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Art
My August scribbles were sparse. We have two pages of Art Confetti™:
I drew them on some Astrobright paper my sister gave me, so when i first assembled them, they kinda hurt my eyes on a screen. I adjusted the colors, and ended up liking these muted versions much better.
News
- I went on a 6 hour road trip with my partner and my mom to buy what is hopefully my new wheeled home! It needs some work, and i’m not sure i can keep it yet until i get it evaluated by professionals, so it shall be temporarily referred to as “the rustbucket” until it gets a new, permanent name
- I ran into some issues with my site, so i couldn’t go live with the new design+shop, and therefore there has been no giveaway drawing this month, boo
- I was supposed to be in the Worldcon Art Show, but i encountered so many absurd obstacles i had to drop out. (Not the show’s fault! Just some of my fault, and some of the world being the way it is.) If they let me come back, lol, i’ll try again some other time
- I got accepted at Comradery! It’s like Patreon but it’s a cooperative. It’s still new but i’m really excited about it
- I am so glad this is my last summer here; i don’t understand how anyone can live in these hellish 80+ / 27+ temperatures
Pet Tax
Speaking of hellish weather, we cooled off the dogs with some frozen watermelon chunks, donated for their entertainment by my dad 🙂
Anecdote
My parents rationed our sugar when we were kids: we ate healthy for six days, and on the seventh, we could be little candy goblins. Kool-Aid would have counted as candy, so it wasn’t something they kept around all week. And therefore, i spent 24 years on this blue planet of Earth before i made Kool-Aid myself.
Still holding my glass of lemonade-flavored Kool-Aid, i walked over to my partner’s doorway and lounged in it while i announced that it was way more sour than i expected.
“How much sugar did you put in?” he asked.
“Wait, you have to add sugar?”
He laughed so hard. “Yes, it’s just the–like the flavor part. You add the water, and the sugar.”
I’d never encountered a packet of drink powder that wasn’t single serving: hot cocoa mix, apple cider mix… i even vaguely remembered having tried Crystal Lite, which you had to scoop from a container, but it was still all you needed. I certainly didn’t think it was possible to be stupid enough to need instructions for a drink packet, but here we were.
So i went back to the kitchen, added sugar, and then returned to my partner to announce that it was better but still pretty tart.
Him: “Is there enough left in the pitcher for me to have a glass?”
Me, suddenly realizing why there are instructions on everything: “There’s no pitcher…?”
Him: “YOU MADE THE ENTIRE PACKET IN ONE GLASS?”
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Newsletter Giveaway
This site still isn’t live, so there’s no one signed up to my newsletter yet, and therefore, no one to win the giveaway.
Merch
I feel fantastic when i get mail that isn’t bills or junk. By signing up to get some from me, you can feel fantastic, and you can also pay it forward.
I’ll send you my art printed onto postcards and stickers, and you can choose loved ones (or if you live on the edge, hated ones!) who deserve a surprise in the mail. It’ll take you thirty seconds and a stamp to make somebody’s day (or be confronted with a no contact order, depending what you write).
Here’s what some of the August postcards looked like, including the back:
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