haha, Mr. Thorne shows up again in the Gemini 2.5 samples.

I have played around with creating long form fictional content with Gemini 2.5 the last week, and I started adding "no one named 'Thorne'" to my prompts, otherwise it always creates a character named Mr. Thorne. I thought it was something in my prompts trigger this, but it seems to be a general problem.

However, despite the cliches and slop, Gemini 2.5 can actually write and edit long form fictional pretty well, you can get almost coherent 10-20 chapter books by first letting it create an outline and then iteratively write and edit the chapters..

I also used Gemini 2.5 to help me code a tool to interactively and iteratively create longform content: https://github.com/pulpgen-dev/pulpgen