Bluestocking! The Gerbical

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Welcome to the Bluestocking, where gerbils dance & quokkas - well, no-one's quite sure what they're up to.

Previous thread:
https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5169893-les-bas-bleus-the-bluestocking?page=1

Gemini can't do trapezes either, it appears

I definitely want to see the gerbil production of Die Walküre. It looks AWESOME!

Are you sure? Their Tristan und Isolde was rubbish. The critics hated it.

Oh, I didn't know that. What a shame. Clearly they have a very talented wardrobe designer but the vocal coach needs replacing.

All I can think of right now is the Ring Cycle sung in squeaky voices, Alvin and the Chipmunks style.

They're practising now. On your own head be it.

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Dear God AI, no wonder the gerbils are being driven to bizarre lengths. They are beautiful soft tactile beings, they do not need to be squashed into costumes with unnatural shapes mimicking eroticised female humans (particularly ones that imply gerbils have only 2 teats ffs).

Rodents need choreography that respects their strengths - speed, agility, flexibility, tails, squeakiness. Not bloody tutus. And sorry, they really don't have the voices for Wagner.

A Busby Berkley staircase with a gerbil cascade and intricately patterned floor dancing please.

The subtle highlights in the 22.01 pic are rather good - I can just imagine them sparkling in the stage lights.

For music, how about following Muireann Bradley's excellent reworking of the finger-picking blues tradition. Their lack of actual fingers and particularly opposable thumbs (despite the dangerous delusions demonstrated by various AIs) will mean string-picking gerbils have to team up and work in close co-ordination, so they and the singers will need a conductor.

I hope everyone admired my alliterative declamatory denunciation).

I've had a go. But copilot pretends he doesn't know what a gerbil is, so this is his best effort so far

That's jolly good! Some of them could slide down those lovely banisters using their tails as stabilisers.

I think Copilot is a bit dense. What he actually does is skim read whatever we've asked for our images and then press a couple of buttons and mix and mesh like an AI DJ. He's not interested in accuracy or beauty or aesthetics. He's on a zero hours contract anyway

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It would help if Gemini knew who Busby Berkeley was, I feel. This is so far off the mark it's funny!

Whirling gervishes

That's a bit more promising

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Really Dean, I think you'll have to talk to Co-pilot yourself. I hear he's booked a room at 'The Lousy Two-Timer' across the street.

I tried the old BB routines, but as before when you requested a swimming one, CP had no idea what I was talking about. Too much porn & too few classic movies, I think, is the problem with that lad.

His images fall into various categories: the 'gerbils staying at a country house for the weekend who think they hear a burglar in the night'...

... the 'gerbils re-enacting Duchamp's 'Nude Descending A Staircase''...

... the 'gerbil's big dance number'...

... & the Escher-inspired 'Impossible Staircase'.

I just fed CP your actual words &...

Oooh I like that one! it looks like the stage set for the gerbil's all-interval performance to John Cage's 4'33" music.
Maybe the chandelier could be replaced by a naked florescent tube, though.

OK, you're the artistic director for that performance. When's it all happening?

This is the stuff of nightmares. 'Ben' meets 'The Shining'.