#surreal prompts

[onedoodleaday]

Today’s prompt is: Floating heads

#prompts #surreal prompts #horror prompts

[agblend13]

When the new kitten yawns you realize with shock you've inadvertently adopted a baby Hellmouth...

Day 4 of Weird Medieval October! 👹 Acrylics on paper, 3x4".

#medieval art #October prompts #weird medieval october #wierd Medieval guys #artists on tumblr #art #painting #pop surrealism #agblend13 #traditional art #acrylic painting #lowbrow art #traditional painting #mini painting #cat art #cute cats #surreal art #hell #demons #devil #fire #surrealism #fantasy art #my art

[fanfic-obsessed]

Tug of War

Ok everyone,  here is another weird one.  Let’s get some house keeping out of the way first. 

This is set mid clone wars, where Palpatine does not quite have enough support to change the republic into an empire. 

For this, either there are no chips (and no order 66), or Palpatine does not want to activate the chips until the appointed hour, when his Empire is truly ready. Either way the clones side, pretty much exclusively with Jedi. 

This is very much an AU idea, with little connection to canon. 

Now the base of this is that Jedi finds out that Palpatine is the Sith Lord, however the twist is that (because Palpatine has been in charge of the laws for over a decade, plus the work of the other Sith before him) being a Sith Lord is not actually illegal. In addition Palpatine has been exceedingly careful about his conduct and contact with the separatists. Nothing he has done is illegal (practically nothing is illegal for him, due to his position as Supreme Chancellor, not even treason). Finally most of the galaxy, including most of the senate consider the Sith/Jedi split religious differences (Also from generations of careful Sith propaganda).

I want it clear that this take is not correct. Sith are evil, Palpatine very much included. It is only the result of centuries of work that ensured that this even happened.

All of this means that the Jedi very much are not able to oust Palpatine legally, and killing him would see the entire Order being classified as a terrorist organization, which is an automatic execution order for every member regardless of age.  

Now for twist number two. Due to the fact the Jedi were the founders of the Republic, declaring them traitors (an actual attempt to kill the Chancellor being the only exception,due to the Ruusan Reformation treaty) would destroy the Republic. And not in the way it will eventually become an empire kind of way. Instead whatever the power base (political and otherwise) the republic laws are built on, it is intrinsically tied to the Jedi Order’s existence. 

Look I am not sure how exactly it would work but work with me here.  Also this entire idea is meant to poke fun at the idea that laws are anything more immutable than a social contract we all agree to follow. 

All this means that until Palpatine is ready for his Empire to Rise, he cannot destroy the Jedi Order.  And he is found out to be a Sith just a little too early for that to happen. 

So now we have the Jedi on side, unable to eject the overt Sith in the Senate (also not able to leave due to their ties to the Republic).  On the Other Side we have an actual Sith running the government  but unable to kill the Jedi until he is fully ready to launch his empire.  Both still have to deal with a Senate that on a fundamental level does not understand goals, the methods, or the beliefs of either group (Jedi or Sith). 

And they still have to work together.  They still have to make plans and fight a war and deal with the Senate. Palpatine's entire schtick means that he has to keep up appearances, particularly since the Jedi have outright, and publicly, stated to him that the moment he is not the supreme chancellor (and thus it is no longer terrorism and treason to kill him) they are going kill him for being a Sith.  

Following this declaration there was a brief but intense debate in the Senate regarding this declaration and if it counted as threatening a government official/head of government.  It was eventually decided that the clarifying statement that they would only kill him when he was no longer in office meant that it was acceptable, since the Jedi are allowed to kill Sith (that is one of the oldest laws on the books, it fall in the ‘cannot change without destabilizing the Republic’), they just can’t kill a Sith that is also the Supreme Chancellor.  Unfortunately it was also decided that the Jedi, or Jedi allies, could not have any part of removing Palpatine from office; due to the declaration. 

So there is a small amount of ‘race to the finish line’ where the Jedi are still very much trying to end the war and/or maneuver Palpatine out of his position of power, so they can eliminate the Sith.  And Palpatine is working to extend the war, and thus his power, until he had the support needed to unveil his empire (he was set back quite a bit by the revelation that he is a Sith, enough people become suspicious of his motives that he can’t just declare an Empire) so that he could then kill the Jedi. 

The Jedi have an advantage in that there are 10,000 of them and they can trust each other and work together.  Palpatine is not able to trust anyone with his plans, not even his minions or other Sith since they all plan to betray each other. 

Palpatine has an advantage in that he, and his minions, will do things that no being with morals ever could. Not that being restricted by morals is a bad thing, but it does mean that Palpatine can take any action he wants to advance his plans with little concern with collateral damage. There are some days, particularly when that same collateral damage spends hours telling the Jedi that saved them exactly why the Jedi Order are baby stealing monsters, where various Jedi are slightly jealous of Palpatine’s lack of morals. 

Even weirder are the times when both the Sith and the Jedi agree on something, or their short term goals align. Neither group ever forgets that they are enemies who ultimately want to eliminate the other, but there are some days where Adi Gallia has been dealing with idiots in the Senate all day and wants to drink with possibly the only other Force user who deals with the same volume of Senate idiots in one day (look, Palpatine may capitalize on the fundamental misunderstanding the galaxy at large-and the Senate in particular-has about Force use and the difference between Sith and Jedi, but even he is going internally ‘I am trying to subjugate all of you and the Jedi are trying to stop me from subjugating all of you. These goals are not the same.’-I personally head canon that Palpatine is self aware enough to know that he is objectively evil, and is quite proud of that. I just want my bad guy to be an unrepentant ass, be aware that he is an unrepentant ass, and not feel any kind of guilt about that- ). Or every so often for the first year after the reveal Palpatine invites Obi Wan Kenobi to drink with him because Anakin has done something so ridiculous again (while trying to save Pame from something she had already taken care of) that it has managed to accidentally derail six of Palpatine's plots,  endanger two Jedi missions, injured no less than 50 troopers across three battalions, and almost took out the economy of a mid rim world.  Obi Wan goes because after the reveal Palpatine stopped trying to kill him personally (though he still go caught up in the occasional plot), and the Sith has surprisingly good taste in liquor (It should be noted that most of the friendly interactions with Palpatine seem to include heavy drinking and commiserating).  Or Mace Windu catching Palpatine’s eyes from across the Rotunda or some foolish gathering as some being is blathering on and they have just a moment of understanding and commiseration pass between them. 

It is only for the first year because that is when Anakin finally stops hanging around with Palpatine. Anakin also did not have a great grasp of the difference between Sith and Jedi and had bought fully into ‘Palpatine is my friend’.  Then one day they were talking about various Sith and Palpatine made the mistake of sharing a bit too much about drawing power from being in pain, and his (Palpatine’s) plans for the Vader suit.  He never said that the suit was for Anakin, but he was just a bit too gleeful in describing causing another being pain and it freaked Anakin out. 

After the reveal and this holding pattern there is at least one scene where Dooku pouts because Palpatine can drink with Jedi, but Dooku cannot have Tea with Jedi any longer. And it is not because Dooku is a Sith and only partially due to the fact that Dooku is the head of Separatists (thus the enemy). No the real reason that Dooku can not have tea with he Jedi any longer is because Jocasta Nu was told at the beginning of the war that Dooku had removed information from her archives and he knows that no one, not even Yoda, would keep his location a secret from her and risk her wrath. 

He had felt her wrath in the Force as soon as she was told, and that wrath had lingered. Very occasionally Palpatine considers trying to lure her to his side by telling her where she can find Dooku, but figures that she would usurp him and rule the galaxy with an iron fist within a standard week. 

And Palpatine had put far too much work into everything to be a minion again.

#no order 66 #star wars #star wars the clone wars #fanfiction prompt #star wars au #obi wan kenobi #sheev palpatine #absurd #The surreal existence of knowing someone wants to kill you but you can't do anything until they actually try.

[bruesselbach]

"Sederwave", 2024, oil on hemp, 20x16in.

Prompts open, please be patient: bruesselbach.com/ai

#janet bruesselbach #artists on tumblr #oil painting #original art #queer artist #surrealism #analog imagination #actual art from verbal prompt #passover #vaporwave #lofi

[exandrothinadresseveryday]

DRESSTOBER DAY 3 ✧ “BLACKHOLE”

DAY 122: Prompt submitted by @augustine-austringer (which I realise after the fact is technically two words but I'm not a writer so)!! This prompt immediately made my brain go back to that video that emulates falling into a black hole and it's kinda scary but the distortions are also mesmerising, so I wanted to try and lean into that. As stated in previous posts, still open to accepting one word prompts via the asks!!

#the dress of the day #jrwi apotheosis #jrwi exandroth #i sort of just realised that 'drawing char in dress' has the implications of like. drawing them in cute outfits. #and then i go and lean into experimental surreal sorta artworks?? #anyways once again asking for more prompts because i dont wanna run out #i do plan on trying to get through 31 days so dont be shy i have anons open

[anulithots]

Bugs venture into a person's home, and that person has full justification to kill it, because in its search for a safe haven, the bug trespassed upon a being with a much larger domain than it.

So what if a person were to accidentally trespass into a cosmic being's domain. We are pests to it, and the cosmic being has full justification to kill us. We however, were not aware of our trespassing.

#whump prompts #writing prompts #story prompts #prompt list #writing inspiration #prompts #writing ideas #surrealism #lovecrafian #<-- does this count? #I feel like it can count #creative writing #take care of yourself #fiction #writeblr

[youare-number6]

Dark Fantasy - Pt 1

Some are darker than others

#fantasy art #lovecrafian #dark fantasy #hp lovecraft #lovecraft #surrealism #surreal art #ai artwork #generative art #YAN61 #aiartcommunity #landscapes #landscape #yan61 #midjourney 5 #synthography #image prompt #imageprompt

[deepdreamnights]

For people accustomed to blue skies and green hills those places where it is the other other way around give no comfort.

Prompt, process, and more under the fold. This one's a doozy.

'Lets talk image prompting.

I've covered it in other posts, but Midjourney has had image prompting for some time. basically, it's a system by which an image is submitted, broken down into the token language the AI converts text prompts into and uses those tokens in the prompting process.

No actual pixel data is extracted, rather, it uses the image-recognition systems that all generative image systems have to engineer a machine-prompt that draws on information from the dataset. The new Style prompt uses the same system, it just filters out the subject matter and keeps the style.

Clip interrogator without the middleman, so to speak.

So for this job, I started with this image:

Which was actually originally a lava flow that I used deep dream and deep style on a few years back with a bunch of cell phone and other tech-junk pics, before changing the lava red-orange to poison green.

That was used as an image prompt with the text prompt:

a landscape of green slime and strange circuitry, deepdream vibes

Under version 4 of Midjourney. Which produced these:

Which were then image prompted together (you can't prompt with just an image, either 2 images or an image plus text prompt is required in MJ's system) under Midjourney V6.

With some iteration and outpainting, that made:

With a couple variants apiece.

Those were then composited and recolored in photoshop to produce "For People Accustomed". I went with a more varied color palette to give more of a feeling of a strange alien sunrise.

Having some fun in the impressionistic/expressionistic areas.

#my art #ai assisted art #midjourney v4 #midjourney v6 #deep style #deep dream #image prompting #generative art #ai artwork #AI experiment #landscape #ai landscapes #surreal

[murderouscatboymonday]

A Cello made of meat, played by a pair of green hands. They seep blood from the wrists. The cello appears to be marbled beef, with the tailpiece and neck made of bone. The strings are an unidentified bright red material, and the bow strung with red hair.

Strike up the band. Happy Goretober :)

#gore #goretober day 1 #mcmart #mcmgoretober #strike up the band #drawlloween #gore tw #surreal gore #meat #meatcore #gore lover #goretober prompts #october art challenge

[thezetriksystem]

Aquamech Merfolk Observation Unit I - IV

#artificial intelligence #ai art #sci fi art #cyberpunk #sci fi #prompts #surreal art #surrealism #wobistics #heavy atmospheric #biomechanoid #ai artwork #amoeba culture #architecture #disco diffusion #deep sea life #merfolk #low

[0-ink-zinc]

Writing Prompt #11

"Eh, y'know what I always say: 'What I can't accept, I change. What I can't change is NOT my fucking problem'."

"THAT DOESN'T APPLY TO MURDER YOU DINGBAT!"

*waves hand dismissively* "Not my problem."

#daily writing prompt #writing practice #writing prompts #dark prompts #writing #0-ink-zinc #creative writing #dark academia prompts #surrealism prompt #predicament prompt #daily prompts #writing prompt #writeblr #fantasy prompt #horror prompt #dark humour #dark humour prompt #comedy prompt #questionable motives prompt

[agblend13]

💀 Danse Macabre 🌸

#weird medieval guys #weird medieval october #drawloween #halloween art #october prompts #skeleton #artists on tumblr #art #painting #pop surrealism #agblend13 #traditional art #acrylic painting #lowbrow art #traditional painting #pop art #psychedelic art #trippy #weird art #weirdcore #dreamy #surrealist #my art #neon #rainbow #colorful #outer space

[amalgamationink]

NAPOWRIMO24 #3: Palingenesis

#prompt: write a surreal prose poem. #this might be a metaphor about being in a codependent self-destructive relationship where you're doomed to consume each other. #or it could be about loving/worshipping a fucked up fungus lady who will use her eldritch magicks to make you fungus too! who can say yk #napowrimo #napowrimo 2024 #spilled ink #spilled poetry #prose poetry #prose poem #poetry on tumblr #poets on tumblr #poems on tumblr #love poem #love poetry #body horror #horror poem #horror poetry #damien.txt #image description in alt

[bruesselbach]

Muscle Castle

AI 3, 2024, oil on hemp, 12x18in.

Follow the link to the project statement - you can send me verbal prompts for future paintings now. Carefully, please.

#artists on tumblr #janet bruesselbach #original art #oil painting #queer artist #surrealism #invented #from prompt #analog imagination

[salovie]

sips of earl grey in gray light,

running on affection fumes,

kissing scrapes with bloody lips

memory, too paper thin:

that first glance as strangers

a leaf still pushes through the stones

#poetry #spilled ink #napowrimo #NaPoWriMo 2023 #prompt #Write a series of surrealist answers to ‘what is’ questions based on a list of random words. use your answers to inspire a poem #this prompt was so cool actually #it brought me to a story I never would have written on my own #is it surreal enough? too surreal? idk but it got that creativity flowing #not a haiku #just for fun here’s the list of words I used to ultimately inspire this poem: #fog seaweed thunder river acorn miracle

[otpcompendium]

One morning the top pane of A's window inexplicably shatters, spiderwebs creeping down the glass seemingly out of nowhere. On the same day, they encounter B, a strangely angelic figure who claims to have moved in to the apartment upstairs. When they go to welcome the new neighbor, the upstairs apartment is empty, but over the course of the next few weeks more and more strange things start to happen in A's apartment, and B keeps inexplicably showing up in unexpected places at the perfect times.

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