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i swear if this is the second stupid sword picture post i make that gets to 10k i'll just go kill someone

there are places in the world today that are experiencing 40°C for the first time in recorded history. of course there's no way to know whether chucking billionaires into volcanos will appease the sun god but i feel we're doing the scientific method a disservice if we don't at least try

at the end of the day it's about entitlement. AI for fanwork, getting mad at not getting a smuch content as you want, that's all entitlement. they have no respect for the artists and writers who put that piece of media in front of them in the first place. they don't even register it as having even been made by another person.

look at me. every brushstroke in every artwork you've ever seen was made on purpose, one by one, with intention, by someone who spent hours on it. none of it sprouted on trees. Imitating it with a machine because you want more is flat out disrespectful. It shows that you don't really care about the work, you just want to see those specific visuals no matter what. You're like a baby being shown sensory videos.

There are a lot of people who start creative projects with no business or financial plan, because "who cares, it isn't important, we'll figure that out later". And you can't let yourself become that person. Not because I'm a sneering finance bro who thinks your woke animated youtube series wont make money, but because if you don't you'll wind up financially exploiting your friends for years

Look, it's none of my business if you wanna work yourself to the bone for no money so you can make your dream project a reality. I think you shouldn't, but also let's be real that's basically a rite of passage for young creatives. But as soon as you start involving other people? You need a plan. You need to be able to compensate them for their time, and you need to have it in writing

For freelancers: I recommend getting yourself a copy of the Graphic Artists' Guild Handbook: Pricing and Ethical Guidelines for reference-- the newest one dropped last year (I have the 16th edition). It helps you figure out your pricing, how to create a contract for various projects (and you can access free PDFs of templates you can use to modify for your own projects)! It's a good place to start and refer to-- even colleagues who are decades in the business (and former Guild Members too) still use it.

resurrected dead wife watching her own montage: wow I looked so hot in that

the funniest moment in dungeon meshi is when marcille is having her nightmare and brings up her dead bird while also talking about her dead dad, saying “papa and pipi” and laios automatically assumes pipi is marcilles third nonbinary parent on top of her mom and dad