Our Great (Hot) Detective’s plan is revealed, as Our Wannabe-Sucker Hero confronts her and lays out the evidence. Unfortunately he didn’t plan for the aftermath.

Verdict: it was nice to see Nazuna go Maximum Effort and prove that Anko/Kyoko’s vampire-fighting tactics only really worked when her opponent wasn’t serious, neatly subverting the waif-fu girlboss stereotype that’s so common. She can’t beat a vampire in a straight-up fight, no matter how clever she is.

Text generation in Qwen Image

The majority of my failed attempts to generate text have been with relatively-rare words (“harem”, “Hornblower”, etc), so I was a bit surprised when it failed 90% of the time at the word Babies (as in Sugar), while Baby always worked. Then I found an article explaining that the way they got improved text generation in both Latin scripts and Hanzi/Kanji was to explicitly train it with tons of images of words rendered in specific fonts.

In other words, it will almost never produce correct results for words outside of the training set; it would need to integrate a text-rendering engine the way the big boys do. Given that they already bolted a full LLM into it to parse the prompts, that’s doable, but they’d probably have to open up their license to use something like Freetype or ImageMagick. This may be something where I end up creating automated vocabulary LoRAs with a Python script, or asking a high-end LLM to generate masking templates for the image generator and ImageMagick command-lines to composite the text onto the results.

Anyway, I was thinking about that social-media “boys don’t read” kerfluffle, and decided the thing to do was create some things that might stimulate their sense-a-wunda…

BTW, this is not what I had in mind when I asked for “glowing alien symbols”…

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Boys’ Waifu magazine covers

All of the facial and ethnic variation was injected with wildcard files that I randomly generated using my dynamic prompts script.

It had a lot of trouble with “Waifu”. Lots of Waif, Waif!, Waifi, Waiaf, Waifai, Wawfu, Waifa, Waif1u, Waifau, Waiff, Waifaf, Waiafi, etc, often with extra dots, umlauts, or apostrophes over or after the last letter. Quite frustrating, because often the covergirl was terrific, but the title was a mess, and trying to use variation seeds to nudge it into a text re-render often changed the girl too much (in one case erasing a rare pair of bare titties). For some of those, I’m going to try the Edit model to see if it can improve text the way they promise; at N minutes a pop, it’s too tedious to use variation seeds.

I forgive this gal for the gratuitous umlaut; it’s not her fault.

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