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Here’s a heads-up that I’m going to delete one of my fanfics. Don’t worry, I’ll never delete my popular one, In the Bleak Midwinter. Instead I’m deleting one of my least popular ones, Prisoner, because I’m in the process of filing the serial numbers off to turn it into an original novel. The finished product will be different in many ways, including a very different ending, but some bits will be the same, and I don’t want to be accused of plagiarizing my own fanfic.

If you want to save it for your own reading pleasure, that’s fine, but don’t share or post it anywhere.

I don’t necessarily recommend it in its current form. I wrote it a while ago when I was bad at creating OCs. The main OC has no personality, but is just a vantage point from which to view the neurotic disaster that is Remus. In the novel, she’ll finally get a personality. Also the novel will be set in the modern day in my hometown (while it’s infiltrated by aliens from a different dimension), since I’m tired of researching what things were like decades ago in a different country.

This takes a fic out of my Employee of the Month series, which describes in exquisite detail exactly how much it sucks to be canon-compliant Remus. Readers should be able to infer from context that this missing part of his life sucked as well, so the series is still coherent.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14939201/chapters/34612796

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Peacocks are extra proud during Pride month. (According to Stable Diffusion AI.)

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Pride (month) of lions, via Stable Diffusion AI.

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Animals celebrating Pride Month, thanks to Stable Diffusion AI.

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Sunflowers celebrating Pride Month, thanks to Stable Diffusion AI. It’s easy to get AI to make colorful flowers, but a lot harder to get the colors in rainbow order.

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Inspired by that “baby peacock” AI art that’s been making the rounds of “nature” groups recently, here are some more baby peacocks that are just as real, and objectively even cuter since the prompts include other cute things such as kittens, owlets, and spiders.

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Stained glass fashion is for everyone, regardless of size, color, or number of fingers.

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Move over cotton, silk, and polyester; the trendiest new material is stained glass.

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It’s a lot easier to make these in Stable Diffusion than sew them.

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More fun with medieval fashion, thanks to Stable Diffusion.

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Look what I unearthed from the catacombs: a remarkably well-preserved box of fashion magazines from the Middle Ages. (Via Stable Diffusion.)

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I tried to get Stable Diffusion to generate some art representing a character in my fanfic. This, approximately, is Ron’s great aunt Tessie back when she was young, in the 1920s. I prompt, “Happy, joyful, giggling, laughing, coyly smiling, flirtatious, playful, brown eyes…” and Stable Diffusion be like, “Smoldering vamp shooting curses out of her freaky chartreuse eyes, got it.” Anyway, at least she has lots of fabulous outfits.

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Look what I found buried in the root cellar: a mildewed box of ambrotype photographs showing what the fashionable wizard was wearing in the early days of photography. (Either that or this is AI-generated art from Stable Diffusion.)

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I found another box of old magazines in the attic: 1920s issues of Dueling Illustrated, the sports magazine for witches and wizards. Notice the popularity in that era of the Tripod Curse, used to trip up one’s opponent with an extra leg. (Via Stable Diffusion.)

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I tried taking some photos yesterday morning to capture the beauty of frost on flowers, and didn’t quite manage it. I wasn’t really willing to put in the required time and effort out in the cold to angle the camera just so to capture the morning light. Could I cheat and get the pictures I wanted with AI?

No. These pictures hurt my botanist’s heart. These are supposedly “Morning sunlight on frost on a daffodil,” “Morning sunlight on frost on a narcissus,” and “Morning sunlight on frost on a jonquil.” Stable Diffusion has no idea what daffodils, narcissus, and jonquils are. They’re supposed to be monocots for eff’s sake! Nice lighting on the frost, but these are all fails otherwise.

It might be possible to train my own version of Stable Diffusion on enough pictures of accurately-labelled plants to get better results than this, but I’d rather crouch in the cold in my garden.

I posted one of my mediocre actual photos on Facebook, and then made another post complaining about Stable Diffusion’s lack of botanical knowledge. My actual photo got a few likes. My AI art post got oodles of likes and loves, and also lots of comments from friends praising my photographic skill, and asking what kinds of flowers they are. One friend shared one of my “photos,” crediting me as the “photographer.”

Sigh. Now I know which of my friends comment without reading the post.

Anyway, in the unlikely event that anyone’s read this far, I want to make sure y’all know that these are NOT PHOTOGRAPHS! These are computer-generated! These are not real flowers!

I expect to see these pictures in plant ID groups soon. eBay vendors will offer their seeds for sale, alongside the blue rose seeds they’ve been selling for years. It doesn’t actually require any fancy technology to fool people.

Just checking: when I posted those pictures from that box of old fashion magazines for wizards that I found in my attic, y’all knew I was joking, right? Y’all knew what the AI art tags meant? Right?

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Some more magical menswear finds from that box I found in the attic, full of fashion magazines for wizards from the 1920s. (Via Stable Diffusion.)

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A runway show of magical menswear, via Stable Diffusion.