they said he comes when you whistle

it was an honor being horny with you all

hey guys since tumblr is turning into a giant shit hole faster than I expected, i wanted to let yall know that I have a twitter!!! i post art there too, and I’ve actually been posting more on there than on this blog. so mayve follow me there if u wanna keep seeing me around.

twitter. com/megawaffle

hey guys, last day before tumblr fucks me off their site haha follow me on twitter if u wanna keep track of my stuff!! twitter.com/MegaWaffle

Regarding the new tumblr policies

So… this blog and the strange flesh dev blog will probably be taken down for good on december 17 . I’m really bitter and disappointed . This place felt like a safe space for my art and our work as game developers. But we aren’t welcome here anymore apparently, as it’s always , ALWAYS the case. So we gotta move. You can still find my stuff at

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/blazingcheecks/

And @blazingcheeks on twitter.

You can also subscribe for just 3 dollars to my patreon at https://www.patreon.com/supportblazingcheeks , there you’ll find more or less the same experience you found here.

So well thanks for all the love you gave me , people. I love you all.

We had to write a Mini Comic for my Illustration Class so I did mine based on The Frog and The Scorpion. Hopefully you all know the story! 

But if you don’t know the story… In the original the scorpion stings the frog in the middle of the river. When the frog asks “why” the scorpion says “it’s in my nature” and they both die. I like my ending more.

Done with watercolor and pen and ink nib.

I always thought this story was fucked up, even when I heard it as a very young child. I even got put in the naughty corner, and a star next to my name crossed off for questioning it.

This story is so much better, and I like it’s message much more.

Also, the scorpion’s ‘nature’ is to not sting anything it doesn’t perceive as either a threat or food. A mysteriously helpful frog would be neither, and thus would be relatively safe.

The more sinister meaning of the original story is “kindness is wasted on scary people because there’s a chance they might exploit it.” Which translates into “don’t show kindness to strangers”. Which translates into absolute fucking bullshit.

Be kind.

insane clown posse man was at midwest fur fest in a fucking juggalo fursuit oh my god

Hey so listen,

I don’t like making fun of furries to begin with, especially since they’re not all as bad as a lot of people make them out to be. But definitely, don’t lean on the horn with Violent J.

If you don’t know, Violent J is the leader of Insane Clown Posse. His daughter is a furry. Despite his notoriety, J isn’t rich at all. So you can imagine when his daughter ordered a fur suit and essentially got scammed (which, by the way, as someone who makes stuffed animals from time to time and alters clothes here and there– faux fur is pretty expensive if it’s the good kind. An entire suit out of the shit is a whole ass arm) they were pissed.

But instead of J just kinda shrugging it off or shaming her for being trickers or whatever, the man made a whole call out video to the company and set it up like a show.

So gawk if you want, but just know, Violent J is a supportive dad and I gotta give my props to him. I know I wish my guardian or mom would’ve gotten at least a bit interested when I went to my first anime con. It’s good to see he’s standing behind her like this.

But wait, it’s even weirder than that!

This is gonna produce some absolutely baffling pornography.

…. oh my fucking god they actually are using open source software. They’re using a fucking one-layer unidirectional bicategory tag-trained neural network. This will never work. Literally, it will never work. There’s just not enough algorithmic complexity to do what they’re asking of it. I bet you I could prove on a mathematical level that this joke of a neural net fundamentally lacks the abstraction necessary to do its job.

This will never get better. Their algorithm will never stop fucking up, it will never actually flag porn reliably and it will always require a massive quantity of human hours to deal with the deluge of mistagged pictures. This isn’t just a case of an insufficiently trained algorithm, it’s just … this is the most basic neural network you can make. It probably hasa a lot of neurons and has loads of training data but like … you can’t just brute force this kind of stuff. One layer of neurons is just Not Enough.

Also, just to make this clear, Tumblr lied. I mean, we already know this, but I mean they liiiieeeeed. All that stuff they promised about what would or would not be censored? That cannot be delivered on with a system this simple. Nude classical sculptures, political protests, male-presenting nipples (really Tumblr?), nude art outside the context of sex, all that? You cannot train a bicategory one-layer neural network to exclude those things. It cannot be done. Tumblr never intended for those things to actually be permitted, they were just lying. Because the system they have cannot actually do what they said it would and never will be able to.

Also, this kind of system is super vulnerable to counter-neural strategies. I bet you before the end of the month someone hooks up their own open source one layer bicategory neural network which puts an imperceptible (to humans) layer of patterned static over arbitrary images, and trains it by having it bot-post static-ed images to Tumblr and reinforcing based on whether the images are labeled nsfw or sfw. Seriously, within a month someone will have an input-output machine which can turn any image ‘sfw’ in Tumblr’s eyes.

This is genuinely pathetic. Like, I have real pity for whoever implemented this, because it’s clear Tumblr doesn’t actually have any engineers with any expertise with machine learning left at all and they foisted the job off on some poor bastard who has no idea what they’re doing and is going to get all kinds of flak for their (perfectly reasonable and predetermined) failure from management.

Who wants to see a FAT otter. A real ROUND boy. A HUGE man. A CHUNKY guy.

The Ban has gone too far

When I took the camera shot (the last one) I didn’t actually expect actual dialogue to support this. Anyway this is my Dragon Quest 8 Ship now <3 Fabulous Big Gay Slime: You may now slurrrrrp the gooroom!

“I think my book would be a good fit for your house–”

“Sorry, we’re not accepting romances.”

“Romance? This…this is a paranormal horror. There’s not even enough humans to have a romance.”

“I don’t know, the bog monster really presents itself as a love interest.”

“The bog monster. Are you serious?”

“It’s got those big arms and a mysterious air to it. Ladies love that.”

“What? Ladies don’t… No, look, that’s not the intention here. It’s an eldritch abomination in the styling of Lovecraft. I think horror fans will really enjoy it.”

“I understand, but I also think romance fans will really enjoy it, making it a romance. We’re not accepting any romances.”

“But that’s–I didn’t write a romance! It’s not a romance!”

“It’s romance-presenting. We’re going to have to pass.”

“Hey, I can’t find my book on your shelf?”

“oh, yeah, it was a romance.”

“…yes? I know, I marketed my book as a romance and made sure it was immediately distinguishable from your other selections like you asked. I even took the time to keep underage readers away from my book. So why is it gone?”

“We don’t want our audience to read romance period.”

“Since when? You’ve never said anything about the other romance books, even the ones that pretended to be Biographies. I’m actually following your rules!”

“People won’t recommend our bookstore if we have even one romance. We’re throwing them all away, marketed correctly or not.”

“But my book is on your shelf! My readers know my book is on your shelf! How are my readers supposed to find my book if you’re banning it?”

“Not my problem. You shouldn’t have written a romance.”

this should be the most reblogged post on tumblr before it dies

We need to reblog this so much that the post breaks

REBLOG IF NAZIS OFFEND YOU MORE THAN NIPPLES.

The fact that our freedom of creative expression is being severely restricted is making me very uncomfortable

Other sites to find me on coming soon. Personally I plan on sticking around until the end, but the writing’s on the wall. We had a good run. <3