It has been at least 45 years since I last thought about crystal radios. Mine was a kit, probably from Radio Shack because there was still such a place, and it didn’t hold my interest long. If only I’d known the attraction it held for rock-junkies and their busty allies, things could have been different.

Anyway, Ruri finds her grandfather’s homemade set (while looking for his rocks, of course), has no idea what it is, and since there were crystals inside the box, heads off to Nagi to find out what’s what. Nagi and Imari are too busy to give the girls more than a quick lecture and a shopping list, but Busty Gal Pal Aoi gets pressed into (and for) service and ends up enjoying the adventure.

Frustration over the weak signal leads them to seek higher ground, and without realizing it, they end up at the same place grandpa tested it originally, a local shrine. The story’s all about connections, and in the end, the priest turns out to be connected, too.

And then Imari gets lucky, playing a classic trope straight to set up the next (and last) episode.

Future Waifu Society

I genned a batch of retro-sf cheesecake Thursday with the Pin-up Girl and SNOFS LoRAs loaded (the latter at 50% strength), and… forgot to trigger them. Both have some influence on the output even without trigger words, but the net result was that the majority of the pictures were pretty much the same as the last batch of retro-sf gals, so I had to skew my deathmatch toward the ones that picked up at least a little of the pin-up aesthetic. Then I kicked off another batch on Friday with a new set of corrected prompts. Results of both sets below.

Next up? I had Claude tear apart the over-familiar SF location prompts and put them back together broken down by category and reassembled in a bunch of different patterns. The faster/cheaper Haiku 4.5 model didn’t manage to put 50 unique elements into each category, but it got at least halfway there before it started repeating itself. Combinatorially speaking, it’s capable of at least 10,000 unique locations, but I won’t know if they’ll be interesting until I generate some pics.

Also, the next batch should have less fashion and facial disasters, since I set the weights for feathers, spikes, and tongues to be much, much lower. Qwen doesn’t know what “feathered hair” or “spiked hair” mean, and tends to go a little overboard when those adjectives are used anywhere. And mentioning a tongue guarantees an exaggerated expression where it’s stuck out at the viewer, and usually not in a sexy way. Still running about 4% limb disasters, though, and that’s being generous.

First batch

The refine/upscale process is working pretty well now, with one small problem: toes. They were fine before upscaling, sigh, so don’t count them or point out that the big toe (if any) is on the wrong side. Sigh.

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Second batch

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