The Design Document For Asura Pulled From The Wayback Machine. Fun Insights Into Their Design And Society,

i stayed up way too late drawing him too, i'm a goner

been runnin around as this guy a lot lately and that kicked me into finishing a few sketches I had lying around.

this is gallahan! mirage. ex-inquest genetic engineer who was tasked with splicing, removing, and/or adding genes/phenotypes/DNA to different animals all for the sake of seeing what (usually horrible things) would happen. did this for a long while before deciding 'actually hey this kinda sucks' and promptly leaving his job. didn't realize that you can't just up and leave the inquest and was surprised, offended, a little bit flattered, etc when the inquest started sending assassins after him. he's lost count of how many attempts on his life he's managed to thwart.

now spends most of his time in rata sum as a veterinarian.

Art dump of rat college days (ft. @valiant-portabella-pirkko's Ruju to the right with the kitty nose 😻)

Smaller segments and tiny wysma lore below!

Wys is ~15 here, running on the assumption that Asuran college = highschool years (Taimi was 13ish when she began studying)

We don't get a lot of insight into college culture, but if it's full of teenagers, it's full of teenage drama. Wysma doesn't learn how to be assertive- or confident- until much later, so he gets pushed around a bit 😌

Every now and again I force myself to do some lineart to feel a bit more proficient in doing so.  Behold, the bringers of chaos, my inquest siblings Zedd & Zett!

It's not every day you get to witness two elder dragons.

Or the end of the world.

She's finished 🖤✨️

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So, Discord has added a feature that lets other people "enhance" or "edit" your images with different AI apps. It looks like this:

Currently, you can't opt out from this at all. But here's few things you can do as a protest.

FOR SERVERS YOU ARE AN ADMIN IN

Go to Roles -> @/everyone roles -> Scroll all the way down to External Apps, and disable it. This won't delete the option, but it will make people receive a private message instead when they use it, protecting your users:

You should also make it a bannable offense to edit other user's images with AI. Here's how I worded it in my server, feel free to copypaste:

Do not modify other people's images with AI under ANY circumstances, such as with the Discord "enhancement" features, amidst others. This is a bannable offense.

COMPLAIN TO DISCORD

There's few ways to go around this. First, you can go to https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/requests/new , select Help and Support -> Feedback/New Feature Request, and write your message, as seen in the screenshot below.

For the message, here's some points you can bring up:

Concerns about harassment (such as people using this feature to bully others)

Concerns about privacy (concerns on how External Apps may break privacy or handle the data in the images, and how it may break some legislations, such as GDPR)

Concerns about how this may impact minors (these features could be used with pictures of irl minors shared in servers, for deeply nefarious purposes)

BE VERY CLEAR about "I will refuse to buy Nitro and will cancel my subscription if this feature remains as it is", since they only care about fucking money

Word them as you'd like, add onto them as you need. They sometimes filter messages that are copypasted templates, so finding ways to word them on your own is helpful.

ADDING: You WILL NEED to reply to the mail you receive afterwards for the message to get sent to an actual human! Otherwise it won't reach anyone

UNSUSCRIBE FROM NITRO

This is what they care about the most. Unsuscribe from Nitro. Tell them why you unsuscribed on the way out. DO NOT GIVE THEM MONEY. They're a company. They take actions for profit. If these actions do not get them profit, they will need to backtrack. Mass-unsuscribing from WOTC's DnD beyond forced them to back down with the OGL, this works.

LEAVE A ONE-STAR REVIEW ON THE APP

This impacts their visibility on the App store. Write why are you leaving the one-star review too.

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Regardless of your stance on AI, I think we can agree that having no way for users to opt out of these pictures is deeply concerning, specially when Discord is often used to share selfies. It's also a good time to remember internet privacy and safety- Maybe don't post your photos in big open public servers, if you don't want to risk people doing edits or modifications of them with AI (or any other way). Once it's posted, it's out of your control.

Anyways, please reblog for visibility- This is a deeply concerning topic!

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When you have places to be and a world to save but your newborn daughter is clingy and also 2x bigger than you are

alga doodles because their face is tricky and i'm hardly ever happy with it after the inks are done. they aren't outwardly emotive most of the time.

hmmm this is the obnoxious captions zone so let's do some facts.

mainly used their mesmer abilities for magitech engineering before HoT, rarely fought with magic-- only for emergency escapes and the like

"knives" first manifested in verdant brink as wonky shards, refined in shape/stability over the years

weaponsmith of the group (and also my actual weaponsmith lol)

prolific and extremely chaotic notebook-filler

frog-lookin mfer