Startling Portal Pets
([dontyoudaregohollow](https://civitai.com/images/126953581)) (2026)
Image description: A tabby cat with blue eyes sitting at a desk in front of a computer monitor. The screen displays a swirling vortex, and a human arm appears to extend out of the vortex to touch the cat’s head, creating a surreal portal effect. A yellow computer tower sits beside the monitor, and patterned wallpaper fills the background.
::: spoiler Full Generation Parameters:
`Positive: A surreal, disembodied human arm stretches out from a swirling, liquid interdimensional (vortex:1.2) centered within the screen of a (vintage beige CRT monitor:1.3), gently patting the head of an (anxious, wide-eyed tabby cat:1.2) sitting in the immediate foreground. The composition is captured from a low-angle, medium-close perspective using a cheap consumer-grade digital camera, characterized by a slight wide-angle distortion that bends the peripheral desk space. The cat’s fur appears matted and coarse, its pupils fully dilated in a state of feline shock, while the reaching human hand shows realistic skin textures and slightly blurred movement under the intensity of a direct light source. The environment is a cluttered, claustrophobic 1990s home office, featuring a yellowing desktop PC tower, tangled grey peripheral cables, and a dusty, dark desk surface that enhances the "cursed image" narrative. Lighting is dominated by a harsh, flat on-camera flash that creates deep, obsidian shadows against the drab wallpapered background, contrasted only by the faint, eerie blue luminescence bleeding from the CRT portal. The technical style mimics low-fidelity analog photography, complete with heavy ISO grain, chromatic aberration, digital noise, and the desaturated, muddy color palette of early digital sensors. Cursed image, weirdcore, dreamcore, liminal space, early 2000s internet aesthetic, lo-fi photography, flash photography, surrealism, glitches, analog horror, retro computing, uncanny valley, nostalgic, glitchcore, paranormal, vaporwave, low-res, digital artifacts, eerie, uncanny, y2k aesthetic, liminality, found footage.`
`Steps: 9, CFG scale: 1, Sampler: res_multistep, Seed: 607140491016264, Model: z-image\z-image-turbo-bf16-aio`
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Image description: A tabby cat with blue eyes sitting at a desk in front of a computer monitor. The screen displays a swirling vortex, and a human arm appears to extend out of the vortex to touch the cat’s head, creating a surreal portal effect. A yellow computer tower sits beside the monitor, and patterned wallpaper fills the background.
::: spoiler Full Generation Parameters:
`Positive: A surreal, disembodied human arm stretches out from a swirling, liquid interdimensional (vortex:1.2) centered within the screen of a (vintage beige CRT monitor:1.3), gently patting the head of an (anxious, wide-eyed tabby cat:1.2) sitting in the immediate foreground. The composition is captured from a low-angle, medium-close perspective using a cheap consumer-grade digital camera, characterized by a slight wide-angle distortion that bends the peripheral desk space. The cat’s fur appears matted and coarse, its pupils fully dilated in a state of feline shock, while the reaching human hand shows realistic skin textures and slightly blurred movement under the intensity of a direct light source. The environment is a cluttered, claustrophobic 1990s home office, featuring a yellowing desktop PC tower, tangled grey peripheral cables, and a dusty, dark desk surface that enhances the "cursed image" narrative. Lighting is dominated by a harsh, flat on-camera flash that creates deep, obsidian shadows against the drab wallpapered background, contrasted only by the faint, eerie blue luminescence bleeding from the CRT portal. The technical style mimics low-fidelity analog photography, complete with heavy ISO grain, chromatic aberration, digital noise, and the desaturated, muddy color palette of early digital sensors. Cursed image, weirdcore, dreamcore, liminal space, early 2000s internet aesthetic, lo-fi photography, flash photography, surrealism, glitches, analog horror, retro computing, uncanny valley, nostalgic, glitchcore, paranormal, vaporwave, low-res, digital artifacts, eerie, uncanny, y2k aesthetic, liminality, found footage.`
`Steps: 9, CFG scale: 1, Sampler: res_multistep, Seed: 607140491016264, Model: z-image\z-image-turbo-bf16-aio`
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