If I have any advice on sourcing manufacturers it's literally just that you gotta spend time googling, and then sending prospective manufacturers a message to ask *them* a lot of questions lol you will learn very quickly about what to ask, production processes, what a manu can/can't do etc

pmo when people post "sharing my manufacturers because I don't ~gatekeep~" and it's something like vistaprint. no one is gatekeeping vistaprint. it's on the first page of google. all manus shared in these types of engagement posts are easy google searches

when I try to do a "safer" design and roll it out at the same time as a more adventurous design, the more adventurous one almost always ends up being more popular; I keep getting evidence that sticking to my more unique concepts pays off 💦

I've been So Busy but I'm definitely getting that real strong itch to draw + rig another new updated L2D model for myself when I get the chance,,,

I'm actually kinda bummed that the convention is on halloween this year, because I bought this huge bag of just different kinds of nerds candy to give to kids (nerds is a top tier halloween candy imo) but we weren't home until a lot of kids were probably done for the night :x

I'm at Kumoricon at 1011 in the exhibitors!

I'm in a really awkward corner of the room in this exhibit hall layout, why 😭

I guess at least they said please, but I'm always astounded at people's audacity lol

I've been so wrapped up with other work I kinda forgot I have a con this coming weekend oopsie

do not ask me about my design thought process for a piece of clothing because I *will* start talking endlessly and you'll be trapped listening to me forever

self care outing today in the form of going to the farmer's market and making a bunch of impulse purchases of random Fun Little Treats like unusual jams and cultured butter

Been working so much behind the scenes the last few days trying to make sure the collab stuff goes smoothly + working out the details for the region license expansion,,,I couldn't say anything publicly until we got things confirmed so every time I saw someone say "oh NA only :(" I was like noo000

‼️UPDATE‼️ There was such a large amount of interest in the collab items from people in regions outside of USA/Canada, that we were able to expand the licensing contract to include many more regions such as UK, Germany, Japan, South Korea, etc.!

re: twitchcon irl streamer discussion, I don't like how many people are currently comfortable with this idea that it's fine to just rope strangers into their Content Creation ™️ live without any warning or asking first.

accidentally cut my finger on frozen shrimp just now, but the dumbest thing is that this is actually the second time in my life I've done it

I've been working pretty much nonstop to answer questions, emails, handle launch-related things on top of my other regular tasks; the reception to the collab items has been stronger and a lot more busy than I expected so it's taking me a while to get through it all 💦

I just continually find it mind-boggling that this is my career now, the thing I make a living from, when 1) I used to be absolutely horrendous at dressing myself and 2) I grew up with that whole "you can't make a living doing art and design, realistically" thing being repeated to me endlessly

【pre-order available now】 ✧ hololive English x chirofish ✧ For all the Ruffians, we have an official collab featuring FUWAMOCO ! 🐾Oversized jackets themed after Fuwawa and Mococo 🐾Pero sling bag you can pre-order them on chiro.fish

I'll post more about the hololive English collab stuff tomorrow, I've been answering messages/emails with questions and such all day 💦 big day, very tired now

【official #holoEN x chirofish collab】 I had the amazing opportunity to work on this collaboration and I'm super excited about all the designs! We put sooooo much work and love into each of them; which pieces are you picking up?

Doing a full reveal of the designs in detail now! www.twitch.tv/chirofish

【coming soon】 an official collaboration | hololive English x chirofish 🎼🐾👧

thinking about the time a cool Instagram fashion account asked me to name my favorite products and i didn't know i was supposed to name fashion products, so i said pigeon food because i like feeding pigeons and their followers were like "why the fuck do i need pigeon food for my outfit?"

I have such big things coming this week

I've been in denial but I guess the cold rainy fall weather is officially here 😔 give me back summerrrrr

is there a word yet for the specific, horrified/revolted feeling when you see someone follow you and out of curiosity, you click on their profile and then find out they're an absolutely abhorrent person

been slowly collecting my colors for my kitchen 🌷

been on hold/getting bounced from clueless agent to clueless agent with the IRS since 7 AM today, we're over 3 hours of being on hold now 💀 I'm fighting so many battles,,,,,,someone return me to the primordial soup

if you asked me to do long division right now I would not be able to, oh how far I have fallen

need more people to understand that if a maker/artist doesn't ship to your country, it's not like we're trying to just exclude you for no reason 💦 it's almost always because of logistics problems/cost/compliance w/ various legalities making it unfeasible

we cooked so hard with this photoshoot ughh I can't wait to show everyone; I'm deep in editing hell right now but I'm having such a hard time choosing which photos make the cut

did my makeup too good and now I don't wanna take it off even though it's 1:30 AM oh no

the funny thing about wanting to make things is it seems to put you down the road to learning how to make other things (idk anything about videography but I need to make some video content for a merch project so LOL)

writing copy for promotional merch posts be like: "this is too cringe" *rewrites* "this is too unserious" *rewrites* "this is too cringe" *rewrites* "this is too unserious" *rewrites* "this is too cringe" *rewrites* "this is too unserious" *rewrites*

I feel like there are a lot of people who never learned how to process the thought line of "I don't like this thing" --> "this thing isn't for me" instead of turning it into "this thing sucks" I distinctly remember this being taught/guided when I was a child in elementary school so???

☄️💫 my star suisei ◾ #ほしまちぎゃらりー #art #hoshimachisuisei

a visiting neighborhood cat that likes to come around showed up again today ' v'

I think I've been running into increasing issues with sending packages overseas lately o<-< wondering if it's because of....y'know the whole political situation I'm debating if I should just disable shipping to germany, france, etc. for now to prevent frustrated customers ;;

I've been having a hard time feeling the desire to eat lately, which is usually a sign of being stress-sick for me but I have a bunch of very high pressure things happening rn so LOL

🍡[streaming] working on comm art for a bit www.twitch.tv/chirofish

just thinking about how fortunate I am to be able to make art and design merch and stuff as my career, like what an amazing thing it is that enough people continue to support me such that I can do this

functional enough to: meal prep a week's worth of potato chive egg bites for myself so that I can actually eat breakfast but also: having a minor crash out because I hit another big road bump with this huge project

throwback to when my parents' house became overrun by enormous bunguette plush

Immersion break: for my post-VeXpo lunch I successfully united my @chiro.fish Melon Soda shirt which was keeping me very cosy with a melon float

I sent out replies to everyone who put in an illustration comm inquiry! Ty so much for your interest, I got more inquiries than I have capacity for right now so I had to turn some people down ; v; Flattered that even tho I don't post drawings often, so many ppl were interested

if you ever thought calling the doctor to make an appointment was hard I challenge you to try to call the IRS bc I started calling at 7 am and couldn't even get into a queue for 1.5 hrs, had to dig up random phone numbers from reddit, and got booted from my holds 4x before getting to talk to someone

I have to be up at 7 AM for a thing but I already stayed up till past 3:30 AM working 💀

adulthood is opening your mailbox and getting fined thousands of dollars in a letter because other adults didn't do their job and won't take responsibility for it

🌷merch design client - will be created to the same standard of design/customization as the rest of my seasonal releases - please make sure you read the relevant info in the form before submitting! - form will remain open for 1 week inquiry form docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

🌻 Omakase (skeb-style) illustration spots - much like an omakase sushi experience, I get to choose what you're served - just trust the artist's eye bro - form will remain open until I think there are too many entries, but at least 24 hrs inquiry form docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...