If you use generative AI, you are not a writer or artist.

Pass it on.

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The most bad-ass rebuttal from Tite Kubo, the author of Bleach.

Understanding D2D's Activation and Maintenance Fees - Draft2Digital | Blog A brief explanation of D2D's activation and maintenance fees, which accounts are subject to them, and what this means for you.

Draft2Digital just dropped the news on their blog that they'll be charging everybody who sells less than a hundred dollars a year a maintenance fee.

Note, they already make a commission off of every sale.

draft2digital.com/blog/underst...

Im so fucking angry about the harassment artists get. I can’t string together anything coherent but if you’re an artist making call outs about OTHER artists because their fictional story is just a bit too icky in themes, the art you create will always be marred-

To my non tech normies, PSA: when you share a link, everything after the ? is tracking. Those “query parameters” tell companies exactly how you arrived, what app you clicked, which ad or email sent you, sometimes a unique identifier tied to you. You can delete everything after the question mark.

ThereIsSelfPreservation says: I'm seeing warnings about scammers trying to commission artists but the "reference sheet" for their character they want commissioned isn't an image but a .VBS file ("visual basic script"), and will run a script when you open it, probably to yoink your account(s), but I haven't seen this from anyone who's actually clicked it yet. Just be careful and never open a file like that, 'cause people suck.

PSA of the day! Never open a VBS file sent by a stranger.

Digital art sketch of two characters from my next sapphic book, sitting on the stairs of what's eventually going to be a bad-ass abandoned victorian-manor-esque temple taken over by the forest 🤌🤌

Aw hell yeah this one's going to be fun 🥰🥰

Animation screenshot of The Sailor Moon crew being crucified

It’s their day too.

It's this little gem and it's not up for debate

A page from the book 1984

Brown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.

After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

You know shit got real if the FTC is telling payment processors to quit screwing over NSFW/kink folks.

Work in progress digital painting of my characters Ione and River; River is lying on pillows on the floor and looking morose as usual, and Ione is cuddling half on top of him and smiling like she just got her way

Finally drawing my own version of this lovely painting by McCauley Connor 🥰 This featuring Ione and poor River, who is clearly being affectionately annoyed into doing something he doesn't want to do 💅

On that note:

Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day.

Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links.

Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

He raped children and adults. Trump is a badly written single dimension villain.

The Nationwide Book Ban Bill Moves to the House: How to Take Action Now The nationwide book ban bill, HR 7661, has progressed out of committee and into the House. Here's what you need to know to take action.

The nationwide book ban bill is now entering the House of Representatives for consideration. Here's everything you need to know about HR 7661, including next steps to take in helping defeat this anti-LGBTQ, anti-intellectual, pro-voucher bill before it goes any farther: bookriot.com/hr7661-advan...

An illustration showing tiny nautical creatures, like sea stars, crabs, shrimps, mollusks, seashells, and more!

just some stuff in the water 🦀🐚🌿 #art

So you failed? So what! You were brave enough to try, and in a world of lazy AI-using losers, that counts for a lot 💜✨

Our President is a child raping war criminal.

Do not come here.

DISTRACTIONS DON’T WORK.

COVERUPS WON’T WORK.

NOT EVEN WAR.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES.

Federal Reserve Board - Proposal Details The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.

The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art)

Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money

www.federalreserve.gov/apps/proposa...

Not content to just steal from the real deal, this game is also ripping off fan designs 😬

Your art's also been a huge inspiration for me! I've developed such a love of backgrounds and tiny details because of you 😭💙

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

Thank you all for the cover reveal hype today! 🖤

Super excited to (hopefully) kickstart this anthology soon!!

Digital painting of Kai, one of the POV characters from Hail the Rising Tides, posing shirtless under a waterfall like the arrogant clown he is

Digital painting of River, one of the POV characters from Hail the Rising Tides, laying all seductively in bed and smiling like he could either screw you or kill you 🥰

Oh yeah, uh, if you add my book to your goodreads tbr, I post more character art like this. Next goal is 200 💙 katkraehenauthor.carrd.co

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Pokopia Font saying "Shrimps is Bugs"