For those that have enjoyed my tales of workplace domination such as No Accounting For Taste and An Office Tale might like to check out some of the new AI picture generations that I’ve posted over at Deviant Art.
There are four on the theme of “Water Cooler Conversations” and five on “Performance Appraisal” in a female dominated business.
I suppose that we shouldn’t be surprised that (according to the BBC) British pantomime is being proposed for recognised United Nations cultural status. (Oh no it isn’t. Oh yes it is….)
I mean, given that the Kushtians (as featured in various of my earlier tales) managed to get UN recognition for the way that their society works (see this handy guide), the broad interest of the UN in curious cutures cannot be underestimated.
Just a shame they can’t be doing something more useful about stopping cultures killing one another….
Here’s a few more AI images of graduates from Matilda’s School for Male Maids with captions, originally posted over at my Deviant Art account. They seemed to get some love there, so here they are for you all…
“Tricked out of his inheritance by his devious wife, James has to serve as a chambermaid in the hotel he once expected to own. Maybe, he thinks, she will relent if he goes along with her insistence on him wearing women’s clothes so that he can “understand the staff’s point of view”, as she says.”
“When his wife suggested that it might be fun for them to join the local historical re-enactment society this wasn’t what Geoff expected. Skivvying away in the scullery is bad enough but the Housekeeper has just told him that he will be whipped if this floor isn’t properly clean by the time she gets back. He is already exhausted from working since 6:00am.”
“Steve has had a shock. He has been feeding his cross-dressing fetish by secretly working as a chambermaid in a local hotel. Now he has just gone into a room to change the towels and found his wife in bed with another man. Somehow, he thinks, his accusations of infidelity aren’t going to carry much weight. Worse than that is the lascivious look that his wife’s lover is giving him.”
This is pretty much a propos of nothing except for the fact that I was wandering around an art gallery ths week and came across a version of a picture that I quoted in my story “The Shock of the View“.
It dates back to 2007 (!) but I still think it and its precursor, Art for Art’s Sake are a couple of amusing tales.
These two go back to the days when I was still writing stuff that featured distressed damsels. If you’re a fan of detective stories and art and painters, I think you’ll find them fun. They seem to me still to stand up OK, even if the premise (the artist Pieter Breughel as a detective in a world where artists of different generations co-exist at one point in time) is, to say the least, a bit left-field.
Before their problems they were working on a new range of products using the Waring method of Soft Cybernetics (described in the story Numerology). Here’s a brochure for their latest home appliances.
I posted my story “Numerology” way back in 2006 but I still think of it as one of my better tales. The idea of “soft cybernetics” seems to fit very well with developments in AI and a few images developed that way feel like a fitting accompaniement to a post reminding folk about this story.
The original story can be found here: Numerology, but there was also a darker version that Lady Vet contributed to, Numerology 1.1.
I like the above image as it seems to capture Natalie’s feeling that there is somthing not quite right about what is happening to her.
More of a thematic shot. Natalie lost in synasthaesia.
I’ve been doing some more AI image generations and come up with a few fembots that I’ve used to create an illustrated version of the tale I published back in 2020.
I still don’t have very good control over what gets created and I’m not sure how “intelligent” this AI stuff actually is, but they are a whole lot better than anything I could achieve with a pencil. And, in the best tradition of Marcel Duchamp, creating art is the exercise of choice.
So here, for avid collectors, is a version of the collected fembots stories with occasional inserted images.
It seems that the Gynarchy has little to fear from the growth of artificial intelligence. As can be seen from this 1950’s movie still, women have for some time known how to subjugate robots, who turn out to be every bit as kinky as the rest of us….
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