Fanart Dump

by Ariela

We’ve been fairly quiet online for the past couple of years. In addition to the Nazi-fication of The Platform Formerly Known As Twitter, where Ariela used to be most active, there was meatspace stuff going on. In 2022 Ariela got remarried and - joyfully, but very abruptly - became stepmom to three adorable kiddos all under the age of 8. As any new parent can tell you, the process of re-balancing life commitments post-child is hard, and it’s exponential with three at once, all of whom are mobile and verbal and have strong personalities rather than being smol, semi-sentient potatoes.

It took well over a year for any brain space to be available to think about art, and the less said about schedule availability, the better. But we’re not dead, kidnapped by aliens, nor have we left fandom in order to take up alpaca farming.

So here’s some fanart, and we hope to have more art in the coming year.

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New Art Print & Sticker: Fuck AI

dusts off the keyboard

Ahem.

Well, it’s been a while since we’ve released a product, and this one couldn’t be more timely. Whether the presence of eerily incorrect images on social media bothers you in your soul parts, you cannot abide plagiarism, or you cannot tolerate the environmental damage perpetrated by these large language and synthetic data generation models, this art print and sticker were made for you!

How It Came To Be:

The explosion of “generative AI”* for the average user has not gone unnoticed by the art community. There isn’t a one of us that approved in advance of these engines scraping our images for their content, nor one of us who doesn’t find the images wrong in some way. So Ariela wanted to do a piece highlighting our feelings on the subject. Terri suggested that it have three raised middle fingers, and it obviously had to be in a medium done entirely by humans. So what you have is either a sticker or an archival art print of a lovely watercolor giving you an impossibly rude gesture.

The print run is a limited edition run of just 250 art prints. Each print is matted on a black, archival-safe mat and comes ready to hang or to put in a standard 8”x10” frame. The stickers do not have a limit, and arrive in a plain business envelope with free shipping. 

*Scare quotes used for any and all sarcasm related to ‘generative,’ ‘artificial,’ and especially ‘intelligence.’