Latest Posts by creeping-mollusk - Page 4

i'm 23 today!! 💪

i will be happy to get a reblog as a birthday present c:

Couple of assignments from my drawing class. Both are done in graphite.

i made this (on Thursday)

poured my heart and soul into it

I'm going to fucking lose it

I’m starting to sound like a nutcase at work because upper management keeps trying to implement AI programs and AI assistants and Chat GPT and my middle-of-the-road, don’t-infodump, don’t-engage response has been “I don’t like AI”, “I prefer to remain in control of my own tasks”, “I’d rather make my own mistakes”, and “I don’t trust any machine smarter than a toaster”

the awaiting part two

inking practice i got carried away with

Dance🕺🕺

Hey, look at me. Look at me. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: you need to condition yourself to being okay with being inconvenienced by things. The first time I spoke about this I meant it in a mental health way- it is good to go out to the store and see people versus just ordering alone at home- but there is another more pressing societal issue you should be more concerned about as well.

Any service you rely on for convenience can be weaponized against you the moment you begin to rely on it. Streaming used to be a cheap and convenient way to see movies at home. It is now exorbitantly expensive, you need multiple accounts just to get what you want, and any of those movies can be taken from you at any time. And unless you have gotten used to going through the “inconvenience” of owning physical media, you can do nothing about it. Same goes for buying things on Amazon. Same goes for any service like DoorDash etc. These companies WANT you to be reliant on them for convenience so they can do whatever they want to you because, well, what else are you gonna do?

Same thing goes for the uptick in AI. If you train yourself to become reliant on AI for doing basic things, you will be taken advantage of. It is only a matter of a couple years before there are no free AI services. Not only that, but in the usage of AI’s case, it is robbing you of valuable skills that you need to curate that you will be helpless without the moment the AI companies drive in the knife the way they have done with streaming. Delivery. Cable. Internet. Etc. It will happen to AI too. And if you are not practicing skills such as. Writing. You are not only going to be at the mercy of AI companies in the digital world, but you are going to be extremely easy to take advantage of in real life too.

I am begging you to let go of learned helplessness. I am begging you to stop letting these companies TEACH you helplessness. Do something like learn to pirate. It is way more inconvenient at the beginning, but once you know how, it is one less way companies can take advantage of you. Garden. Go to the thrift store (older clothes hold up better anyway). These things take more time and effort, yes, but using time and effort are muscles you need to stretch to keep yourself from being flattened under the weight of our capitalist hellscape.

Inconvenience yourself. Please. Start with only the ways you are able. Do a little bit at a time. But do something.

International Women's Day 💗♀️💗

in light of the recent surge in chatgpt-written posts i have instead set my sights on another form of generative technology: the humble 8-ball. check this out

Victory.

Turnabout Goodbyes.

Days 6 - 10 of fish february ( ´ ▽ ` )

Oh jorse..

some fishe studies pt 1 orbicular batfish juvenile || rainbowfish

"Kim! We have to prove that disco isn't dead"

He does.

bumping your OCs ages up every few years because they’re starting to feel like infants to you. reblog if you agree. 

Harry Du Bois !!! more or less directly sploinked from the game portrait haha

what if they met as children for a single day and then kept wondering if they'd ever see each other again

Alfy art from (checks file) Jan 2024.

His scar isn't like this anymore not to mention the anatomy but I'm still proud of this so you get to see it.

Jean Vicquemare my beloved 🤍

Been a while since I posted my *own* art, so here's a couple oc doodles.

Alfy and Aster <3

I know people say that Disco Elysium will be hard to adapt into a TV show or movie, but do you know what would be a great adaptation? A stage play.

Here me out, the skills are on a balcony and are a literal Greek chorus narrating the story. The parts of the game where the player needs to go back and forth between people/places asking questions (eg: Harry boys and Klaasje, Soona in the church and the speed freaks in the tent) you could split the stage into two sets and have Harry and Kim walk back and forth with having the scenes lit if it is active. The phasmid cage checking/hunting would just be Harry running back and forth across the stage with Kim huffing and puffing behind him.

Plus all the weird things like Harry talking to his skills (spot light on only Harry and the skills in the middle of a scene), failing checks (the lighting becomes red), and the dreams would be weird and difficult to pull off in a movie but acceptable on a stage play.

I mean, the play would be like 4 hours but still

Got a dip pen and decided to play around with some hatching. so of course, I had to draw Kim :)