Kazerad: @Unidentified_BA: there are literally pink sparkles raining down around them as they hold one another by the hips.

ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: @Kazerad: Well he does have a point, it's for VDay, friends can be a valentine.

Grape: @Unidentified_BA: It was made for valentine's day, it says so in the source. On a blog where the artist admits they mostly draw gay romances.

Unidentified_BA: @Kazerad: The hip thing is the only real indicator. I mean, Sailor Moon had tons of pink backgrounds with sparkles, and I don't think that show was about shipping.

@Grape: Damn it. Alright fine, I was wrong.

ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: It's still a cute ship anyways.

bluedraggy: Reminds me of dance class in my Jr. High school. Yes, they used to have those. Most embarrassing class ever. Foxtrot... ONE two three, ONE two three...

Tahrey: I was thinking dance practice as well...

"What, we have to go to the Dutchess' ball? But ... I never learned to dance..."
<sigh> OK... I'll teach you ... now, put your hands here, and here...

Also, aaaaaaah my kawaii-bone, I think you fractured it ^_^

Tahrey: dangit, seems that my subconscious may have been influenced by randomly coming across this a few days ago whilst half asleep...

That is to say, here are a trio of relevant pages from a rather lengthy (heh...) Steven Universe fan comic that someone posted on their Tumblr ... quite some time ago now (so after the introduction of the HWGs but before "The Return / Jailbreak" - hence it being a speculative branching-off from before all those reveals, and having some surprisingly close parallels in places despite also being very different in others)

Oh well. It's not like it's an uncommon trope.

Tahrey: (and ditto makes three - i'll do a couple more and that should be enough to see a good set of nice posts at the top of the list and all the craziness down at the bottom or shuffled off to the inacessible void of Page Two)

Kewot_Rokar: WHAT IS THIS BLACK MAGIC?!

TemporaryFace: @Kazerad: Humans are weird as fuck.

Filthypaladin: Now, let us discuss: Lizard Tit

SameButDifferent: @FilthyPaladin Serious answer: Probably no need to put the Pineapple into effect if those cold blooded lumps are exposed but not in a provocative manner. You know, with the whole "lack of nip" and everything.

Non serious answer: You'll need to draw a detailed analysis of the do's and dont's of Lizard Tit in order for me to understand the lesson, teacher.

Geravind: At last someone made something about that endless shit.

Tahrey: Lel :D

Anyway, we did agree to drop it, and leave things as they were.

(Which is fine by me, given that it leaves "Kids-TV-safe, Looney Tunes level japery" as non-questionable, and "Semirealistic naked depictions of characters that are usually clothed and cartoonish" as questionable ;)

Tahrey: Oh, and Lizard Boobs, not sure. Already had a more civil back-and-forth about it on the Disqus IIRC and didn't come to any firm conclusion.

On the one hand they may just be muscle and fat covered bony protrusions in the thorax, so technically SFW (even if your boss doesn't think so)

On the other, maybe fat stores used for making egg yolk. Which makes it maybe-maybe not

On the turning hand, may actually be like Human Boobs and therefore Questionableable.

...now I write it out, I guess the balance of judgement is towards "stick a pineapple on it".

tl;dr It's probably safest to go with "if Kaz pixelated it in the comic, it needs a pineapple on the booru". Sing it with me now...

Filthypaladin: @SameButDifferent: >Do Lizard tit

Adroma: Well, as it is in other countries, boobs are okay if not presented in a sexual manner. I found this very funny. I love playfully rebellious art that presents controversy.

Pepsidude: Awesome :o

Tahrey: > in other countries

Well, as it's a site made and curated by an American, we should probably assume American publication standards.

And, in any case, it's the internet. When publishing you should assume the most stringent widespread standards need apply, and when browsing you should assume the most lax.

Armored-Struggle-Wagon: This is too Adorable, just look at her curious, care-free face!

ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: it is very adorable!

Geravind: An alien in ambush, pretending to be an innocent khajiit. That tail is a plasma gun actually. (Sorry, this one is pissed off ...slightly.)

Tahrey: KHAJIIT IS INNOCENT OF THIS CR--*VWOOORP* *PCHUUUUUU*

POMA: How many layers of paper did you use to make this?

cain: 2~6 layers... It was not well I wanted more to live the three-dimensional effect. Regrettable

Geravind: Beautiful!
Reminds the "Owl" paper-mask, which this one made many years ago.

Jarofmayo: That's pretty cute.

ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: This is cute :O

Tahrey: Nice solidifying of @mhonnie's art :) ... got a template, or was it all freehand?

cain: Start with a template, but flowers and hair is freehand

Tahrey: nice jorb :D

Tahrey: though I was kinda hoping it was a template so I could copy you ;)

but then that would spoil the uniqueness value of yours, so it's better this way

Skoon: I need to be able to favorite things. <3

Kazerad: @Skoon: You can have favorites, you just have to do it the old fashioned way. The concept of having favorites existed before websites gave you a button.

Tahrey: :D
I think they mean in the sense of being able to assign imaginary internet points to the image in some kind of ranking system, so that the images which are liked by the largest number of users appear towards the top of a list on a whole new page on the booru.

TBH it sounds like a whole lot of coding work for something that doesn't really matter that much other than for new users to look over the somewhat newer-image-biased "greatest hits"... though, when you've the time after the merch packing and story updating is done, and you've had a few well earned brews, could you take a look at the bug on the "Dramatic Descriptions" page? ;)

Skoon: Good lord I only meant it as a compliment to the image...

Christ.

Kazerad: @Tahrey: To be honest, that feature actually exists but I disabled it. I didn't really want people competing to make the Best Image Ever or feeling discouraged when their image doesn't top the charts as high as they expected. I just want people to make things with the knowledge that someone out there will like it. Even if it's just a scratchy 2-color doodle of Katia in a shiny swimsuit, someone out there is going to hold it as one of their favorite images. Attaching a number to that fact just distracts from its inherent value.

@Skoon: NO you have made us think. This is good.

Tahrey:

...and I realise the irony of posting such an icon in response to that discussion, but still, it's meant genuinely.

Also, for the purpose of diagnostic record, what seems to be happening with the comments summary page is that it thinks page 1 and page 2 are the same thing... or something like that ... so any attempt to navigate away from page 1 lands you back there anyhow because the php or links have gone a bit caca.

Vidiotdragon: I'd play Katia Hearthstone card, sure.

ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: What is this. :v

Vidiotdragon: @ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu:
If I had to guess, Katia cosplaying the Mysterious Challenger.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/22394-mysterious-challenger

Tahrey: @ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: None of your business :3

Kewot_Rokar: The 5 circles reminded me of the staff in Dark Souls.

ThatGuyWithAKhajiitWaifu: Sad cat needs some hugs :<

Geravind: She looks like she's ready to sacrifice herself for the greater cause. -- It's painful to see.

Adroma: Seems like one of those, "Don't make me do this" moments or something like what Geravind said. Yes, very painful to look at.

Tahrey: Those lighting effects though

Kewot_Rokar: I... Speechless.

Tahrey: Bonuses:
Space Corgis in the style of the pencilled "Katia vs Small Godlike Goat Kid"


Bikini Girl in the style of mid-extrapolation Aggy (t-shirt design)


A Certain Chipmom Mid-Merch-Boxing in the style of Pissed-Off Rajirra In The Snow


Some guy's human take on the Zootopia main characters in the style of a particularly brightly coloured Prequel Compact Story entry (again, coulda done with turning up the quality settings)


And finally, Somewhat Wedgied Katia Fonda in the style of some similarly risque neon-coloured Pacman tribute art I ran across in someone else's submission to the neural engine (also the source for most of the other humans featured in fact). Again, not quite as refined as it could be, but I think it has promise - problem is, they take long enough already, and the more refined the result, the longer it takes, sometimes a half hour or more, and we don't live in an age where people like myself are prepared to wait around for as long as it used to take to raytrace a full screen image in the 90s...

Tahrey: And yeah, one common factor does seem to be that it often does freaky things with eyes.

I'm still trying to titrate my way up to a suitable amount of mindbleach to erase the memory of what it did when I fed in a screengrab of a google search for "hamsters" as the style and a field of visual whitenoise as the "content". It just looked like a crowd of hamsters at first ... then you looked closer ... and it was actually more like a melted mass of fur with OH GOD SO MANY EYES JUST IN RANDOM PLACES

Tahrey: *clicks through with idle curiousity* oh man that tumblr, I can't even.

*saves all the things* gonna do so many mashups

sorry for the scrollbomb chaps :/

TemporaryFace: What the fuck is going on here.

Tahrey: Your mum.

Tahrey: Anyway I did a few more retries of the less successful or borderline ones, a few of them improved (though most actually got worse if anything) so I'll have one last spurt later on once I've gathered them back together.

mhonnie: what is going on..?

Tahrey: The Internet.

Tahrey: OK, so after a nearly 60-page trawl of the image index (that site gets a LOT of traffic), I managed to corral all the ones that were still processing or I hadn't even uploaded to the queue at the point I posted that stuff before. I haven't got any more in the pipe, so I may as well empty it of them all and have done with.

One thing that came out was that, for some reason, Prequel stuff generally works far better as a "style" source than a "content" one. Or maybe I'm just picking the wrong pictures. IDK. There's quite a lot I've skipped and filtered because it just came out either as an unrecognisable mess, or merely slightly tinted with the style palette but otherwise unaltered.

First up, three more attempts at Katia's Neon Rave Workout Tape, attempting to progressively tune the "style" image to the content one and fiddle with the settings to make it look better. Weirdly, I don't think any of them actually look as good as the original, but they each have their own interesting effects and I think would look good in a collage or a high speed looping GIF.


Naturally to keep the furries happy there was then another go at melting a humanised version of the Zootopia leads into Katia and a random Homeworld Gem who happened to be in the right pose and colours.


Seeing as that didn't work super-brilliant (it's tried to give both Nick and Judy elements of both Katia and Lapis), I then tried to do them separately. Not much better, but you may as well see what the state of the art has to offer. Here's Nickatia and Lapudy. Mostly Nick and Judy really, I think I shoulda turned the Style quotient up higher but got confused and turned Content up instead. You can sort-of see it though.


Then it was the turn of the Gems straight-up... Katis Lazagan will haunt your nightmares. Which I guess means Katia is actually Jasper? Erm.


But I think Latia Manuzi came out rather better. Can't decide which of these two treatments I prefer, even the different ways it adapted the flame have their own particular attractions.


Katidot, the great and loveab----aaaaaaagh wtf


A couple different sleep-dazed and drunken Peartias ... Katarls? Whatever. Dunno where the leaf came from in the second picture, that's not in EITHER of the source images.


And we'll finish up with, well... Bowies.
Lots of Bowies.
Fluffy Bowie, Pencil Undertale-Prequel Bowie, Flaming Feline Revenge Bowie.


And four Bowies whose source image isn't anything to do with Prequel other than it's pixel art and I used it in a couple of the previous images up above, so they were smack bang in the middle of the rest of the output pics and I figured I may as well post them as they look kinda cool. Two different content images, a single style image, and a couple of radically different sets of scalefactors.



Danke, y Bonne Nos.

Tahrey: frig, that turns into one tall-as-hell post when you view the Latest Comments page on a 1024-wide screen o_O ... Oh well, scrolling don't cost nuthin'.