Starting Off 2023 With A Yang ;)

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Made a post yesterday on IG, but it feels good to be back to my fandom shenanigans. Six month drawing hiatus broken with one very soft man.

Burnstar

This is one of my fave cats, he’s an OC from the WC universe.

Virgil Rook for the Chessverse AU. He carries a lance as his weapon of choice. 

If you like it, please Reblog it! 

Concept Sketch of his full outfit: 

Mudbellys Decision.

So this picture shows my OC Mudbelly walking in the woods thinking.

There will be a story about him up soon on Quotev Account Cheerful Nightmare.

Sanders Sides Alien AU Doodle Dump

Virgils first experience with aliens. . .

Here is a kiricarus from the same universe

Another boi

Here’s the link to the story if ya wanna check it out --- https://archiveofourown.org/works/24269695/chapters/58491559

Tips That Can Save Your Kid’s Life.

I Send The Storm

Let them go!

something im noticing is the redditors are just commenting on everything via reblogs with reckless abandon. and its so funny bc thats how youre MEANT to use this fucking website but we've trained ourselves out of it somehow.

So Netflix is releasing this animated movie but here’s the thing - all backgrounds are done in AI. No actual BG artists were hired or credited for this work. 

And here’s the kicker - I gave them too much credit. I realized that not even the AI users are credited apparently. 

Check this out:

“+Human”. No names, no nothing. 

I know it’s tempting, but please don’t hate-watch this thing. Numbers equal profit even if the people watching are just doing it to mock. Don’t give Netflix and other studios even more incentive to fire more animators and replace them with machines trained on their work and skill. Hilariously, the excuse used is ‘there aren’t enough artists’. That’s not true - there are more than enough artists, but the real issue is that no one wants to pay a living wage. Here’s a short video about the reality of animation in Japan. 

The biggest winners in this equation at the end of the day are the AI infrastructure owners - owners of Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, etc. Do not feed this machine, it creates more monopolization of entire industries, raises a powerful few and dehumanizes the rest.

New Blood

This is Redtail, with her foster kits Cloudkit, Flowerkit and Creekkit.

FACT Redtail is Burnstars sister c: Oh and here’s the story if ya’ll are interested! https://www.quotev.com/story/10878048/Warrior-Cats-The-Revolution-Series-Book-1-New-Blood/1