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Sometimes I think I overdid it with Yaoi Hokkaido’s character, and other times I think I’m understating the situation –
This comic isn’t meant to be a serious commentary on society, but – that’s a lot of sex toys, and I don’t see men bragging about owning one. Except for a few of the guys with silicone sex dolls, who are semi-anonymous online; and they usually take a ton of criticism for it.
It’s pretty sad when your currently active comic is about four times less popular than the old one that has been dead for longer than the current one has been alive. Counting book sales, the difference would be infinite.
I struggle to comprehend. Did people prefer the American comic art style to manga all along? Is horror better than comedy?
Well, I noticed that pg 55 is up to 8 likes now. Hopefully those are real people, and not A.I. companies testing the ability of their bots to click on websites. Bots are a quarter to a third of my traffic lately. Maybe they’re clicking stuff instead of just scraping.
Not perfect, but much better than pulling levels or curves around to try to turn a pencil drawing into an ink drawing. It won’t take long to correct these. Given the starting point was a badly lit photograph of a pencil sketch, not even a scan, I’m extremely impressed. It may not be worth committing the desk space to a scanner, when this works so well. A phone with the flashlight turned on might be a good compromise.
You all know how much fun I’ve been having blowing time and money on my brake repair job. I bought a new caliper from O’reilly’s today, one of their BrakeBest brand calipers. I should, at this moment in time, be done with this job. But here’s what actually happened.
See the little rubber boot on my old caliper bracket? I installed this myself, a couple days ago.
The O’Reilly’s caliper comes with a new caliper bracket and other hardware that I already have, but I’ll use it. However, what do we NOT have here?
Wow. WOW. I don’t know if they assemble these things on a line, or pay a drunk 5 pesos a day for as many brackets as he can rebuild – but someone forgot to install the caliper pin boots. If it was on an assembly line, the next person lubed up the caliper pin and installed the pins anyway, and then the next person bolted the calipers to the pins, and quality control passed it. Unbelievable. If someone had installed this the way it is, they’d have a locked up caliper in no time, and a ruined pad and rotor.
O’Reilly’s shows the boots installed on their website –
So, instead of drawing something you might want to see, I’m about to drive back into town and tell an underpaid O’Reilly’s clerk about it.
It might not have been the most responsible way to use my morning, but it’s done –
I’ll see what AI can do to clean this up later.
I’ve got a bunch of ideas for the next chapter. The maids didn’t get much time in this chapter. I will fix that. Things are about to get tough though, I don’t know what kind of update schedule I have. More than likely, very infrequent, so if I’ve built up any readership in the past year, it is sure to be lost.
“Lotus” being the name of this track, and the heroine’s theme. Does it mean the story would be more action oriented? Action-horror?
I may never get a chance to continue this story, so, given this is the post-Epstein era; let me make a note on Yaoi Hokkaido’s age.
After she uses the transposer to fuse with Planet Cracker Kyoko, the fusion is something like 100,000 years old, chronologically.
The way it is written, it sounds like she has the mind of a 16 year old girl in an adult body, but in the moment after the transpose, she is only concerned with the anti-yaoi aspect of Kyoko’s mind being banished. Then she gets distracted by Ya-men, and doesn’t get a chance to notice that other aspects of her mind have changed, becoming more like Kyoko. The part of the story where she has Jirk and Khock strapped down in her lab reflects the way Kyoko would treat them.
Kyoko may be a childish adult, but the fusion mind isn’t a child’s mind.
In the S.M.A.R.T terbil lab scene, Yaoi’s body has reverted to being closer to her original size than it was immediately after being transposed with Kyoko, but it isn’t her 16 year old body.
Her mind is reverting to Kyoko’s mind. As Kowai Hokkaido, Kyoko’s personality may be more dominant in the fusion, and could become more dominant over time.
The character continues to age, and has already been on the Yaoiprize a couple years by the time of Battlescarred Dragattica.
Shoulder Devil Bay isn’t into loli’s, the version of Yaoi Hokkaido on his body pillow is an adult woman.
Here’s something I didn’t need to happen. I guess if one rubber boot goes, the heat from the stuck caliper will cook the other boots as well. This is seized solid, I hope O’reilly’s will take it as a core because I’m in it for a new caliper now. My truck’s rear brakes have been a disaster this year. Things are failing that I could have caught if I’d known better, but I’m not a pro, just a guy who’s had to learn as he’s gone along. So, here’s a new learning experience for me, and more time and money down the drain.
It’s nice to see 4 likes on M.3R and M.4R pg 55 at least. Don’t think I don’t notice – I need every ray of sunshine I can get. I was thinking about throwing caution to the wind last night and buying a scanner, but the money I shouldn’t have spent on a scanner is going into a new caliper now.
I’ve managed to get a little further on the Kowai Hokkaido drawing – I wonder if AI can ink a bad photograph of a sketch? Looks like we’ll be finding out.
It’s another dose of slice-of-life, for what it’s worth. Every morning lately has been like this – trying to fix some broken old thing before it gets too hot and miserable to be outside. I usually don’t make it, and I won’t today either. I might as well replace the caliper boots on this bracket as well. They aren’t torn yet, but they are 22 years old. So that’s more time down the rabbit hole.
I made a mistake last week and ordered the rotors and pads for the 2 piston caliper instead of this single piston caliper, so that’s more time and money down the rabbit hole. I’m kicking myself a little for that one, but, no one bats a thousand. I couldn’t guess how many parts I’ve ordered over the years. This is the first time I’ve completely screwed the pooch. I’ve got the right parts now, so I should be able to get this done today.
Yesterday I watched a video about anime fans duking it out over the question of how many female protoganists there are in anime, which reminded me that, at some point, I’m likely to lose a significant percentage of the readers I have (however small that number is); and it would happen if I was this kind of person, or that kind of person, or the other kind of person. So I will try to break it to everyone gently – this isn’t a picture of my Prius in the service bay of a Toyota dealership. It’s a 22 year old Chevy 4X4 truck that has to go off-road, not for entertainment, but because I will freeze to death in the winter if I don’t cut firewood. I will still be cold, but I’ll live, and the water pipes won’t freeze up and burst.
And now I’d better get back on that brake job.
The above art is the album cover for Alpha and Beta. I haven’t made anything for Lotus yet.
“REINCARRION” is the second album. It’s got some good tracks on it, but it will never truly be finished. Treblo’s sound is too different from Udio’s. I tried to finish “REINCARRION” with Treblo, but, I can tell the difference in the sound. I don’t want both sounds on one album, so I’m leaving “REINCARRION” as is, and moving on to “Lotus,” which is nearly finished. Treblo’s sound seems to have shifted a bit since I started. Some of the older tracks don’t play as well as I’d like with the newer tracks, but I think I can fix it. The older tracks may get replaced and moved to a B-side album. Well, the one’s that haven’t been replaced and moved already.
So here’s the intro and the first track to Lotus, which go together –
Not the Final Death,
Not the Final Birth.
The OM-MINUS albums are soundtracks for the XTIN story universe (the one finished XTIN graphic novel is available on Gumroad in the link at the top of the page). XTIN is brutal, adult cosmic horror drawn in an American comic art style. It seems that people like XTIN better than Way of the Waifu, much to my surprise, because XTIN seemed like the one that would lose when I came up with the idea for Way of the Waifu.
I have a story for the next chapter of Way of the Waifu. Lotus is the soundtrack for an XTIN story that I have stuck in my head. In a fantasy world with no other demands on my time, which should I draw?
