AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement.

Thank you to @southaway art for the art tag! The prompt was to post six older artworks and one WIP. Which immediately gave me deer-in-headlights eyes because I’ve only been drawing actively for about … 10 months? and don’t have a huge backlog. So I had to scrounge a bit to find stuff that wasn’t already posted here:

Beren finds the body of his father amid carrion crows - posted briefly in … December 2024? Then took it down in a crisis of confidence (lol).

Eärendil and Tilion’s ships passing in the night - a silly doodle I did for the SWG Potluck when I had artblock, also Dec 2024.

Artists of Arda stamp collection! feat. Lúthien, Ecthelion, Maglor and Daeron for the April 2025 SWG Musicals challenge.

Finrod and Andreth! This is the oldest piece, maybe from Oct 2024? didn’t really understand layering and was nervous to work in anything but monochrome. It’s unfinished because I messed up the layers so badly I gave up, but it’s very nostalgic to me.

Nienna weeps over the ruined Trees: I also posted this and took it down. Not sure why!

Kiddos of the Edain - Just some Edain kid!designs. I never posted because I was never happy with Rian’s color palette. But I had a lot of fun (and pointers from @outofangband on dyes and fabric that I mostly failed to implement lol)

My current WIP (besides TRSB) is this rescuer!Fingon:

Eileithyia, the Ancient Greek goddess of childbearing and midwifery.

I've seen the collections of favorite tumblr fiction posts; now I'd like to see what your favorite "humans being human" historical posts are. (Because sometimes it is Nice to be reminded that compassion is not something easy for us to lose; we laugh at the same bad jokes; there are entire fossil records of our kindness.)

Here are my favorites-- add on yours.

The story of the RMS Carpathia, with a follow-up (aka one of if not the best pieces of short nonfiction historical writing in the modern age and one that reduces me to tears every goddamn reread)

Bronze-age grave of teenage gamer girl lovingly buried with her sheep ankle bone collection

The 1st-2nd century CE Roman tombstone with a bar joke that reads like a Dril tweet

And even earlier: A 4500-1900 BCE Sumerian bar joke

"Please know that there's an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that's beautiful to you"

Reconstructing Otzi's shoes

The Paleolithic grandmother and the child's fingerprint

Stone-age toddlers had art lessons

Ice-age children played in megafauna-footprint puddles

There once was a little boy who loved ducks

The oldest human burial found in Africa is a toddler; they made a pillow for his head

Henry Kenelm Beste's father loved him very much

"A Timeline of Humanity"

"I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them."

"I got to hold a 500,000 year old hand axe at the museum today. It's right-handed. I am right-handed"

A 3rd century dog carved on a marble tomb; a 1st century dog lovingly described and named for posterity

Patrice, a 1st-2nd century dog, was dearly loved

And: we found a Paleolithic dog, buried with its bone

Humanity, unified across time by everyday experiences

The Golden Record sent into space in the 1970s

Ancient Egypt had archaeologists

Egyptian figurine of a woman waiting for her bread to finish baking

The graffiti of Pompeii

Ancient Greek tourist graffiti at the tomb of Ramses V

Hidden messages on circuit boards

The earliest examples of someone chewing on the end of their pencils

"im having feelings about the uffington white horse again"

The vast relatability of Medieval marginalia (and cats peeing on things)

Potoooooooo

What our ancient ancestors would think, seeing us prosper

Engage with older art; it keeps you from forgetting their humanity

"They were just like you and me. They write don't forget eggs, and wondered if their neighbors secretly hated them or if they are reading into it too much. They loved and were loved and they wondered. They wondered about you."

"Why do you study history" web-weaving

"Little makes a mark on a realm like a castle, for good or ill." Saehaim ● Raven Hill ● Tor Braer

Princess of Dragonstone

Queen Helaena Targaryen

And before Alicent, at the center of it all, stood the tall woman who had killed the betrothed she’d never wanted, freeing her and damning her in one single action. She looked down at Marq’s body, bits of her shoulder-length black hair slipping from the topknot that pulled it back and falling onto her forehead. She was breathing hard, and when she looked up at Alicent there was a wide, predatory grin on her face. Her eyes, large and black and lit up with glee, never left her.

doodled a bunch of my mutuals' OCs the last days 🫣

La Fuente de Los Olvidados (Hardcover Design) by VladFaustoA