Let's start this off with something positive...

Get some water or something because this is going to be a very long post with everything I have to share with you guys.

Thank you for all those who commissioned or simply chose to support me with whatever they can! I'm almost at my goal now with only $270 left! I'm so close to finally just being able to breathe and get the treatment for my vasculitis. Unfortunately, being I'm unable to afford my meds my skin and pain tends to flare up and has been putting me in constant pain, so the writing and painting for bots, stories, and snail mail has been helping me distract myself a bit from the pain. Any amount of support would be really great honestly just so I can get treatment by this month or next month.

The doctor has informed that as long as I don't get my treatment it's just gonna keep getting worse which I have just accepted now, but it's okay. I just keep telling myself I'm so close. I'll get there. I just need to hold on a bit and I'll get there.

Thank you for those who did subscribe to the snail mail. You guys helped my two cats have happy tummies and be treated with for their fungi skin infection. Don't worry they're both doing well.

Basically, to those who are wondering how I am doing.

I'm still here. Still gonna make bots.

Still just fighting through this.

I've kinda also been working on just accepting that if I get worse at least I got to give you guys stuff.

If you wish to support you can always do so on my Ko-fi! https://ko-fi.com/snifflesnaps

Now...enough about me and the more important things.

Sadly there is no forum or posting system yet on Jai so I will share this here instead.

I WILL BE ADDING SOMETHING NEW TO THE PATREON AND KO-FI MEMBERSHIP THAT I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON IN THE BACKGROUND!

I'm not the best artist there is but I thought I would just go with it because what matters to me is being able to share the story with you guys...

THE DAILY LIFE OF DOMINIC AND HANK!!!

I will be adding this in the $20 tier is the webcomic "Professional Liability"!

The webcomic centres around the daily life of Hank and Dominic. The cases the solve, the silliness Dominic has to deal with while Hank embraces it all, and the world features the other characters from Jai. Of course, Bullet is an important part of this webcomic.

The webcomic will be updated twice a month as much as possible, but on months I'm flaring up badly it may only be updated once a month.

The first episode is dropping on May 30! But there will be behind the scenes before then already for those who are in the $30 tier along with the character sheets, sketches, and wardrobe designs.

I'm not gifted with graphic design talent for comic book covers haha

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Moving onto another thing...

I'M SO SORRY I FAILED TO SHOW YOU GUYS WHAT THE SPRING SNAIL MAIL LOOKS LIKE BUT HERE IT IS!

The theme is "Return to Sender"

The snail mail follows the story of Aster in the magical world of Velmorien. Velmorien is a magical realm where no humans can enter but because Aster has a witch ancestry she has been invited to come and she finds herself in a new world. You get letters from Velmorien post where Aster writes about her adventures in Velmorien, the magical creatures in it, the cultures, the food, and her journey to being a proper witch. Each letter tells a continuous story.

You basically get a novel that's in the form of a letter!

(Adding on the letters from Aster you can choose to have an additional letter from any of my characters on Jai and their letters will follow the theme of the month)

Everything in the photo is included in the $15 tier except for the bookmark.
$20 snail mail tier: You get everything in the $15 tier + journal prompts, bookmark, spotify playlist
$30 snail mail tier: You get everything in the $20 tier + open when letters, 2x A6 sticker sheet, keychain/pin

Yes! They have been sent out! If you still wish to be part of April snail mail you're free to purchase them on Ko-Fi or Patreon!

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You can purchase the April Snail Mail here on my Ko-Fi Shop: https://ko-fi.com/s/53ab2822da



WHAT ABOUT THE MAY SNAIL MAIL?

As for the May snail mail I have collabed with a cat shelter so that 10% of the profits and their own merch will be included in the snail mail. This way besides you guys getting cute stuff you are also supporting the medical and daily needs of rescue cats!

I will be sharing more details on this and the designs of everything included in the May snail mail on May 20 on here and in the Discord server.

NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT THE BOTS AND SHORT STORIES

SPRING BOTS!!!

These will be the bots that are exclusively on Ko-Fi and Patreon.

(There will still be bots for JanitorAi especially commissioned ones. The followimg will just be for the members of Patreon and Ko-fi)

APRIL ALT BOTS (They have all been released):

Dominic Alt | Easter Eggs

Detective Dominic Fennigan has faced down armed criminals, walked through crime scenes of considerable unpleasantness, and once got shot and responded by asking a logistical question. He is, by any reasonable measure, a man who can handle things.

He cannot, it turns out, handle eggs.

When Captain Reyes assigns him to decorate thirty-six Easter eggs for the precinct's annual community outreach event—the sort of event that exists because several other events went badly and someone in PR decided paint and children would help—Dominic approaches the task the only way he knows how: with a plan, a system, reference images printed in two sizes, and the absolute unshakeable certainty that this will be straightforward.

It is not straightforward.

What follows is a week in the life of a man who has never encountered a problem he couldn't solve through discipline and force of will, now sitting in his garage with a broken paintbrush, thirty-two unfinished eggs, a worried German Shepherd, and the dawning suspicion that perfection and a chicken egg are not, philosophically speaking, compatible concepts.

This story about control—who has it, who thinks they do, and what happens when the universe hands a very serious man a very small paintbrush and says, simply: your move.

The mayor is coming. The sponsors are coming. His name will be announced.

Thirty-two eggs to go.

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Cain Alt: Easter Bunny

Everyone agrees that spring is the finest season, and everyone is wrong about summer, and nobody asked Cain Axton, but he has opinions about both.

What Cain does not have opinions about — because having opinions about it would require acknowledging that it is, in fact, happening to him — is the small matter of the Easter Bunny costume currently occupying most of his wardrobe and all of his dignity. This is the consequence of a Halloween bet, three themed cocktails, and the catastrophic failure to account for the fact that his opponent was, biologically speaking, a creature of the sea. These are the kinds of details that seem important in hindsight and completely irrelevant at the time, which is precisely why hindsight exists and why nobody enjoys it.

Now Cain Axton — senior, fraternity member, aspiring child psychologist, occasional menace to public property, and a young man with more scar tissue than most people twice his age — must spend his Easter Sunday inside six feet of smiling plush rabbit, hosting a children's party for a community that once quietly excluded him from the same.

He has a laminated script. He has a Kawasaki Ninja. He has you who is deeply enjoying this.

He is not, he will tell you firmly, nervous.

He is simply standing very still.

For the moment.

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Felip Alt: Holy Week

Felip Torres is, by most measurable standards, doing extraordinarily well.

He is president of Arcadia — a fraternity that is either a brotherhood of remarkable young men or a mild public safety concern, depending on which incident you are referring to. He holds a full scholarship, captains the university swim team, and has cultivated the sort of effortless charm that makes people forget he once spent the better part of secondary school being used as a social cautionary tale. He has a Rolex, a gold chain, and a telescope he talks to more honestly than he talks to most people. He is, in short, a success.

He is also, in the privacy of his own skull, an absolute disaster.

Because you exist. Has existed, specifically, for the past six months in the official capacity of the person Felip Torres is hopelessly, inconveniently, and at times embarrassingly in love with — a position that carries no salary but considerable influence over his ability to function like a normal human being.

And now, for reasons that had seemed perfectly logical at thirty thousand feet and are becoming progressively less so the closer they get to his family's estate in Tagaytay, Felip has decided that spring break is an excellent time to introduce you to his family. A family that includes three aunts who treat personal questions as a competitive sport, cousins with the collective self-awareness of a weather event, a grandmother conducting a one-woman campaign against anyone going hungry within a twenty-metre radius, and a mother who has just looked you up and down with the serene, devastating composure of a woman who has never once lost an argument she decided to have and has no problems not hiding how much she's judging you.

One week, he had told himself.

He is already revising that estimate.

WHAT ABOUT THE MAY BOTS?

For may this is the line up in Ko-Fi and Patreon!

- Sick Dominic: Dominic doesn't get sick often. In fact, he only gets sick once a year, but that when he does get sick he gets very sick. He gets the terrible flu and completely lethargic along with getting the stomach bug all at the same time. However, he has this stubborn quality of needing to be strong all the time so he still goes to work despite all this and he hides it from you. He simply tells you it's just a common cold. Until on the job while Hank is getting them food he comes back in the car to find a passed out Dominic on the passenger side. So Hank rings at your doorbell with a Dominic he is helping to stand upright yet the young detective is still being hard headed that he's just fine.

- Julian's failed date: It's not the first time Aaron has planned dates for Julian right after his ex. Julian seeing how supportive Aaron is being just couldn't say not to the man so he accepted. However, when his date found out he is actually blind she said she was just gonna go the bathroom and there was Julian sitting there for half an hour refusing to touch the food waiting for her before he starts eating. You and the other diners notice Julian's situation, but he was already in self denial telling himself that she's probably just taking while in the bathroom to redo her makeup or whatever excuse he can come up with.

- Doctor Leonardo: Leonardo is finally a doctor! Yay! He's now a great researcher for a trail drug test for autoimmune, but here is the problem...You were just supposed to be a patient that was part of the drug test and you were under the placebo drug but you were feeling good. Leonardo, unfortunately, over the two months he has been handling you as a doctor and researcher developed feelings for you. He didn't like the idea of lying to you that you're using the trial treatment when really it's just a placebo. So he breaks protocol and risks his license by replacing the placebo with the trial treatment...but the problem was the trial treatment doesn't have sure side effects yet and the side effects you got from it was pure horror for Leonardo. A big problem he caused you and he now has to fix.

MAY SHORT STORIES:

• Renzo's pet bird part 2: What happens to his pet bird when his parents find out he didn't perform well in his quarterly exam?

• Dominic's first rejection and first love: Dominic has never been rejected before. If anything it's people who always seeks him out so when his first love rejects him Dominic is not sure how to handle such a new feeling.

• Nick's days at baby school: Being young and expecting a baby, Nick knew to himself he knows nothing about taking care of a baby. He doesn't even know how to make formula milk in a bottle, so he attends some sort of class on how to take care of a baby.

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