#fuck this year

[polinamory]

forgot to post this :(

[fishsinsareacknowledged]

AND A HAPPYY NEW YEARRR

[myk-talks-disability-life]

Its been a very bad and hard start to my year and it just wont get better no hard im trying

A small bit of good news is my dermatologist says he isnt concerned atm and we didnt need to biopsy anything. See him again in 3 months. yay, i suppose

[pan-matsuri]

Just learned about auto-dubbing on Youtube videos. There is no way currently to disable this feature as a viewer, which means that some videos are no longer able to be viewed as the original creator intended. I think this is a bad thing!

Generative AI is not worth the drawbacks for what limited benefits it may currently provide. Big tech has this fascination with it but is unable to define to what end it is being pursued. I've read plenty of literature, attended classes and guest lectures, and I've never felt that I recieved any good answers to the question "why are we doing this?".

I sincerely hope we enter another AI Winter because I'm so tired of this risky technology being forced on people. In just the last year, generative AI has transformed creative spaces in a very bad way. We used to create and share art for the simple sake of expression, and now generative AI has only exacerbated the notion that the goal is to create content to be monetized. Everything has to be about productivity and I'm so sick of that mindset that is so prevalent among my peers in computer science.

I argued in a paper once that AI research misses the point. It plays Go and Chess to win, but that's not really the reason why people invented those games. It creates images and sounds, but it doesn't really understand why humans spend so much time doing that ourselves. AI research doesn't seek to understand the world. Rather, it primarily seeks to optimize it.

Generative AI is soulless. That which is created by it is uncaring, unfeeling, and often incorrect. Researchers spend so much time and money trying to understand why it even functions the way it does. It is clearly not ready for general use and is a dangerous addition to a world already gripped by a crisis of authority.

It is too much to ask our leaders in business or politics to suddenly be compelled by morals or ethics; for too long, they have shown that they clearly do not care about anything past their own bank accounts. So instead, we need to reject this technology ourselves.

If you are a creator, please consider disabling auto-dubbing on your channel. Filter out AI-generated content on any art gallery sites you visit. Boycott the use of applications like ChatGPT or Character.AI that are built on large language models.

Speak to a neighbor. Draw a picture. Write a story.

We don't need generative AI.

[lilowoof]

*taps my ask box*

lmao, have a happy new year! may 2024 be a lil bit better

[halogen2]

well my books arent selling and never will, my boyfriend is abt to be out of a job + just had to drop $4k that we Dont have to get his wisdom teeth removed bc he doesnt have insurance, no place will hire me, and im having to help my dad raise my 15 y/o brother bc my mom died 2 months ago. oh also the world is on fire. really not feeling any hope at all these days!

[grotesque-bait]

might post edgy poetry or something. One of my worst years atm

[witchybimbocow]

GUYS, Samhain is TOMORROW. I have nothing ready. I wasn't ready. How did it come so fast. 🥺

[takoto]

cw suicide, death, death of a family member

this year has been beyond rough

two months and one week after my granddad passed away, my cousin took his own life

i only found out monday. five weeks after it happened. he was the cousin i was closest to on that side of the family. no one thought to tell me.

it's complicated. i don't have much contact with that side of the family - only that cousin, and my aunt, and even then only very rarely do i speak to my aunt. my cousin and i talk - talked, on and off, he dropped off the map a lot. always has. i hadn't heard from him in a few months, but that was normal.

my aunt (she isn't the cousins mother) realized on the day of his funeral that it was likely no one had told me, so she called my mum, who also had no idea what had happened, and she told me.

it still hasn't sunk in. he had a fucking difficult life. he was the cousin i knew the best. he was the oldest out of us. now i guess i'm the oldest cousin.

we went to the same secondary school.

the last conversation we had was about pokémon romhacks

he was the person who taught me about missingno. in pokémon red and blue. he was the person who taught me how to do most of the major gen 1 glitches. on the kitchen floor. he told me if you have the sound on the gameboy turned way up, it'll drain the battery quicker.

can't take off time to grieve either. my workplace is a piece of shit. no sick pay. when my granddad passed, they told me, "take as much time as you need off", i took off a week, they paid me one day of compassionate leave and said it simply wasn't possible to pay compassionate leave for the rest of the time. at the start of the year, they patted themselves on the back in an e-mail, saying how good of an employer they were, how they spoiled their employees (there's less than 15 of us across the whole company.)

i think i forgot to take my adhd medication this morning

just needed a place to vent

[toonabby]

Welp... (#FireDavidZaslav)

I never though of making this, but a few hours ago, Coyote Vs Acme, the most highly anticipated movie to come out the Looney Tunes, has been shelved and would not be releasing at all.

When I heard this I was confused and disappointed: "Why would they cancel this movie?" I thought to myself. "Oh right, TAXES and MONEY!" I was already aware of Zaslav's mistreatment of animation but this made me sad in particular considering that the movie was completed by the time it was cancelled.

All of those animators that have put their sweat and guts into this film for over two years. Gone. By contrast, the universally-reviled Velma got green light for a second season, while 2023's The Flash not only somehow survived cancellation, but also kept Ezra Miller - who had a lot of criminal activity throughout 2022 - as the titular character in spite of the potential legal trouble they'll get for having a convicted criminal in a role of a mainstream film, let alone still continue acting.

As I said in a comment on a YT video, any hope I had with WB and especially Zaslav is pretty much gone. Hell, I would argue that any hope I had with this year is gone. Between the abysmal beginning (the aforementioned Velma, the career-destroying scandals of Justin Roiland and Elliot Gindi, with the latter having only stared voiced acting for five months before the allegations came out, and the widespread, messy but otherwise pointless Hogwarts Legacy drama), the doubling down of Hollywood and especially WB's maltreatment of animation, several formally revered people getting exposed left and right, and tech giants making inane decisions, most notable Elon's takeover of Twitter and Reddit's API Changes, its honestly not a hyperbole or an exaggeration to say I despise this year. Not to an extent of 2020, but still pretty bad, and 2023 sucking was something I've been genuinely dreading when December of last year came.

And speaking of last year, this day marks the unfortunate first anniversary of the controversy DeviantArt got into when they decided to implement AI into their platform known for art made by actual people, NOT machines. Is every Nov. 11 going forward gonna have a company screwing over their audience and employees?

If there's one silver lining to this devastating situation, it's that the producers of said film would be able to watch it on private screenings next week. That, and the potential content leaks of said film.

At this rate, WB is dangerously close to becoming the ActiBliz of animation - a company full of greedy scumbags who take delight in screwing over their audience and their people.

To close this post off, I will no longer be supporting WB and its related content from now on (at least legally). I'll be removing my profile off of HBO Max (or rather Max) and deleting the service on my TV. I'll also remove every video from the Cartoon Network YouTube channel off my watch history even though they had nothing to do with this situation, I just don't like associating myself with a scummy company regardless of how I feel about the products themselves. That obviously doesn't mean I automatically hate anything by WB nor do I want to remove them from my history, I'm just saying is that I don't want to support anything by WB if that means I'm profiting of from the company. I'll also delete/private my fan art commemorating the company's centennial, because as I said before, I'm not respecting a company that treats its own works like disposable tools while giving other works a slap on the wrist in spite of their abysmal quality. Talk about double standards...

TL;DR: WB cancels a film that has already been completed and everyone is restoring to pirating their content, including me.

EDIT: Okay, changed my mind. I'm ONLY going to delete everything from JUST Warner Bros., the company, not the products they own. That doesn't mean I WON'T be deleting anything that celebrates the company though.

EDIT 2: Even though I'm not supporting WB anymore, I'm keeping my 100th anniversary post (at least on this site) for "archival/historical" purposes.

[neptunes-saddest-alien]

“ what are you gonna do for the new year?”

Oh yk Not much just contemplate suicide the usual might just cry my eyes red idk

[kitwilsonsass]

clothes still smell. i don’t fucking get it.

[lapdogchase]

(so mad i can’t see straight) Yeah i just don’t think chat gpt is a good classroom tool

[beastwhimsy]

"I should draw Māori Miku!" I said to myself. "Just a fun sketch, it shouldn't take me long" I said to myself. Six hours later I come to with this in front of me and a wrist begging for mercy but holy fuck worth it. I love this trend this was so much fun

PLEASE DON'T REPOST ON OTHER SITES!!! ASK ME FIRST!!!!!

DISCLAIMERS AND NOTES ETC.... I'm Pākehā, meaning I am not of Māori descent. I hold so much respect for Māori people, for their values and traditions, and for the fierce pride with which kapa haka is performed. I thought if I was going to design a Māori Miku, it makes sense to dress her in a kapa haka kākahu, as her whole thing is singing and dancing!!! The moko kauae is not based off any real person's. I referenced the temporary moko kauae a lot of kapa haka performers wear!! Was tricky finding out whether or not depicting her with a moko kauae was a good idea, so I went the safe route- showing an aspect of Māori culture without stepping over any boundaries!! Brown eyed Miku is everything to me shout out brown eyed Miku.... I referenced like seven different outfits to put hers together!! I really hope this looks accurate or at least passable. Thanks to adorkastock for the pose ref!!

[ed-recoverry]

From one Gen-Z to another, let’s continue to deprogram ourselves from the idea that 30 is old and you need to have your shit together before 30.

You can go back to school after age 30!

You can fall in love after age 30!

You can find a best friend after age 30!

You can find a passion after age 30!

You can find a job you love after age 30!

You can recover from an addiction after the age 30!

You can pursue a large goal after age 30!

You can travel the world after age 30!

You can move after age 30!

You can change your appearance after age 30!

You can ask for help after age 30!

You can make discoveries about yourself after age 30!

You can come out after age 30!

You can fix your finances after age 30!

You can be attractive after age 30!

You can fix your life after age 30!

You can do anything after age 30!

Idk what so specifically about the number 30 has bewitched so many of us into believing that means your life is over, but it’s just so far from the truth!

You have so much more time after 30 to accomplish all that you want to do.

Your life isn’t over until it quite literally is over. Stop giving yourself a deadline that doesn’t exist!

[battywitch]

Our washer might really be taking its final gasping breaths. This is great. Love this for us.