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SCREAMING!!!!

YES!! Holy Shit!! I'm so glad you found them!! They are wonderful!

Also a story about adoption and finding your people, finding out you have gifts and talents, and finding a place where you actually belong! (also has the first use of neo-pronouns I can remember reading)

(The first two are also available on the Internet Archive for anyone who can't find physical copies!)

what’s the most underrated piece of fiction you’ve ever seen? For me it is the Johannes Cabal books series about a Necromancer running a carnival. Honestly, I’m shocked it doesn’t have a cult following

#children of triad #delan the mislaid #the moonbane mage #laurie j marks #book club #spreading the joy of these books one person at a time #reading goals #queer lit #queer books #queer fantasy #queer author #the ancient texts

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#animal pics #humor #badger #mushroom #snake #badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger

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Y'know, I'm kinda surprised I haven't seen Jack Chains more in fantasy tbh, like it's a really interesting and low budget armor style, I'm legit surprised I've almost never seen it in media

#jack chains #armor #medieval armor #arm guards #light armor

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Here's some more pose references where a cat wandered in/ended up participating

#adorkastock #pose reference #cats #human with cat reference #cat reference #poses and references #cat pics #cat tax

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Image Description: Black and white photo of an art pencil (Lorenzo Monatore * 2B) with text that reads “This machine kills AI”.

A screenshot below from ‘Artists Against Generative AI' and a message from Danielle Sanfilippo.

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Posting this on behalf of a member who would like to remain anonymous:

I’m an art director and supervisor for a large studio. The studio heads had the bright idea before I started to hide prompters. Several bros were brought onto the film project. I absolutely hated myself for not quitting on the spot but stuck with it because it’s mercenary out there. Having a family to feed etc. I decided to use this time wisely. Treat them as I would any artist I had hired. First round of pictures of a sweeping Ariel forest landscape comes though and it’s not bad. They submit a ton of work and one or two of the 40 are ok. Nearly on brief. So first round of feedback goes through and I tell them about the perspective mistakes, colour changes I want, layers that any matte painting would be split into. Within a day I got 5 variants. Not changes of the ones I wanted but variations. Again. Benefit of the doubt I give them another round of feedback making it clear. Next day it’s worse. I sit there and patiently paint over, even explaining the steps I would take as a painter. They don’t do it, anomalies start appearing when I say I want them to keep the exact image but with changes. They can’t. They simply don’t have the eye to see the basic mistakes so the AI starts to overcompensate. We get people starting to appear in the images. These are obviously holiday snaps.

“Remove the people”

“What would you like them changed to?”

“...grass. I just don’t want them there”

They can’t do it. The one that can actually use Photoshop hasn’t developed the eye to see his mistakes, ends up getting angry with me for not understanding he can’t make specific changes. The girl whose background was a little photography has given me 40 progressively worse images with wilder mistakes every time. This is 4 days into the project. I’m both pissed about the waste, but elated seeing AI fall at the first hurdle. It’s not even that the images are unusable, the people making them have no eye for what’s wrong, no thicker skin for constructive criticism and feedback, no basic artistic training in perspective and functionality in what they’re making.

Yes the hype is going to pump more money into this. They won’t go anywhere for a while. But this has been such a glowingly perfect moment of watching the fundamental part fail in the face of the most simple tasks. All were fired and the company no longer accepts AI prompters as applicants. Your training as an artist will always be the most important part of this process and it is invaluable. I hope this post gives you a boost in a dark time.

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This machine kills AI

#art #this machine kills ai #artists against generative ai #danielle sanfilippo #text transcript #AI isn't art #ai can't compete with real artists #ai bros are hacks #ai can't art #ai fails #the hacks can't hack it

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The Children of Triad series (Delan the Mislaid, The Moonbane Mage, Ara's Field) by Laurie J. Marks!

It's a trans allegory, a fish out of water allegory, it has found family, raised by the wrong species, and love doesn't solve all problems, love is it's own very complicated problem. It has cool aliens on a crystal world with magic and several competing intelligent species (also everyone is vegetarian and everyone but the mers lay eggs).

The first book is also an Ugly Duckling story, where the furry grey alien that was thought to be an ugly deformed mutant by the ones who raised them, grows cloud-white wings and discovers they were born to fly!

The second book follows Delan's bratty bratty offspring as they run away from home and fall in very ill-advised love.

The third book actually branches out to multiple POV and the attempts of the most dominant species to achieve peace in the face of the return of an ancient danger that threatens the whole world.

It has characters in loving poly relationships, a species that frequently has poly relationships and are also a fully hermaphroditic species where everyone is capable of getting pregnant and getting another pregnant.

And the author is a lesbian.

Seriously, why isn't this doing numbers on here??

what’s the most underrated piece of fiction you’ve ever seen? For me it is the Johannes Cabal books series about a Necromancer running a carnival. Honestly, I’m shocked it doesn’t have a cult following

#books that need more love #laurie j marks #children of triad #delan the mislaid #the moonbane mage #ara's field #aeyrie #queer lit #queer books #lgbtq books #queer literature #queer author #polyamory #i love these books so damn much #and I swear I'm the only person who's ever read them

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"...Vanyel with his black hair splayed artfully on the puddle’s surface like those paintings the poor drowned princess Elsinore."

Somewhat belated April Fool's crack-fic! (Last Herald-mage series)

[Summary: For weeks Vanyel Ashkevron has been making snide, back-biting comments about Tylendel Frelennye. One evening Tylendel finally decides to do something about it.]

(Or... what if the staged fight wasn’t nearly as convincing as they thought.)

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“Fight! Fight! Fight!!” Chanted a group of boys clustered by the doors that opened into the commons where several days of rain had flooded the paths and turned the little dirt ‘short-cut’ everyone took into a mire of mud.

“Your name is going to be mud when I’m through with you!” Tylendel Frelennye, Herald-trainee shouted just before he punched Vanyel Ashkevron, heir to Forst Reach, square in the mouth.

The dark-haired boy staggered back, wiping the blood from his lip with the back of his hand, his surprisingly deep voice a growl that carried easily to the watching crowd. “Big words from an even bigger pervert! I’ll bet you are quite the connoisseur of filth!”

“You’ll pay for that you puffed up little toad!!” Tylendel roared and lunged at the smaller boy who adroitly dodged his outstretched hand while mocking him for his slowness.

Read on Ao3

#my fic #vanyel ashkevron #tylendel frelennye #vanyel/tylendel #last herald mage #lhm #valdemar #fan fic #crack fic #april fools #fake enemies #fake fight #secret relationship

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Tylendel on Sovvan with the wyrsa

#enderfeather #fan art #the last herald mage #Tylendel #tylendel frelennye #valdemar #wyrsa #magic's pawn #sovvan

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@bluewingedcoyote @pennie-dreadful

#grassy ass #sillyness #fandom besties are the best besties

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Yes geologists! Doing the important work 💖

#sedgwick museum of earth sciences #pride flags in stone #pride flags that rock #geology pride #gee olly gee

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Suzanne Collins gripping my face with her hands: listen listen the first step to evil is dehumanisation, always, the second you start to see people as less than people no matter what they've done to you that's when you start heading down a path of selfish destruction and violence

#suzanne collins #terry pratchett #dehumanisation #people are NOT things #we are not things #gnu terry pratchett

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DeviantArt used to be the place I put new poses up three times a week. It was the best place to get consistent updates of new poses from me.

BUT NOW! I have a self-hosted gallery on AdorkaStock.com 🥰 It's a WIP (and there's a lot of work to do) but I like having my poses on my own site. 😌

You can sign up for my newsletter and get an email digest of new poses each week or once a month so you don't have to always remember to go check for what's new. My long term goal is to have this gallery completely replace my DA archive. Reasons for this move include: - DA's enthusiastic support for AI - DA removing categories making it nearly impossible to search for CC licensed images - not being beholden to DA's future random TOS and API changes

Your support helps with this goal. ♥ Ways to support: - Share my work with other artists! - Support me on Patreon for just $1/mo - Shop my Kofi store for pose ref packs and merch Get all my links at my Link Hub. 🥰 Thanks so much for your support and happy drawing!

#adorkastock #adorkastock website #updates #deviantart exodus #formerly senshistock #stock and resources #stock for artists

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if he was still alive I know in my heart that Terry Pratchett would have done a bit about Igors and Igorinas doing gender confirmation surgery by now. going into a lab full of bubbling vials and picking out a penis from a tank the way you pick a lobster. that one, please. you gotta be careful though because they'll really try to upsell you into getting two or three installed. people going to the clinic as pairs and just having parts swapped out for a discounted rate. maybe you actually just trade brains, that's even easier. Igorth have already been doing that thurgery for thenturieth.

#igor says trans rights #gnu terry pratchett #discworld #igors #igorinas #the penises have escaped #rampant penis #appendageth #appendagethageddeon

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US states with Indigenous names and their originators and meanings.

(from the Bureau of Indian Affairs website)

ALABAMA: From an Indian tribe of the Creek Confederacy originally called the Alabamas or Alibamons, who in turn gave the name to a river from which the State name was derived.

ALASKA: From Eskimo Aleut word "alakshak”, meaning peninsula; also said to mean "great lands."

ARIZONA: Many authorities attribute the meaning to a word meaning arid zone or desert. Others claim the name is Aztec, from "arizuma" meaning "silver bearing." Still another version: attributes the origin to the Papagos tribe of the Southwest, who named it from the locality in which they lived called Arizonac, meaning "site of the small springs" (lack of water). This place was near the present town of Nogales, and in the early 1700's, silver was discovered near there, which gives some credence to the Aztec word "arizuma."

ARKANSAS.: Origin uncertain. As usual with words of Indian origin, there are various spellings for this State name, among them Alkansia, Alkansas, and Akamsea. The word, according to some, is of Algonquin origin, and the meaning is unknown. Others say that Arkansas is a French version of "Kansas, a Sioux Indian name for “south wind people.”

CONNECTICUT: Appears to be a derivation of the Indian word "Quonoktacut" (also Quonecktacut) , interpreted by some to mean "river whose water is driven in waves by winds." Other interpretations include "long river," "the long (without end) river," and "long river place."

HAWAII: English spelling of Owhyhee, possibly from a native word meaning "homeland.”

ILLINOIS: From the Illini Indian word meaning "men" or "warriors,” supplemented by the French adjective ending "ois..”

IOWA: From an Indian tribe, "Ah-hee-oo-ba," meaning "sleepy ones" or "drowsy ones." They lived in the valley of the State's principal river, which they named for their tribe; and, in turn, the name was applied to the State.

KANSAS: Named for the Kansas or Kanza tribe of the Sioux family that lived along a river in the area and gave it the tribal name. The name translates as "south wind people," or "wind people."

KENTUCKY: Origin and meaning controversial. Pioneer George Rogers Clark claimed the name was derived from the Indian word "Kentake," meaning "meadow land." The claim is also made that it stems from the Shawnee word meaning "at the head of a river" inasmuch as they used the Kentucky River in traveling throughout the area. It is also claimed to stem from the Wyandot word "Ken-tah-ten," meaning "land of tomorrow."

MASSACHUSETTS: First of the States to have an Indian name. From the Algonquin word "Massadchu-es-et," meaning "great-hill-small-place,” possibly for the hills around Boston as seen from the bay."

MICHIGAN.: From Algonquin word "Mishigamaw," meaning “big lake” or “great water,” deriving its name from the lake of the same name. Also said to be from "Michi" meaning "great" and "Gama" meaning “water.”

MINNESOTA: From Sioux word meaning "cloudy water" or “sky-tinted water,” deriving its name from the river of the same name.

MISSISSIPPI: Meaning "great river" or "gathering-in of all the waters," sometimes referred to as the "father of waters," indicating that the Indians were aware of the immensity of the river. First written by Tonti as "Michi Sepe.”

MISSOURI: An Indian tribal name denoting "muddy water” and named for the large river.

NEBRASKA: From Sioux word describing the river from which the State gets its name, meaning "shallow water" or "broad water." Also said to be an Otos Indian word meaning "flat river," referring to the Platte River.

NEW MEXICO: Called "New Mexico" when the Mexicans referred to the territory north and west of the Rio Grande in the 16th century. May have been derived from the name of the Aztec war god, "Mexitli" still another interpretation is that it means "habitation of the god of war.”

NORTH DAKOTA: From Indian name meaning "allies. "' Indian form is - Lakota, Nakota, Lahkota, or Dakota, depending on dialect. "Allies" was used to signify the common name of the confederated Sioux tribes.

OHIO: Iroquois Indian word meaning the river of the same name. "beautiful river," taken from the river of the same name.

OKLAHOMA: Choctaw Indian word meaning “red people."

SOUTH DAKOTA: From Sioux Indian name meaning “allies.” (See North Dakota.)

TENNESSEE: Name is of Cherokee origin from a tribe located at a village site called Tanasse (also spelled Tennese). The State is named for its principal river, which has been interpreted as meaning "bend in the river." However, this has not been substantiated, and the meaning is considered to be lost.

TEXAS.: The generally accepted version is that the name is an Indian word "tejas," meaning "friends" or "allies."

UTAH: Name taken from the Ute Indians who inhabited that region, but origin of the word is unknown.

WISCONSIN: From an Indian name whose meaning is uncertain. Named after its principal river and said to mean "wild rushing channel;" also refers to "holes in the banks of a stream in which birds nest." Spelled Ouisconsin and Misconsing by early chroniclers.

WYOMING.: Name has more than one meaning as interpreted by different authorities. One meaning is "extensive plains" (from the Delaware or Leni-Lenape word "maugh-wau-wama"). Another interpretation suggests that the name means "mountains with valleys alternating."

i do desperately need everyone on this website especially people who arent american but want to rag on america to familiarize themselves with the basic romanized spelling conventions of native american languages because every day i come on here and i see people making fun of massachusetts or connecticut or mississippi or passamaquoddy or mashpee or nipissing and its like PLEASE. PLEASE THEY ARENT ENGLISH WORDS. PLEAAAAASEEEEEUUUHHH. USE YOUR MINDS TO IDENTIFY WHEN A WORD LOOKS LIKE IT MAY NOT BE ENGLISH. I DONT CARE IF YOU MAKE FUN OF AMERICA JUST PLEASE STOP BEING RACIST WHILE YOU DO IT

#indigenous #indigenous state names #indigenous languages #us state name meanings #history and culture #us history #indigenous history #indian (usa)#bureau of indian affairs

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