Amongst Other Stuff (cough, Art/writer's Block, Cough), Me Not Knowing How To Write Is Kicking My Ass,

Artblock grabbed me by the neck, but I managed to finish it (after days of procrastinating, but shhhh we don't speak of that)

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.

EDIT: a lot of people are unsure what the anime’s called - it’s The Dog and the Boy.

DREAM-OF-TEETH, a mech made from the hollowed-out corpse of one of the old gods, has killed each one of its previous pilots. You are the "lucky" 13th to try, a pit-fighter made a porcelain. Together, they will break the world before it breaks them. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

This started as one part of a larger zine wip I wanted to share but I went a little overboard with the presentation haha. Said wip below: (Currently working on making headway on another project so it'll be a bit before I finish this up but I like the layout so far!)

I'm hyperfixating on Stephen King characters being in DBD

I don't play DBD, I barely consume DBD content

And yet here I am, 2 and a half weeks into thinking about The Shining/Doctor Sleep, IT, Carrie, and TBP (as a treat) being in DBD

Procrastinating on my current WIP(s), so I bring thee this

And also me trying to draw Brad

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hawk's eyes

Asking for a friend: how do you explain to your friends that you're dating your current SO-not because you want anything serious-but because they look like an irl version of your favorite anime character and you've been secretly using them for reference for your semi popular fandom blog. and that's actually how you finally started talking to them because they caught you staring at them one time, saw your art, said they liked it and ended up asking you out a week later. Now you've been together for two weeks and it feels weird to try to break up with them because they haven't done anything wrong and your friends think it's weird that you're suddenly dating when you've always told them you've never been interested in relationships

Hohh.... honestly curious

Feel free to tell me your headcanons or theories, or ask questions (either about Mako or me or anything really idm). Speak your truth and ramble, my friends :>