Sunday, December 12, 2021

Wombo-ing up the House of Hellish Harlots website

This is a x-post from my patreon (where I posted a few more pics, coz they can't all fit in this post).

If you've checked out the House of Hellish Harlots website recently, you might have noticed it has a little bit more colour now.


My webdev skills are rudimentary at best (probably less, to be honest - when it comes to IT I'm more of the backend math model coding type).  It looks vaguely okay on my laptop, but I haven't been able to test it for other devices.  If it looks like ass on your display (rather than just garish - that's intentional! :D ), let me know.

The art is from the new viral AI art toy, WOMBO Dream, you might have seen floating around on social media.  You can play with it here:
https://www.wombo.art/ 

You feed it some keywords or phrases, and it spits out an impressionist painting in a variety of different styles (I'm guessing they're using some kind of neural network and trained it on a massive art catalogue).  Obviously, me being me, I fed it a bunch of filth and the results were... interesting.


Currently, the AI only really seems good for abstract and impressionist works.  It seems fairly difficult to get anything resembling a human form out of it, with "house7" below being the closest I got.  Most of the time it spits out a weird jumble of body parts and facial features that looks bad rather than weird or disturbing.


I like it more with buildings and room interiors.  The lines are still 'off', but they're off in a way that looks weird and hallucinatory.  Especially if you feed it conflicting terms such as "house" with "hellish" and "sexual pleasure"/"perversion".  That results in the AI blurring the lush voluptuous curves painted by the old masters with the regular lines of a building, and resulting in something that's 'off' in an interesting and slightly perverse way.  Perfect for the House of Hellish Harlots, which is more than it appears!


I'm not sure if the developers intended it as anything other than a fun toy, but it seems to me like a really good way to produce abstract art for album or book covers (especially for self-published authors).  Looking up the guidelines for use, the people that made the app don't want people trying to sell the artwork, but seem okay with people using it as album/book covers.  I don't know how long that will stay in place as I suspect other people will latch onto the usefulness fairly quickly.


In the meantime I thought some of these would make nice background art to brighten up the website.  It's a nice interim fix to hold me over until I can get some proper artwork commissioned.

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  1. Holy cow. You’re right, the art you’re getting from this app is incredible. Yeah, from the sound of it you’re cherry-picking from several different pics it’s producing and we visitors to the site are only seeing the ones you’ve chosen, but still these pics are incredible. Especially the abstract beings you’ve managed to get from it. Could easily imagine them being either weaker beings not strong enough or too strange for a human form.

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    1. Yep. Made a lot and picked out the ones that looked good. Buildings/Interiors seems to work best.

      I did also play around with terms like "A Succubus for Christmas" to see if I could get decent cover art. That seems harder to get something that looks good. I might post the examples in a few days.

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    2. I got a neat result from “Succubus playing with victim” Not recognizably human, but could easily fit a Succubus from one of your stories getting creative with a chosen target, twisting their flesh.

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    3. It's definitely fun to play around with. I keep plugging in terms and keeping the ones that look good. I think I have a couple that would make reasonable covers for Succubus for Freedom, Succubus for Halloween and Succubus for Remembrance.

      When I'm less busy, I'll try overlaying titles and put them up as potential covers to see what people think.

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  2. (Succubi Lover)

    Wow, lad! The art is really trippy. It’s like a perverted Picasso made all of that and the image on the background of it is amazing, Hydra. Month by month, you are growing, and it is beautiful. Now into the whole daemons preying on humans’ bit from what the anon was saying.

    There is a combination of reasons why Hydra’s daemons prey on humans:

    (1): Taste. Humans are simply more yummy and tastier, just like what Hydra says. Daemons will seek out to eat the most delicious and yummy food and humans do the same thing. Virgin humans being the tastiest, which means all succubi are pretty much going to go after the 40-year-old shy guy virgin human man over the super Chad incubus. The human semen will most likely offer more sustenance, nutrition, and uses than incubi semen.

    (2): Human Souls. Hydra has made it very clear that the daemons that go to Earth are after human souls either to feed on them, or use a human soul as a source of power, much like a battery because human essence is food or a form of resource. Sure succubi like Rosa, Verde, or Panta can bang an incubus stud to satisfy them, but a human male is better because he would taste better and a chance of them nabbing a human soul, a special life energy that the incubus does not have. And again, the human is more desirable if he’s a virgin, which makes him superior to an incubus; it doesn’t matter if the incubus is a handsome muscular hunk with a big dick.

    (3): Anti-Cannibalism. The daemons (especially succubi and lust daemons) do not seem to practice cannibalism and they probably have an “Ape Shall Not Kill Ape” unspoken law. Humans are free to prey on, but succubi, or incubi hunting and draining other succubi is most likely a no-no. A good example of this is the pleasure temple succubi “attacking” Verde and not draining her to death, but came at Phil with killing intent, displaying the succubi were seeing her life as more important than Phil’s. Its like asking why can’t vampires just feed on each other instead of humans?

    (4): Predator and prey. The daemons do not see humans as equal beings, succubi and other daemons see humans as more or less prey animals. They have this instinct and urge to feed on humans, like a vampire that has an urge to feed on human blood. While some daemons can like humans, they have a very inhuman and alien like way of showing it. Nicole is pretty much on the path of trying hard to see humans as her equal and not tasty juice bags. It’s also why Phil had a story arc to prove to Verde and her “sisters” that he was useful alive to them instead of just being another human to “dry fish” and dump into the garbage can.

    That’s all I could think of. Are these close to why the succubi go after humans, Hydra? Did I miss something lad, or did it hit bulls’ eye regarding your notes?

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    1. There's also the consideration that incubus semen might not be 'semen' in the conventional sense. I haven't really gone into the 'male' lust daemons with the same detail as the succubi/monster girls, but they're likely going to be just as varied. If I was being creative (and let Horror-head out of the cage) incubus semen could function similar to succubus venom in that it converts the body into something the lust daemon can suck up. In that way, for some incubi, it could be like spider venom, and they slowly suck the prey up to leave a husk behind. Or it could trigger a female body to throw everything into producing new eggs for the incubus to consume.

      The goblins that have cropped up in a couple of stories are especially repulsive. They have spiky penises and their semen can 'fertilise' any cell. This results in new goblin daemons sprouting like a tumour from the affected tissue.

      And that's enough, Horror-Head. Back in the cage for you. :D

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  3. The art is trippy as hell MEH!Damn. Regarding the whole succubi preying on humans, it falls under the whole "why vampires drink human blood when they can feed on each other?" Ordeal. Like Succubi Lover said, its simply because they taste better and they gain more energy and power from it.

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    1. Vamps are a little different as in most depictions they're reanimated corpses with higher functions/powers. If they have blood, it probably tastes spoiled.

      Other depictions are different. I'm currently going through Brian Lumley's old Necroscope series and those vamps love feeding off other vamps. That's a very atypical take on vamps, though, as Lumley is more of a Cthulhu Mythos type writer, so his vamps are a little shoggoth-y. (Also a really good British horror author and worth checking out.)

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  4. Excuse me Hydra but I just got into your world a few days ago and I've been wondering. If there a "pro-humanity" faction on the daemon side? Succubi, rage daemons, and other types that want to go to Earth to coexist with humans?

    I mean that's why Nicole is on Earth in the first place right? She deliberately came to Earth to live like a normal citizen.

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    1. Nicole's back story is fairly complex to get to how she is now.

      There is a sort of pro-humanity faction (in the stories - not so much in HoHH), but that's more a by-product of other aims and schemes.

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  5. Yikes MEH, get Horror Head back in the cage. I wonder if Horror Head is a by product of you trying to become a full fledged horror author like Stephen King/ Lovecraft, but your "Horny Head" isn't letting Horror Head man the wheel.

    That's also another good factor at why the succubi don't want incubi semen and its actually fucking BRILLIANT and makes sense in the lore. Just like the womb of a succubus can't bear a child, the incubi semen isn't really semen but a "harmful fluid" that can act like succubus venom.

    The human semen is sought after because of its unique properties and good taste, which is why Rosa isn't hunting down incubi to bang or why the Doctoress isn't going around draining the balls of incubi.

    The Elegant Lady herself even said the piss of an incubus was unpleasant and vile, so I can imagine how a "golden shower" is gonna go down...

    As for the goblins...

    KILL THEM ON SIGHT!

    Thank you Hydra/Horror Head for reminding me that Hell isn't just filled with cute demon girls, but eldtrich monsters and Doom demons.

    Thanks man for focusing on the hot devil girls. I wouldn't want to read about a horned muscular goat demon standing at 9'9 forcing itself on a woman or man.

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    1. Funnily enough, one of my unfinished horror novel ideas does include a horned muscular goat demon scene...

      (The novel idea overall is quite good, but hasn't quite come together. It's on the backburner until I can figure out what it's missing.)

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  6. Umm what about Verde and Rosa Hydra? You said that you aren't into Meru because she doesn't have big boobs and isn't curvy enough. Doesn't that apply to Verde and Rosa who are the "teenage succubi" of the group among older succubi? (Honey, Ntyle etc.)

    Their descriptions are a bit all over the place from chapter to chapter. Do they look like grown women, or are they teenage girls with "well endowed" bodies? Do Verde and Rosa have womanly mature faces or they still have that youthful "little girl" face?

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    1. I'll have to check on the consistency. Rosa and Verde, like the other succubi, like to vary how they act, so they'll be giggling teens with some prey and slightly older with others. In raw appearance I'd probably say 18-20ish, and Nyte and Nurse Honey being very hot mid to late-20s. That would be the early impression (coloured by how they are acting at the time). Hanging around them longer would throw off those early impressions as all of them are clearly older than they appear.

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  7. Hmmm. Been experimenting a bit more with the Dream by WOMBO app. One interesting thing I’ve noticed is that it recognizes movie titles and well-known characters, like Jason Vorhees (putting his name in got me a pic that featured a distorted hockey mask in it,) and Nightmare on Elm Street (got me a couple of Demonic figures standing in front of a house.) Freddy Krueger got me a squashed distorted figure in Freddy’s trademark outfit. Star Wars A New Hope got me a picture that prominently featured a figure very similar to an Astromech.

    It’s also possible to get some interesting hybrid figures with the app. I let some of my younger relatives play with the app some while helping my mom babysit them and they got some interesting results with it.

    One of them put in “Horse Flamngo” which got me a sort of quadruped flamingo like figure. Another did School bus bath, which made a bus shaped bathtub and several smaller school buses that could have been bath toys.

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    1. Yep. I noticed that while playing around with "venom kisses". Got a black blob that confused me until I realised the AI was trying to draw bits of Venom, the comic book character.

      Definitely a fun tool, though.

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  8. Glad you had a great Christmas Hydra but I've been wondering from looking at the other posts. Why would Inari want Phil dead? Does she hate warlocks? Or does she feel humans should not be tampering with magic?

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    1. There are potential future plot spoilers depending on what lines I take. I can't really go into that one as it will either spoil or end up being wrong depending on where various storylines end up.

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