#sayeth the wuff

[guildwuff2]

i wanted a metal legion shirt so i made one for the gw2 meetup happening in seattle today ✨ come say hi if you see me!

[guildwuff2]

i can at least speak to my charr headcanons:

camel hair art! i would imagine this takes a lot of time to do and needs a lot of maintenance so it's a special-occasion kinda thing

also: freeze branding! the area's shaved down to the skin and a freezing-cold iron's applied, and the hair in that area grows back completely white. much more like a tattoo in that you care for it while it heals and the fur grows back, but in the end, it's a long lasting result! i've been sorely tempted to give a charr freeze tats (and i'd imagine local anesthetic is applied in tyrian practice, at least the professional ones)

aaand then of course regular branding! better for thinner or lighter coats. i wonder if charr do cosmetic branding, if they'd have to have a metalworker design something for them? or if there'd be some process more analogous to tattooing...

anyways! other stuff like ear notches, piercings... horn carving is definitely a canon thing with one of the skins, but yEAH i bet charr body mods are intense, especially legion charr!

I am once again thinking about body modification among the GW2 species

Perhaps there are asura who dock their ears, possibly for cosmetic reasons, but also maybe for combat reasons (as long ears are more likely to be damaged in battle). Asura who insert little implants under their skin that are capable of interacting with golem technology. Sylvari who perform scarification on themselves in order to create a certain pattern of glow. Charr, typically unable to get tattoos on account of all the fur, instead shave intricate designs into their fur; carving details into the ivory of their horns.

[wilderwuff-art]

tres horny boys

(workin on their designs??? i need a simpler style wtf)

[guildwuff2]

hey i literally just got this exact message from this exact blog, so be careful out there ✌️check your passwords and set up 2fa

heads up to anyone with inactive blogs

i opened up my inbox to find a pornbot ask as per usual but it looked like this one had been sent by a real blog?

[I.D. a screenshot of a tumblr ask from the blog reinkakou with an icon of bob from animal crossing. the ask reads “Hello, lemondoddle (two kissy face emojis) ! Did you ask for my videos?” with an attached blurred image of a woman in a suggestive position. the blog name has also been highlighted green from the shinigami eyes extension. end I.D.]

so i checked it out and sure enough it was a real animal crossing blog and i sent them an ask letting them know about this before realizing this blog hasnt been active in a few years

[I.D. a screenshot of the same blog on the following page with text underneath the url that reads “Updated 5 years ago”. end I.D.]

not sure how bots got a hold on this account but i felt like i should say something in case more people get sent asks like this from seemingly real blogs 

[guildwuff2]

I'm open for commissions! Here's my commissions page ✨

Prices (USD) range from:

💜 $40 portraits (hosted on ko-fi!)

💜 $70 fullbody plain lineart (less for waist-up or portrait)

💜 $100 fullbody lineart + color (less for waist-up or portrait)

💜 $120 sketch page

Payment: I use Stripe invoices! If you're from a country outside of Stripe's regular service I also use Paypal.

For any further details about prices, examples, queue, and so on, please click the above commission page link! Be sure to read the ToS and feel free to reach out with any questions or concerns via tumblr DMs 👍 I may ask for your Discord info as it's a little easier for me to post images and save refs and the like through there.

[guildwuff2]

sorry it's late but i'm a night owl and i'm still thinkin' about the screenshots people have posted, like

...the fact that these people were wanting to use large language models to write their RP posts, or generate rps in general. it's genuinely kinda heartbreaking to think about, rp is a collaborative effort with multiple people to make really fun and personal stories in settings you enjoy with characters you relate to, or just a concept you want to explore. i've met so many amazing people that i talk to every day through rp, i've had friends i met through rp or rp platforms online that i've gone on to meet in person, multiple times in some cases.

what do you gain from rping with an LLM? all it's doing is predictive text. i want to connect with people, through characters connecting or characters in conflict, and grow as a creative! and, hell, grow as a person. the trajectories i've written characters in have gone in ways i've not expected before and it becomes an opportunity for introspection, and there's absolutely no way i'd ever get that from having a machine write the post for me.

writing is hard! art is hard! it takes years of practice, trial and error, mistakes, and taking inspiration from the media you love. the only answer is to connect with those artists and authors, connect with people in the same boat as you and want to improve as creators. using LLMs just takes the humanity out of the whole process.

[guildwuff2]

welp! i guess this is your explicit reminder that i have not and never will consent to my work being fed to AI datasets, no if ands or buts

like. okay. if you're reading this and you use AI for character references, i will literally teach you to draw. i have taught plenty of people, both children and adults, how to draw. seriously, dm me, i'm always happy to do redlines for people and give people every resource i have to begin.

if you don't have the time or energy for that you can commission artists. if you can't commission artists, base gw2 is a free fucking game and you can visit the aesthetician in any major city and preview as many character concepts as you want. if you can't even do that look at picrew, there's a bajillion character creators with lots of cool options.

AI in its current popular use in image generation only hurts artists, and if you give two shits about art or the artists who make it, you'd stop using it!

[guildwuff2]

considering a tengu........................

[guildwuff2]

h. have i. have i reached 5 reblogs.

[guildwuff2]

can't sleep so don't judge the time stamp but i've been feelin' the itch to like, carve out a lil artist buddy niche in gw2blr. there's so much cool artwork on my dash and i'm terrible at reaching out, and most of the discord communities i'm in are pretty quiet...

[guildwuff2]

Anyone else going to the gw2 meetup in Seattle? i just got my tickets ✨

[guildwuff2]

i'd planned on doing a sequel to the mu/zo comic ages ago and then lost the motivation, but now i'm suddenly slapped with the urge to do a mu/zo prequel comic and i'm posting about it so i don't lose motivation again

[guildwuff2]

i've been thinkin'... patreon's getting worse as they make more unwanted changes with more costs involved, and i wanna scooch to ko-fi for subscriber-based stuff now, because it seems they got better features and the costs for subscribers won't be as ridiculous. but i wanna get folks' honest opinion on the matter

again no pressure if it's something outside of your ability to do so for whatever reason! feedback helps a lot 💦

[guildwuff2]

Hey, I'm open for a few commissions!

https://wilderwuff-art.weebly.com/prices-and-examples.html <this is my website. please check the ToS too for details on things like turnaround, expectations and the like.

also, though my ToS says i use Stripe, i'll be using paypal for this volley, just because i'm still figuring out Stripe and it's quirks and i'll be using a bit of both while i adjust. that should have no effect on the commission price.

please contact me via Discord if interested! my username there is wilderwuff. thanks and have a good day 💜

[guildwuff2]

reminder that i keep a ref blog, @ref-wuff , where i put all sorts of refs and tutorials but also art refs i find handy! if u like those things check it out 👀

[guildwuff2]

driving over a bridge or perhaps an overpass on my commute to work

muttering "thank you lesbians" to nobody in particular