I can't stop seeing the blurry spots resulting from Glaze. Fffffffff.

the snake (which isn't really a snake, just manifesting in the shape of one to Edmund's mind) is meant to seem as if the length between head and tail is infinite, idk how well I represented that

lighting mismatch is deliberate!

This sideblog might be going inactive, much as I hate the idea. Blame AI. I won't be taking anything down, because it's been up anyway for long enough that if anything might scrape it then surely it already has and therefore removing it is pointless. But I may not be posting any more, because even though Glaze and Nightshade are a thing now, I can't stand to see my work full of artifacts. I tried Glaze with every setting, and even the lowest amount of protection with the highest quality render looks like a jpeg that's been saved about six times:

That's it, possibly the last image I share publicly. It's ok on a phone screen but at full size, on a computer monitor, it's pretty rough. Very sad at how disappointing Glaze turned out to be even after literal hours of trying different settings.

But what choice do I have?

Do I share images only after protective measures have damaged the details I spent so much time on, and not allow the viewer to see it in a form I feel I can be proud of? There's no satisfaction in that.

Share the real version, and leave it for the Forgery Engine to pick apart because it's not like I'm making money off it anyway? Careless and unethical to do that knowingly.

Share the real version, with the belief that AI isn't likely to target me for material to train on? That's the worst possibility out of all of them. If it's not worth protecting then it's not worth sharing in the first place. Why lock up a container with contents nobody would have reason to take?

The only conclusion I keep coming back to is that if I value my work, I simply can't post it in the open anymore - not without either defacing it in a concrete way or giving up in my struggle against the idea that what I create is garbage nobody wants.

It breaks my heart but I can't think of any way to reconcile it.

Protagonist of my partner's current book in progress, their name is Kshili and they are an intersex dinosaur with an illegal ghost-mosasaur mecha

Been a while since I drew any fanart that wasn't CoH-related, but it occurred to me that this moment in my Hollow Knight playthrough would be crazy dramatic if depicted. I had been beating my head against the Hornet Protector fight at Kingdom's Edge for a while, and since I was not very good at avoiding getting hit I decided to capitalize on that in my charm selection... and at one point, after losing Yet Again at the "damn it I KNOW I was close" stage, I went back for another go and Hornet just... wasn't there? Either it was a glitch or my Thorns Of Agony supplied the one last hit I needed to land right when she took out my last mask. Double-KO. End-of-fight dialogue never triggered; I had to look it up on Youtube to see what I was supposed to see.

Big WTF moment for me at the time, art fodder now!

new pathfinder character, Iktansi the Anadi Investigator/Wizard - wicked excited to play through Strength of Thousands with this extra leggy spider-dork

Local Asshole Claims Not To Be Possessed, Party Alchemist Tests

Pictured: Goji Spring-From-Ashes, Lizardfolk-Undine Monk and Circus Strongman; Leodric Banyan, actaully not lying; Jix, Ratfolk Alchemist and Special Effects Guy with a quick Ghost Charge she whipped up…

Splash damage revealed that yes, the Dybbuk was gone, right into the party's rogue. Oops. Could've been worse, though; least it didn't take the Witch...

I took a commission :> her name is Sigri

old TTRPG character of mine: DOCTOR BRAINSPIDER (caps part of correct spelling).

[WEAPONIZED PANTS] they’re like pants but can kill

new Pathfinder character - revenant bard/curse maelstrom named Reck (short for Next-Day Reckoning)

he's for a one-shot where the whole party is bards that rocked so hard they accidentally opened a portal to the Plane Of Metal and now they have to find their way home

my Pathfinder 2 character succeeding at an intimidate check Skakmat, the tiefling fleshwarp PC: *kicks the door down and walks out of the summoning chamber into the next room, jingling like a gunslinger at high noon from all the chains* the demon caller: The fuck kind of demon are you Skakmat: I'm not ::) ::) ::) ::) demon caller: uh oh

I've joined a Starfinder game; this is Mendel, an Osharu xenobiologist field researcher (Operative built for stealth, observation, and scientific skills)

distinguishing characteristics:

pale, almost translucent skin

weak, noodly limbs

plastic rain poncho present at all times, ready to deploy in dry weather to keep moisture in

religious

usually glued to phone facetiming with university buddies

slug

I drew something

got inspired to draw Edmund and Beldam in maximum moody dark academia mode when I scrolled past someone else's study of men's dress shoes while "Nightmare" was playing on spotify

Edmund ca. 1930 or so, sneaking off to read things he probably shouldn't instead of doing his chores.

Istvan takes a shape drawn from the first air raids

CoH-Edmund offering words of comfort to a friend who had a recent traumatic experience.

(Sayterra belongs to @kayjkay)