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Clear Bias towards Team Black(A lot of possible spoilers)

If you are against what I wrote and don't like it, then scroll or block me, idc, don't waste your time commenting and ridiculing me because trust me, for these opinions I've heard the same thing over and over again and you're not gonna change my mind by writing an angry comment. The comment will just be deleted and you blocked because not everyone wants to argue with someone in their comments. And for those who saw something similar on reddit, that's because I posted the same thing on reddit.

I've seen people online talk about how the screenwriters are not actually biased towards Team Black because they've made Team Green less vicious than in the books and made them sympathetic...and they're wrong in my humble opinion. This rant is gonna be long probably and my english is not the best so...

Starting off with Ryan Condal constantly talking about how the books are propaganda against Rhaenyra...why specifically Rhaenyra? He says it's because Rhaenyra is a woman. How that isn't enough to make it clear that he favours Team Black(the oh so feminist team) is beyond me. The books have always been about having morally grey characters which makes sense given that the story is set in medieval times and it's literally a world where dragons exist. So naturally they don't have the same morals as we have in real life at this point in time, so to us they will always be morally grey, as intended.

Also let's talk about the fact that even if they made Team Green more sympathetic they've also destroyed them in the process.

INTRODUCTION OF TEAM GREEN:

● For older Rhaenyra and Alicent where they've already been divided into Team Green and Team Black, Rhaenyra is introduced giving birth, obviously very much in pain and exhausted. And before they introduce adult Alicent, they talk about her asking for Rhaenyra's babe and then they show Rhaenyra walking around the Red Keep, with blood trailing after her and in obvious pain having just given birth...that's how they introduced Alicent. Literally her asking a woman, who has just given birth, to bring her babe(even tho she didn't ask for Rhaenyra but whatever).

● "Older" Criston Cole is introduced in the background barely, if at all, reacting when Rhaenyra walks around the Red Keep with blood trailing after her...

● Then young Aegon(in his teen years) is introduced bullying his younger brother, which by the way never happened in the books, if anything it was the Strong boys and Viserys. And then right after that, sexually humiliated and shown jerking out the window.

● And as for older Aegon they first show his victim Dyana, who we know what he did to(even tho this also never happened in the books), violently crying and extremely traumatized. And right after that, Aegon waking up(also once again sexually humiliated) and not caring for what he did referring to it as just some "harmless" fun. That's something the audience can't get over, that's how he was introduced, and a rapist is hard to be fond of(naturally) especially with how little, if at all, he cared. But it wasn't even about the victim in this scene, we don't get any elaboration on how Dyana dealt with it or even how the other maids reacted only Alicent's dossapointment in Aegon and her disowning him. ONLY THEN they choose to make him sympathetic, letting him cry and talk about how he will never be good anough for his parents and Alicent rolling her eyes RIGHT after he is introduced as a rapist. Making a character of one faction a rapist is the easiest way to make the other faction look better and be more likeable, no matter how sympathetic they make said character(Aegon) thereafter.

● Older Helaena is introduced walking in on her brother husband crying and her asking about the very woman her brother-husband just raped. That's all we know of her in the first scene.

● Older Aemond is introduced fairly badass, I didn't have a problem with that.

MAKING TEAM GREEN INSULT RHAENYRA JUST TO DISTRACT FROM CERTAIN THINGS....:

● While Alicent and Criston are talking about Rhaenyra committing High Treason and her father not giving a flying shit, they make Criston call her a spoiled cunt.

● They made Vaemond call Rhaenyra a whore just before they made Daemon kill him so it was kind of a "Ha! He had it coming moment", which I don't remember Vaemon doing in the books but sure go on(Also, in the books it was Rhaenyra that ordered Daemon to kill Vaemond before she had Syrax eat him and then yk what else...)

● Season two it kicked off amazingly and Aegon was definitely the most entertaining character for many. I don't think I need to elaborate on what I think about the B & C scene, given Geroge has taken the words right out of my mouth. But let's talk about the small council meeting right after Aegon found out what happened to Jaehaerys. Not even in Aegon's grief do they exclude Rhaenyra, and I'm not talking about the fact that they blamed Rhaenyra but rather that they made Aegon insult Rhaenyra. And while I loved the scene and understood why a grieving father would insult his rival who is most likely responsible for the death of his son, of course a lot of people focused on him insulting Rhaenyra instead of him having just lost his son to murder.

● Criston's character they've also reduced to nothing but a heartbroken pathetic man who is bitter of a rejection even tho he played such a big part in the books(IMO). But almost every scene of Crirston they make him insult Rhaenyra as if he can't think of anyone but her.

SEXUAL HUMILIATION OF TEAM GREEN:

At this point it's pretty clear they'll sexually humiliate Team Green at any given moment.

● Ser Criston Cole is shown breaking his oath and being coerced(yes coerced, because if we watched the scene it is pretty clear as a day that that is what happened)into sex by Rhaenyra, that was something left unclear in the books but anyways. For Rhaenyra it was seen as her bravely being a girlboss and exploring her sexuality whereas Ser Criston is humiliated by the audience for it.

● As I said Aegon(in his teen years) is sexually humiliated and shown jerking out the window, with his rear on display and his own mother catching him in the act.

● Then after introducing Aegon as a violent rapist, they make Alicent pull the blanket of Aegon once again sexually humiliating him by showing his rear on full display to his mother once again...

● Then they have Helaena making a joke at dinner and we know how people perceived this as...I have no idea if the screenwriters intend to make it seem as Aegon is sexually abusing Helaena but it was seen as such by many.

● Did I forget to mention when they made Aemond and Criston look for Aegon and then they made up a scenario where Aegon forced 13 year old Aemond to have sex with the brothel Madame Silvy, which DID not happen in the books.(and yes I edited this in because I forgot to mention this). So not only is Aegon a rapist but also is the one that orchestrated the rape of his own brother.

● Then they make Larys Strong have a fetish to the very thing related to his cripple...feet. And they make him sexually abuse and coerce Alicent, the Queen, into showing her feet and show him starting to jerk off. Wow!

● In season 2 to make Alicent seem hypocritical they make her and Criston have a sexual relationship(npt even once specualted in the books) and to add insult to injury they make Helaena who freshly watched her son get murdered walk in on them having sex just to make it seem all the more horrible even tho in thw books Alicent was bound and gagged and also watched Jaehaerys get murdered.

● Then they sexually humiliate Aemond by making him lay in the lap of his RAPIST and seek comfort in her.

● A few episodes later they make Aegon, the very reason for Aemond's rape, sexually humilate his brother publicly. Great.

● Oh and of course Aegon for some reason having his cock burned when in the books he was excited to have an heir with that Cassandra Baratheon.

TEAM GREEN DOES NOT BELIEVE IN THEIR OWN CLAIM:

● In the show, they make Aegon's claim weak, if they even make it a claim. Even tho both Rhaenyra and Aegon have a claim. Rhaenyra by Viserys' word and Aegon by birth right and by Andal law.

● Young Alicent however calls Rhaenyra's claim a birthright, which it is not(and yes Book Aegon called it Rhaenyra's birthright once, I know) so she didn't believe in Aegon's claim at all since the start.

● And just to add that they made Rhaenyra see that animal to make it seem as the gods "chose" her.

● The reason Alicent usurped the throne in the show is not because she believes it's her son's birthright at all but rather because she understood Viserys to have said that Aegon was to sit the throne.

● In season two, Aemond, while talking to Ser Criston, also says they usurped Rhaenyra, so to Aemond it wasn't their birthright?

● Aegon and show!Aegon are similar in the books when it comes to the claim, so not much to elaborate on.

Lastly, TEAM GREEN HATES EACH OTHER:

Do I need to elaborate?

There is much more I could say but I don't want to make the post too long. Tried to keep it short and simple but failed(Oops.) Also I got a bit lazy towards the end as you can probably tell.

So after falling into a very deep hole known as House of the Dragon, I now want to write an Isekai style one shot where someone meets the book Tullys during the Dance of the Dragons and has to keep themselves from laughing while they're in Riverrun.

Like they're trying so hard to adjust to all the nuances of dealing with nobility but every time they talk to Elmo or Kermit they have to try so hard to keep a straight face.

Bonus, the only one they tell about the Sesame Street characters from our world is Benjicot and now he's having a hard time too.

The TEA is scorching!!!!!!

The matter of fact bleakness of this world is established so early, long before it descends into the hell it does.

It actually makes me think of this scene in cdrama The Myth, which also starts seemingly funnily but gives us a full warning of the world of horror and the inevitability of the narrative going dark:

I do love that Seon Ho won't take this on principle, even if he can get out of it - despite how dark he goes, despite the monstrous father doing his best - there is always a kernel of something else in SH - here before it's been tarnished it's bright but even at his worst, some glimmer remains.

And he takes them apart.

𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒏, 𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒃𝒐𝒚; 𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒓𝒊𝒃𝒔, 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒐, 𝒑𝒖𝒍𝒔𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒎𝒚 𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒂 – 𝒑𝒍𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒍𝒚. 𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏’𝒕 𝑰 𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕? 𝒂𝒎 𝑰 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒗𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒃, 𝒅𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒄𝒌?

𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒎𝒆, 𝑰 𝒂𝒎 𝒔𝒐𝒇𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓𝒔. 𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒍 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒍; 𝑰’𝒗𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆, 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 – 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒅, 𝒎𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒈𝒐, 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓’𝒔 𝒈𝒂𝒛𝒆, 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒂𝒓𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒓𝒂𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒆; 𝒄𝒂𝒊𝒏’𝒔 𝒆𝒈𝒐, 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒃𝒐𝒚𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏– 𝑰 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒍𝒆.

𝒈𝒐𝒅 𝒔𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒕 𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆. 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒑𝒖𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏, 𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒆. 𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕, 𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒕𝒉, 𝑰 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝑰 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒘 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏; 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔, 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘, 𝑰 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒊𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆.

𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔, 𝒔𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒃𝒐𝒚, 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒎𝒆. 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝑰 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆? 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝑰 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖. 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒐𝒅𝒚, 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 – 𝑰 𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒅, 𝑰 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆.

an assortment of class drawings of @mothercain that i did with pinterest pulled up on my chromebook all sneakylike

ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ່࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏

"Yeon-ah,

I'm going to leave.

Don't you worry though...

I'll be somewhere reachable by this river."

Gosh hui jae, you're not even offering to help shelter Yeon in Ihwaru either, are you? What, you don't have any power to do that? Well then, you wouldn't be trying your bestest either, huh?? Seonho is doing the only thing he knows how to keep both of them alive, knowing what power his father holds. Have you got better ideas, let's talk it out maybe, instead of slapping people about?🙄 The person she hates is nam jeon but she's taking it out on the wrong person and she pisses me off

Yes yes you're jealous hwi is talking to seonho more than you, alright alright

This is a picture I had from AI, and I think it's beautiful and sad like him.

Nam Seon-ho & Moon

In Defense of Lady Kang/Queen Sindeok (1/3)

As promised, here's the first part of my defense of Queen Sindeok, explaining her historical political situation + clearing up some common fandom misconceptions about her, which I don't blame anyone for since they originate from the show itself. I must admit that I have a bit of a soft spot for her since history generally tends to be unkind to women - this extends to modern media and MCTNA is no exception:

(more under the cut)

Before we start, I thought I'd give a small refresher on the Yi family constellation - crucial for setting up the conflict and crown prince issue - with the aid of this extremely useful graphic by bodashiri (excluding the daughters for simplicity's sake):

(From here: x)

As you can see, Yi Seong-gye (King Taejo of Joseon) had two wives:

His first wife Lady Han (Queen Sinui) gave birth to six sons: 1. Yi Bang-woo (Prince Jinan), 2. Yi Bang-gwa (Prince Youngan), 3. Yi Bang-ui (Prince Yikan), 4. Yi Bang-gan (Prince Hoean), 5. Yi Bang-won (Prince Jeongan) and 6. Yi Bang-yeon (Prince Deokan).

His second wife Lady Kang (Queen Sindeok) gave birth to two sons: 7. Yi Bang-beon (Prince Muan) and 8. Yi Bang-seok (Prince Uian),

meaning that Seong-gye had eight sons overall.

With that out of the way, let's get started!!!

1. Queen Sindeok was NOT a concubine

(From here: x)

She is referred to as Yi Seong-gye/King Taejo's capital/Seoul wife in the show too:

However, every time Bang-won calls her a concubine and her children illegitimate there is never any pushback or correction by anyone, not even when he calls her younger son Bang-seok/Prince Uian a ‘seoja’ (illegitimate child born to a commoner concubine or royal concubine) in front of Seon-ho:

You'd think Seon-ho would defend Bang-seok by correcting Bang-won... but nope. Nada.

Not even Queen Sindeok (!!!) is allowed to defend herself and her children when they get accused of the same:

Like, what is this madness!!!

Anyone who doesn't know about Korean history would never even SUSPECT that this isn’t actually true, and that Queen Sindeok is in fact a legitimate second wife and queen. By giving no pushback to the (false) claims of illegitimacy, the show seems to implicitly support Bang-won’s narrative of her being a lying, conniving, greedy bitch who wants to push her child on the throne despite having no right to it whatsoever as a concubine and bastard respectively.

Queen Sindeok's tragedy, the one that MCTNA fails to portray, is not that she was a concubine who tried to rise above her station (because she was not); it's that, due to the transition from Goryeo to Joseon, she found herself caught between two conflicting sets of laws:

(From Tombstones without a Tomb by Hildi Kang)

A queen while alive, and unjustly demoted to a concubine in death by Bang-won/King Taejong who used these legal changes and the new Confucian ruling to his advantage, her status was a matter of contention for scholars and kings alike for almost 300 years, until finally, in 1669, the scholar Song Si-yeol managed to amass enough people and put enough pressure on King Hyeonjong to make him give in to their demands and restore Queen Sindeok to her rightful status and honor as queen.

+ Bonus:

(From Tombstones without a Tomb by Hildi Kang)

Turns out that according to the new Confucian ruling, Bang-won himself should have been considered illegitimate too!! Surprise!!!

I think it’s funny that people view the Targaryens as *minority coded* because there is so *few* of them in a land where they are the *minority* but then you remember the reason they’re the minority isn’t because they were oppressed or killed off or enslaved. They were actually a family that was a part of a massive empire that went around actually oppressing, enslaving, murdering, r*ping other groups of people taking their lands and goods and they were actually so fucking vile their empire blew up and the Targaryens only got lucky in escaping based on a dream. A dream that led them to conqueror an entire land of people and establish themselves as gods amongst them, literally creating a doctrine of exceptionalism to prove just how much *better they are * so really I don’t think that *minority coding* works in the slightest but what do I know?

"Interestingly, feminists seem to have understood from the beginning that all issues are "women's issues," so it's not coincidental that they were also founders and organizers in the earliest stages of (only a partial list): anti-poverty work, abolition of slavery, child-welfare crusades, penal reform, public-health campaigns, peace movements (regarding every violent conflict, including the Civil War), and environmental activism-often overtly identifying a problem as a symptom of the underlying malady: patriarchy. Women's activism in the temperance movement, for instance, was based on their precocious analysis that a correlation existed between male alcoholism and wife battery; more than a century later, scientific data would confirm the experience-based hypothesis of these "crazy" women."

"Later, not content with a support role, some women would successfully disguise themselves as men to fight in the revolutionary war of independence, as Deborah Sampson did. Small wonder that by 1776, while in Philadelphia at the drafting of the Declaration of Independence, John Adams would receive from his wife, Abigail Smith Adams, the epistolary prophecy warning him that "If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation." Unfortunately, Adams heeded her advice no more than Thomas Jefferson heeded that of his de facto wife, Sally Hemmings, on denouncing slavery. Nor would this be the last betrayal of female citizens by a revolution that would set an example for worldwide "democracy." Westward expansion, for instance, relied on female labor and sacrifice. As one anonymous Iowan woman wrote at the time, such life "was mighty easy for the men and horses, but death on cattle and women." There were a few roles that broke free from the presumptive one of wife/mother (schoolteacher, solo farmer, businesswoman, even brothel-madam or missionary), but roles enjoying such relative freedom were unattainable for most women."

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oh to be a muse…to float in and out of art as if it is mine and everybody else’s all at the same time. to be studied not for what i could be, or what i am not, but for the curve of my jaw and the tilt of my smile. to be studied is to be loved. to be learnt is to be loved. who am i to value love in this way when a muse is just a title and a title is just word? who am i to put such weight to words? who am i to pray to them? oh to be a muse…like a fairy fluttering through golden lights, like one sitting upon a tall Sacramento spruce in December. oh to be a muse, a muse made of magic.

@scarefox

I don't think AI's will match human creativity until they're frighteningly close to sentient, and by then we'll be having a much bigger problem addressing their rights and the ethics of forcing a sentient entity to perform slave labor. Senioritis is a beast but the art industry has done been f*cked for ages so you might as well do whatever brings you joy. Granted I'm saying this as an ex-designer and an (as yet) unsuccessful comic artist who lives in corporate housing behind a barn. My best art work the year after I graduated came about from having a boring office job where I spent my days stuck in a tiny bank vault, supervising a printer.

When I first tried to break into illustration I got instantly K.O.'d in the marketplace by photobashers and guys from island nations selling traced Disney art. AI is just one more hurdle like all the others. Won't be the last.

Mirror of the soul

Stroke after stroke, the image was coming to life. It didn’t look quite right yet – too flat, without highlights nor shadows to  emphasise shapes and features – but nothing did, at this stage. There were mistakes and fumbles here and there, but less than there had been when they started out and none too drastic it couldn’t be reworked.

It was a flawed piece. It was beautiful nonetheless.

It was theirs – an expression of their deepest feelings, the true eye of their soul. Like looking into a lake and seeing themselves in the water. Slightly distorted, picture modelled by water and air, paint and brush, but still, unmistakably, them.

Click after click, the image was coming to life. One prompt after the other, one picture chosen over another, ideas coming to life from mere few words and choices.

The images were not perfect – but they did not care. They were pretty enough, eye-catching, cute or provocative. They looked real.

And if it looked uncannily like another… who cared, right?

People would still click on it, avid for their next dopamine input, and clicks were money.

The artist set out to work.

Somewhere, multiple someones got their art stolen.

And nobody cared.

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I'd like to add that not every AI artist is like this. AI can be a wonderful tool, but it is built on stolen pieces of art and texts, artists and writers who did not agree to have their art used for this purpose and whose creativity is now used by the big corporations who created the AIs in the first place!

I am not against people commissioning art to AI. What I do not like is big corporations stealing from artists and using AI to undermine them. Writers in the USA are striking - and for good reason. But if big film industries can use AI to write even while they are gone... why should they pay them better?

AI needs to be stopped.

This is going to be very different to my usual posts, i understand if you're not interested and I can't stop you from not reading this but I cannot understand how important it is that we regulate AI and it's useage. Even if you don't read my post, please do your research, please.

AI vs Artists

AI is being developed from the work of artists, artists who put effort and passion into their work are having it stolen and used to develop an algorithm that will destroy their livelyhood. Your art is not safe.

I cannot emphasize this enough, like it or not, your art is not safe. I'm not going to tell you to stop posting your art, but beg you, learn how these things work. Learn the current laws around ai, push for further restrictions and for companys to be held accountable, talk with other artists, fight back against ai.

We have hit a point where it's make or break, frankly I don't believe the art industry, especially the digital art industry, will ever be the same. You cannot outright ban the use of AI generated images, even regulations are temporary because what happens when ai really figures it out? When there's no strange blip or extra finger to give it away? When the two are practically indistinguishable?

There's alot more I can say about AI and how devastating ai generated media is going to be, and make no mistake it will be devastating, ai has and will continue to ruin the lives of many people.

This is not a joke, this isn't something that will sort itself out or burn itself out, you need to act now and do whatever you can if not for others then for yourself because you are not immune to AI and it's consequences and by the time you realise that it may be too late.

This documentary is about the harms of GenAi and how it scrapes, exploits and abuses artists.

Info text to this video: "Generative AI can be called many things depending on your point of view: machine, thief, tool, medium, collaborator, muse and even artist. In this video I will try to find answers for a lot of complex things and I will attempt to judge this technology with an open mind. In the last couple of weeks I spoke to many amazing artists and scientists about my mixed feelings of generative AI. Join me to hear their thoughts, my advice to creators and predictions on what’s to come. This video is NOT monetized. I didn't make this video to profit from it. I put a lot of effort into making it and hoping to bring more awareness to this issue. I really appreciate if you can share it with your friends/followers!"

Below this video on YouTube you'll find more links to videos and websites about this topic.

Why Artists are Fed Up with AI Art: