#no ai here!

[mayawritesfantasy]

Tw: facial scars, burns

(Please do be warned!)

Hello void, hello everyone! Once again, I have returned here to ramble about my little passion project of mine :].

As I sit here waiting for my start date for the Prologue (very very anxiously and excitedly) I thought: "well the people don't know much about my story, and it would not be very nice of me to not introduce some parts as a precursor!"

So here I am! And I am super duper excited to be talking more about this with you all!

(All my images and photos of characters were done entirely by hand! I spent a long long time making these bit by bit :].)

Well, firstly, we have the Prologue's brave protagonist, Atticus Lune:

Our kind and charismatic protagonist! He is here! Look at him!!! He is the 3rd youngest son of the King of the Gods, born and raised amongst humans. He spent the majority of his childhood and teenage years at boarding schools, where he met Theo and Blaise, his two boyfriends and band mates!

Together, the three of them started the band Blue Rose Chaos, which has dominated their world. Atticus is destined to become the King of Nightmares and the God of Dreams and Memories, but he doesn't seem to be too keen on it. His facial scar, as depicted in the image, was caused by a stalker fan, oh dear. Though he is all healed up now, the memory of the incident continues to haunt him.

Next, our dashing deuteragonist, Theodore North:

Isn't he handsome? I particularly loved making him. He's got brains too! He's the main producer and guitarist for Blue Rose Chaos! He met Atticus when they were young, in Grade 7, at their boarding school. He was raised by a single mother and absolutely adores his mum!

He is the charm and the charisma of the group, and is the one who created their fandom name! I quite like it too, it's 'Rosebud'. Sounds very lovely to me. I have many plans for him, so please stay tuned!

Next up, we have our other handsome deuteragonist, Blaise Zak!

He's quite charming, too, isn't he ^u^. His photo was the first one I made, you can see some brush mistakes and accidental blurring in some spots but please do ignore that thank you!

Blaise is the oldest of the band and met them Grade 7 as well, a few weeks after. They were looking for a third person to join their study group, and as the highest scoring student, Blaise was the obvious choice. He's the drummer and the mind behind the band, making sure their success is guaranteed.

He's the fashionista of the group as well, rocking the androgynous look with anything from skirts and kilts to bell-bottoms and even short shorts. Quite the looker, this one. I have big plans for this tall and mysterious fellow as well, so do also stay tuned for him!

And so, this concludes my little monologue about my dear characters! I am so dearly and truly happy you have read till here, and I do hope you enjoy my page!

Signed,

MayaWritesFantasy

[8pxl]

PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. if you don’t have the option available, update your app or close your browser/refresh a few times. important to note you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

[shepscapades]

Surely this will have no negative consequences whatsoever!

[inkskinned]

at some point it's just like. do they even fucking like the thing they're asking AI to make? "oh we'll just use AI for all the scripts" "we'll just use AI for art" "no worries AI can write this book" "oh, AI could easily design this"

like... it's so clear they've never stood in the middle of an art museum and felt like crying, looking at a piece that somehow cuts into your marrow even though the artist and you are separated by space and time. they've never looked at a poem - once, twice, three times - just because the words feel like a fired gun, something too-close, clanging behind your eyes. they've never gotten to the end of the movie and had to arrive, blinking, back into their body, laughing a little because they were holding their breath without realizing.

"oh AI can mimic style" "AI can mimic emotion" "AI can mimic you and your job is almost gone, kid."

... how do i explain to you - you can make AI that does a perfect job of imitating me. you could disseminate it through the entire world and make so much money, using my works and my ideas and my everything.

and i'd still keep writing.

i don't know there's a word for it. in high school, we become aware that the way we feel about our artform is a cliche - it's like breathing. over and over, artists all feel the same thing. "i write because i need to" and "my music is how i speak" and "i make art because it's either that or i stop existing." it is such a common experience, the violence and immediacy we mean behind it is like breathing to me - comes out like a useless understatement. it's a cliche because we all feel it, not because the experience isn't actually persistent. so many of us have this ... fluttering urgency behind our ribs.

i'm not doing it for the money. for a star on the ground in some city i've never visited. i am doing it because when i was seven i started taking notebooks with me on walks. i am doing it because in second grade i wrote a poem and stood up in front of my whole class to read it out while i shook with nerves. i am doing it because i spent high school scribbling all my feelings down. i am doing it for the 16 year old me and the 18 year old me and the today-me, how we can never put the pen down. you can take me down to a subatomic layer, eviscerate me - and never find the source of it; it is of me. when i was 19 i named this blog inkskinned because i was dramatic and lonely and it felt like the only thing that was actually permanently-true about me was that this is what is inside of me, that the words come up over everything, coat everything, bloom their little twilight arias into every nook and corner and alley

"we're gonna replace you". that is okay. you think that i am writing to fill a space. that someone said JOB OPENING: Writer Needed, and i wrote to answer. you think one raindrop replaces another, and i think they're both just falling. you think art has a place, that is simply arrives on walls when it is needed, that is only ever on demand, perfect, easily requested. you see "audience spending" and "marketability" and "multi-line merch opportunity"

and i see a kid drowning. i am writing to make her a boat. i am writing because what used to be a river raft has long become a fully-rigged ship. i am writing because you can fucking rip this out of my cold dead clammy hands and i will still come back as a ghost and i will still be penning poems about it.

it isn't even love. the word we use the most i think is "passion". devotion, obsession, necessity. my favorite little fact about the magic of artists - "abracadabra" means i create as i speak. we make because it sluices out of us. because we look down and our hands are somehow already busy. because it was the first thing we knew and it is our backbone and heartbreak and everything. because we have given up well-paying jobs and a "real life" and the approval of our parents. we create because - the cliche again. it's like breathing. we create because we must.

you create because you're greedy.

[hezuart]

I like this show a lot

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I got to mimic so many unique art styles… I’ve never been so excited and proud over an art piece in a very long time! Inspirations below!

Zooble: Pablo Picasso, Pop art, Digital 

Caine: AI art, Airbrush 

Kinger: Albert Gleizes/Cubism, Leonardo da Vinci/Sketches

Pomni: Mozaic, Glass

Gangle: Impressionism, Still Life, Oil 

Ragatha: Youth Drawing, Crayon, Colored Pencil Jax: Max Fleischer & Grim Natwick Vintage 1930’s Cartoon Kaufmo: Liubov Kuptsova, Wassily Kandinsky & Farnaz Jahanbin/ Abstract Art  The Amazing Digital Circus (C) Gooseworx

[bixels]

Just gonna have to wait and see, right? Just wait and see! Just gotta wait and see! Who knows, we'll just have to wait and see! It's anybody's guess, we'll just have to wait and see! The future is exciting, we just gotta wait and see!

[ellielol]

the absolute easiest ppl to rile up on this website r dweebs who get mad that an AI generated image exists at all. you put one 9/11 Gameboy ad or McDonald's Simpson Porn in front of them and they start crying and foaming at the mouth. lighten up, no Absurdly Tiny Dog On Leaf Artisan's Guild was harmed by this post i promise. you don't even know why you're mad.

[thevioletcaptain]

i genuinely don't care how good a piece of ai generated art or writing looks on the surface. i don't care if it emulates brush strokes and metaphor in a way indistinguishable from those created by a person.

it is not the product of thoughtful creation. it offers no insights into the creator's life or viewpoint. it has no connection to a moment in time or a place or an attitude. it has no perspective. it has no value.

it's empty, it's hollow, and it exists only to generate clicks (and by extension, ad revenue.)

it's just another revolting symptom of the disease that is late stage capitalism, and it fucking sucks.

[ai-dream]

[fedoraspooky]

dusting off the ol' running Mabel meme after all these years because i am Tired

[kalofi]

IM BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN

[tamelee]

Happy 3/7day 🥰~! 'One day we'll look back on all these memories and smile about it'

Process + detail:

[8pxl]

an example of real pixel art and explaining the pixel grid:

Thread on how to spot AI generated pixels by reyhkibanki on twitter!~ Might be a useful read to help you spot common mistakes AI makes when generating pixels. There's also a lot more info in the link!!

[origamikarhu-art]

benrey and tommy are besties.

[jay-wasreblogging]

For more information.

[sfemonster]

A hot tip from me to you: the only way to use google for reference these days is to add "-ai" to the end of your search term.

Don't let ai make your life any more difficult than it has to be. Keep litter in its place 🚮🚮🚮