ABCD I'd like to eat a tree

Heh. AI, huh? Figures you’d ask the guy rebuilding civilization from scratch what he thinks about artificial intelligence.

Short answer? It’s a tool. An insanely powerful one—but still just a tool.

Best-case scenario, it replaces the mind-numbing, repetitive junk that wastes human time. Data sorting, pattern scanning, logistics modeling, drug discovery simulations—that’s where AI shines. Let the machines chew through the tedious stuff so humans can focus on higher-order thinking.

But the second people start leaning on it like a cognitive crutch? That’s where things get ugly. Overreliance tanks problem-solving ability. Your brain’s like a muscle—stop using it and it atrophies. There’s already research showing automation complacency and skill degradation when humans outsource too much thinking.

And creativity? Don’t even get me started. AI can remix, interpolate, statistically imitate—but genuine innovation comes from lived experience, failure, intuition, irrational leaps. You can’t algorithm your way into true scientific breakthroughs or cultural movements without human spark driving it.

Then there’s the environmental load. Training large-scale models eats obscene amounts of energy and water depending on the infrastructure. Not exactly trivial when you scale it globally.

Plus, a glaring, yet often overlooked issue is the information control.

Any system trained on curated datasets can be nudged, filtered, or weaponized to push narratives. Propaganda gets a whole lot more efficient when you can mass-generate persuasive text at industrial scale.

So my stance?

Use it. Sparingly. Treat it like nitric acid—valuable in the right apparatus, catastrophic if you start drinking it.

Don’t offload your human autonomy onto a system designed to take it away.

I'm fascinated by how the animators for TADC handle Caine's impossible anatomy so well. There's so much to balance and they've somehow engineered a solution for his expressions to hold during speech.

Was instantly inspired to draw my warriors version of this post by @insomniacrori ! (If you’re uncomfortable with the inspiration please let me know and I’ll delete this!)

I’m living for this ship omg also prototype of my cat!moon design

Tumblr don’t butcher the quality challenge (impossible) click for higher quality!

I forgot chatterfangs neck marking :,)

Mermaid Evolution

Mermaids are completely unrelated to humans, rather they are fish with adaptions in mimicry. The ancestor was a large, ancient fish that preyed on wayward sailors with disorienting shrieks.

As time went on, they rearranged their bodies and minds to more closely resemble humans. Their gills detached from their skull and created a resonating cavity that turned their shrieks to song. Their fins changed to resemble appendages, including splitting the base in two and creating a pouch that could be filled with water, resembling a human chest when displaying.

Be careful when sailing, and when you hear a song that sounds too beautiful for human lungs, it is. Alter your course, and pray it doesn’t follow.

Dragon Evolution || Creature Design || Worldbuilding