arby k @arborwin@mastodon.art

In the past week I've lost my pencil case and had to order replacements, plus taken some of my cats to the vet, and they need dental work. :<

To soften the blow on our savings, I'm selling some of my embroidered toys for the first time! Mostly gators. It would help me out a lot for you to buy something! I also still have Bloodborne Celestial Child pins still available, and one copy of Grayling 6 (signed).

https://arborwin.storenvy.com/

#embroidery #ooak #stitching #fibrearts #fiberarts #sewing

My collected 2019 Inktobers themed on THE DARK CRYSTAL are now available as a PDF on Gumroad! pay what you want~ https://gum.co/bfUcC

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If you like webcomics, fantasy, & lbgtq+ friendly media please consider reading my webcomic, Grayling! It's free! https://www.graylingcomic.net/?id=1

If you're intimidated by the length, please don't be! I've made a deliberate attempt to keep my pages relatively simple w larger, easier to read text so it doesn't take that much effort to actually read. It's also broken into issues, so you can stop at reading 1 or 2 books if you want!

And this was in a well-moderated community w no adult content or even SWEARING. It boggles my mind what modern teens in fandoms are up against

I remember this effing. Middle-aged-ass woman hanging out in the cyberpet community I was a part of when I was a teenager in the late 90s.

She threw TANTRUMS about our "childish behavior" & would stomp out of the community in a huff, & other kids on the board would go on AIM to wheedle her into coming back because they felt obligated.

Now I look back on that, like, WTF? That woman would now be nearly 70 years old!!!!!!!!!!!!

part of me is glad that ppl talk about old people in fandoms full of kids now.

it's a fraught topic, but I've personally had enough bad experiences at this point that I side-eye any adult hanging out in online fandom spaces, period.

I mean, I'm 35+, I am still enjoying all the same things I've always enjoyed. But I don't need a fandom full of teens to do it & I don't see why these other adults do. If it was a more structured environment, maybe. But it's not.

Tsuchinoko design. #fibrearts #embroidery

I guess I see what people mean about Storenvy's fees. They're pretty high and kind of arbitrary.

I think I will move everything to Gumroad eventually.

But funnily enough though Gumroad isn't mentioned in any "etsy alternative" posts, so it's been difficult getting an idea of what it's like selling physical stuff through it. Gumroad just hasn't trended with the handicraft crowd I guess...

sweeby

lem with his hair down!!! from my comic https://graylingcomic.net

Today's Grayling, page 0831. Lem makes a snap decision. graylingcomic.net
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finally freakin done with coloring this page... for some reason I kept looking at it and then doing something else when it was 2/3 done.

Today's Grayling, page 0830. Lem ducks into the bathroom. https://graylingcomic.net #webcomics #comics

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when kevin sings, "if you tried" in I Can't Stop Your Memory I always get chills