Hey, Does Anyone Have Any Open Name-to-adopts Or Draw-to-adopts Up? Or Know Of Any? I'm Obsessed With

A WIP of a project I'm working on currently.

Hello! Here's some traditional art that I made recently.

Slight gore/blood warning?

The boy in two of the drawings is my oc Gaz. He's a monster boi so that's why he's got antennae. I created him last year around November, and he's for a story I'm working on that I'll be posting about.

The character in the last sketch is Corin. I made him just this year around Halloween, but I'll talk about him some other time.

Well that's it for now.

I made a new OC, but I can't figure out which color palette that I like the best, so I was wondering if anyone could help me out? Otherwise I was thinking that maybe their colors change due to their environment, kind of like a chameleon? I don't know. In the meantime, I'll mess with some more color schemes.

Photographer Mattias Klum from National Geographic gets close and personal with a lion.

[tweet by @ murdermuffin666: tfw deviantART has their own AI generator and all of your previous deviations can be used by it unless you go into the settings of each submission and opt out. no, i’m not fucking joking. everything is automatically opted in. (link)]

Crossposting from someone else's Twitter (sorry op but I hadn't seen it on here yet) -

If you have posted art on deviantart, your submissions have been automatically approved for use in AI art.

At the moment, you can protect your work by:

submitting up to five keywords (names and usernames) to be excluded from AI art generation on-site to the official Google form

Manually disabling the approval for AI art generation on each individual submission. This is otherwise enabled by default and applies retroactively (old posts are automatically approved).

This absolutely sucks shit and the system should obviously be opt-in AT BEST, but at the very least please take the steps you can to protect your work.

It doesn't protect your work from third-party datasets, but it can at least protect you from deviantArt's own one.

how to fucking flag pedophiles

call me the fucking ~internet police~ BUT I DIDN’T KNOW UNTIL TODAY THAT THERE’S LITERALLY A COMMUNITY OF “PEDOPHILE POSITIVITY” ON THIS HELLSITE

THERE ARE PEOPLE OPENLY ADMITTING THAT THEY ARE ATTRACTED TO CHILDREN/CONSUMING CHILD PORN ON THIS WEBSITE!?!??! THERE’S 13 YEAR OLDS ON HERE!!!

so my dudes, how to flag “maps” (minor attracted people aka pedophiles)

1. click “flag this blog”

2. click “this violates tumblr’s community guildlines”

3. click “someone is at risk of harm”

4. click “harm to minors”

5. type “pedophile” in the box

Hello! As someone that dumpster dives year-round and usually finds a SHIT TON of perfectly usable items thrown away after the holidays, please listen:

Christmas is over and now comes along the weeks of people returning and exchanging unwanted gifts at retailers. A lot of these stores cannot actaully put a lot of these items back out on the shelf, (especially seasonal items or holiday themed) for one reason or another. Returned brand new items end up in landfills.

This is not only horribly wasteful when good items could be used by people in need, but also insanely bad for the enviroment.

So please consider:

Did you get insane amounts of those fluffy socks because they're like a default gift option? Donate your excess to a homeless or domestic violence saftey shelter.

Did you recieve a gift that is pretty much a jab to your identity from that estranged family member of yours that still doesn't use the correct pronouns for you? Oh, and they wont give you or 'lost' the receipt? Donate it.

Recieved those oddly named holiday themed lotions, perfumes and candles and can't stand the smell of them? These items most usually will not be put back on the shelf if returned and thrown away. Donate them. (Some charities may not accept them, some will. Check beforehand.)

Did you get one of those holiday throw blankets that are marketed just for this time of the year even though you already have several? Donate it.

I find tons of holiday themed clothing thrown away this time of year. Including ugly sweaters, hats/beanies, gloves, onesies, shoes, socks, ect. Perfectly fine items that are returned because people don't keep holiday themed stuff outside of holiday season. Regardless, they could be used by people who need warm clothing.

Electronics are not safe either. Perfectly working Items I have found in dumpsters in the past range from: a $300 roomba with the ticket saying it was returned because the customer didn't know how to work it (needed an app to control), not one but TWO tablets (Samsung and Kindle Fire) a working bluetooth speaker, ect. (Items that can not be donated I gave away.)

If you are not going to regift unwanted gifts and you are certain you are not going to use it, please consider donating it (or make a post and just give it away or sell the thing yourself.) You can go get $15 worth of store credit if you return the thing, but it's usually going straight to the trash afterwards.

Unfortunatly, stores like to try and destroy items they throw away as well. On lucky days, I find items that are still in their original package. Other times I find perfectly usuable items destroyed by spray paint or box cutters.

(ALSO this is not a post shaming people who return gifts for money to pay bills/buy food/basically survive. That is a completely different situation.)

Please research the places you donate to before doing so. Do not donate to the Salvation Army (despite them trying to do reputation control, they're still blatantly anti-LGBTQ) If you are a dumpster diver, remember to sanitize the items you find and let the organizations know where you recieved the items.

That's it. Thanks for coming to my soapbox!

Thank you for reading and sharing! <3 PLEASE pledge on my Patreon so I can continue making comics like these! Being trans can be tough sometimes but it’s also a blessing. A sacred gift. A journey few can know. A joy! 

Thanks again for reading! ^_^

Cute little drawing of GIR that I made when I was feeling a little bit down.

This is beautiful!!! ♥️♥️♥️

Rose knight🗡️