You Are Not That Bitch. Being That Bitch Is The Grind-killer. Being That Bitch Is The Little-death That

its time to finally get a new brush and start working with that. a few drawings will be awkward until i get the settings and stuff right, but then i will finally be on my way to 1000 hmmm.

WOWZA i am going to be struggling for a long time to improve my art i realize. literally every artist i look up to and try to learn from has super thin lineart and lots of detail but i keep falling into thick lineart. i have to fix that but its so hard. maybe i need to get my eyes checked out.

What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

occasional posts from users

impatient man: bus driver can you go faster im late for work

worlds most obedient bus driver: whatever you say boss

guy on the bus who turns in to a hungry pack of wild hyenas whenever hes traveling faster than 30mph:

what do you mean i need a screwdriver to fix a computer

covid coming in clutch giving me the time to fix my desktop and the inability to bring it to someone else for help

by the end of the day i WILL be able to draw and play minecraft again

thought id take a crack at an obscure sorrow because the dictionary of obscure sorrows still doesnt get at everything i want words for

laccevenomism - /læt͡ʃːəˈvɛnəmɪzm/ or /lækːəˈvɛnəmɪzm/

the frustration that one cannot express discomfort because the person or situation causing it is doing something socially perceived as "good" or "selfless".

can be shortened to laccevenom if used to describe the feeling (i.e. "slowly building laccevenom") or if used in a less abstract context (i.e. "her face betrayed hints of laccevenom")

idk i think this would resonate with a couple people out there because "communicate when you're unhappy :)" advice seems engineered to coincide with a maze of situations that don't let you speak out about things.

Lorvren, demon of loss & luck (2019)

they should invent a kind of venting where i can be really vague without people asking questions and still talk with them about my very specific problem

:3 Fixed It Anyway

covid coming in clutch giving me the time to fix my desktop and the inability to bring it to someone else for help

by the end of the day i WILL be able to draw and play minecraft again

i love writers most of the time i really do but tumblr HAS to understand by the 45th time i click "this post is not for me" that i do not want to see Blue Lock smut. i dont even watch sports anime.

my natural punishment for using the for you page i suppose