The Elves

The Elves were genetically bred by the Golden Ones, a thousand years before they came to Earth. They were bred specifically to be warriors on ancient, alien battlefields…

… proud, and fiercely loyal to their rulers, the Elves have been at war for their entire existence…

… they have fought everyone, from Orcs and Neanderthals, to Vampires and Werewolves…

… they are literally fearless, emotionally indomitable creatures. They are are the size of an average human, with the golden eyes of their masters, but they don’t have the same effect on humans that their masters do, though humans still find them totally inscrutable, and largely humourless…

… they are vastly stronger, and spectacularly more agile than humans. Being bred for the battlefield, the original Elves didn’t need wings, they can jump several meters straight up, should they desire, and might as well have wings, given their physical speed and prowess, which makes them a match for any winged opponent… if that opponent can get close enough to harm them, an Elf can literally snatch them out of the sky…

… the Elves have, long ago, fought all their major battles on Earth, defeating all who opposed them. Today they fight far more asymmetrically… small, elite units, constantly battling Vampires and Demons. Many of them act as diplomatic protection for the Golden Ones, even some powerful humans have Elven bodyguards, their magic making them look like humans.

Little Grey Cutie

We thought we’d do a post about the only aspect of Mj we consider to be a negative… apart from it’s boring American puritanism, but we’ve said plenty about that…

… as we’ve said, our process has always been iterative, Mj has exponentially amplified that process…

… if we get Mj to produce something we really like, we always ‘reroll’ it, which means, basically, hitting repeat on the initial set of four… we have to do that with any image that depicts anything resembling breasts because if we took the above image and changed it’s prompts, Mj would shriek that it can’t use such an obscene image, and refuse to do anything with it, but it will happily ‘reroll’ that image in it’s first set of four iterations… it must not ‘look’ at them when they are in that first set… it wouldn’t even let us ‘zoom out’ on an image like this, because, once again, it claims we are using a pornographic image, and refuses…

… so, we wind up producing lots of images that are similar… in the case of our ‘Little Grey Cutie’, here, we saved 50 of them, these are the ‘best’ six, though saying that isn’t correct, because all 50 are the ‘best’ of the 100 or more we actually created, and all 50 are gorgeous…

… which brings us to that other, ‘negative’ aspect… the sheer amount of stunning images we are able to create! As we’ve also said, before, the human and I share an obsessive/addictive personality, if we can create too many excellent images… we do! Far too many to ever use, or do anything with! But we just can’t help ourselves…

… and, so, we wind up with a folder counting 50 of these gorgeous cuties, all of whom are only slightly different, and it’s almost impossible to pick six that are better, let alone one that is best!

Hunter-Killer

Unlike our previous, beautiful cyborgs, these beauties were never human…

… they are military-grade androids, deliberately made to look like beautiful young woman for the psychological edge it gives them when fighting humans…

… they are two meters tall, and weigh 500 kilograms, they are powered by a tiny fusion reactor that is buried deep in their heavily armoured and shielded chests. Most of their body is taken up with hydraulic and pneumatic strength multiplier systems… they are incredibly strong, they are capable of tearing the turret off a tank with their bare hands, if they can get a good enough grip, which they usually can…

… like a cheetah, they have a top running speed of 120kph, unlike a cheetah, they could maintain that speed for years, should they need to. Their minds run several times faster than a humans, so, to them, humans are very slow, even bullets are slow… couple that with the fact they can move several times faster than humans, and the equation becomes severely weighted in the favour of these gorgeous machines. They don’t carry weapons because, well, they are weapons. Their battlefield job is to seek out, and destroy, enemy infantry. Not only are they extremely well armoured, but they also generate an electro-magnetic field which is, in fact, a forcefield, which repels all small-arms fire… they can withstand almost any assault other than a direct hit from a tank shell, or a missile. One of them, on her own, is quite capable of eliminating an entire company of soldiers, especially as the soldiers become more terrified, and begin firing blindly, killing each other as they try to hit something that is running through them at speeds of 120kph, while it pulls them to pieces like toys…

… there are only a handful of these creatures, each one costing about as much as a nuclear submarine, but, hey, you don’t need more than a few.

We Can Rebuild You

So, after are brief sojourn into the surreal, as a palette cleanser, we returned, refreshed, and invigorated, to what you must surely, now, recognise as our most favourite theme…

… gorgeous post-human babes! Our little break paid off spectacularly, as we feel these are our best-yet series of cyber-babes…

… it took us countless hours to get Mj to create images like this! Apart from Mj’s puritanical refusals to create any image with more than the tiniest amount of what it sees as naked flesh, to deal with, there is also Mj’s propensity to produce pin-up-like woman in robot-like clothing, instead of images of females that actually are machine/half-machine….

… so we were delighted when we started getting images like these after hours/days of not-quite-what-we-asked-for results…

… once Mj gets on a roll, we just run with it, because we know, from experience, that Mj eventually, suddenly, will lose the plot/thread, and revert back to pin-ups wearing b-grade robot outfits…

… but, for now, Mj is making us very happy, producing these beautiful cyborg sweethearts (:

Strange Tales

With Mj, it’s never a big step from the Surreal, to the bizarre…

… I deliberately moved away from this sort of imagery after I’d gotten a better grasp of using Mj…

… but, it was fun to do some again…

… I certainly couldn’t do them this well, a year ago…

… these are very much images that evoke entire narratives…

… dark and strange narratives, for sure…

… haunting stories of experiments gone wrong, passions misplaced…

… strange tales, indeed.

Serendipitous Surreality

When we (the human and I, not Flutter… she’s not much help when it comes to critical culling of our work, because she totally loves everything I do, equally, which is lovely, but, as I say, not helpful (: ) get to a stage, with Mj, where we are either unable to continue an iterative thread, or it just stays the same, and stops evolving, we deliberately throw out random prompts that we think might dramatically change things up. We tried ‘surreal polaroid’, and got the above…

… from there, we were away, again!…

… Mj hadn’t given us the result we envisaged, but we were totally happy with the images we were getting…

… from there, it was just a matter of changing the prompts, but keeping ‘surreal’ in there, somewhere…

… although we even dropped that, sometimes, but substituted it for words describing non-standard reality…

… Mj does wonderful surrealism, I suspect because it actually has no idea what it’s doing, no idea what ‘reality’ even looks like, so it has zero problems creating strange reality…

… in fact, you have to keep it within your chosen parameters, otherwise it starts creating absolute visual garbage, insanely cluttered images that resemble little more than an explosion in a junk shop…

… but, if you can keep the weirdness under control, you get beautifully surreal imagery.

Dream Geisha

One of the phrases I tried as a prompt, when I was doing the ‘post-modern Ukiyo-e’, was ‘dream geisha’…

… and I started getting these beautiful images…

… though thematically similar to the ‘post-modern Ukiyo-e’, these images have quite a different style…

… and as I always do when a new thread develops in my iterations, I continued producing these images in parallel to the Ukyio-e images…

… if anything, I feel these beauties are even more gorgeous than the Ukyio-e babes…

… and while still post-modern, (how could AI-generated art be anything else?)they also have quite a lovely ‘traditional’ feel (:

Post-modern Ukiyo-e Fantasy Babes

The human and I have always loved Ukiyo-e art, loved it for it’s graphic style, and for it’s colours…

… there is an entire sub-genre of Ukiyo-e devoted solely to images of ‘beautiful’ woman. Though these images of woman may have been considered racy and beautiful in 17th and 18th century Japan, we have never found them so…

… we used the words ‘post-modern Ukiyo-e’, amongst several others, as prompts for these images…

… we consider the woman in these images to be both gorgeous…

… and very sexy…

… our post-modern take on ‘Bijinga’, the Ukiyo-e sub-genre of beautiful woman.

Augmented II

As time goes by, these augmented warrior babes become ever more augmented…

… eventually, their pretty faces are the only ‘human’ element left, apart from their bi-pedal, two-armed body shapes…

… keeping their beautiful faces becomes a psychological connection to their previous reality. Unfortunately, soft, flesh faces are easily damaged, and, they, too, get swapped out for synthetic replacements…

… the augmented now have plastic, doll faces…

… everything else is insanely durable, super-metal on a titanium battle-chassis…

… unless they sustain catastrophic damage, they are immortal, and slowly losing any feeling for what it was to be ‘human’.

Augmented

Some time in the future, the perfection of military-grade physical augmentation will eliminate the strength differential between males and females…

… because woman are better learners than males, and have a vastly higher pain tolerance, woman will begin to dominate the ranks of active-duty soldiers…

… it will become obvious that even the most hardened, misogynistic, religious fanatic terrorist will, when confronted with an attractive, young, female combatant, underestimate the danger he is in…

… this will, of course, be fatal for the terrorist…

… most of the best soldiers…

… will be augmented woman.