I am taking a short break from my Mega Man work to indulge in a little Elden Ring fanart of my favorite minor boss

Shout out to cosmic crystalline insectoid monsters

Gotta be one of my favorite genders

A perfectly cute supernatural being! 🌌✨ It has joined us from the stars!

I had to draw a Fallingstar Beast, they look like cows to me and I love that for them. 💜

Arriving at Anor Londo

baby alphinaud starting his job and gaining both a friend and a good listener

There are currently ~2300 works in AO3 tagged with "Created Using Generative AI"

I'll be upfront with my opinion, which mirrors my opinion in regards to my field: using AI will only hasten your own obsolescence. The point of fanfiction is not to crank out fics, but rather to enjoy the hobby and communities of writing and fandom.

Oh i almost missed the bingo

Virginia and Mr Pages

my beautiful wife virginia who hates me and kills me with hammers. i honestly don't have much to say on her i just greatly enjoy her in general. i love women who just suck and are mean and will actually just kill me. i would let her. enthusiastically. she's never leaving my railway board despite me being fully aware of how awful she is. i value her input. i want her to become worse.

pages my best friend pages!!!!!!!! pages is the master im most familiar with (for obvious heart's desire reasons) and i love it a lot. it's so fucking goofy and the scoundrel has absolutely read all of its incredibly lengthy dissertation on why monkeys suck completely unironically. im not sure how to put it all into words but i just enjoy pages a lot all-around. i love how unbelievably petty and scorned it is. i love how absolutely bonkers it is. i love how adordacious it is. pages my worstie we go to bazaar together and i am always happy to see it show up in storylets

if you don‘t personally own one but your roommates/parents do and you are allowed to use it, that counts as yes

I just saw a Tik Tok that said writers on AO3 are not looking for constructive criticism in their reviews. I have no audience on this platform so I have to know if this is true? I've always left my pros and cons when reading a fic and now I'm concerned that the authors didn't like that.

Yeah writers are Not looking for criticism, constructive or otherwise. Unless they specifically ask for it, it’s considered rude and honestly a bit hurtful. In the least bitchy way possible, don’t do that. It’s unwanted.

the problem with reading baru cormorant is that many other things are not as good as baru cormorant

Just checking.... We all pronounce Miette like My-TAY in our heads, right?

Heads up! Wattpad Purge is happening now - check the megathread on reddit for information.

From the post, a quick summary:

What's Happening?

The past week or so, there have been reports of user's stories getting shadow-banned (delisted from rankings) and sometimes even removed. This is due to Wattpad's recent deployment of an AI-powered tool used by their support team. (Source) The tool is designed to aid Wattpad in flagging guideline-breaking content with manual reviews of the stories flagged. When a story gets flagged, it is "shadow-banned" (i.e. removed from rankings and searches) until it's been reviewed by staff.

If your story has been removed, you can contact Wattpad Support to appeal the decision.

Also important: Wattpad's "age of consent" rule has been updated. Previously, it followed the Canadian federal law of sixteen (16) years or older. On April 15th, 2024, the guidelines will be updated to reflect the new age of consent requirements of 18+.

That means for content including sexual acts between characters, both characters must be eighteen (18) or older. More tame acts (i.e. kissing, holding hands) between underage (16+ years old) characters is still fine and sex can be alluded to, but may not be described. Please review the News and Updates channel for the full text.

Also, LGBTQ+ content may be getting disproportionately targeted. (surprise, surprise) I do not publish on Wattpad nor have any connection to the platform. But I support free speech and creative works. I am also someone who was there during the Livejournal Strikethrough of '07 and know what happens in these purges. Now there is AI, which is notoriously bad at accuracy, as well as new puritans across the political spectrum who don't distinguish between art and advocacy.

Please does anybody have the picture of the orange kitten sitting in front of old yellowed wood paneling and it’s smiling like this. The post where I saw it went something like “little kids before they learn how to smile in photos”

The Duality of Ancients

POV you've been farming albinaurics for runes for half an hour and she just wants to talk

something experimental with Elden Ring Lark

I am the very model of a modern fallen Londoner Of wonders of the Neath I am a long-established wanderer I've met the Traitor Empress and I've delved the Sunken Embassy And I have zailed to nearly every island on the Unterzee. I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters of Parabolans. I've traveled through the mirrors and waged wars with their inhabitants. I've had the strangest dreams and I know others who have dreamed of them For I have stayed for many evenings in the Royal Bethlehem!