Not the neck! It's my ticket out of Suburbia!

I like how these two looks next to each other, in color and composition! Might do that again.

The name of the first fellow is Behemot and it's based on William Blake's illustration (look under). Second fellow, a bull, I just like him🤓

Their old user name was ASHIE-BABY their current handle is ruthlessxmean but instagram and twitter are deleted, they deleted most of their art from this era, I only found art from a random pintrest user (they pinned them) and a toyhouse that Friday (their main character) is missing from. The only characters that are available to see are sold.

For context, I have STRUGGLED so much tryna draw this motherfucker. FOR MONTHS, i tried and it looked like shit. But, Lolita fashion...it somehow clicked with me. So, thank you lolita girls in Japan. You made this possible.

btw the gamer outfit was inspired by one of my figures I got.

Because it was trained on pirated work—including freely accessible online writing (like fanfic, academic texts)—ChatGPT picked up patterns and quirks native to human writing.

Including (sigh) the em dash.

There are other victims here (RIP tapestry and delve 🫠), but the appropriation of the em dash—a punctuation mark beloved by writers everywhere—feels especially personal.

A kind of low-grade panic is ensuing. Writers who once memed their own em dash overuse—the greatest punctuation mark ever to grace the control-freak’s lexicon, frankly—are suddenly backing away to avoid accusations.

No. More. We have centuries of dash-abusing writers behind us. We will not sit quietly while AI repurposes our beloved stilted aside—or the just-one-more clarification the sentence demands—or the dramatic pause your comma could never—etc.

You don’t write like AI—AI writes like you.

Defend the em dash.

(Feel free to download/share/stick it where it matters!)