Howl’s Moving Castle - Fan art by Julia Tveritina
Konstrakta builds on this notion with her climactic chant in Latin, highlighting how society has completely forgotten to register one’s mental health as a marker for how healthy we are. She sings how the body is healthy, but the mind is sick, sad, frightened, and desperate; yet this all means nothing as long as we appear well on the outside.
Meu amor há mil formas de ser louco E três formas de ser feliz Mas no fim só haverá um casamento E é contigo, algo me diz
The Daily Planet Guide to Metropolis & The Daily Planet Guide to Gotham are kinda hard to find, but if you're a sucker for ridiculously specific lore bits about fictional cities, they are the HOLY GRAIL. there is shit in here nobody would ever need to know
i'm talking average yearly temperature (by month) & precipitation, local tv & radio stations AND their most popular shows, detailed crime statistics, an entire section dedicated to laying out the pros and cons of different methods of transport around the city, 7+ pages dedicated solely to local restaurants, 24 pages of descriptions of different gotham districts, some of the most detailed maps ever published, and that's barely even scratching the surface
it has everything. literally everything. and then some. look at this
why would anyone ever need to know this? i'm in nerd heaven rn
[Begin transcript: The voting history of the city’s six boroughs is as follows: Bakerline: liberal. St. Martin’s Island: conservative. Hell’s Gate: liberal. Queensland Park: mixed. New Troy: liberal. Park Ridge: mixed. End transcript.]
First con in a few years. So glad how great these turned out!!!
Gonna have these at @cybfestnw this Saturday 7/23!! If you’re in the Kent WA area, come grab these and bunch of new stickers!! supplies are limited!
There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue!
I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product.
Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?
Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.
Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases.
Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use.
I’m really proud of what I’ve been able to create this year so far!
It’s been a really difficult year for me personally, which typically makes creating ANYTHING difficult. Not to mention the constant doubt 🥴
So needless to say I’m really happy with what I have been able to accomplish :) for the first time I’m proud of what I’ve done too :)
mari-mccabes
Booster Gold vs The Lasso of Truth in Justice League Action (Episode 6: “Lasso of Lies”)
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