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Add-ons for Stable Diffusion, another round-up

19 Wednesday Mar 2025

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Here’s another small selection of Lovecraft-adjacent Stable Diffusion 1.5 add-ons, new since my last such update. These are free ‘style add-ons’ for free Stable Diffusion 1.5 AI models, which are used to generate images in free software such as Invoke AI. A gaming-quality graphics-card must be slotted into the PC, such as an NVIDIA 3060 12Gb.

* Carbonite Style is Star Wars-y (Han Solo trapped in carbonite) also has obvious uses for making Cthulhu-style bas-reliefs.

* Medieval Slums. With a rather slick ‘wallpaper’ style, but you could tone that down with the slider / prompt.

* Carnivorous Plant.

* Dreamlike Surrealist Painting.

* Rural Eldritch (currently in paid ‘early access’, thereafter to be released for free in ten days).

* Vintagecomic. Excellent, when used with the right model. Also gets the print/texturing right.

Release: NovelForge 3.x

08 Saturday Mar 2025

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For a few years now, the Photoshop plugin creator Mediachance has also offered the desktop CQuill Writer 1.x creative writing software, this being an affordable $60 standalone helper / story-organiser / style-prompter. After much development over the winter this has just been renamed NovelForge 3.x and 3.x can link to powerful LLM AIs (aka ‘chatbots’), which work directly in its editor window.

It uses the same user registration as CQuill, and I tested this… and yes… NovelForge picked up my old CQuill registration details. Just download the NovelForge trial installer, and it will automatically pick up your CQuill registration and also import the old project files. The user interface and workflow possibilities are much the same, with only a new AI assistant tab.

There’s a video on How to setup NovelForge with OpenRouter for free, to access remote LLM AIs. As you can see here, it can also work with local desktop AI hosting suites…

Use cases: paraphrasing; condensing; dialogue fixing (e.g. speech of the time period, regional accent and dialect, prevailing courtesy mannerisms etc); coherence and readability; cliche and modern slang avoidance; crafting more believable character responses e.g. emotional / logical / humorous; adding world-building details and names; quick research assistance; potentially also a ‘stylisation makeover’ (‘write it like Lovecraft’) and scene extension (‘suggest three events that might happen next, one of which should be plausible but unlikely’). And so on.

The interface is decidedly old-school, but dark mode can be enabled using the third-party Windowtop, and the font size is natively scalable.

In the past I’ve mentioned that I plan to use my registered CQuill to distill a ‘Lovecraft Style’ module (doing so is only possible in the paid version). This is still planned, and (as with the further novels I hope to write one day) I’ll find the time and energy eventually.


Update: Can connect to local LLMs via Msty. Tested and working. Just input the Msty local server URL into the ‘LLM Studio’ slot in the NovelForge settings, then get the models list and save the settings.

Four more LORAs, and a CivitAI block tool for UBlock

30 Thursday Jan 2025

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A few more recent LORAs, which are kind of ‘style-steering add-ons’ used with MODELS based on Stable Diffusion 1.5. All free. Local AI image generation will ideally require a PC with at least an NVIDIA 3060 12Gb graphics-card.

Not many, as Lovecraft-ish LORAs have been few and far between over Christmas and New Year, what with all the many distractions of those weeks. These are the only worthy ones I’ve spotted, since my last such posting back in 8th December.

18th century men LORA for Rococo clothing, makeup, wigs, from Lovecraft’s beloved 18th century. For use with a MODEL which ‘knows’ what Lovecraft looks like, such as Photon.

Neo Noir v1.0 LORA. Dark film noir with modern slightly CG vibe in the demos, but obviously also able to do more of a ‘1940s publicity shot’ look. Appears to know clothing.

FantasyMapCreator LORA. Doesn’t appear to have gained many users, but some may want to test it.

And a new updated 1.2 version of Realms of the Dead LORA, and some new pictures (prompts included) show what can be done with it in terms of generating images of Ancient Egyptian passageways…


Incidentally, for those doing their own browsing of CivitAI, the key repository of LORAs, here is how to blank unwanted items in the search results. In UBlock Origin’s Filters list, add your tailored variant of this and save the list…

civitai.com##a[href*=”keyword”]

As the page of search results loads, this blocks the image in each target panel — but not the panel itself. It blocks the image only when it finds keyword in the panel’s href (its Web link), so replace keyword with whatever you need. This block thus squishes unwanted ’empire builders’ who are out to build a series of LORAs — all with the same brand-name. Their endless production of new LORAs can feel a lot like spam. Now you can cosmetically filter them out of results, by name.

Time-travel with LORAs

08 Sunday Dec 2024

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A few more free add-ons, for use with the free Stable Diffusion AI image generator.

1900s Drama Movie. Note also the Lovecraft-friendly Colonial style porches and doors.

10s Retro Future Movie trained on visions of the future, as found in 1910s movies.

Silent Movie v1.0 LORA makes small frame-sequences which can then be compiled into wobbly movie clips.

40s Western Movie. More R.E. Howard than Lovecraft (“Sweet Ermengarde” and “Juan Romero” aside), but possibly of interest to those who need to emulate pulp western images, in combination with an art-style LORA.

Stygia v1.1 LORA for Conan backdrops. An update from version 1.0.

Halloween LORAs

28 Monday Oct 2024

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Another small roundup of some of the more Lovecraftastic recent ‘style plugins’ for Stable Diffusion 1.5 AI image-generation. Free, and for use free local desktop software such as InvokeAI 5.x. You will however need a decent gaming graphics-card in your PC, ideally at least an NVIDIA 3060 with 12Gb.

Mostly LORAs this time around, but also one IP-Adapter.

Straight from Ulthar Labs Inc., the new Cat Face Identity IP-Adapter. This is a special kind of plug-in that plugs your cat’s face into each image generation. It’s not just a paste-in, it ‘knows’ what cat faces look like and adapts the source-face to the context. So you could have your favourite domestic kittee go on a trip to Ulthar, etc.

A 20s Silent Movie LORA, trained on scans of good-quality 1920s publicity-stills rather than old scratched celluloid frames, by the look of it. User feedback is good.

Frankenstein Tech – World Morph LORA. A ‘world morph’ LORA that makes everything you prompt for look like it’s either an interior of Frankie’s lab or else came from it. Also good for images of His Monster.

Frankenstein Tech might be combined with also-new Gothic Interiors – v1.1 LORA.

The Cosmic ‘Radio’

15 Tuesday Oct 2024

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[The narrator is an intern in a Catskill Mountains insane asylum]. I placed… “upon his head and mine the two ends of my cosmic ‘radio’; hoping against hope for a first and last message from the dream-world in the brief time remaining. In the cell with us was one nurse…” — “Beyond The Wall of Sleep” (1919).

Stable Diffusion 1.5.

More dark and character LORAs

08 Tuesday Oct 2024

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A few more Lovecraft-adjacent LORAs, released or spotted recently. These are free ‘style-guidance’ plugins for AI image-generation models based on Stable Diffusion 1.5.

* Nightmares of the Machine Age LORA. Vehicle designs to inspire your Lovecraftmobile.

50s Noir Movie LORA.

* Tabletop RPG / Call of Cthulhu – Old style Photos LORA. Apparently requires trigger-word retro, not specified on the record-page.

The same maker also has Call of Cthulhu RPG document generators, 1, 2 and 3.

The Great Cthulhu – Character LORA. The same maker also has Deep Ones and The King in Yellow LORAs. Note the Clip Skip requirements.

Still waiting for a good ‘Lovecraft as character’ LORA.

Dark LORAs

22 Sunday Sep 2024

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Some more newly-released Lovecraft-adjacent add-ons, which I spotted on CivitAI. For download and local use as style-guides with AI image-generation models derived from Stable Diffusion 1.5. All free, as is the software needed to generate the images (ComfyUI, InvokeAI, etc).

* Declassified Documents LORA.

* Another Limbo Style LORA, based on the visual style of the seminal videogame called Limbo.

* Back-side Light LORA for a creepy or film-noir portrait in darkness.

At low levels, ‘Back-side Light’ could be combined with the new Dystopian City LORA.

Four more LORAs

31 Saturday Aug 2024

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I spotted a few more new Lovecraftian-adjacent style-guidance plugins (LORAs), free for the free Stable Diffusion 1.5.

Transparent Specimen LORA, giving an x-ray creature effect. Perhaps especially useful for those making old 1920s x-ray plates, as part of a RPG game?

World of Green Mist LORA, looking very suitable for Innsmouth pictures, though you may want the Sponge tool in Photoshop to tone down the end results. It could be used with the also-new Creature in Myst LORA.

Starry night, for generating an Earth landscape with a starry night sky and moon.

More LORAs

22 Thursday Aug 2024

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Another pick of the recent free plugins for local/offline use with the free Stable Diffusion 1.5 AI image generator.

* Style of Milton Caniff LORA, able to do 1930s men’s suits and hairstyles in an illustration style. Of obvious relevance for anyone crafting 1930s Lovecraft-era artwork.

* VintageBW LORA for a vintage b&w photography look, and it could be combined with the also-new DarkLight – RimLight lighting LORA for noir rim lighting.

* DonM – Fossils LORA for generating fossils or polished stylised bas-reliefs.

* Mythicc Lands LORA, an unusual landscape generator that combines the landscape with a ‘geometric portal’ composition. Especially suitable for aiding attempts to emulate 1980s style sci-fi paperback cover-art, I’d suggest.

And an oldie, someone made an EMBEDDING (use like a LORA) for SD 1.5 which gave them a consistent Erich Zann face/head for a storytelling project. Still waiting for the consistent-character LORA for Lovecraft himself.

In the meanwhile, Centerflex model + the wasmoebius embedding has a fair idea of what Lovecraft looked like, though you may need to use negatives (Auden, Lincoln, Keaton) and stretch the resulting image up by 70 pixels to get the ‘long face’…

Three new LORAs

25 Thursday Jul 2024

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My pick of three recent free Lovecraft-adjacent ‘style plugins’ (LORAs), for use with the free AI image-generator Stable Diffusion 1.5…

Style of Edward Gorey LORA.

Neon Pop Haeckel LORA, Haeckel being an influence on Lovecraft. Though for laying out a “sane” non-religious view of the universe, rather than his deep-sea expedition imagery. Joshi calls him a… “central influence on [Lovecraft’s] metaphysical thought of the time”.

Pulpy Comics Style Inkifier LORA, for a neo-pulp modern comic-book style.

“On thin ice again…”

20 Saturday Jul 2024

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I find that Stable Diffusion 2.1 768 knows about Conan, if you use the right model. Pure prompt, no Img2Img or ControlNet.

Conan’s body slipped and crashed down the icy ravine, his simple ice-pick useless to slow his slide, until suddenly he was halted. One foot has stuck through an ice sheet, where the high sun had partly melted it. It was that faint warmth which brought a musty smell to his flaring nostrils. He was suddenly alert to something behind him…

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