Yep, 100%. I believe in the notion "when someone tells you what they need, you do it". I want to support artists, and artists both big and small have been resoundingly clear that they reject AI art and are begging the public not to feed into it. (I think you would be hard-pressed to find many established artists who are OK with AI and their art being used as a model for someone else to profit.)

For me, it is truly as simple as respecting the wishes of actual artists, who know best. If you aren't inclined to do the same, then we have a VERY different idea of what supporting someone (or a collective) looks like. That is ultimately up to the individual to reckon with.

Using art without credit or art that an artist has explicitly said not to repost is wrong. I think the community is getting better about this but we have a ways to go. ALL of us can still do a lot better about it, I absolutely speak for myself as well.

That said, you cannot compare reposting art without credit (wrong) to paying money into a company (that includes using a 'free' app/service with ads) that is stealing (actually stealing) art en mass to reproduce its style meanwhile artists protest and unionize against it. If you repost art without credit, you're being shitty-- if you use AI art, you're actively contributing to taking away artists' livelihoods on the whole. If you're alright with more and more of our consumed content being AI generated, then I guess that the behavior makes sense. This is pretty basic stuff that every single artist you admire has spoken up against.

Seems like the same people saying "both sides are bad" are simply the people who commonly utilize AI art. Just own the fact that you don't support artists and stop pretending that you care about both issues being wrong.


P.S. yep, fully support the idea of a credit field on PP. Will make like Irene and add the credits for my own hover/pfp to my signature today as well. Thanks for sparking a convo on that so more of us credit properly. :thumbsup:

plans... schemes, even.

that is SUCHHHH a cute idea you're a genius

because alaska is always shown on american maps in the lower left corner (in a box) next to hawaii, i thought that alaska was an island near hawaii for some time as a child...

then someone told me it was on the canadian border and i was like ?!

huge supporter of small group rps as someone who spent a lottt of time in the 1 on 1 world. hope you find the players you're looking for, this looks awesome!!

i'd probably do okay with one of the models-only irl fc sites... but i have a harder time separating real life people from a character. i don't really watch anime / play many anime-inspired games, so i typically don't know face claims outside of the character. plus if you're using fan art, especially commissioned art, you can get really far from the face claim & become a unique character. the aesthetics of animanga sites also appeal to me more -- less to hovers/images and more the skins and vibes.

irl roleplay communities are cool though, i used to do 1x1s in that sect.

everyone loves talking abt wlw until it's time to write wlw

i think i accomplished most of my 2023 goals... some more than others. it's been an insanely busy year (and mostly for good reasons!) so roleplay has had to find a new place in my life. i'm not able to post crazy amounts of threads with every character i love on a site (which sucks, because i love all of them on the site i'm currently on), but it's also been a good outlet to focus on when i need a couple hours to drill down into something that doesn't have super serious stakes.

- keep my peace. think a big part of 2023 was finding it, even though it wasn't explicitly a goal for this year. lbr for a split second, sometimes being in the roleplay community comes with so much irrelevant & unnecessary shit that it makes you feel sick. i've been free of that and it's made writing so much more fulfilling.

- strike a proper balance between quality & consistency. i feel like i can get stuck in the habit of only wanting to do joke threads when i'm stressed/busy, and only writing serious prose when i have hours free to sit and comtemplate it. there's definitely a compromise that's possible when it comes to being comfortable uploading "imperfect" posts that are still serious/full of effort. in general i am Not Great about having muse when life is hectic, but there's been times when taking an hour or two daily to write despite everything was really important to keeping me level.

- read more... this is the first year i didn't really have time to set a real reading goal and stick to it. but how much/whether or not you read really does show in your writing, and i think mine has kinda suffered for that this year oops lol. part of this is that i've been busy and part of it is that i don't like to spend a ton of time alone irl, which doesn't leave much room for reading.

- make even more long-lasting friendships. has been a great part of roleplaying for the last two years... the start of 2024 will mark two years since i returned to forum rp! there's still a lot of realms of the community idk, and more progression to be made with the people i've met.


ok some less vague wishy-washy goals:

- character death. either my own or participating in the death of someone close to my own character. this is, like, the dream to write isn't it...

- follow all the way through on an overarching plot. lots of things set up this year... think making a lot of progress at least is possible in 2024.

- stick to having a second character and make her actually... relevant for once. i'm awful about writing more than one character but i really like my current alt so... gotta power thru. (idk how people maintain 4-5 characters at once, you astound me...)

- wedding(?) wedding? write a ... wedding?

i've actually known about this for a little while but there is an rp character out there with my full legal name (not very common) on a site i've never been on.... the whiplash I got witnessing that

being able to feel free/safe enough to explore new things writing is such a blessing fr... very grateful for this year.

... & looking forward to 2024! (someone said something about the goals thread...?!)

glee....