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- My right shoulder has something called “impingement,” which is weird because it’s a common injury for axe murderers and i have hardly axe murdered anyone this year. I’m taking some pills a still-alive doctor prescribed, really, he’s fine, but i’m not really convinced the problem is being addressed, which is why you will see i’m wearing a sling in my selfie >:(
- My friends Mary and John visited, and we went to Gardner Cave in Crawford State Park. It’s the first time i’ve ever been in a cave and i wanted to move in immediately (you can see above that i drew a cartoon of myself as a cave creature; even more on that in the Anecdote section)
- I am ludicrously behind on my paper mail, so big apologies to everyone waiting for an envelope!
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Anecdote
My Gramma Rubye was an Episcopalian priest. She got me the Chronicles of Narnia when i was seven, and it was such a big hit she felt like she ought to do it again. Fortunately for me, she had no idea what children can or can’t read, or really what they even should read. Mostly she just knew that C. S. Lewis was known as a Christian and that fantasy books must be for children, right? And since Tolkien was also a Christian who wrote fantasy books…
I received The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy for Christmas when i was eight years old. There was plenty i didn’t understand, but i was incredibly, deeply envious of Gollum. Living alone in a series of spooky, damp caverns, snacking on fish and idiot goblins, finding lost treasures… I daydreamed fiercely. I would be such a good creepy cave creature!
It wasn’t until much later, when i reached an age where some of my peers had read it as well, that i discovered nobody else wanted to be Gollum. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
If i ever write a super popular YA hetero vampire porn (you heard me) i’ll pay an architect and some geologists and biologists and whoever else to make me a spooky cave house.
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Okay, this is the third Newfoundlander to win in a row. Are y’all fixing the results somehow?!
Alas, i cannot show you May’s art because as i mentioned in News, i’m terribly behind on snail mail, and she hasn’t gotten it yet. I’ll update with two images next month 🙂
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WooCommerce is being a little digital fart, so you can’t buy anything through my site right now, lol. (Thanks, Chelsea, for letting me know!) I haven’t had time to properly troubleshoot it, but i’ll be updating soon with new fun things, and hopefully i can fix it by then.
You can always join my Patreon to get a cool bundle in the mail each month!
All right, enjoy this bonus photo of me being extremely excited to descend into a cave that is a blessed 39F/4.8C year-round! ❥
