 | So, I did a stylistic experiment. Using the weirdest possible moodboards I had, I put in some of the weirdest supervillainess names I could think of ]using the base prompting template of "Female supervillain named [X]," and while I did some inpainting/outpainting, the base images came from the prompts. I put the names in the captions (so check those), and I may as well ask a question: What's your view on the role randomness plays in imagegen? Because, people criticize it as a tool because it's delegation to a machine instead of using your thinking skills to imagine your own stuff. But, I have no trouble imagining my own ideas or trying to bring them to life, I have a load of designs of my own. But the thing about imagegen is that, I know it's not my brain. And that's why it can come up with things my brain wouldn't even think of. There's a use for randomness and external sources of ideas in creative work, that's been a truth from the days of surrealist games to the classic random generation charts of tabletop games. And when I combine that tool for shaped randomness with my existing design ability, that's when it's useful, it expands my range. You know, blah blah centaurs and reverse centaurs, Cory Doctorow, blah blah, ectcetera. I also may as well give some tidbits on the supervillains in question, for funzies: - 100% All Horse Love Sausage doesn't do what you think she does, she's actually classy and this isn't a Garth Ennis comic. No, she just uses it to hypnotize people for regular crimes.
- The American Healthcare System is basically a Digimon made of the combined neural networks of the computer systems the insurance companies use to deny people care, who manifested in realspace and decided to get a bit more Hands On.
- Cop Rock does in fact steal babies. What she does with them, we have no idea.
- Crystal Meth Bone Pills is why you don't try to get high on the experimental nanomachine pills you stole from a lab in the desert. She makes it work tho, if you can call using unfathomable bone-crystal powers for petty crime "making it work"
- Doctor Yiff is technically more of an antihero. Like, sure she forcibly turns people into hot animal-people, but there's at least a 50-50 chance they don't want to be turned back. At least.
- Epic Goon Sesh is just a violent hedonistic mercenary that's looking for a good time and does what she does for kicks. Appropriately, she actually does attract a lot of henchpeople given she pays well (Nobody knows where she gets the money) and, again, good times. She may or may not be a female satyr under those clothes.
- Hot Allostatic Load is a plasma-powered mercenary who appears to be motivated by the needs of the downtrodden, but is actually more motivated by self-pity and a refusal to try to improve herself.
- Peyote Emu War is what happens when an emu psychically ascends after eating the wrong cactus. She does crimes to prepare the world for a war that hasn't come yet, and which nobody's really sure if it just exists in her head or not.
- Regrettable Life Choices made some stupid decisions with her big invention while young and now she's stuck supervillaining. Like man, she didn't want to do this, she wanted to be an engineer. Her initial invention BTW is a super sticky tar that can turn into super-slick grease with an electrical signal, exactly the kind of jobber-ass science gimmick of a C-list Spider Man and/or Flash villain.
- [The Entire Navy Seals Copypasta] (In that I literally copied the wholeass thing in the prompt bar, no really) was never actually in the millitary. She just wanted to be a hero. And yes, she did use white phosphorous on civillians, and she would do it again too.
- We Are All Trapped In The Belly Of This Horrible Machine And The Machine Is Bleeding To Death was never human, or at least that's how the rumors go. She just manifested one day in a decaying industrial zone in the rust belt, an egregore of neoliberal malaise, and she's going to make it everybody else's problem.
All these characters and concepts are 100% CC0, given I am not fond of copyright and I'd love to see people do stuff with these. Especially non-AI/imagegen stuff, I'd be proud if it inspired folks who do that, please send it my way if you do!!
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