STICKERS ARE HERE.

Anyways now it is just a waiting game for the keychains to arrive before I can sell stuff! Everyone send your best wishes over in hopes the keychains do not get lost in overseas transit haha

still time to join one of my print tiers and get all -three- of this month's prints! (✨️link✨️)

cause they both wear horns and are sluts, get it?

So I drew some daki art of Dunban and Mumkhar so I could get them printed, right? 2 pieces for each of them--fully clothed and then shirtless. Obviously the idea is for one side of the pillow to have one of them fully clothed and then the other side to have the same guy shirtless.

So I submitted the order that way, paid for it, all that good stuff. And then I got the cases! Yay! But when I opened them up, I realized something.

They printed them wrong.

They printed them so that both fully clothed designs were on one case, while the shirtless ones were on the other.

I've contacted the place to see about getting this corrected, but for now I'm stuck with these cases that insist that Dunban and Mumkhar cannot be separated lmao

Oh look . All of my favorite War Boys are here to entertain me

Entertaining myself by fucking around putting all my fics into that Penguin Classics cover generator today! Link to my ao3 <3

The urge to draw book covers for all parts of TCH versus the lack of ideas...

I have not been tagged for this but I gone done it anyway, so here's an open invitation for you to do a silly thing, whoever you are <3

rules: go to pinterest, search your name + core aesthetic and create a mood board from the first nine images

Is collage art?

Thanks for dropping by! I'm assuming this is in relation to my last AI comment, so I'm going to answer it in that context. Sorry in advance if it's not, lol.

I love the collage question. It's such a good way to contrast art with AI and to illustrate what art does and what AI fails to do!

Best to clear up first that AI is not a collage of other people's art! A collage takes large chunks of other artworks and arranges them in a new way to fit an artist's vision. The artist puts in work to select specific artworks, identify and cut out shapes, and then arranges them with intent, piece by piece. There is thought and intent behind every step: from identifying the original artworks, all the way through placement. Collage is art!

The original artworks, and the pieces of those artworks, don't belong to the new artist, of course! They still belong to the original authors of those works. Only the arrangement belongs to the new artist, and any collage offered to a public space should identify the source material. In fact, outside of personal use, you need to ask permission to use the original works in your collage! After all, it's by virtue of the original works that the new collage even exists in the first place, so not only should credit be given where it's due, but the original authors still have a say in how someone uses their stuff.

AI significantly differs from a collage. It is not the cutting up of a limited number of recognizable works to fit into a new arrangement. It's the mass copying of lines, colors, shapes, and their associations, from art that belongs to other people. That work of copying and generation is automatically done by a computer, not a person, and there's no intentional or deliberate selection of individual sources, or deliberate placement of the source material into a new arrangement. In essence, there's no "arting" being done like there is with a collage. There's only an algorithm regurgitating a massive amount of mushed data with no understanding or real knowledge of the "arrangement" it creates. Again, it's not even a rearrangement or reimagining of sources like the collage; it's just copying. Moreover, the resulting image fails to credit the original sources, and never asked permission from the authors of those sources in the first place!

Bottom line: Yes, a collage is absolutely art! However, AI images are not a collage, and are not art.

Collage: deliberate source selection, deliberate & thoughtful craft based on an artist's vision, purposeful arrangement that communicates something new as a whole. A human investment of time and effort.

AI: indiscriminate, mass source selection; blind and unintelligent copying of someone else's artistic features; randomly-generated output bounded by constraints. Zero human investment of time or effort.

The AI isn't an artist. It's a machine that spits out what it's been trained to spit out. The person who inputs the constraints/parameters into the AI isn't an artist either - the closest role that person would fill in the art world is a commissioner, which is the person who decides what should be made and gets someone else to make it (usually paying for it), even to the point that instructions are iterated to guide the outcome. Users of AI usually have to pay for the service to get the full results they want, so identifying them as commissioners is spot on. The AI commissioners are commissioning the AI company (via any platform fees and input) for the desired image, and the company uses the AI tool to generate it.

That's besides the fact that the AI image isn't art, but it's certainly a product you commission. Unethically to boot, at this point. :')

in my mind almaleixa and sylvanas are the same type of female character... at least almalexia was treated a little bit better by the writers i think

if i were to do a linocut tarot deck and have it professionally cut and printed and in little tins would u guys buy it

what no merchandise does to a mf

(From before) Sophie tried transmitting to Keefe but he hasn’t answered

I like your ideas a lot!!

no this plan is almost foolproof I can’t think of anything to counter it

was there cake at alden's second funeral?

No he didn’t have one

Oh excellent I love it when the things I say work out! I'm going to get a good grade in fictional un-kidnapping planning, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve.

I think the main counter/issue with my idea is that it hinges so specifically on a response from another person and you can only predict their behaviors to a certain extent. Perhaps now that Lady Gisela has Keefe no one from the Neverseen will ever appear anywhere ever again and won't respond to the instigation! It doesn't necessarily match with actions from before, but it's not completely impossible. So there is that, but otherwise glad to know you like my plan!

Also oh, sucks to be Alden in this instance I suppose. But that does also raise the question of what you do when someone dies a second time. Do you have another planting? On the one hand there's already a wanderling for them, but on the other going through with a second planting could be beneficial to the grieving process. Maybe a second wanderling but not in a public location? Like it could be at Everglen. Then you run into the problem of people who may want to pay respects having to go to Everglen and if the crowd is like it was at his first funeral, that'd be overwhelming.

This isn't the point of your ask at all but I got a little sidetracked. Even though there wasn't cake at his funeral, I will enjoy a pastry or sweet of my own in his memory. I don't like coffee but I just got the mental image of one of those latte arts done by a printer like of his face. You could drink his face :)

anyway! hopefully keefe is found and recovered soon!

atp trying to cut any image out straight has me feeling like im back in arts and crafts in primary with my reputation for being stupidly neat at stake