We really need to take a stand against AI. It is not okay. To steal others work just to make your own has never been okay. Artists, musicians, writers etc everyone is going to be affected and hurt by it. There are more negatives than there are positives. I have seen so many use AI in selfish ways; feeding something that is so harmful. It is very disappointing to see. I am unsure of how we can come together on this, but please fight against AI. Do not use apps trying to implement AI. Leave reviews talking about how deplorable AI is. Please speak out and let it be known how harmful AI is. We are stronger together. If anyone has alternative apps/ websites to recommend that do not use AI, it would be greatly appreciated.

seeing all those shares of AI generated images of F1 drivers in period dress on the anti-AI website feels like yet another nail in the coffin for artists

WAIT WAS ANYONE GONNA TELL ME THAT KAREN WAS APPARENTLY DESTROYED DURING THE FIGHT WITH MYSTERIO OR WAS I JUST SUPPOSED TO READ THAT ON HER MARVEL WIKI PAGE MYSELF

thinking once again about how dead apple applies to the state of artists in the world. how shibusawa strips people of their abilities (here seen as their art) and reduces it down to a bare commodity with no soul or unique characteristics. this is the exact same thing, in my eyes, that ai art is doing. how shibusawa’s complete and total separation of the “art” from the “artist” is really just stealing an element of them and leaving them for dead. how this is what ai does, it strips the art it steals of all connection to the artist, making a soulless object with nothing standing out about it

thinking (sobbing) about how though it wasn’t intended, dead apple very much applies to the content-ification and commodification of art and the growing danger for artists in the world

Kids these days and using their AI voices making people sing songs they’ve never sung before. Back in my day, we ripped audio clips from shows and pieced them into utaloid software to make anime characters sing Happy Synthesizer. Uphill! In the snow! Both ways!

Early morning rant/rambling

A lot of high-masking autistics are going to be mistaken for chatgpt in online spaces because of the way they type and interact with others.

Oh, so Leander's a fucking WHORE

LMFAO that's the last time I'm getting my hopes up and rejected ✌ Rp offers rescinded.

Csnt handle more ghosting, or people who can't accept my 2 boundaries OR the fact that my oc is a self insert- because apparently thats also a problem??? I thought MOST ocs were self inserts honestly???

Oshi no Ko 145 Reaction

Live Crow Reaction

I debated if I even wanted to do a chapter react for this one, I did for the last two and this is a series I generally have a lot of thoughts about, but perhaps I was spoiled by how those chapters were deeply concerned with the character arcs for Ruby and Aqua, some of my favorite parts of the manga.

This one instead focuses on our mysterious crow girl, Tsukuyomi. Which is good, she has desperately needed some fleshing out, but....hmm. It feels very strange to go from essentially net zero information to having her whole backstory and thoughts about the other characters dropped on us all at once. The fact that the backstory is so completely out of left field just makes it worse. Like. Okay, so crow girl is....an actual crow? sure, let's go with that?

Would I be taking lethal amounts of copium to think this might be some kind of metaphor? I don't think it is because that would be too misleading for what OnK usually does but like. what is this development here.

I think the main reason this bothers me is because it feels incredibly one-sided. The hints that crow girl's previous life had a connection to the siblings was interesting, and spurred speculation on what the nature of that relationship was, but the actual answer here seems kind of...the least impactful way to go about it? It would have felt Weird and fanfic-y to suddenly introduce a random OC who was important to both Gorou and Sarina in their past lives, given that their isolation and loneliness were kind of key to their characters. But introducing a literal animal in the role feels kind of like a cop out. You want a character who could be seamlessly inserted into the character's backstories, without changing the trajectory of their arcs whatsoever? okay, she's the stray bird they met that time. In essence, it means Tsukuyomi gets to have a connection to Ruby and Aqua, but they don't have one with her. It's one sided.

Which, if I'm being charitable, could be the point - another way to explore the themes explored in previous chapters of people having different views of others. A crow viewing the pair from a distance without even being considered a peer could be an interesting counterpoint to previous thoughts on placing idols on pedestals - a god looking down at people condescendingly, even more so.

By the fact that she sees them as kids, even Gorou, who was in his thirties, it's clear that her view of them might be divine, but it sure isn't objective. But that's getting back into the supernatural elements of the series that I don't have any explanations or context to talk about.

I don't know, I can find explanations and ideas that make me think this could be cool when thinking optimistically but when speaking honestly I'm not super enthused by the execution in these few pages. And this is meant to be a reaction, not an analysis, so even if it isn't super professional of me I'll leave my conflicted thoughts up in the post.

This isn't a terrible revelation, I don't think this ruins the manga forever or anything, but it does feel like a bit of a wasted opportunity right now. makes me feel a little down about the chapter. But this is a serial, there's still time to make this all come together, in many different possible ways. Who knows, maybe in a few months after this arc wraps up I'll be talking about how crow girl is my new favorite character.

So I waited to watch ep8 of Kiseki so I could pretend there was a new episode today instead of having to wait and I will say I hate the promo so much.

It is going to be even more angst for Ai Di and Chen Yi I just know it, especially considering Ai Di ends up in jail and is pretty pissed off to see Chen Yi when he gets out.

Chen Yi is not going to take any of confession from Ai Di well is he?

all this AI chatbot shit is like. Talk to this thing that is ontologically incapable of rejecting you on a personal level. it'll be funnnnnn

Abdication By Jeff Stanford, 2024 Buy prints at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/

The number of times Oskar proposed to Juli in the most subtle way possible and only Juli with this face the entire time without saying a word 🙄