These are hard times for dreamers

Because they died. They aren't enjoying eternity together like they were meant to. Because they were erased.

doctor: tch... i guess theres no choice...!!

*doctor pulls in nurse for a tender embrace and a beat passes before they kiss passionately*

*pulse starts again*

nurse: i cant believe it...! doctor youve saved yet another patient through your unorthodox methods!

doctor, looking out the window to avoid the nurse's adoring gaze: suppose i have...

doctor, thinking: sigh... will i ever get to approach her not out of obligation but out of ...love...;!

nurse, thinking: i hope she doesnt realize ive been manufacturing the yuri shortage to engineer these kinds of scenarios

Fallen

Built one match at a time

A3

1,5 months of work

~ 1,000 matches (yes, I counted every single one) + 100 g of glue

The matches had been waiting for this project for ten years. I collected and kept them after they were used, hoping I'd eventually find something worth making out of them. I guess this portrait became a sustainable art project.

Every match was individually trimmed and carefully re-burned to the exact shade I needed before being glued into place.

The only unburnt matches are the iris of Crowley's eye.

Fun fact: after spending a month and a half carefully working with fire, the only time the artwork actually caught fire was during the final details. While I was using my barely-alive Soviet-era wood-burning tool around the pupil, two match heads from iris suddenly ignited right in front of my face. Thankfully I managed to put them out before the fire turned 1,5 months of work into ashes and possibly set my apartment on fire🌚 I nearly had a heart attack.

↓ some process photos below

Bank teller Aziraphale had a lovely first date with a man he met at a flower shop a few days earlier. Why, he was practically walking on air. But everything came crashing back to earth when four criminals arrived at the bank the next day with heavy ammunition. Crowley knew he should have asked Aziraphale what he did for a living...

Right is the color On ops Blog

Left is how it appeared on my dash

Key takeaway from the article:

In any event, the Deadline article is correct: If you’re a writer who hopes to get your work into film and TV, or grab one of those big publishing deals, stay the hell away from “AI.” Don’t incorporate it into your writing process; every part of the process needs to be demonstrably free of any “AI” input because “AI” training data is full of other people’s copyrights. It didn’t have to be this way — “AI” companies could have just as easily trained their LLMs on public domain or licensed material instead of grabbing pirated works and letting God sort it out — but what they should have done and what they did do are two different things, and we have to live in the now. And in the now, “AI” inputs are inherently untrustable, from a copyright perspective.

Everyone should read this article by John Scalzi--especially any fanwriters who use/have used AI in writing their fanfic, and may be considering pulling their fics to publish.