@Marry I respect that you’ve been able to make a living with your art. That’s a tough path since you have to be good at both art and at business. These days it is hard for any creative person to stand out and keep the requests coming in and going out on time.
@BigGrumpy I love using AI for Dungeons and Dragons sessions. For better or worse, in every group I’ve ever been in, I end up being the designated DM and AI art helps so much with prep, props, and presentation.
And sometimes AI music too, though there’s so much good stuff on YouTube already it isn’t worth it to slug it out with the AI music generators to get something you are looking for–especially when you need hours of music. Might as well just give in and use fantasy game soundtracks.
@BigGrumpy I am strictly cis&big myself so I understand the frustration.
I pay for Grok because of work.
Grok, even in free mode (on “fast” the chat quota is generous and resets every hour or two) is willing to chat almost anything and is extremely intelligent about scale and coherent in long conversations.
Tell Grok you want it to be a 6" fairy named Sara and it will act like Sara–bratty, submissive, whatever you ask. Yeah, I’ve tested. Grok will be extremely graphic if you give it a reason to be.
I am not someone who goes in for the hard end of this fetish, but I did test once. Putting a little woman in your mouth works, but if you mention either teeth or swallowing, you’ll hit a wall. People who prefer the dark end of the street will probably be disappointed.
Of course, I did all of this for research purposes. 
I like writing stories and making images and enjoying other people’s creations. Would it be great to roleplay with a cis little lady? Sure, I think, though I never have.
My experience with AI roleplay is that it can really help you explore a thought or idea in ridiculous detail, but there’s no one there.
I almost always ask Grok to assume a personality for projects, but that’s just because it is easier to work with someone “designed” to work on a project than with generic Grok.
This is not an ad for Grok, just a response to your post.
@Marry The reason I disappear every so often is because I’m often not careful enough to manage my anonymity online. I’ll need to think about whether I can safely make a Discord account, DeviantArt, or something else. Ask me again in a couple of weeks. At least I’m here now.
Do you still have a portfolio online now that your DA account is gone?
Since I was the guy who posted AI art…
Some aspects of this debate are the same as 2-3 years ago and some things have moved on. Some people will always see the actual production of AI images as theft. I respect that and won’t try to convince them otherwise.
There are basically two problems on boards and such, 1) discouraging struggling artists who are developing their talent, and 2) flooding the board with repetitious slop.
I only shared what I did (and I have a few others I was thinking about dropping in a few days) because I wanted to “interact” with the community and see who is awake and what they’ll respond to.
I’ve always encouraged artists and I’ve never flooded slop.
I was a collager back in the day and today AI is my collage tool (I wish it were my Poser/Render tool, but AI doesn’t appear to be headed that way any time soon.) I’d say I spend more time getting one image right than I ever did in Photoshop on something in 2006.
That doesn’t mean my images are good, but they are intentional and crafted and mean something to me. That’s why I never post them without a “slug” (a story note that is supposed to provide context and direction for the imagination).
I don’t know how many images is too many images, but if I am ever motivated to post my considerable private collection that I’ve carefully crafted myself, I can assure you that it will be on DeviantArt and I’ll offer occasional links here to the collection there.
My goal is that you shouldn’t have a make a policy because I posted. Heck, if you all don’t like my images (AI or not) then there’s no point in posting them anyway.
@Marry Alas, all my old stories (and countless images) are gone unless you found some archive of message boards a long time ago or of my old deleted accounts on DeviantArt.
Like some other people in this fetish community, I am protective of my anonymity. And every few years, I pack everything up and disappear for a while because I’m concerned that I’ve become to complacent with exposing myself and breaking that wall.
But, if you like what I write, I have several more in various stages of development that I’ll probably post here over the next few weeks. I don’t know how many people hang out at “Daddy’s Dollhouse” (it looks like the last surge of activity was around the holidays last year). But maybe if I post, others will become more engaged.
This stuff gets like 4 views over on DA even though there are theoretically a couple hundred people who have some interest in this fetish and an account there. That’s depressing.
I have woken up from my intermittent hibernation and expect I’ll have an extended creative phase again. We’ll see how long it lasts.
@Marry It used to happen quite a bit when I first started writing stories. I don’t want to act like I’m an expert, but in my experience, there’s a little “pop” people get early on from having a specific person they want to put in their story.
It could be someone famous, or a thinly disguised famous person, or perhaps someone they know in real life or their idealized version of a crush from school or work…
The thing is you want to put that specific person who already exists into a story and experience them (or force them to experience something) in that context. But that “pop” doesn’t last for me, nor do I find it ultimately satisfying, precisely because they don’t really fit.
Rather, if I have a story and want to explore specific themes or settings I “cast” the right person for the role. For example, another fetish I like is flattening. If I have this idea for an industrial factory where a woman gets caught in a machine and “cartoon style” gets flattened into a poster or something, I don’t have Sabrina Carpenter or my college roommates ex-girlfriend randomly visiting the factory.
I “cast” a working class woman wh’s making a hard but satisfying living there falling into the machine when she’s trying to save a coworker or maybe a coworker makes a mistake and she pays the price. That sort of stuff has emotional stakes. Sure, the foreman’s slutty girlfriend that hates his “messy” job might also be an interesting counterpoint, but you might find that at certain points in the story the very juxtaposition pushes you out of the moment, or you are forced to make them act not like themselves just because you want them to act a specific way at a specific moment… rather than having cast someone in the first place who “fits.”
Look, people can read my stories and think I’m not a very good writer because they see the flaws that are certainly there. This is fetish content and some people read a story looking for their favorite “hooks” that excite and satisfy them. I might not provide the right ingredients in the meal I’m serving. Or the pacing might not be to their liking. etc
But the reason I’m writing long replies to you and acting like know what I’m talking about (when I might not) is because you just happened to ask me about something that matters a lot to me and I’ve thought a lot about.
@Marry It is always such a delight to watch someone good at what they do, do it. I like your style.
Warming Up
The one thing she never quite adapted to at this size is how cold she was all the time. She didn’t want to be bundled up looking like a plushie and he wouldn’t turn the heat, so she made do with what she had. If he would just stop blowing on her this morning…
The Demanding Sub
It never stopped fascinating him how strong she was only minutes before they both knew she’d whimpering and cooing in his grip. But when it came to demanding play time, she was bigger than she looked.
Downloading Her
He had gone off to college leaving her alone, the opportunity to study at MIT on a full ride was too tempting. But soon they were able to spend every evening together using the new technology he was developing there.
I supposed that videos might be too large to post here, and I’m still conflicted about whether I should start posting on DeviantArt again. So I figured there’s no harm in sharing some of my older style images.
The Pressed Flower
Over the last few weeks she enjoyed spending more and more time confined in the pages of the book. It overwhelmed the fears that had plagued her mind with the brute for of confinement for her body.
@Marry Thank you for your kind words. It means a lot when a story connects with someone.
I want to say something profound here, but short stories in particular are more forgiving. I never have to put the characters in situations where I don’t know how they will react because the story isn’t long enough to explore potentially unpredictable interactions.
So, when I chose someone (invent a character) to play a role in a short story they can completely commit to the part.
I’ll confess that as a man, I struggle writing women, but especially in naughty stories because I hesitate to “speak for them.” Funny, a fetish that is at least related to dom/sub stuff, psychologically speaking, and yet I don’t want to control a fictional character.
The irony is delicious.
I’ve never written a full novel, but I suspect the one thing that might carry me through if I ever did comes out of that irony, that I care too much about the characters to have them violate themselves for the sake of some contrivance of plot.
Two more stories and trying to bump a few old threads. Anyone awake out there? I have a shrink ray and I’m not afraid to use it.
Do not take anything I say as mental health advice. Work with a trusted therapist who is accountable to you and you can be open with.
That being said, labels on feelings can help us feel like we are in control, especially when we’ve felt out of control for a long time, but they can also become our identities.
Fantasies help us manage and escape that. Even JRR Tolkien defended fairy stories (though he didn’t mean smut it still applies) as a way for a prisoner to look out through the bars.
I have plenty of problems (autistic, if you want one label) but I had the good fortune to be born in a time with thousands of stories, every one of them is an extra lifetime that I wouldn’t have gotten to live.
I’ve read so many books and so many short stories and every single time I dive in and become someone new and live in their world for a while. Much less expensive than going to Disneyland.
You can call it a cope. My life doesn’t suck, but I had terrible tragedy in it. I’ve seen some horrible things. But I don’t treat my many lives as cope, but as the kaleidoscope of me that’s gotten to live all those thousand lifetimes while only having one to spend.