Another Pic For @croik Somewhat Set In The Entangled Series Universe. I’ve Always Really Loved The

Using art without compensation/ permission for your own gain is theft, full stop.

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

Episode 28: Threads

I can’t blame Lady Ethel for enjoying the colors and her look when she has a minute.

Oswald is SO MUCH WORSE.

Terrible as Lady Ethel is, at least when she was young and Botco was starting to get big she realized there was something wrong there (but all that money and power…).

Much as that summer romance could have saved Solomon, I feel like Adam surely could have done better.

At least he knows Adam’s death was his fault. He doesn’t care who he’s killed or hurt though, as long as he can justify it. And he always can.

I can only assume that Solomon forgot he could ask Stitchery Pins to make Percy a new dress. Better that he gave him his own clothes. At least he did one (barely) decent thing for his son.

Irene Mend is not to be trusted. Still better than Solomon, though.

I’m torn between choosing a useful language or a dead language to be a fell voice on the wind

no wrong answers! if you'd like to elaborate on your answer i'd love to hear it!!

I would like to point out that John's memory issues only started after The Nightmare. You know, after what might be the only time we've seen a supernatural creature affect his mind directly?

I’m a total shipper and this is really important ⬆️ love this podcast, I interpret it as super gay but that’s just part of how I enjoy it. Lots of people interpret the characters as aro/ace and enjoy it that way.

Making a post bc I am still every other week or so seeing posts from new fans talking about how John/Arthur better be canon bc they’ll be mad otherwise or asking if it is or SAYING it is and I need other people to spread this around and actually listen to me.

Harlan has said they won’t end up romantically together. No look at me. Canonically they won’t. He loves the fics and stuff and finds it enjoyable, but they aren’t going to be canon.

That means that you have GOT to stop trying to get new fans in by saying how gay it is. That might work in 2010 when bury your gays was the most you could ask for but there’s actual rep now, if you tell someone something is gay they’re going to be expecting to SEE it at some point.

You are putting Harlan, who makes the entire show by himself and does not have anything vetted, does not have a pr team, and is active in the fandom, in danger. People are already calling it queerbait and gaslighting. You are disappointing and pissing off people who want to see venom/Eddie and aren’t going to get it.

Saying you love someone and showing them life experiences they haven’t had isn’t inherently romantic, especially if one of you is new to the being human thing, it’s the 1930s so the entire masculinity romance landscape is entirely different, and you share a body and couldn’t leave if you wanted. It’s not homophobic to manage expectations.

Queerbaiting is when a show is promised to be queer to bring in the queer audience and then they don’t. He’s specifically said it isn’t. YOU are queerbaiting people. I can not continue to every other week see an excited fresh faced person say they got into the show bc they heard it’s a queer podcast or has gay rep when it’s blatantly untrue. I can’t see more see it’s canon friends would never do this together. It’s fun to play with and I love it, it’s a fun ship, but you have to stop telling people it’s real and the only option.

Thinking about them <3 Characters of all time, both of them.

[ID: a digital, fully coloured drawing of Yaretzi and Polly from Hello from the Hallowoods. They are facing each other with their hands resting at the others elbow.

Yaretzi is a brown-skinned woman with longer, black hair and wolf ears, she is wearing gold and turquoise jewelery. She is wearing a red waistcoat over a white shirt and is looking rather serious at Polly.

Polly is a white man with pale skin and freckles. He has bright ginger hair that falls in ringlets on his shoulders and is held back by a blue ribbon. He is wearing a blue suit with a light pink floral pattern. He looks worried.

The background is a plain beige. /End ID]

SO

In episode 62, we learnt that at some point while they were alive, like Annabel has a pet name for Lenore, Lenore had a pet name for Annabel, with Annabel questioning why Lenore still calls her Annabel when Lenore claims she remembers everything.

Now, I’ve seen a lot of different ideas about what it could be; angel, belle, anything flower adjacent, and most popularly, Annie. Interesting thing about the name Annie, Poe actually has a poem named ‘For Annie’. For a summary of the poem: A dying man gives thanks that his "lingering illness," life, is finally over. He talks about how no one should pity him since everyone will lie in the same bed he does. Furthermore, his death is not final. As his lover, Annie, looks on him and cries because she thinks he is dead, he declares that his heart and his thoughts are more alive than ever, for they are filled with the sight of Annie's love. Though dead, he lives on because of her love.

Thanks to the thumbnail of episode 90, it seems like we’re going to get to see or at least get more information on how Annabel died, and if our assumptions are right, how Lenore died as well (fastpassers you better drink your water and mind your business cause if episode 90 ends up being a episode 77 situation when it comes to spoilers, I am coming for your knees). Since we had reference to the poem ‘Lenore’ in episode 66, if Lenore’s pet name for Annabel does end up being Annie, it would definitely be of good use to look for references to ‘For Annie’ in the way Lenore thinks of Annabel, especially if we get a look into Lenore’s thoughts before she died.

I’m going to leave a link to the poem so everyone can go to have a quick read of it. There were quite a few lines that reminded me of different details in the comic (you’ll see what I mean)

Poetry Foundation

For Annie by Edgar Allan Poe | Poetry Foundation

Thank Heaven! the crisis,

I didn’t know Mx. Wellman could terrify me so much with Shanks’ voice, then make me completely flip on that character. Four seasons in and I’m constantly surprised.

Ok but also a STRONG contender for the vast given the amount of times he’s mcfallen

“Arthur lester would be an avatar of the eye” no. Look at me. This guy is so marked by the Desolation it’s not even funny

taigen + text posts pt 1/?

he is just so extremely *puts in a jar and shakes it violently* to me