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#food coma from a pint or two

#they go for countryside humans because their blood is “less polluted” only to find out their blood is full of pesticides

#saw the pizza and caption before the explanation at the top so at first i thought the joke was that the woman ate a shit ton of garlic bread

#vampire’s cardiologist insists they have to cut back on salt #vampire resentfully installs instagram and subsists on influencers who shill unhealthily restrictive diets

#wonder if the microplastics theyre getting from her are combining with the coal and lead poisoning #they got from drinking blood from the industrial revolution to present day

#me shoveling down iron pills for my vampire significant other so they can always have a lil snack

#atm my doctor says i produce too much blood #so i think a vampire would be passed out like they had a thanksgiving meal probably

#it makes a certain kind of sense yeah #pellagra was super common in the US in the early 20th century for instance

Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?

Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.

I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.

https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu

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The team that created Glaze is from the University of Chicago. Their names are each listed in full on the Glaze download website. (This group of students/professors did this for their SPRING BREAK 😱 so go give them some love lol)

It is free to download. No, they won’t ask for or raise money from/for this project.(stated by one of the lead professors of the project).

Glaze is designed to protect artists’ STYLE--which a bunch of ai people have been deliberately fine-tuning their models to mimic (and specifically of current living artists--small or big).

It currently does not protect against composition/trace-like theft (as seen when run through img-to-img) but that would be protected by copyright anyway while STYLE is not.

The University Team has stated that they are dedicated to continuing to improve the tool, like fixing bugs (like overheating older computers by taking up lots of energy when Glazing--it currently runs on CPU so they’re trying to change that to GPU, I believe) and expanding the type of protection given to artists (like working against img-to-img theft).

It currently only works directly on your computer (phones not advised due to current overheating issue, no tablets, or iPads, and no website runthrough since that would be insecure to breaches/scraping/hacks)

It currently works best on painterly artwork, but can still be used on other forms (team is working on improving this)

IT WORKS BY calculating the changes each image needs for the best protection against style theft by AI, and adds tiny changes throughout the piece, so that your style will, for example, confuse the ai into seeing van gogh. But the ai thieves will see a regular image in your style, feeding it into their model labeled as your work (thus starting the “data poisoning”).

Do not post the original unGlazed piece of your artwork after posting your Glazed version (obviously)

The Team worked directly with over 1,000 artists that were being impacted by the ai theft. Because the team listened to those artists, Glaze accounts for regular art thieves too (i.e. Glaze can’t be removed/cropped etc. like signatures or watermarks when reposted. It’s just part of the image, so even if it ends up on another site and scraped, the Glazing is still in effect)

When you run your artwork through Glaze, no information is sent back to the Team. (Aka, no scraping on their part. The app receives information from the Team (like updates) but no information from you is given to them through the app. Basically Team servers ---> You and NOT Team servers <--->You) One-way data street.

Brief misunderstanding happened over an open-source license for the front-end part of the app. (Used open-source coding for front-end, not knowing that code’s use-license states it is only for other open-source uses, not closed-source (the back-end code of the app is private to prevent counter-counter measure developments)). The Team took down the app until they replaced the front-end code with code written from scratch by the team. They are now not in violation of that open-source license since they are no longer using it. (you have 30 days to remedy a license breach once informed; they did so in 2)

The Team is currently in touch with Japanese artists to better expand the tool for use to protect their art styles

From what I understand of it, Glaze is an AI tool designed to be anti-AI (Think Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: one Terminator robot vs. all the other Terminators 😂)

👇 Read this if you avoid your manuscript because of that one scene!

Seeing the place you left off in your project can be super intimidating, especially if you left it in the middle of a scene, and ESPECIALLY if that scene was something you struggled with.

I sometimes sit on a specific scene for weeks, because it’s giving me a rough time, or there’s some emotional blockade stopping me from working on it.

So here’s what I’ll do in order to get through the scene and continue with the manuscript:

👉 write out only the dialogue (I always think audio first, so if you’re an auditory kind of person, give this one a shot)

👉 draft it out in bullet points, until I’m happy in how the scene will play out (then it’s a lot easier to sit down and expand on the bullet points)

👉 get clearer on the subtext (make sure that I know what each of my characters want going into the scene)

👉 increase the conflict (let the scene spiral a little out of control, and that usually makes it more interesting to write)

And if it’s really not happening….

Congratulations!

I feel like you'd have better luck getting an agent to handle rights on your first, self-pubb'ed book(s), if you have a NEW book that is not published that they can shop as well. So you query them with new material, and they'd be your book agent for traditional pub books, and then they help with rights on your other self-pub books.

In other words: I'd be happy to help an existing client with that kind of thing, but it would never be worth it (to ME) to take on a person JUST to do that kind of thing. (Maybe some agents wouldn't mind? IDK. But I suspect that for most, just doing relatively small sub rights deals for self-pubb'ed books would be a lot of pain-in-the-ass stuff for very little money, and that's not nearly so interesting as selling NEW books to publishers!)

New beautiful words to add to your vocabulary this month! How’s your writing going?

Mellifluous: sweet-sounding; pleasant to hear

Lilt: a characteristic rising and falling of the voice when speaking; a pleasant gentle accent

Aurora: the dawn; a natural electrical phenomenon characterized by the appearance of streamers of reddish or greenish light in the sky

Quintessence: the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class

Surreptitious: kept secret, especially because it would not be approved of

Halcyon: calm, peaceful, and tranquil; denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful

Nebulous: hazy, unclear, or vague

Aureate: characterized by elaborate and ornate language; grandiloquent

Also, i've got some news to share....

I’m so excited to share our first ever small products! These will be 3 digital workbooks for writers, each covering a specific area of writing!

The Character Bible

The Plotter’s Almanac

The World-Builder’s Chronicle

#1: shapeshifting alien. This one is the most obvious. You want tentacles? A bumpy cock, a ridged one? What size do you want? You want a knot or not? knot or knot haha. you want to dominate a small slimy monster or be ruthlessly fucked by something twice your size? granted there are some biological limits to the shapeshifting, especially if you're fucking a symbiote bonded TO you, as opposed to fucking a symbiote bonded to someone else, but there is nonetheless so many possibilities with that alone.

#2: can fuck you underneath your clothes in public.

#3: can literally BE your clothes. Eddie Brock walks around naked with Venom as his shirt, jeans, and jacket in so many comics. Extension of the fuck-you-underneath-clothes concept, but also your symbiote deciding to change its shape just a bit so you flash a stranger, or them deciding you're alone now, you don't need me to cover you up. So much potential for humiliation.

#4: it's a hyperpredator that is nonetheless physically codependent on you. You're playing the submissive? It can be feral, it can be rough, it can be teeth and tongues and crazy possessive. You're playing the dominant? You've got an incredibly powerful species submitting to you, subservient to you, because ultimately it needs you and you're calling the shots. There's Layers to both sides of the dom/sub dynamic with a symbiote which is so fun

#5: fuck i forgot the tongue

#6: the psychic meld bitch. the psychic meld. both of you feeling what the other is feeling at the SAME TIME HELLO. overstimulation heaven. them feeling you, you feeling them-it doesn't take much communication to know when to back off or when to go harder. you can feel the other's cravings. their adrenaline. god it would be so easy to orgasm at the same time when sleeping with a symbiote-

Understanding someone so different from yourself

Loving the unlovable

Big

Being turned on and afraid

demons:

I’ll start:

right ankle hurts on winter mornings

hate cinnamon except on apple pie

Favorite cookie is oatmeal raisin

has a collection of leaves

Has strong opinions about water parks.

Weird kids like them

Gets complements on their handwriting

Likes the smell of fresh sawdust, but not the taste

re-learned how to make origami cranes five times, can never remember the steps