Clara Bottle: Half-Genie Hero
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Clara Bottle – Full Genie Form

Apr09
by on April 9, 2026 at 7:32 pm
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As you saw on the cover (with sketch layer by Krios-Ol), Cleara looks a little different. We alluded to a secret she was carrying in Chapter 4 that will be revealed in full in Chapter 5.5 as the final pieces of the plot come into play. A couple years ago, I was making new character illustrations for some of the characters in Peppermint Saga and Ship in a Bottle on-stream. At the time, it was a Patreon exclusive, but I am sharing it today because I need to make a plea: I’m in dire, dire straits financially. I may lose my ability to drive, and I am also severely struggling to keep up with rent. So if folks could bump the Patreon another $300 in-total ASAP, you are literally saving my life. Rent is overdue, I have $100 currently, and need $1300 by Wednesday. I feel confident in my ability to get to $1000 by Monday, but here’s the rub… Monday my Express Drive through Lyft kicks in, and all my earnings go to pay that and none go to my account. The extra money pledged today will hit immediately, and then if you stay, it will rebill on the 1st of each month. Our ultimate goal is a tiered system starting at $1200 (which covers my regular rent), and then eventually get it to $3600. And that is across all my comics (Pep Saga, Ship, KND, BGR, Frilly Pink, Etc.) to allow me time to update and scale back my driving so I can be a full-time content creator. It’s just that my Executive Dysfunction is paralyzing my ability to hustle, and last week I was killing myself to clean and prepare the apartment for re-inspection while trying (and failing) to work. It’s a mess, I know, but I am prioritizing this and The Lavenders, so if you can please help, you won’t be sorry.

Long ago, everyone LOVED tira-chan’s artwork. Hopefully you will embrace mine as well. ^_~

~Mace

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Still Working + Pink Panties Paradise

May23
by on May 23, 2026 at 1:15 pm
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I know everyone is still waiting for Ship in a Bottle’s return, and I have deep plans for it. but in the short-term, I am still in panic mode trying just to make the basic ends meet. Recent difficulties with my “regular job” doing Rideshare have been a thorn in my side. My primary car is toast and I can’t get over the “rental hump” fast enough each week to pay my basics on-time. So it’s a major stress point keeping me from being as productive as I’d like. Plus, I still have $750 I owe to Hertz for the crash I got into in February, I have an extension on my taxes, and on and on.

With that in mind, I am doing the thing that has the strongest backlog available: “Pink Panties Paradise”

It’s the lore comic I devised for my Twitch channel where I play “borderline TOS” games and occasionally do art for your viewing pleasure. There is an independent cast of characters for this series, which stars… well, Me. And in very meta fashion. I poke some light fun at some “industry powerhouses” of webcomics (levying my sights on Keenspot, in particular on a #iykyk basis lol), comic tropes, and have “cameo” appearances by Pink Panties Productions characters from time-to-time. All with potentially sexy outcomes.

Oshigan penciled 24 strips and an “accidental bonus” for our twice-weekly “4-Koma” strip. Sometimes it will be story driven, sometimes one-offs. but it’s 100% sexy fun, and I hope you’ll join me on the adventure. And hopefully, I can get some money together to get some temporary car off Facebook Marketplace so I can stop renting and get back to the business of comics without a $300 weekly freakout. Oh, and commissions, too. I owe several >.>

Permanent link was added on the sidebar, and here’s a text link! https://ppplore.frillypink.com

~Mace

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Beatrice Made a Boo Boo Pt. 2

May12
by on May 12, 2026 at 9:44 pm
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Initially, Beatrice was quite excited by the ‘Great Cosmic Powers’ granted to her by becoming a half-genie, even with the obvious limitations. But soon that jubilation turned to frustration, then bitterness, and finally sorrow as she found she had no more passion for the sciences. For what good was practicing science in a lab when you could figure things out with a mere snap of the fingers?

Alan and Clara would look in on Beatrice from time-to-time as Ship managed the Harem, but they were unsure what to do. Beatrice assured them she did not want to reverse the wish as she knew she would be even more devastated by losing access to all the Knowledge of the Universe. She assured them she just needed more time to assimilate all this new information and she’d be “right as rain” again.

Clara was skeptical, for after all, she herself is a half-genie, so she “knows how it is”. Alan furrowed his brow in concern, though. As much danger as this young woman had directed at him over the past several years, he knew she didn’t deserve to be miserable. And there was no mistaking it: Beatrice Walker was one unhappy half-genie. And an unhappy demigoddess with a short fuse was an atomic bomb waiting to detonate.

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More Prompt Madness!

Apr29
by on April 29, 2026 at 4:49 pm
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AI Clara is weird, but also oddly compelling
Coffee time for Clara

Apparently, PixAI got the impression that Clara is utterly obsessed with Coffee! If it wasn’t more work than actually drawing it myself, I’d consider making a 100% AI comic off these prompts, but after “speaking” with Google Gemini, the process is… dense. I have no clue why using this for anything other than ideas to literally draw from is considered “the future”. It takes forever to train the LoRA models to do what you want, and you need to feed it a ton of art regardless. Anyway, same prompt as the previous “accidental” comic. And, as before, same question: “What is going on here?”

It’s User Prompt time! What is Clara thinking about as she contemplates these various cups of Joe?

Rendered in PixAI

~Mace

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Beatrice Made a Boo Boo? (More AI Reference Prompt Nonsense)

Apr13
by on April 13, 2026 at 7:13 am
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“Wishes, Horses, Yadda-Yadda” by Mace Paladino A.I. Generated image by Pix.AI from prompt by Me

Beatrice looked on with a mixture of boredom and envy as she lamented. She completely forgot that she was holding Ship’s bottle when she said it:

“Best of both worlds,” she sighed. “I wish I were a half-genie like Clara.”

“Oh, I’m going to make an exception for this one,” Ship said slyly. “Wish granted!”

Beatrice had no time to react. With a puff of pink smoke, she suddenly found herself with the clothes she was wearing gone and completely transformed! Still herself, but… something more. Much, much more. She gasped as wave after wave of magical power reconfigured the neurons in her brain, her ears gained points and a crystal medallion suddenly appeared around her neck. Etched on it was a symbol that looked suspiciously like a lamp or bottle. Around her waist was a coin belt, and she was wearing a gold silk thong. Clara looked at her with a sly smile.

“Didn’t I warn you to be careful what you wish for? Even moreso now with Mother… ‘whole’ again.”

Ship stuck her tongue out at her daughter, but a mirthful smile played at her lips, and her eyes were twinkling with delight.

“Some of my finest work, if I do say so.”

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ComicPress/Easel Slowly Dying?

Apr11
by on April 11, 2026 at 4:50 pm
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So, I have been noticing some “broken” stuff, not the least of which is that Comic Easel is no longer updating so we can continue to use the ComicPress theme with WordPress. Frumph, aka Phil Hoefer, is but one guy, and while I have seen people give him coding help, I wouldn’t expect anyone to keep doing this kind of thing for free indefinitely. Especially if you’re a 50-something or 60-something-year-old person. There was an update to version 1.16 back in November that might fix the backend errors I am seeing, but it’s not listed in the WordPress repository, and the Github .ZIP file just breaks the site. I’d really hate to remodel the site to work with Tocheke (the updater I have deployed at https://ppplore.frillypink.com) as it is bulky and works entirely differently, but the Comic Easel website is gone. It’s the end of an era, I guess.

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