West End Boys

Please never lose your passion ❤️

Hi anon ^^

Thank you so much for joining the party and enjoying my work! It’s really kind of you to take the time to leave a comment. 💗

I’m sorry your incredible art style has been stolen and is so often used by AI. 

It started really early, you know. I was already finding Bucky fan art on Pinterest that was veeeery close to my style (but with weird textures and shading), and I quickly realized they were AI-generated images. They were almost certainly made by feeding my work from The Life of Bucky Barnes (my Steve/Bucky side account) into models like MidJourney. 🙃

That’s life, I guess. 😅 There’s not much you can do about it, and I don’t think tools like Glaze help all that much. Even if I protect my new pieces, I have a huge back catalogue that can already be used to train these machines. Enjoy the feast, Nano Banana! 😞👌

To be honest, the fact that my work gets fed into AI isn’t even the worst part for me. What really gets to me is that people are now calling my art AI, including pieces from TWO THOUSAND AND SIXTEEN. 🙃 Usually when someone accuses me, I just sigh, explain that it’s not AI, show my old works, share process shots, etc. Most people are understanding, but sometimes you end up arguing with people who know nothing about digital art. And they’re often younger than my DeviantArt account…It’s getting exhausting in the long run, and I have a feeling this is only the beginning. 🤓

On top of that, my style seems to be exactly what AI loves to copy. Not to mention that my inspirations for this kind of work (like here, here and here) are artists such as John Singer Sargent and Waterhouse…the very same artists AI is trained heavily on. So, at the end of the day, I study these masters, AI studies them too, and it also steals from me. The result? My art looks like AI…or AI looks like my art. I don’t even know anymore. 🤓✌ “My art looking like it was made by a robot” definitely wasn’t on my bingo card when I started my Tumblr in 2010.

So even when kind people like you tell me not to “lose my passion”, it’s hard not to wonder sometimes… what for?

AI can almost do what I do now, and a lot of normies (I’m using “normies” without any condescension here) genuinely can’t tell the difference. They’ll call a piece AI even if I spent ten hours on it. They can’t fathom that you can achieve these textures and this level of realism by drawing from scratch in Photoshop or Rebelle. It’s draining, and it makes you question whether you should change your style… even though AI will probably copy the new one too. 🤓 No style is safe anymore. People think AI only copies Ghibli, Artgerm, or 19th-century paintings? Nope. This shit copies everything, from children’s drawings to medieval manuscripts to obscure artists with two pieces hanging in a suburban Nagoya gallery. We’re fucked. 😂🤘

I’m not the only one feeling this way. It’s becoming harder and harder for artists because people now constantly demand proof like videos, tutorials, the whole thing. I really dislike this atmosphere of constant suspicion, and for three main reasons:

It’s often just a roundabout way of getting free resources. Many artists put WIPs and tutorials behind a Patreon paywall, so demanding “proof” is basically asking for paid content for free.

From what I’ve heard from anime artists on Twitter, some people ask for tutorials specifically to feed AI video models so they can generate fake step-by-step processes and trick others into thinking their work isn’t AI. The more you know, I was BAFFLED when I heard this…😂 A lot of these people charge for commissions but don’t disclose that they use AI. I’ll be honest, I can’t always tell what’s AI and what isn’t anymore, especially with anime-style art. I miss the early MidJourney days when it was obviously spewing digital goo and you could spot MJ v2 from a mile away. I can’t stand AI bros, but at least some of them are honest about using it. They call themselves "artists", sure, but they don’t try to scam people about how the work was actually made.

I could also say that artists who post for free owe you shit, politeness be damned, and that we should just answer like this to any kind of demand:

Anyway, here I am rambling again…

Welcome to my account, anon! Thank you so much for enjoying my art ^^ I still have some pieces I haven’t posted yet, including pre-serum Steve, Sherlock, Spidey/Deadpool, and more.

the concept of star-eating microbes causing a crisis and the solution being the introduction of space wolves to space yellowstone to control the space elk population. i love a good trophic cascade

dr ryland grace immediately pitching "turn the spaceship into a giant centrifuge to generate gravity" and then not balancing his actual centrifuge later on

the entire "life is reason" scene really

grace forgetting to open the mystery alien container in a fume hood AND immediately sticking his nose in it. if we did this in chemistry lab we were executed on the spot

academia drama being one of the cornerstones of grace's character

grace switching through every spectrum setting on the microscope to try to see into the astrophages and not being able to (relatable)

also: the astrophage dying and grace going "ohhh it died..." (very relatable)

grace having his not-scientist buddy Carl to give him frank solutions when he's overthinking. yes, often the solution is just to put the box in another box

copious duct tape usage

just sticking a filter into the path of the petrova line to collect astrophage goop

eva going "so it's alive" when grace tells them the astrophage are moving, and him being like "WELL ok that could be for a lot of reasons" in the tone of someone who doesn't even know where to start explaining why that's a hasty assumption

grace referring to the first new astrophage as his and carl's baby multiple times (HIGHLY relatable)

Dude... I don't like this at all! I don't remember it being a thing before S2. Why does either one of them even need to be "in the wrong"? Why did S3 end up playing on that fandom fight and decide to deem Crowley "the best angel!"

For one, I think everyone's characterization has been assassinated, so what do I even care if one is more "right" than the other? For another, I think this is toxic as Hell. Couples are supposed to be working together! They're not supposed to be compared to each other and fighting over who is "right."

"Well, some people are mad because it feels like Aziraphale is always throwing away the romance."

Well... maybe that's just bad writing from NG! Not a result of Aziraphale ACTUALLY being a bad character! Multiple people have had their turn at this point working with these characters, and so the story doesn't always focus on this weird-ass relationship drama we see, y'know?

Something about it also smells a tad m*sogynistic and h*teronormative. Like, not to be that person... it just reminds me of that trope where the woman is always wrong and can't make up her mind about what she wants, and the man is mean and blunt because he's always right! And the woman realizes she's actually the bad guy! But that's okay because the smart guy who knows how things really are forgives her! Because he's better than her and she has a lot to learn! She needs a strong man to guide her and set her right!

It reminds me of media where people start hating the woman character because... idfk! Even if the man is doing things that are HORRID.

But again, a lot of people's characterization sucked in S3, so I feel like even in a critique of the finale, one finds themselves going all over the place with what they didn't like.

Chapter 11 - Belonging

Summary: Back in London, Sherlock reminisces about the two years that have passed by so quickly. The large tree at Trafalgar Square makes him think back to the one they lit in Arboreta Combe the previous week. He's so lost in thought and startles when a familiar voice nearby interrupts his introspection.

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Thank you for your lovely message ❤️ The blog will continue and I'll still be lurking in the Good Omens fandom 😇😈

What if I told you that in not liking a thing, you could let go of the need to justify why the thing is bad? You can not like a thing and it can not be personal. You can not like a thing and it can just be a thing you don't like. You can not like a thing, be disappointed by a thing, and not dig through tweets and interviews and ✨cLuEs✨ and just. Not like it. What if I told you you could not like a thing and also not invent conspiracy theory level excuses as to why that thing obviously is bad? What if I told you other people liking the thing you don't like is not personal? That you are allowed to like different things. That you don't have to ruin the enjoyment for folks who did, actually, like the the thing in order for you to not like the thing?

What if that was a thing I told you you could do?

What if you allowed yourself the grace to accept a thing you thought was good did not meet your expectations, and you thanked it for the good things it gave you, and let your anger go?

SORRY GUYS I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO POST THIS YESTERDAY. Having Wednesday off threw off my whole week and forgot it was Saturday yesterday. Here's the weekly roundup. Thanks all :D

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