i already mentioned in the past that a friend of mine trained an AI on my drawings so that it could replicate my artstyle, a fun thing is that it fed it a bunch of drawings i made of myself so most of the things it creates look like self portraits i could have done
other just look like random cool guys i could have come up with
(i fucking love the guy with short hair and lipstick, he looks fucking sick, i am 100% using that design)
first of all, i cannot begin to descrive how mindfucky and trippy is to see drawing that *could have been done by me* but werent. every time i see them i have to catch my self for a few seconds wondering “wait, did i do these and forgot????”
second, because i didnt do these they are not worn on my eyes like a drawing i would have made, these are fresh images to my brain. i dont have a memory of having done every line and curve and having observed it a million times as i was doing them, thus the illusion of life is a lot more stronger for me.
so with all this is mind, this little excercise is allowing me to do something i always craved for but that i could never get. to see my own art from an outsider’s perspective. to be able to appreciate my work from the point of view of someone else. how does my drawings look to others. i can do that now with these.
and let me tell you, not to sound too conceited but, damn, i really like what i see. i can now see what everyone else sees in my artstyle, its fun! its dinamic! its really expressive in a way i never noticed! and yes, the noses! oh my god the noses! and the way the lips curl and tighten.
on top of that, as i said, a lot of the overfitting in the model is directed towards self portraits that i made of myself, so the AI will tend to use many of the faces and features i use to depict myself. now you have to understand i identify quite strongly with my own drawings. i said often that i see more of my self in my drawings than i do in a mirror.
with this in mind its also super trippy that my friend basically has a fip generator.
every time i see things like this i cant help but go “OMG, THATS ME! THAT IS ME!”
(this final piece was actually done by me, lol)
so yeah, this has been all very illuminating
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#oh my god #what Future tag do I even put on this #I guess #proud citizen of The Future #is a little closer even if neither of them are quite right #art #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
When you hear a new song on the radio and you’re desperately trying to pick a notable phrase so you can google it later
Gather round, kids. Let me tell you a story from ye olden days because I am tumblr elderly. I used to DJ for a radio station. I played records and CDs and we had station IDs from bands on 8 track cartes. People would call me asking what songs were–but they had to mumble, sing, or play the song on an instrument. I had someone call me to ask what Smells Like Teen Spirit was when it was a single. They played it on an accordion. I forgot about it until a moment ago when I saw this post.
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#that one post with the thing #(as for OP‚ the zillion people in the notes recommending Shazam are absolutely correct) #(it doesn’t even need to be your phone: any recording device will do) #(you can just play the recording for Shazam later) #music #proud citizen of The Future #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
My friend sometimes brings her six-year-old to our DnD sessions and my husband (the DM) lets her roll for all enemy attacks and sometimes he will show her a few figures and let her secretly pick what creature we meet next. Who needs encounter tables when you have a first-grader around
She cheers when the monster is winning.
DM: *places an ugly, slavering, repugnant, spine-tingling creature on the battle map*
Child who can barely see over the table: ᵗʰᵃᵗ’ˢ ᵐᵉ :)
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#D&D #adorable #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
reblog if you enjoy napping, being cozy, being conked out, snoozing, wrapping up in blankets, sipping a hot drink, catching some z’s, hugging a plushie, or otherwise relaxing and resting
i like how this post gets circulated the most around evening. like yes gang settle down! we know when it’s bed time!
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#cackling #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
you can always give your blorbos mobility aids btw . you can always make them disabled its always morally correct
Thats what i mean with this now . Fuckign commit violence against that beast until they have your disability we’re getting representation the hard way 2night
#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #violence cw #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what #discourse cw? #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
#violations of the food / pretty rock binary #food #April Fools #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
I think I find this post every April Fools Day and I am so happy that I do
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#music #legitimate Rick Astley #(more or less) #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
so my roommate is completely straight edge like no drugs no alcohol etc and so im sure y’all can imagine my surprise when i saw she brought home this sign
so i immediately inquired
and now you may ask. what the fuck did my roommate think that sign meant? well
anyways i moved the sign so it’s now front and center in our living room and ive been laughing every time i pass it
what a terrible time for me to remember that my roommate has a tumblr account and could theoretically find this post. *********** if you see this im sorry but it was funny and needed to be shared
I mean, botanically, “sativa” just means “cultivated” and “indica” means “of India”.
Cultivate
to change the things I can
run off to India
to accept the things I can’t
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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #drugs cw #embarrassment squick #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
As you know, you can make writers lives easier by doing unnecessary exposition scenes in real life, thereby making them realistic.
Thank you for making this post on the hip social media site that we frequent at this point in our lives. I’m reblogging it both because it’s funny and because I consider us friends
Yes, in the early 21st century we often consider people we only interact with over social media as friends, even if we have never met them in real life. And that’s why I have not only reblogged this post, but also liked it (by clicking a button with my mouse).
I am reblogging this post (that means sharing it to my personal blog so more people can see it btw) from my mobile phone! So I am not clicking any buttons with a mouse but rather using my fingers to touch the displayed images of buttons on the phone’s screen, which is descriptively called a “touchscreen”.
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#I didn’t actually laugh aloud but it still amused me enough to reblog #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
There exist another dimension called The Empty World. It’s very much like ours, in fact it seems to have been identical up until a few weeks ago, but it always seems that way. If you go there today, it was identical in late february, and if you go there this october, it’ll have been identical until september.
It’s empty, as you might guess. There’s no humans, and no animals bigger than a cockroach. The sky is grey, and it slowly rains ash. It’s colder than our world by a bit, enough to require a jacket even in summer. The streets are empty, the cars parked neatly in their garages or in lots, but they’re all empty and abandoned, their doors locked like they expect their owners to return any minute now.
The newspapers left on stands don’t mention any oncoming disaster. We have no idea what the TV or internet would have said: the power is out. The power is very, very out. Not just the grid, but batteries are drained. The cars won’t start, the emergency lights are out, and anything with solar panels seems to be getting less energy than you’d expect, even with the perpetually overcast sky.
It’s a very silent world, like the calm after a snowstorm. Sounds don’t seem to echo as much as they should, nor does sound seem to travel as far. The radio spectrum is empty except for static, there’s no one transmitting on any frequency.
There’s fewer fires than you’d expect. Even places you’d expect to soon catch fire without human intervention are still standing, undamaged. Campfires can be lit but with difficulty: something is keeping them from burning as they should. Even if you pour kerosene on a campfire it’ll barely grow, it’s like something sucked the energy out of everything.
All the locked buildings are still locked. Alarms don’t sound if you break in (understandable, given the power situation), and of course no one comes to investigate. So The Empty World is your oyster: you can break in wherever you want (provided you can physically do it: some doors are pretty hard to pry open even with tools), take whatever you want, and bring it back here.
Everything resets when you leave. You always enter The Empty World like it’s your first time there, like this just happened and you’re late to the party… but the party keeps getting rescheduled. You can even take something multiple times if you want.
When you enter The Empty World you get there at the same relative position as you are on this world. If you’re in New York, you show up in the empty New York. If you’re in Topeka, you show up in empty Topeka. So you have to travel around this world to get to where you want, and you can’t just appear in the middle of a bank vault… unless you break into the vault from this world. (So it’s great if you work at a bank and want to steal from your employer without repercussions, but not so useful otherwise).
You don’t just have to take things, you know. You can take computers and files and books and diaries. You will have to deal with recharging laptops and breaking through any security when you get back, but it’s doable.
So, imagine you’ve just gotten access to The Empty World. What are you going to do with it? What will you take, and where will you go?
This is a writing prompt if you want it to be. Feel free to write/draw/whatever about this setting!
And don’t worry about “canon”: there’s something enough weird going on with this setting that’s enough to justify variation in the setting. Maybe when you go there, you eventually find out what caused the death of the world. Maybe that doesn’t agree with what I find out when I go there. Maybe your world isn’t as empty as it seems! This is partially based on a reoccurring dream I had, and in one instance the “empty” world was full of people hiding. Hiding from what? I never found out. Maybe you will.
Just stick “based on/Inspired by The Empty World by Foone” somewhere in/on anything you make about it. Otherwise go nuts.
Some things that might be fun to explore, ones I intentionally didn’t nail down: (I have theories but I don’t want to make any of them concrete)
What’s all that ash in the air? You could stick it under a microscope/Gas chromatograph. What it is could be a big hint as to what happened to this world
I mention in one of the reblogs that two or more people can go there at a time, but there’s only one return trip. What happens to people left behind?
The power is out, and this extends to batteries. Sure, maybe the coal plants and nuclear power aren’t running anymore, but what about hydroelectric power? Why isn’t the hoover dam still making power?
As multiple people have suggested, what if you go above the ash cloud? What if you launch a balloon or a rocket?
I mention the newspapers not saying what happened, but maybe this just happened too fast for them to get a new issue out? Maybe you could go to a TV station and get their computers running again (bring in your own batteries, or bring their computers back to our world). Maybe they did cover what was happening.
There’s lots of straightforward ways to get rich by stealing and/or duplicating things using The Empty World. What’s the most interesting thing you could do by its ability to let you travel into places you couldn’t normally get to (because of guards and locked doors)?
Here’s a thought: rescuing recently destroyed/stolen things. It’s based on the world of a few weeks ago, right? What if the Louve burns down, and a lot of priceless art is destroyed. If you jump into The Empty World anytime in the next couple weeks, they’ll still be there, untouched. You could “steal” them and return them to this world.
You’re in The Empty World and you hear a scream in the distance. You brought no one with you. Do you run towards the scream or do you get out of there immediately?
Did you wear a respirator into The Empty World? Have you been breathing in all that ash? Maybe that has repercussions.
You arrive, and someone has written a message in the ash. A warning. For people like you.
I feel like you could have a setting with people raiding and “prospecting” post apocalypse setting style, but a certain percentage of them just never come back, and we don’t know why. So everyone who goes is taking a chance that whatever it is that’s getting everyone else gets them. Only a few percent die, so y’know, it could just be people having entirely mundane accidents, right?
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#story ideas I will never write #(probably) #apocalypse cw #this probably deserves some other warning tag but I am not sure what #this post was queued because my to-reblog list is too long and I didn’t want to dump it on you all at once
Brinens and Things 