art stuff

Two of Cups preview for @revivaldivinations's Garden of Insight tarot.

*crawls bloodied and bruised from my desk and slides this under your door*

I saw the J.C Leyendecker "Lune De Miel" illustration and became rabidly possessed to draw a (simpler) version with Karl and Hazel before the year's end, enjoy

(you can read the fic they feature in here)

original illustration:

Y’ALL!!

Jack Dorsey funded this with his nonprofit AndOtherStuff. The home page for the organization explicitly lists AI as one of its pillars, saying a goal is "making NOSTR the best social protocol for open source AI development and implementation"

What is open source AI?

It's a program that publicly shares its code for free online, so that anyone can use it for themselves. This means that anything this AI is trained on could eventually make its way into any business, social media site, etc. That uses this code. Or, if not, it'll have the ability to harvest content as well as this.

Even since the app doesn't allow AI openly on the videos themselves, the app is likely to use our original content to train its AI. You might have seen that some AI have experienced a positive feedback loop of declining quality, training itself on other AI slop until anything it produces is unintelligible.

This is likely an attempt to prevent that in video format

Then, any other company that wants to use the code can use this better trained AI to make it even harder to recognize AI across the board.

You can read about the connection to AndOtherStuff, as well as the developers' reasons for the project here:

attention all vocaloid fans that follow me: that miku figure is getting a rerelease. this is not a drill. preorders drop at 8 pm pst tonight and resellers are already pissed. this is the happiest i've felt all month, i think.

We, the contributors of Yharnam Sunrise: A Bloodborne Tarot Deck run by Elliott Cassel as Vermilion Zines, would like to address the current situation the project finds itself in, including the cancellation engendered by the actions of Mr. Cassel.

We, the contributing artists, have found ourselves at an impasse: Mr. Cassel has refused to be transparent in his management of backer funds or share responsibility thereof, and refused to honour previous agreements in writing. These agreements included paying us, the artists, for our labour, and protecting our rights. By declining an honest, transparent dialogue, demonstrating an unwillingness to negotiate, and failing to address our concerns in a professional manner, Mr. Cassel put the entire project in jeopardy.

We, the contributors, deeply regret the situation. We apologise especially to our generous backers. We have sent a Cease & Desist to Mr. Cassel and Vermilion Zines. The artwork submitted and created by us for this project remains our own, and we do not allow it to be used by Mr. Cassel or by any project associated with him or Vermilion Zines.

We want to honour your trust and our promises to deliver, and be as transparent as possible. It is important to us that the reasons for this cancellation are clear to everyone who supported it. We had hoped that we were wrong, but started contingency planning when the situation became clear.

We are doing our best to remedy the situation and provide our backers with a stunning deck on an adjusted timeline. We owe our backers immense gratitude, and we've only come this far with your support. The future of this project will feature existing works alongside new ones. We will be as transparent regarding our production and planning process as possible, alongside providing spotlights for all our contributors, new merchandise, a preview of the physical deck before launch, and regular updates before our new and improved launch in May 2026.

If you are still interested in the project, please do follow Revival Divinations. Project updates will be posted there first and foremost. We have a team of amazing artists and writers working to make sure this happens.

Thank you,

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and the original graphic novel is phenomenal:

I highly recommend them both

1) lewis prothero as a rush limbaugh/glenn beck/bill o’reilly type is both more applicable and way funnier than a 1940s radio propagandist 

2) it has stephen fry as gordon detriech, and makes him explicitly gay and pretending to be attracted to evey as part of being closeted than actually attracted to evey and having sex with her while she hides in his home.

3) the movie came out in 2005; that is, only four years after 9/11, while the Iraq war was still in full swing, and while xenophobia and Islamophobia were not just acceptable, but tacitly encouraged by the administration at the time. which makes the following exchange even more poignant and sweet:

Evey: [seeing a book in a glass display case] What is that? Gordon: It’s a copy of the Qur’an, 14th century. Evey: [shocked] Are you a Muslim? Gordon: No, I’m in television. Evey: But why would you keep it? Gordon: I don’t have to be a Muslim to find the images beautiful or its poetry moving.

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years, I had roses, and apologize to no one.

I shall die here. Every inch of me shall perish. Every inch, but one. An Inch, it is small and it is fragile, but it is the only thing in the world worth having. We must never lose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope that the world turns and that things get better. But what I hope most of all is that you understand what I mean when I tell you that even though I do not know you, and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you. I love you. With all my heart, I love you. -Valerie”