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>>96612096>TTI'm sorry could you repeat that?
Repost, but relevant.>Edgar Scrolls casts ReinTARNATION!
>>96612096Is that my "Yee-claw!" gen from years ago?! Did someone save it?
>>96612131Yeah. I always liked it. Saved a handful of others from some old threads. Try not to post ones I didn't make too much but this made a good fun OP.
>>96612137Awesome! I'm not even sure I have it anymore.>TT-inspiredNice list, but I think you may have forgotten...>"PROUDFEET!"
>>96612096>bull dykes>MetodistsWait, what?
>>96612096>MethodistsMethod this.
>>96578384Skivare follows the pair for a few blocks, waiting for the perfect time to strike. Seeing the opportunity, she pounces down. It's only through sheer luck that Corun sees her reflection in a pane of glass and he pushes Röst away. He receives a large gash across his jawbone, but not on the side he was expecting. It appears the target was him, and not Röst. He pulls his sword and attempts to defend himself, but is soon bleeding from multiple punctures in the joints of his armor. Röst was right, Skivare is a murderer, not a fighter, and never once lets a single noise escape her lips. The fight had only lasted a few seconds but already everything was going black and he could feel how light headed he was from the pain. Just as Skivare was about to deal a final strike Röst charges head first into her, knocking her away and into a wall. Skivare slashes her quickly to force her back while staring her down. She attempts a feint to get to Corun forcing a response from Röst, but instead immediately jumps and climbs up a nearby building. She gives one look back before fleeing out of sight.Couple interesting pics I dropped for this one. Didn't fit the feel, or felt like it would take too much work to filter together.https://files.catbox.moe/8klw2l.pnghttps://files.catbox.moe/kbyikq.jpghttps://files.catbox.moe/axzq6c.jpghttps://files.catbox.moe/vw1zgt.jpgI'll do a couple TT later. Got some good ideas, but out of time for today.
>>96612233As for Skog, Andris can fire some questions/interactions.
>>96612366PERCEPTION: Those wishing to rudely speculate on the lady knight's supposed virginity, look closely. That is not an actual unicorn.
>TT>Also previous TT (dynamic duos)>Edgar Scrolls casts Aure of Invulnerability"For once, Edgar...nice work!"
"Horse say from round-ear army. Cav-al-ry. Took wrong turn at Dry Wells, Rider fell off trying to turn back. Drunk; horse keep going. Wants water, oats, maybe get saddle off.""What's the army doing all the way out here?""Horse don't know. Tired, hungry, wants oats. Rode train long time. End up town nearby--maybe Williston?--ride op here with three, four other horses, two days, camp at Old Shoe Butte last night." "OK, I'll stable him up. tell the hired hands to set a watch tonight: we ma get stragglers. *More* stragglers, I mean.""I'll take horse to stables, he no like you. Say you smell wrong.""Tell him 'same to you'. But OK. You think he'll get along with the other horses?""We about to find out, I guess."
>>96612233This definitely won't end well. It looks like outright war declaration, even if the guy wasn't an intended target.
>>96612096>TT
>"The Kid" posting
>>96612096How about post-apo western? This guy was once a sheriff in his town.
>>96613687How about fucking off?
>>96613772chill
>>96613777This is "high personal culture" of whiners.
>>96613868I have no Idea what you're trying to say?
>>96614343That whiners who infest /slop/ are assholes, but that was sarcastic.
>>96613772That came out of nowhere? Is your problem with, I dunno, slightly changing up a completely optional thread task, or are you mad at something else?
>>96614494Why the long face?
>>96614526I just walked into a bar.
>>96614562
>>96614526My buddy just got hitched. The woman who rides him has got him on a tight leash and leads him around by the bits if you catch my meaning. And course he's had blinders on since he met her, so he's impossible to talk too.
>>96614748Doh, forgot pic
>>96614367It was whiny and poorly-stated.
>>96614958They call the thread quality critics "whiners" but I seem to see them whining about said critics just as often as I see the critics themselves.
>>96612096>>96612117
>>96614988By them, do you mean you?
>>96615002No?
>>96614988If only they were providing "quality" they desire so much.
>>96615051My dude, the cowboy has purple fingernails. Mazefag's prompts are better than this mutated Perchance trash by a country mile. Even the OCfags copy his styles. You're butthurt and sulking so of course you're not going to admit his gens are fine.
>>96615051>>96608680
>>96615072You sound like the kind of fag who goes into draw threads and shits on everyone there too. Or goes to a pick up basketball game at the local gym and screams at his teammates for not being NBA players. Get a life dude. Holy shit.We're here to post pics, have fun, work on prompts, and converse amongst equals.
>>96615124I think let him sperg. If he has nothing better to do with his life than being angry about that stuff, you can always intentionally post botched gens to fuck with him. It's his health being ruined by foaming from his mouth pointlessly, not yours.
This was annoyingly hard. Bing kept wanting to turn her into a raccoon
>>96615180You are mentally ill and have done nothing but shit up these threads since you got here
>>96615124If only you were only here for those things, but no: OCfag gens have shown no improvement, just stagnation, so you're not "working on them". And you failed to mention things like avatarfagging, bad ORPing, false flagging while trolling your own side, and other behaviours that bring the threads down. >>96615180>ignore him but also troll him>th-that gen was bad on purposeYou're such clowns.
>>96615316>WAAAH!!! PEOPLE ARE RETURNING IN KIND ALL THE SHIT I WAS SMEARING THEM WITH THE MOMENT I STARTED TO POST HERE!I don't really know what the fuck did you expect
>>96615538Just let it go anon, it's not worth the hassle and thread derailment
Snittieshttps://files.catbox.moe/pf398q.jpeghttps://files.catbox.moe/0xkf9y.jpeghttps://files.catbox.moe/z23ngr.jpeg
>>96615538Show me one instance of Mazefag false flagging and trolling his own side for hours.
>TTCue William Tell Overture
>>96614748>>96614801That's ruff, buddy.
Good morrow sloppers
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>>96616030Interesting use of Starry Night.
>>96612233Shortly after the incident, one of the town guards arrived to investigate the source of the commotion. Upon discovering the injured Corun, he immediately raised the alarm. The wounded elf was swiftly transported to the nearest outpost for medical attention. Röst was then compelled to recount what had transpired. Once the authorities learned of another goat-like creature roaming the town, they dispatched patrols to track it down. The orders were clear: apprehend it—and if it resisted, eliminate it.
>>96615998Shart
>>96616067with some luck it does cool things to the style
>>96615998Sugarheart
>"The Kid" postingNot exactly what I prompted, but it works...
>>96616134>>96616142
>>96616137
>>96616049A cute
>>96616164Putting the 'baaa' in "The Good, The Baaad, and The Ugly".
>>96616429A thanks
>>96616584"...and here's the ugly! BWAHAHAHAHA!"
>>96616624"Clayton! Quick fucking around and start shooting!"
>"The Kid" postinghttps://files.catbox.moe/71aunv.jpeg
Most town pay up without trouble, some need to burn first.
>>96612243In the meantime, Andris devoted considerable time to giving Skogsra an elaborate lecture on kinship, aiming to clarify the ties she shared with "the metal-wearing elf." She hoped the Fae grasped enough to understand the close familial bond connecting both elves. And why that command visibly upset her.
>>96612096>TTBeen a while since I did a historical interpretation of the Techpriestess.>"Come now gentlemen, it is 1896, surely you would not still brave the open range with only a humble revolver in your holster! Perhaps I can interest you in some of my newest wares; self-loading pistols, freshly arrived by steamship from my contact in the Rhineland. Yours for only $40 a piece paper money, $35 if you pay in gold!"
>>96617024Damn, those are some luscious goat thighs. >>96617497It would take a brave soul to buy a newfangled experimental gun from someone with two prosthetic hands.
>>96616624Why is he so lanky? He should be an absolute unit like >>96613273>>96612171It's quote from Blazing Saddles.
>>96612096>Return to bing after 5 months of hiatus>All my prior prompts and key words now generate photos>It takes fucking forever to get a single image... did I miss some big-ass downgrade? Because shit's rough
>>96618041Are you on the Dall-e setting? Bing keeps defaulting to the Chat GPT model, but that makes ugly, piss-stained oil paintings.I'm not having that same issue with Bing only making photos, but I'd recommend retooling your prompts to put the style and medium at the front if you're not doing that already.
>>96616820Aure, dear, you might want to pick something with a little more area of effect.
>>96618049>Bing keeps defaulting to the Chat GPT model,That explains everything.Jesus Christ, what's even the point of Microsoft still running this thing, if they are actively and deliberately making it worse? What's the gain for them as a company in doing so?
>>96618076Harvesting user data.
>>96618076>he doesn't know about enshitification
>>96618076You can still switch it back to Dall-E 3 if you prefer that model.As for why they added GPT-4o, it's a heavily neutered version of what OpenAI offers, presumably being provided for free on Bing in order to try to funnel people into the superior paid version over on Sora.
>>96618087Data about what? My porn preferences and fetishes, tied to a VPN and a temp mail?>>96618089>He can't explain how it is profitable for a corporation>>96618180Is there still anyone dumb enough to pay for AI generators of any kind at this point?
>>96618193>Data about whatMost likely about what is saved and the wording of the gens. They don't care who did it, just what was successful enough for someone to save.
>>96618200... and that turns into profit by means of...I'm 100% serious here: how this shit is in any way profitable?
>>96618239It doesn't turn a profit. It's being used to train the model. This training will help it at some nebulous further date.Think of it like junior high. Very little of what you learned there is relevant to making you a profit now, but it sets the foundation for later usage.
Turns out not getting Dog with Pokemon images is piss easy, just not mentioning the word yet saying "the johto series", which seems to easily pass and also is in the original pokemon style. Provided one just adds the name of the pokemon in the picture without mentioning it's a pokemon, seems to work.
>>96618239None of the AI companies are even trying to turn a profit at this point. Their only priorities are increasing the user base and refining the capability of their tools, while burning billions of dollars in investor capital every year. The current state of AI is basically a cross between an open beta test and a drug dealer offering you your first bag of coke for free in the hope you'll get hooked.In the long run, once they've decided that they've reached a target level of quality and a sufficiently large user base, expect all the free options to disappear (aside from open-source models run on your own hardware, of course), replaced with subscription services.
Here is something weird, I tried this before but didn't work, not until today. I used an online Markov chain generator to spit out text, but put it in quotation and put a "fantasy image of" in front. Images come out absolutely weird and abstract, in a cool way.The current chain in the prompt wasfantasy image of "Finally, if we choose to contain transcendental objectively to say, in prefer exclusively). It insisting, accordances the this holds of nature, and the other had nowhere nothing is reason cannot, therefore same the grounded my of pure represently more usual in past time a fixed polymathy to it, with starting it once former only member of morals nothing beings, and cannot beyond even in our will allows of an and mathematism"
>>96618282I have a few friends I play board games with who are in college for computer related fields. They are being taught how to use the AI models in place already, and some of them costs thousands of dollars a month for the class. Chump change for the investors sure, but I do think it's enough to cover the cost of hobbyist genning. The primary problem right now with the free tools is the violence/porn issue and culpability of the platform. That's why Bing is so neutered.
>>96618338It spits out absolutely different results even when the same prompt is used.
I just realized I have a bunch of centaur cowgirl gens on this drive
>>96618619>centaur wearing a saddleKinky.
>>96618625Maybe they're still selective about who can ride them
>>96618338>>96618354>Fantasy image of "Have you really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?"
>AI Slurp Thread.
>>96618931I'm on a Carmilla kick, using AI to imagine a world where Carmilla was considered the iconic vampire instead of Dracula."What might have been?" is the most traditional game of them all.
>>96618059"Goddammit, Piro, now we've got FLAMING ZOMBIES! And EVERYTHING is on fire!"
>>96618970The 1990s is when we finally got a major, big-budget movie, by a respected director, that finally abandoned subtext and metaphor. This is the first non-pornographic, non-exploitation film that does not hide that Carmilla and Laura are in a lesbian relationship, up to and including having an artsy sex scene between the two just to make sure to remove any and all ambiguity. Le Fanu's Carmilla (1992) is this timeline's version of Bram Stoker's Dracula (which doesn't get made).Isabelle Adjani plays Carmilla; Winona Rider is Laura. The film was produced by Francis Ford Coppola, but directed by Jane Campion. Campion refused to flatten Carmilla into a monster or Laura into merely a victim (as the Hammer Films movies of the '60s-'70s did).Some critics called it “too slow,” “too symbolic,” or “too intimate.” Others hailed it as “the most emotionally honest horror film ever made.”It won Best Costume Design, and Best Sound Editing, and Best Art Direction at the Academy, and was nominated for several other awards. It also did well in other awards shows. *Extremely* controversially it won Best Kiss at the MTV Movie Awards between Adjani and Ryder.
>>96619035I know! It's beautiful!
>>96619097Where do Anne Rice and Stephanie Meyer fit into this timeline? Or Vampire the Masquerade for that matter?
>>96619159Haven't dealt with VtM yet (I've been going decade by decade and am on the '90s), but as for Anne Rice...>In addition to the Hammer films, Carmilla would probably appear fairly regularly this whole time in both softcore and hardcore pornography, much as Dracula did in reality. Upshot is that Carmilla can at least be a true lesbian in these, no subtext necessary. Downside is, well, pornography.>On the other hand, Carmilla's prominance as THE vampire, and the queer subtext baked into her narrative, would mean that when Anne Rice starts writing her vampire novels, she's got a pretty rich tableau and firm foundation to write queer vampire characters with, starting with Lois Weber's Carmilla (1921), to Universal's 1931 Carmilla (starring Myrna Loy as Carmilla), and then the renewed interest in the character with the Hammer Films version of the '60s-'70s.>I don't know if it would necessarily change anything about Rice's novels, so much as just the context in which they're written.>In this timeline, Anne Rice doesn’t invent queer-coded vampires in a vacuum—she’s writing into a lineage where Carmilla is the mythic cornerstone, not a footnote. That shift wouldn’t necessarily alter the content of Interview with the Vampire, but it would profoundly change its cultural context, reception, and symbolic resonance.>Queer vampire fiction is already a genre: Rice’s novels are seen as deepening and expanding a tradition, not launching one.>Carmilla becomes a literary echo: Readers and critics draw parallels between Carmilla and Claudia, Carmilla and Louis, Carmilla and Armand. The emotional intimacy, tragic longing, and symbolic ambiguity are already familiar.>Rice’s vampires feel less transgressive, more mythic: Instead of shocking readers with homoeroticism, she’s seen as refining a well-established emotional language.cont'd...
>>96619035Very dangerous indeed to play fire starter in town. Much better to burn them into a crisp in an open field. And if the fire isn't doing its job fast enough, you can always run away without any risk of tripping over any tables or chairs.
>>96619189cont'd...>Critics frame Rice as a Carmilla heir, not a Dracula rebel. Her work is read through a feminine gothic lens—emphasizing emotional collapse, identity fluidity, and outsider longing.>Film adaptations of Interview might lean more into Carmilla’s aesthetic—mirrors, veils, candlelight, and psychological intimacy—rather than Dracula’s capes and castles.>Queer readers feel continuity: Carmilla’s legacy makes Rice’s vampires feel like part of a lineage, not an anomaly.>Carmilla becomes the mother of modern vampire fiction, with Rice as her most famous literary daughter.>The genre’s central question shifts from “What does the vampire threaten?” to “What does the vampire reveal?”>Instead of Dracula’s imperial dread, vampire fiction is built on Carmilla’s emotional haunting.Incidentally, the sole change of this timeline is Carmilla is the foundational vampire, not Dracula. Dracula is still written, is reasonably successful and exists in the public consciousness, but he's a minor literary character who's seen as following Carmilla's lead.Most importantly, Carmilla has queerness/homosexuality baked into her as a fundamental character point, but that doesn't mean that her being the foundational vampire has resulted in a world that's suddenly more accepting of homosexuality or anything. Society hasn't changed, just vampire fiction.However, *because* Carmilla is foundational to vampires, it means that queer coding is and always has been a fundamental part of the genre, so it's necessarily coming up a lot in this timeline.
>>96619205 >>96619189The 1980s were particularly interesting to deal with because here we get Carmilla being more prominently adapted for kids, like how our timeline got Monster Squad.See, the 1980s were a weird time where a lot of movies and TV show depicted it as *bizarrely okay* for an adult woman to get flirty or even a little handsy with young teen boys. It was shown as comedic or endearing or cute, rather than creepy.This might translate somewhere into an '80s film, starring Carmilla, or some other vampire woman who's a pastiche of her, getting touchy with young teen girls. I'm not saying clothes come off, obviously nothing like that, more like just lingering gazes, an intimate cheek caress, etc. On the one hand, the censors would have an absolute conniption. On the other, it might be snuck through anyway, framed as more "maternal". Carmilla brushing/combing a young girl's hair, for example.Queer viewers pick up on the intended subtext (and their opinions aren't necessarily positive: "thanks for continuing the stereotype of us grooming young kids..."), while mainstream audiences just see Carmilla as, like, trying to replace the girl's mother or being mystical or just generically creepy.It does show a double standard: adult women being flirty with teen boys is played for laughs; adult women showing emotional intimacy with teen girls is censored or pathologized.
>>96619239Back in the 1980s, Castlevania would still be made as an action/platformer, but the final boss is Carmilla instead of Dracula. Mind, this is a loose video game adaptation through the lens of Japanese culture trying to make a final boss for a video game, so we're probably not getting much in the way of queer coding. Heck, all that might really change is the sprite and animation. Still, it means that classic video game bosses now include a pretty prominent female villain character alongside the likes of Bowser, Dr. Wily, and so on. Technically Mother Brain is female, I suppose, but she's a monstrous alien first and foremost.Sadly, knowing what I do of Japanese culture, there'd probably be a fair bit of suggestion of her trying to seduce Simon Belmont. Y'know. A guy. And a *lot* of doujins to that effect.Still, there would be enough people in Japan who'd know her origins, or read translations of Le Fanu's novel and pick up on it themselves, giving shoujo and yuri manga and anime a chance to flourish with her. And Castlevania would probably eventually start leaning towards it as well.
>>96619249Okay, so I'm figuring out Vampire in a Carmilla-dominant timeline now. The aesthetic, instead of Gothic-Punk, is more Gothic-Grunge.Emotional Tone:>Haunted, not hunted: The horror is internal—trauma, memory, longing—not external monstrosity.>Melancholy over rage: Vampires aren’t rebels; they’re echoes. Their pain is quiet, symbolic, and deeply personal.>Intimacy as threat: Relationships are the battleground. The bite is a metaphor for emotional possession.Aesthetic Language>Velvet decay: Candlelight, fog, mirrors, and crumbling lace. Think The Crow meets The Piano.>Grunge textures: Flannel over corsets, cassette tapes in crypts, smeared eyeliner on faded portraits.>Symbolic clutter: Rooms filled with broken violins, half-burned letters, and mirrors covered in gauze.Mythic Logic>The vampire as mirror: Not a predator, but a reflection of suppressed identity and emotional collapse.>The city as dreamscape: Urban spaces are haunted—not by ghosts, but by memories. Every alley is a metaphor.>The Masquerade as emotional repression: Vampires hide not just from humans, but from their own longing.Soundtrack of Gothic-Grunge>Mazzy Star, Cocteau Twins, Nine Inch Nails (The Fragile era)>Portishead, Dead Can Dance, early Tori Amos>Ambient noise layered with whispered monologues, distorted lullabies, and echoing piano chords.Narrative Themes>Identity as erosion: Characters lose themselves slowly—through love, memory, or mythic inheritance.>Outsider dignity: The protagonists are broken, but beautiful. Their wounds are sacred.>Emotional realism: Even in a world of monsters, the stakes are personal—who you love, what you remember, what you regret.The Clans would largely remain the same (since they draw from a wide variety of sources), but the game would be a lot less political. It might vaguely resemble a mix between Masquerade and Requiem.
>>96619239>depicted as *bizarrely okay* for an adult woman to get flirty or even a little handsy with young teen boy.>Carmilla, or some other vampire woman who's a pastiche of her, getting touchy with young teen girls.Oh, God, Labrynth.>>96619249>Carmilla instead of DraculaAllimarc instead of Alucard.Psst. I'm loving all of this, but try to put an image gen in with, like every third or 4th post. Otherwise the troll might start in.
>>96616049Asked gemini to draw the rest of her body in similar art style. It didn't turn out too bad, not perfect, but decent enough
>>96619366>but try to put an image gen in with, like every third or 4th post. Otherwise the troll might start in.See funnily enough I thought I was being polite by not flooding the thread...
>>96619430Damned if you do, damned if you don't, yeah.
>>96619430I asked what happens to Twilight:>What happens to the Twilight series in the 2000s? Stephanie Meyer has never publicly spoken against queerness, but her body text and her religious upbringing suggests a preference for heteronormativeness. Which is fine! But in this timeline queer coding is fundamental to vampire fiction.The Text Itself> Still heteronormative: Bella and Edward’s relationship remains central, framed as chaste, eternal, and emotionally intense—but not queer.> Still abstinence-coded: The tension around desire, restraint, and transformation is present, but filtered through Meyer’s religious lens.> Still emotionally symbolic: The longing, the isolation, the transformation—all echo Carmilla’s mythic themes, even if unintentionally.Cultural Reception> Queer audiences are more critical: In a genre where queerness is foundational, Twilight feels like a regression—a vampire story that refuses to engage with the genre’s emotional truth.> Critics frame it as “de-queered vampire fiction”: Not malicious, but sanitized. A vampire myth stripped of its outsider dignity and emotional ambiguity.> Academic readings shift: Scholars compare Bella to Laura—not as a parallel, but as a contrast. Where Laura is seduced into emotional collapse, Bella is preserved in emotional stasis.Fan Culture and Adaptation> Fanfic goes wild: Queer reinterpretations of Twilight flourish—Edward as a Carmilla-coded figure, Bella as a repressed Laura, Alice as a tragic mirror of Carmilla herself.> Visual media leans into ambiguity: The films, aware of Carmilla’s legacy, begin to stylize Edward’s presence more gothically—mirrors, veils, and emotionally charged silence.> Yuri and shoujo fans reinterpret Alice and Bella: Their dynamic becomes a site of longing and symbolic intimacy, even if the text doesn’t name it.(cont'd...)
>>96619470(cont'd...)Genre Positioning> Twilight is framed as “vampire lite”: A romantic fantasy that borrows vampire aesthetics but avoids their emotional and symbolic depth.> Carmilla remains the mythic mother: Twilight doesn’t dethrone her—it sidesteps her. And in doing so, it’s seen as genre-adjacent, not genre-defining.> Anne Rice and Carmilla dominate the serious discourse: Twilight is popular, but not foundational. It’s a cultural event, not a mythic echo.Symbolic Implications> Twilight becomes a mirror—not of Carmilla, but of what vampire fiction looks like when it’s stripped of queerness, ambiguity, and emotional collapse.> It’s not rejected—it’s contextualized. A vampire story for a different audience, in a genre that’s already haunted by deeper truths.So in other words, the AI seems to think that just like in our timeline, it wouldn't be seen as "real" vampire fiction, but for different reasons.Our world: "Vampires are supposed to be horrifying bloodsucking monstrosities!"Alt-world: "Vampires are supposed to be gayer than a barrel of monkeys on nitrous oxide!"Either way Meyer gets it wrong.
>>96619460We all know they must of all only target one poster.
>>96618625It's vestigial you perv. Now excuse me I have to post female deer with large antlers.
>>96619378Gemini is perfect for fixing dall-e images (and even some details for Sora)
>>96619697I think I'm gonna try this. I had lot of gens which seemed good on the first look, but plagued by typical AI fuckups.
>>96620218I essentialy use it for fixing hands, or removing random stuffSpeaking of hands
>>96620302That's what I mean. Designer's option for editing pics doesn't typically work. Each time you want it to remove some unwanted stuff, it returns some error.
>"At night, the whole city bows under the gaze of a pale and ancient tyrant. You'll bow as well."
>>96619483Poster for Carmilla (1931), starring Myrna Loy as Carmilla, Gloria Stuart as Laura, and Richard Arlen as the created-for-the-movie Johnathan Hargrave.>This movie would be trying to distance itself from the earlier 1921 Carmilla (directed by Lois Weber) and the controversy surrounding it and it’s lesbian overtones. One obvious way to do that is to wholesale create a male love interest for Laura.>How do you see that playing out in film?>Universal’s Carmilla would be a textbook case of early studio-era sanitization. In the wake of the 1921 Lois Weber adaptation, which was quietly pulled from some theaters due to its overt emotional intimacy between Carmilla and Laura, Universal would be eager to reframe the story in a way that preserved its gothic allure while neutralizing its queer subtext. Enter: the invented male love interest.>Richard Arlen as Jonathan Hargrave> A dashing young doctor or scholar visiting the estate. He’s rational, brave, and deeply concerned about Laura’s “episodes.”> His role is to anchor Laura in heterosexual normalcy and to serve as the audience’s surrogate—skeptical of Carmilla, protective of Laura.Narrative Reframing> Laura’s dreams and emotional collapse are attributed to illness or hysteria, not seduction.> Carmilla’s bite scenes are stylized and ambiguous—often interrupted or framed as nightmares.> Jonathan Hargrave investigates Carmilla’s lineage, discovers her vampirism, and ultimately saves Laura through a climactic staking scene.> Final scene: Laura awakens in Jonathan’s arms, the sun rising over the castle. Carmilla’s body fades into dust, and the camera lingers on Laura’s relieved smile.Symbolic Shifts> Queer intimacy becomes gothic menace: Carmilla’s emotional closeness to Laura is reframed as supernatural manipulation.> Male intervention is moral restoration: Jonathan’s presence “rescues” Laura from ambiguity and collapse.(cont'd...)
>>96620863(cont'd...I talk to the AI like it's a person because I feel rude when I don't)>I like that name for the No Homo character you made, by the way - “Johnathan Hargrave” is an obvious reference to Johnathan Harker from Dracula, which in this timeline would be semi-obscure reference to a known but not prominent piece of literature.>Exactly! “Jonathan Hargrave” is the kind of studio-era name that feels comfortably generic to 1930s audiences, but for those in the know, it’s a sly nod to Dracula—a literary echo rather than a direct homage. In this timeline, Dracula is a known but minor work, overshadowed by Carmilla’s cultural dominance. So Hargrave becomes a kind of symbolic placeholder: the rational, heterosexual anchor inserted to neutralize the emotional ambiguity of Carmilla’s myth.>I wonder how Hargrave would continue in Carmilla’s film canon. As the films (and the audience) become more comfortable with queer themes, is he quietly shuffled out of adaptations, or does he sometimes stick around only to “lose”? Are there interpretations where he’s recast as a villain, sort of like Billy Zane’s character in Titanic - possessive of Laura, ironically trapping Laura between Carmilla’s possessiveness and Hargrave’s?1930s–1950s: The Sanitizer Phase> Role: Hargrave is the rational suitor, the man who saves Laura from Carmilla’s “unnatural” influence.> Tone: Earnest, protective, emotionally flat. He’s a narrative tool, not a character.> Function: To reassure audiences that Laura’s intimacy with Carmilla is a threat, not a truth.(cont'd...by the way these are the only Carmilla posts I plan on making today)
>>96620895cont'd...1960s–1970s: The Gothic Drift> Hammer Films Era: Hargrave appears sporadically—sometimes as a fiancé, sometimes as a skeptical scholar. He’s increasingly ineffectual.> Tone: He’s out of place in the lush, erotic atmosphere. Carmilla overshadows him emotionally and visually.> Function: To lose. He’s often killed, seduced, or emotionally discarded. Laura chooses Carmilla, even if it destroys her.1980s–1990s: The Possessive Recast> Cultural shift: As queer themes become more visible, Hargrave is reimagined as a foil, not a hero.> Role: He’s controlling, emotionally repressive, and terrified of ambiguity. Think Billy Zane in Titanic—he offers safety, but at the cost of Laura’s identity.> Function: To trap Laura between two possessive forces—Carmilla’s haunting intimacy and Hargrave’s patriarchal control.> He's cut entirely from 1992's Le Fanu's Carmilla, which is seen as an unusual choice since he's considered a part of the Carmilla myth even if not in the original book. But Campion wanted to stick to the original.2000s–Present: The Ghost or the Echo> Modern adaptations: Hargrave is often absent, or appears as a symbolic figure—an ex-boyfriend, a therapist, a memory Laura must shed.> Tone: If present, he’s emotionally hollow. His inability to understand Laura becomes the point.> Function: To highlight Carmilla’s emotional truth. Hargrave is the world’s denial; Carmilla is its echo.>Hargrave’s journey is a mirror of the genre’s evolution—from repression to resonance, from plot device to emotional foil. He’s not just a character—he’s a cultural artifact.
>>96620906Okay, I lied, one more Carmilla pic, this one of her visualization in the first Castlevania game (where in this timeline she was the final boss instead of Dracula).Mechanically in-game she's probably identical, all that's really changed is is the sprite and animations. I imagine her second form is more catlike and emerges from mirrors a lot.
>>96616100>>96617309Skogsrå listens to Andris' explanation intently once she realized how important it was to her. She asks questions in her normal stilted manner until the end. She mostly appears to understand the principal, but still has trouble reconciling what it means.After her deposition, Röst quickly rushes to Corun. The healing spells used on him appear to be partially resisted, especially confounding the academy mages. He is stabilized though, much to Röst's relief, and she will spend the next week beside him as he heals at a normal rate. Prior to leaving their most recent meeting, Skogsrå appears to be apprehensive about the explanations.>Changes what peace is. Will think on solution, as still want peace. I shall bring gift to town, not only you. Keep yellow rose; soothe those injured. She pauses a second. Then asks another question with malice.>I will not take man things from home. Daughters will bring me others. Tell Ilska which.She once again melts into the earth without waiting for another word.Some unusually... direct failures this time. https://files.catbox.moe/mr2l2l.jpeghttps://files.catbox.moe/63idjq.jpeg
Goat posting? Nah Gato posting? Yea.
>>96621267I have no idea how to understand the last part. It's like she wants peace, but in fact also wants to cull the male population. So either I got it wrong, or all of this will end up bad AF.
Are we invaded by /lit/?
>>96621447I hope she calls all the males.
>>96621447>or all of this will end up bad AF.The writing isn't good enough for that, so far they've just got cold feet any time there's a chance to add any substantial tension to the narrative.
>>96612096>Clickety-claw>not YEEEEEEEEEE CLAW!
>>96619697Yeah, happily surprised. I'll play more around with it
>>96621447The last comment is she won't eat people from the forest any more. She's going to send the breyherds to nearby settlements to find armored men to capture so she can eat them instead.Her plan will end up being a proposed trade. She'll loan as many beastwomen to the elves as they are willing to trade in kind. Neither will stay overnight in the others territory, but they will hopefully work together. Ilska wants armor (for bestigors), Skivare wants archers for distraction, and Skog will teach the elves how to use the beastpaths and some of the more interesting aspects of the forest.
>>96621676And why one of them attacked that guard?
>>96621687Mostly cause Skivare is psychotic. Thought the guard was doing something to her sister that made her a prisoner.
>>96621758Looks like she didn't get a memo that Röst is banished.
Everyone loves a villain. Surprised we haven't had a train robbery yet
>>96622504>>96621828She doesn't care. Skog can't see inside the city, so who knows who's at fault for the attack.
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>>96621267As Andris arrived in town, the streets were teeming with guards. Curious, she inquired about the commotion and learned that a member of the guard had been attacked. Separately, the town was preparing for a lockdown due to another incoming threat, not specified by the guards.Meanwhile, she received word that the lord magistrate wished to speak with her—though the reason remained unclear.
>>96623582That don't look like a blood elf town, is she in a human settlement?
>>96621432GATOOOOOOOOOOO
>>96622504I tried an external shot of a train robbery. Was meant to be orcs dressed as indians but bing hasn't been very good at depicting it. Still, this was one of the better ones.
>>96623897Wait, not that one with the green horses. I should have opened the thimbnail
>>96623063
Good night. Orc, Orca and... Orc B.
I boarded one of the insectoids’ Honey Ships, and the air struck me at once; thick with the cloying sweetness of their harvest. The scent clung, heavy and invasive. My guide turned then, pivoting with unsettling grace. The stealthsuit she wore was a deep, royal purple, cut to stretch pleasingly against her human-like physique. A trick, of course. I knew the truth of them: most of their kind were towering goliaths of chitin and claw, brutal things built for war and work. She had been chosen with care, one of a smaller subspecies bred closer to our proportions. The most human-like they could muster. A deception.Still, part of me had to admit she was somewhat pleasant to look at.
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>>96625435>>96625557ayy lmao
>>96625557Sex with chitinous women.
various villainesses, viragos, vixens, victims, and victrices
>>96626005Great stuff friend, what base model were these again? Flux?
Building bridges with the local indians, one lick at a time.
>>96626184That's some nice architecture. I love a good Romanesque cloister.
>>96626274It's literally the garden of your castle in DA:I
>>96626108 <3I almost always use Flux1 D, Flux KREA, or Illustrious based checkpoints and unets* paired with various LoRAs**.*(fascium, 77FluxTruvision, fluxaphrodite, genomK, kreaflux2_blackforge, tinf1NSFW_v13) **way too many to mention, i mostly just pick ones released ~today and try them out
>>96626317Flux seems too beefy for my rig, at least it caused a scary crash when I tried it. There are probably decent lightweight Flux equivalents out there I just need to do some research
>>96626317>>96626450Probably a really dumb question, but how did you both start going about learning the local gen? Like, you were already just computer people and jumped in, or did you follow guides to set it up and wing it, or something else?
>>96626504My laptop is like 10 years old and I never felt the need to upgrade it just for gens. I just use civitai since you can select the base model and LoRAs and go from there. Picrel is Pony Diffusion V6
>>96623063I'm sorry, but this is an utter waste. Of electricity, of server memory, of image count in this thread, of time of everyone who watched your video...
>>96626504Not a dumb question. In my case I cobbled together an understanding through trial/error and asking the LLM. In retrospect I would have liked to have this tutorial for comfy as it's quite good: https://rentry.org/comfyui_guide_1girlBut if you're not familiar with node-based programming you're probably better off with something more intuitive like Forge. Just google tutorials for it and I'm sure there'll be a good one or two.
>>96626591I'll hold onto this link. It's the next hobby on my list after i get my 2k beastwomen list built.
>>96626565>AI Slop using any more power and water than any other digital media.Please go back to Tumblr.
>>96626616And you have me as a resource too so don't be afraid to ask
>>96626641Please post anything that's not "1girl, dead stare, booba".
>>96626554The demon orc babes you generated are real sexy. Here's one of my character's images (made with Perchance and not Pony Diffusion V6, though I did try to create an image of another one of my characters).And I even made a couple attempts to enhance the image of my character as well.https://files.catbox.moe/wwk8bh.jpghttps://files.catbox.moe/m7kgtv.jpg
>>96626504Wanting to learn is always smart. I started with the intermediate level guide on /degen/ for setting up Forge and then asked the ai to teach me any time i didn't know what i was doing (a lot). Later I moved to ComfyUI.>>96626450Start with the fp8 models or things that say 'scaled' - that means it's trimmed down, you'll definitely hard stop if you go fp16 or higher
>>96626315What a sad statement
>>96626715Okay.
>>96626810Not really, it was a well-designed castle
>>96626820>two elvesbullshit that's only one
>>96626565You were a waste of sperm and an egg.
>>96617976It ain't easy fittin' into them Wranglers.
>>96627317More like spamming, amarite.
>>96627499No, you are notrite.
>>96627775New bread >>96627780>>96627780>>96627780
