If you play these songs in order ~ "Elf's Lament" - Barenaked Ladies "Naughty or Nice" - Tom Cardy "The Night Santa Went Crazy" - Weird Al Yankovic ~ you get the story of Santa's descent into madness over the unionization of his elves. Merry Christmas! 🎄🎁🎅

Trying to find a local source for a bismuth crystal for kiddo#2 for Christmas and not looking forward to all the new age / spiritualist ads I'm gonna get as a consequence. Show me mercy, Almighty Algorithm.

Made parathas from scratch tonight! It was a lot of work, as most breads are, but I do enjoy mucking about with food. Paired those suckers with some ready-to-go microwave curries though, bc heck if I'm also making those from scratch on the same night, lol

Hal-con was an amazing con! Super lovely staff and volunteers - fantastically run show. Thank you to everyone who came out grabbed some of my merch!

Hey! I'm at Hal-con in Halifax all this weekend! Come see me at booth I3. I won't have any comics with me, alas, but I've got everything else!

I've actually been doing a lot of art lately, I'm just very... out of practice with posting any of it online, post webcomics. I'm going to try to be better about slapping it up on Instagram and here though 😅

*crawls out of hermit hovel* Hey, I actually posted something on instagram! Made a silly video of my Beetlejuice illustration for Halloween,lol www.instagram.com/reel/DQcWi6P...

(I have comics available at the Calgary Expo only bc I stay with a friend while I'm there and she lets me keep a box of them in her basement all year bc she is the best)

I keep meaning and forgetting to mention here that I'll be at Hal-con in Halifax this year! But bc I'm flying in, I can't bring my (very heavy) comics with me. If you will be there, and you want any of my comics, please contact me to PRE-PURCHASE them and I'll make room in my carry-on for them ;)

Only just saw that Drew Struzan has passed away. Such an amazing artist. My favourite of his many posters is one of his lesser known ones, a Return to Oz variant that features one of my fave villains, Princess Mombi. RIP Drew, you were a legend.

Watercolour petunias courtesy of the 4 hour power outage in my neighbourhood yesterday. Forced into analog art methods against my will! /s

PS, husband came in while I was getting ready to mark up that image and complimented me on it, thinking I had made it 😑 He quickly took it back after having a closer look at both the image and my face. lol

Ran into this monstrosity while trying to look up some art nouveau inspiration for a new poster. Thanks for absolutely nothing, image search. AI slop is the worst.

This is how you handle someone who tries to sell AI slop at a con: remove them, and then clown on them relentlessly

Every single convention organizer, publisher, art director, project manager, etc. who's even once entertained the thought of using genAI imagery or LLM generated text at any stage should be paying *full* attention to how popular DragonCon is becoming for enforcing their "no genAI" policies.

Just had to delete the USA as a country I ship to from all my stores for the time being. FUN!

it's wild that The Fifth Element made one of the most accurate predictions of all 1990s sci-fi, anticipating the rise of the streamers and influencers as major celebrities.

realistic Star Trek

The one soda pop mystery I've found actually bought my kpop print, and he was so fed up with his wig my end of it he took it off, lol. Can't say I blame him, but he did a great job on it tho

I've been "collecting" kpop demon hunter cosplay this weekend - I'm only missing a mystery and romance in their "your idol" outfits and a Zoey and Mira in their Golden looks. Got two Bobby's yesterday!

At FanExpo booth AP16 in the artist alley! Come see me and @varethane.bsky.social and @feathernotes.bsky.social all this weekend!

At FanExpo booth AP16 in the artist alley! Come see me and @varethane.bsky.social and @feathernotes.bsky.social all this weekend!

My iron has only been used for clothing like... 3 or 4 times. Its true love is perler beads

Just had to iron some of my booth signage - it was all warped from being outside during this year's rainy MCAF, alas. Looks fine now though! 😅

Had my nose to the grindstone for the past few weeks getting new art ready for FanExpo next weekend. Thankfully managed to get it all in yesterday. One of the posters took me 2 weeks. The other I banged out in 2 days. 😑 Art is "fun" sometimes

This is put so well. There are absolutely parallels with cryptobros screaming at you about the impending death of fiat currency. "Hyperinflation! Great Depression 2.0! Government collapse!!! Your stupid paper money will be worthless, soon! SOOOON! ... Best to just give it all to me now!"

New profile pic, same sporadic posting!

Keep forgetting to post this, but this is the super cute baby bun we rescued from our neighbour's basement window well a week or so ago They were named Bun Jovi (in honour of it being my mom's bday). Get window well covers, everyone!

Kickstarter has successfully wrapped and Rainier cherries are back in season - it's a pretty good day!

For your consideration: Bread pudding is just french toast meatloaf

Thank you to everyone who has helped the kickstarter get over the 300% mark! ❤️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/145...

Welp, that's definitely the quickest I've ever hit a funding goal! (1.5 hrs) Mind you, I set the goal super low figuring the tariff situation was going to kneecap the campaign and just wanted to offset the costs a bit vs pay for the whole run entirely. But a win is a win, so I'll take it! :D

Support your local monster merchant with a high quality hard enamel pin! The Beastly Bureau of Monster Merchants Kickstarter is now live! www.kickstarter.com/projects/145...

Gonna launch my Monster Merchant Pin Kickstarter tomorrow! (PS I did add the bat wings and went with "Lycanthrope" instead of "werewolf")

I'm still tweaking a few of the designs. I might add batwings to the blood droplet on the vampire design, for instance. Oh, and I am waffling something fierce on putting "lycanthrope rescue society" or "werewolf rescue society" on the werewolf pin. (seriously, if you have feedback, I'm all ears)

Oh, ha! I should probably say what the pins actually are, eh? This set is The Beastly Bureau of Monster Merchants! It's a companion campaign to my Cryptid Club set, but this time around it's based on these monsters running small businesses and scam charities.

So I think I AM going to launch my pin kickstarter in the coming week, but at a much reduced goal bc I imagine I will get far fewer US backers than usual. Not ideal, of course, but if I can just offset the costs a wee bit, that'd be fabulous.

Come find @glassgates.bsky.social and I at MCAF tent E37 today! Take shelter from the coming rains with the company of our delightful books!

Come see me even though it's raining? lol Find me in Tent E37 at MCAF, where I am bundled up like the cold little Hobbit I am

Gonna be at MCAF in Montreal this coming weekend! Come say hi to me and @varethane.bsky.social if you're in the neighbourhood :D (and all the other delightful webcomic peeps in that tent too) (Fingers crossed for good weather, pls pls pls)

MCAF is just a couple of weeks away..... I'm gonna have a table there this year, gonna be at booth E37 beside @glassgates.bsky.social! Wish us good weather! 🌤️

I was/am? working on launching a new pin kickstarter too, but now I'm wondering if there's any point atm, given that the de minimus exemption has been suspended and ~80% of my KS backers come from the US

Spent the morning putting USA tariff warnings on my enamel pins and (4/5) Earthsong books in my shop and Etsy. Fun times! 💀

Heck yes, got into Hal-con! Look out East Coast, I'm heading your way! (in 7 months)

Come see me at the Calgary Expo this weekend! I'm at booth A551 in the artist alley! Come see my new shelf at least and tell me it's pretty, lol

Also: My new business card holder! I had a little extra fun with the laser cutter when I was making my shelves

Come see me at the Calgary Expo this weekend! I'm at booth A551 in the artist alley! Come see my new shelf at least and tell me it's pretty, lol

Starting the 2025 Convention circuit with Calgary Expo this weekend! The Artist Alley is back in the BMO centre, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes this year. Hope to see you there!

Finally got rid of 4dobe - I've been experimenting with clip studio for the last few months, and I genuinely don't miss PS. Would highly recommend it if you're sick of paying subscription fees.

Currently regretting all the life choices that have led me to having to peel off a million tiny pieces of painters tape from my tentacle engraved shelf. (not really tho, it looks great, I regret nothing)