An Act of Resistance

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

@davidrevoy Next DIY session : how to make a hammer, a molotov cocktail, and explosives.

@otyugh 😆 🤣 lol

@davidrevoy It's pretty ironic since this actual strip (and all your work for that matter) you did with your own hand and mind is actually perfect.

@davidrevoy Shut not shuts? or remove "can" to retain "shuts" - but the message is 100% on point (and, beautiful art, as always)

@mattwilcox oops, thank you for the feedback of the mistake/typo, 👍 I'll edit it:
(-) shuts
(+) shut

commit: https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/webcomics/-/commit/72fc5c65418488bed6f614931bed753bafce6f2a , I'll update the post on Fediverse now.

@davidrevoy ❤️ for the strip, and ❤️ for also being someone who changes their mind about the phrasing mid-sentence

@zombiecide Haha,thank you. Yes, I'm rewriting too much and it is visible. I'll edit to fix the shuts→shut ( fixed in commit: https://framagit.org/peppercarrot/webcomics/-/commit/72fc5c65418488bed6f614931bed753bafce6f2a )

@davidrevoy The version with the typo in it was also good because it was making something imperfectly (I thought you did it on purpose).

Anyway thank you for this series, it's so good.

@cthos Thank you for having the charity to think that even my mistakes are done on purpose for the good of the comic; but I'm actually less intelligent than that. Just the irony, and a proof I should probably use a DeepL thing to proofread my speechbubble, but because there is AI in everything, I tend to skip it. 😆
Thank you also about this new mini series!

@davidrevoy <3

I'm absolutely the same, and if I see other people doing it it's an instant +10% likability bonus for me (maybe even more, now in the age of avian untigellience)

@zombiecide

@davidrevoy

There's no AI in Inkscape 😉

(actually don't know if you're using Inkscape to typeset these weeklies)

@doctormo Sure!

@davidrevoy Ma_gni_fique !

@davidrevoy love that message.

sadly this does not effectively work with avian intelligence in real life…

🎥 making-of/timelapse: https://www.peppercarrot.com/0_sources/miniFantasyTheater/making-of/034.mp4

#krita #timelapse

@Greuppe @davidrevoy It is so incredibly kinky to resist LLMs and GenAI, and bully the companies pushing them.

@Stem 😊 Thank you Stemy!

@davidrevoy I have mixed reactions to the message. I agree that doing something by ourselves is an act of resistance, but I feel that doing things imperfectly is completely on brand with the current AI slop. Quality, accuracy, precision, ... do not seem to have any role in the AI world the tech bros are trying to create.

@antopatriarca Don't mix imperfect with bad; many creators are just preventing themselves to share their creation because a subjective feeling of having to make things perfect. They can be tempted by using the plagiarism machine for escaping this feeling or , on another hand, go reverse and embrace a philosophy like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi , that's what my message convey here, as well as enjoying the process and the benefits of seing in the self-reflection of our efforts something to be proud.

@davidrevoy Your lighting, shadows and details on the cloth square in the lower left panel jumped out at me: beautiful!

@poleguy Thank you for noticing the subtle transparency of the fabric. 😊

@davidrevoy Where's the love button?

There must be a love button somewhere around here!

@emmetoneill Thank you Emmet!

@Greuppe 🤣 🤣

( At the same time, I can understand the feeling if one imagine being playfully gagged by a gothic woman. )

@davidrevoy
"In an age of computers, making something imperfectly, with a brush and easel, is an act of resistance".

@light You have a point, we should not forget that being criticized then becoming normalized is what happens to technology since ages.

@light That's why in my speech-bubble the "With your own [...] mind" part is important.

If AI was just a "tooling" upgrade as your metaphor suggest about comparing it with a tech upgrade like computers did ~ 50 years ago, I would have no problem with it ... mostly (OK, still have problem with the energy part, the massive rip of online content for the dataset too, and their control/dev by the largest worst companies in world.)

@Stem

@davidrevoy menfin, mais écrabouille le tout entier directement ce faux piaf a la fin!

@f4grx 😆

@NeroBurner Thank you

@davidrevoy An even better solution is a bag with which to cover the bird’s head. Everyone knows that birds go to sleep when it gets dark, even if the dark is artificial.

@ELS TIL here! Seriously, I had no idea it was a thing. Visually, if I painted that, it would look like a harder torture or kidnapping technique, imo. 😆 But thank you for the feedback!

@davidrevoy As a software engineer, the main message I receive in this world is to make things fast, sacrificing on quality, ethics and everything we have learned. So your message somehow triggered my hatred for all the vibe-coding messages I see around me. I understand the art world is different, and I do actually enjoy making my own private, very imperfect art. This is why I had mixed feelings; it triggered something deep in me, even if I understood and agreed with your message with my head. I suppose I never realised I am starting to have almost PTSD from all of this.

@antopatriarca I totally understand your reaction toward AI slop, vibe coding, and all this mediocre content. True, my usage of "making something imperfectly" can unfortunately be mistaken for that.
I'm also tired about this, about the rules like 'find the 20% that does the 80%' , the pressure of the late stage capitalism in all area to rush and produce low quality for the highest price.
It's hard in all of this to make a room for the 'imperfect but authentic' art form or craft.

@davidrevoy C'est marrant, l'intelligence aviaire est le seul arc du mini fantasy theater à avoir plus de deux épisodes. Apparemment, le sujet est très inspirant.

@Stem En fait, j'ai quelques 'tags' à présent sur le site pour trier tout ça, mais c'est sur que l’Intelligence Aviaire c'est de loin la plus longue série. https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/miniFantasyTheater__Avian-Intelligence.html

Je continue car il y a un effet très intéressé personnel: "tant que je gagne, je joue". C'est difficile à écrire, mais le thème intéresse. Alors je continue. Et pour une fois, mes messages et mon activisme est bien plus relayé que mes blog post, même sur les plateformes proprio (eg. screenshot Insta ci dessous). 😺

@Tourma Yes, right now I'm really trying to process how such a deep change will influence my art. The last paragraph of the Wabi-sabi concept on Wikipedia rings a bell to me with key principles: "Characteristics of wabi-sabi aesthetics and principles include asymmetry, roughness, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy, and the appreciation of natural objects and the forces of nature. " ( src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi )

I love this list of words