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@molly0xfff #DeviantArt added something similar...I want to say a year ago? The option to flag uploads as "no use in AI training sets."

(At first they set already-uploaded images to "allow by default." After a well-deserved outcry, they switched to "deny by default.")

Agreed that it's a good idea by the platforms, and that "making the AI companies respect it" is a step outside their power.

A bunch of fun links about literature, art, and comics

“Can you guess if the word is an antidepressants drug or a Tolkien character?” (A couple of them are gimmes, but some are genuinely tough!)

Working out which Houses correspond to which planets in the Locked Tomb series.

Visual references that absolutely helped me track the action while reading the first two books: Necromancers and cavaliers from Gideon the Ninth, and a whole massive character-design lineup from Harrow the Ninth.

2020 interview with Tamsyn Muir: “I know lots of people don’t wish for their work to be used by fanfiction writers. I think that should be respected. I mean, I think their reasons are wrongheaded and that they totally misunderstand what is going on, but the fanfiction community is generally generous with people who say they don’t want stuff written about their property. I hope my fandom is writing long serious epics, and writing parody pieces that make me look stupid, and weird porn, and ships I never saw coming.”

Long list of punny restaurant names, suggested by one of the writers for The Good Place.

“this video game i’ve been playing since i was a kid called Wizard101 updated and added a new world where the villain essentially pretends to be Khonshu, and they added a character called Loon Knight.”

Somebody wrote to Dear Prudence, confessing to (in short) sending anon hate to the antis who attacked them for writing darkfic. Prudie’s perfectly on-point response boils down to “you have to stop bullying these people, instead you should channel your spite into writing more darkfic.”

Through the use of comic book conventions, readers are guided through the decipherment of logographic writing from Central Mexico and, in the process, are shown how colonization has limited our contemporary understanding of ancient Indigenous people.”

“I’ve wanted to try my had at drawing [Wally Wood’s 22 panels that always work] all myself over the years, and decided to finally give it a crack with a twist: could I also tell a STORY using those exact panel layouts?”

But why is the DeviantART stamp? Who was the originator of the DeviantART stamp, how did they become so popular? This question was posed on a forum I frequent, and I was unable to find any existing write-ups, so I sought to answer it myself.”

Just found out #DeviantArt set all my old submissions to "NoAI" use by default. I haven't used the site much in the last years, but that sort of thing deserves a shout-out. Not sure, it'll do much to keep the scrapers out, but at least it's a clear statement of non-consent. Thanks, DA!

As has become an annual tradition, I'm pleased to unveil the 2025 Birthday #comic, written by myself and drawn, inked and coloured by @kumapanda :)

A Celebration of Conundrums!

A #sequel of sorts to last year's comic, which featured Jinji locking himself in a coffin for 24 hours prior to the annual Portal Day celebrations, to allow his fellow Ghosts to surprise him without him getting wind of any plans. Despite him pranking the Ghosts that time around, the group decide his plan was ultimately successful and a great idea. So, wanting to plan more surprises for Jinji for this year's Portal Day celebrations, the Ghosts convince him to lock himself away again, then each spends the 24 hours preparing their own special present for him - each with its own puzzling twist! Jinji has no idea what awaits...

The comic will be up on #DeviantArt shortly, but you can also view it right now at my website! jinji.gamescodex.net/a-celebra

EDITO => Les sujets qui m'intéresse et sur lesquels je compte publier. Liste non exhaustive et évolutive

* #artsducirque => #jonglerie => #hoop
* #yoga => Force et souplesse 🧘‍♀️
* #féminisme et #popfeminisme 🩷 => #jetecrois
* #écologie et #ecofeminisme 🌍
* #végétarisme 🌱
* #animaux => #défenseanimalière => Soutien associatif et partage (un jour ma maison deviendra un refuge 🐱🦊🐶)
* #militantisme => #luttedesclasses => #antifasciste => #résistance
* #dessin => #deviantart
* #AmourEtRespect

It has been at least a decade since that #deviantart turn to a shity community for artist but now ... oh my fucking god it's an #ai hellscape ...

Any advice for real humans artists doing stuff like drawing with ou without graphic tablet ?

I can't believe I'm #asking such thing ...