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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

Commissions Open!

That’s right, I’ll be opening up for commissions! I figured there’s no better time than the present to try for it, and I’m very excited.

Commission info below, alt text provided.

Commissions sheet. $10 - Lined Headshot $16 - Lined Half-Body $30 - Lined Full-Body $15 - Colored Headshot $28 - Colored Half-Body $50 - Colored Full-Body *prices will vary depending on complexity, the above prices are baseline I typically draw: OCs, D&D characters, fanart, suggestive I do not draw: NSFW, anthros, real peopleALT
Cont. > simple backgrounds are free > complicated backgrounds’ price will vary. starts at $6 but can go up (same for set pieces) > additional characters +60% total price not including background > $8-$16 for advanced lighting Disclaimers: > my art is fully traditional, but NONE of my commissions will be physically delivered > I reserve the right to refuse any commissionALT
Procedure: > contact me via DMs > provide LOTS of references > make sketch of commission > once agreed, use PayPal/Ko-fi to pay first half of payment > you will receive continuous updates > *cannot* change commission after full lineart (if applies) without an extra charge of $4 > once satisfied, second half paid. Afterwards: > cannot post online without watermark on, for safety purposes against AI art, theft, and NFTs > must give credit if posted online or used as an icon > cannot use for merchandise or any monetization without prior discussion > cannot use for AI training or NFTs > cannot use for hate speech or political statements > once again, art will NOT be mailed out to the commissioner > and finally... enjoy!ALT

I’ll be using Discord largely to communicate, if you would like to ask about commissions, DM me on Tumblr and we can arrange to talk on Discord.

I’ll be using PayPal and Ko-fi for payments. Half paid before, half paid after, just for security for myself and the commissioner.

Even if you can’t commission, do reblog! Spreading the word helps us artists worlds more than liking and scrolling by.

More examples of my art will be under the cut, if you need to see anything else. I also will link my art blog, @metallic-scaled-scarf-art , if you’d like to scroll through everything I’ve posted art-wise since I rejoined Tumblr.

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gvardi-l
o-blivia

AI isn't a threat to creative professions because it can actually make passable art that humans enjoy (it can't). It's a threat because in a capitalist system, employers would do literally anything to not have to pay humans living wages (or any wages, let's be real).

We've been in a productivity boom for the past 60 years, but the one area where production cannot become more efficient is the arts. It takes the same amount of time to write a novel or compose a symphony now as it did a hundred years ago. That's just the creative process.

AI represents a shortcut to making art that has had executives salivating since LLMs and AI art generators hit the internet. It means more content faster with the benefit of not having to provide salaries, sick days, parental leave, time off, or healthcare. It means not having to deal with unions and labour laws. It means cutting humans out of the most fundamentally human activity we do – making art.

All those headlines and clickbait articles about AI annihilating the human race are a hyperbolic distraction from the actual problem we may soon be facing where people won't have the possibility of supporting themselves making art (not that it's particularly easy to do as it stands).

If making art becomes a luxury only for the affluent, we will stop hearing the voices, stories, and perspectives of marginalized people. And our cultural tapestry will stop being so vibrant, diverse, and vital.

stormbeyondreality
inneskeeper

hot take but none of you are allowed to use deer/antler imagery when working with cannibalistic themes anymore. you need to be honest with yallselves on WHY you're associating deer/antler imagery with cannibalism. just because you aren't naming the name doesn't mean that the original anti-indigenous racism isn't still inherent to what you're doing.

kaznata

For those who need more explanation, a well known (but often misunderstood) figure in Algonquin and Aanishinabe culture is the wend*go.

No, I'm not fully typing out the name cause we don't say that name and don't want to attract its attention. Yes, all of this is taken very seriously by us Natives.

The problem is that this very serious figure isn't taken seriously at all by non-Natives and, instead of respecting our culture and the fact we don't even say its name, its perceived as this cool monster to add to movies, video games and cool edgy OCs.

And, as with all thing Native being used and abused, misunderstood, and transformed by non-Natives, we are tired of that. It's not okay, it's not respectful.

You want a people eating monster in a story? Use anything else.

weaselbeaselpants

As someone who's absolutely guilty of this shite on this account...yeah you have the right to spitroast me for that. Fair is fair.

I do hope we can use creepy deer aesthetics on and about other mythological/fiction monster villains tho. As someone who had a deer almost kill their dog, I just find deer creepy and unsettling regardless.

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inneskeeper

first off: You are the single person who has responded to this post admitting some variant of having done this that actually listened to what was being said, acknowledged that you did such things while you didn't know any better, expressed an intent to never do it again, and asked for clarification on whether or not "creepy deer aesthetic" is completely off-limits with that in mind. So with that said, I want you to know that you're one of the very few folks in this post I respect sincerely.

To that end: While obviously I can't speak for Native America as a monolith, it would be my opinion that no, creepy deer aesthetics as a concept are fine. Deer can be fucked up and weird. There is a fundamental lure to the idea of a large prey animal behaving as a predator or in ways anathema to our understanding of prey. That juxtaposition and irony has a lot of narrative potential and for good reason--it fucks severely! I don't want to see it go away! It fucks hard, for Christ's sake!

But it is my opinion that the use of deer aesthetics within the specific context of cannibal themes isn't able to be used anymore. The well has been poisoned too deeply. I never said once the specific being I was referring to in nearly any of my responses, but everyone knew exactly what I meant. Even trying to purposefully distance the racism from the imagery would be useless, since the racism is baked in to the assumptions by now. Reclamation may be able to happen in the future, but first we need to accept that setting it down completely is the right play for a while. You can distance racism from creepy deer stuff by purposefully and actively distancing it from Native America and cannibalism--if it becomes a recurring imagery on its own throughout multiple types of horror, rather than being innately tied by implication to the winter hunger, that's when we could maybe begin talking about whether or not to start re-examining our relationship with it.

stormbeyondreality

Anonymous asked:

why is your cat green?

gothicprep answered:

She’s built different 😌

gothicprep

Look i tried to laugh it off, but I haven’t stopped thinking about this message because… my cat literally isn’t green

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like where is the green

gothicprep

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Oh Christ

sapropel

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This is the color your cat is

lazygravez

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colors i eyedropped directly from op's cat

cheeseanonioncrisps

I drew a tree using only colours eyedropped from OP's cat.

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karakats

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every time i see this post all i see is some green alien kitty with antennae so i had to draw it

bogleech

I originally thought those were supposed to be mushrooms, implying that this cat is moldy

tanuki-pyon

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Moldy forest cat

gothicprep

i'm happy y'all made fan art of my cat. i tried to show her and she just rubbed her face on my phone

kob131

Pet your cat OP, 50% shot it helps.

headspace-hotel

the first time I reblogged this, like a few weeks ago, it had like 4,000 notes. why do people keep insisting tumblr is dead

headspace-hotel

i had a DREAM about the green cat last night. not sure what she was up to but. nice to meet her :)

sumi-sprite

GREEN CAT IS BACK ON MY DAAAAAASH

druid-priest-nikephoros

We Love Green Cat

werechicken

Green cat?

stormbeyondreality
brofisting

Two Things

1) I’m stoked as hell for UPS to do what they gotta do for better labor conditions and I support them unconditionally

2) I just remembered I should buy a bunch of extra food for my bunny early so I don’t run out in case of/during a strike!!!!!!!

Therefore I am posting this in case you also need to buy a bunch of something that is usually delivered by UPS and is time sensitive pre- Aug 1, 2023. Here is your official reminder.

xoxo

stormbeyondreality
cleolinda

If you love Tree Law, the beloved subreddit is open again. I highly recommend sorting by top/all time.

cleolinda

To clarify after some questions:

Why does the internet love tree law so much? | TechCrunch
The Hollywood writers' and actors' strikes join forces with a weird internet niche devoted to tree litigation.
TechCrunch


(American) Tree Law is very satisfying because the cases often involve someone damaging trees that don’t belong to them, usually for an aesthetic, mercenary, petty, and/or spiteful reason. However, American tree law comes down like a HAMMER on such people, and they will get mighty fines. If the tree dies, in fact, they’ll be on the hook to replace the whole thing, and as it turns out, trees ain’t cheap. As the article above summarizes one incident in Reddit terms:

To rephrase it as an AITA post: am I the asshole if I cut down 32 trees on my neighbor’s property, but instead of just charging me a $32,000 fine, now they’re going to make me build a road and find transplanted, equally mature trees to replant?

Tree Law is perhaps one of the few branches (I didn’t even mean that to be a pun) of American law where self-entitled wrongdoers WILL face consequences. NBC Universal wants to maul a row of city-owned ficus trees to deprive striking workers of shade during a heat wave? Oh boy.

kyraneko

Trees are one of those things whose worth is weighed in years, whose value is inclusive of all the time that went into making it what it is. A mature tree is a MATURE tree; you cannot replace it with a sapling and call it good. You don't just replace the tree; you must replace the years of the tree. And it turns out that finding those years to replace is both difficult and expensive.

It's one of those lovely situations where a wrongdoer is forced to restore the situation to its former glory, cost be damned, and if it's "too expensive" or "too inconvenient" or "I had no idea" or "this is so much trouble" then tough shit, asshole, you fucked around and by God you WILL find out.