Link is on a quest in the gerudo desert, but thirst and heat could make the bravest hero flinch ...
where are u in the sibling order
oldest
older middle
true middle child
younger middle
youngest
only child
it’s complicated
"Your Favourite Gaming Actors Want You To Stop AI Generating Their Voices"
"Yuri Lowenthal, Roger Clark, and more speak out against AI stealing their voice and image."
Excerpt from the article:
...It isn’t just voice work either. Roger Clark, who portrayed Arthur Morgan through performance capture and voice work in both Red Dead Redemption games, says some studios are already trying to “amass a massive library of motion and performance capture data”, all without the actor's knowledge.
“Many gaming actors have already had to deal with and address having their facial data and mo-cap footage used in perpetuity by gaming studios, even for another game at a much later date,” Clark tells me. “Consumers deserve better than some Frankenstein’d performance.”
Clark doesn’t approve of AI work generated by fans either. “Purposefully misrepresenting another person’s work without their permission to suit your own wants or preferences is highly unethical,” he says. “It is at best defamatory and at worse theft.”
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This boy has been plaguing my mind for thirteen years!
In my decent into comfort character brain rot, I did a deep dive and found that May 9th, 2010 is the oldest date I have recorded of Derek. He could be older than that since I know I've drawn him in an old junior high assignment notebook, but since it's hard to tell what date that could have been I think I'm sticking with May 9th as his creation birthday.
My boy is a teenager! Can't wait to watch him grow up more (TヮT)
Since it's watermelon season!
My grandfather used to grow watermelons, among other things, and he told me about most of this, especially the orange spot. Those are the absolute best!
i have been given nothing but shiny elongated watermelons with small webbings and white spots. and they make me wanna kill myself
My grandfather used to tell me the best watermelons are the ones you steal from the back of a truck so I guess we all learned some watermelon knowledge from our grandfathers
When you know your older sibling has all the chaotic energy, but you also know that if you join their "fun", it would mean the world to them.
Meiji period fashion was some of the best in the world, speaking purely from an aesthetic standpoint you can really see the collision of European and Japanese standards of beauty and how their broad agreement even in particulars (the similarity between Japanese and Gibson girl bouffants, the obi vs the corset, the obi knot vs the bustle, the mutual covetousness for exotic textiles, the feverish swapping of both art styles and subjects) combined and produced some of the most interesting cultural exchange we have this level of documentation for. Europeans were wearing kimono or adapting them into tea gowns, japanese were pairing lacy Edwardian blouses with skirt hakama and little button up boots. haori jackets with bowler hats and European style lapels. if steampunk was any good as an aesthetic it would steal wholesale from the copious records we have in both graphic arts and photography of how people were dressing in this milieu.
«The botany professor,» from Kkokei Shimbun, October 20, 1908.
she's wearing a kimono blouse or haori, edwardian skirt or hakama, gibson girl bouffant, a lacy high-collar blouse with cravat and brooch, and a pocket watch with chain
1910-1930 (Taishō era, right after Meiji, which I should have included in my OP) men's haori with western lapels
I have a love for both kimonos and bustle dresses, so I love seeing how the two fashions influenced each other over this period. And thanks to Pinterest, I have pictures!
Victorian tea gown that clearly started as a kimono. It still has the long furisode sleeves, but now they’re gathered at the shoulder and turned around so that the long open side is facing the front instead of the back. Similarly the back is taken in with curved seams to fit the torso and pleated below that for the skirt.
Woodblock of a woman in a a bustle dress made with colorful patterned fabrics and examples of how a woman could style her hair with it.
More prints to showcase hairstyles, two women wearing western wear and two women wearing kimonos.
This next one’s modern, but it involves hoopskirts so I’ll add it in because it makes me so happy. There’s been different styles of wedding fashion that take kimonos and give them a more modern look. Often this involves taking a kimono and then cutting and resewing it into a new dress. Very pretty, but it can’t ever be worn like a traditional kimono again. But now there’s another trend where the bride wears a hoopskirt with a white skirt, then you take the kimono and drape it on. The back of the kimono covers the front of the dress, the long sleeves fall across the sides or the back, and you still wear an obi with it. The result is pretty and the kimono itself doesn’t have to be altered at all.
And because you mentioned steampunk, I have to add in these two:
Personally I’m a big fan of Taisho Meisen kimono, which are what happen when the Japanese textile industry abruptly gets access to aniline dyes, new spinning and weaving technology, and the concept of Art Deco:
