Tomorrow, Feb. 28, will be a nationwide boycott of big corporations by all consumers designed to show the oligarchs of this country the perils of making the citizenry angry. The outrages that Elon Musk has been committing in Washington have got to stop! Don't buy from Amazon, don't buy from Walmart, don't buy from Target, don't buy from Home Depot, any of those huge retailers. And if you're thinking, "I bet nobody bought any of his books on February 27," my only reply is: "How did you know?"
Now if you want to go to a locally owned retailer, a bookstore perhaps, that will be fine. We have no beef with local businesses, we want the Big Boys to feel some pain, however. Just a twinge, to show them how risky their current madness is.
Do it for your country, and do it for yourself!
If you MUST buy one of my books, and really, everyone should, you can save yourself some money by purchasing my works duing the Fabulous Read An E-Book Week Sale scheduled for from March 2 to March 8, 2025 on Smashwords. I've dropped the prices on many of my books for the sale and there might even be a freebie or two!
Of course, some of you are thinking, "I'll just not buy anything on March 1, either!" well, all I can say is, I am a terrible, terrible marketer.
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The image this is based on was the one used in my promo image from yesterday, I just rotated the female figure to a vertical position and painted a bra on her to make Kling AI happy.
Image looks like classic House of Gord. Nobody else does it quite like them.
Also, for timid platforms, I have:
From kink.com shoot 8491 featuring Madison Scott (naked) and Felony (clothed).
Source: unknown. Would love to know it!
That's Sensei Pearl feeling the earth move in kink.com shoot 46537.
TThis is Alexa and Kayla from kink.com shoot 4356. I'm not sure which is who.
I based the video on the promo artwork I did yesterday, hence the remarkable similarity between it and the video, whch are more or less the same except for the motion. I submitted the artwork to Kling, sans type, along with a prompt saying "a beautiful woman dances in a tavern." I expected a motion video. I got Kling's ever-so-unhelpful message saying "Upload Failed. Please upload a different image." A quick trip to Google-land interpreted this bland message as, "This is NSFW PORN, you PERVERT! Put clothes on the people in your image and stop making them have evil, degenerate sex!"
Which was weird, because there was no nudity in the image or the prompt, just a woman dressed in a bikini dancing for a bunch of guys wearing loincloths. If this is porn, so is every last beach movie ever made, going right back to those 1960s films starring Annette Funicello and Tommy Sands or whomever. Way to go, Kling AI!
So I figured the Kling's automated censor might be gender-confused: there were lots of huge, naked breasts on the male tavern customers, and there was a beautiful woman, so the censor somehow got beautiful woman with huge, naked breasts. If only. So I tested the theory. I uploaded the two images separately. It was easy because the woman was on a different layer in GIMP than the tavern in the background. The woman is the usual SL avatar run through Leonardo AI (to escape Leonardo's stupid censorship) to get a lifelike naked woman.
Weirdly enough, it worked. Well, not as much as I'd hoped. I tried uploading the naked image of dancing slave Zindra, hoping it would slide past. It did not, dammit. So I uploaded clothed slave Zindra to Kling AI and no problem. I also tried uploading naked Zindra to Kling AI to see if she could slide by all by her lonesome, but no, Kling responded with its unhelpful message and didn't give me a video.
The tavern and its brawny bare-chested occupants were the product of a prompt from Leonardo (did not ask for nudity or sex) and after I ran a couple of iterations, I had an image that worked. I uploded it to Kling all by its lonesome with no problem.
