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The Very Sincerely Yours Kickstarter is now live!🎉

Very Sincerely Yours is an anthology dedicated to Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson, and the idea of home. It is over 150 pages of illustrations, comics, and fiction from a team of 46 creators around the world, and it's now ready to become yours!

The anthology will be printed as an 8.5 x 11 softcover, perfect bound book, with full colour artwork, comics, and illustrated stories. The stories—written specially for our anthology—explore themes of home, belonging, and family. 🏡

Our merchandise bundle will include 6 vinyl stickers, 3 postcards prints, 2 sticker sheets, 1 bookmark, and a sticky notepad! We're offering 2 additional pieces of merchandise as add-ons: a cotton tote-bag, and a hinged wooden charm.

Our Kickstarter will only be running until December 21st, 11:59PM EST, so please help us spread the word and buy your own copy while you have the time! 📢💕

Link to our Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/haedraulics/very-sincerely-yours

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EVERYONE PLEASE LOOK AT OUR GORGEOUS ZINE 🥺💖🙏🔥‼️

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🏒 Contributor Lineup: Artists 🏒

We're so honored to announce the amazing page artists joining our team! Their artwork will be featured throughout our zine book, helping bring this Hollanov zine to life while also raising money for charity. Please give them lots of love! 🩷

♡ Joséphine Cart-Tanneur @josephinecarttanneur ♡ yaimiix ♡ yaofour ♡ Sanhunpo ♡ Marion Ngoc Ha ♡ imzeferino ♡ Zenii ♡ Léa Charbonnier ♡ semoyed ♡ mugeegnub ♡ whiskilya ♡ potkettleblack ♡ Fawnmisty ♡ apitnobaka @apitnobaka ♡ Yazi ♡ Aary ♡ HAEDRAULICS @haedraulics ♡ Thi ♡ Namuni_art ♡ lovedbyflesh @lovedbyflesh ♡ Divia ♡ BaconOats ♡ Chioink @chioink ♡ incessantlark @incessantlark ♡ pineapplebread ♡ mirimalt ♡ Isolabellz @isolabellz ♡ Lys ♡ Stephen McDermott ♡ Noah Dao ♡ Gira @bluegiragi ♡ Dinan ♡ LAZYPUNCH ♡ Lina

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annual birthday doodle complete, now time for a refreshing hike 🥳

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We have an amazing artist for you today. @haedraulics makes the most delicious drawings to die for, and is a master in creating comics! We're overjoyed he is joining our team! Welcome Minh!

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Pledge Manager launched! + Books and Leftovers 📚📦

In this update: 

Pledge Manager has launched!

Notes on international shipping.

Toronto pick-up event on April 18th! RSVP here.

Pictures of the books! And leftovers available.

The Pledge Manager has finally launched! 🎉 In your email, you should have received a form asking for your shipping and payment information, which will be the final stage before the zine is sent your way! If you purchased a digital anthology, your E-Book will be available to download once you've filled in the Pledge Manager. Thank you all for your patient support of Very Sincerely Yours, we're so excited to finally bring the zine into your hands!

Note for backers outside the US and Canada: Our shipping partner--ChitChats--provides detailed tracking on all orders, however they do not offer a return service for locations outside of the US or Canada. Meaning, if your package is somehow unable to be delivered to you, it will unfortunately be disposed of. ChitChats does offer insurance on shipping, so in this (very rare) case, you may be able to purchase another copy of your rewards free of an additional shipping charge. Should anything of the kind happen, please contact us ASAP!

For backers in Toronto/GTA, a pick-up event is being held on Saturday, April 18th at 2pm, at the Sherlock Holmes Walk behind the Toronto Reference Library! If you are able to attend, please RSVP here AND fill in the Pledge Manager, and we'll reimburse you for the cost of shipping once you've picked up your anthology. Looking forward to seeing you all soon!🕵️💕

After a long journey, our books came in this Wednesday, and they look incredible! The gold foil, UV spots, and page printing all came out superb, and we thank Friesens for their fantastic work in manufacturing our books! We'll have a few up-charged extra books available to purchase through our Pledge Manager, and then afterwards we'll sell our remaining leftovers online (platform TBD). Other leftover items will also be available to add on, such as bookmarks, sticker sheets, and sticker packs!

Okay, that's all for now! Please try to fill in the Pledge Manager ASAP to receive your rewards. If you anticipate needing longer than April to confirm your address, please contact us and we will arrange something!

Very sincerely yours,

@haedraulics + @inevitablies

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little comic vignette on lost tongues, half-ness, and the things our immigrant parents wanted for us. i love shane and his weird unspoken alienation from other asian people in pursuit of excellence in a white-dominated field, and i really hope season 2 touches more on that <3

i printed a few copies of this comic for a local zine festival but i really like how they turned out, so let me know if you'd be interested in a copy when i re-open my store! okay thank youuu that's my art for the month of march

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little comic vignette on lost tongues, half-ness, and the things our immigrant parents wanted for us. i love shane and his weird unspoken alienation from other asian people in pursuit of excellence in a white-dominated field, and i really hope season 2 touches more on that <3

i printed a few copies of this comic for a local zine festival but i really like how they turned out, so let me know if you'd be interested in a copy when i re-open my store! okay thank youuu that's my art for the month of march

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in reference to that ask when someone thought you were 16~ how did you manage the transition from being a teen to being an adult in terms of tumblr and creating NFSW content, did you ever find it weird or difficult?

helloo thank you for asking, and no i didn't find it too difficult! i was drawing nsfw privately for fun when i was a tween, but i chose not to share those artworks because i didn't want to make my followers uncomfortable by the concept of looking at nsfw made by a kid lol. then when i turned 18+ i opened public nsfw accounts and started posting works i made after the fact, and that was the end of it. i've never accepted money to make nsfw art so it remained entirely vocational, and i've always been pretty normal about erotica so there wasn't anything to struggle with 😁👍

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Hi! Sorry to ask, I’d just like to know because your story is everything I wanted, but is it in your plans to finish “What remains?” If not thank you for writing such a incredibly-written story so far! It’s just I’m really compelled by what you had on store and was wondering if you still wanted to finish it 🥹

Sorry if this is a bother!

helloo thank you so much for reading what remains! 🥺 it was my baby for a few years and it's still really dear to me, and i'm so sorry it ends on that horrific cliffhanger lolol currently i'm out of the attack on titan mind virus but i really wish i could have finished it, i was like 9k words into chapter 7 when i just lost steam. maybe one day i'll just release what i had of that chapter, but i take my experience of writing that world as a very fun and educational time anyway!!

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Hi since ive noticed that youve started to reply to questions i thought id ask as well!! Ive liked ur art since like 2025 and i love ur johnlock art and i was wondering if you will continue drawing them or are you shifting to heated rivalry and the pitts?

the pitt??? like the medical drama TV show?? i have never seen it i'm sorry.... thank you for liking my art though <3 right now i'm juggling some more HR fanart (i'm on a government contract to produce state propaganda yaoi, sorry) and developing some original comic ideas, but i do miss holmes/watson and want to draw them more as well :) i don't think i've ever announced it publicly but i really want to further develop a pitch for a graphic novel centered on watson, post-EMPT....... if any publishers are hungry for victorian yaoi.....

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hiya! what advice would you give to someone wanting to improve with their art?

hellooo my go-to advice for artists of any skill level is to spend more time not just drawing but also looking in an intentional manner, which is how you can develop a systemic understanding of dimension/form and colour/light and all the other things that you might want to improve as an artist. i'm a little weak on my values and colour theory because i spend more time observing anatomy and expressions, and i think it shows up in my work. observing doesn't just mean staring but also imagining how things break down, looking at someone and seeing how their muscles move under their skin, knowing where tendons connect and how fat folds etc.

some other advice for artists closer to the start of their learning journey, and especially adult artists, is to develop what my homeboy @eldritchdilf calls frustration tolerance. you have to inoculate yourself to the frustration that arises from not being as good as you want to be AND the frustration of not being as good as other people. absolutely everything you create is a learning opportunity even if it isn't necessarily a success and it's important to cultivate that attitude so you don't do the one thing which will impede your art, which is giving up.

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Would you ever open commissions for writing? I’m sooo obsessed with your AO3 it’s my biggest inspiration lol

thank you very much 🥺 i'm always surprised when people read my writing! re: commissions, i'm sorry to say but i don't think i'll ever do them for writing! i have a very tumultuous relationship with prose writing such that i struggle to do it on command lol i need undead spirits to possess me to punch those words on the screen

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Wait, you’re 16??? You aren’t 23?? I’m astonished

BUT I AM 23???

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Hello! I was scrolling thru ur art, I was curious if you had an NSFW sideblog? Thanks!

i believe i did open up a nsfw sideblog briefly, but deleted it! tumblr makes it not so worth the trouble lol, but all of my nsfw is better archived on my unused twitters, namely over at @oldmenshoujo (aot) and @hardraulics (ovw)

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heeeeeyyyy sorry if this gets asked a lot, but do you offer commissions at all :o

hellooo i open commissions very sporadically, but if i can't get a normal job come this summer i will open them again! LMFAO

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I'm so glad you also love Jane Eyre! I was just curious as to your thoughts on the 1943 file with orson welles, I remember loving it when I was younger!

i haven't seen that adaptation yet, sorry! so far i've only seen the 2011 film and the 1983 miniseries, the latter of which is my favourite adaptation currently :3c stellar casting and hits the emotional beats of jane eyre fantastically, and god i love timothy dalton's pathetic ass rochester

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Hello! Please tell me if it will be possible to buy your wonderful H/W zine when the store opens again? 🥹

yes!! i'm hoping to do another store opening in april/may with more prints and a little heated rivalry fancomic too ^^