Lunch has been eaten and we are back!!

Streaming lego starwars Skywalker saga over on twitch at shlie_mae! Come say hi

Done for now! Thanks to anyone who stopped by or will watch later!

Streaming lego starwars Skywalker saga over on twitch at shlie_mae! Come say hi

Streaming lego starwars Skywalker saga over on twitch at shlie_mae! Come say hi

Quick doodle, going for super hero vibes.

Can I work on finals today? No, but apparently I can whip out a semi-realistic hibiscus in about 4.5 hours.

Made with craft paint on some plywood scrap that was already blue.

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

New header based on the sanctuary isles from sky children of the light. time-lapse under cut.

yes took me two days to figure out how to start the time-lapse.

You doing okay? Just wondering if life decided to jump on you.

Hey, ya, life definitely tackled me. But I'm doing ok.

September and the surrounding months are always really stressful and busy for me, also switching around meds is never fun. But now that I'm settled into a new job and comic con is over I'm hoping to have more free time to do fun things.

Thank you so much for your concern and kind thoughts, but genuinely I feel like I'm in a better place now than I have been for a few years now.

Ive gotten some notifications from you rewatching my old streams and I'd love to get back into doing that, but also I think I might swap to streaming on twitch. Its a lot nicer to creators than YouTube, especially new ones. I also think I may just bounce games for a bit because I love HW, but streaming from a switch is a pain and I'd like to be able to be a bit more casual about it.

So yes, life is crazy but I'm doing ok.

"Hyrule Warriors Part 3: Into the past"

Going live again tonight at 6pm (mdt) stop by and say hi as I murder some gorons!

Gonna be working on this live on YouTube. Link in bio.

https://youtu.be/PAlx7NZbeX4 link to the stream

Gonna try this streaming thing again at 4:30 mdt! (Thats about an hour from now) link in reblog.

Gonna try this streaming thing again at 4:30 mdt! (Thats about an hour from now) link in reblog.

Here's the link

I'm finally ready to stream!!! I'll be playing all of the levels, but on my old file so you don't need to watch any grinding. Stream starts at 4:30 MDT. (link in reblogs because tumblr)

I'm finally ready to stream!!! I'll be playing all of the levels, but on my old file so you don't need to watch any grinding. Stream starts at 4:30 MDT. (link in reblogs because tumblr)

New things

I'm making a YouTube channel and I'm gonna stream video games. Currently I'm trying to decide if my first game should be Don't Starve Together, Hyrule Warriors, Bloodborne, or something from my library.

I've got a Ko-fi now! If you'd like drop a tip and support my work please stop by.

Chalk art festival 2022!!! This year we did the giraffe scene from The Last of Us. Total was just about 21 hours. Shout out to @chronicallyawkwardandshameless for being my partner in crime for this madness

Kass the bard off on an adventure.