✨Sonic The Hedgehog Big Bang 2024!✨

I'm very sorry that I'm not very creative with names for this AU but I trust this fandom to help me out here

Day 2 and 3 for @espilver-week

Espio rizz/charm his boyfriend (yes he's wearing TMOSTH clothes for day 2)

Day 1 | Day 2 & 3 (you're here) | Day

A late valentine day art piece

If you're a fanfiction writer on ao3 please also lock your fanfiction down to registered accounts only because ai is invading ao3 and the founders of ao3 have been encouraging people to private their work so they are less likely to have their work stolen

I just knew this from a discord server so I'll make all of my works became private works! It will get less kudos but it's better than getting stolen.

I also got accused of copying other work too even though I didn't! I spent months just writing 1 chapter till finish and got accused wthhh

I will definitely say if it's got inspired by other fanfictions or music or fanart maynn

It has been hard for me to talk about how what is going on with Israel and Palestine is affecting me personally, but I grew up in Gaza and most of my family still lives there. My father did not survive the bombings last week and I have not been able to contact my younger sister in days. I am try to being understanding that most people do not have personal connections to what is happening and therefore are justifying their silence, but is heartbreaking to see this misinformation being spread. What’s happening there is a genocide, not a war. It is not antisemitic to support Palestine, it’s not even antiemetic to criticise Israel. There is no grey area or neutrality regarding this, and it is so easy to find resources that will educate you on the subject. It is my people and my home being destroyed so I will never be silent about this, but I please urge everyone to get informed and start speaking up and finding ways they can help.

decolonizepalestine has tons of information on Palestine’s history/propaganda that has been spread throughout the years

UK citizens can email their MP asking for a ceasefire

US citizens can call/email their local government officials asking for a ceasefire

Jewish Voice for Peace also has many resources for ways for US citizens to get involved, including protests

Donate to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

Donate to Medical Aid for Palestine

Donate to help get food and hygiene kits to Gaza

PSA: Tumblr/Wordpress is preparing to start selling our user data to Midjourney and OpenAI.

you have to MANUALLY opt out of it as well.

to opt out on desktop, click your blog ➡️ blog settings ➡️ scroll til you see visibility options and it’ll be the last option to toggle.

to opt out on mobile, click your blog ➡️ scroll then click visibility ➡️ toggle opt out option.

if you’ve already opted out of showing up in google searches, it’s preselected for you. if you don’t have the option available, update your app or close your browser/refresh a few times. important to note you also have to opt out for each blog you own separately, so if you’d like to prevent AI scraping your blog i’d really recommend taking the time to opt out. (source)

comic sans comic

Thank you for reading!

EDIT because people keep missing my footnote in the page itself: the top two panels in the "unfortunately [...] a haiku" page are a reference to THIS comic!

if you like strawberry shortcake or care bears, please consider buying something from the original creator and designer, Muriel Fahrion! she NEVER got paid royalties for creating/designing strawberry shortcake and care bears to this day. huge franchises that have profited off her work for over 40 years.

she went through incredibly tough times as an artist and went into debt after her husband died. in 2019 she started being more public on social media about being the original creator of these iconic characters. despite everything, she still loves strawberry shortcake and spreads nothing but kindness and positivity on her instagram (everyday she always posts a daily video of her dancing in her kitchen :) she’s so full of joy) it would mean a lot if you supported her and bought something cute from her website!

Ominous Rebellon Lore + Worldbuilding dump 1

CW/TW: implied dark content

Nyher the Unicorn- god of medicines, herbs, and guidance is one of the four gods to survive the last incident created by Ash. one of their specialties is to make medicine from natural growth herbs without causing extinction of the plant itself. thought out history, they're well-known as the flamboyant gardener or nature's flamboyant guardian. along with tales of the god's willingness to help the sick within the mortal realm in a form that doesn't bring fear to these seeking their medical help and guidance especially children. after the incident Nyher lived and hid amongst the mortal population helping those mostly affected by Ash's actions. along with giving medicine.

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Elir The Crow- God of Death and Underworld, lover and one of the ruler duo with Xuhdis doesn’t like being involved with moral conflict and one of the surviving gods like Nyher, his lover, Eanh, and Itris known as The Hade type within the old gods. serious and keep to himself.

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Xuhdis The Raven- God of guiding lost soul to the afterlife, between living and dead, lover and one of the ruler duo with Elir sympathetic towards the innocent souls who enter his and his partner's realm too soon. disagree with how some cultures portray him.

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Itris The Cat- God of trickery and Deceive portray as a fox in some tales the tricker god can fool anyone who are foolish enough to fall in his trap. the other gods didn't trust him around sensitive topics and discussions. currently captured by Ash as his prisoner/trophy. Trying to convince Ash to let him free even tho he has an part of his dictorship

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Eanh The Owl- God of Knowledge hid among the mortal population pretending to be a normal owl running a privately owned (and few shadow) library for the public to learn some knowledge. along with the helping Nyher at time.

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Their region currency is Seaglass (common to rare by color & size) common 1 dollar, uncommon 5-10 dollar, rare 20-45 dollar, and extremely rare 50-100+ dollar (if you count inflation)

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Shadows and Blacklists markets run by individuals, private owners, and communities are common due to the strict laws and regulations but they get often shut down or raided by the law enforcement

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The Elites (rich/wealthy class) are calling the shoots and are allowed to have illegal items if their leader isn't in a bad mood. They either gain their wealth from illegal and legal activities (like "Sickdog"), gerenational wealth within the family, or new money

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Moonlight hidden/removed their last name as a form of protection of their family from the corrpurt loyalist of Ash's lapdogs, while Snow removed his legal last name to have no more contact/connection towards his biological family

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Everyone in Moon's small group of a team/closed knited friendship-family bond all have codenames expect her due to her name being on public legal records and paper from a international police burst on illegal sex industry business that was breaking international laws that she was a victim to.

A new tool lets artists add invisible changes to the pixels in their art before they upload it online so that if it’s scraped into an AI training set, it can cause the resulting model to break in chaotic and unpredictable ways. 

The tool, called Nightshade, is intended as a way to fight back against AI companies that use artists’ work to train their models without the creator’s permission. Using it to “poison” this training data could damage future iterations of image-generating AI models, such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, by rendering some of their outputs useless—dogs become cats, cars become cows, and so forth. MIT Technology Review got an exclusive preview of the research, which has been submitted for peer review at computer security conference Usenix.   

AI companies such as OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Stability AI are facing a slew of lawsuits from artists who claim that their copyrighted material and personal information was scraped without consent or compensation. Ben Zhao, a professor at the University of Chicago, who led the team that created Nightshade, says the hope is that it will help tip the power balance back from AI companies towards artists, by creating a powerful deterrent against disrespecting artists’ copyright and intellectual property. Meta, Google, Stability AI, and OpenAI did not respond to MIT Technology Review’s request for comment on how they might respond. 

Zhao’s team also developed Glaze, a tool that allows artists to “mask” their own personal style to prevent it from being scraped by AI companies. It works in a similar way to Nightshade: by changing the pixels of images in subtle ways that are invisible to the human eye but manipulate machine-learning models to interpret the image as something different from what it actually shows. 

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