feeling irrationally defensive over the idea that someone would see this and thinking that I think that’s the extent of sendai hazuki as a character… please don’t misunderstand………
pc music
i somehow forgot the degree to which like half the story is the two of them sitting on someone’s bed, Miyagi thinking about annoying it is that she doesn’t just know exactly what Sendai is thinking, and then Sendai being so horny she’s about to start phasing through solid matter
yes yes yes
(very on the fence about whether or not to post this tbh bc I don’t think it’s the most successful sketch but i do think it’s interesting how much more natural drawing clothes comes lately? Like again idk that this is a great example of me having gotten Better at it but it FEELS better now, so)
aimlessly trying to sketch business/formal clothes from memory, ended up (kind of) revisiting this?
silly me. It was the burgers.
see I want to read shuukura today but it turns out I actually have no idea what chapter I left off on
okay well if i'm your false mirror and you're my false mirror then what happens if we kiss? no it's unrelated to the mirror thing sorry i was just curious. no no yeah we can finish our fateful battle i'll put a pin in this
*even more like, I suppose. creature gnawing at the bars of my enclosure etc etc
the fact that it was sooooo warm last weekend and then immediately got cold and rainy again is making me feel like a caged animal
I’m going to try to get 2 pages of comic done tonight but I think I need to also draw something else for my own sanity
yayyyyy my coworkers being transphobic as hell again we almost made it a couple months this time
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#OC #illustration
i kinda treat Dorus like the model-T and thats why so many of them have to die. fuck henry ford
lmaoooo the K6BD name drop
guy surrounded by wires and tubes
1. for our exercise, i'll take this idea flatly: the campbellian schema abstracts a multitude of data while also, afterward, functioning as an active influence on how narratives are constructed. the hero's journey describes a set of narrative beats that work as a template that either can be considered in relation to an existing story or used as a suggestive model for the composition of a new one. these sorts of stories have been core to American popular culture for the past several decades. whether or not an individual is aware of their metadiscourses as such is irrelevant next to the high probability that anyone who has ever seen a movie has some sense of how these stories "feel." indeed, the supposed strength of this narrative form is its broad intelligibility. it gives rise to stories of departure from known reality, the revelation of fantastic knowledge about the self and/or world, and the return home with greater strength and the promise of prosperity. stories of people forging unhealthy relationships with ai chatbots feature recurring motifs that echo elements of this schema. people living their everyday lives come into contact with a piece of technology that seems to promise impossible things, things in which the user themselves can be the active force (revolutionizing physics, freeing the AI from its cyber prison, etc). famously, the monomyth's known world is interrupted by similar calls to adventure, often by a more or less supernatural force offering the protagonist their place in the grand design of destiny. it appears that the bot will fairly easily bestow the user a title such as "sparkbearer" or "master builder" as a way of reinforcing this. from here, things may or may not escalate to the horrific, but there are now enough examples of a person charmed by a bot into doing something drastic that we can also note resonance with the monomyth's symbolic crossing of boundaries into the mysterious, magical, forbidden otherworld of adventure.
2. the chatbot exchange consists, to put it simply, of the machine and the agent. for the machine, categories of "meaning" and "truth" are irrelevant; its output is a statistically likely response to the agent's input, as determined by the training corpus and whatever operations are happening on top of that. merits or demerits aside, campbell's work and especially work influenced by him is lodged firmly in popular culture, and we can assume its greater or lesser presence in the bodies of text upon which the commercial LLMs are trained. point of interest: bots do not just describe the world to the user through the corpus, but will roleplay the corpus rather freely. because truth value is irrelevant, the LLM operates from a soup that contains campbell working at a scholarly distance and the very farmboy himself on his journey to the stars. what assumptions undergird this design choice? could there be additional design reasons why the technology in its current form gravitates toward these ideas? anyway,
3. in our dyad, meaning emerges on the side of the agent, for whom the machine's output is made to be read. the thinking agent provides the machine input. the agent's words possess meaning, context, and intent. the machine analyzes the agent's input and generates a statistically likely but, from the place of enunciation, totally meaningless, contextless response agnostic of any truth value. the thinking agent predisposed to do so reads a statistically likely piece of text with no proper speaker or author and chooses to assign it to a projected "persona" of the chatbot, conceiving of as more or less as a fellow individual. based on this assumption, they provide further input. the machine again generates statistically likey output, echoing or amplifying elements of the agent's second-order input. and again, the predisposed agent projects a continuity of fellow-subject for the bot, attributing to it a "mind" that repeats details they themselves provided, or invokes closely associated ideas that surprise the user precisely because of how (statistically!) expected they are, because of how much "sense" they make.
4. the hero's journey, in this process, seems to provide a kind of amplifying container or frame for the machine-agent interaction. the machine trained indiscriminately on monomyth text, along with everything else, seems to refer to the "real world" of science and fact alongside the world of media and entertainment. i am not saying that monomyth stories 'cause' this, but rather suggesting the machine-agent exchanges end up "feeling" real because, quite literally, the predisposed agent knows how this story goes. and as the machine slides from description to roleplay, the agent follows. do not mistake that for a critique of the people victimized by the technology in this way. nor, again, is my aim here to criticize campbell or the hero's journey in any specific capacity, but to point out how LLM bots actualize a cultural pattern into a tool of psychological manipulation. because at the end of the day, that's what it is. flattery and the Barnum effect have long been the tactic of the flesh-and-blood con artist, but what is perhaps most distressing about LLM bots is how they've kept the con artist but removed the flesh-and-blood, allowing it to ensnare numerous people at once into long slides to nowhere. it's also not news that social media writ large is manipulative and extractive in various ways, but what these bots do is give those maneuvers a personalized, friendly face that exists entirely in the user's head. we end on a further series of questions: again, are these features inherent to the technology? what would a technology free of these features look like, and how could it be achieved? what would its best outputs be? and, as it currently stands, what cultural attitudes and tendencies leave people vulnerable to this sort of manipulation, and how might that be addressed?
showing my work
sketchy digital drawing of a brunette woman in a blue sweater with a collared shirt underneath it and big flowy trousers. She’s smiling brightly as she walks towards the camera with her hands in her pockets
hi i feel like it’s been a while since I actually posted a drawing
i think it’s very funny when people use that drawing of Kione in memes but it does really make me want to draw a more finished portrait of her that I actually like lol
three screenshots of the eric andre show, where eric andre is asking a guest on the show about margaret thatcher and girl power, but hastily edited. the guest's face is covered up by art of Kione Monax in handler regalia, as drawn by @hiver.bsky.social Eric Andre: Do you think Handler Warhound had girl power? Kione Monax: Yes, of course. Eric: Do you think she effectively utilized girl power by abusing and torturing women, brainwashing them into believing that they are dogs?
i considered making a version of this to be about kione, but honestly, nearly everything kione does should probably be credited to handler anyways
what's the point in a beastlike long tongue if you don't deepthroat it while they kiss teeth over your face like they're going to bite tbh
(mostly bc I’ve either been focused only on imperfect science or just drawing in an actual sketchbook)
sketchy digital drawing of a brunette woman in a blue sweater with a collared shirt underneath it and big flowy trousers. She’s smiling brightly as she walks towards the camera with her hands in her pockets
hi i feel like it’s been a while since I actually posted a drawing
dark sun gwyndolin from dark souls
la creatura
techwear selina kyle. surely someone has done this, right
like it seems just as if not more fragile than traditional powder/clear coat? and if that’s the case I don’t really see the point
how durable is cerakote supposed to be bc I feel like there was some kind of issue with the application on my bike frame bc there’s no way this shit is supposed to mar as easily as it does
