Mirror mirror on the wall... (Patreon)

Hey guys! Anyone getting stir crazy yet? I'm one of those least affected persons when it comes to all of this but I can't help starting to feel a bit restless myself. Hope all of you extroverts out there (who actually like socializing and going out) aren't too much worse off, but I could certainly understand if you are.

To rip off the band-aid immediately, next build is most likely gonna be the end of May. And that's... pretty damn long when there's an airship hanging above you and nothing you can do about it. 

It's not the first time we're taking this long when it comes to a route closer, but that doesn't make the wait easier. I talked it over with the coder and his wish list for the extra stuff he'd like  is very fitting and fun for this route to end on, but also taking lots of time.

I think I can finish the extra's within a week after which he can start putting it in. He'll probably have to be content with some temp art, but the sooner he has something to work with, the better.  I did tell him to just keep working on the build for now as if I'm not going to do any extra's in the meantime. 

I also asked him to say hi and write a short blurb for this art update instead of doing an update himself.

Hi everyone, we're going to invest two months into this route's final build for a proper  quality send off. That means end of May. We're buckling down on making sure Korra  ends up as an absolutely broken sub slave puppet, and providing some fun and choice  character end scenes. It's a strange line sometimes, creating a broken person and yet  a happy ending, but it's an interesting challenge every time. Besides there are other  questions that have to be answered: What's up with the airship? What's happening with  the spirit ladies? Will there ever be a purpose for the watch Shady sells? Will Tom the equalist find love? Answers and wet sloppy bitches are in the works! 

I've been wondering about that watch(and tom) myself! Mostly the watch though.  I almost thought he had forgotten he had put that in! Yes we do sometimes add stuff we don't tell each other about just so we can surprise the other later on.

But putting aside all of that and any possible disappointment over the time it'll take us,  I do think we'll be able to put together a very satisfying end to this route. I only wish we could do it faster.

 I also started working on some files/scenes for the love route before Rob had send me his wish list for extra slave route scenes and if you think the Desna scene was slightly pushing it...  (as in that's not what we normally do)...    Hahaha! that's peanuts compared to what I've got in mind for one of the  love route scenes :D ! 

I've been adding a variation to a normal scene which Rob will quite possibly straight out refuse to put in when he'll see it! It's THAT horrible! I mean... don't get me wrong it makes sense, and I think it's funny, but in a horrible way. I'm certain some of you would be pleasantly surprised... but damn is it a niche fetish...

My only regret is I can't show it to you right now. If Rob will agree we'll give you plenty of warning like with the Desna scene, but man... my inner troll is being awfully happy with himself.

Something entirely different now. You might remember me talking about mouse wheels and the intensive usage of mine. I constantly use it to zoom in and out while I'm drawing.  So much in fact that the skin on my index finger got very sensitive to any sort of pressure. I did find an alternative (rubber concave wheel instead of a convex hard plastic one) which helped immensely, but I stumbled upon an even better alternative this week.

Even the concave rubber mouse wheel wasn't entirely what I wanted, but it was the best of my options until I saw a Doom eternal speedrun explanation...  How the hell can that be of any help? It showed me something I never knew existed. 

You see, they did something using a mouse wheel. They made it go insanely fast. Even blowing against it through a straw could move it... I'm not certain whether I was having a major hole in my general knowledge about mice and everyone else already knows about those existing, but I certainly didn't!

When I saw  that youtube video I remembered I had a mouse just like it lying around somewhere!  I'm pretty much known as the local dumping grounds for old/broken pc's and their peripherals when it comes to family. That means I have a small collection of mice too. I enjoy messing around with old/broken hardware. It simply scratches a mental itch whenever I can muck about with it. 

The mouse I remembered had it's wire cut off (don't know why or how that happened) and the mouse wheel would spin without any friction. I had no way of trying it out easily and always assumed the mouse wheel was broken! 

Soooo I dug up another "normal" mouse whose wire wasn't cut off, but had it's plastic jacket frayed in one place, exposing it's internal  wiring and causing a short circuit. After finding a screwdriver, scissors,  a lighter  and electrical duct tape I got to work and made my own Frankenstein mouse.

The wires in a mouse are really thin so instead of trying to unearth my solder equipment I just twisted the wires together after removing part of the plastic jacket by melting/burning  the ends. That's what the lighter is for! I prevented short circuiting the result by slapping on some electrical duct tape.

Hooking it up to my pc after I connected the wires it got recognized and it works perfectly.

I now have a mouse whose wheel has close to zero friction when turning it and it is awesome. It even has a button to switch to a normal mode where it's friction is "normal". It's pretty damn nice to use. I've never played doom eternal and I don't know why youtube suggested it to me, but I'm happy it did!

And that's pretty much the extent of what I have to say. I'll try and keep you guys informed until we can finish the current build and in the meantime, here are some girls checking their bikini line... or something.. I was trying to keep in line with the mirror theme for this post. If there's not enough bare skin to  your liking, try the version in the attachment. 

Till next time!

Mirror mirror on the wall who has the best bikini line of them all?