✰ HARK! ✰ - Turned On By The Headline “Daniel Clowes Will Not Explain Monica”.
✰ weekly-ish check in and update on the future ✰
Greetings and Hark! to all my friends in this little light box that connects us…
I’m in isolation with COVID this week so I figured a little UPDATE never hurt. Please, indulge in sharing with me your favorite ways to pass the time.
I fear I may have seen the whole internet during my quarantining and I do not know how to feel about that.
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REFLECTION:
Nothing is sexier than getting curious and vulnerable… and baby I am all over that right now.
I have been reaching inward deeply to understand more about how I have learned to love and care for others through addressing how it has been shown to me. I am halfway through Polysecure which, as someone in a monogamous relationship, I can not recommend enough. I feel it really offers comprehensive looks into how trauma, attachment styles, and dynamics in relationships can affect your communication. Also its free on Spotify premium so put it on at the gym?
Look, nothing is sexier than a Daniel Clowes comic. I hate to admit I love his work because one of my exes would force me to watch Ghost World every night while I scrolled Tumblr in 2013. Well, anyways despite this trauma I became a fan on my own terms somehow, so here we are.
I finished Monica and I am still turned on by the headline “Daniel Clowes Will Not Explain Monica”. The comic had this quality where I felt I knew what was going on or connected in the story lines and then ALL OF THE SUDDEN the next chapter would punch me in the gut, making me feel like a fool for trying. Finishing Monica makes me feel like I know something people don’t know but what things is exactly… couldn’t tell yah. This explanation is NOT selling it and is probably giving you the ick but you should read it… and then you too can sound like an elitist describing the experience (ROFL).
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Also someone tell Newbury Comics to get a better system organizing their comics. I do not often shop there but sometimes I pace around in them after buying my blue hair dye next door. When I am in there I friggin hate the way the have it alphabetized by title??? Wtf.
COMICS IS LITERALLY IN YOUR NAME … GET IT TOGETHER.
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VISIONING:
The other day my best friend Blue said something like “I know you haven’t been making art as much…” but this is a call out post Blue because I HAVE. I just have not been sharing it online. Mostly Im doing lettering in sketchbooks and working on a shirt for me (see above). It all has been little fun projects that I am not taking to seriosuly ◡̈ .
With this said, I also started making an effort to fold art making into when I am watching movies, visiting my partner, or sometimes on my break at work. Cleaned my room in a COVID haze today and also discovered I have a lot of supplies…. which is making me feel extra creative. At one point, I combed through old sketchbooks and I felt excited to make more.
Me and my friend Paula discussed doing water colors together this fall so I hope we get on it! I haven’t done them in a while and wonder what this exploration will bring.
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UPDATES:
SOLSTICE 4 (the digital copy) is available for cheap purchase on Gumroad. Thank you Blue for setting up the online offering AND THANK YOU TO ALL WHO BOUGHT THIS FROM BLUE WHEN THEY TABLED! Blue did a limited run of the RISO prints so *kiss* <3
Love the cover they designed and feel honored to have such a larger role of setting up the layout this issue.
I did title cards/text design for GAUD’s new album/music videos. This was an amazing experience and congrats to the band for making amazing work. I got to try out a typeface I only use sometimes. After this, I want more letters in my practice and to push myself to try others. Thanks Devin, youre a real one.
Again, I have a piece at Silver Fish Community Center in Portland Maine for an extended open call you should check out! Thanks Ash for hosting this!
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LAST IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR…. I’M THINKING OF SELLING “PRINT AT HOME” DIGI PRINTS ON THE CHEAP. IF THAT’S WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE PLEASE COMMENT DOWN BELOW.
DOES THAT EVEN MAKE SENSE? IDK.
I AM TOO WEAK TO BE AN ONLINE BUSINESS STOREFRONT ETSY BADDIE. BUT A BOY CAN DREAM…
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PRAYERS:
I pray that all the tattoo, storefront online shop qts, and market baddies succeed and make their dreams come true.
I pray to recover and to have the will to rest with this illness.
I pray for my bestie Paula who is out here living her slashie dream.
I pray for the cricket(s) I killed using RAID. I had to sleep and I am sorry.
But seriously,
I pray for GAZA and all the pain this genocide is causing.
I pray we find solace in these trying times.
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HITTING POST SO LETS HOPE ITS ALL SPELLED CORRECTLY
see you l8er ◡̈ ◡̈ byeeeee ◡̈ ◡̈
-Y