Knight of Coins/Pentacles can be hard working but also obsessive, so i picked Garuda because of their unwavering desire to eliminate the nagas from existence.
Gems completed (6/14) Overall completed (56/78)
made another tarot card after a long while. I dunno if I’ll finish this year, but i could work on it at least
Does anyone have any weird favorite smells that aren’t just like gasoline or sharpie? I do like those but I want to dig deeper. I love the smell of frozen cardboard and brand new hardware
I did a bunch of artfight images this year for the first time, and I never posted them here, but I wanted to. So here is all 20, I think, together!
Masked Demon: @ yesmann on art fight Magic Lantern: @ azazka on art fight MLP OC Gijinka: @calamitycrown Bird Person: @ catpotato on art fight Naked Demon lady: @ celestialmilk on art fight Faerie: @chenkingart Gummy Chimera: @ sourgummysnakes on art fight Tiefling Bard: @hadrassians Dear Faerie: @ hob55 on artfight Coffee portrait: @missjamiekaye Drow Cleric: @kurosmind Red Party Dres: @mayakern Drow Spellcaster: naksia on art fight Demon and Nun: @ nayfem on art fight Pony Kisses: @ ombiblombi on artfight Shooting Stars: @the-blind-geisha Time Wizard: @toixxy Bunny Girl: @valakiir Unviewable Angel: @arcanesouls Book Nook: @britishmuffin
HEY GUYS! Doing a Small Business Sale until Wednesday!
25% off EVERYTHING in my Etsy Shop! I almost never put things on that steep of a sale but I’m gonna be doing massive inventory next week and would love to make my life easier by not having as much to count! (Also got lots of vet bills rolling in, so you know how that goes.)
This includes prints, buttons, stickers, originals, coloring books, and yes, even mousepads!
AND! Excitingly and by popular demand, I’ve added a MINI PRINT option to several of my DnD monsters and foiled animal god prints!
This Sale lasts until TUESDAY the 2nd. So you can boycott Amazon, Target, and Home Depot while still supporting small creators for your Christmas shopping!
I’ve got all my shipping mailers and labels in stock and ready, so everything should be going out within 1-2 days of ordering now that all of my travel is over!
Thank you all so much for your ongoing support!
(NOTE: If you wanna place a bulk order and buy many prints/mousepads/gifts/whatnot, feel free to message me and I’ll happily give you an additional discount!)
I did a bunch of artfight images this year for the first time, and I never posted them here, but I wanted to. So here is all 20, I think, together!
Masked Demon: @ yesmann on art fight Magic Lantern: @ azazka on art fight MLP OC Gijinka: @calamitycrown Bird Person: @ catpotato on art fight Naked Demon lady: @ celestialmilk on art fight Faerie: @chenkingart Gummy Chimera: @ sourgummysnakes on art fight Tiefling Bard: @hadrassians Dear Faerie: @ hob55 on artfight Coffee portrait: @missjamiekaye Drow Cleric: @kurosmind Red Party Dres: @mayakern Drow Spellcaster: naksia on art fight Demon and Nun: @ nayfem on art fight Pony Kisses: @ ombiblombi on artfight Shooting Stars: @the-blind-geisha Time Wizard: @toixxy Bunny Girl: @valakiir Unviewable Angel: @arcanesouls Book Nook: @britishmuffin
They are a tightly bonded pair — they calm each other down, play, and give each other confidence. 1.5yo and 3yo respectively, have their first regular vet check up on 7/31, and are up for adoption if you are in Central Texas!!
please look at Marvin and Little Big Fat again. They are both FIV and FeLV negative and fully vaccinated! Marvin has some abdominal swelling that’s going to be examined on 8/15 but otherwise they’re both doing great
A potential adopter got their own visit from the Cat Distribution System so I am once again seeking a home for these two brothers!
the virgin loss.jpg versus the chad xkcd Seven Years
Don’t forget the latest version, Ten Years
@vividaway Randall Munroe is an internet cartoonist who runs the ‘xkcd’ online comic series, which has run from 2006 up to today, with new comics every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Xkcd isn’t an ongoing story, just a series of funny, wholesome, depressing, or oddly scientifically informative comics.
In 2010, Randall’s fiance was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer. He didn’t share too many details at first, but things tended to bleed into his comics: sometimes funny, sometimes sad.
Often in this time, other cartoonists would write in guest comics for Randall, or he’d put in short filler pieces, to try and fill space while nonstop cancer treatments took up most of his time.
In 2012, he posted a comic called ‘Two Years’, about the time since the diagnosis. It’s the one that hasn’t yet been posted here (although parts of it are included in the other comics), and it commemorates some of the things that had happened in the two years since the diagnosis.
There are representations of Randall and his fiance being together for her treatment, worrying together, traveling the world, and getting married. It’s still depressing, but it’s a lot more hopeful, showing how they’ve still managed to have happy moments together, and things will still get better.
Themes of cancer continued in xkcd, but they increasingly became less about fear and nihilism, and more about hope, or just cool facts related to cancer.
At the top of this post is the comic posted in 2017: Seven Years. In it, Randall and his wife are traveling more, trying to have fun and continue old and new hobbies, with cancer ever-present in the background of it all. At the end, the two of them observe the 2017 solar eclipse, and despite all the uncertainty that comes with the thought of another seven years, agree to watch the 2024 eclipse together too.
There are just about no cancer comics between that one and the most recent comic, the one I posted: Ten Years, written in 2020. It’s by far the most hopeful of the three in the little series: the two of them are happy, they’re playing with rabbits and riding on handcarts and going out hiking and stargazing, together. At the end, Ten Years breaks the format with a conversation in which they talk about how unbelievable it is that it’s been so long, and share their worries as well as their hopes. It even ends on a much more lighthearted joke about immortality.
It’s a good comic. Definitely in my top two comics wherein internet cartoonists express emotions about an illness suffered by their wife.
“The ten-year cancerversary is traditionally the Cursed Artifact Granting Immortality anniversary.” -Randall Munroe.
Just to remember it, here’s the start of my third wizard fancomic, “Where you go, I follow,” which takes place AT THE WEDDING! Glad I got the color right!
