Tanya, catgirls, and more fun with Z
Tanya 2, finally announced
For sometime in 2026.
Freelancers of Neptune, “revised”
Jacob Holo’s Freelancers of Neptune put a sexy catgirl on the cover (previously), which I appreciated, and rather emphatically made her not a haremette, which was also refreshing. Not only did she drive the hero crazy with her antics, she already had a boyfriend.
So he just released a “second edition” with a co-author who “added the spice” and turned it into something different:
Just remembered why I stopped reading Louie
TL/DR: in book 3 (my original notes), Merrill comes up with an incredibly stupid, guaranteed-to-backfire plan. Sure, it sets up Wacky Hijinks(TM), but the outcome was entirely predictable.
To get Rescued Runaway Young Heiress out of an arranged marriage, Louie pretends to her father that he “claimed his reward” after rescuing her from pimps/slavers. Merrill’s idea was that the threat of scandal would risk her reputation and call off the marriage, but she didn’t think it through, and nobody else spotted the flaw: her Daddy was marrying her off to advance his own position, and Louie is one of the most eligible bachelors in the kingdom.
He is, after all, the adopted son of one of the richest and most powerful wizards in the world, who’s also a personal friend and old adventuring companion of the king and the high priestess. Hell, the entire Thieves Guild is trying to figure out who his birth parents are, because he’s potentially that important. Whoopsie!
Destination: international waters
If we deport a convicted felon, and their home country won’t take them, I’m fine with just dropping them off near that country. Sink or swim, not our problem. If NGOs actually care, they can buy a fleet of patrol boats to fish them out of the water. If their home country has no seaports, or their crimes involved children, airdrop them.
More fun with Z
I fed a fresh batch of dynamic SF cheesecake prompts into my almost-ready-for-Github SwarmUI CLI to see what Z Image Turbo would do, and since it’s so much faster than Qwen, I’ve got just under a thousand images to play with already. Deathmatching them down to a reasonable number will be difficult, because the hit rate is so much better than Qwen.
I’ll limit myself to just a few for now:
(fingers are pretty good, but oversized heads are a risk…)
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