tbh I think it’s a great theme / genre because you get to use the uncanny / inhuman aspects of AI generated images as an enhancement / ultimate goal instead of trying to cover it up
An evening in the 1980’s , two teenagers seating on a couch are eating a Pizza in front of an old CRT TV sending a halo of blue light, on the back of the room, a dark and mysterious eldritch shadow tentacle lies on the ground giving the impression to be in a horror movie The image looks like an old VHS Glitching
“a person looking into the stars with increasing horror as he realizes the dark forest theory and the terror of the endless expanse of space”
(the dark forest theory is that we don’t hear from aliens because any species that attempts to communicate is immediately destroyed by more advanced civilizations. This is basically what happened to me, while out hiking in the woods for a couple months. Any time we hiked at night it was super creepy)
tbh if i were a dark forest space entity, i wouldn’t destroy the entire population of earth; only most of the humans. i would keep some of the humans i found most enjoyable, like 0.00002% of them, along with let most other creatures continue while eradicating mosquitoes and ticks and such. need a few humans to explain any earth stuff id be curious about. but ya i could totally see dark forest. it isnt like id let humans spread to other planets and infest them too :) tbh where do i sign up to be a dark forest alien? new goal of what i want to be when i grow up
new fav concept ty so much!
edit: would also sterilize those remaining few humans.
Ursula K. Le Guin had a story published in 1971 about a conscious vegetation wholly covering a planet and what happens when humans arrive ☞ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaster_than_Empires_and_More_Slow
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i get that the forest in the “dark forest” is not a foresttbh i dont really consider those humans because they did not try to colonize the world, set up factories, harvest the natural resources, place the plant in a ‘reservation’, and maximize their profit while attempting to maintain control of those under them. On the wiki i didn’t even notice the concept of profit at all. Beside the nonbelievable humans pretty nice story tho.
tho i’ve always believed a world in perfect harmony should still be able to defend itself from unknown future events if required and it seems the plant did not adequately invest resources in growing this path.
overall, were I a dark forest entity, I would not eat the plant because it seems to be stably on it’s own world, refining it in to perfection; not a species that wrecks it’s own world while with a drive to spread to other worlds infinitely.
wow interesting concept. humans as the baby crying in the forest at night is a great example.
Prompt: Sci-fi horror movie scene, a wanderer wearing faded nomad clothing, looking up at a large pulsating sculpture made of red meat, the creature has one gigantic eye that placidly looks down at the wanderer, its flesh seems to grow throughout the city ruins covering everything, side view --ar 91:51 --sref 2640228480 --sv 4If you’ve ever wondered where all the missing limbs go when your generator randomly loses them, they go to this guy.
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Swamp Gandalf
Damp Wizard
Whoa ok ok so this is bad ass
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I’ve been working on an eldritch themed intro to Albanian language book. This is one of my favorite images.
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