Nah, that’s fine. I wanted to write out the workflow anyway.

I wasn’t sure why you put in the URLs, so I figured I’d add some context. And yes, in typical me fashion, I tend to go overboard once I get into something :)

Oh and Centibus is a much better name, I love it.

Yes, those were the input images I’ve used.

So what I did was first I created this drawing of the centipede bus, using the codex seraphinianus prompt:

Next I used that as input, together with a style reference from one of my earlier posts, the snail knight, because I wanted to create something in the same mood:

That ended up with an in-between kind of image that I reused as extra input to steer it further away from the drawn aspect of the original image:

No, not really. You can feature the new challenge when you see it coming up, maybe deal with reports if they come up, but that’s about it.

It’s quite relaxed.

Congrats, you got the job! :)

Hmmm, to be honest I’m not sure. For this one it might have been the location, but I don’t think it has ever stopped people from posting whatever they feel comfortable with before though.

Maybe the challenge is too specific? Like it pushes people into making a pumpkin and therefore limits the possibilities? Personally I like the challenges most when it’s a theme that feels a bit open ended. Like in this case maybe if you phrased it like “Halloween but in a different part of the world” it might give people more room to think of a unique angle for them to create their image?

I was surprised about that as well, it’s not like a lot has changed. Maybe it’s just a slow week?

I’ve been quite busy myself lately.

The voting page is up! Feel free to head over and vote for your favorite image.

✧✨🌿Allo🌿✨✧

@allo@sh.itjust.works

A place called Turtle Island… until the Europeans came; hence a juxtaposition of Native American and Technology~ together in harmony.

Cloudless ☼

@cloudless@lemmy.cafe

I’m not a fan of patriotism and I don’t like to expose my personal background on Lemmy. Here is a pumpkin representing Mordor.

merde alors

@merde@sh.itjust.works

ni dieu, ni maître and no countries either. Apatriotic terrestrial here. This web is “my” city

Thelsim

@thelsim@sh.itjust.works

Prompt: Photograph, of a Halloween pumpkin, made of delft blue porcelain, dark, dramatic lighting --ar 4:3 --v 6.1

I guess an Australian timezone would work as well, you’re pretty much on the other side of the world from me :)

Ok, I’m going to lock this down now. I can recount everything that happened in the past but I’ll keep it short.

• Downvotes happen, some people just like to do drive-by downvoting without ever leaving a comment. In the end no harm comes from it, it doesn’t affect the challenge and everyone who matters will appreciate your content regardless of what some random downvoter thinks.
• Merde did not downvote, and you have no proof otherwise. Feel free to see if you can convince an admin to give an overview of the downvotes but we both know they have better things to do than to deal with this.
• Everything that followed after is a result of your accusation, the deleted comments are in the modlog if you want to revisit that past.

I really don’t want to do this, Allo. In general you are a welcome member to this community and I appreciate your contributions. But digging this up again is just not helping.

cc: @merde@sh.itjust.works

I did make one with a candle inside and with some local food, but in the end I felt the added food was thematically bit too much like trollivier’s poutine pumpkin.

I’m sure that if Halloween were a bigger thing here, you’d find this in every souvenir shop. This stuff is so pervasive :)

Prompt: Photograph, of a Halloween pumpkin, made of delft blue porcelain, dark, dramatic lighting --ar 4:3 --v 6.1

I appreciate your enthusiasm :)

Seriously, this mostly just entails featuring and unfeaturing the challenge post. Maybe deal with some reports, but they’re quite rare and our lovely admins are very quick to deal with them. So please don’t make too much out of it.

I spoke with M0oP0o and he’s interested in getting more active from next month onward, so that’s also nice.

I’ll put up a post this weekend to ask if anyone else is interested and we can make a choice then for one more mod.

Yea, we’d need someone from the other side of the pond. I’m going to message the existing mods, see who’s still active and clean up the list.
After that I’ll put up a post asking if anyone is interesting in moderating, with part of it being to help with the challenges when necessary.

It’ll be a simple job, everyone here is always so well behaved :)

This looks really nice, thanks for sharing!

You should add an image to the post itself so it shows up in the feed. At first I thought this would be a discussion post :)

I see your point. Well in case of my absence (for whatever reason), you could manually create a vote post of your own I suppose. It’s not a lot of work if you keep two windows open side-by-side. Content wise all I did was paste the original source in each comment with the username on top. Considering the amount of submissions we have, it’s probably just 15 minutes of work to do it by hand.
Worst case scenario, you could default back to counting the votes in the submission post? I’ll see if I can clean up my script and share it online though, just in case someone with Python knowledge would like to use it and improve on it.

I haven’t seen Mo0Po0 online for some time, so maybe it would also be good to assign an extra moderator for the featuring and un-featuring posts in the community? I feel like my timezone is a bit of a disadvantage.

That’s fine with me, but my Friday evening starts in CET, which might be afternoon for a lot of others. But you can decide when the voting ends, I put up 24 hours as a minimum.