The fandom doesn't need AI art / fanfiction

There are so many talented artists and writers out there.

The fandom is fed daily not only by official content and merch, but also by dedicated creators who pour their hearts into the story. Even the official manhua artist gave us amazing fan comics with the extras.

I mean, I saw an AI-generated animation for the SVSSS fandom. I don't like it, but I understand. I get it.

I get that the story lacks official material because the manhua and donghua were discontinued, whatever. And the fandom isn't as huge as mxtx's other works so there might not be much fan work too.

Fine.

But what about MDZS? There is literally no reason to use AI for anything.

That is not even getting into the 'AI art' debate or people claiming it as their own.

Edit: as some people pointed out, the lack of content also doesn't justify gen-ai. I take back what I said about understanding the SVSS fandom. There's no excuse for AI. It's wrong and disrespectful in many ways.

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u/Ambidestra — 19 hours ago
▲ 49 r/MXTX+1 crossposts

WIP - Wei Wuxian in Mo Xuanyu's wears the YLL Patriarch hairstyle

(Lz is about to lose it)

u/Ambidestra — 22 hours ago

court jester x prin...ce? -

I felt so much chemistry between the jester and the prince in the artist's last video! I couldn't help but draw fan art of them xD It’d be such an interesting twist

(@murkqueen on X for anyone who's interested)

u/Ambidestra — 3 days ago
▲ 72 r/mdzs+1 crossposts

Fanart for the fic A Stone to Break Your Soul, A Song to Save It by rikke

u/Ambidestra — 16 days ago
▲ 1.0k r/SVSSS

Fanart done

Finished version ~

Luo Binghe being just a little excited when Shen Yuan leans for a kiss

u/Ambidestra — 2 months ago
▲ 15 r/AITAH

AITAH for going on a trip with a friend instead of my boyfriend, even though he's jealous?

My boyfriend and I have been together for 6 years and we're both 23. I graduated, but he's taking longer and he's still studying. I've been earning my own money since my first internships, when I was 20. Now I have a full-time job and earn an okay salary.

He, on the other hand, while he does study and gets good grades, left his only internship after a month because he didn't like it. I advised him to endure it until he found another internship, but he refused (it wasn't a bad place, he wasn't mistreated or overworked, nothing like that, he simply didn't like it there). This happened in January. Later, he refused an internship opportunity because he would make less than at the first one (even though he had already left it).

Both of our birthdays are in May, so I paid for a short 3-day trip to another state for the both of us. I took care of all expenses. I had done it before too, so it was the second time I covered something like that because I like to enjoy the money I earn and get that he can't afford it. I wanted is company so I planned the trips and took care of it.

But now there's this opportunity for a 3-day stay in an all-inclusive resort and it costs WAY less than it usually does for just one day, so it's a crazy opportunity. It's still expensive, but like, less than a quarter of what it would normally cost. I'm not comfortable with paying for him again. He's not actively looking for internships/jobs so I don't see the point in waiting.

So I'm inviting a FEMALE friend. The thing is, he's jealous of that friend. I'm 100% straight, but he's so jealous of her that once he called me crying, wanting me to say that he's more important than her (she's been my best friend for like 10ish years).

In his defense, she is kinda... Like, she likes to say things like he has to have her approval as a boyfriend, and when we were teens she would compete to see who was more important, but that was years ago (though that phone call happened this year after my friend took care of me while I was drunk while my boyfriend didn't know what to do).

Anyway, am I the asshole for going on that trip with her, even though he's jealous and doesn't like her?

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u/Ambidestra — 2 months ago

LWJ bathes in the Cold Springs right after bringing "Mo Xuanyu" to Gusu

I hadn't thought about this before, but LWJ takes WWX (in Mo Xuanyu's body) back to his room and then just leaves. Later, WWX wanders off and finds him bathing in the Cold Springs.

Given that those springs are used by the Lan clan to calm the mind and suppress earthly desires, the fact that LWJ had to go straight there after dropping WWX off definitely tells us something

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u/Ambidestra — 2 months ago