what with all this talk of fanfic and ai and feeding other people's work without permission into ai programmes to 'finish' a fanfic or whatever... it's just showing how people see fic as 'content'? a fanfic as something mass-produced and official, something to consume at a distance and then talk about in a vacuum? something to use for your own purposes and something over which you have a claim?
fanfic is written by fans like you. written out of love and passion and a lot of effort and hard work, so that the author can share their enthusiasm for the characters and stories with other fans. like you. they aren't these untouchable, faceless people above you – they're your peers. gifsets, fanart, fanfic – they're all made by your peers. mutuals. friends.
if you want to know more about the fic, talk to the author! so many fic writers leave their socials in the end notes of their fics – talk to them! they're not going to be affronted or judgemental. chances are, they're going to be over the moon that you like their work and want to engage and discuss the characters and the themes etc. they made you happy with their fic, and you would be making them so happy in return! (and what does a happy writer do? write more!)
as a fic writer, I made one of my closest tumblr friends because she read my fic and left a really nice comment, and then we got talking and brainstorming loads of headcanons and fic ideas together! fic writers want to talk! if you enjoy someone's presence and contributions in a fandom, let them know!
and for the love of all that is good, don't feed someone's hard work into an ai programme!!! whether you post it (which is just horrible tbh) is beside the point – you're facilitating the plagiarism of their fic!
That's the tutorial I followed.
No I didn't go all the way in the texture because I wanted to have fun with bones but I ended facing the fact that I don't know enough to properly us those when my character has clothes haha
I kind of suck at tagging, so I made this infographic to help make it easier.
Have the compil of the chapter cuts from episodes 25-27! From what twitter tells me they prefer just three by three, so I'll also do that for the other episodes from the two first seasons when I have time.
If my math is correct that's not even a third
I have 80 squares left to do on 109... That's not even half
I didn't timed it properly, it's annoying
Hi, not apologising, bye.
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Reply by obscurelittelbird saying: "If you sell on Redbubblem please consider filling out the survey that was included in the email"
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The link is real, for anyone wondering, I checked the email again. However, I don't create much art and don't sell anything on redbubble so I just went and deleted my account (since, again, I'm overall not using it) and stated what I didn't in the update as the reason.
The link is this. So yeah if you're selling on Redbubble do fill it I guess.
Not 100% sure I'm reading this right but,
The tiers are intended to encourage actions that are positive for the marketplace and recognise and reward artists who invest time creating and promoting unique products.
Hum... Great, so if you wanted to have a redbubble on the side to make some money then you're basically not welcome???
And seriously I am in tears at that like wow. Basically, if you make enough money for Redbubble, the fee is removed. Basic tiers have to pay a fee, but premium and pro don't.
There's also the "opportunity to create licensed fan art" that bugs me because, there already was a list of things you could make fan art of depending on the list they have, but now you can't unless you have a premium or pro account? While (from what I've seen at least) most small artists make fan art and sell it because they know that there is a fanbase for it and that it will sell.
I do understand the copyright problem they face, sure. But the rest still is... not good.
Over the past few years the amount of new accounts and content has increased significantly on our marketplace. This has resulted in increased costs as we’ve needed greater investment in resources to operate the marketplace and support our artist community and your customers.
So yeah, increased costs that they will make the small artists pay for and subsequently make people think twice before coming on the plateform, or just leave it.
This Google Drive AI scraping bullshit actually makes me want to cry. My entire life is packed into Google Drive. All of my writing over the years, all of my academic documents, everything.
I’m just so overwhelmed with all the shit I’m going to have to move. I’m lucky to have Scrivener, but online data storage has been super important as I’ve had so many shitty computers, and the only reason I haven’t lost work is because Google Drive has been my backup storage unit.
My partner has recommended gitlab to move my files to - it seems useful, and I can try and explain more about what it is and how it works when I get more familiar with it. I’m unsure if it’s a text editor, or can work that way. He was explaining something about the version history that I don’t quite understand right now but might later. I’m just super overwhelmed and frustrated that this is the dystopia we live in right now.
So tomorrow or next week I’ll try to make overalls just because
Chapter: 1/1
Series: Part 1 of In Purgatory's Shadow and By Inferno's Light
Words: 748
Language: English
Fandom: Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationship: Garashir
Characters: Julian Bashir, Elim Garak, Enabran Tain (mentionned), Worf (short apparition)
Additional Tags: Dissociation, Enabran death, Episode: s05e14 In Purgatory's Shadow, they're still pining
xey/xem French Don't be fooled, I'm a platypus, I don't much stuff (art side account)
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