Kristie Kline settled onto the cool stone, the weight of the thorny crown pressing gently against her brow. The scent of roses mingled with something older, something…still. She held the bouquet close, admiring the deep crimson blooms. Each petal a memory, each thorn a reminder. A quiet smile touched her lips as she gazed at the heart-shaped window, bathed in soft light. It was almost time.
using a specialized prompt sent to Qwen 3-8B to take the theme and instructions, a large number of random locations, then create a prompt with the character, and since i'm using QIE2509, i put a small pre-fix to the prompt, and this is the result:
use the real woman in image 1, this is a photograph ...
Workflow
ComfyUI used to gen the source, then ComfyUI again to fix anything using Flux Krea Nunchaku for any inpaints, then SDXL w/ ControlNet direct 4k upscale(meaning no tiling), and finally GIMP to do any pre or post-fixes, as well as final color correction and enhancing, and signaturing. and newly added is using Gemma-3-12B in LM Studio to generate short stories about the images to give a touch of curiosity to them.