🎵 Born to live, not meant to die 🎵 Some exploration panels of Rick and Betty on the run! I'm sure it'll be okay ;u;

Some quick break time sketches of John Marston. Wanted to use a different brush than I'm used to for sketching

More John sketches

So many people who love generative AI don't have a creative bone in their body and can't imagine anyone actually enjoying the time and effort it takes to write something or draw something.

Can you, as a writer, imagine NOT experiencing the joy and terror of having your own characters drag you by the collar of your shirt in the direction THEY choose?

And you’re sitting there like no No NO you little cumquats!! Get back here! GIMME that! to fruitlessly try to wrestle your carefully planned plot back out of their greedy little fingers?

And you sit there as they’re doing their own thing with a small part of your head going goddamnit goddammit while their words and actions flow out of your callous covered fingertips and onto the page?

And suddenly you read it, and your shit ass little muses actually made something amazing that you can sculpt and bend into the very thing you actually meant to write?

I would give up the craft if I couldn’t have those moments.

I certainly wouldn’t surrender them to a machine.

This! all of this! writing is like trying to heard cats.its frustrating but also a blast at the same time.

Okay I JUST realized I never posted these on here—- BUT BASICALLY, about a year and a half ago I started doing these experimental black hairstyle posts that were threads long on Twitter, to give artists a source of inspo for their black ocs whose hair they wanted to try something new with! There’s more to black hair than just the selected styles portrayed in media, and I thought it would be fun to show people how much texture, shape, fades, length, and style can be combined when drawing black hair—-cause it’s a kind of manipulation our hair can do irl! The OG thread from when I made these a year ago were lost with the hacking of my original Twitter account (@/bagels_donuts) but I’ve since reuploaded the whole thread to my new Twitter (@/ItsDonutsFR)! I hope artists on tumblr find these useful, sorry it took me so long to post them here😭🙏🏾 I’ll upload them all in parts!

Part 1: Long masc hairstyles + playing with fades

Stars in full bloom.

Distinct from fine art, it’s also about avoiding developing the skill of written composition (forget vocab, spelling, grammar, appropriate word choice, proof-reading), it’s about avoiding developing any ability to express yourself, and failing to develop reading comprehension (if you plug something into it, asking for a summary). It’s just about being lazy and incompetent, and insisting that laziness and incompetence is fine, actually.

between baldur's gate 3 and regular dnd i have three blue/purple tiefling characters so guess what they're sisters now! from left to right - larkspur, lethe, and helewise

And some more RDR2 storyboard beat boards since I'm still a going

More RDR2 because

sticker design for pride this year! 💞🏳️‍⚧️

Time had faded the color, but not the memory.

I know some fic writers get stressed about writing tropes they think are too popular or overdone, and I need you all to know that I just spent 4 hours reading every iteration of the same exact fic plot I could find, and they all brought me an indescribable amount of joy. Listen. Listen. Sometimes you want cakes of many flavours and sometimes you want Nine Carrot Cakes

Guess who FINALLY started playing RDR2 years later haha I love my himbo cowboy man Arthur Morgan.

One of my new faves since I recently started playing RDR2 for the first time

via @swatercolor [insta]

This is the best tag I've ever received on a post, I think

sometimes I wonder how y'all are obsessed with specific characters and I'm like "why them" but then I remember that sometimes its literally not your choice you just look at them wrong and all of a sudden they're taking up your every thought forever

I assigned a writing prompt a few weeks ago that asked my students to reflect on a time when someone believed in them or when they believed in someone else. One of my students began to panic.

“I have to ask Google the prompt to get some ideas if I can’t just use AI,” she pleaded and then began typing into the search box on her screen, “A time when someone believed in you.”

“It’s about you,” I told her. “You’ve got your life experiences inside of your own mind.” It hadn’t occurred to her — even with my gentle reminder — to look within her own imagination to generate ideas. One of the reasons why I assigned the prompt is because learning to think for herself now, in high school, will help her build confidence and think through more complicated problems as she gets older — even when she’s no longer in a classroom situation.

She’s only in ninth grade, yet she’s already become accustomed to outsourcing her own mind to digital technologies, and it frightens me.

When I teach students how to write, I’m also teaching them how to think. Through fits and starts (a process that can be both frustrating and rewarding), high school English teachers like me help students get to know themselves better when they use language to figure out what they think and how they feel.

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If you believe, as I do, that writing is thinking — and thinking is everything — things aren’t looking too good for our students or for the educators trying to teach them. In addition to teaching high school, I’m also a college instructor, and I see this behavior in my older students as well.

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This! This is what scares me the most about AI! Physical exertion is difficult if someone isn't used to it, and it gets easier the more often it's done. When it's done often enough, it becomes a habit. Mental exertion is exactly the same. Thinking is a learned skill just like a sport is, and an entire generation is growing up without that most critical skill.

An unthinking populace is a more easily controlled populace.

april fools day is actually the most sensible day of the year because it's the only day on which people will read something on the internet and stop for a second to consider whether or not it's actually true