“This Is What Your Worlds Are Lacking”: Artists Are Using AI To Create Fat, Black Sci-Fi And Fantasy Characters

Buzzfeed ^ | 02/25/2023 | Cheyenne M. Davis

[DannyTN]

Here, I temporarily abandoned the Succubi pictures and decided to cross Scarlett Johansen with Jennifer Love Hewlett.

The Scarlett is strong with the first one.

[DejaJude]

Maybe you should try an obese Wonder Woman instead of a succubus.

[Gen.Blather]

Having written fourteen novels, seven of which are on Amazon, here’s my take on characters. If a character has a trait; a limp, a lisp, a verbal tick or that character is a race different from other characters, it needs to be for a reason. Either it’s for differentiating the character from others or it is integral to the plot. Having a black character in medieval England without explanation will be jarring and off-putting to the reader. The reader will keep expecting that trait to be important at some point. Another problem is characters are caricatures. Only the main character can be fully fleshed-out. So, you’re going to have a black person in a role originally written for a different race you’ll either have to imbue him with what people consider black traits, or you’ll be constantly pointing out that he’s black even though he doesn’t “sound” black or “act” black. An agent told me about a novel I had submitted if I made the main characters gay, he’d represent it. I reread the whole thing wondering how to handle the change and nothing in the plot worked the same way. Plotting a novel or movie is like building anything else.
You design to accomplish a particular task. You wouldn’t, for example, install a lounge chair in a race car. (This was when I decided to go back to engineering.)

[simpson96]

“Get woke, go broke” is going to apply *ahem* big-time, with this.

[DannyTN]

Maybe you should try an obese Wonder Woman instead of a succubus.

[Fzob]

I agree. Anything recent is basically woke trash. Typically very creative, but far too much woke nonsense. I currently limit myself to older books before Western culture went insane.

[TalBlack]

“Plotting a novel or movie is like building anything else.“

Damn right. Change a line on page 38 and totally screw up something on page 92!

[DejaJude]

Lol, the first one looks like a little person but the second looks like she could still kick some butt.

[moovova]

Baby got back.

[Dragonspirit]

Hey why does it have to be a first step? Walking so white! It should be twerking out of the shuttle toward the nearest mars McDonalds listening to Lil STD or whoever is in fashion.

[Tench_Coxe]

[Rummyfan]

“It’s spiritual and very much connected to who I am as a Black, queer person.”

Of course.....

[Rummyfan]

Rochelle Brock, a 27-year-old Brooklyn-based, size-inclusive beauty and lifestyle photographer, got into digital art via creating families on The Sims. Now, she uses Midjourney to explore both the quotidian aspects of fat, Black life and to create more majestic pieces that showcase fat, Black bodies in the form of angels, mermaids, and other mythical creatures.

“It sort of sucks to know you are undesirable and underrepresented in the real world and the fantasy world as well,” Brock said. “I see fat women as beautiful beings who are capable of anything...

Except running a marathon...

[Organic Panic]

Don’t forget Blade.

[Drew68]

I remember in the Navy taking a train from Portsmouth to London for some liberty and looking out my window to see the Battersea Power Station. I was so excited and started snapping pics.

My traveling companions had no idea what I was looking at. They weren't Pink Floyd fans.

[Tacrolimus1mg]

I don’t think she understands the histories of most of those mythical creatures... They originated with white, European cultures.

Dummy.

[Repeat Offender]

That’s my spirit animal.

[Fledermaus]

Wasn’t she in Dune?

[Disambiguator]

That video is hilarious.