hello all!

it’s been a while since i’ve written anything here; i’ve had a very slow summer in some ways (not many conventions) and a very busy summer in other ways (lots of deadlines, trying to get my life together, etc), none of which have been conducive to remembering to write newsletters or update social media. i do have a bunch of updates to share, though, so without further ado…

flamecon!

flamecon is this weekend in NYC! it’ll be my 6th year tabling there, and as always, i’m super excited. come see me at table E54! (& don’t forget flamecon requires attendees to be masked! covid is spiking right now; wearing a mask is an easy way to keep yourself and everyone else safe!)

i’m also organizing the spooky stamp rally — you can grab a card from any of the participating artists’ tables, and if you collect all 6 stamps you get a special prize pack! it’s my very first stamp rally and i’m super excited about how it’s coming together.

shirts for gay ghosts

i put a new series of shirts up on my bonfire shop last month that i’m super proud of! i made these designs — a bunch of ghosts with pride-colored heart-shaped glasses — for stickers originally, but i liked them enough that i wanted to put them on something slightly more permanent. you can get the whole collection of gay ghost shirts as well as a bunch of other designs on my shirt shop!

blaugust

i’ve been participating in blaugust, a challenge where you write a blog post every day of august. i’m not quite hitting the “every day” goal, but i’m aiming for at least 15 posts by the end of the month / every other day-ish. check out my blog on my website!

new art

i briefly participated in this year’s artfight event, but only ended up doing two pieces for it. one of them was this little pixel line-up of my d&d party! i don’t do pixel art a lot, but i really like it, and i’m still super proud of how this turned out.

a very overdue piece of disco elysium fanart that i’ve been wanting to do since i finished the game 2-ish years ago. (prints here! i’ll also have prints of this & the next two pieces at flamecon.)

a commission of the cabin from yellowjackets. i keep forgetting to post this one on social media, so you guys are getting the first look at it!

another piece of fanart; this one’s inspired by the current my chemical romance tour, in which gerard way gets stabbed by a clown. i’m not kidding. (if you’re curious, i infodumped about the mcr tour on my blog a couple days ago.) (prints here!)

a few new stickers & a few restocks of old stickers! i’ll have all of them at flamecon (though the glittery house will be a stamp rally exclusive for now)!

recommendations corner

• music: the new hayley williams songs kill me & true believer; rent strike’s album möbius strip mall; pinkshift’s album love me forever; my chemical romance’s new 2025 mix of three cheers for sweet revenge

• games: mmolb (a sort of spiritual successor to blaseball); puzzmo (various daily puzzles)

• books: stars, hide your fires by jessica mary best; sick houses: haunted homes and the architecture of dread by leila taylor; the river has roots by amal el-mohtar

etc!

next month i’ll be in maryland for SPX! hopefully i’ll remember to send out another email before then, but just in case i don’t: it’s september 13th & 14th, you can buy tickets here, and i’ll be sharing table F7 with nur schuba!

i can’t think of an elegant segue here (sorry!) but i’ve been having a pretty rough time financially lately, so if you like my art and have some spare change to help me keep doing what i’m doing, i have a tip jar, as well as my print store & shirt store.

i know things are tight for a lot of people right now, so please don’t worry about it if you don’t have anything to spare! i appreciate you reading to the end of this newsletter either way!

that’s all i’ve got for now, and i need to get back to finishing up my flamecon preparations. i hope you’re all doing well. stay safe out there!

💖 - kaylee rowena