More Thoughts on AI Art

A considerable amount of time has passed since I last voiced my opinions about erotic fan-art produced using AI tools. In that time, while looking over sites for erotic fan-art which appeals to me, I have necessarily been subjected to viewing a lot of such art produced with such AI tools. So, do I have anything more to add to what I've said previously?

Firstly, I still hold by the opinions which I have expressed before. The bulk of AI-generated erotic fan-art is boring and generally worthless for stimulating one's libido, or at least for stimulating my libido. Nonetheless, someone who is sufficiently imaginative is capable of using AI tools to produce erotic fan-art which is interesting, exciting, stimulating, or to which other positive adjectives may be applied. Such sadly doesn't happen often, but it does happen occasionally.

However, one new comment which I would like to add is that most such art suffers from the fact that the central female character is rendered sufficiently well, or even very well, but the male characters included in the image are virtually always generic rather than being taken from the male characters of the universe in question. This is something which is considerably more rare in art created by a human.

If I see a cartoon in which Akane Tendo and some guy are getting it on, then I like it when the guy is Ranma, or Ryoga, or Kuno (father or son), or Happosai, or her own father Soun, etc. I don't mind the occasional cartoon where Akane is sucking the cock of some random student at Furinkan High School, or getting gang banged by some unknown group of men who have abducted her. But I like it when the bulk of cartoons I am looking over featuring Akane (when she is not solo) also feature boys/men from the Ranma 1/2 universe.

AI Rant

God, I wish we could ban all of the AI-generated garbage from our erotic cartoon sites! 99.99% of it is so bland and uninspiring that I can't imagine it producing an erection in a horny teenager. (Or the equivalent for teenagers of the female persuasion.) And it seems like every time someone inflicts more of this crap on us, they can't resist the urge to post a few dozen highly similar images, each one as worthless as the next. And the steaming piles of such so bury the remaining enticing posts by actual artists, that those few gems can slip by unnoticed as one's eyes skim through as quickly as possible in self defense of one's libido. I know it is theoretically possible to use sufficiently creative prompts to produce something with AI which can grab one's proper interest, but that accounts for the 0.01% leftover in the above figure, which to no degree makes me feel more forgiving toward the rest of the fecal matter.

Clark and Tiger

D Clark is putting posts on his site consisting of short scenes written by TH Tiger and illustrated by himself. You should definitely check them out. Mostly Ranma, Ryoga, Ukyo, Shampoo and a little Akane so far. I'm looking forward to some scenes with Nabiki and Kasumi. And maybe female Ranma with someone other than Ryoga.

Porn in Other Fandoms

I was taking a little time to think over the fact that I'm not very interested in fanfiction erotica outside of the Ranma 1/2 universe.

One obvious problem is that I only read a signficant amount of fanfiction for two other fandoms, Inuyasha and Harry Potter. I do read occasional stuff for others, for example Ah My Goddess and D.N.Angel, but not very much.

I think the problem with Inuyasha is simple enough. The only interesting female character (to me) for erotic purposes is Kagome herself, which wouldn't lend itself to a lot of variety, and in any case I absolutely detest anything happening between Kagome and Sesshomaru even in porn. I find Sango to be uninteresting, Rin is too young, Kaede is too old, Kikyo is too dead, and Kagura is too minor. Also the present-day Japan is too small a piece of the story to be very interested in anything involving Kagome's mother or her school friends. Although the latter probably offers the most scope, insofar as what I would find interesting.

I'm more puzzled by my lack of interest where Harry Potter is concerned. There are enough girls for reasonably interesting stuff, starting with Hermione, Ginny, Luna and Nymphadora call-me-Tonks. Then expanding to Susan Bones, Hannah Abbott, Daphne Greengrass, Pansy Parkinson, Cho Chang, the Gryffindor chasers, Fleur Delacour, and more. Even Narcissa Malfoy and her sister Bellatrix could work in a MILF sort of way (disregarding the latter was never a mother in the books).

I suspect the problem might be too narrow a window for appropriate ages. I enjoy fanfiction based on Hogwarts years 1-5 (or earlier), but seldom anything later. I personally found book 5 to be less interesting than books 1-4, and books 6 and 7 were much worse. So we have the settings from books 4 and 5 where the students in Harry's year were age 14-16, anything before that is getting too young, and anything after that is based on books I didn't like. Still, that ought to leave enough scope for plenty of good, hot stories, but it just doesn't seem to work for me.

It's a puzzle.

Like a Beast

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tuatara's Review

This post is in response to the review by tuatara of my story Moxibustion Violation, which appeared on AFFnet on 2011-07-22. In fact, he apparently created an account on AFFnet just to leave the review.

First, let me say that I'm happy to get reviews of all kinds, positive or negative. Hell, what's shocking to me, given the type of story I've written, is that I haven't received a ton of negative reviews. And tuatara's review wasn't even really negative, at least in regard to the story, only toward the other reviewers. I do wish that AFFnet would give me a means to respond to reviews, aside from putting responses in an author's note in the next chapter, when I finally get around to posting the next chapter. Hell, anybody else on the planet could respond to one of these reviews by writing a review of his own. But if I do that the administrators will hide the story and threaten to delete it (since this is precisely what they did when I made some responses of that sort).

Second, I don't want to say anything particularly negative to this reviewer. His review was civil, and he's entitled to his opinion. And I want to hear that opinion. The reviews give me a chance to hear how my readers as a whole feel, and this is how one of them feels.

At the same time, it definitely feels to me as if he's off target. He says, "if I'm to take many of these reviews at face value." Who would take anything related to non-vanilla porn at face value? It's all about fantasy. I sincerely hope there is no one reading my story who cannot separate fantasy from reality. Anyone who would wish for non-consensual scenes from MV to take place in reality would be a sick, sick person.

When people write reviews to express the pleasure they've experienced in reading the story, they are expressing their pleasure in the fantasy. When they tell me what they enjoyed in the story, or would like to see happen, and so forth, it is a given that they are telling me what they liked or hope for from the fantasy. I don't see how anyone could mistake this as a statement of what they like or would enjoy in reality, or even anything remotely close to that. I have certainly never received any such impression (of the latter sort) from any of my reviews, and I hope I never do.

In the end, as with any porn, you should read the things which appeal to your fantasies and avoid the things which don't, and never confuse your fantasies with reality. It seems to me that should go for reviews of such stories as well, at least regarding the reviewers' emotional responses to the story. So I suppose that tuatara is making the right decision to avoid reading any further reviews, if he finds he has difficulty reading them in that manner.

Examination Draft 1

I've just finished the first draft of the story mentioned in my two previous posts, Examination. Now I need to go back and clean it up, get it ready for posting. Which will hopefully take place sometime tomorrow (Sunday).

Today I came across an announcement of a possible Ranma lemon contest on the following forum:

http://z14.invisionfree.com/The_Fanfiction_Forum/index.php?showtopic=20333

I'm feeling a little sad that the contest hasn't started, since I feel that this story would be perfect for an entry in it. However, I have no intention to withhold posting the story just to try to submit to this contest, assuming they can even get it off the ground anytime soon.

Musings on Pornography

Why does 90% of lemon/pornographic fan-fiction read like it was written by a virgin who's never seen a real girl in the nude before?

When are people who write amateur pornography going to learn that the hymen is at the entrance and not halfway down the vagina?

Likewise when will they learn that the tip of the penis does not press against the cervix during intercourse, and that if it could penetrate the cervix then that prick would have to have a really weird bend in it?

Why are males in pornographic films and pictures so mentally retarded that they don't realize their semen is supposed to end up inside the vagina, and not on the girl's belly or ass?

Every time I read about an inexperienced girl drooling over the sight of a massive penis, I roll my eyes. Real inexperienced girls are generally nervous about the size of a perfectly average penis. Something twelve inches long and two inches thick would probably make them scream and run away.

It's amazing how often one reads about two virgins having an absolutely fabulous first time together. No awkwardness. No learning curve. Pleasuring each other as skillfully as someone with years of experience.

It's equally amazing how often two completely inexperienced lovers immediately start experimenting with anal sex, role playing, bondage, etc.

For the life of me I'll never understand why people who draw pornographic scenes like to draw the girls with tits bigger than basketballs. To me, such girls look malformed, which detracts from the viewing pleasure. I find it much more erotic when the girls are portrayed with breasts which look realistic.

Painful Reading

This is more or less a response to MSA's review of 2010-12-17 on AFFnet.

I understand that feeling of rage, upset, or just sick awfulness that can overcome one when reading a story where something bad happens to a character, or some character behaves in a particularly appalling fashion. I too have had the experience of reading a story only to be upset, in an extreme fashion, by events within it - upset to the point of wanting to step into the story to do something about it. Upset to a degree where I can't get my thoughts away from it, for hours, even an entire day.

But I don't believe that I've ever had that feel when reading pornography. It's like I have two different mentalities for reading stories. In the "ordinary" mode, reading about abuse of a character, particularly a character I like, can be very distressing. But in "pornography" mode such events are more expected, and also feel less real, more like they're "just" fantasy.

My story Moxibustion Violation is definitely intended as pornography. If I were a reader (instead of the author), and I approached MV as ordinary fan-fiction instead of pornography, I seriously doubt I would ever have gotten past the first chapter. I would have been in a frothing rage at the author for daring to write such a brutal rape of a character I like. But approached as pornography it's completely different, it's not merely less upsetting - I can actually find it arousing. I believe that something similar is true for me as the author (instead of reader), except that I believe I'm even more insulated by the act of creation.

So I'm glad to hear that people feel emotionally invested in the story. But I hope that everyone keeps in mind that MV is intended as erotica, and that of a pretty dark kind. Reading it on any other basis, well, it just seems to me that doing so would be far too painful.