Aston University + gerbil merch thread

[GrimbutGerbil]

By request. The shop is here

https://grimut-gerbils.teemill.com/

Have no fear. It's tasteful (in an Edwardian gentleman's private room kind of way).

This could take a while for the AI to play ball.

Here's the first attempts

Well, they're not quite how I saw it in my own mind, but I appreciate the effort.😂

I think AI should obey me if I say "See this painting? Put Boiledbeetle's head on the bloke & turn the women into gerbils, same poses all round." Technology so often lets us down. I've been waiting decades for something that will record my dreams & download whatever I'm imagining.

"Can you reproduce Fredric Leightons An Athlete Wrestling with a Python but with a beetle wrestling a gerbil"

To be fair I think the AI has had a really shit day at work today!

Attempt No. 2

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attempt No 3...

Can you draw me a version of Edwards Longsden "the chosen five" but put a beetle's head on the painter & turn the women into gerbils, same poses all round

To go back to an earlier part of the day I'll leave you with this while I go get my tea.

It looks like he's wearing you as a hat - which puts me in mind of Steve Buscemi's character in Con Air 🤣

I keep being reminded of that day the cockchafer flew in and terrified the corgi.

😱

I do appear to be a hat 😲

I don't which is scarier, the one with the gerbil head on backwards or the half gerbil/half woman 😨

very good image, needs fewer clocks, more books, and the poor dog doing an unusually athletic (given his short legs) leap backwards

😁

The backwards gerbil head

That has to be the weirdest sentence ever written in the history of the universe, like everrrr... Oh sorry, Judith Butler, I didn't see you there - no offence!

I sometimes wonder if I'm going to wake up and realise that this whole thread was a dream -
'..well there were these gerbils, right, and they were working in a kind of Victorian factory, and sometimes holding placards with weird things on them, and then there was this giant beetle, right, and it seemed to be the boss of the gerbils, who sometimes looked like hamsters, OK, and then they all took up painting, right, and then my late grandmother appeared to me and said 'Well you would eat cheese at suppertime, wouldn't you?' and then I woke up!'

There's also the levitating palette and the three furry Norns breaking the fourth wall.

But the corgi seems to be having a lovely time.

😂

Sometimes the real world is much much stranger than the dream world.

And there's nothing wrong with a little slither of cheese before bed!

I'm just off to spend some alone time in my straitjacket.

I'll be fine in a bit!

@Boiledbeetle if your cheese is slithering there is definitely something wrong with it. Several somethings wrong with it. Even if you are a [MN] Viper. 🥺

Well I do like really blue stinky cheese so there is always the chance it might walk itself off the plate!

Bloody autocorrupt

I had some very tangy Cashel blue cheese last thing yesterday. No dreams at all. That I can remember.

Anyway, the room is much better, but the is dog having way too much smiley happy fun, is not sufficiently scared and disapproving, and is far too airborne. Despite their best efforts Corgis are very very subject to gravity.

And that beetle isn't a cockchafer - it needs horrifying fanned antennae (the number of fans show which sex the creature is, in case you want to know) and huge extended elytra to let the flying wings out to do their stuff. In all honesty it wasn't just Gus who was alarmed by the manifestation.

I did try various things but it refused to draw the Corgi as anything but having an absolute whale of a time! And as for the bug... It just wouldn't draw the right thing!

I don't think it likes drawing scary scenes that could in any way be real! Dinosaurs towering over over worked gerbils in a sweatshop - no problem. A scared dog being chased by a bug - no we can't possibly recreate that!

Much as I love [and I do love] this, something that came up on the Mess live chat the other day and I wondered if the Gerbils and associated Beetles, Corgis and Cheeses could get their Heads, Thors Axes and Abdo Manns together and see if this is possible.

Is there a simple primer for those who are going 'What the Fuck is going on here' that we could put together, that explains 'What the Fuck is going on here' sprinkled with a little history, some arrows coming in from the different interested parties and the impact on Women and Children right fucking now?

It would be fucking fantastic if something that could be downloaded and/or sent out to the normies to explain this, came out of this situation.

Any ideas?