Fan-Service Rocks!, episode 10
“In that moment, Imari grew up.”
This week, Imari flies solo. More precisely, Nagi can’t join the Let’s Explore A Manganese Mine expedition, so Our Big Little Bookworm’s insecurities come to the fore as she takes responsibility for the girls in territory none of them have visited before. Shoko is adorably confident in her chosen mentor, but Ruri gets a wee bit too snarky when deprived of her idol.
A tunnel collapse keeps them from reaching their destination, and that’s when a well-researched novel comes to the bookworm’s rescue. All’s well that ends well, and while Imari isn’t ready to fill Nagi’s… “shoes”, she doesn’t disappoint.
More GenAI Faprication
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And I would gen 500 wives,
and I would gen 500 more.
Then quickly deathmatch through those thousand wives,
and blog the ones ranked 4.
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This time around, we have a Qwen LoRA that actually works. Most of the ones I’ve tried have either changed nothing detectable or were overtrained to the point of making everything worse. Our new friend is Experimental-Qwen-NSFW, which has a very strong anime bias, and adds a touch of naughty even to prompts that don’t push its buttons. Also elf-ears and the occasional tail.
I used the revised-and-expanded retro-sf location & costume prompts, the new physical-expression-based moods, and the rest was unchanged. The LoRA exaggerated the poses and facial expressions, and despite its flaws (strange fingers, extra limbs, knock-knees, and “poorly-set broken bones” being quite common), it livened things up nicely. It even added some Moon diversity.
Downside: the refine&upscale pass had a tendency to magnify the LoRA’s flaws. In one case, it took two perfectly normal hands and added extra fingers in odd positions. In another, it changed the poses of the men in the background to match the gal’s sexy walk, which just looks goofy. About a dozen of them were made objectively worse, and another half-dozen had changes I didn’t care for, even if you wouldn’t know unless you saw the original. This is using the commonly-recommended 4xUltrasharpV10 upscaler, but I get the same sort of changes with others.
I briefly flirted with a tool for converting the metadata to a CivitAI-compatible format for uploading there, but the author silently changed its defaults to overwrite your saved originals, destroying the original metadata that lets you reload the exact settings in SwarmUI and refine/upscale. Fortunately I tested it on only one image. It also prefers to destructively modify an entire directory at once, so, yeah, not linking to that tool’s repo. It’s a simple JSON massage to the EXIF data, so I’ll just roll my own at some point. Or have Claude do it.
Speaking of Claude, I gave up on using their suggested devcontainer approach in VS Code (which I didn’t really want to use anyway), and installed the node-based Claude Code CLI inside of a VMware virtual machine running Ubuntu 25. Code is rsynced to a shared folder to make it available inside the VM, so it can’t see anything else and can only operate on copies.
(these are the ones where the defects aren’t so bad I have to re-gen them with a variation seed; some that I almost included turned out to have mottled skin tones, mostly on the legs, and I like my waifuskin like I like my peanut butter: smooth and creamy; also, without nuts)
All of the critters and fossils were created during the refining pass.
The refining pass reduced the number of men in the background and made them imitate her pose.
Qwen’s Insanely Bold Freckles struck during refining.
Qwen Freckles here are nearly as bad as the mottling, but I posted her anyway. Might try to fix her later.
The white stripe down her forehead was invented by the refiner. It also changed her gloves to match the fishnet stockings, which I approve of.
If you look closely at the refiner-invented boobstar, it’s a cutout, which makes no sense. Might try to fix it.
This one’s busted in a subtle way: her lower legs got swapped during refining. The new left leg looks okay, but the leftovers that got assembled into the right leg make it look like it’s not properly attached at the hip. She’s definitely a fixer-upper.
Originally, the left hand didn’t cover so much of the critter’s face; it changed position and grew longer in refining. Her right leg also changed dramatically, but in a good way; looking at them side-by-side, the upper leg was too short in the original.
This was one that I hoped would be fixed by the refiner, but wasn’t quite: those fingers are freakishly long.
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