#hellostarchild

[teamcomet-askblog]

Here comes the boy~

[winebrightruby]

Came here [unknown reasons], stayed for the complete dismissal of biased anti-south rhetoric.

I’m good at like two things, and one of them is ferocious defense of the only part of the country I ever want to live in.

[teamcomet-askblog]

Introduction!

Hello, and welcome to my first-ever askblog! I really want to try and share the story of one of my beloved characters through this format, and Caspian’s tale feels like the perfect fit for an interactive, mostly light-hearted, and adventurous journey!

You might recognize some familiar faces from my ongoing comic, Hello Starchild, as well as from my friend’s comic, Supernova!

Think of this askblog as a fun way to dive deeper into this family’s story~

Screen taken from this page.

Here’s how it works: - You may ask any major character who appears in the story! However, questions that include major spoilers for Supernova and Hello Starchild will not be answered directly, if at all. - You cannot insert your own characters into the plot. If you try to, you will be ignored. Spamming questions will also most likely lead to a temporary or permanent ban. - Characters will answer you as if they have a familiar acquaintance with you. - Questions that ask about the future events in this story are unlikely to be answered. My goal is to stick to the current events as much as I can. - NO NSFW QUESTIONS. YOU WILL BE BANNED IMMEDIATELY. (I'll probably update the rules in the future dfhfgdsfhg) CURRENT REFERENCE:

Currently available characters for questions: - Midge (Mawile) He/him - Lucas (Greninja) He/him - Caspian (Froakie) He/him (Beware, he is currently baby) - Koda (Mawile) She/her - Wiluna (Riolu) He/him I hope you enjoy your stay~!

[thegodthief]

Because when I started following you, years and years ago, you were the first person I had seen who claimed to do certain things that I could do, while seeming only to be lying about placement details. It made me consider that I wasn't psychotic(1/2)

(2/2) as I'd been told, and I was more able to speak up to the right people and let the others shun me (and shun in return). Also it turns out you're bitchy, clever, and can turn a phrase, so that was a plus .

~bitch pride intensifies~ Just in case Legal is eavesdropping, I am not a doctor and nothing I say can be construed or taken as medical advice. Having said that, I will say I am not as insane as I had been led to believe, and gaslighting is a bitch to get over when it’s done by family to keep you “in place”.

I’m glad you were able to stand up for yourself and find yourself on your terms. Just remember that gaslighting doesn’t always end once you have removed yourself from that environment. I’m still pulling out shards of glass internalized hate allowed to fester from decades of bullshit. Keep going. Keep growing. Keep the bitch, bitchy. :D

[kokojakes-creates-blog]

Inside peek of hellostarchild 's frickn awesome zine 💖😳

[kokojakes-creates-blog]

hellostarchild 's zine arrived in the mail today and it's frickn magic! Thanks' tiph!!! Sending loads of good vibes your way 💖

[agaucu]

To the people inquiring as to what Etsy is doing that has us Etsy sellers worried...

The short of it is that, in preparation for becoming public (Etsy had its IPO this month), Etsy has become less and less focused on handmade goods and services, and more and more focused on mass produced goods. Etsy started out as a place to sell your SPECIFICALLY handmade wares and would crack down on any shop that fell out of that category at all. Recentlyish, Etsy grew a “little” more lax (purposefully, with announcements and everything), and expanded the definition of handmade to include wares that someone created somewhere, but were handed off to manufacturers to produce. This was under the guise of letting people whose work is very popular hand the process off to someone else; I mean, I understand if you make traditional/digital art that needs to be printed, and you want someone else to handle that for you, but that was already allowed under the original rules. This revision opened the floodgates to mass production of everything, including low wage, overseas mass production of products that had been designed specifically to be mass produced. And then Etsy redesigned its search system, which was already pretty annoying. Etsy has two sections for us to fill out called “tags” and “materials.” Tags are supposed to be words or phrases you anticipate people will search in order to find products like yours. Materials, obviously, are what your wares are made of. The majority of Etsy sellers I know interpret these as fields to ensure that people browsing Etsy will find their work. Nope! Guess again! The best way to get landings on your shop is through writing hella long, descriptive titles. Guess who gets the most titles? Shops with mass produced goods. Guess who gets to flood search results? Shops with mass produced goods. Guess who floods the casual browsing categories? Shops with mass produced goods. Guess who can make the least expensive wares? Shops that make their mass produced goods through low wage factories. Guess who will get the sales? The cheap, easily found, market flooding, mass producing shops. Etsy has hit the point where they no longer care about being a shopping site for handmakers. They just want to make themselves as much money as they possibly can. And yeah, that was the short of it, haha. There’s a lot more to it that I don’t have the time to write about and that I’m sure y’all don’t want to read, considering how long this already is. Honestly, I was intimidated when I first joined Etsy because I was awed by how many things one person/a team could make, and now I just want to resign. I cannot - we cannot - compete with this. THIS SAID - Storenvy pisses me off more actively.

[agaucu]

hellostarchild replied to your photo “Come let me paint your nails. Mwuahaha. #snapshot #nailart #nailpolish...”

Please do mine I hate doing my own nails

Okay come here