Kacey 🔜 Winterail 2026!

Ah...this hits like a heat seeking missle, holy fuck @.@

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

THE RUBBER TOY DOING A LINE TACKLE IS ME >:33

I think the other thing that's been helpful is that folks in my life care more that I'm like, creating to begin with than creating things that I consider to be perfect

The people who love my stuff and pay to see it are just happy that I'm making shit. That in of itself has been a huge boon

Having the ability to, while with friends, break out our drawing tablet and get a quick sketch out has been transformational for how we see our art. We're no longer isolated nor are we focusing on completeness or perfection or even long term growth. We're just *doing*, because it's fun

I used to put way too much pressure on myself to commit to hours and hours of drawing for one piece and now I do sketches that take an hour tops and the pressure is off immensely. Folks don't even consider them sketches because of the line quality but I do in comparison with past work

I'm aware this carries limited utility as this isn't my job anymore but I can tell you at least for me that having my iPad handy to loosely sketch stuff wherever and focusing on finding a point where art is good enough, not perfect, has been instrumental in getting me to actually draw more

Anyways I just wrote something very hot but very much not safe for most people's eyes. If you think you're brave enough DM us and we can toss it

Sometimes I'm sad that when I really let loose with a piece there is only a fraction of people that can see it cause I'm in no way making it public as it'd make most of our friends uncomfy. But that makes the folks that *do* see it a privileged few, and we love you for letting us share our depravity

I said it thursday when I was vending but I'm doing it for the love of the game. I get to make connections and make folks happy with my stuff and get out into my local community in ways I never have before and that shit feels amazing✨️

And honestly it's a losing venture! I haven't come close nor will I ever to breaking even on it, but I enjoy just geting out and showing my stuff off. Folks get to hold my art and tell me they like it, which is miles ahead of ANY euphoria I've ever experienced from posting it online

This is a privileged take and I'm grateful to have the income to make this possible, but the most I get out of vending really is the positive interactions with folks. I've functionally spent a couple grand since December on getting my set up made to get out in person and show my stuff off

Night market is happening in 2 and a half hours!! Really hoping our new sticker set up arrives before then, but if not we'll be improvising :3 come take a look and say hi if you're in the area!

Appreciated, I left your server but feel free to send a friend request when you start to get orders put together, my address has not changed since placing it. Best of luck getting back on your feet!

I hope that there will be an update soon, and I wish you the best in your recovery

Again, I say all of this from the perspective of someone who has severe ADHD, is unmedicated and struggles immensely with self-paced work and long queues. I can't fathom the stress you've been under for the last few years, but that does not automatically make the lack of communication a non issue

I'm no longer patient about a delivery because I've stopped thinking about it, and I'd like the stuff I paid for simply because I spent money on it, but I sincerely hope that you set yourself on a trajectory of working on your communication issues.

As someone who struggles immensely with due dates and backlogged work I've made the extremely difficult and heartbreaking choice to stop trying to do art as a career precisely because I've been in your shoes. I get it. But I also am frustrated with the lack of clarity since April of 2024

I can be empathetic to a degree as someone with as-of-now unmedicated ADHD, but as a backer of the Kickstarter I sincerely hope that orders are fulfilled with some degree of expediency. It's been over 2 years and my questions about the delivery date in your server were ignored.

Feels *really* good to be writing again. Like our art, we're posting our microfiction privately but if you're really curious, join our Subscribestar >:3

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This is tonight! Come say hello and pick up our brand new 8x10 prints for sale! We'll have 10 art prints (two that are secret and NSFW, ask for them!) and a number of train prints along with our normal stickers, buttons and train DVDs!

Had the inverse of this happen a few years ago with (ironically enough) an ex who was a system before our own system split! Super confusing for everyone involved to be enthusiastic about sushi only to get to the restaurant and the 5 year old who didn't know he was his own creature to not want it xD

Omg yes like each size corresponds with a different animal? So it goes from mouse to whale size!! And there's this like, age-agnostic (probably a 23 year old theater school dropout using their best "I'm 5 actually" voice) narrator that says what each animal is and the size :3 "Mouse! Small", etc

Alternatively - nuk on a paci that when you twist a nob on the front of it, it inflates to different sizes. Go from not inflated to mouth-filling with just a single, satisfying click!

Buddy kept making jokes about Stanley being inflated after we washed him earlier today xD

Definitely!! The issue now is making art for vending but we're reaching our carrying capacity for that so it's been a lot easier to sketch for ourselves again the last couple of weeks. Always chasing our own tail about it, but progress is still progress

There's no lesson here but I still want to at least document that like, hey, I'm making progress at throwing my thoughts art and feelings into the void without really caring who the hell sees it, or how many do. It's extremely challenging but has been a rewarding challenge

The biggest change was turning off quote reposts and numbers on Bluesky, GOD that has been a lifesaver. Yeah there have been times over the last month where we've let this site and other social media feed into our insecurities, but I'll take every few weeks over every hour of every day

The folks who matter in our life will see it and while there's a lot of vestigial desire for external dopamine from finishing creative stuff we feel much, much better off in that regard. Anyone who knew us on Twitter knew how fucking thirsty we were for attention so this is...a good change

Yea we still draw daily but a very small select group of people get to see our stuff and that isn't to cultivate a sense of exclusivity or anything. At this point we recognize that we aren't making money directly from our art so there's no need to *post* it publicly