#im so scared to post this ngl

[xxsillysealxx]

hi tumblr first post and its my homestar runner self insert. cringe runs when it hears my name

his name is strong rad btw.. if ur curious

[cozylittleartblog]

lethal company is a workplace comedy

this prank got us All killed. btw.

[mossy-aro]

ultimately i think my insistence on aro positivity honestly is as much a political stance as a personal one.

when i say aro positivity is crucial and that i dislike doomer-ist posts that express sentiments like 'I hate being aro so much I wish I was dead instead’ it's not because I don’t think there can and should be a space for negativity and acknowledging self-hate, or the many ways being aromantic can really suck sometimes. i find that to be very important!

that being said. there is smth here about how self-hate posts are sometimes just arophobia that we inflict on ourselves. and when we put that out into the ether it (intentionally or not) can become arophobia that we inflict on other members of the community. i think there absolutely needs to be a place for negativity and the expression of anger and frustration and self loathing even - these are all good things to talk about because these are things that we experience. that being said, it can also be genuinely upsetting and triggering to people to have what is essentially arophobia shown to them and then have that be validated by other aspec people. your personal thoughts can affect your wider community on a level you may not anticipate. and i understand it i truly do! it took me so long to be able to recover from accepting being aroace - it threw my entire world off kilter and made me question everything about my place in the world.

but my insistence on aro joy and positivity is because ultimately i do believe that building is at the core essence of it all. that ultimately discussions and the purpose of community should be about construction, not destruction. and this is both a personal and a political stance. talking about how much you hate yourself and cultivating online discussions/spaces where negativity about aspec identity is the main and only theme is destructive - if that’s where we let the conversation end. these thoughts can and should be used as a vehicle to look for a path forward!

joy and positivity create a space where the focus can become on forging a path forward, on construction, on community building instead of tearing ourselves and others down with negative thoughts. it’s not productive or healthy when it stops at a place of negativity - it becomes actively destructive to the essence of community.

and i do think that this is especially poignant considering the fact that being any kind of queer, but especially aromantic (and/or asexual) means forging a path for yourself and making your own happiness where there is no obvious way forward. our communities exist mostly online (right now, anyway), there is little recognition of our existence in the real world, the effects of amatonormativity are both pervasive and actively dehumanising, and there are legal, economic and social structures in place actively making our lives more difficult. yes that all sucks! it’s good to acknowledge that. we need to in order to change it. but more importantly, that’s not the end. we are still here and our happiness, our future is for us to determine. even if we can’t change the laws or society, loving yourself and understanding aromanticism as a political identity (as well as personal), as a radical worldview, and as a protest against amatonormativity is essential for both community and personal well being. the personal is political.

tldr. i guess my point is that as a community, we should focus on building, improving, and nurturing ourselves and each other (construction) as opposed to destruction. we should recognise aromanticism and asexuality as political identities as well as personal ones and rely on community and self-love in the absence of anything else as a form of protest and political power. destruction (the recognition of everything that is wrong) is essential as a starting point - but where do we go from there? we rebuild.

[sqtorux]

december 7 in japan means it's gojo day and in celebration to that, it's abt time i make an announcement... im actually... married ... to gojo :00

first pic is when he proposed (so to our adoptive son toge) and second is our wedding day when he hollow purpled someone who objected (while looking hot asf) only congratulatory messages and birthday wishes are welcomed guys <3

[spearxwind]

Hello everyone! I am opening up for commissions for hopefully the next couple of months.

This time around I have crafted a google forms with all my offered options and all the pertinent info, so if you'd like a commission go fill this form out:

Form will remain open for a few days, or until I am at order capacity, and then will (hopefully) be reopened when I work through the current set. I will contact you when the form is closed!

Here are some examples of stuff I've done recently:

As always, if you want more examples feel free to peruse my art tag/art blog, and/or my commisions tag. If you'd like something from me that is not an option in the form feel free to email me at windydraws@gmail.com and we can discuss it.

Cheers!

[deoidesign]

"what do hands mean about a character?"

Their hands mean they love eachother

(webcomic)

[xxjayzayxx]

Its so funny to see ppl railing against "X male character" being called a twink/babygirl/etc.

Like... Okay?

He's fictional bestie, he doesn't care

[waddles-ex-machina]

also hey what the HELL is this place and - is that David and his shovel

[autismagolor]

so turns out, i won't be going on an art hiatus!

THIS IS WHY, WELCOME TO MY TAKE ON AN UTY SWAP AU, CALLED YELLOWSWAP KINDHEART!!

how about i introduce yall to our protagonists?

ASRIEL THE HUMAN: Asriel is a human with a soul of kindness! he's the son of a gardener who descended from the surface in order to rescue the 5 lost humans! goats happen to be his favorite animal, so he's customized his hat to have horns and ears using a little hotglue, tape, and leftover fabric and airdry clay!

CHERRY THE BLOSSOM: Cherry the Blossom is a lonesome sakura flower who has remained in the underground for years. they've decided to team up with Asriel on his quest to save the previous humans who fell, hoping to be able to bring the underground's cruel king to his just desserts! ...surely that's all, right...?

i've had a lot of thoughts about this particular au, expect to see the list of the swaps soon! just a note, a lot of them are probably not what you're expecting :)

[james-spooky]

this is a test

[sundial-bee-scribbles]

based off this post

[childhoodtheme]

BYE this was so fucking funny

[butch-bakugo]

You know what? Controversial opinion: expecting every single post that talks about not being attracted to men, hating men or otherwise talking about lesbianism/bisapphism/feminism to explicitly state somewhere that it's trans inclusive or they mean cis men when they are talking about men and not trans women is an entitled and lesbophobic/mysognistic expectation.

I said men. I mean men. Not trans women or else we would of fucking said trans women. The fact your first assumption on a post about lesbianism and not being attracted to men is to assume the op is terfy/transmysognistic is just a quieter and more entitled form of the lesbophobic shit that is "all lesbians are terfs and all terfs are lesbians" bullshit. Assuming lesbianism and feminism are inherently transmysognistic or have the inherent possibility of being transmysognistic is more of a self report and straight up mysogny than any actual potential bigotry on lesbian's and feminist's part. I'm not even a lesbian, I'm a bi manwoman and even I fucking know that.

Use some context clues or admit your mysognistic and expect women to constantly add a million disclaimers to their feminism that doesn't need to be there so you can defang it and middle the point with shit that's obvious and doesn't need to be stated. If you don't see any (ACTUAL) terf dog whistles or the op is LITTERALLY FUCKING TRANS, INCLUDING TRANSMASC, immediately assuming all sapphicness has a chance of being "terfy" is mysognistic and lesbophobic. It's a bigoted assumption.

Many would argue racism in the gay man community is SIGNIFICANTLY more common yet y'all do not expect every post about liking men, fighting toxic masculinity or not being attracted to women as a man to add a little disclaimer at the bottom that hes cool with poc. You only expect that of cis women and afab trans people. That's mysognistic and transandrophobic. They dont need anymore work. Let them talk about feminism without expecting a scrolling disclaimer at the bottom to comfort your weird guilt and pick me bullshit that she doesn't hate alllll men and she knows good ones are out there and she just means cis men not transmascs or transfems or any trans people and she's a girls girl. Bruh.

Leave her tf alone and let her say men. Let her pick the bear. Engage with feminism outside of Tumblr and terfs I'm FUCKING BEGGING YOUUUUUUU YOU THINK VAUINA ART IS A DOG WHISTLE YOU'VE LOST THE FUCKIN PLOT, MY GUY

- a transfem AND Transmasc intersex person. Fuck off with the allegations.

[pup-pee]

this is basically my kyle playlist

california girls is rlly carrying the angst so sad((she eants me(2 b loved) is not the sadest song ots just the 1st))

[skitskatdacat63]

2005 - Pit crews acknowledging the camera(because I think they're really endearing)

[janokenmun]

i keep seeing a post with this image, and like

the math doesn't work out for this? Like at all?

tl;dr; using ai image generation MIGHT be cheaper than prison slave labor, if you're making over a thousand queries to it per hour for each person replaced. stuff like chatgpt is even cheaper

the paper Power Hungry Processing: Watts Driving the Cost of AI Deployment? goes into the energy cost of AI. it mentions that out of the machine learning models they studied, image generators were by far the most energy-intensive, with an average energy consumption of 2.907 kWh per 1,000 queries. that sounds like a lot! but how much does that cost?

according to the US' Energy Information Administration, the average cost of electricity varies by sector. let's go with the commercial one for this. on average, electricity costs about 0.132$ per kWh for them. which means that 1,000 queries of ai image generation would cost a grand total of about 38 cents on average. 0.38$. and that's just focusing on the most energy-heavy machine learning model type; text generators, like chatgpt, cost less than a cent per 1,000 queries on average

(as for the prison slave labor comparison, Prison Policy Initiative mentions that, for commercial labor in the US, the average minimum is 0.14$/hour and average maximum is 0.63$ per hour. state-owned businesses pay more)

there's one question left; what about *training* the models? that one's harder for me to find data on. i did find sources mentioning that gpt-3 took about 1,287,000 kWh of energy to train, which would cost about 170,000$ using the previous metric. that's *actually* a lot! but it's also worth remembering that once it's trained, you can just copy it and distribute it like that. so at that point, it depends on total usage. considering gpt-3 has been used in multiple other things such as github copilot and ai dungeon, it seems likely that it's been queried a lot, resulting in its cost-per-query from training to be pretty low (but i can't find solid statistics on this; if any y'all have some lmk!)

so basically ai image generation might be cheaper than prison slave labor if you're doing thousands of prompts an hour, and it's definitely cheaper than paying an actual artist. which is why businesses are using it to replace actual artists. text generators like chatgpt are even cheaper than that.

this, of course, does not take into account *quality* of the output; it's valid to argue that despite ai image gen being thousands of times cheaper than artists, it shouldn't be used anyway because it Sucks. nor does it take into account any ethical issues which i won't go into here.