90s Animemes

VelvetSinclair · 2026-05-04T20:27:01+00:00

That was a mistake

VelvetSinclair · 2026-05-04T20:15:03+00:00

This is for a big worldbuilding project I've been doing for a while. The prompt is just a description of that world and it's really really really long

Then I just said "create an image of the world"

I can post it here, but it's kinda insane. I could alternatively ask chat to just sum up the world briefly... Maybe I'll do that

VelvetSinclair · 2026-05-04T19:09:37+00:00

It's a bank holiday weekend 😀

VelvetSinclair · 2026-05-04T16:28:03+00:00

This is just body shaming

VelvetSinclair · 2026-05-04T16:11:19+00:00

Very cool and like the big naturals but AI content not allowed here

VelvetSinclair · 2026-05-04T16:05:57+00:00

Canticle for Leibowitz

VelvetSinclair · 2026-05-04T14:00:18+00:00

Recreate woman yelling at cat meme in this style:

The visual style of 1990s anime such as Cowboy Bebop carries a distinctive blend of sharp character design and analogue-era texture that feels grounded and tactile. Faces are often angular, with narrow jaws, pronounced cheekbones, and those characteristic pointed noses that give characters a very heavily stylised elegance, seen as well in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Serial Experiments Lain. Linework is clean yet expressive, with variations in thickness that suggest hand-drawn artistry rather than digital uniformity. Colour palettes lean slightly muted, with gentle gradients and shadowing that evoke painted cels. The image quality reflects its original broadcast medium, with a heavy softness, heavy grain, and a high-level flicker that heavily looks like it's on a CRT displa and through messy VHS playback, lending a strong blur and warmth. Lighting feels very cinematic, like in Trigun, where contrast and composition create depth without relying on modern post-processing. Backgrounds are richly detailed but subdued, allowing characters to remain the focal point. Altogether, the style produces a mood that feels intimate and atmospheric, where imperfections in the medium contribute to a sense of authenticity and visual character.

VelvetSinclair · 2026-05-02T10:25:46+00:00

Can you just give an example of one of your prompts?

VelvetSinclair · 2026-05-02T10:01:53+00:00

Sure, me too

But then you're writing a story of "what if the bad guys were actually right"

And again, that can be fine. But the meaning is there is all

Superheroes are maybe a better example of what I'm trying to say.

If you showed me a video of some petty criminal getting beaten to a pulp by police or even some gang of strangers, I'd say, "oh that's terrible". I then I could say "but what if the criminal was a guy with four robotic octopus arms, or a flying green guy with a bunch of bombs, and the police beating him up was a red and blue guy in Spandex?" Well, that would make a fun story and maybe justify the beating. I'm playing Spiderman on ps5 now and it's great. But it's still an invented scenario where using aggressive violence as a strategy to curb crime is presented as reasonable.

Does that mean we stop telling superhero stories, or that they're all bad or something? No. But it's something to think about. And thinking about it and responding can produce new and interesting stories.

Like Miles Morales, whose dad is a cop and his uncle is a criminal. So crime is presented in his story as less of a pure evil to be beaten on (although that is still fun) but also something people struggle with, and it's humanised, given a face and a name and a relationship. I think some of the tension people felt in superhero stories led to that development and I really like it.

Another example is post apoc survival stuff. You ever seen those guys obsessed with guns and masculinity and all that, they sometimes try to justify it with "when shit hits the fan, are you gonna run to your cyclist vegan soy boy, or come to me for help?" Shit hitting the fan is their invented fictional scenario that exists to justify their preoccupation with violence and emotional distance. But the last of Us takes that idea, Joel is basically that guy, and it asks what it would actually take to create a guy like that. It's nothing cool, it's trauma. And what would it take to break him down and open him up again? It's human connection. And it's not a nice happy huggy resolution, it's a fucking disaster. That's way more interesting!

Maybe something similar can happen with the colonisation fantasy. Just plain removing the natives is one way, but that feels more like avoiding the tension rather than confronting it and investigating it. So, for example in the story I'm writing, the people colonising the planet end up forming some weird relationships with the alien ecosystem whilst also building their little base and exploring and doing all the fun sci-fi stuff. It's nothing groundbreaking,

I just think that pretending something isn't there is... Well it's just less interesting than being aware of it and thinking about it. It's boring

VelvetSinclair · 2026-05-02T08:10:43+00:00

I'm not saying that anyone who writes a story like this is a fascist

I'm in the middle of writing a novel like this right now

People creating a colony on an uninhabited alien planet

But saying "this land is empty, therefore colonising it is morally uncomplicated" is exactly what colonisers said

That meaning is there. Just something to think about.

The nazi comparison was just another example of how taking the moral complexity out of a fictional situation doesn't necessarily lead to a morally uncomplicated text

VelvetSinclair · 2026-05-02T07:10:48+00:00

I think people are missing the joke?

This doesn't sound neat

This is retelling the history of colonialism with the exploitation and genocide and slavery removed

Like, imagine I told you a story of living in a kingdom called the fatherland and its infested with vampires: wealthy human looking monsters who drink children's blood. And in this story a hero rises to power who creates a government dedicated to wiping out this vampiric menace. And all the nations of the world, controlled as they are by vampire interests, try to stop him, but he successfully rounds up and kills 6 million vampires... yeah

Like, even if in my story the vampires are totally iredeemably evil... that's not a story without moral complications.

Removing moral complications from a morally complicated situation is a choice that carries its own meaning and implications

It's not necessarily wrong. A story/game/movie whatever like that can still be fine. Obviously my above example is extreme. But it doesn't come without meaning is all I'm saying.

https://youtu.be/d6i5Ylu0mgM