Some service issues

There might be some minor service issues over the next 72 hours as Erotic Mad Science is moved to a more powerful hosting account. I regret any inconvenience: at least they’re growing pains! We hope to be back to uninterrupted service soon…

A Modern Medusa At Rest

Asian nude resting with one or more snakes wrapped around her neck

The original tumblr post where this image of a sleeping Asian nude with a large snake around her neck and entwined in her hair (and between her legs) was found (see below) credited it to an unspecified post at the Farasevich LiveJournal. That 2012 post is here, offering no additional provenance information but displaying a larger version of the image:

larger japanese medusa photoa

Translation of the Japanese (?) script to the right of the figure in the photo might at first glance seem as if it would prove useful for provenance, but is beyond my ability. However, and upon further research, it appears likely that the contents of that calligraphy will prove spurious in any event. This image is not in fact a vintage photograph; it has been artfully aged and distressed to appear so. It is one of numerous modern color porn photos in a series featuring the lady in question and a friendly/complacent snake:

snake rest

Two more photos from the series should serve to establish the general tenor of the enterprise:

snake lounge snake belly

Lots more photos from this engaging porn series are visible here, and in many other places around the web. However, no watermarks or other identifying material were found by which an original photographer or originating porn studio could be readily identified. This photo series appears to have been republished without attribution on a great many different occasions by numerous diverse parties, making attribution difficult.

This post is a reblog with added provenance from a 01 December 2013 post at Infernal Wonders. Its original source was this post at the Coitus & Carnage tumblr. No Internet Archive backup link for that tumblr post exists and, post-2017, none can be made, because Tumblr censorship in the form of an exclusionary robots.txt file prevents its inclusion in the Archive.

Tensile Strength: Exceeded

distressed android

This artwork may be found on the Factory 1019 site of artist Jeffery Scott, in a portfolio called The Machines, with a filename suggesting that the artwork may be titled Deletion Of A Dysfunctional Series.

The theme of androids in distress with bits of the mechanism showing through seems to run through a lot of Jeffery Scott’s work. Here’s another example, which we might choose to interpret as a couple cleaning up after a round of sex that was particularly hard on their android sex toy playmate:

rough night for the android sex toy

The artist also has an art book for sale on his website:

jeffery scott art book

This post is a reblog with added provenance from a 27 November 2013 post at Infernal Wonders. Its original source was a defunct post (not preserved at the Internet Archive) at the similarly defunct bulletproof2k tumblr (fragments of which are preserved). A tumblr reblog of the original source does survive here; no Internet Archive backup link for that tumblr post exists and, post-2017, none can be made, because Tumblr censorship in the form of an exclusionary robots.txt file prevents its inclusion in the Archive.

Caution: Batteries Beneath This Cover

android

At the tumblr post where this image was originally found (see below), the artwork was titled “Beatless” and credited to “Redjuice”. An accompanying never-archived link currently takes the unwary reader to cultish Christianoid ravings about chemtrails; sic transit gloria mundi.

Fortunately, DeviantArt is much less fickle, and this image is described there as “Novel BEATLESS cover artwork.” According to Wikipedia, Beatless is indeed a serial novel illustrated by Redjuice. Otaku Mode describes it as:

One-hundred years into the future. A world in which society is mostly operated by humanoid robots called hIE. With the introduction of an ultra-advanced AI that surpasses human intelligence, beings that mankind is yet to fully comprehend made from materials far too advanced for human technology begin coming into being. Lacia, an hIE equipped with a black coffin-shaped device, is one of these. In boy-meets-girl fashion, 17-year-old Arato Endo has a fateful encounter with the artificial Lacia. For what purpose were these artificial beings created? Amid questions regarding the coexistence of these artificial beings and humans, a 17-year-old boy makes a decision…

We are, perhaps, all to be pardoned if we assume that his decision is “Yes, I will fall in lust with her and then jump the hell out of her artificial bones.” You know you were thinking it right along with me!

The series has subsequently inspired three spinoff manga series and a spinoff television anime series. This is the artwork as it appeared as novel cover art:

beatless cover art

Otaku Mode offers this information about artist Redjuice:

First place winner of the 6th Sneaker Taishō Award for his work Senryaku Kyoten 32098 Rakuen. His work Enkan Shōjo (Kadokawa Shoten) is also published under the same label. He has also been nominated for the 30th Japan SF Taishō Award and 41st Seiun Award for Anata no Tame no Monogatari (Hayakawa Publishing), as well as nominated in the Best Japanese Short Story of the Year category for the 42nd Seiun Award for allo, toi, toi.

The official Beatless website has a gallery of his work, and there is more in his gallery at DeviantArt.

This post is a reblog with added provenance from a 23 November 2013 post at Infernal Wonders. Its original source was this post at the Un flujo de Fotones tumblr. (A backup Internet Archive post link is here.)

Bait now has a really permanent home

I am pleased to announce that my (very) graphic novella Bait has a permanent Internet Archive home:

Here is the link to the archive page, where you can download the whole graphic novel and all of its pendant art in either CBZ (a comic book archive format similar to ZIP) or as a single big PDF document. You can also read the comic in a nifty screen reader the archive provides (also embedded in small size above). The archive has also auto-converted my uploads into a variety of other formats. The completeness or reliability of these versions is a bit uncertain, but I would welcome reports from anyone who wants to look at them.

At 113 pages and with no fewer than five contributing artists, the assembly and uploading of this version of the comic was an unusual challenge, and it pleases me no end that this particular phase of the Bait project is now complete!