Hi folks, some of you might know me from my content here or elsewhere on Lemmy. I have a long term penchant for explicit and creative digital art, everything from the weird to the wonderful, and from the gorgeous to the grotesque.

With this community being the primary outlet for explicit creators it has seen a lot of to and fro with the styles of content being contributed. I have a concern that there needs to be some distinction between the normal erotic, pornographic, sexualised, content; and that of the more creative, exploratory, fun explicit content. However, I don’t want to see the community try to spread itself out as that just diminishes engagement.

I was thinking that we could take a page out of some of the other AIgen communities and start having weekly pinned themed posts where creators can explore a theme without having to worry as strictly about quality, style, or being explicitly erotic. To minimise the effort required to maintain such posts on a weekly basis I would suggest the following:

• Each week the theme gets posted to a pinned thread.
• Each creator can post a main comment, and post as many additional images as they like as a reply to their main comment.
• The main comment must contain ONE image relating to the current theme, and the creators theme pick for the next week.
• The most upvoted comment sets the theme for the next week.
• It doesn’t matter if it’s not fair, it’s not a competition.
• You can still post your best sexy pics on main.

This will help contain some of the more creative offerings while letting the master 'baiters continue to 'bait and letting us creators fly our freak flags, also giving creators more room to maybe discuss explicit image generation and improve our skills.

Given the spirit of the idea I’ll kick things off below. I think we already know that the theme this week is CLOWNS! So bring them in, post your clowns here, share your thoughts, and tell us what we should try next!