Latest Posts by cosmicsmoothie - Page 2

i for real dont even post anymore. the watchful scroller. silencepilled lurkmaxxer. the readerrrrrrrrr. insane.

sometimes i feel guilty for not posting but like. thats not my job im not obligated to do that. just wish i could show off my art WAIT OH MY GOD I FORGOT FOR THE SEVEN THOUSANDTH TIME I HAVE A PATREON I NEED TO SET THAT UP RIGHTTTTTTT

Nonbinary flag dragon!

Listen pal, the subtitles stay ON.

really wish i could be sharing my dragon profiles here. im done with fifty-fucking-nine of them. out of 64. insane that ive been able to keep on this.

who knows, maybe i'll have them up somewhere i can link to. perhaps with some of their lore.

HEY. You. Yes you.

Sometimes you're gonna be trying to do something early and you're going to piss away the whole day making very little progress. Sometimes it'll feel like time just passes under your feet. Sometimes all your little systems you set up to keep you productive aren't going to work. And people aren't going to understand when you explain it.

That's ok. You're not evil, you're not a disappointment and you didn't just peak in high school; you're just experiencing executive dysfunction. Maybe you don't have meds, or the ones you have aren't working quite as much today, or you just have other shit interfering with it.

You don't have to succeed 100% of the time. Sometimes your body and brain are telling you to do things that aren't "productive" that you need. Sometimes you need a walk in the sun or under the moon. Maybe you need to take an hour or two to meticulously clean your room and do laundry. Maybe you needed a nice hot shower or some time with your friends.

People aren't always forgiving or understanding; learn to lie a little for that. But for you, you sweet little creature... learn to forgive yourself. Let this meat puppet you're shambling around in (with???) tell you what it needs. Soft animal of your body and all that. You can't expect to always huff and puff and buckle down to do The Tasks. Fail at this sometimes. Please.

love having to run between like 5 systems of people to get a single thing changed on one form (if i dont i will be eviscerated by the government in 3 weeks)

i should just fire breath attack times one million

its my first tax season and the mood is very "this cruel world just takes and takes"

every cent of money i've made from commissions has been drained away by bank fees. 70% of my savings from my summer job have been taken by emergency sickness expenses and fees. i woke up to even more expenses today.

and now there's even more that the government wants to squeeze out of me. yeah go ahead tax my already nullified income. take more from me. leave me a rotting shell for the birds to pick at.

this season has been nothing but a money sink for me. hell world.

imagine if dragons could get their breath weapons enchanted with a spell. like the nefarious state-funded police force (questing knights) are raiding a dragon's cave and it hits them with acid breath that also casts Ralchear's Unskippable Advertisement. or a dragon that can only breathe little sparkler sparks gets help from the friendly wizard and now casts Greater Cone of Chlorine Trifluoride simultaneously.

what im saying is wizards and dragons could have symbiotic relationship and reshape the world in their image

supposedly the opt-out prevents data from being shared even from reblogs but i do not trust a word of it. ive seen enough corporate loophole-speak in my day to take my chances with something as permanent as machines learning how to imitate my shit.

tumblr has broken my trust repeatedly with shit like this tbh. ill figure out something else to talk about, i guess.

im gonna be using #torment nexus for anything related to stupid stuff that makes my blood boil. hopefully shouldnt be too much and might even be fun times of silly (existentially horrifying) tech developments going wrong

Pinned 2024

accidentally deleted my old pinned while deleting all of my art due to the AI bullshit on 2/27/2024.

Hi, I'm Smoothie. I don't know what I'm going to do with this blog. However, do not follow me if you are a minor. I'm not gonna be filtering myself anymore. If i see you following me and you're a minor, you will be blocked.

I am an artist, but you're going to have to take my word on that due to tumblr's AI bullshit.

I use they/them, subject to update later maybe idk. yadda yadda fuck off terfs. i block people liberally.

since i have the opportunity since i clearly am not going to do commissions on here and im gonna be doing more personal talk im gonna go ahead and make my blog 18+

minors get blocked from now on, effective immediately. sorry

art posts deleted. art sideblog deleted. this is now a funnypost personal account. the torment nexus will not win today.

Goodbye Art Tumblrs

i am deleting all of my art here forever. you dont get any more until never, probably. Patreon if you want it. Might start posting stuff there. not even tier-locked probably. until they start doing AI shit too. Hell world torment nexus nightmare realm. we are in the darkest timeline.

my countermeasures probably won't affect reblogs, so i ask of you. if you have reblogged my art: delete it and reblog this instead. I am dead serious i will be extremely upset if my shit gets scraped enough to make even a semi-accurate model of my art.

Goodbye Art Tumblrs

i am deleting all of my art here forever. you dont get any more until never, probably. Patreon if you want it. Might start posting stuff there. not even tier-locked probably. until they start doing AI shit too. Hell world torment nexus nightmare realm. we are in the darkest timeline.

my countermeasures probably won't affect reblogs, so i ask of you. if you have reblogged my art: delete it and reblog this instead. I am dead serious i will be extremely upset if my shit gets scraped enough to make even a semi-accurate model of my art.

...save for those with which we partner.

cool. real cool. fuck this. tomorrow i am going to nightshade all of my art (and Glaze it too) and replace every single image on my blog with those versions of it. i might not even opt out just to poison the AI well more (should be opt-in anyway, pricks).

fuck you all. in fact, i might just delete my art sideblog. i'm not gonna post any new art at all actually. I'll pivot to other sites for that. thanks for making this place even more of an uphill battle to have fun and share things on.

Hi, Tumblr. It’s Tumblr. We’re working on some things that we want to share with you. 

AI companies are acquiring content across the internet for a variety of purposes in all sorts of ways. There are currently very few regulations giving individuals control over how their content is used by AI platforms. Proposed regulations around the world, like the European Union’s AI Act, would give individuals more control over whether and how their content is utilized by this emerging technology. We support this right regardless of geographic location, so we’re releasing a toggle to opt out of sharing content from your public blogs with third parties, including AI platforms that use this content for model training. We’re also working with partners to ensure you have as much control as possible regarding what content is used.

Here are the important details:

We already discourage AI crawlers from gathering content from Tumblr and will continue to do so, save for those with which we partner. 

We want to represent all of you on Tumblr and ensure that protections are in place for how your content is used. We are committed to making sure our partners respect those decisions.

To opt out of sharing your public blogs’ content with third parties, visit each of your public blogs’ blog settings via the web interface and toggle on the “Prevent third-party sharing” option. 

For instructions on how to opt out using the latest version of the app, please visit this Help Center doc. 

Please note: If you’ve already chosen to discourage search crawling of your blog in your settings, we’ve automatically enabled the “Prevent third-party sharing” option.

If you have concerns, please read through the Help Center doc linked above and contact us via Support if you still have questions.

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.

hm. yet again my pinned post activates the curse that makes me have to go back on my words almost instantly. shit.

might have to make my blog adults only soon

wdym an average platonic bond cant be deep and meaningful do none of you remember the power of friendship

flying the original character artist flag with pride

: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

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

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

BORN TO FLY

WORLD IS A FUCK 鬼神 Torch Em All 1989 I am fire breath 410,757,864,530 DEAD KNIGHTS

show your local dragons some love by contributing to their hoards (especially if they have more specific things) (they will remember this and you can summon them in your hour of need)

ooooough im gonna have to make a new pinned post for 2024 (pfp change is also due

seeing 2023 off, it's very nice to see that i've become everything i once swore to destroy. everything, both in name and definition (because i mixed up several of those back in ye olde days)

What's funnier is that it was mostly coincidence. but knowing that a younger me would tremble and rage before my presence brings me joy. ive grown so much!! :3

this is like seeing an amazon drone in your backyard but half of its components are missing and your cat has peed on it twice. girl go home you are wasted

hey, don’t cry. one half flour one half yogurt knead into dough and fry for easy flatbread and dip in balsamic vinegar, okay?

when you’re nonbinary and bisexual