Checking The Etalon Horse Genetics Database Start Of Every Month Just To Make Sure They Haven't Found

An MLP AU? In this day and age? It's more likely than you think.

I also drew a version with the academy uniform and started on Viktor, but I ended up overwhelmed by the work, so, here's Just Jayce. Thoughts below, and stuff.

Jayce "Forged-Future" of House Talis

Mule with historic unicorn ancestry on his maternal side, which effects a lot when he started screwing around with raw magic and his X gene starts bit-flipping his alleles.

They get a personal name, a ceremonial name which is used unless you're friends, and a house name here, yay.

Bay with a minimal amount of tobiano expression. E/_ | A/_ | TO/n are his exact genetics, but that doesn't matter because:

Completely sterile due to his donkey/horse heritage, which he is debatably a result of procreation tourism of. I have 5k of world building for this, no I will not get into it now.

Talent-Marked after undiluted exposure to the arcane in the mountains. Talent-Mark form directly granted from Mage-Viktor, who only effected its creation form because he knows adult Jayce's talent-mark, which is only what it is because—you get the point: Jayvik Bootstap Paradox.

Chionophobic, as a treat.

Self-conscious about his ears. I'm sure he will do nothing drastic to them in about *checks watch* seven years.

Name and mark from @ / doe-drawz bc finding her mlp arcane art sent me on this spiral lmao.

Pixel art for my friend prince-liest's "Fire", he's a wonderfully detailed dragon that I had a great time working on!

The sun and the moon (Reibert edition)

AI DISTURBANCE "OVERLAYS" DO NOT WORK!

To all the artists and folks who want to protect their art against AI mimicry: all the "AI disturbance" overlays that are circulating online lately DON'T WORK!

Glaze's disturbance (and now the Ibis Paint premium feature, apparently. Not sure.) modifies the image on a code-level, it's not just an overlayed effect but it actually affects the image's data so AI can't really detect and interpret the code within the image. From the Glaze website:

Can't you just apply some filter, compression, blurring, or add some noise to the image to destroy image cloaks? As counterintuitive as this may be, the high level answer is that no simple tools work to destroy the perturbation of these image cloaks. To make sense of this, it helps to first understand that cloaking does not use high-intensity pixels, or rely on bright patterns to distort the image. It is a precisely computed combination of a number of pixels that do not easily stand out to the human eye, but can produce distortion in the AI's “eye.” In our work, we have performed extensive tests showing how robust cloaking is to things like image compression and distortion/noise/masking injection. Another way to think about this is that the cloak is not some brittle watermark that is either seen or not seen. It is a transformation of the image in a dimension that humans do not perceive, but very much in the dimensions that the deep learning model perceive these images. So transformations that rotate, blur, change resolution, crop, etc, do not affect the cloak, just like the same way those operations would not change your perception of what makes a Van Gogh painting "Van Gogh."

Anyone can request a WebGlaze account for FREE, just send an Email or a DM to the official Glaze Project accounts on X and Instagram, they reply within a few days. Be sure to provide a link to your art acc (anywhere) so they know you're an artist.

Please don't be fooled by those colorful and bright overlays to just download and put on your art: it won't work against AI training. Protect your art with REAL Glaze please 🙏🏻 WebGlaze is SUPER FAST, you upload the artwork and they send it back to you within five minutes, and the effect is barely visible!

Official Glaze Project website | Glaze FAQs | about WebGlaze

Gang, I don't think anything will be topping a user having to explain the concept of a 3D shape to a mod

Whenever I need my blood pressure raising, I go to the skin and accent problems forum thread and read the rejection reasons

I feel like you guyz will like this :) i put a lot of effort into their names and color pallets and cutie marks . my current hyperfix with my first real hyperfix :) makes me happyy

chatterbox

Are any of my followers fluent in Russian? If you are, would you be willing to translate a few short things (like under 30 words) for a chapter of a fic of mine?

I'm happy to credit you for helping in the notes of the work ^^

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

i promised you 🦋

(crossposting from x, bsky, & ig)