"Je meurs aussi de ta mélancolie... Un soir de demi-brume"– d'après Nelligan et Apollinaire
A note on the epigraph
The line above is a splice: Nelligan's melancholy grafted onto the
opening mist of Apollinaire's La Chanson du mal-aimé. It began as an
honest misattribution — I went to Baudelaire for inspiration and came
back with the whole family — and it stays as characterization. A gothic
poet ought to misremember its canon a little; the haunting is the point.
If this bothers you, you are exactly the reader this model was made for.
Pale Sonneteer - Gothic Poet
My first model. A simple experiment with karcher. As we create new models, it becomes clear we nearly satured what can be created with mistral 24B, magistral 2509 included, whether it's fine-tuned or merged. Ironically, there are many more frontiers to explore. Please, don't stop doing so.
About
This is an attempt to learn about merging with karcher. I tried a few other methods before setting my sights on this particular one for my first serious model. The Pale Sonneteer is meant to be a writing/RP model obviously.
The model is inspired by Ateron/Sketch-Cydonia, a beautiful stroke of poetry. Its "simplicity" is built on the endeavour of more complex fine-tunes and merges, it remains quite inspirational.
Nothing is simple really at this point. In the mistral 24B space, one can only hope to find something that fit their specific desires. There are plenty of quality choices. Mine were to get a specialized model for writing in a gothic atmosphere. A success, although not an absolute one. Many supercedes the Sonneteer in prose, but none gets the equilibrium, the haunting, I was looking for.
I tip my hat to TheDrummer, Ateron and all explorers who try to push the frontiers of what can be done.
Enjoy, or don't. Feel free to share your feedbacks.
PaleSonneteer
This is a merge of pre-trained language models created using mergekit.
