🍂 Jo (a swarm of) Bee(s) 🦇

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🏳️‍🌈 Jonne Bartelds, 30s, draws stuff. She/they. Available for freelance work! Contact: info@jobeeart.com Commissions: https://vgen.co/jobeeart

Elrond: The ring must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came. One of you must do this. Me out of the side of my mouth: ᶠʳᵒᵐ ʷʰᵉⁿᶜᵉ ᵒᵏᵃʸ ᴸᵒʳᵈ ᴾˡᵉᵒⁿᵃˢᵐ Elrond: What? Me: Hm?

i think my allergic reaction to "whimsy" suddenly being the word du jour is that it feels like corporate branding. it's just another version of cottagecore or dark academia or w/e, they're Aesthetics that people buy their way into & it just doesn't feel genuine. can we get actual personalities maybe

the thing about genAI is that it could look amazing and be trained in the most ethical ways and not be the product of ghoulish megacorporations and i would still not use it for the same reason home bakers don't just buy their muffins from the supermarket: because i fucking like doing the work

i dislike the notion that "things have to be difficult to be valuable" as a counterpoint to AI, because ime most of the stressors that make my work difficult are the result of capitalism and ableism, not the work itself