Jack of Harts

People in England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland are telling us that immigrants brought in from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, and other nations have been coordinating rape gangs for years, and the government has been refusing to stop them because it would be culturally insensitive. But it’s worse than that according to reports.

Firstly, the Islamic rape gangs focus on girls that are fifteen an under. Yes, they’ll rape any woman they can catch, but they really focus on the under fifteen girls. They grab the girls, drag them into houses, and then a whole gang takes their time with the girls. Worse than that, when the men in the area, including the fathers, find out their daughters have been kidnapped and are being raped in the house, when they go to pull the girls out like any dad or man should, the police will arrest the father and leave the girls in the house to continue being raped.

The image that is going around the social medias right now is of a sub-fifteen year old girl protecting herself from that. With a knife and an axe because in Scotland they actually do still have some of those. No guns because most of those have been outlawed. And of course the police arrested her, not the grown man trying to abduct and rape her and the girl with her. They charged her with having a knife. Now outrage is enough that they pulled those charges back. The citizens of the UK are done with this, but I don’t know what they can do to stop it now. They’re asking for help on every channel they can access, but I don’t know how much they will get.

At the same time, we have yet another medicated up, chemically destroyed, driven insane by the Leftists man going off to shoot a bunch of kids in a church in Minnesota, an hour away from where I live. Because he wants to kill Trump but can’t get to him, so he goes for the nearest kids he can find to kill them. Because the Leftists have taught him that those people are the enemy and must be killed before they kill him.

And the instant response of the Leftist leaders in America is to ask “How many children have to die before you give up your guns?” That is not an idle question. They really are trying to find out how many children they have to drive so insane that they kill other children before we give up our guns and ask them to pretty please stop killing our children. But when we do, they will just do what the Leftist leaders in the UK did. But then we won’t have guns to stop them anymore, and we will be in the same boat the UK is.

Let England and the United Kingdom and the messages we are getting from the people who live there be our warning not to let the Leftists get the same opportunity here. Look what they did over the last four years here. They did try to swamp us with illegal aliens. They did send men to jail for trying to defend our women and children against threats. They will do this again and worse if they get the chance. Look to England. They are a warning to us all.

As I was getting ready to write Miami Red, I had multiple computers running four AI art sessions at a time rending the scenes and characters that I intended to write. I wrote out each scene I wanted, sent them to Flux at dezgo.com, glanced at the results, and saved the ones I liked.

In this case, the scene was a BMW 7 series driving down a Miami highway in the 1980s, at night, with neon lights and motion blur. I saved nearly a hundred images that I liked and used them as references while I was writing. And when it came time to post the story on Substack, I scanned through the images to find one that had everything I wanted.

It took a long time and a lot of rewrites to get this scene the way I wanted it. This image of a BMW 7 series sliding down the highway was pretty much exactly what I wanted. I hope you like it.

This is the base image that I designed for Goblins in the Marketplace for my substack. It is not a professional cover by a professional artist. I use professional artists for my final covers that go on sale, but on substack I will prefer to put my own creativity to work. I designed this image using the Juggernaut XL9 AI art engine on dezgo.com. I recognize that some people hate AI art, and that is fine. You can do that if you like. I will not stop you. But I will also continue to use it for my own purposes.

I am a writer, and I use that writing to prompt the AI into generating what I want. I wrote the prompts for this piece of art, which is basically an Old World Fantasy market with many colored tents with a blonde fairy woman looking away from the camera, using an abstract style with large brush strokes. I had a number of derivations on that general theme as I experimented to get down to the look that I liked. Different orders, different weights. How to tell the AI that I really mean it when I ask for something. It can sometimes be a challenge.

I ran the final versions of the prompt on four browser windows, using many engines to see what they would look like. Dreamshaper XL was really close, but had a MASSIVE bias towards turning the head so I could see the face. I tried every single prompt I could think of, and even asked others for help, and nothing would stop it from showing a face. I finally picked Juggernaut XL9, which got the hint at least half of the time. I probably ran four to five hundred of instances, throwing out the images that didn’t look like I wanted. I ended up saving around a hundred of them that at least got the general idea right.

Then I scanned for the various artifacts that AI art does. Bad hands, weird proportions. Men wearing tshirts and blue jeans when I asked for Old World Fantasy. All of the crazy that AI puts in. That cut it down to 20 finalists. Of the twenty I liked, I picked one that I liked the best. I used Dezgo AI to double the size of that image, and went into my final cover creation process.

I took that image into Paint Shop Pro, an image editing program I’ve used for literal decades, reformatted it into a different shape, and added the title and my name onto a layer specifically set aside for them so I would not damage the underlying art. It took around a week of rendering images to get the finalists I liked, and then fifteen minutes or so to do the final touches. Ironically, finding a fill color for the lettering that was easily readable across the different colors of the art was a challenge that took a while. It is a rather colorful image, and it took a lot of tries to find colors that worked.

You can check out the final version with text on yesterday’s posting. This is the base file that I wanted to share it with you. It took a long time and a lot of arguing with the AI to get this image. Because I really did mean it when I said I wanted the elegant fairy woman to be looking away from the camera.