I haven't been to the Avenues mall in a year since it's pretty far out of my way so when they opened a new Arcade in it, I didn't immediately go check it out but I wish I had sooner because it's a genuinely nice Arcade!

Ignore the tall grass, it's been raining here for a week straight and it will be mowed when the sun comes back out.

The top 100 finalists for this years Pokemon TCG Illustration Contest have been posted and I am not among them.

They caught and disqualified the cheaters who used ai for their entries and I THOUGHT that meant that they were going to go back and edit the top 300 list to remove the ai cheats and give those slots to actual Artists instead but they didn't bother and I'm not gonna lie, that kinda hurts.

I can live with the fact that I didn't make the top 300 if I truly didn't make it, I didn't make it last year either(and it hurt then too) but there was a chance that I could have at least gotten top 300(probably not but the possibility is there) and I'll never know because a bunch of cheaters made the ranks and that's what they are, fuckin cheaters.

I'm a digital Artist, I often sketch out my ideas on paper and then I'll draw over my Sketches and Doodles on my computer and I use the various tools available in Gimp to do my art but I will never use ai to do the work for me, that's disgusting.

I don't use DeviantArt for my Art as much anymore since I didn't like the site's redesign but I still use the scraps folder to archive most of my Sketches and Doodles and I post some of my bigger pieces over there after I upload them here but I've noticed a bigger problem than their redesign and that just how relaxed they are about people posting and selling ai art.

Every time I load up DA the first thing I see is people selling adoptables made with ai yesterday is was an anthro Fluttershy. It was not over stylised or a parody of Fluttershy just a straight up anthro Fluttershy that the user had up for sale as an adoptable and today when I signed in the first thing I saw was an ai made fox adoptable and the ironic thing was that the user had a watermark on it to prevent people from stealing it.....

He lost his TRAIN of thought!

Back in my day that was a rotten wood fence....then I got tired of looking at that warped wood and upgraded to a nice vinyl that won't warp in the rain.

As some of you may know I made a Little Library and it's been slow but it's started to get more attention with a few people donating books to it and I'm so thankful for that.

But I came home from work tonight to find this in there. It's not just books I've been putting my leftover Halloween candy in there to get rid of the last bucket that didn't get given away on Halloween (I put a fistful in there almost every day before work and when I get home it's always empty and I HOPE it's multiple kids getting it and not just one kid pocketing it all but I can't say for sure)

I've also been putting a few little plushies in there for the kids to take, I visit the various thrift shops a lot usually looking for VideoGames and lately I've been seeing a lot of small plushies and I thought it would be nice to start putting some in there but I come home from work tonight to find one of the plushies soaking wet with the head ripped off and they just put it back in the box like that.

Because he had know-ledge!!