I was having some issues with the email add-on I’d been using for the “send me a message” page, and decided to bit the bullet and get a Neospring account: https://neospring.org/@niwa
Now I’m still planning on having letter bag posts (In case you’re wondering, a second one is unlikely to occur anytime soon), mostly because the modern internet hates making older content easy to find, and if in the small chance I do end up getting popular and getting a shitton of messages, I would want to make the messages people send to me not be forgotten…Even if it’s some dumbass who asks me something really fucking stupid.
I’ve been busy with some real life stuff (long story short: I’m trying to become less of a girlfailure by getting my driver’s license), but in the meantime I’m working on personal writing and on my current AI bot project Gylossia. I have four bots planned for Gylossia and then…I dunno, I might make more and I might not. I’ve also been fiddling around with NovelAI’s v4 model and I’m finally realizing how to properly prompt mix. Which means I can start having an actually sort of “original look” for my bots instead of having a bunch of characters who look like Monogatari knock offs. I’m also contemplating whether or not I should recreate the avatar pictures of my bots. If you’re worried about me completely redesigning my characters, don’t. They’d still look very similar to the originals, I just want to have my bots have a “flair” to them that will make people think “Oh that’s a Niwa bot”.
But again, if I do decide to do that, it’ll take a while, because I’m still experimenting with prompt mixing various artists and trying to find the right “look” I want for my bots…and also because using tokens on NAI can really punch a hole in my wallet if I’m not careful. Yes, I know I could run Stable Diffusion offline, but my attempts at doing so before confused me (I’m one of the more tech illiterate millennials out there), and I really like the new NovelAi v4 model and that hasn’t been leaked for general Stable Diffusion use so…
