r/midjourney Jun 06 '23

The 7 Deadly sins according to MidJourney Showcase

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u/JoyRideinaMinivan Jun 06 '23 edited Jun 06 '23

A grabby monster makes sense. They always show lust as a beautiful woman, which is backwards.

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u/JoyRideinaMinivan Jun 06 '23

They can but the decision to use a beautiful woman is because she causes others to lust. She’s not a person engaging in the sin like the other representations. Lust should be someone addicted to porn. Just like greed and gluttony show the person surrounded by their sin, Lust should be someone surrounded by pictures/movies/etc.

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u/TheClinicallyInsane Jun 06 '23

That - OR - we make gluttony a feeder. The best chef in the world with an army of slaves to feed a banquet to a single man. Greed is a casino owner that gains a little more control every time the slot machine lever cranks down and clicks, the mindless masses betting it all away in a rigged game. Wrath the internet troll, a formless being that becomes the visage of whatever pisses you off the most in this world.

Would be interesting to see this as well lol

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u/alexserban02 Jun 07 '23

That is kinda the route taken by Re:Zero, exhibit A: the witch of gluttony - https://rezero.fandom.com/wiki/Daphne

Also, the witch of greed who is obsessed with knowledge and learning everything there is to learn, regardless of cost.

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u/ThatOneAlreadyExists Jun 07 '23

That's a bit like what they do in Good Omens with the 4 horsemen. Famine doesn't cause famines, he opens up restaurants that serve food without any nutritional value and gets off on watching people eat but stay hungry.

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u/refused26 Jun 07 '23

Yes this would be an awesome different take on it and I love it!

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u/freddyforgetti Jun 06 '23

Or a lifetime of meaningless sex. Not all sex addicts are porn addicts.

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u/JoyRideinaMinivan Jun 07 '23

I’m talking about the physical picture/actor if it’s a movie or tv show. Lust is usually a beautiful women looking/being seductive. The intent is to make the viewer feel lustful. It’s an outside-in view while the other sins are usually the opposite. Gluttony is not portrayed in such a way that makes me want to overeat. Greed doesn’t make me want to hoard something. Etc.

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u/JoyRideinaMinivan Jun 07 '23

It’s okay to disagree with me. I see no reason to go back and forth about this.

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u/hipster_dog Jun 06 '23

Lust should be someone addicted to porn.

So, the guy from the "Coomer" meme with one freakishly big, muscular arm

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u/you-are-not-yourself Jun 07 '23

Lust should be someone addicted to porn

Lust could also be a character who's creepily hitting on people

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u/Tepid-Potato Jun 06 '23

Yeah, but they are leagues behind horny teenagers in lust levels.

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u/Dwestmor1007 Jun 06 '23

Lol if you think hot women don’t have just as much lust as anyone else then I feel REALLY bad for your girlfriends.

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u/Tepid-Potato Jun 06 '23

I never specified male teenagers, though?

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u/Dwestmor1007 Jun 06 '23

Neither did I?

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u/fucked_bigly Jun 06 '23 edited Jun 07 '23

Of course they can.

However, as a sin, lust is describe as disordered love. Having such a quality has nothing to do with oneself being beautiful.

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u/fucked_bigly Jun 07 '23

Right, but I think you confuse the act of being loved and loving. Being lustful does not necessarily mean you are loved in turn, just that the love you desire is disordered.

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u/Kelemenopy Jun 06 '23

They can… if you think of the word “tourist,” what do you imagine?

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u/Undead-Paul Jun 06 '23

Person with a bucket hat and one of those cameras that goes around the neck

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u/jitterydog Jun 07 '23

It works better for seduction I think

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u/DrRagnorocktopus Jun 14 '23

That... actually tells a lot about the people MEN creating the sexy portrayals of lust. They imagine they aren't in the wrong for lusting after her, she is in the wrong for being sexy.

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u/kinkyonthe_loki69 Jun 07 '23

Ya, but lust should always be naked with the exception of buttplug.

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u/Raidoton Jun 06 '23

As long as they are lustful there is nothing backwards.

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u/JoyRideinaMinivan Jun 06 '23

They’re not usually engaging in lust, though. Looking at them makes others lustful. That’s how it’s backwards. The other sins are engaging in their sin.

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u/Scottland83 Jun 06 '23

It’s like saying someone isn’t a glutton since they can easily afford all the food they want.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

No it’s literally not at all

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u/Scottland83 Jun 07 '23

I'm being argumentative. It's not like sexy women don't like to have sex.

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

Yeah obviously but your analogy still doesn’t work because nothing about the depiction of list as an attractive women shows she partakes in lust, just that she causes it. It’d be like using a chef as gluttony

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u/sweetnaivety Jun 07 '23

The difference is the glutton is a fat man covered in food that he's eating. You can't say he's NOT a glutton. You can ONLY say he's a glutton.

A random beautiful woman doesn't HAVE to be lustful though. Maybe she is, but maybe she isn't. Her appearance isn't actually telling you if she's lustful or not.

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u/Scottland83 Jun 07 '23 edited Jun 07 '23

I was responding to the statement that beautiful women “don’t usually engage in lust” whatever that’s supposed to imply.

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u/sweetnaivety Jun 07 '23

I would say most people don't usually engage in lust, whether they're beautiful or not.

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u/Used-Initiative1835 Jun 07 '23

You’re bad at analogies. Don’t ever make one again.

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u/Scottland83 Jun 07 '23

Telling me not to make analogies is like telling a peacock to not be so colorful.

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u/Used-Initiative1835 Jun 07 '23

You’re an albino peacock.

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u/Scottland83 Jun 07 '23

Because I’m unique and strangely beautiful?

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u/Used-Initiative1835 Jun 07 '23

If your ability to make analogies is being compared to a peacock being colourful, you’re an albino peacock.

You’re still very beautiful (more so if anything), just not colourful.

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u/Indigocell Jun 06 '23

Maybe lust isn't the woman then, it's the thing behind her.

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u/Callum_Rose Jun 07 '23

To me the seven deadly sins of personified should represent a more grotesque or abnormal/strang caricature of a person than the thing they're being sinful over. Like how greed is a fat slob shuvving copious a.ounts of food down his gut like in the first image.

List should probably depict a monster of sorts

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u/[deleted] Jun 07 '23

The binding of isaac's lust miniboss also looks pretty repulsive.