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Croik
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Writer, horror fan, gamer.
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cryhollow.bsky.social
Happy Yule 🎅🏻!
It's my birthday today and I heard I can ask for reposts on my art? ;)
portraits full body book covers wallpapers
December 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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deltastic.bsky.social
#artvsartist for 2025! 😎🖤
December 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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josh-foreman.bsky.social
Tumblr user nocryptographer: I talked with someone who works in book publishing, and they mentioned they get a lot of AI slop these days. I asked how they know what's human-written, and they said that there's one thing that will reveal AI slop without error, and that's the author not knowing their own creation. A real author can talk about their story for hours. They love to elaborate every character, every twist, every detail. Because those existed in their head long before they ever made it to the paper. They were loved before they were written. AI slop wasn't. It was just vomited into existence. Someone who generates their story with AI will never bond with their story the way real writers do. That's why they may not know what to say when they're asked why did the character do this, or even remember the scene in the first place. It's something they read, not something they wrote. And to a writer, those are not the same. There's a unique bond between the creator and the creation. If your writing doesn't come of you, you'll always lack that. I keep hearing soon we won't be able to tell. And perhaps, in a superficial sense, that's true. But there is a difference. It's not em dashes or repeated words. It's whether the story was made by someone who loves it and cares about it. If the writer's eyes light up when asked why did the character do that? and they start their very own Ted Talk about that specific scene... then it's real.
December 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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scumbelievable.bsky.social
you wanna see a dead body
December 22, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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kortizart.bsky.social
Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.

Here’s a blurb on what I mean:
Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.
December 17, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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virtualtear.bsky.social
tumblr request I turned into something silly #malevolent #malevolentpodcast
December 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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sweetmapple.bsky.social
No way Noel didn’t pick up a lil Carcosan in his 10 year stay
#malevolent
December 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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minkja.bsky.social
what if they

#minkjart #malevolent #malevolentpod #malevolentpodcast #johndoe #arthurlester #thekinginyellow
digital illustration, fanart for the podcast Malevolent; angled from above, the viewer looks down on two figures in a circular pit, one crouching in front of the other, who is sitting, leaning his back against the wall. the crouching figure is wearing a long yellow cloak that spreads in a tattered flare around him. the man leaning against the wall wears tattered trousers, the rest of him exposed and emaciated.
August 18, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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mmyriad.bsky.social
some eldritch bj 😋 #ihaveyoureyes
December 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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heyraguio.bsky.social
"they don't know how to express the idea" here's rian johnson's storyboard for knives out

pick up a pencil and a napkin
December 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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shadowswithal.bsky.social
that time of the year
December 17, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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jeremywhitley.bsky.social
Every decision these giant companies have made in the last week have reenforced the same thought in my head:
It's more important now that ever to make new things, things you own, things that are queer, things that express the parts of yourself that are hard to just say out loud.
December 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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richardkadrey.bsky.social
It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.
The Salvation Army is not a charity. They are an evangelical church that uses donated money to actively oppress gay rights. They've been especially cruel to trans people.
December 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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wicksandwheat.bsky.social
Another batch of character sheet comms!
Once again, a huge thank you to folks for trusting me with your beloved characters ❤️🙏

#wickcomms
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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lunadepicante.bsky.social
Consort AU has me in a chokehold
November 23, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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erenangiolini.com
👿 Hunger and Innocence 🙏

These two are such a great duo ✨👌
Tyranny and Wicander "Wick" Halovar from Critical Role's Campaign 4. #criticalrole #criticalrolefanart #criticalrolecampaign4
Portrait illustration of Tyranny from Critical Role's Campaign 4. Portrait illustration of Wicander Halovar / Wick from Critical Role's Campaign 4.
November 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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sojaro.com
Just so it's clear. It's not allowing AI because it's trying to create a clean dataset for training AI. It's not because any of the involved parties actually care about human created art.

Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.
popbase.tv Pop Base @popbase.tv · Nov 13
Vine is being rebooted under the name diVine, with funding from Twitter’s former CEO Jack Dorsey.

The app plans to feature more than 10,000 previously archived Vines and does not allow AI-generated content.

(divine.video)
November 20, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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kildepaike.bsky.social
Slowly but surely I'm bringing you goodies. Here, my little doe-eyed blorbo 🤲 got what he deserved

#ihaveyoureyes
November 22, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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maraganger.bsky.social
"the writer's barely-disguised fetish" WRONG, all my fetishes are out in the open and actively make what i write even better
November 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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stompandhollar.bsky.social
theyre just everything to me tbh
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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frozenbuttocks.bsky.social
twink top x bear bottom my beloved
November 21, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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frozenbuttocks.bsky.social
Posting this on the horny side acc BECAUSE- 💦
November 21, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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sassyspade.bsky.social
The aforementioned something WIP #tentacle #ihaveyoureyes
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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cephaloct.bsky.social
whatever, go my robert

[ #dispatch #robertrobertson #art #artist ]
Robert hitting the iconic babygirl pose.
November 12, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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growingdark.bsky.social
size ref 😁

#malevolentpodcast
November 14, 2025 at 1:09 PM