Heard a historian talk about Jeanne d'Arc recently, and how before being recognized as a saint by the catholic church, left-wing groups also saw her as a symbol (victim of religious persecution, from a modest background, etc...), but after, it was only right-wing traditionalist that did due to her new ties with the church. I theorize that Jormal is right-wing Jeanne, but Jalter is left-wing, who became distinct figures in the throne of heroes.
if you haven’t kept track of what’s happened with twitter, elon fucked the servers so you can only read 600 posts. scrolled and posted for 5 minutes and im locked out. this rules lol
the kingdom of saudi arabia sovreign wealth fund invested billions of dollars in helping elon buy twitter because the crown prince of saudi arabia is a moron. if elon ever visits the middle east they’re gonna grind him into hamburger
Let’s look at it! For those who missed it, this is the image in question:
we already have a bad habit of disconnecting this sort of over the top high fantasy work from its creators (Angus McBride, Dave Mattingly, etc), which makes it easy to pass around in a memetic manner and kind of forget it’s art in the first place. We tend to think of it almost as clipart, something generic, thomas kincade for people who play d&d. this makes it easily replicable and ripe for misuse, because people are less likely to seek out the source for something that already feels familiar and ubiquitous– surely this is just public domain stuff, right?
Well, of course not. These days its easier than ever to just slap in a prompt that gives you something ALMOST familiar but not able to be meaningfully reverse searched, and that’s how you end up with the current crisis on print sites and sellers like craggyscorner dot com, from where this image comes.
So how can you tell the familiar from the outright false? Some of the other images on the site this is from have better examples, but I’ll stick with this one. Here are a few things to spot!
1.) I’ll get the meaty, weird hand out of the way first. Hands aren’t a reliable tell every time, but the fucked-up little thumb makes this one nice and obvious for us.
2.) There is hair randomly visible despite his being hooded; the ripples of the fabric and the hair also seem to merge.
3.) The columns do not match in pattern or width, nor do the capitals on them make any sense. The brickwork also follows no pattern– mistakes not made by someone of this ostensible rendering skill.
4.) His knees extend way, way far out from his body and he appears to have three of them.
5.) This is a big one: AI struggles with defining edges on things, and often contours edges of background items to warp and match ones in the foreground– think of how edited instagram photos warp bricks behind the subject. The visual is similar to that. This can be seen to a lesser degree in many places on the image, such as the book by the hand, or the bricks along his backside.
6.) Escher architecture. Again, not a professional mistake.
7.) ?????? He does not appear to have feet. The image politely fudges itself behind the text.
8.) Lastly, the robes are just a mess. AI doesn’t really understand seams, or layers, or really how clothes work at all, which is how he ends up with what appears to be two hoods and a chiffon wrap around his waist. The folds and shadows are busy enough to be believable at a glance but they hide that nothing appears to look…. correct.
Also just for fun I tried to do my most charitable drawover of his anatomy. Yeah.
Can you spot more problems? You probably can.
The book is some kind of non euclidean folding nightmare with three open pages too
disgusting that middle school girls googling ‘real powerful magic spells’ will now get glamour and teen vogue articles full of sponsored links to amazon crystals as the top results instead of a homemade website with deadly serious instructions for how to turn yourself into a vampire
Like I've said before they believe the Antichrist will take over the world specifically by creating world peace and paradise so that everyone will trust him as a global dictator. This is why they called Obama the antichrist, because he said he wanted to end war. They believe the world is meant to fall into ruin and anyone planning to end violence or poverty is working for the devil.
Hey y’all film crew member here. For those of you asking, they’re running like that to stay out of the shot. For us crew we TRY OUR HARDEST TO NOT GET FILMED. IT’S IMPORTANT. It’s like playing the floor is lava but with a side of “you’re fired” if you lose too many times. We’ll do anythING to not be seen. Duck around corners, dive under tables, jump in the bushes, assume fetal position on the floor, climb trees, get in the robot, hide in the trojan horse, become a vampire, you fuckin name it. My fav game while watching a movie is “guess where the crew is hiding in this shot” it’s great fun you should try it. The only problem in this particular shot is there is nowhere to hide except behind the camera which IS MOVING REALLY FAST. Why they didn’t just leave the room I have no idea. it could be any number of reasons. Time, lack of proper equipment, need to supervise/direct, etc. The real question is how the hell did Gaga not fucking lose it seeing a herd of film nerds scamper desperately in circles behind the camera
Humans have some of the most extreme hair variation over their bodies in the animal kingdom, with hair on some parts of our body a few millimetres long and fine enough to be almost invisible, and hair in other parts a good metre long if not artificially trimmed. Part of the inside of our mouths are turned out to make our lips bright red, we have comically oversized breasts and lack penis bones to make erections more indicative of impressive circulation, and have some of the most complex behavioural adaptations to self-ornamentation for courtship seen in anything that doesn’t spend half its life collecting blue bottle caps. How much ornamentation do you want?
This ended up being 2 3/4 inches wide by 36 FEET LONG.
The 2 3/4 inch width was chosen because that's the same width as a pretty average phone screen, and I wanted to know how physically far you have to scroll to get past this post.
also dont tell my boss that I got into the art gallery before we opened just to set up this rainbow CVS receipt looking motherfucker. in my defense i literally couldn't find any other location that was long enough to show this off
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