So, given Twitter is trying to use your content to train Grok, this is the best reason possible to kill your account there, because even though you can turn this stuff off, for now, what's stopping Adolf Musk from pulling an Adobe and turning this stuff on permanently, basically using your content to train Grok against your will, with no opt-out?

You'll be a lot better off moving your content to Mastodon or even ATproto (as in a third-party PDS such as Blacksky or even a self-hosted PDS, not bsky.social which is controlled by Bsky corporate and their questionable moderation choices) in terms of having actual control over it.

A crayon drawing of the Pikachu family making holiday art. Pikachu painted a snowy daytime scene with a tree in it and is showing it off for the fictional camera, while Pichu is painting a snowman set against a night scene, and Raichu is making a paper tree. There are various art supplies scattered on the table with glitter spills of assorted colors as well. In the background is a paper tree decorated with pawprints, a pawprint antler reindeer, and a paper snowman.

This was photographed through a Lumix GF2 with a cheap M4/3 35mm prime lens mounted to it that I'm going to be messing around with for the foreseeable future when photographing any more art.

#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pikachu #pichu #raichu #crayons #crayonart #traditionalart #lumixgf2 #microfourthirds

A mixed-media drawing of Hamtaro, Bijou, and Penelope playing in Mega Bloks laid out like a 'city' of sorts.

This was drawn using Crayola markers and Arteza brush pens, with watercolors also layered onto the characters and for Hamtaro and Bijou's eye reflections, and was photographed through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f4.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it, and I added a Polachrome sim filter to it.

#cute #cuteart #hamtaro #bijouhamtaro #penelopehamtaro #hamtaroart #crayola #arteza #crayolamarkers #artezabrushpens #watercolors #mixedmediaart #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #polachrome #polachromesim #vintagelenses

So, this just came up in my mind, but this is kinda sad to think about; as of 2021, when Embracer bought out Dark Horse, out of all the major comic houses in the US, the only one left who's still independent is Image, as DC is owned by WB/Netflix, Marvel is owned by Disney, and as of 2021, Dark Horse is owned by Embracer.

If any industry needs more indie publishing houses like Image, it's the Western comic industry.

A mixed-media painting of a pair of squirrels engaged in a snowball fight with a third just chilling next to a tree.

There are a couple snowmen in the scene too.

This was painted with watercolor and then I layered crayons on top of that, including glitter crayons in attempt to simulate shimmer from sunlight reflecting on snow, and I went with a purple sky because I thought it was cuter than a gray sky.

This was photographed through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens and it had a Polachrome sim filter applied to it.

#cute #cuteart #cuteanimals #squirrels #squirrelart #watercolors #crayons #mixedmediaart #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #polachrome #polachromesim #vintagelenses

It started snowing here in Lawton. This was photographed through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens and I applied a Polaroid 590 5++ film sim filter to it.

#eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #polaroidsim #snow

A marker and watercolor crayon drawing of Hamtaro and Bijou playing around a cardboard gingerbread playhouse.

This was drawn in Arteza brush pens and Crayola Signature watercolor crayons, and photographed through an EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon FD 35-70mm f4 zoom lens mounted to it.

#cute #cuteart #hamtaro #bijou #hamtaroandbijou #hamtaroart #markers #markerart #arteza #artezabrushpens #watercolorcrayons #watercolorcrayonart #crayola #crayolasignature #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintagelenses

A crayon drawing of a pair of pet mice playing on a craft table during a holiday-themed craft night with their caretakers. Scattered across the table are various craft projects that kids did, ranging from a pair of paper tree decorations; one decorated with glitter for tinsel and ornaments, and the other decorated with handprints and glitter for ornaments, a paper circle ornament decorated with glitter, a paper reindeer with blue handprint antlers, and a pinecone tree, as well as various art supplies and random glitter spills.

This was photographed with an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it.

#cute #cuteanimals #cuteart #mouse #mouseart #crayons #crayonart #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #vivitarseries1 #canonfd #vintagelenses

A marker and watercolor crayon drawing of Pichu and Raichu making a winter-themed collage collab featuring themselves engaged in a snowball fight in their playroom. They're surrounded by assorted colors of construction paper that have all had shapes cut out of them, and there's also two pairs of scissors and a couple bottles of glue next to them, both of them having been spilled out on the floor.

I also gave my new watercolor crayons a try for this one, in addition to using my Crayola markers.

This was drawn with a combination of Crayola markers and watercolor crayons, and it was photographed with an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19.35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount lens mounted to it.

#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pichu #raichu #watercolorcrayons #watercolorcrayonart #markers #crayolamarkers #markerart #crayola #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintagelenses

An oil pastel drawing of a pair of pet mice playing with ball ornaments that fell on the floor as the tree is being trimmed.

This was photographed with an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount zoom lens mounted to it.

#cute #cuteanimals #cuteart #mouse #mouseart #oilpastels #oilpastelart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #vintagelenses

A crayon drawing of a pair of pet mice playing in a tree as it's being trimmed. The brown mouse is playing in the tree while the white mouse is giggling at him in the foreground.

In the background are varying colors of tinsel and varying artworks that the mice's caretakers made over time.

There are also some ball ornaments of varying colors strewn about the scene.

This was photographed with an EOS Rebel T3i with a Vivitar Series 1 19-35mm f3.5-4.5 FD-mount lens attached to it, and I fired the flash for this one in an attempt to get the glitter crayons I used to show up in the shot.

#cute #cuteanimals #cuteart #mouse #mouseart #crayons #crayonart #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vivitarseries1 #vintagelenses

A chalk drawing of Pikachu and Buneary holding paws under a tree in the snow. There are snowmen strewn about the scene.

This was photographed with an EOS Rebel T3i with a Canon FD 35-70mm f4 lens mounted to it.

Next time I make any more chalk art, I'm photographing it before fixing it down with hairspray.

#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pikachu #buneary #chalkart #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintagelenses

A marker drawing of a brown pet mouse and a white pet mouse holding paws during a family craft night with their caretakers + an oil pastel drawing of a white pet mouse playing on a desk surrounded by plushies.

#cute #cuteart #mouse #mouseart #markers #markerart #oilpastel #oilpastelart #traditionalart #eosrebelt3i #canonfd #vintagelenses

A chalk drawing of a pair of mice making art; the brown mouse is fingerpainting and is smudged with the paint colors he's using, and the white mouse is drawing a sunny field picture with crayons.

They're in a playroom with various other artwork on the wall.

#cute #cuteart #mouse #mouseart #chalk #chalkart #traditionalart

A chalk drawing of Pichu playing in a leaf pile.

#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pichu #chalk #chalkart #traditionalart

A watercolor painting of a mouse chilling on a desk next to some letter and number blocks.

This was painted on cardboard, mostly by laying the paint on super thick and blending it directly on the substrate.

#cute #cuteart #mouse #mouseart #watercolor #watercolorart #traditionalart

A chalk drawing of a bunny relaxing under a tree.

#cute #cuteart #cuteanimals #bunny #bunnies #bunnyart #chalk #chalkart #traditionalart

A chalk drawing of Hamtaro chilling on a desk, surrounded by Tinker Toys. I missed playing with this medium, but now finally have the chance to since I have hairspray coming in to use as fixative.

Also, apparently sidewalk chalk works really well on cardboard as that's what I used for the foreground and background and some linework.

#cute #cuteart #hamtaro #hamtaroart #chalk #chalkart #traditionalart

A crayon drawing of Pichu dressing Pineco up like a giant, living glitter pinecone ornament, as a cute take on Pineco being a pinecone. Also, the green glitter on and surrounding Pineco and that is on Pichu's paws from throwing it onto Pineco, was actually colored in using a glitter crayon.

The dialogue translates to:

- 'Pichuu!' (Tadaa!)
- 'Pineco! ^^' (I'm a giant glitter pinecone now! ^^)

#cute #cuteart #pokemonart #pichu #pineco #crayonart #crayons #traditionalart

A crayon drawing of a pair of Luvdisc kissing, and also the first drawing where I learned to completely ditch linework when drawing in favor of just shading in solid shapes.

#cute #cuteart #pokemonart #luvdisc #crayons #crayonart #traditionalart

A marker drawing of Pikachu and Buneary doing a fingerpainting collab that I drew as a late entry into octillerink2025's 'Paintress' category, with Buneary being the 'Paintress' in this scene despite a collab being depicted.

#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pikachu #buneary #crayola #crayolamarkers #colpart #markers #octillerink2025 #traditionalart

A crayon drawing of Pichu and Togepi making a giant paper mache egg + a crayon drawing of Pikachu, Buneary, Pichu, and Togepi going puddle stomping during a rain shower.

Also, this is what the dialog translates to for the first drawing:

- 'Piichuuu.... Pichu-pi! >w< (Oooohhh, slimy.... This is fun! >w<)'
- 'Toki-tokiii! ^v^ (Hiii! ^v^)'

#cute #cuteart #pokemon #pokemonart #pichu #pikachu #buneary #togepi #crayonart #crayons

A crayon drawing of Froakie getting caught off guard by an Azurill hitting him with a Watergun attack. I'm currently using this as my desktop wallpaper.

#pokemon #pokemonart #froakie #azurill #crayons #crayonart #traditionalart

These are my current hardware specs as shown by Fastfetch. OS is CachyOS.

#linux #linuxusers #cachyos #archlinux

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