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Cover art for SERVANT OF EARTH, the first book in dark and sensual Fae romantasy series from Sarah Hawley and Ace Books Publishing

AD: Katie Anderson

Very thankful for the opportunity to paint some of my favourite things! Dresses, flowers, daggers: a winning combo ♥️

Some positivity in these turbulent AI times

*This does not minimize the crisis at hand, but is aimed at easing any anxieties.

With every social media selling our data to AI companies now, there is very little way to avoid being scraped. The sad thing is many of us still NEED social media to advertise ourselves and get seen by clients. I can't help but feeling that we as artists are not at risk of losing our livelihoods, here is why:

Just because your data is available does not mean that AI companies will/want to use it. Your work may never end up being scraped at all.

The possibility of someone who uses AI art prompts can replace you (if your work is scraped) is very unlikely. Art Directors and clients HAVE to work with people, the person using AI art cannot back up what a machine made. Their final product for a client will never be substantial since AI prompts cannot be consistent with use and edits requested will be impossible.

AI creators will NEVER be able to make a move unless us artists make a move first. They will always be behind in the industry.

AI creators lack the fundamental skills of art and therefore cannot detect when something looks off in a composition. Many professional artists like me get hired repeatedly for a reason! WE as artists know what we're doing.

The art community is close-knit and can fund itself. Look at furry commissions, Patreon, art conventions, Hollywood. Real art will always be able to make money and find an audience because it's how we communicate as a species.

AI creators lack the passion and ambition to make a career out of AI prompts. Not that they couldn't start drawing at any time, but these tend to be the people who don't enjoy creating art to begin with.

There is no story or personal experience that can be shared about AI prompts so paying customers will lose interest quickly.

Art is needed to help advance society along, history says so. To do that, companies will need to hire artists (music, architecture, photography, design, etc). The best way for us artists to keep fighting for our voice to be heard right now is staying visible. Do not hide or give in! That is what they want. Continue posting online and/or in person and sharing your art with the world. It takes a community and we need you!

Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

Here are the important details:

We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner. 

We want to represent all of you on Tumblr and ensure that protections are in place for how your content is used. We are committed to making sure our partners respect those decisions.

To opt out of sharing your public blogs’ content with third parties, visit each of your public blogs’ blog settings via the web interface and toggle on the “Prevent third-party sharing” option. 

For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc. 

Please note: If you’ve already chosen to discourage search crawling of your blog in your settings, we’ve automatically enabled the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.

If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.

This Place is Magic

{ Out in ebook + paperback 4/30/24! }

After missing his flight back to Seoul, a disillusioned K-pop idol finds love, acceptance, and the strength to fight for his own happiness at last.

10 years ago I started sharing my writing here on Tumblr, not really expecting much to come out of it. That very first project was a serial called Love in Print, and it was because of those stories and characters that I ended up making my most enduring friendships. It's taken me a decade but I'm very excited (uhhh and emotional??) to share the cover of my upcoming cozy contemporary, This Place is Magic, here on the original account where I first sent my writing into the world.

It's also just beyond special to me that @erionmakuo, who illustrated LIP in the yonder days of yore for me (and is one of those enduring friendships mentioned above) is also still my illustrator today!

★ Read the full blurb here!

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★ Follow me for news + updates on the book (under my pen name!) Tumblr / Instagram

★ And if you're a former reader of Love in Print, thank you so much for supporting my writing back then... and please DO reach out to me because I love to hear from you guys! Even though I definitely want to take everything I wrote in 2014 and hurl it into a bonfire

If you see this and feel so inclined, please reblog and help me get This Place is Magic to someone out there who might really love it!

xo Mariko / Irene

Endpaper illustrations for Illumicrate edition of Sword Catcher by Cassandra Clare. In the actual book, they're positioned in a way that makes them look at each other across the pages <3

Karlach for Samantha Béart and Streamily! Signings available here: https://t.co/ycGm0apE7x

Halsin! The man, the bear, the legend

Fanart of Mirnatirus from Spinning Silver by @naominovik Was lucky enough to catch her on her UK tour! :)

MARSHAL'S ANTHEM. For Magic: The Gathering and The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth AD: Kieran Yanner, Matt Cavotta

OPT. For Magic: The Gathering and The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth AD: Kieran Yanner, Matt Cavotta

Cover illustration for A Duet with the Siren Duke by Elise Kova

Art done for dice vaults by EVERYTHING DICE

Cover illustration for another book by Senna Byrd! 

"Lord of the Night Realm - Book I: Sojourn"

Cover illustration I did for Lord of the Night Realm - Book II: Reunion by Senna Byrd. 

Illustration for The Chronicles of Aberos, a book series by Alastair Moores

Cover illustration I did for Die Welt ist ein Ozean und ein Sturm, a book by Jonna Enders