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[eliza-the-hunted]

EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS

PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE DON'T LOOK AWAY, AND IF YOU CAN'T HELP, PLEASE REBLOG!

(EDIT: I am trans...pls use they/them, it/its, or yeen when referring to me!! Thank you. ^^; )

Hi, my name's Eliza, I have stage 3b breast cancer. I've come a long way, had a partial mastecomy and some lymph nodes removed, but my cancer is still really aggressive and scary. I have another hurdle coming up that is going to strain me and my family a lot since we're really poor... and that's radiation therapy.

My radiation therapy apps are going to be 5 days a week (mon-fri), for 4-5 weeks. The only place I can be seen is 1hr 15mins away...so that's a 2+ hour drive, every single day for weeks. We just can't afford the gas money for that, we're barely scrapping by as is...

I hate that I have to ask for help again, but I'm terrified and don't want to die. So I'm offering REALLY cheap commissions! (Details below the divider.)

My cashapp is: $CANNIJU98 My Kofi is: https://ko-fi.com/eliza_the_hunted (My kofi also has some proof of my cancer, in case you want that.)

Any amount donated is super appreciated (if you can't afford a commission.) COMMISSION INFO BELOW!

FOR JUST $15 I WILL DRAW YOU SOMETHING SUPER CUTE!!

All I ask is you please be patient, my work-around due to having treatments (and side-effects, yuck), is gonna be 1-2 months.

Once I receive payment, I will give you my discord so we can keep in touch! I will show you a sketch, which you can approve or ask for changes, and then once it's approved I will finish it!

I CANNOT DRAW HUMANS, MECHS, OR ANYTHING TOO COMPLICATED. Please keep it simple! Sorry!

EXAMPLES:

Again, please reblog if you can't help, not to be dramatic but I really don't wanna die, and I've seen people get lots of help for less serious issues. TwT I'm terrified and need all the help I can get.

Thank you!

[cuppanova]

Verse Versa 101

Heyo!! I made a little slideshow that gives basic information about VV, its characters, and world! Check it out if you're interested!

[dlstmxkakwldrlarchive]

It's been two years since I first opened dlstmxkakwldrlarchive!

to celebrate, i wanted to organize a raffle with prize SHINee (solo + group) album

(tentative) prizes: 1. solo taemin album pack (ACE, Want, Press it - the version where he's kissing himself - & MOVE -grey version), 2. solo jjong album pack (She is, Story OP I& II - photograph version- & Poet/Artist), 3. Plagiarism Series (ACE, BASE, FACE, VOICE & CHASE), 4. Romeo (ONEW Version)

the raffle would begin after this interest check, and it would end on ONEW's birthday, of course there will be more than one winner, and to enter the raffle, you would just need to donate at least $5 to a palestinian and or sudanese family's gfm (list that ill share after the interest check results), donate esims, friends for congo, focus congo, seven dollars for water, operation olive branch etc

$5= 1 entry (tentative)

[yuzushifuo]

I made a strawpage and a carrd but like its in the strawpage

I will invade other strawpages and answer art gimmicks around after 30 december 2024!! I have a midterm soon this month and i have to clear school works around these weeks

[pizzaronipasta]

READ THIS BEFORE INTERACTING

Alright, I know I said I wasn't going to touch this topic again, but my inbox is filling up with asks from people who clearly didn't read everything I said, so I'm making a pinned post to explain my stance on AI in full, but especially in the context of disability. Read this post in its entirety before interacting with me on this topic, lest you make a fool of yourself.

AI Doesn't Steal

Before I address people's misinterpretations of what I've said, there is something I need to preface with. The overwhelming majority of AI discourse on social media is argued based on a faulty premise: that generative AI models "steal" from artists. There are several problems with this premise. The first and most important one is that this simply isn't how AI works. Contrary to popular misinformation, generative AI does not simply take pieces of existing works and paste them together to produce its output. Not a single byte of pre-existing material is stored anywhere in an AI's system. What's really going on is honestly a lot more sinister.

How It Actually Works

In reality, AI models are made by initializing and then training something called a neural network. Initializing the network simply consists of setting up a multitude of nodes arranged in "layers," with each node in each layer being connected to every node in the next layer. When prompted with input, a neural network will propagate the input data through itself, layer by layer, transforming it along the way until the final layer yields the network's output. This is directly based on the way organic nervous systems work, hence the name "neural network." The process of training a network consists of giving it an example prompt, comparing the resulting output with an expected correct answer, and tweaking the strengths of the network's connections so that its output is closer to what is expected. This is repeated until the network can adequately provide output for all prompts. This is exactly how your brain learns; upon detecting stimuli, neurons will propagate signals from one to the next in order to enact a response, and the connections between those neurons will be adjusted based on how close the outcome was to whatever was anticipated. In the case of both organic and artificial neural networks, you'll notice that no part of the process involves directly storing anything that was shown to it. It is possible, especially in the case of organic brains, for a neural network to be configured such that it can produce a decently close approximation of something it was trained on; however, it is crucial to note that this behavior is extremely undesirable in generative AI, since that would just be using a wasteful amount of computational resources for a very simple task. It's called "overfitting" in this context, and it's avoided like the plague.

The sinister part lies in where the training data comes from. Companies which make generative AI models are held to a very low standard of accountability when it comes to sourcing and handling training data, and it shows. These companies usually just scrape data from the internet indiscriminately, which inevitably results in the collection of people's personal information. This sensitive data is not kept very secure once it's been scraped and placed in easy-to-parse centralized databases. Fortunately, these issues could be solved with the most basic of regulations. The only reason we haven't already solved them is because people are demonizing the products rather than the companies behind them. Getting up in arms over a type of computer program does nothing, and this diversion is being taken advantage of by bad actors, who could be rendered impotent with basic accountability. Other issues surrounding AI are exactly the same way. For example, attempts to replace artists in their jobs are the result of under-regulated businesses and weak worker's rights protections, and we're already seeing very promising efforts to combat this just by holding the bad actors accountable. Generative AI is a tool, not an agent, and the sooner people realize this, the sooner and more effectively they can combat its abuse.

Y'all Are Being Snobs

Now I've debunked the idea that generative AI just pastes together pieces of existing works. But what if that were how it worked? Putting together pieces of existing works... hmm, why does that sound familiar? Ah, yes, because it is, verbatim, the definition of collage. For over a century, collage has been recognized as a perfectly valid art form, and not plagiarism. Furthermore, in collage, crediting sources is not viewed as a requirement, only a courtesy. Therefore, if generative AI worked how most people think it works, it would simply be a form of collage. Not theft.

Some might not be satisfied with that reasoning. Some may claim that AI cannot be artistic because the AI has no intent, no creative vision, and nothing to express. There is a metaphysical argument to be made against this, but I won't bother making it. I don't need to, because the AI is not the artist. Maybe someday an artificial general intelligence could have the autonomy and ostensible sentience to make art on its own, but such things are mere science fiction in the present day. Currently, generative AI completely lacks autonomy—it is only capable of making whatever it is told to, as accurate to the prompt as it can manage. Generative AI is a tool. A sculpture made by 3D printing a digital model is no less a sculpture just because an automatic machine gave it physical form. An artist designed the sculpture, and used a tool to make it real. Likewise, a digital artist is completely valid in having an AI realize the image they designed.

Some may claim that AI isn't artistic because it doesn't require effort. By that logic, photography isn't art, since all you do is point a camera at something that already looks nice, fiddle with some dials, and press a button. This argument has never been anything more than snobbish gatekeeping, and I won't entertain it any further. All art is art. Besides, getting an AI to make something that looks how you want can be quite the ordeal, involving a great amount of trial and error. I don't speak from experience on that, but you've probably seen what AI image generators' first drafts tend to look like.

AI art is art.

Disability and Accessibility

Now that that's out of the way, I can finally move on to clarifying what people keep misinterpreting.

I Never Said That

First of all, despite what people keep claiming, I have never said that disabled people need AI in order to make art. In fact, I specifically said the opposite several times. What I have said is that AI can better enable some people to make the art they want to in the way they want to. Second of all, also despite what people keep claiming, I never said that AI is anyone's only option. Again, I specifically said the opposite multiple times. I am well aware that there are myriad tools available to aid the physically disabled in all manner of artistic pursuits. What I have argued is that AI is just as valid a tool as those other, longer-established ones.

In case anyone doubts me, here are all the posts I made in the discussion in question: Reblog chain 1 Reblog chain 2 Reblog chain 3 Reblog chain 4 Potentially relevant ask

I acknowledge that some of my earlier responses in that conversation were poorly worded and could potentially lead to a little confusion. However, I ended up clarifying everything so many times that the only good faith explanation I can think of for these wild misinterpretations is that people were seeing my arguments largely out of context. Now, though, I don't want to see any more straw men around here. You have no excuse, there's a convenient list of links to everything I said. As of posting this, I will ridicule anyone who ignores it and sends more hate mail. You have no one to blame but yourself for your poor reading comprehension.

What Prompted Me to Start Arguing in the First Place

There is one more thing that people kept misinterpreting, and it saddens me far more than anything else in this situation. It was sort of a culmination of both the things I already mentioned. Several people, notably including the one I was arguing with, have insisted that I'm trying to talk over physically disabled people.

Read the posts again. Notice how the original post was speaking for "everyone" in saying that AI isn't helpful. It doesn't take clairvoyance to realize that someone will find it helpful. That someone was being spoken over, before I ever said a word.

So I stepped in, and tried to oppose the OP on their universal claim. Lo and behold, they ended up saying that I'm the one talking over people.

Along the way, people started posting straight-up inspiration porn.

I hope you can understand where my uncharacteristic hostility came from in that argument.

[e-m-p-error]

HIATUS

Hello, everyone. I've got a lot to say but really, I want to keep it brief.

After a year and three months, the terrorists have won. Grandpa's tired of getting death threats for both himself and Valentino. I can't take the hate anymore. My muse is all but dead and I need some time away from the blog for now.

I do have a Discord that I plan on trying to rework some to use for rps and the like, if you would like to join it. I have not been on it recently but I intend on fixing that if I can.

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[appleicecream]

AS OF OCT 27, 2023, THIS IS NO LONGER NEEDED! HE HAD REACHED HIS GOAL. THANK YOU!!

EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS FROM MY PARTNER

As of October 22nd, 2023. My partner, Biz, needs to raise money to repair or replace his broken drawing tablet. He is a queer, disabled, freelance artist and digital art is his only form of income. He doesn't have enough money to repair or replace it on his own, and he has art that he needs to finish urgently.

Oil pastel paintings for 15 dollars, set price. Cashapp only.

He currently cannot mail the finished pieces but he will take multiple pictures to send you.

If you are interested, please DM me here or DM alittavirens on Instagram. If you would rather just donate, his Cashapp is $CRYtoSURVIVE

Please reblog. Thank you.

[whitewolfstracks]

Hey, I never thought I'd find myself in this situation, but after some of you offered help, I decided to set up Buy me a coffee. Well, in my case it's Buy me a meal 😅

You can find me there @whitewolfsoul

I'll never be making any exclusive content or offer membership, this is based on strictly voluntary one-time support. Though, once I get my tablet fixed, I can make you a commission as a thank you gift at least xD

For more info, you can either read the last post about my situation, or I'll also share my profile info from Buy me a coffee below. If you decide to donate, know I'm really extremely grateful!!!

I would also really appreciate, if you could share this post. Thank you! ♡

I wouldn't be doing this if I wasn't absolutely desperate, I've always had issues with accepting help.

"I never thought I'll be doing this, but I've reached the most desperate time of my life.

For two years now, I've been unable to work because of extreme exhaustion. I've gone through multiple tests, which proved nothing, so the doctors ruled it's a result of my mental health.

Thanks to my multiple mental health disorders, I've been found elegible for disability pension, but just the lowest level. Right now, I'm living from state benefits that barely cover my rent, I get my food from food banks.

The problem is that for the past year, I've been suffering from worsening joint pains. Again, multiple tests that proved nothing yet, but I can't walk at this point. I can't even go to the shop or pick up my post, and food or medicine delivery is expensive.

It will take three more months for my disability pension to come, but that won't even cover my rent. Due to all of this, my mental health is deteriorating, and I'm also losing things all the time that I need to replace, making mistakes that cost me money because my brain is just so overwhelmed.

If you would find it in your heart to make a small donation just so I could buy some food, I would be extremely grateful. I don't share much about my condition online, but if you wanted to contact me to make sure I'm a legitimate person, below is my blog address."

Thank you! ♡

[zittybitty]

Hello hi!

You can call me Zandra, Zee, or Zinnia! I'm a transfeminine nonbinary voidbatpup who loves attention and loves to give attention.

Send asks! Anon or otherwise! Tell me what you want to do to me. Also dm me. Especially if you're trans. Just don't get mad if I don't respond immediately because I'm a busy bat who can get overwhelmed easily. Moots please dm me. Gay people in my phone are funnnn

I love to talk about mecha, the human psyche and sexuality, pokemon, Xenoblade, sonic, swords, spirituality, kinks, and others but I'm blanking

Also you're getting blocked if you don't have your age in bio.

DNI: Terfs, minors, sissy blogs, pedos

Kinks

Hypno

Petplayyyyyy

Praise

Pain

Mild knifeplay

Obsessed with edging

Exhibitionism

Voyeurism

Little bits of primal play

Hypno again

Bratting

Overstimulation

Orgasm control

Musk musk musk

Light degradation

Soft limits

Piss

Hard limits

Scat

Raceplay

Misgendering

Sissy

Tags

Zee's bits: pics of me

Zee's thots: it's my thoughts. Horny or not. I might make one for horny and non horny

Cuties muties: just for my moots

[sequs-art-box]

Hi everyone!

I'm entering my FINAL 2 weeks of the semester. I really do think I won't be posting anything until like. The 14th or 15th. Got a couple exams to study for + my FUCKING FILM TO FINISH.

Wish me luck yall. I'll see you on the other side. 🙏

[edwinspaynes]

I made a prayer circle. I even used my own handwriting. Like to charge. Reblog to cast.

[joowee-feftynn]

So turns out Elon decided to blast my account today.

SO in case you knew me on twitter as @.joowee_feftynn, just know that you'll probably never hear from me there again as they specified it was a permanent suspension. However I wanted to make this post to really let people know about it even if it isn't on twitter directly. It may seem like I'm being dramatic about it and/or I'm looking for attention but

Please reblog this if possible.

I wanna try and get this to reach as many people as possible to let them know I'm not on the void and that i am still present in this hell that is called the internet!!! About 2.5k people followed me there for my art and will have no clue of where else to find me, INCLUDING a lot of my mutuals.

I really don't want to lose so many connections and opportunities because of a dumb joke I made.

that's all.

[florathegnarpian]

YAY!

IK I DON'T HAVE A PROPER PINNED POST BUT

FLORA'S HEALED/SCARRED/PRESENT-TIME DESIGN IS FINISHED!

I CAN ASNWER ASKS AS HER AGAIN!

(the reason she's got a lot more burn scars than Atrocity does is cause she was closer to the part of the ship that slightly exploded)

(also cause metal burns a lot and she was both wearing armor and getting Atrocity, who was also wearing armor, out of the ship-)

[plushiegirlpadding]

18+ pls, put your age in your bio

My Dms are closed

[brick-van-dyke]

Some Rules:

If you're a Palestinian looking for donations and/or sharing of GoFundMes PLEASE comment on this post with:

Your @

GoFundMe link

@ of who vetted you (if applies)

and only comment once

I'm sorry for making this, but due to the amount of asks being so high, quick and even repeating for the same campaigns, I have found it difficult to find everyone's asks and share them.

For the sake of being able to share with tags and boosting as quickly and with as much of a reach as possible for every single fundraising campaign, I would like to kindly ask everyone to do this instead of sending asks.

While I deeply care for everyone's stories, it does make it harder to shift through everyone and share with the needed tags, so please send the above so I can share your pinned stories instead in a compiled master-post.

I'm so sorry to ask all of this while everyone is struggling as it is, but at present this will ensure everyone can have their campaigns shared as quickly as possible.

Also, I will share even if you're not vetted, so if you don't have that yet it's okay to comment still. I would rather share a potential scam than not share someone who genuinely needs it all because of a lack of clarification.

[tsukishiroism]

if you enjoy my art, please consider supporting me. 🙇‍♂️