Silas-kai - Myura

PREVIEWS OF THE YOI CALENDAR !!! (x)

Everyone on Tumblr rn

@rainbowsburningstars

HAPPY 20TH ANNIVERSARY TO YUGIOH :D I hope the fandom parties hard today <3 

What you see above are basically most of the things I’ve been collecting for the past 15 years, since my first experience was the English dub! I have more stuff, but obviously I didn’t want to abuse the image post.

I mean come on, I’m sure at one point in our lives, we were all like Yugi. The one that didn’t fit in or constantly got bullied or didn’t have friends. This show despite all the tedious card games showed us that no matter how tough things get, there will always be some one that cares about you. Whether its your siblings, parents, or friends. The original Japanese dub made that a prevalent plot in the entire series. Hell all these characters had a goal, whether it was through dueling or other means. 

Yuugi wanted friends. Atem wanted to find out who was. Anzu wanted to be a dancer.    Jounochi wanted to be with his sister. Honda wanted to be a pilot.  Seto wanted to provide for his little brother. 

Not to mention besides all the card games, this series dealt with a lot of heavy themes. Especially abuse  and death. These characters were all children - teenagers yes - but the fact was these were still children dealing with trauma and trying to be strong every step of the way. 

Thank you Kazuki Takashi for giving us all these lovable in depth characters and for a card game that will never end :D 

Thank you for giving me my second and third anime husbando. These two idiots lol 

Thank you for giving me my very first online friend ever @cheshirecat423 xD We are besties because of this awesome show <3 

Thank you for giving me awesome tumblr friends @zelka94 @hiramiyugioh

and for ships that have forever sank DX 

Except for this one rofl 

Here’s hoping that the English dub of Darkside of Dimensions is good. 

Enjoy all the awesome gifs that made this series great :D 

Enjoy the ending we never got in the English dub :D Happy 20th and many more awesome card games to come. 

To my awesome friend TWO!

In the Holiday mood.

Good grief I'm already for Christmas.

For everyone’s information:

The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.

To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.

On the 17th, dead silence.

People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.

But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.

What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’

A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.

If you want to join in, here’s what to do:

Do:

Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th

Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad

Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion

Come back on the 18th and check in

Don’t:

Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)

Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.

Open the app or website (including specific blogs)

Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)

Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.

Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.

Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.

There’s a protest going on against AI art over on artstation, so I feel like now is the time for me to make a statement on this issue! 

I wholeheartedly support the ongoing protest against AI art. Why? Because my artwork is included in the datasets used to train these image generators without my consent. I get zero compensation for the use of my art, even though these image generators cost money to use, and are a commercial product. 

Musicians are not being treated the same way. Stability has a music generator that only uses royalty free music in their dataset. Their words: “Because diffusion models are prone to memorization and overfitting, releasing a model trained on copyrighted data could potentially result in legal issues.” Why is the work of visual artists being treated differently?

Many have compared image generators to human artists seeking out inspiration. Those two are not the same. My art is literally being fed into these generators through the datasets, and spat back out of a program that has no inherent sense of what is respectful to artists. As long as my art is literally integrated into the system used to create the images, it is commercial use of my art without my consent.

Until there is an ethically sourced database that compensates artists for the use of their images, I am against AI art. I also think platforms should do everything they can to prevent scraping of their content for these databases. 

Artists, speak out against this predatory practice! Our art should not be exploited without our consent, and we deserve to be compensated when our art is exploited for commercial use. 

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