KILL AI AND REBLOG AND CREATE ART IN 2026

i am. and you are not

somehow i've never drawn beloved playing her instruments so! sad amber flute time

-- Ted Chiang, from "Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art"

Look, it's... Oh I haven't got this worded out properly yet. It's got to be about the whole world. A global economy means that fixing the economy must be global. And I don't mean this in some noble way. It's very literal.

There is very little difference between my making flameworked beads in the US and an artisan making them in Java, save that they're being paid pennies to work in unsafe conditions for long hours. They're also skilled. The tools are the same. But you can buy their products at Michael's for a small fraction of what I have to charge in order to make any money at all. That will continue to be true so long as they're being taken advantage of and so long as their currency is worth so much less than mine.

Flameworked beads, like crochet, are always made by hand. My competition isn't machines. It's extractive business policies and practices that don't care about people or their environment. So long as businesses are permitted to do that, they will.

This isn't about making beads. It's about all of it. I'm just trying to eat dinner and have a thought.

TL;DR, if companies can undercut workers in your country by abusing workers in a poorer country, both of you will continue to lose. So long as there are places in the world where companies can ignore health and safety, basic rights, fair compensation, or environmental "externalities", we all pay. So long as we allow companies to just go to another country to avoid regulations, the regulations will be far less effective. So long as we let rich people accumulate obscene amounts of money, the power that gives them threatens us all.

Lol I also worked at Michael's. Yeah. Mmm.

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First Post!

I deleted my old tumblr because... man idk why it was covid-times and the prefrontal cortex was not in the room with us!! Anyways, I was reminded by my lovely friend @repecca that tumblr exists, and that some of my work has been going around on here, so I decided to post some of my work up officially! Starting off with my most notable (?) work to date, here's my LOTR: The Middle Kingdom Project. Now, it's been over a year since I posted this, and at the time I was... really searchingfor myself artistically, and I decided to go all in on something that I'd been ruminating on for a long time.

So, hello, again. I'm Leia. I do visual development/BG design, and I'm also a writer of things. I love fantasy and transformative work. It's nice to meet you.

r800 2.0 !!!!! :0!!

Where's the African mythology?

The Kickstarter is live now!

a good idea!

poster i did for my partners motw campaign + alt colors :3

so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with 'nsfw', 'adult', or 'erotic' so they don't show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning

you know, maybe the internet shouldn’t be controlled by payment processors and terf lobbyists. and maybe people should be more concerned about this rise of censorship on queer media.

just to help spread accurate and helpful info about this as much as possible.

itch have less than 25 employees, and are just the latest target of a long running campaign to get payment processors to crack down on NSFW and LGBTQIA+ content (which the right wing hate campaigns see as one and the same) please blame itch as little as possible, yes they capitulated here, but they have very little power in this arrangement and have always been on the right side in the past. Hell, Steam have also complied, and they have way more power, and way more revenue from NSFW games, if they could have fought back they would have done. this is not a betrayal from itch, no matter how disappointing it may be.

the group claiming responsibility here are "Collective Shout" who claim it took roughly 1000 phonecalls to mastercard to get them to comply. They have the current admin and culture war momentum on their side, but we have way more than 1000 people on ours.

Mastercard (US): +1-914 249-2000 Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111 Visa (US + Can): +1 (650) 432-3200 Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440 PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000

Mastercard (Aus): 1800-120-113 Mastercard (US): 1-800-307-7309 Mastercard (UK): 0800-96-4767

there are also some petitions gaining momentum, but phonecalls are probably going to be more effective in this case.

https://www.change.org/p/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups-stop-controlling-what-we-can-watch-read-or-play

https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

This is a big blow for comic artists, who have vanishingly few venues left to post work with adult content (and remember, the groups responsible for this don't distinguish between "nsfw" and "queer") for sale online.

It's gotten demonstrably worse over the past decade, and right wing groups and credit card processors are the ones responsible.