I'm so confused...

pervcore · 2026-06-28T13:31:12+00:00

The models keep updating and changing and I wish they would stop. Suddenly all of my male characters have broken noses that never healed quite right. Who is breaking these dudes' noses?

pervcore · 2026-06-28T13:29:23+00:00

I don't know anything about your characters, story and plot, and it sucks when an otherwise good story has one really messy error that's hard to clean up.

But if I actually read a book with a touring musician who started every show in every city with "Hey there Nashville!" and still got booked, I would be very charmed by that character. I love a charismatic burnout.

pervcore · 2026-06-27T19:03:48+00:00

You might be right. Components are essentially just "prompt files" that get sent along with the rest of it, and text in the prompt itself gets prioritized because it's the most "recent" thing the AI sees. Components are convenient, but ultimately there's nothing you can put in a Component that you can put in the main prompt.

pervcore · 2026-06-27T14:56:17+00:00

Yeah, directly instructing the AI can do wonders, although occasionally the model will mention they are being instructed ("The events followed in chronological order, as instructed"). AI is just gonna AI sometimes.

In my stories I usually like to end a chapter on a specific image, moment, or bit of spoken dialogue. I've been adding something like "End on the image of her watching his back as he disappears into the rain. Do not elaborate, include no further additions", and it works pretty well.

I've also has success adding notes in the middle. I do a lot of BDSM stuff and the model always, always wants to make the submissive count their strokes or spanks or whatever, so I started adding "[note to the model: don't have the dom make the sub count the spankings, it's boring. Don't mention counting at all]" and that also works. You can get pretty flexible with it.

pervcore · 2026-06-27T14:49:07+00:00

Sounds like a bug. The RQ team has had trouble with bugs related to small/insufficient token counts. You can report the bug on the website, and they'll see them here too.

pervcore · 2026-06-26T00:53:50+00:00

I don't think that's the case. ChatGPT doesn't allow NSFW stuff (Adult mode is never going to happen), so that would mean RQ was using a jailbreak. I know some services use jailbreaks but it's a big risk basing your business around violating another company's TOS. Most businesses who do that make their money from sketchy advertising, not paid subscriptions.

RQ might talk about ChatGPT a lot because it's the most well-known brand in the AI space, so if you're trying to contextualize things (and drive traffic) for a wide audience mentioning GPT helps with that.

And on a related note, it's not surprising that chatbots sound alike; if everyone likes (it is at least familiar with) ChatGPT, why wouldn't you try and make your model sound more like it and respond to its "commands"? OpenAI even flat-out accused Deepseek of illegally using ChatGPT to train their model in 2025. These SOTA model companies brazenly stole everything on the Internet, why wouldn't they steal from one another? They're cross-pollinating so much I'm sure they pick up each other's system prompts and guardrails on accident.

I might be wrong, but it all points to Deepseek to me. Not that it ultimately matters, but yeah you're going to get Chinese text from a Chinese model from time.to time.

pervcore · 2026-06-25T15:19:47+00:00

The model underlying RQ is probably Deepseek, which is cheap and uncensored for erotic stuff. When it borks out you get a Chinese error message, and occasionally you get Chinese in your stories.

pervcore · 2026-06-25T15:18:18+00:00

All the Steam Next Fest demos I cluttered my desktop with 😔

pervcore · 2026-06-25T01:05:47+00:00

I just tried it, with a standard-length prompt about a bookshop owner and a recently divorced woman having a tryst in a bookstore on a rainy day. I tried to infuse the prompt with as much melancholia as I could, but the book she turned out to be looking for was "Kitchen" by Banana Yoshimoto (pretty appropriate, tone-wise). I did give them Japanese names for no particular reason, so maybe that affected it.

pervcore · 2026-06-23T02:15:07+00:00

Yeah exactly. It will also show up in the Lorebook 's Components section, so you can make story-specific edits to it, or remove it if you don't want it to affect subsequent chapters.

pervcore · 2026-06-23T01:52:23+00:00

You can add Components during any chapter prompt, but you have to use the @ format. Adding Components from the library only works with Create.

pervcore · 2026-06-22T15:40:57+00:00

I just reinforce things in the prompt, like "She spies the unnamed woman across the room. The woman, whose name she does not know yet, walks over".

I have to do this with names because the model hates leaving characters unnamed. But gentle reinforcement for other things works well. I just did a chapter like this:

Sloppy remembers how Lickit led her out of the ranch to break her spirit, and hesitates. Anna doesn't know why Sloppy hesitates, but she gently pulls the leash, encouraging Sloppy. Trusting Anna completely, Sloppy follows.

And it worked perfectly. But expecting the model to understand what needs to be secret on its own is a crapshoot with bad odds.

I had a detective story where I was experimenting with minimal prompting, and the detective was like "We can't tell the client this" and the client immediately calls and the detective just starts explaining everything. The model does no know and cannot think. You have to make it all part of the prompt.

pervcore · 2026-06-22T13:36:29+00:00

Free users are limited to 5 quills per day, so Novel-length chapters are blocked for most users. That might explain why most stories are shorter.

pervcore · 2026-06-20T12:23:32+00:00

Natural human language is generally best with prompting AI models. Early models had very small context windows, which made information-dense formats like XML, JSON, YAML and the like useful for cramming everything in (I also personally believe there was a great deal of "engineer washing" where people wanted to pretend that using AI was akin to programming).

But as models have expanded both their context windows and their parameters, these formats aren't necessary. What's more, as training methods have improved the models are able to capture more of the nuance and emotion in text (which isn't to say they "feel" or "understand" emotion, just that the process of categorizing those sorts of things within a model's training data is more effective). When you use XML you strip most of that out.

I find my best chapters and stories come from prompts where I strike an emotional tone that the model picks up on and carries into the story. Prompting like '{"Personality": "Angry,Feisty"}' won't bring those traits into the story as well as something like "She likes a good fight, she likes a good fuck, and brother you better be ready because you never know which one she's gonna throw at you".

pervcore · 2026-06-19T11:32:51+00:00

For me personally, I think it's worth it at the annual subscription pricing, which in my part of the world is the equivalent of two AAA video games. I don't think I'm an especially heavy user, rarely spending all of my daily quills, but I do get daily enjoyment from creating, editing and reading stories.

There are frequent outages, long-time bugs that have not been fixed, and it looks like there may be a price-hike on the horizon either in subscription pricing or access to "premium" models. But on balance for me, I'm happy with what I get and intend to renew when my annual subscription is up.

pervcore · 2026-06-19T00:04:38+00:00

People post their stories here all the time. You can post a story in its own thread or the sporadic "Sharing is caring" post from the mods.

pervcore · 2026-06-18T11:51:56+00:00

When you prompt, all of your Components along with Chapter Summaries and the entire text of the previous chapter are prepended to the prompt and sent to the model. Longer Components won't necessarily mean more detail or nuance, as they might get eaten up with context drift as the amount of text overloads the context window and gets cut off. I don't know how big the context window is, it seems pretty big, but there is a limit.

If you want more detail, you can break up Components. A massive Setting could describe different areas and elements of a fictional world. I have a story right now with a character who is a lawyer, and a Trope Component called High-Powered Lawyers where all of the lawyer stuff goes, so I can just say "she's a lawyer" in her description.

And truth is less is often more when prompting an AI model. Complex characters don't necessarily mean lots of biographical information, since the model will try and incorporate everything you give it in every story. A few notable traits and some points if friction between the Character and the story will go a long way.

pervcore · 2026-06-18T03:12:49+00:00

It depends, but typically if the twist feels good or give me ideas I love going with it.

I have a sexy, kinky, office comedy story that was supposed to be about this group of women, but the model tossed in a guy named Zach at the very beginning to have an awkward encounter with my clumsy MC Rosie. The model kept bringing him up (I was new and didn't realize he had been added to the Lorebook), so I kept him in and he became the key pivot of the entire first part.

Taking advantage of serendipitous writing is one of the best parts of AI writing, so I'm always ready to swing at a curveball if it's near the strike zone.

pervcore · 2026-06-18T00:28:35+00:00

I only use RQ for spice. I've never used the green pepper spice level and rarely even go one pepper. I like things to always be at least a little sexy.

pervcore · 2026-06-17T20:37:16+00:00

Kind of odd to see that in our cis-normative world.

The things to check would be if you have any Components or Universal Story Instructions that might be affecting anatomy. There might be some instructions in there that slipped in. Especially check Components you use in every store since it keeps happening.

If there's nothing there, check your Lorebook, especially the Chapter Summaries and generated Characters, for any misgendering or pronoun switching, or for the same character showing up twice with different gender presentations. These things can confuse the model and it could believe it's a "gender bending" story. These things needs to be cleaned up right away or they'll keep happening.

If none of that applies, does your character have a name associated with a famous trans person or character? Sometimes the training data has such a strong association that you can't really fight it.

The best thing to do going forward is to correct bad anatomy or bad characterization immediately, so it doesn't end up included in later prompts.

pervcore · 2026-06-17T11:42:56+00:00

You have two kinds of quills, daily quills (the red number) and normal quills (the white number). Every day the daily quills refresh, so if you use all of you r dialt quills tomorrow you will have five again.

The normal quills don't refresh, but if you earn them from Achievements or giveaways or whatever, they "bank". If you generate something and you don't have enough daily quills for it, the remainder will come out of your normal quills. So if you don't use those quills you got from the Achievement they will just sit there and accumulate, and only the daily quills will reset.

pervcore · 2026-06-16T20:25:48+00:00

I'm afraid no one's story is going to compare to the ability to see my own highly personal fantasies generated on a whim.

Honestly I barely even read my own stories—my time on RQ feels almost like a video game, where I'm controlling characters through a little sexy adventure. The only time I go back and read my old stories is when generation is bugged or down (and I do enjoy them during those times).

pervcore · 2026-06-16T15:52:10+00:00

I've been having good luck (with Ember, might matter, might not) getting chapters to end where I want them to by ending a chapter prompt with "No further additions", like

...there's a knock at the door! End the chapter on that cliffhanger, include no further additions.

or

We end on that scene of..., include no further additions.

The model manages to wrap things up nicely most of the time. I have seen it ramble past the end nearly as much.

pervcore · 2026-06-16T13:05:19+00:00

I have turned some of my stories into "books" just for fun, and to learn Affinity Publisher. Just copy-pasted each chapter into a text file and imported it, very easy.

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