so be it

one instance was a cutesy picture of a moose on a snowy porch -someone in tags spotted that there were no hoofprints in the snow at all, but what tipped me off (in retrospect) - the moose was too small relatively to the porch.. and I even found the original photo - it was the same snowy porch, but the moose was taking almost all of the space on it, the snow around was stomped to hell, the pic was a bit blurry and it was attached to a pre-ai blogpost.

I mean. This incredible thing happened, there is a photo proof even, but the thing is tainted forever by someone who wanted what? some cutesy pic for clout? and they thought they made a super-duper original prompt? but an ai engine just stole the original photo, cleaned up snow a bit and added another smaller and cuter moose(

it's so unnecessary, and I HATE that I need to doubt every incredible photo now, because ai stealing pictures so smoothly, that the only defence mechanism that's left is "if it's too good to be true, it is not real".

I was sitting there sipping my tea, idly perusing my surroundings while she tried to tame her kids.

and what do I see?! a very nice little textile shopper bag, clearly handmade and hand painted, looks good quality, with an illustration from a book series we both adored when we were students, with a witty citation inside (additionally it was a word play on my friend's name! clever!)

so I asked my friend - where did you get this?! looks nice!

and she looks at me all exasperated and tells me - you made this for me...

😅😳😁

I really really can't afford more merch plushies for the time being;

so, to scratch an itch about washed out rainbow aniteez, I decided to make one inspired by them (for a friend)😁

a micro drawing for my boss, we were doing a silly test-thing, where your date of birth determines your medieval coat of arms😁 hers was "Screaming cat aiming a crossbow somewhere"😁