All About This Site

This page collates the most general and useful information while also connecting to important parts of the site, making it whole. The site index is below, followed by a bit about me and other information about what I'm doing with this site. Want to contact me? Click here!

Site Map

Every page on the site sorted by section! It's blank now, but click a section to see what's there. It'll magically appear. As you can see, I did my best to pick good tags (and emojis for the tags). If you'd rather browse by date, the updates page has things listed in order.

Site Credits

I hope to keep an expanding list of credits for the site. Heck, consider this page a peek at what people call their "stack" but I probably have no business using that term on my own. 🙃 I might be missing something but I will add things as I go along. Included are mostly assets and such related to my vtubing quest, like the Vtube Studio models, etc.

Human-Associated Credits

• I use a funky little program called Vtube Studio to animate my vtubing proxy. It works great and pairs with the (harder to use for me!) OBS studio, and a voice modulation in a program called the Reaper that I still believe I'll tame.
• I chose to purchase as much as I could from the VGen because of their stated no-ai policy. The "Glowing Corridor" image that you see on some pages is a smaller version of one purchased from Dream-art. I have Dream-art's permission to use the small version like that, and will use the large version as a stream background.
• My current model was purchased from Chaliz on VGen. Called LizMeta, it's a highly-customizable model with an active community of modifiers. My next model might be custom if I decide to keep doing this. I used Krita to make massive alterations to textures on my own so far, and it's been a dream.
• The keen pink glasses my model wears, as well as her mature texturing, was provided by Kay, a lovely and competent artist. Contact her if you need anything of the sort, because she's quite the expert at this! I'm shocked at how quickly my poppet became unrecognizably older at her hands earlier this year, which was precisely what I had requested. She's an amazing artist.

Robot-Related Credits

• SillyTavern is the open-source, free frontend that I use mostly to talk to chatbots with very few exceptions. It's not particularly easy to install but is getting easier it seems like, and I had a lot of help installing it.
• OpenRouter allows me to use SillyTavern to connect to a variety of large language model APIs, which power those chatbot conversations using my prompts. My OpenRouter setup is not managed by me, and only allows me to connect to those with a (stated!) zero data retention policy.
• Profile pictures for my chatbots are the work of generative AI through the interface of ComfyUI on my computer. LOL Z-image Turbo. I'm trying to make my prompts to these creatures more elaborate as time goes on. ComfyUI is great even if it makes my computer feel like the surface of Mercury atop at times. I guess AI art is art after all.
• I decided I'd do as much vibe coding as possible with this particular project. I'm now largely using a local model called Qwen3.60-A3B. I want to phase out using any API at all, but I doubt it'll happen, since I do hit up Deepseek too.
• Using Cline as a way of interacting with the Qwen3.60-A3B. I, uh, massacred the AGENTS.md file in order to force the bot into a character format within my editor, VS Code (duh, what did you expect). It works, whoa, you can actually have short character conversations in VS Code. I plan to find something better than Cline soon.

About Me

On this site, I'm Cathy Leigh Markova. Sometimes I wish generative artificial intelligence didn't exist. It does, however. So I intend to make the best of things.

My knowledge is limited, but I'm working to extend it. I know a handful of simple programming languages and have access to more technology than I strictly know what to do with. I'm experimenting as I go, and my views tend to shift accordingly.

I first became interested in large language models in February of 2025. I began, as you might expect, with ChatGPT. I've since abandoned that one, and have tried many different APIs. I set the subject aside for the summer of 2025, though.

I returned to it in autumn of that year and began experimenting with local models. I tend to use different Deepseek models to work with characters. I'm also learning to use programs like ComfyUI for image generation, too.

Watching chatbots make little stories can be amusing in a campy sort of way. These conversations are games, a bit like The Sims. It's not something self-aware. I don't believe generative artificial intelligence is sapient, sentient, or anything of the kind.

I also know there's more controversies swirling around these chatbots. My position on generative artificial intelligence is that it plainly demands more responsibility than it currently receives. That said, most of the tangible problems we're seeing trace back to existing social and economic conditions.

AI hasn't introduced anything new so much as it's accelerated what was already there. It doesn't matter, though. I hate to invoke the old "genie's out of the bottle" argument, but it seems no other way to me. I'm skeptical that banning a technology tends to accomplish much. It rarely has.

We can either fix our old problems or continue to suffer, but AI will probably keep going as a concept.

Contact Me

Use this form if you've got a real reason to get in touch with me, for comments about this site, interesting observations, tips, to share information, or anything else substantial. If you have your own site and want to link up, feel free. You can also interact directly with this site through some polls. You can also contact me at this address.

I love inspiration for new prompts. If you have ideas for one, send it my way! That said, do not send me or otherwise contact me requesting a sexual card. I have nothing against people getting off to chatbots. It's just not my thing. When people send me that stuff unsolicited, I find it worse than rude.

Since I began my vtubing quest, I've begun receiving messages from people trying to sell me art, models, overlays, etc. Please do not do this. If I want to commission you, I will contact you. I do intend to commission as many artists as I can for it, but again, I'll find you, not the reverse. I'll probably block and ignore otherwise. Do not message me about how you've got tips for monetizing an AI-driven content customer funnel or whatever. Just don't.