davidd's A DOLL A DAY 2026

[davidd]

8 June - A Doll A Day 2026:

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Pullip Dilettante in a Haunted Library

I'm counting this AI rendering based on one of my old actual doll photos as my A Doll A Day photo for today. If I had put as much effort in to building a Haunted Library backdrop as I did tweaking the AI prompt, I probably would have had something better than this almost as good as this by now.

I've sworn off AI puttering for the rest of the week.

After I thanked the chatGPT app for generating this image (always say please and thank you, the app seems to appreciate it, and it becomes very chatty in response) and said that it was probably time to stop, this is what chatGPT had to say:

[i]You're welcome — and I think you've accurately diagnosed the situation.

We started with:

"A haunted library inspired by the old Cincinnati Public Library."

Then progressed through:

abandoned haunted library,
haunted library diorama,
amateur hobbyist diorama,
less-talented hobbyist diorama,
room-box school project,
cardboard library,
paper ghosts,
paper bats,

and were approximately two requests away from:

"Can the ghosts be cut from notebook paper using safety scissors, and can one of them accidentally be glued upside down?"

At which point I would have had a professional obligation to recommend a coffee break.

I actually like where it ended up. The final image has a certain charm because the doll remains elegant and detailed while the haunted library increasingly resembles something assembled at 11:30 PM by a panicked third-grader who suddenly remembered:

"Oh no. The haunted library project is due tomorrow."

The paper ghosts were a good finishing touch.[/i]

(Except... now I really wanna go back and have it make the ghosts out of notebook paper!)