Salem historical fiction book cover with colonial woman

By @justrob · Jul 3, 2026

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#2 - The Moderated Series. Blocked on another site. I get that the noose isn't really friendly?

Prompt

Tom Bagshaw + Charlie Bowater + Cynthia Sheppard, where Bagshaw's luminous portraiture creates haunting beauty, Bowater's fantasy style brings youthful emotional depth, and Sheppard's book cover expertise unifies narrative elements. The fusion manifests as a polished YA fantasy cover with romantic gothic undertones and magical particle effects. A young woman with dark hair pulled back, wearing a simple dark period dress, her expression solemn yet defiant, looking directly at the artist, warm amber light illuminating her face from below an air of quiet desperation about her. A misty autumn clearing at twilight, a weathered wooden gallows looming to one side, noose clearly visible, jack-o-lanterns glowing in the foreground casting warm light through swirling fog, magical sparkles drifting like embers, bare branches in the hazy pink and purple background. Title "SALEM" in elegant cream serif lettering with decorative swashes centered on the cover, tagline "She loved him; so they called her 'witch'" above, author name "EVELYN BLACKWOOD" in white capitals at bottom.

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This atmospheric historical fiction book cover for the novel *Salem* by author Evelyn Blackwood features a solemn colonial woman standing beside a weathered wooden gallows, flanked by glowing carved jack-o'-lanterns in hazy pink-purple twilight. Eerie floating embers and soft magical golden light cast an unsettling, spellbinding mood, paired with a tagline referencing the historic Salem witch trials and wrongful accusations of witchcraft. This dark, gothic cover art appeals to fans of paranormal historical drama, Halloween-themed stories, and 17th century colonial American narratives.

Comments (12)

@justrob · Jul 4, 2026
this was reviewed by a human on that other site and moderated / blocked. I think the system BP has going is pretty good right now. Im not unhappy
@justrob · Jul 4, 2026
i dont feel the need to push boundaries over there, now that i can do it here.
@justrob · Jul 4, 2026
i think the community standards ban hanging. I guess having a noose is close enough?
@CaylaCatz · Jul 4, 2026
I'm surprised it got blocked. Maybe it generated the image and it had a hanging man and got rejected? Or it thought it would do a hanging man. It can be hard to tweeze out what because sometimes it's just a word. I found I couldn't use the word "pierce" as in the arrow pierced the apple. Apparently many people used "pierce" sexually? or "violently"? One thing is sure, the AI does not understand context. That's why automated moderators is a problem. We need humans
@CaylaCatz · Jul 4, 2026
Why would a human block it? With what happened here on BP, they're needing to be stricter to keep the GPT model, I'm wondering if that's what happened to NC. I thought it was outside groups pressing on the platforms but now I'm thinking it's coming from Google. When you have big pockets, you're a target and they don't like getting sued. Their model in particular is way oversensitive to words.
@faerierealm · Jul 4, 2026
Maybe the noose or maybe some Far Right assholes saw it and missed the days when they could still burn women at the stake.
@faerierealm · Jul 4, 2026
Yeah good point, best to leave the Victorian prudes to their own world haha.
@faerierealm · Jul 4, 2026
Hmm replace the noose with a burning stake and see if THAT gets banned?
@justrob · Jul 4, 2026
their community standards say you cant do : "Murder, decapitation, hanging, torture, etc."