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Just as a disclaimer, I know he had many controversies, and I don't know the full extent of any, but fur affinity changed my life, thus I feel in debt and this is the best I can do

A piece I made for the Dragoneer memorial

Treasure your community

No one deserves to die due to a horrible healthcare system

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A piece I made for the Dragoneer memorial

Treasure your community

No one deserves to die due to a horrible healthcare system

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i have but one wish...

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🧼Soap fox (Mizutsune) sketch for a member on Kofi!!!

adsasdasd Perfect timing, ngl, he is back, back again in wilds, i miss my buddy Gammoth

Support me on Kofi and get yours

(:,3 help me get a pc, ua)

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🌠Finished commission for Anon!!

Uaaaa im incredibly proud of this one, this drawing was lost halfway due to my computer dying so i had to make a collage out of the progress pictures and rerender BUT

I DID IT!! AND IT LOOKS AWESOME

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Maria robotnik

This was made for a draw this in your style of @/yagamimi-hog.bsky.social design for Maria!! uaa i love how shiny she ended up looking

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So, Discord has added a feature that lets other people "enhance" or "edit" your images with different AI apps. It looks like this:

Currently, you can't opt out from this at all. But here's few things you can do as a protest.

FOR SERVERS YOU ARE AN ADMIN IN

Go to Roles -> @/everyone roles -> Scroll all the way down to External Apps, and disable it. This won't delete the option, but it will make people receive a private message instead when they use it, protecting your users:

You should also make it a bannable offense to edit other user's images with AI. Here's how I worded it in my server, feel free to copypaste:

Do not modify other people's images with AI under ANY circumstances, such as with the Discord "enhancement" features, amidst others. This is a bannable offense.

COMPLAIN TO DISCORD

There's few ways to go around this. First, you can go to https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/requests/new , select Help and Support -> Feedback/New Feature Request, and write your message, as seen in the screenshot below.

For the message, here's some points you can bring up:

Concerns about harassment (such as people using this feature to bully others)

Concerns about privacy (concerns on how External Apps may break privacy or handle the data in the images, and how it may break some legislations, such as GDPR)

Concerns about how this may impact minors (these features could be used with pictures of irl minors shared in servers, for deeply nefarious purposes)

BE VERY CLEAR about "I will refuse to buy Nitro and will cancel my subscription if this feature remains as it is", since they only care about fucking money

Word them as you'd like, add onto them as you need. They sometimes filter messages that are copypasted templates, so finding ways to word them on your own is helpful.

UNSUSCRIBE FROM NITRO

This is what they care about the most. Unsuscribe from Nitro. Tell them why you unsuscribed on the way out. DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. They're a company. They take actions for profit. If these actions do not get them profit, they will need to backtrack. Mass-unsuscribing from WOTC's DnD beyond forced them to back down with the OGL, this works.

LEAVE A ONE-STAR REVIEW ON THE APP

This impacts their visibility on the App store. Write why are you leaving the one-star review too.

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Regardless of your stance on AI, I think we can agree that having no way for users to opt out of these pictures is deeply concerning, specially when Discord is often used to share selfies. It's also a good time to remember internet privacy and safety- Maybe don't post your photos in big open public servers, if you don't want to risk people doing edits or modifications of them with AI (or any other way). Once it's posted, it's out of your control.

Anyways, please reblog for visibility- This is a deeply concerning topic!

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The saddest part of me

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🌠I love doing starry skies, finished commission for Ryzeen!! it was very nice to get to work with you!! uaaaa i want to get back on track!! i can do this!!

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A lovely dress for a lovely boi

@cosmic-syst , luv ya

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Literally sobbing. A judge, a US judge defended us. A judge brought up intersex people, using the term intersex, to *defend* us by not allowing our erasure. I'm having a lot of feelings right now

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Whatever, go my strange yaoi

Some of these bug angst bc the demons took over

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Werdnig hoffmann

🟠A comic about loss and things that could not be

Also my first comic of the year

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Bye-bye to the colors that won't come again

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💫Finished commission for Jimmy!!

It was really really fun to work on this!! It was a valentine's commission too!

Uaaaaa so flowy

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saw a white woman refer to sam nordquist as "kid" - of course, little black boys are "young men" but grown black men are "kids." acknowledge him fully for what he was: a BLACK TRANSGENDER man. his blackness and transgender status in combination were what made him so vulnerable to this brutal abuse and murder. do not infantilize him. and furthermore do not erase his blackness to spotlight only his transness. this was a hate crime which shows yet again the compounding effects of transphobia and antiblack racism. it is not a coincidence that all five accused murderers are white, and can be linked to white nationalism on public social media profiles (such as emily motyka's confederate flag profile picture).

according to data aggregated from 2013 to the end of 2024, approximately 85% of transgender homicide victims in the usa are people of color - with a majority of victims being black transgender women.

also, if you're going to share pictures of sam, show what he actually looked like as himself - not the pretansition photo picked by basically every fucking news outlet. pre-transition and non-op/non-medically transitioning transgender people are obviously still trans, but that was not his current situation at all, and it's so profoundly disrespectful to latch onto an outdated photo to represent him. here's what he looked like in actual recent pics he chose to share on his own social media:

and if you can, help his family with their expenses. nobody should have to worry about associated costs while processing such a horrific loss.