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Gun Bullet Thunder Sword Coffee Art!

Yesterday I created this promo art as I was sipping my Gun Bullet Thunder Sword coffee. (It's just coffee with a tablespoon of butter emulsified into it, instead of/in addition to milk. The keto guys started drinking it and I guess the term "butter coffee" wasn't macho enough for them, so they renamed it "bulletproof coffee" which I'll grant you does have Rule of Cool written all over it. So I decided to go one better and take the macho to the max with Thunder Sword Hot Pussy Bullet coffee. Take that, "butter coffee"!) 

Anyway came up with this promo piece for Erotic Slavegirls of Outer Space and really liked it. I started out by getting some images of a raging battle in outer space between 1950s style pulp spaceships.to go with the B-movie ambience of the novel, using a Civitai text prompt. No naked women involved so I figured it would be easy. But Civitai fought me anyway. The spaceships are more 1980s style spacecraft, heavily influenced by Star Wars. I could live with that, but for some reason Civitai just HAD to introduce planetscapes or moonscapes into the image, couldn't just go with "spaceships fighting in outer space with planets and stars in the background" which was pretty much my prompt. Still, the images were dramatic, space-fighty and outer-spacey in general, so I went with it. 

After looking at all the images I'd gotten (about eight usable ones) I looked at various slavegirl images I had created on Civitai, generally via Image to Image using an SL avatar, looking for something that would work well with the outerspace images. I settled on the one seen above, because the position of her arms and legs splayed out in different directions paralleled the ravening bolts of doom fired by the spaceships, and the spaceships themselves. 

I knocked out the slavegirl's background using Deposit Photos' free background knockout service which tends to do a better job than the AI art background knockout options (thanks, Deposit Photos!) and then pulled up both images in GIMP. I placed the image of the slavegirl on a layer atop the space battle image base, shrank the slavegirl to fit, and then used the layer opacity slider to get her transparent enough that she matched the background image visually. This left her so transparent that planets, spaceships and ravening bolts of doom were clearly visible through her. I thought it was a nice effect, so I left it as is. 

Came out pretty well, I thought. Enjoy!

Civitai Blunders

I've had fun ragging on Tensor AI, Leonardo AI and MageSpace for their blunders, but lemme tall ya... Civitai can blunder an image just as badly as the others. For instance, this image. It is an image to image shot, which means it's meant to make a copy of the original image but gussy it up AI-style. Here's the image it was copied from:

This is a screenshot from Second Life using SL avatars and as you can see, the Civitai version is not an exact reproduction. What I wanted was an image of this semi-happy couple (the Slave Leia avatar appears to be scowling, and I love that) in more human, less cartoonish form. What I got was the two avatars merged into a single human form, the Civitai model I was using apparently not trained for fucking, a fairly common problem on Civitai. So it deleted the woman's hips and made the man's legs her legs. Well, fair enough, I guess. But then it twisted that poor avatar's back 180 degrees and also made it do a kind of loop. I actually think from the way her brawny shoulder and arm are positioned that she is supposed to be fisting herself from behind. 

    The AI also transformed her very nice panel gag into a crappily done cloth gag. But it did give her a humanish patina. Problem is, when you've done what the AI did to that avatar's body, no amount of patina is gonna help.

I did get better results eventually, though not perfect by any means.

Leonardo AI Makes 2D Second Life Avatar Come To Life!

 
The Second Life avatar where it all began.

After I ran the Leondardo AI'd avatar through Kling AI's Motion 2 program I got this. Nice! Living woman from a drawing! The way motion video converts these images to 3D motion is amazing. The prompt I used was: "Woman slowly stretches, luxuriously awakening on a bed. Camera gently pans, then zooms slightly as she sits up, reaching for a nearby object." It wasn't a total win: the grayscreen background did not magically turn into a bed. Instead we got grass that I didn't ask for. Also, the diaphanous barely-there bra on her back magically turned into a real bra in front. Though I did like the way Motion 2.0 integrated the front of her collar with her bra. And her left forearm got a littl thick at times. But the best thing was the way the video lingered for a moment on the original image as is, with her literally lifting herself from 2D status to 3D status. Nice! The way her butt morphs is particularly nice. That's the way it works when you start out with a nice butt.

Now, About That Cover For the Pet Shop Girls Trilogy -- Leonardo AI Hits And Misses

 
Here's the cover of "The Pet Shop Girls Trilogy," for reference. Click on it to get the book!

I knew what I wanted when I stared out making the cover for TPSGT (The Pet Shop Girls Trilogy). I had three slavegirls featured in my stories and I wanted images of the three of them looking sexy and naked on the cover. So I went to the folders where I built the covers of the three novels that make up TPSGT and looked for images I could use. The images all started out as Second Live avatars, here they are, for the record:

The Second Live avatar that Katie was based on.

The Second Life avatar Nataly was based on.

The Second Live avatar Susan was based on. Note the ropes. They're supposed to be a rope bondage version of a bitch suit, but they didn't really work.

Here are the three Leonardo AI images I was able to create using the avatars:

Here's Katie all AI'd up, and damn what an improvement. I ran quite a few iterations to get this image, and I'm so glad I stuck with it. I love the result here, especially that beaming smile. The face in general is a huge improvement. And the breasts are very nice indeed, mostly because of that smooth honey brown skin she has. I was glad to have a person of color because the other two characters were very Caucasian-looking and I had no problem at all with Katie being brown. Hell yes!

Nataly didn't change much except she got a lot more human looking and a lot less cartoonish-looking. Her ugly, lumpy shoulders got smoothed out. Her skin and hair improved. The only problem area was the ballgag. It didn't come out right on ANY of my iterations. (This image is Photoshopped. I drew a circle around the confused ballgag parts and borrowed the ballgag from a porn photo and then did some tedious editing to get it just right.)

Nataly's Leonardo AI version was incredible. Most especially that facial expression. Leonardo took the apprehensive expression on the SL avatar and converted to a lost, haunted expression. Her eyes are incredibly expressive. Even MORE amazing, the collar came out OK and the ballgag improved! Almost always, Leonardo AI will fuck up ballgags big time, and they almost always turn a collar into a necklace that looks nothing like the collar. Also, the tail is much improved, with the color and texture matching Susan's hair. And even the shape of the tail was much improved. Only problem was the ropes, which Leonardo AI interpreted as lacy, frilly woman things. I can't even blame Leonardo for that. The ropes on the SL avatar are not especially well done, a weakness of SL physics. I thought about hand drawing ropes but I wound up saying the words that so many artists have: "Fuck it. It'll do." I mean, yeah, she does appear to have lace growing out of one armpit, but whachagonnado? (That's why you need real artists if you can afford them, boys and girls. When they say "fuck it!" it's over something a non-artist would not notice.)

Next I needed something to tie the three images together visually. My first track was, since they were Pet Shop slavegirls, they could be posing in a Pet Shop window, trying to get people to buy them. I went to Deposit Photos to see if they had any Pet Store art I could use, but amazingly, the Pet Store art was about dogs and cats and stuff. Also a lot of it was vector art. I gave up after a while. I couldn't find anything I could use so after a while I stopped looking and went to my backup plan. 

Fortunately I had a backup plan, which was to use prompts to create a Pet Store exterior with display window filled with nothing (so I could paste in the girls). Unfortunately, I had a bright idea for that, which was to have a neon sign over or in the windows with the words "Please Buy Me!" glowing.

This was when I discovered how many ways there were to misspell "Please Buy Me." I had naively thought that by including the text I wanted in my prompt, the AI would use those exact letters to represent the word, "Please Buy Me." But noooooooo, instead I got every last possible misspelling of "Please Buy Me." "Pelase Buy Me" was the favorite, but also "Plase By Me," "Peals Buy Me" and ";!Ple::s Be Me." Maybe about 1 in 10 iterations had the right spelling.

There were other problems as well. I asked for an empty display space behind the window. (I did not ask for "no dogs and cats" as a negative prompt because I knew from past experience that this would only encourage Leonardo AI to give me lots of images of dogs and cats.) So I still got lots of images of dogs and cats in the "empty" display space, also people, food bowls, all kinds of pet products on shelves, and occasionally, an empty space. I went through many iterations and eventually got several images of pet shop windows with empty, or at least, mostly empty, spaces behind them that were usable.

Then I went to work pasting in the Pet Girls and that's when I ran into a more difficult problem, perspective. The AI had provided me with images of people looking in the window (because I asked for it in the prompt). They worked for my intent but there was a perspective problem. I want the images of the Pet Girls to be large, dominating the page, because I know my horny, horny readership. But the people in the foreground set the perspective, and if I made my images large they would look like giantesses. If I made them small enough to look normal next to the onlookers they would be tiny indeed, problematical since book covers are vertical spaces. 

Yeah, a really sad image that just doesn't work.

I tried arranging the Pet Girls in many configurations in several Pet Shop windows, and none of them worked. In addition to the perspective issue, there was a layering issue. I could paste the images into the window space, but there was no easy way to make them look like they were behind glass and have them dominate the page. And if it wasn't easy I wasn't about to try it! I had deadlines, dammit! So I gave up the Pet Shop window idea and did some seriously lateral thinking.

I decided to just display the three images in a generic kind of space, no window or shoppers. I soon realized that I would need some kind of background art to make the space behind the Pet Girls something other than dead space. So I thought about the kind of images you might find in a place where Pet Girls are sold. If I had been more imaginative, and had more time, I could have come up with some fairly imaginative ideas, like maybe pet girls jumping through hoops or kneeling before owners with their butts stuck out.

But I didn't have the time, I just focussed generically sexy images that might look right as the background of a human Pet Shop. And eventually I had an idea: the image most people think of as belonging in a place where very sexy things are done is a nude silhouette of a woman in a sexy pose. Lots of TV shows and movies have used this kind of art as a sign of a sexy business. 

This time I made no attempt to get the images I wanted via Leonardo AI. It fights sexy imagery hard. After writing this image I went to Leonardo AI and created images using this prompt: "A series of silhouettes of women in bikinis looking beautiful."  Here's what I got:

Yeah, "silhouette" is another word Leonardo AI clearly does not understand. Also it whiffed on the word "series." I was right, getting what I wanted from Leonardo AI would have been a bear.

So I went to Deposit Photos looking for my silhouettes and there I struck gold. They had exactly what I needed, plenty of it. I did a bit of shopping and picked a series of images that had a lot of submissive-looking poses. They were all black and white silhouettes, and I didnt want that, it would be too strong, not at all what I needed. But I knew how to fix that, I just put a golden-brown (emphasis on the "golden") layer over the silhouettes and worked the opacity of both layers until I had what I wanted. You can see it in the background of the cover art. Worked very nicely I think.

The only other element of the cover is that Katie is riding Susan. This was just a matter of cutting and pasting multiple layers of Katie on trop of Susan. It was tedious, time-consuming work but not difficult other than that, mainly because Susan and Katie's poses worked very well for a horsie ride.

That's the full story of that "easy" cover. It took a long time for me to get it finished and looking something like "right." Someday I will make enough money to hire and artist and pay them a decent price for their work. Until then, I'll continue to put huge effort into creating mediocre cover art! 

Leonardo AI Hates Foot Fetishists

It started with this. An innocent-looking Second Life avatar chained to a sofa in a beautiful park. No greenscreen here, it's all Second Life. Rentable set, sofa purchased on the Second Life marketplace, with custom avatar. Still, the mix of cartoonish avatar and sofa and realistic background (clearly just a photo on a prim) just didn't work. So I ran it through Leonardo to get that lifelike feel.

Now THAT'S more like it! I made many more runs through Leonardo AI than usual this time. The people who use prompts entirely do this, so I thought I'd try it. And it worked, although I spent hours on just that one step this time, so there was a cost. But just LOOK at that women. OK, maybe she appears to be bending the knee a little too much, but I figure readers might think it's a cushion beneath the cover. But as always with AI art, there's a catch.

Oh, Leonardo, you just don't have feet down yet, do you? The Lovecraftian foot strikes again! Though perhaps this is Leonardo AI's attempt to show how ingrown toenails feel, visually.

Leonardo AI Introduces: The Pussybutt!

 

This is where it all started. I uploaded this image of a Second Life avatar to Leonardo AI just to see how Leonardo would deal with it. I used Image to Image in Legacy mode to create a lifelike, kinda/sorta image of my avatar. I already had a pretty good idea that Leonardo AI would deal with the image badly. But how badly, and in what way? It took only seconds to find out!

What I got was... the pussybutt! In almost every case, Leonardo AI decided that at the juncture of the upper butt cheeks there should be a pussy. But it's more, much more, well maybe not a WHOLE lot more, but definitely more. If you close in on the upper portion of the avatar, it becomes evident that what has happened is that the Leonardo AI apparently decided that the image wasn't looking down at a woman bending over in front of the viewer. Instead, it decided that the viewer was sitting behind the avatar, looking up at her naked butt cheeks and lower back and upper thighs which had been flipped upside down and remounted to her torso in a surgery too awful to even have a name.

I am an experienced AI creator. I had expected hands to become feet and feet to become hands. But I never expected the pussybutt. I also never expected a breast to morph into an arm with a foothand at its end. Makes the hand that morphed into a foot look prosaic.

We'll close with the one image where a pussy butt didn't appear. This one. Apparently on this occasion Leonardo AI recognized the string thong the avatar is wearing for what it is, and did the inappropriate thing. Of course. Now the string thong slides between the avatar's butt cheeks and disappears into a seriously misplaced anus. If you look close you can see that Leonardo AI even dirtied up the bit of string that's halfway into the seriously misplaced anus. That's commitment! And you also have to wonder, if the thong string is in the anus, what would be holding the bottom of the pussy cover in place? It could be flapping around all over the place. Unless... unless the string at the front is shoved into the woman's vagina. Though that would make hiding the vagina more difficult, if not impossible. Maybe... maybe the front strong could be tied to a dildo thrust deep into the vagina, a dildo with a large triangular shield on its end that stays out of the vagina and shields it. Is this... is this how fashion designers think? Am I becoming a defacto fashion designer here? Scary! Anyway, the string could disappear into another, normally placed anus. She would just have two anuses. Nothing wrong with that! It's almost enough to make up for the hand that became a foot and the foot that's becoming a hand and the breast that has morphed into a flesh connector of some kind between the avatar's rib cage and her knee. Of course. I think I'll stop now before I become a Lovecraftian fasion designer, and before Leonardo AI creates something even more Lovecraftian for me to wonder about.

Pantisoka Thongo & The Slavers of Alsoran Now on Sale on Smashwords

Book is available on Smashwords right here.

“Slavers of Alsoran” is probably the most self-important erotic parody of St@r W@rs ever written. But it also ruins other important science fiction franchises such as Foundation, Doctor Who, Star Trek, Superman, the Culture, Ringworld, Dune, Barbarella, UFO, and Avatar. It also also ruins some REALLY weird things like A Mighty Wind, Support Your Local Gunfighter, A Prairie Home Companion and your childhood. It’s got something to offend EVERYONE. In fact, it was named 2023’s Most Legally Actionable Novella by the Shyster Chamber of Commerce. In “Slavers of Alsoran” Pantisoka “Panti” Thongo, a secret agent for Bela Orgazmo, is home on Planet Alsoran from a tough mission. All she wants to do is go to her favorite kinky club and get her brains Mastered out. And sure enough, Panti’s sub friends at the club point out a handsome Master with crinkly brown eyes and a chin you could pound nails with, who really knows his way around a dungeon. But Gai Nwar is a little TOO smooth in Panti’s opinion. He COULD just be a guy with a thing for Rootugas. Such men weren’t rare, since Rootuga females were the only humanoid species known to have evolved the oral clit.

But Gai might also be a lureman with a shopping list. Evil harem owners on the crapsack worlds that fringed the Galactic Umpire also had a thing for Rootugas.

The voluntary slavegirls (as sexual submissives were called on crapsack worlds) didn’t have to be dragged kicking and screaming into their lairs, making them prizes for slavers. And that made Rootuga voluntary slavegirls like Panti super ultimate mega grand supreme prizes for slavers.

Gai might even be an agent for the evil shith lord Dearth Bother, a charred piece of bacon that had once been a juicy hamhock of a man, now bent on destroying all former Jiggli knights. The evening promises a night of sweet sex and submission with handsome, dominant Gai, or perhaps it will be a night of carving up slavers and shith lords with her twin light scimitars. Panti is ready for anything, because she’s just that kind of heroic slavegirl! Read this 33,000 word novella now and enjoy the filth and the fun that has made BDSM sci-fi erotic parody America’s most beloved sub genre!

Avatars in Heat!

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