inherently believe that women are inferior to men.

Amazing.

[jamisonwritestf2trash]

I did not just see someone say I'm not "pro-kink" for thinking incest shipping is wrong.

My brother in christ.

"It's not real, though!" And??? Why would you want to ship incest anyway??

I'm sorry, but no.

[copsecore]

Redacted Audio / Kenju Audio Comparison

PSA: just found this very interesting how similar the two are - I am NOT accusing Xander of stealing Erik’s content

I made a table comparing different character types/video titles and I found that there's a redacted vid that perfectly aligns with every kenju vid - it's linked in the replies if anyone wants it

With the videos, some titles are so similar they're basically exactly same, eg. "Bakadere Empathy Daemon Asks You For Help" [R] / "Werewolf Hunter Asks For Help" [K] and "Tsundere Werewolf Boyfriend Teaches You How To Cook A Meal" [R] / "Trying To Cook Dinner With Your Tsundere Werewolf Boyfriend" [K]

the same/very similar aesthetics

use of the same font (Montserrat bold/regular)

use of the same icon style (from Microsoft)

Thumbnail design - when i saw a kenju vid pop up on my feed, ngl I thought it was one of us making a redacted thumbnail as fanart bc I've seen that been done before

I've seen some people say "oh he's inspired by erik's channel" yes i know, but being inspired and having your stuff be the same are two different things (guys please don't attack me, i dont mean this to be malicious)

I checked on here to see if someone else had noticed it before i had and saw a couple people had - thank god it's not just me

character similarities: I looked at the two channels side by side and I could easily put the characters in pairs, eg. "Grumpy Medic" = Sam, "Biker Wolf" = David, etc

IDK if this is a standard "don't copy my work message" taken from somewhere but they both have the same thing in their video descriptions

[REMEMBER THIS IS LESS CRITICISM/ACCUSATIONS (for now) AND MORE OBSERVATIONS]

paraphrasing plagiarism: "the use of someone else's writing with some minor changes in the sentences and using it as one's own. Even if the words differ, the original idea remains the same and plagiarism occurs"

[chaiaurchaandni]

[myqueenmarceline]

I was going to message this person directly but it seems like she wouldn't want me interacting (no bisexuals lol), so I will put it here as a general PSA instead: this is not TikTok, you don't and shouldn't be censoring words like rape and death! Like this is the comments of another post, not even your own post. You are not going to get banned for using the word "moron". This isn't even genuine l33t, this is just sad.

[randomnameless]

Because a mutual shared with me some #Nemesisdidnothingwrong2023edition I felt like I had to vent here :

What's the bonkers reasoning that goes "well he had some followers so obviously what he did wasn't that bad/the person he trounced and the race he genocided weren't free of blame"???

Regardless of real life events because that's going to be depressing, can we say the herons got it coming when Lekain spearheaded their massacre in Serenes, because Lekain managed to get the backing of "many followers" so those pesky pointy eared subhumans weren't loved, and it must be for a reason (since so many brave people went to slaughter them!) so they were BaD ?

What next, FE8's Gheb is a bright and thoughtful commander, because while he might seduce prisoners using force from times to times, he was a Grado commander and had many soldiers who followed him*? The prisoners being seduced weren't that loved, since the soldiers didn't move a finger to stop Gheb, so it means those prisoners were BaD, thus Gheb might not be utter garbage?

*oh shit, I remember it's the exact same line Seteth gives when he pours you a cup of tea in SS - Izuka has many people working with him and he leads a certain number of men, so maybe his cause is just/his ideals aren't utter garbage?

[sideblowdge]

shofarsogood NOT being zionist here:

i find it fucking weird this person says “i believe in israel continuing to exist” then wonders why people call that out as zionist. Lol. Lmao even

one more time:

[owlbean]

So it turns out that the presence of "AI art" enthusiasts is increasing on tumblr so I'd like to make my stance extremely clear by explaining what AI art is. I'm going to get rid of a lot of the anthropomorphic terminology used because it obfuscates a lot of how this system actually works. I'll use Midjourney as our example since it's the system I'm seeing most often mentioned in posts. With full disclosure I've written this explanation before and am crossposting it into an actual post because I hope it can be helpful to explain what is going on here.

What we know as AI art is an image generated from a program like Midjourney, which has been "trained" to reproduce individual images associated with certain key words. Training in this context is not the same as a person being taught how to draw because Midjourney is not and will never be a person. That isn't how these systems work. Training refers to the source pool Midjourney pulls from as it is generating images. If you only sourced a program with the Mona Lisa, it would at all times attempt to reproduce the Mona Lisa. It is attempting to find a middle ground of the key words you gave it. When people say AI art cannot innovate, this is what they mean. It cannot reproduce that which it cannot directly source. When AI enthusiasts use terms like emulation, what they mean is reproduction of the median. This is why it doesn't really work as an aid either. It wouldn't correct your proportions for example, it would generate an approximation of the average proportions used by the source pool an then maybe skin a semblance of your style overtop of that.

You may have seen this tweet floating around:

In this case OP wanted to find a way to basically skin the artist's line and colour style over someone else's poses and composition. Whose poses and composition? Impossible to say, because Midjourney's sources are pulling from thousands at once as a way to circumvent the art theft argument. One individual image is a gestalt of so many source images that it makes it basically impossible for every person involved in its generation to band together to litigate.

This is also why so much AI art is that sleek airbrushed anime style, it is incredibly common and variation within is subtle so it's easy to blend it all together and come out the other side with something recognizable. This is also why using artists with extremely distinct styles as a key word often comes out with stylistically recognizable but generally incomprehensible visual slurry.

On the left is the work of the late Kim Jung Gi, who died October 3 2022. On the right is a Stablediffusion AI image generated four days later in "homage." Prior to his death, he did not consent to allowing his work to be used in this way.

Confirmed source pools have been places like Artstation and DeviantART. We actually know this to be the case because so many Artstation artists changed their images to the words "no AI art" that it clogged up the system enough that for a time programs like Midjourney could only reproduce Artstation's very distinctive No AI Art thumbnail image.

It couldn't "remember" previous Artstation Trending prompt sources and use them instead because Midjourney as previously mentioned is not a person and never will be so it does not have a memory or skill, it is reproducing from source pools. The term AI is in itself kind of a smokescreen to create this confusion and defend its legitimacy.

Unfortunately if you're saying "the problem is capitalism" this is true, in the sense that this exists as a cost-cutting measure because the average person would not know and may not care about the distinction. We have seen examples of AI art being used in the backgrounds of anime, D&D sourcebooks, etc. The AI prompters and "trainers" might get paid, but remember that this is a replacement for the work of artists. The artists and photographers from whom these images draw, on the other hand, are not compensated for their part.

(One last note- I'd like to make a distinction between so-called AI art and Algorithmic Art. Algorithmic art is, in florid terms, an expression of its coder. It generally is working within programs and sources all worked on by the artist, often an artist with experience in coding. This is why it's within the purview of abstract art, visually it tends to be abstract in concept and philosophically the code used to generate it is itself part of the piece. Whether or not you LIKE algorithmic art is another question entirely, but it is my personal opinion this is an important distinction.)

[qcomicsy]

In honor of this war, any good bottom Jason fics that you know about?

that fact that you asked me this question shows how my dignity in this site are low