✨ shop open! ✨ (plus: cryptid stickers & flamecon!)
my shop is back from the dead!
for a limited time only! it’ll be closing on sunday august 11th, right before i head out for ♡ flamecon ♡ (more on that later), and after that i’ll be moving (hopefully back to nyc, but stuff is still in progress on that front)!
i’ve got tons of stickers, zines, comics, prints, buttons, enamel pins, and more ready to mail out to y’all! you can also preorder the second edition of haunts while my shop is open!
✦ get your haunted items before they’re gone! ✦
august’s patreon reward: cryptid stickers!
join the ouija board or spirit box tiers before july 31st if you want these three holographic stickers, featuring some of my favorite cryptids!
summer’s spirit boxes will also be going out soon, featuring all the new stuff i’ve made in the last 3 months! that includes a bunch of stickers, the cup of stars print i made for june’s patreon mail, and a surprise assortment of other goodies!
flamecon is coming up!
this year will be my fifth (!!!) year doing flamecon in nyc! come say hi to me at table C28! you can grab tickets here!
art!
at the end of last month, i published a new interactive fiction piece on my website: YOU ARE HERE. it randomly generates a short description of a haunted house every time you refresh it, with pretty much infinite combinations of descriptions. i think it’s pretty neat!
i spent the start of this month doing some doodles for artfight (an art trading game where you draw other peoples’ original characters).oriane for @dahliamouton
aside from those, not a ton of new stuff i can show off just yet! most of this past month or so has been doing miscellaneous housekeeping (both in terms of getting my art/merch/etc in order and literally cleaning my apartment).
misc updates!
as i mentioned earlier: i’m going to be moving at the end of august! i’m hoping it’ll be back to nyc - fingers crossed the lead i’ve got for an apartment works out! because of this, things might be a bit quiet on my end for a couple weeks after flamecon.
i’ve been doing weeknotes on my blog over on my website! these are little casual updates about what i’m working on, what’s going on in my life, what media i’ve been enjoying, and stuff like that - shorter and more laid-back than a proper newsletter.
i sewed a dress for the first time a couple weeks ago!! i jumped into the deep end for my first wearable sewing project and made something a bit overambitiously complex, but i’m really happy with how it turned out. i’ll be making a blog post about it on my website once i get some decent pictures of it!
recommendations!
podcast: sixteenth minute (of fame) - minisode: ai art & why we are not robots ft. jason koebler
poem: “What’s in My Bag” by Katherine Yang (from online lit mag taper.badquar.to)
book: the dead take the a train by cassandra khaw & richard kadrey
video: nothing ever stops existing by jacob geller
video: watching time loop movies to escape my time loop by leo vader
donate to crips for esims for gaza, a group organizing to keep people in gaza connected, and/or directly to mutual aid fundraisers collected on operation olive branch’s spreadsheet
covid is spiking again big time, so if you’ve stopped wearing a mask, now’s the time to start again, especially in indoor/crowded spaces! keep yourself and your community safe!
need resources or want to donate to folks helping people get free masks/tests/etc? @covidactionmap on instagram has collected this map of mask blocs and other groups that are organizing for covid safety!
i think that’s all for this newsletter! talk to you soon! stay safe & stay spooky!
<3 - kaylee rowena