The Nirvana Look, Part 2

Pepper Hart, giving us all the Nirvana look, from a shoot for FTVMILFS.com.

I've used this image before. It showed up in this post, about a scene from my story "How My Slavegirl Found Me" about a semi-clueless dom who gets farmed out to some man-hungry submissive slavegirls of the totally consensual type after meeting a submissive beauty and passing the smell test for not being a chudwah (clueless hetero dom wannabe). It was the inspiration for a scene in the novel where the beauty gives him what I call the Nirvana Look, a look inspired by this photo. I included the scene where she gives the protagonist the Nirvana Look, and his response to it, in my post.

I've never seen anything that conveyed the Nirvana Look as powerfully as this image, though I have seen other images that approximated this one. And it's a big difference between this image and the approximations. Mark Twain described it perfectly: "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter: it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning." Well it's the same with images: the difference between an almost perfect image and a perfect image is the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."

That said, one place where I never expected to see even an APPROXIMATION of the Nirvana Look is in AI Art. Yet, I have. Let me post the image where I found the Nirvana Look approximation so you can see for yourself:

AI art generally does not do well with faces, much less expressions on faces. Many AI images have faces that do not look human, or quite human. Civitai has a feature called "facefix" that will swap out a face with a variety of faces that are generally an improvement over the original (but hardly always, often enough all the "facefixes" on offer are worse than the original). People who think creating AI Art is just a matter of typing in a wish and pushing a button are way off base. It's more a matter of making a LOT of wishes, changing a lot of sliders and so forth and pushing a button, going through the whole process over and over and over again. Unless you're using the "image to image" feature, in which case things are EVEN MORE difficult.

But it is fun, and rewarding when you get a great image like the one above. That frank, open, direct look as she lies on the bed face down, being proneboned while naked, bound and gagged and totally unashamed. Pure Nirvana. As good as the Pepper Hart Nirvana Look image? No, of course not. But it's still pretty damned good.

And every so often all the AI art processes move inexplicably in the right direction and you get a face that's realistic and an expression that is powerful. And the one on this page isn't the only one I've gotten, or even the best one. That would be the image on this post on my blog. The caption just wrote itself. That expression is the lightning, not the lightning bug. But this one is still pretty damn good.