Ask any image model for “something surreal” and it hands back the same picture: a melting clock, a floating island, a man whose face is an apple. Those are the genre’s greatest hits, and the word itself is what summons them.
This takes the space apart instead. Seven axes — the broken law, what it breaks on, where it happens, the light, the palette, the medium and how the picture behaves about it — with the sampler deliberately biased away from the stock answer on every one. Exactly one law is suspended per picture, the brief names it, and the same brief states in plain words that everything else obeys ordinary weight, anatomy and optics. That last sentence is the difference between a strange picture and soup.
Composing scenes, reading the brief, the lint and the content guard are free and work signed out. Rendering is a metered run on your own credits.
The scene
The seed is the whole scene. The same seed and the same locks always give the same brief, so a scene worth keeping can be written down and reopened later. Lock an axis to hold it while everything else rerolls.
Your own words
Optional. Anything typed here refines the subject the axes already chose — what it actually is, what it is doing, what is odd about it. Concrete beats atmospheric: “a kettle sagging like wet cloth” renders; “dreamlike and mysterious” does not.
The brief
This is the entire instruction that goes to the renderer, character for character. Nothing else is sent and nothing is added on the way.