My good friend Shane asked if my RSS still works. And that reminded me to update my feeds page:
Collecting all my RSS feeds.
Mainly to add my wiki blog on there, and note that I don't use DW anymore due to having my own blog. I would like to add other RSS reader recs on there that are easy for noobs to use (don't require self hosting).
Ty everyone for coming out for backyardmarketclt even though it was raining and freezing ❤️🌈
Shane made some wonderful new calendars (which you can get on our online shop rn 🙂↕️), as well as some popup Valentines day cards with my lil Hank Hills (to be photographed then uploaded online). If the event moves from the backyard to another space, I will be happy to follow and continue to hang out with all the super cool people who make the market such a fun event.
I have collected my last 7 Snowflake Challenge posts into a blog post. Scrolling down and seeing the collective John Redcorn and Slaxl goonery all together is pretty crazy.
I changed the name on my kofi from scumsuck->shaggiemane. Everything is still the same. It's just the name that's different for reasons I've detailed on my blog.
You can still subscribe on my kofi for sticker club and monthly request doodles. In fact, you should subscribe for the new year if you want :)
Ko-fi doodles from now on will be reserved for subscribers, since I gotta do like 7 of them a month now. Occasionally I may open up ko-fi doodles to the public when I need to fundraise for something (like hospital bills lol). I will let y'all know about those occassions in future social media posts.
I am still working on packing orders and sticker club stuff from December. Everything is printed (mandrake postcard, vulture sticker, Carrie sticker), I just need to lock in tonight and tomorrow, and write addresses and stuff.
Hey. Hi. Busy weekend. I reviewed the events we did this weekend:
Hand To Hand Market
Backyard Market CLT
I still believe that it would be great for workers/artists to be transparent about finances, and luckily for you I am not embarrassed to admit when and HOW MUCH I bombed. 😉
I reached 4k followers on instagram after 70 years of being online. So I drew a couple of requests AND rambled about social media, fake numbers, and living as An Artist 😀 yayyyy 💖
I wrote a recap of our Zine Machine vending experience on my site. TLDR: We got put in a bad spot with no traffic, and had to move 3 times, but at least we made back our transportation costs LOL.
Some additional rambling non-event thoughts:
We did get to meet a lot of cool people that we've been following online though! And there were some people who came to see lil ol' me 😬 We didn't get to do as many trades and browsing as we would have liked cuz we spent so much time moving our table. Still very happy with the swag we got!
And we're slowly working on our display to make it more transportable, everything on our table fit in two suitcases! Shane built some collapsible plywood shelves that worked very well in terms of lightness and just holdin' stuff. I can't wait to make them again with stronger wood cuz the bottom shelf sags a bit :P
I'm also very happy with the binder + clear sleeves set-up for 8x10 prints. I want some choice prints out for display to catch the eye, but keep the full catalog in the book for browsing. I don't think many people looked at or even saw the commission options in the front of the book.
I originally had the commission options in its own book, but that took up an entire other binder that I didn't think would fit in the luggage. Will think about doing that again, and having an 11x17 binder for long prints. The main thing that I need to think about with that, is how to prevent kids (like actual googoo gaga ankle biters) from flipping through it even though it says FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY. Lol. I have the same problem online anyways too, little kids love to flip through weird gore pron??
I wanted to try a new community bulletin board thing. Though people liked it and it made good convo no one wanted to put anything on it besides me :P I think it was too too hectic for other vendors to come and put stuff on there. I'll probably keep working on this idea and turn it more into a "shrine" area? So for this example, I'd just put all my KOTH yaoi here along with the screenshots so people know what the heck I'm all about.
I think I'd replace the pointy push pins with magnets and a metallic backing (rather than cork board) so there's less risk of pain.
Also peep this cool sign. I wish I could make a big vinyl sign that said JOHN REDCORN GOONER.
Next stop is Hand-to-Hand Market in December. We have a month to prep. So less zines, more papercrafts… I really want to do articulated paper puppets like samsquatches and some of my OCs, as well as shill some HOME MADE WALNUT INK and live commissions.
Someone on instagram said they'd like to see the metalocalypse guys in my style. Lucky for them, I have drawn them many times. I updated my booru with a bunch of older metalocalypse and home movies art <3 Some even from the Pre-War Era (high school). i wanna draw these guys again!!! when i find time in between john redcorn gooning seshs
Here's the doodles I did during Queen City Zine Fest, and some art I got. I wrote a review of the event on my site. TL;DR: we got a bad spot but the staff was nice and I got to talk about KOTH yaoi (especially people shipping Kahn!!!) with people 🙂
I'm happy with our very light luggage and display for this event. Did some new stuff with a store catalog + print book rather than trying to find space to display it all. Also thrifted a clear pocket teacher hanging thingy, that was fun to display stickers. I also got a nice haul of print materials, I linked to the individual artists in my review post!
I have been "blogging" on my site for "blaugust". I wrote some pretty good stuff so far. You should read my blog.
Some hits and shits include:
Intro to Blaugust
Social Media Kuso Comment Blues
How I'm using Dokuwiki to blog.. with comments!
Introducing my booru
Talking shit about irl art conventions setting artists' shit on fire and giving them heat strokes
Do Interact If, vs DNIs
11ty for self-hosting webcomics
Watching new King of The Hill and South Park
And other assorted depressing IRL crap if you want to know why I've been depressed and crap lately! Wow! Hope this encourages other people to have their own site :3c
I'd use Tumblr for blogging but... now that I've the taste of "owning my own data" and having it on my own computer so it's portable if and when Tumblr eats its own ass, I'd rather just type stuff on my own site :P
Some art I drew for my main site's front page. They link to my sub sites: the new booru gallery on archive.scumsuck.com, and my wiki at wiki.scumsuck.com.
If you really really really really love me, you should let me know which pieces of art you'd like to see uploaded as a priority onto the booru <3 As I wrote on my blog, I love the booru format for being able to cleanly tag ships and characters!
Gonna be vending and doing live caricatures at SLUTFEST again, on August 16th, 2025 at the Chapel of Bones in Raleigh. Visit me. See Mr. Piss. And a lot of other great bands and wrassling. Get tickets now.
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