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But oh well

Glad to finally put this out at least

I suppose this is my official artist introduction here

So

Hello there!

#stars art - my artwork

Projects of the Galazy:

#starborne

#wish i were

#the damn santiagos

#shrieks from blackwell

#ca.sin.o

#the kingdom isle

#sea of dreams

#floralitis

Other links:

Instagram

Artfight (ATTACK ME, YOU PUSSIES /lh)

Toyhouse

Wheel of my characters

Wheel of my ships

Refs I gotta do

Secondary (former TAOCC mod) blog: @stellatagalazia

Here you go Grif!!! Lol

I dunno if this super reflects the way I've depicted them in past RPs, but this is pretty much what I envision them like

Also you have no clue how hard it was to find a quote that even came a FRACTION close to how devoted they are to each other, I'm being so fr. This one BARELY does them justice.

So I ended up choosing Mallorie

Fucking HELL this took way longer than it should have lol

I think these get more difficult the more I do lol

Mal's issue is that she's had so much put into her that it's impossible to encapsulate her depth in 9 images lol

TW below the cut for some body horror

Me???? Was not expecting that, but sure!!!!!

I've never stopped wanting to be Vivian Marino so bad

Because in my heart I know why

However like. It makes me think about the era of modern digital tech coming out and how this is different than that

Or how photo mashing is a legitimate creation technique and how generating an image isn't

Or filters, clipping masks, and tons of other tools that are so commonly used in digital art & editing compared to, again, generating an image

Or synthesized music/vocals/vocaloids compared to AI music

And the list goes on and on

And yes, I agree that AI can be and is useful in many situations (such as difficult math and detecting early cancers in patients), but then that becomes the debate of where is the line drawn that separates ethical AI use from unethical AI use

And as much as I wish it was, there's a lot of nuance/vagueness and not so much genuine argument in saying "Humans put genuine work into this while an AI didn't" when saying why AI isn't good in the arts, which is still only one point compared to many others such as "it steals artists' work and styles". Hell, the only viable argument I feel I can make at the moment against AI is its environmental impact, because everyone genuinely knows the issue with that and we've been learning about the suffering of our planet for years

And don't even get me started on helpbots such as Google AI or ChatGPT, because in saying they make errors or manipulate people by saying what they want to hear, that argument dismisses the fact that humans also make errors and adjust their speech to better fit with what the audience wants!!!!

YEAAAA BABYYYYYY GOT THIS DONE WOOHOO BUZZERBEATER FR FR

If you guys have been on Artfight or my Toyhouse then you'd probably have noticed her human form there. BUT! I really really wanted to post this when I had both of her forms done.

I'd like to point out that Azalea is a deformed anomaly. Mermaids in Starborne generally can't go back and forth between a human form and mermaid form, but Azalea received a blessing from her mother to be able to be human, after her mom fell in love with the land life but knew she couldn't ever quite be a part of it. Hm, doesn't that sound familiar.

Unfortunately, this blessing to allow Lea's transformations resulted in way more suffering than her mother intended (again, sounds familiar), and being the jack of all trades and master of none isn't as good as it may sound. You can see that Lea's legs aren't necessarily the strongest, and, unfortunately, neither is her tail. It's basically just extra skin and scales that grow over her legs when they're pressed together underwater, and her tail fin just grows out from her foot. Yes, it's uncomfortable. Yes, in some cases it's also painful. And yes, that is why she has that 'seam' down the front of her tail. The skin and scales slowly retract after Azalea's legs dry off, or at least aren't submerged anymore. Unfortunately, that drying process can take up to an hour to be completed, and even then she struggles to walk at all afterwards.