Polaroid #3 July 2nd 1987

"Earmuffs Hootsie, also here's your flypad. Play some Vegetable Pirate"- Gricko ft. Hootsie from OUAW in almost every episode. (Vegetable Pirate reference is somewhere between ep. 47-50)

“lord dont let me break this, let me hold it lightly; 

give me hands to pray with instead of ones that hold too tightly”

@xxfiction-is-my-realityxx asked for Steve and Eddie hugging from behind, and an anon asked for kissing. So much like the 80′s I mixx-taped them both together for a cute kiss from behind ;P

insp. @steveshairychest​

sold

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. 

“I’ll be in the sunrise” - a queer 18+ Cowboy comic by queenstardust co-written by @thefire-in-the-nightsky All physical copies have been sent out and my comic is now available as digital download on Gumroad: https://gumroad.com/queenstardust#FKoDZ PDF includes 23 pages of Comic & 16 pages Bonus Material Check it out  🤠💗🤠