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It is important, as artists and as fans of media, to be able to recognise, portray, and appreciate POC features on characters (shock fucking horror). As artists, make it a part of your study to draw POC, to learn how to draw different features. Ranges of eyes, different facial structure, lips, noses, varieties of skin tones. This is obviously important for, you know, basic human decency, but it ties in with GenAI.
Machine learning and datasets have always been saturated with whiteness. The IT sector is overwhelmingly white and always has been. The models are training off a very white internet. GenAI skews white (and anime-style but we're not talking about that today).
So when it comes to GenAI and faking semirealism, it'll give you skewed results when it tries to represent characters that aren't white. It especially struggles with Black characters. So you, discerning reader, must be able to spot tells that a human, an artist, should be able to represent. Does that art look rendered to a high level, but Davrin's got a narrow nose and his palms are the wrong colour?
Hey. Don't bean soup me. You - critical thinker, you - know there are many more AI tells than just misrepresenting a character's features or skin tone. You know this. I'm holding your face in my hands you know this. Say it with me - alone, these tells don't guarantee AI.
What I'm saying is - if you go about your days on the internet comfortable believing that you don't have to put care and time into depicting POC, if you're happy to do that because all your OCs are white and why would you need to learn? First and lesser, you're gonna get fooled by AI. Secondly and more dire, you're gonna perpetuate this very pervasive attitude I've seen where "the art is there, the Black character is there, who cares if they don't look accurate, at least they're there" which is harmful. It's lazy. It's saying: "white characters are the only characters who deserve to be depicted accurately."
Look inward, look outward. Look at what you're supporting with your reblogs. Care more. Respect more.
Care more.
“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”
— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post. (via 360degreesasthecrowflies)
dear everyone on tumblr who needs to host images elsewhere (e.g. to embed on ao3 etc), please give squidge a go!! it's free, it's nonprofit and it's geared towards fandom so nsfw images won't get deleted!! and please stop using imgur if you can because they blocked the uk rather than acquiesce to the fucking internet safety laws, which I can't really hold against em but it does mean all imgur pictures just show up as big purple boxes now
Squidge! Holy blast from the past, Batman. The last time I remember even looking at that site was... eons ago.
( Oh, what was I reading? The Quartz Key. Yes, it's m/m. )
Not only is Squidge still around, it's expanded and grown! It is still run by the same guy, though now it's a nonprofit with a board and everything, and while they maintain all the old squidge sites as static archives, they have a new multifandom archive using the AO3 code at squidgeworld.org. They also host podfics and fanart.
For those younguns in the crowd, back in the day erotic fanworks--especially slash--was not welcome very many places. Walter was willing to host it, and has been a haven for NSFW fanworks since 1994. The various archives and so on hosted at squidge.org were never very large, compared to lots of other archives, but they were a necessary part of the fannish ecosystem, and I'm really glad that there is now a structure in place to keep the whole system running beyond just "Walter's a great guy willing to donate lots of time and money." Walter is a great guy! but like. it's good to have other people to help out and keep things going in the long run.
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have you ever seen a cow in real life
i see cows every day
i see cows very often
i only see cows occasionally, but often enough that it isnt unusual
i have only seen cows a few times
i have seen cows once
i have seen cows but only at a Place To See Animals
i have never seen a cow
if you used to see cows consistently but you dont anymore, answer according to how often you did at cow time!
only poll response that matters
No it's not, Molly
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What gets to me about Sam's nat20 performance is the reaction of Luis, the og lie-to-a-sundered-leader's-face-lying-liar
Look at his face. Look at how gleeful he is.
Imagine what the two of them could do if Wic locked in
He drives a… hard… bargain…
(caution:bottom Terence)
ok I was planning this to be that one night after that letter but it doesn't fit too well, so treat it as just Dion having a bad day and Terence is there to put his mind off things.
Next up should be some cool sexy outfit. It's time to take off your lame ass armor Sir Terence.
!t!Dion x !b!Terence !nsfw!I don't know if power service bottom exist before but it does now in my head. I am having so much fun with sub to
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sorry but once you notice how often ppl use a southern accent as shorthand for being unintelligent you can never unsee it. classism is baked so deeply and why are you acting like anyone who talks the way my grandfather talks is stupid.
compilation of texts my mom has sent me when my cat is wailing outside my room and i haven’t opened the door for her yet
wait now i’m curious what’s everyone’s go-to pair of shoes
Euros over here for the World Cup discovering we were right about this
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in hindsight sending the number one digit at a time created the funniest half second of either of our lives
another dump of some cropped art lol
