this manatee looks like it’s in a skyrim loading screen

so much happened in this whole episode but i’m still on fig infiltrating ruben’s dream, making it look like the place where his friend was murdered, and then disguising herself as kipperlilly & repeatedly saying different variants of “somebody needs to take the fall for this, and it’s not going to be me. it’s going to be you.” while adaine as the elven oracle shows up next to her. can you imagine waking up from that, the idea of a horrible truth being pinned on you by your friend to save her own skin while the personification of fate and destiny stands there, almost as a promise that this is GOING to happen to you. we don’t even know if this kid is guilty. my god.

Prompt:

It’s not that Jason forgot, per se.

But between smuggling a toddler out of the League of Assassins, trekking halfway across the world, and finding a suitable hiding place that’s also child friendly… well, it kind of slipped his mind that he’s supposed to be… dead.

Something that comes back to bite him in the ass when he takes Dami out for some ice cream and just so happens to run into non other than Brucie-fucking-Wayne

Aziraphale mourning the jar holding the tumor from a seven-year-old boy.

the rise of AI art isn't surprising to us. for our entire lives, the attitude towards our skills has always been - that's not a real thing. it has been consistently, repeatedly devalued.

people treat art - all forms of it - as if it could exist by accident, by rote. they don't understand how much art is in the world. someone designed your home. someone designed the sign inside of your local grocery store. when you quote a character or line from something in media, that's a line a real person wrote.

"i could do that." sure, but you didn't. there's this joke where a plumber comes over to a house and twists a single knob. charges the guy 10k. the guy, furious, asks how the hell the bill is so high. the plumber says - "turning the knob was a dollar. the knowledge is the rest of the money."

the trouble is that nobody believes artists have knowledge. that we actively study. that we work hard, beyond doing our scales and occasionally writing a poem. the trouble is that unless you are already framed in a museum or have a book on a shelf or some kind of product, you aren't really an artist. hell, because of where i post my work, i'll never be considered a poet.

the thing that makes you an artist is choice. the thing that makes all art is choice. AI art is the fetid belief that art is instead an equation. that it must answer a specific question. Even with machine learning, AI cannot make a choice the way we can - because the choices we make have always been personal, complicated. our skills cannot be confined to "prompt and execution." what we are "solving" isn't just a system of numbers - it is how we process our entire existence. it isn't just "2 and 2 is 4", it's staring hard at the numbers and making the four into an alligator. it's rearranging the letters to say ow and it is the ugly drawing we make in the margin.

at some point, you will be able to write something by feeding my work into a machine. it will be perfectly legible and even might sound like me. but a machine doesn't understand why i do these things. it can be taught preferences, habits, statistical probability. it doesn't know why certain vowels sound good to me. it doesn't know the private rules i keep. it doesn't know how to keep evolving.

"but i want something to exist that doesn't exist yet." great. i'm glad you feel creative. go ahead and pay a fucking artist for it.

this is all saying something we all already knew. the sad fucking truth: we have to die to remind you. only when we're gone do we suddenly finally fucking mean something to you. artists are not replicable. we each genuinely have a skill, talent, and process that makes us unique. and there's actual quiet power in everything we do.

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I think they'd get along

Shadow Milk seems like he'd enjoy sharing some tea (methaphorical and literal) with Cherry Blossom. The stories he tells her might be a bit biased and warped, but she's supportive either way!

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every time queer discourse surges on this site everyone is so quick to jump to “it was actually the evil lesbians who divided us” because y’all heard the term “political lesbian” and never bothered to figure out what that meant

"You’ve met the Fools of Fate"~

@pure-plum Latest Weal and Woe chapter was so sweet I swear my soul melted a bit from reading it :'3 Honestly Eclipse seems so nervous there, I genuinely just want to hug that anxiousness out of him xD

Tho here I made him look a little more malicious. Gotta think twice about that hug hehe :>

And some process under the cut cuz why not x)

7x10 // How Mac Got Fat

↳ Charlie & Dennis + getting high together

Oh so when the Brigadier brings in a plucky young girl to be the Doctor's mandated best friend its 'cute' and 'wholesome' but when I THE MISTRESS-

i think theyre funny

I was gonna post something else today, but it's like, not even remotely close to done, so I drew this idea that's been rotating around in my brain for a bit real quick instead!

I headcanon that Flapjack liked being as physically close to Hunter as possible, but especially near his heart. I also feel like Flap probably really liked nesting in Hunter's clothes for similar reasons, because I just think that’s cute

You can probably tell I really didn't know what to do with the background, and ended up throwing something together then defaulted to accidental lesbian colors because I have to actively force myself to not use anything between red-orange and red-violet on the color wheel. That region is just so nice, it gives my brain happy juices to use the colors and look at them together even if it doesn't suit the piece at all. Over all, I'm pretty proud of how this turned out!~

Here's some alt colors

Gibson Girl, Rust Cohle (i)

🥃: HD link, (ii)

It's frequently joked about for good reason, but honestly, Taylor shooting the baby is surprisingly one of the more reasonable choices she makes throughout Worm. Like, given the information everyone was working off of, it seems reasonable enough to think that a new trigger could cause the end of the world. Of course, we the audience knows that isn't the case but the characters don't. Even if Aster wasn't a possible apocalypse baby, I would still say it is better to die by gun than to get Gray Boyed. I don't honestly know where this was going. Maybe there is some great theme to be analyzed here, about how the morality of ones actions can be solely determined by the events that transpire afterwords, the context in which they were made. Probably not. All I know is that Taylor shot a toddler, and honestly? All things considered? Not a bad decision, good job girlboss