Team Ambrollins~

Ways to run by Shield:

Roman: Smooth

Seth: Look at those hands xD

This petition calls on the European Commission to establish a European tax on great wealth. The money will be used to finance the social and climate transition and help countries hit by climate change.

There's an official proposal to the EU to tax the rich!

You only need to be a EU citizen to sing it. The goal is 1 million signatures before october 2024, and we're already at 140.000!

If you need extra incentive to sign, the French have the most signatures as of right now. You wouldn't want the French to be better than you, right? And if you are French, well, Italians are second right now, you wouldn't want the Italians to catch up, right?

I'm wanting to start posting my recently finished InoAoi fic Reading Between The Lines soon. I have the first two chapters read through a few times now and I feel they are ready to be posted, but before that, I wanted to see if I could locate a beta reader as well. There are 66 chapters, and I'm hoping to post new chapters bi-weekly, if possible between work and other things, but at least want to get a chapter out each month. I'm going to post a teaser, tags, and some other info here, so if anyone is intersested in beta reading this fic, please message me in my DMs or my ask box. If no one steps forward though, then I'll just go ahead and start posting it unbeta-ed. This will eventually be a NC-17 fic, containing content of various types of mature content, so unfortunately I cannot accept minors as beta readers. Please seem the tag lists below the cut for all content and trigger warnings.

Teaser: A little while after the girl with the twin hair-tails and deep sapphire eyes made him drink a foul-tasting liquid, she finally reunited Inosuke with his beloved mask. He checked it over extensively, suspicious as to why she had taken possession of it for so long.

"There was a tear in it," The girl explained as his eyes and senses examined the stitches in the hide. "I sewed it shut so it wouldn't get bigger."

Inosuke wanted to challenge her to a fight for seizing and messing with the most precious of his meager belongings, but she briskly left the room. He glowered at the door she'd disappeared through, but it softened a little when he studied her stitches. If he didn’t possess such an acute sense of touch, the mend might’ve been undistinguishable from the rest of the fur. She'd taken great pains to fix it.

A peculiar, but warm sensation formed in his chest at the gesture, but he vigorously scratched it away in annoyance.

Hmph! He shoved the mask back over his head. She's lucky she didn't ruin my mask, or there'd be hell to pay!

Gotouge didn’t give us a whole lot of shipping material, especially for Inosuke and Aoi. Thus, we are left to wonder what happened with them between panels, between the lines.

I made a Room Building tutorial! Lemme know if it helps! 🧡

“Let nothing stand in your way.”

“You’ve got my back?”

Right now, you have to be a team player. You cannot complain about AI being used to fuck over your industry and then turn around and use it on somebody else’s industry.

No AI book covers. No making funny little videos using deepfakes to make an actor say stuff they never did. No AI translation of your book. No AI audiobooks. No AI generated moodboards or fancasts or any of that shit. No feeding someone else’s unfinished work into Chat GPT “because you just want to know how it ends*” (what the fuck is wrong with you?). No playing around with AI generated 3D assets you can’t ascertain the origin of. None of it. And stop using AI filters on your selfies or ESPECIALLY using AI on somebody else’s photo or artwork.

We are at a crossroad and at a time of historically shitty conditions for working artists across ALL creative fields, and we gotta stick together. And you know what? Not only is standing up for other artists against exploitation and theft the morally correct thing to do, it’s also the professionally smartest thing to do, too. Because the corporations will fuck you over too, and then they do it’s your peers that will hold you up. And we have a long memory.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking “your peers” are only the people in your own industry. Writers can’t succeed without artists, editors, translators, etc making their books a reality. Illustrators depend on writers and editors for work. Video creators co-exist with voice actors and animators and people who do 3D rendering etc. If you piss off everyone else but the ones who do the exact same job you do, congratulations! You’ve just sunk your career.

Always remember: the artists who succeed in this career path, the ones who get hired or are sought after for commissions or collaboration, they aren’t the super talented “fuck you I got mine” types. They’re the one who show up to do the work and are easy to get along with.

And they especially are not scabs.

Here is a round-up of all eight of the free digital brush packs that I’ve released so far for Photoshop CC, Clip Studio Paint, and Procreate!

You can download them on this page (click) Type in “0″ for a free download or tip any amount you so desire!

...that your audience won't hate.

This is a method I started using when NFTs were on the rise - thieves would have to put actual work into getting rid of the mark - and one that I am now grateful for with the arrival of AI. Why? Because anyone who tries to train an AI on my work will end up with random, disruptive color blobs.

I can't say for sure it'll stop theft entirely, but it WILL make your images annoying for databases to incorporate, and add an extra layer of inconvenience for thieves. So as far as I'm concerned, that's a win/win.

I'll be showing the steps in CSP, but it should all be pretty easy to replicate in Photoshop.

Now: let's use the above image as our new signature file. I set mine to be 2500 x 1000 pixels when I'm just starting out.

That gives me a fair indication that I'm doing something right. ;V

Let me also restate that no anti-theft measure is foolproof. There are going to be ways around watermarks, always. A properly determined individual can always figure out methods of removing it.

However: add enough layers of frustration, and most will not see the point in bothering. Removing a speckled watermark from multiple images takes the kind of time and effort AI bros are, rather famously, unwilling to put in. If they have to do it for a whole gallery, most won't go through the trouble.

It’s been 8 years since I tripped headfirst into The Shield, and a bitch really still ain’t over it.

(Has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that I dug out my Shield cosplay for an event today, nothing at all 🐺🐺🐺)

I JUST. I LOVE THESE LADS SO MUCH a literal puddle of emotions every time I look back at those halcyon days and look, there were times it felt AMAZING AS FUCK to be wrestling fan, and those were time times ❤️