Hannah

@agarthanguide.bsky.social

Illustrator in Vermont, USA. Character artist Critical Role Campaign 3! Rhymes with Donna, not Banana. She/her.

I believe this 100%. The moral injury of the period, the grief from not just the too and so many deaths but the kinds of lives we had before, the laying bare of disposability, the non covid deaths it sped, the institutional strain, the collective fear and distrust, the prioritization of work anyway

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · 4w ago

One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.

The next addition to my series of Bells Hells in historical art styles (I know I’m pushing it with the word “historical,” here)- Dorian Storm in the style of Yoshitaka Amano.

Fanart of the character Dorian Storm from Critical Role in the style of Yoshitaka Amano.

Five writers by whom I’ve read more than five books- 1 Pg Wodehouse 2 Jorge Luis Borges 3 Umberto Eco 4 Terry Pratchett 5 Adrian Tchaikovsky 6 China Mieville 7 Max Gladstone 8 Jonathan L Howard 9 Mick Herron 10 Jasper Fforde

Ian@ianface.bsky.social · last yr.

Five writers by whom I’ve read more than 5 books: 1. Kurt Vonnegut 2. Frank Herbert 3. Chuck Palahniuk 4. Phillip K. Dick 5. Stephen King 6. Brett Easton Ellis 7. Clive Barker 8. Elmore Leonard 9. Michael Crichton 10. Garfield

Disney isn’t on the side of artists (they happily use genAI themselves when it suits them), but I still hope they absolutely eviscerate Midjourney who should finally suffer consequences of building a plagiarism machine. Both those things can be true.

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · last yr.

Walt Disney and Comcast's Universal filed a copyright lawsuit against Midjourney on Wednesday, calling its popular AI-powered image generator a "bottomless pit of plagiarism" for its use of the studios' best-known characters.

My friend just got tenure. Huge deal. PLEASE HELP ME THINK OF A WAY TO CELEBRATE. So far I’ve got- 1- Cake shaped like an owl 2- bunting spelling out “UNFIRABLE” Any ideas? Please help.