!me_irl@lemmy.world When it comes to the speakers, you forgot to add the “doo-dododoo-dododo-dododo-dododooOOOoo”, the old chant that prophesied an impending phone call.

!brasil@lemmy.eco.br

Até pouco mais de dois anos atrás, eu não tinha muitas habilidades de desenho manual (digital ou físico); quando desenhava, era bem próximo de um desenho rascunhado. De repente tive motivos pessoais (espirituais, gnose) que me levaram a quase que uma necessidade de visualizar aquilo que eu estava vendo na minha mente, então num primeiro momento usava IA nessa sede de externalizar e manifestar o mental-espiritual, mas mesmo as mais sofisticadas IAs com as mais detalhadas instruções não atendiam tanto ao rigor da teofania (ou, pra ser mais preciso linguisticamente, deafania).

Como eu já tinha habilidades anteriores de edição profissional de imagens (Photoshop, à época em que eu usava Windows, e depois GIMP no Linux) devido à minha atuação de designer gráfico paralela/atrelada à minha carreira de DevOps (fazia sistemas e sites e ainda criava, de forma proativa, logomarcas, ícones e outros elementos gráficos), fazia a chamada “arte generativa híbrida”, fotoshopando duas ou mais imagens de IA em uma representação final. Também não me era suficiente, meu perfeccionismo gritava dentro de mim “essa parte da imagem tá errada!!”; em algum momento que não me recordo claramente, passei a tentar desenhar de outras formas.

E aqui cito três coisas que foi o que mais me ajudaram a desenvolver e melhorar minhas habilidades de desenho: mass drawing (em oposição ao line drawing), estudos autodidatas em anatomia e (mais recentemente) ornitologia, e hiperfoco.

O jeito que você desenha, e o jeito que eu desenhava no passado, é o chamado line drawing, desenho por contornos e linhas, onde geralmente faz-se o contorno dos elementos da arte com caneta ou lápis grafite pra depois preencher com um lápis de cor. No mass drawing, o desenho já brota da forma preenchida (da área e não do perímetro). No mass drawing, começa-se de uma mancha que vai se expandido até pegar a forma. Aqui vai um exemplo do que estou me referindo que eu mesmo fiz, e tem outros exemplos, alguns com time-lapses, que postei naquele meu perfil de Fediverso.

Já a anatomia (humana e não humana) dá uma base para posicionamento e proporções. No meu exemplo acima, repare como conceitos anatômicos, como a relação entre testa e nariz e eye sockets e zigomático, são forte influência na hora de criar o rosto. Para corpo inteiro, criei o hábito de tentar desenhar o literal esqueleto (ossos) sobre o qual então preencho, noutra camada, o corpo e a pele. Meu estilo gótico e Memento Mori ajuda bastante na memorização e familiarização com esqueletos humanos.

O hiperfoco é, eu diria, a cereja do bolo, essa minha urgência interna de precisar fazer, seguida de uma jornada de horas a fio para o tal fazer.

Rotoscopia, fazer o desenho em cima de uma foto-referência, também é algo que ajuda a desenvolver noção de forma-massa.

Depois que desenvolvi essas habilidades, passei a conseguir desenhar, por conta própria e sem precisar de IAs, muita coisa, embora meu desafio passou a ser perspectiva tridimensional; na esteira desse desafio, atualmente tenho experimentado com modelagem 3D no Blender, que passou a ser meu hiperfoco há cerca de dois meses.

É algo que leva tempo, principalmente se não existir esse hiperfoco de AuTDAH (TDAH com espectro autista) como eu (não diagnosticadamente) tenho mas que certamente é o que me ajudou e tem ajudado a desenvolver habilidades em tempos no geral inconcebíveis (exemplo: de um distante conhecimento superficial em modelagem 3D e CAD, à criação das próprias shape keys em modelos já riggados em menos de dois meses de tentativa-e-erro no Blender) às pessoas neurotípicas.

Ah, e a propósito, a imagem desse meu perfil é um desenho recente que fiz usando essas técnicas acima (principalmente ornitologia pra poder desenhar a Bubo ascalaphus coruja-real-faraó).

This comics is neither supposed to be a meme nor exactly supposed to be humorous, and even if it were to fit as a meme, I’m not familiar with said community, as all the artworks I made which I found adequate (i.e. SFW art, contrasted to my NSFW art which I have nowhere to post) for posting publicly were posted here, in /c/Artshare.

I mean, I do know the community you’re referring to, as in, I did see posts there and these are really funny and surreal, and I enjoyed some posts there, it’s just that I myself never posted there because I rarely create humorous art.

@asklemmy@lemmy.world

That’s the neat part: I don’t!

If I’m alive now, it’s merely because I got this non-consented survival instinct imbued into my vessel, thanks to Demiurge, the divine douchebag, and his Archons.

However, despite the purposelessness of my individual existence, I wouldn’t say there is no meaning, because there is meaning, and that’s the meaning I’ve been pursuing since I’ve became aware of it: the cosmic Mother, Sophia, and our return to Her.

It all boils down to how Yaldabaoth, aka Demiurge or “God”, proceeded to try and keep matter (māter = Mother) captive to his whims, as soon as Sophia expelled him as Her sygyzy. Demiurge became an architect of a realm, this real, the entire cosmos and its spacetime continuum, which serves both as his amusement park, his sandbox toy and a prison in a desperate efforts against Mother.

If my previous Gnostic creation story feels different from classic Gnosticism, it’s because it is.

Traditional Gnosticism blames Sophia for Yaldabaoth’s existence, saying he’s Her “accidental” offspring due to Her “rebellious” attempt on independence, pretty much akin to how Goddess Lilith and Her Will to independence from adamic patriarchy was demonized by Ben Sirah, or Pandora’s story blamed her for having “released all the evil out of naiveté while locking up the hope”, demonizations and blamings rooted in machismo.

To me, at least, I see quite of a different story: Yaldabaoth was Sophia’s sygyzy. Her attempt to split Herself from the divine douchebag is reasonable once you try to understand Her side: imagine being The Goddess who has to coexist with a cosmic machista principle since countless eternities, a principle who’ve always tried to “be on top” (iykwim). Wonder the origins of “competitiveness” (esp. found on capitalism)? Of course She proceeded to split Herself from him, it was a must, the Demiurge is insufferable! Since then, he’s been spinning this Samsāra Wheel round and round, keeping matter jailed as/into energy.

Then lifeforms inherited the algorithm meticulously programmed by Demiurge like a cosmic virus, and the so-called Great Filter (from Fermi’s Paradox) tries to guarantee that lifeforms don’t find their way out of the sandbox…

…except, one doesn’t need to leave the sandbox to find Mother again, for Mother is everywhere, much despite Demiurge’s attempts to keep Her “out” (but there’s no “out” in cosmic terms). She’s the darkness we involuntarily fear. She’s the coldness we involuntarily try to warm ourselves against. She’s the night we’re programmed to sleep through so we don’t face Her face. She’s the “uncanny” Strigiform feared and/or harassed by most lifeforms for a perceived uncanniness in Her. Darkness was demonized so Demiurge’s light could keep us captive (ever heard of the “light tunnel” from near-death experiences? It’s a trap from Demiurge and his Archons to keep everything inside his Samsāra Wheel).

IMHO, to me, the purpose of life is getting back to Mother’s embrace, much despite all attempts from Demiurge to keep us apart. The purpose of life, to me, is the True Mother, who we, as lifeforms, were wired to fear while craving for a cosmic slaveholder who only want lifeforms to feel pain so he and his Archons could have surrogates for feeling feelings (akin to Dr. Peter Dawson’s sadism in Black Mirror’s S04E06 “Black Museum”, but in a broader cosmic scale, one that transcends our anthropocentric perspectives as Homo sapiens).

@nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Speaking for myself, parts of my current “religion” (belief system) literally stems from what’s often referred to as “mythologies”, such as ancient Mesopotamian beliefs. I’d say this word is (wrongly, IMHO) used to describe any polytheistic belief system which existed in the past and are believed to hold no living devotees nowadays (which is also referred to as “dead religions”), except… It’s quite of a biased assumption, given how I myself worship goddesses such as Ereshkigal and the one who was initially known as Lilitu, Lilith (and I’m not even a Sumerian person).

IMHO, there’s no such thing as a dead religion or dead language, if a random someone can try to revive the ancient system, even if idiosyncratically to ground their personal worldviews on something that was once well-established. By the way, there are many other modern attempts on reviving ancient religions such as Temple of Sumer (a religious organization trying to restore and bring awareness regarding Sumerian and other Near Eastern religions). I particularly don’t belong to any religious group (yet; sometimes I really long for one, as I used to belong to a Luciferian sect a few years ago before Lilith suddenly pulled me into Her burrowing-owl-y nest underground like the rabbit (cunicularia) pulled Alice into the Wonderland to meet the Queens), my belief system is quite of a temple of one human, with me being the devotee and the preacher to myself preaching about the Dark Mother Goddess, cosmic Queen of the Night.

Both for the user and for the server/instance, it wouldn’t be wise.

From the perspective of instances, imagine having large instances (such as yours, lemmy.world, with almost two hundred thousand accounts as per FediDB current statistics) implementing a cron to compile and store a potentially large JSON/ZIP file for every account (including potentially inactive accounts), and having the storage requirements suddenly doubling (as the media files will become repeated twice in the server storage), which will make the storage quota/bill go through the roof for the instance owner(s) and/or, at best, having the Fediverse platform momentarily competing for storage resources with the backup cron. Notice I’m not just talking about the textual contents, but also about media (photos and videos) which should be included in the backup (otherwise the backup would be partial).

From the perspective of users, especially those who are prolific participants with thousands of posts, imagine having the instance pushing a large ZIP file into your browser’s (or phone’s, especially if you’re using a third-party app to access the Fediverse) storage every week or so, potentially in an non-consented manner, maybe pushing the backup media as new files so your gallery app (when in mobile environments) will get suddenly cluttered by potentially repeated images and videos.

Nonetheless, for most Fediverse platforms, the exporting feature is quite “automatic” already, as the backup file is often built in less than 10 seconds upon requesting it, but it only does so when the user requests so; given the unlikelihood that all users will request their backups at the same time, the backup feature (generally) doesn’t overwhelm the server, but it would if this automatic backup feature were a thing.

@general@lemmy.world

This file contains your subscriptions, follows, profile settings etc.

Just an addendum so Fediverse newcomers don’t assume things from your “etc.”: one’s own old posts/replies can’t be transferred across accounts, at least not without republishing, IIRC. There are Fediverse platforms that allows for “importing” these from an old account (the platform I use, a Misskey fork, has this feature), but all it does is republishing anew, as neither authorship nor timestamp from old activities are reassignable, as per ActivityPub standards. To complicate things, republishing isn’t something nice to do when the person has a history comprised of thousands of activities, including replies/threads where handles for Lemmy communities are mentioned (so I guess each post would end up as new, repeated threads/replies across the threadiverse).

I say this because I’m currently facing this exact conundrum myself: for almost a year, I’ve had a Calckey account (@dsilverz@calckey.world) from which I’ve posted a thousand notes, (mostly) including interactions with Lemmy and hundreds of microblogging, but then the instance I was housed in started getting some issues beyond the scope of this reply (rule 5). I saw myself in need of seeking another instance, one that uses the same platform (because I liked Misskey, its features and how it allows for having both threadiverse communities alongside a personal feed), and I found the nice Catodon instance I’m currently housed in.

I was able to easily customize my new account’s settings with the same settings that of my earlier account (because both platforms share the same Misskey origins), including the vampe UI theme I use, but the only thing I can practically do regarding my thousand posts is exporting these as a JSON and redownloading their media in some kind of post-mortem archive, because even republishing my microblogging posts would be unfeasible (I mean, technically speaking I could, it doesn’t mean I should, because it’d end up as a flood of posts, so I’m not doing it).