A certain famous American toy company makes the Barbie and Ken dolls. One of its rivals makes Bratz. What the two have in common is that the official clothing and accessories are very wholesome and family-friendly. However, I have known people whom have made BDSM and kink gear for the various members of Barbie's extended family, put them in certain scenes and taken photos (which might even end up in fan fiction tabloids, in some cases).
I'm definitely a fan of such shenanigans, despite Mattel taking a very disapproving view. (They've missed an opportunity here by being prudish, IMO. Other industrious individuals have filled that void. Rule 34 and all that ...) However, I have neither the budget nor skills to do likewise. What I do have, however, is access to an AI that generates CGI likenesses. There are many ways to skin a cat (and practice CNC). Since I want to play on the dark/wild side, why not do it this way? Why not (hopefully) recoup some of the costs for my efforts in getting the AI to render what I describe by selling the results as NFTs? I think it's worth a try.
The idea occurred to me when I was looking for an alternative to Font Awesome (which currently doesn't support BDSM, fetish or kink glyphs) and found this image on Dribble:
BDSM Fetish Barbie: Adult Games by Svetik Petushkova
The box detail (background and wiring) is a nice touch, isn't it?
On a side note: When will Pub0x support uploading WebP images? Their compression algorithms seem to be far superior to that of JPG and PNG.
Initially, I wanted to mint them on SolSea (Solana's alternative to OpenSea), but my Solflare wallet is failing to simulate and authorise transactions. I don't know why that is, but suspect my wallet balance is too low. Back to OpenSea I go. At least I can use the MATIC network and am not forced to use the Ethereum mainnet. Apparently, I can link my SolSea collection to my OpenSea one somehow. I'll have to look into that option to get around the issue I'm facing. Still, it's not ideal. I could be mistaken, but I think I need to enter the number of minted NFTs in the collection on SolSea. Since I'm using lazy minting on OpenSea, that might be a source of issues. Perhaps I should enter the number of total NFTs available for minting. In that case, I'll have to set up the collection on SolSea once I've finalised it on OpenSea. That could be a mission, but it seems doable (and possibly worthwhile) at this point.
One thing I like about SolSea that OpenSea doesn't seem to offer is that I can set a preview image that's separate from the actual NFT itself. That's useful in the case where the NFT is lewd but I want to display a blurred, pixilated or cropped version of the image as the preview. I suppose I can always upload the preview as the NFT and set the lewd content as the unlockable content, but that doesn't seem like the best idea to me in terms of user-friendliness. I'm also not sure if only the first person to buy an NFT gets the unlocked content or if it's available to anyone who buys it after resale.
Anyway, if you're a fellow "filthy pervert" with a penchant for BDSM and/or clothing/material fetishes/kinks, I encourage you to peruse my latest collection in the hope that you might derive some pleasure from it (at least enough to buy one or two items therein). For the time being, I'm going to upload a few more images before hitting the books. (A crash course on C won't read and annotate itself.)
Thumbnail image: Author's own (I've kept it pretty tame because this post isn't hidden behind a login/paywall and there isn't a way to hide it from certain eyes. However, the collection contains some rather explicit imagery. At least I can flag it as 18+/Explicit/NSFW on OpenSea and SolSea, which helps.)
