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HELLO

DNI -

TERFs, Trump supporters, racists, LGBTQ-phobes, exclusionists, MAPs, incest shippers/supporters, NSFW blogs, pro-lifers, N@zis/Antisemites, Islamophobes, generally shitty people (I will update as needed)

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Who am I?

Hi there! You can call me Caelum, Nyx, or Wilbur (and any nicknames based off of those).
- Any/all pronouns
- Quoiromantic asexual and demiplatonic + libragender

I really love getting to know you guys, so don’t be afraid to send asks! Note that I may not respond to DMs if I (a) Haven’t seen you before, or (b) we aren’t mutuals. 

I’m a guitarist and play ukulele. I am very much a minor, so do keep that in mind. I’m desi and absolutely abnormal about it. I write quite a bit and draw even more, but most of it is sad stuff L (hence earning me the title of Angst Dealer).

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Fandoms -

None of note at the moment, but Aru Shah is pretty constant. Also, I post a lot about an RP with a couple friends known as MMvsTR, so that I suppose? Also, a huge Generation Loss fan and I like the Mandela Catalogue too (and Vita Carnis…)

Please for the love of god ask me about astronomy and anatomy

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Tagging System -
I have a fairly simple tagging system (I swear im forgetting some-):

  • #my art
  • #my writing
  • #nyx’s music - this is for anytime I record songs
  • #reblog bait/#superstitious post
  • #mmvstr

I tag triggers in this format: “[trigger] tw” and “[trigger] mention (tw)”

Keep in mind that I don’t tag cursing or caps.

Please don’t be afraid to ask me to tag something! Your safety is important! I won’t ask why, I’ll just do it.

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My Content -
I am a content creator, so what you can expect from me is:

  • art (fandom and otherwise)
  • writing (fandom and otherwise)
  • covers of songs (very rare at this point but hey it’s there)

THIS ONE is my fandom writing, mostly Aru Shah

THIS ONE is my original writing

My 250 followers DTIYS

My YouTube channel! I do music :D

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Other Things -
Here’s the Musketqueeria (Chaos) server

Queer Desi Server (its fun I swear)


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big fan of characters with abandonment + attachment issues so profound that they leave claw marks in everything they touch but would sooner gnaw off their own leg than admit they just want someone to stay for once. in a totally normal well adjusted and not at all projecting way of course.

big fan of characters who are always leaving. who constantly have a suitcase in their hand. characters who start planning their exit the moment they arrive and get nervous when the people in their lives start to Know them. in a totally normal well adjusted and not at all projecting way of course


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my tumblr dashboard hasn't gotten the updated UI yet so hearing more and more people I follow gradually post about the nightmare they're currently living just feels like I'm in the first fifteen minutes of a horror series where Troubling News Stories are starting to crop up on the radio and on blurry background TV sets


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Glaze is out!

Tired of having your artwork used for AI training but find watermarks dismaying and ineffective?

Well check this out! Software that makes your Art look messed up to training AIs and unusable in a data set but nearly unchanged to human eyes.

I just learned about this. It's in Beta. Please read all the information before using.


1/ This might be the most important oil painting I’ve made:  Musa Victoriosa  The first painting released to the world that utilizes Glaze, a protective tech against unethical AI/ML models, developed by the @UChicago team led by @ravenben. App out now 👇 https://t.co/cNIXNDHMBy pic.twitter.com/Y1MqVK7yvZ  — Karla Ortiz 🐀 (@kortizart) March 15, 2023ALT

Art thieves already hate it:

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Dude, if you're stealing, you deserve to have the data poisoned. Because you could have asked and you didn't.

The link is only in the original post inside an image, not as text, so here it is as plain text: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/

and the paper about how it works: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04222

A bit of a TLDR for some questions I saw in the notes:

The team that created Glaze is from the University of Chicago. Their names are each listed in full on the Glaze download website. (This group of students/professors did this for their SPRING BREAK 😱 so go give them some love lol)

It is free to download. No, they won’t ask for or raise money from/for this project.(stated by one of the lead professors of the project).

Glaze is designed to protect artists’ STYLE--which a bunch of ai people have been deliberately fine-tuning their models to mimic (and specifically of current living artists--small or big).

It currently does not protect against composition/trace-like theft (as seen when run through img-to-img) but that would be protected by copyright anyway while STYLE is not.

The University Team has stated that they are dedicated to continuing to improve the tool, like fixing bugs (like overheating older computers by taking up lots of energy when Glazing--it currently runs on CPU so they’re trying to change that to GPU, I believe) and expanding the type of protection given to artists (like working against img-to-img theft).

It currently only works directly on your computer (phones not advised due to current overheating issue, no tablets, or iPads, and no website runthrough since that would be insecure to breaches/scraping/hacks)

It currently works best on painterly artwork, but can still be used on other forms (team is working on improving this)

IT WORKS BY calculating the changes each image needs for the best protection against style theft by AI, and adds tiny changes throughout the piece, so that your style will, for example, confuse the ai into seeing van gogh. But the ai thieves will see a regular image in your style, feeding it into their model labeled as your work (thus starting the “data poisoning”).

Do not post the original unGlazed piece of your artwork after posting your Glazed version (obviously)

The Team worked directly with over 1,000 artists that were being impacted by the ai theft. Because the team listened to those artists, Glaze accounts for regular art thieves too (i.e. Glaze can’t be removed/cropped etc. like signatures or watermarks when reposted. It’s just part of the image, so even if it ends up on another site and scraped, the Glazing is still in effect)

When you run your artwork through Glaze, no information is sent back to the Team. (Aka, no scraping on their part. The app receives information from the Team (like updates) but no information from you is given to them through the app. Basically Team servers ---> You and NOT Team servers <--->You) One-way data street.

Brief misunderstanding happened over an open-source license for the front-end part of the app. (Used open-source coding for front-end, not knowing that code’s use-license states it is only for other open-source uses, not closed-source (the back-end code of the app is private to prevent counter-counter measure developments)). The Team took down the app until they replaced the front-end code with code written from scratch by the team. They are now not in violation of that open-source license since they are no longer using it. (you have 30 days to remedy a license breach once informed; they did so in 2)

The Team is currently in touch with Japanese artists to better expand the tool for use to protect their art styles

From what I understand of it, Glaze is an AI tool designed to be anti-AI (Think Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2: one Terminator robot vs. all the other Terminators 😂)

You can download it from their website and also contact them through email there with any questions, problems, or bugs. The website: https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/

reblogging this every fucking time it comes across my dash


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there are so many hidden relationships between people.. ur grandpa killed mine in a war some 800 years ago but also we were neighbors in the 1700s who traded eggs and milk. wwhat does that make us 

in high school I found out a guy in my english class had an ancestor who was on the opposite side of the samurai rebellion in which my great great grandfather was meant to be executed (for losing) but he ran away and hid for the rest of his life and the guy was like “….damn. good for him. now we’re both here to write bad essays on pride and prejudice.”


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so SAG-AFTRA finally released some official guidance for fans, viewers, creators/influencers, critics, and more during the strike. here's what you need to know:

  1. if you see a publication/news source/journalist talking about a piece of struck work, that's ok. they're allowed to do that.
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2. they're asking regular viewers and fans to DONATE TO STRIKE FUNDS, SHOW UP TO PICKETS IF YOU CAN, and please do NOT boycott streaming services or movies in theaters.

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3. influencers, content creators, cosplayers, and anything in between is still a bit of a grey area, but they're asking people to use their best judgement. "organically" means UNPAID promo (like an invite to a premiere without being paid, being sent a publicity box, letting the company's social media post a photo of you in cosplay, etc).

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obviously this doesn't answer every question, and isn't hard and fast rules for fanworks, but it can at least inform how you personally choose to move forward when posting online and moving publically. i hope this helps!


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be pro-aging but wear sun screen. sun protection is not beauty industry propaganda it will save you. wear it. or else.