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Hey y'all! Figured it was time to make a little pinned post.

I'm Astrid or Ansitru, (she/her) and I'm a self-taught creator from Belgium.

I pixel, illustrate, paint my face, crochet, cross-stitch and embroider (among other things). I also play the guitar & ukulele and I sing. 🖤

My art tends to be colorful and cute, though I also make mental health awareness art. I hope you enjoy browsing on my blog! 🖤✨

SOCIALS:

🌱 Shop (Cross-stitch patterns and handmade items)

🌱 Linktree

🌱 Ko-Fi

🌱 Instagram

🌱 Bluesky

🌱 Tiktok

🌱 Facebook

#pinned post #meet the artist #my art #pixel art #artists on tumblr #pixel artist #self portrait #pixel

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*deep inhale*

people are inherently good people are inherently good people are inherently good people are inherently good people are inherently good people are inherently good people are inherently good people are inherently good people are inherently good people are inherently good

🧘‍♀️

#i've had some recent Confirmation Bias of the opposite so here's me trying to remind myself #astrid rambles

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enchantedgoblins asked:

Are you a waffle? Because you’re a thing from Belgium.

(But in all seriousness I love your work!)

I sure love

to waffle.

👀

🥁

(sorry, terribad joke. Thank you! 🖤)

#artists on tumblr #astrid rambles #answered asks

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I have found a genAI enshittified version of my beadwork.

I HAVE FOUND A VERSION OF MY ART THAT GENAI SHAT ALL OVER.

CJXYEBQGJRJUST WHAT

#time to discuss this in ✨therapy✨ because I feel a white hot rage ATM #like a “let me curb stomp them into a pulp” kinda rage #cool cool cool #artists on tumblr #astrid rambles #anti ai

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絲穗花 Christchurch, NZ, 1998

Garry elliptica (silk tassel)

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Every day, fresh horrors are released.

Have we tried unleashing the natural predator of fresh horrors, to cull the massive herd of horrors running amock?

#txt post #astrid rambles

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A WIP 🪡

#my art #art #crafts #artists on tumblr #handmade #embroidery #work in progress #art wip #current wip

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Can someone explain something to me?

If someone were to tell you they stole a keychain from the stall of a small creator, we'd call that theft and disapprove of it. Right? (Right??)

So then WHY, when it comes to people stealing digital items from small creators, like refusing to buy a crossstitch pattern and stitching off of the pixel art instead, do people suddenly start with the excuses of "personal use" and "fair use" if it's "not monetized or only gifted".

If we can call it what it is when it concerns a physical item, how is it any different with a digital item?

The artist is selling something. You decide, nah, I'll just take it instead of paying. Congrats, you've stolen from the artist.

fuzzytheduck

because when you steal something physical the owner doesn't have it anymore. Recreating a cross stitch from a reference isn't stealing. You didnt "take anything. You made a copy. Nothing is lost. There is literally only gain.

ansitru

"nothing is lost", except income for the artist. 🙄

ETA: "loss of income is not something I can take seriously" is a seriously shit take. Don't come whining when your favorite artists can no longer afford to keep creating.

ETA²: And actually one more thing. Some of y'all are equating "small independent creator" to the same level as a megacorp as Disney. Disney won't feel the loss of income. A small independent creator absolutely will.

A single sale for an independent creator HAS an impact. Anyway.