Healing charm

Hm. I suppose that’s not what they thought would happen.

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How are you guys doing? I finished reading Tress of The Emerald Sea and ended up giving two stars on goodreads. It was technically okay but there was nothing I enjoyed about it. A huge disappointment for me, but if complaining about wearing socks with sandals 4 times in a single story sounds like something you can enjoy then it might be up your alley. Not yet sure what I’ll pick up next. I;m trying to focus on fixing the Mind Drummer so that I can query it sometime soon. I don’t mind reading my novels 17 times but I always agonize over making them accidentally worse and so the process is very stressful. 4 chapters out of 24 done so far…

What else. I was still playing a little with with image generation and if not for the moral dilemma, I’d love to use it for some backgrounds or maybe even make a visual novel?… It makes pretty things so fast <3 But yeah, I feel bad for the artists, so I haven’t decided what I’ll do yet. Maybe I’ll post some images here just so that we can enjoy them together? Would that be harmful to other artists? Would that be damaging to this already so badly damaged community? I don’t know if I’d be upset if people could just generate Ada. I’d probably generate her myself just to make the comic go faster. In any case, I’m still too uncomfortable to do anything.

For chatGPT I played today and it’s seriously terrible at writing any text. I really gave it a go (it was raining and cloudy so…) but if you ask it for book ideas it generates only very generic stuff, like “a hero needs to overcome obstacles to achieve his goals”, and it you ask it to write a scene it produces very low quality text. So I don’t think I’d ever be able to use it for writing. It seems to be able to proofread small chunks of text but that’s so tedious… It can rewrite text in certain person’s style, but that also ends up sounding absolutely terrible. I also tried to force it to generate magic systems, outlines, or character ideas but nothing struck me as interesting. It’s also annoying how overloaded the tool is, because everyone is playing with it. All in all – meh for writing. I’m having way more fun generating ugly Adas because that’s at least funny and not just cringy.

Until the next weekend! <3

 

8 comments on “Healing charm”

  1. Sabreur Reply

    A healing charm made her scream in agony? Yikes.

    I wonder if this is some kind of “magic overdose”? So putting *more* magic into her made it worse?

    • HKMaly Reply

      It may also be another “over” thing: If you have mild hypothermia, you are shivering. If you have moderate hypothermia, shivering stops. In severe hypothermia you may start undressing.

      Similarly, it’s possible that she was in so bad state she was not able to scream, and now her state is so much better she can scream in agony.

  2. Shawn Reply

    re: Not yet sure what I’ll pick up next…
    Well, if you might like a bit of Science Fiction that was inspired in part by an event in Japan at the end of WW2, you might check out Thomas Doscher’s Vixen War Bride series (yeah, I know the title might put some off, SF is notorious for that). Oddly enough, there was some bemoaning on FB of how hard it is to find someone to do the book covers and my thought was, if he had put out a request for suggestions, I’d have suggested he talk with you based on your artwork here. It’s available on Amazon as Kindle or a larger paperback.

    On a different topic, I’m really enjoying what you’re doing with Replay. You’ve kept it fresh and I’ve never been tempted to just skip it for a bit and catch up later – I’m always chomping at the bit for the latest!

  3. Refugnic Reply

    Let’s see, let’s see, what can I do.
    Let’s see, let’s see, let’s see this through.
    A healing charm, to ease the pain.
    Nothing to loose, some peace to gain.

    Beyond the flap, in starlit night,
    stares and sighs, her gallant knight.
    Fireflies dance through the trees,
    tears start falling, stop and freeze.

    ‘What’s the noise?!’ he hurls to see,
    whatever could this screaming be?
    Frazzled tail, a panicked turn,
    he storms back in and sees her burn.

    “Rob! I don’t—”, he hears her say,
    the chicken panics, runs his way.
    And on the field bed, lies in throes,
    the girl he loves, the one he chose.

    Let’s see, let’s see, what can we do.
    Let’s see, let’s see, let’s see this through.
    A healing charm, to ease the pain.
    His trust to loose, her hurt to gain.

  4. Alex Reply

    The cry looks like her voice is horribly distorted as if possessed by a demon.
    I love the chicken’s reaction! 😀

  5. Alex Reply

    “but if complaining about wearing socks with sandals 4 times in a single story sounds like something you can enjoy”
    I always wear socks with sandals. What if insects crawl up your feet? So, hard pass.

    “I don’t mind reading my novels 17 times but I always agonize over making them accidentally worse and so the process is very stressful.”
    I know what you mean. I’m a software developer and I feel the same when optimizing source code. Everytime you try to make one thing better you pray that everything won’t fall apart. You try to pay really close attention to all the details, but eventually the complexity is just too much to always keep everything in mind. And eventually everything seems to work fine and you ask someone to betatest, and literally within the first minute of testing he’ll find a bug. So, yeah, I think I can relate. XD

    “I was still playing a little with with image generation and if not for the moral dilemma, I’d love to use it for some backgrounds or maybe even make a visual novel?”
    If you train it with your own images I don’t see a moral dilemma. You’re not taking away profits from artists, you’re just speeding up your own progress. If you question the morality of getting a speed advantage over other artists, then you’ll have to also question the morality of literally any other drawing tool you’re using, e.g. that awesome sky paint brush from your video I posted a few pages back, when you painted an entire sky in about 1 minute.
    If you’re not taking anyone else’s art for the generator (unless it’s under a licence that allows it), then use it to your heart’s content and give a good example to everyone else on how to use A.I. generated art properly. Of course there will be backlash, because there will always be people who lack the ability to differentiate, but those types of people exist everywhere, are a loud minority, shouldn’t be listened to in general, and aren’t part of your community anyway.

    Is chatGPT better or worse than dreamily? I only checked the latter, and I thought that while the text was nothing special compared to human authors, considering that some algorithm just dumped it all out in just a few seconds, I as a software developer was quite impressed.

  6. JW Reply

    For chatGPT I played today and it’s seriously terrible at writing any text.

    Yeah, creative writing isn’t it’s forte. But it’s doing well enough on writing essays for students to have teachers and professors tearing their hair out 😛

    I don’t know if I’d be upset if people could just generate Ada.

    It probably depends on what people do with it, right? If they just do it for their own enjoyment that’s one thing, but if they put it online and suddenly nine out of ten search hits are these AI forgeries, then that’s another matter.

  7. Crestlinger Reply

    This is what happens when a healing charm works Too well and goes about fixing that kink on your back you’ve had Forever!
    Or, more relevant, it’s going after her mental baggage like Pacman to pellets.

    There’s a good niche for you for books! Cover art! Bet you could do some great artwork for anything you’ve read that you liked and a good doodle/sketch source too!

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