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Genuinely crazy how I decided at 30 that I'd cut my own hair and I've never gotten this many compliments on my hair in living memory man like I got a gaggle of 40-something aunties in here looking at the menu and got distracted because they noticed my hair and wanted to know how to get it done. 😭

Hair reveal. 👍

Genuinely crazy how I decided at 30 that I'd cut my own hair and I've never gotten this many compliments on my hair in living memory man like I got a gaggle of 40-something aunties in here looking at the menu and got distracted because they noticed my hair and wanted to know how to get it done. 😭

Long game I've been playing: I have a friend who was telling me about his fujoshi sister and on a whim I asked, can you ask what her twitter handle is. I look it up and see "follows you" next to the name. I said show her a photo of this but don't tell her who I am and don't tell her my account.

Now, my friend is an extremely cishet man (he's chill) and his hobbies are primarily Warhammer and like, Bolt Action. So it's been driving her crazy thinking who the hell her brother is hanging out with.

Beginning your transition to formal sfw illustrations by piggy-backing on your viewership from your nsfw account makes me feel like the dick-in-ass pony from that fucking happyroadkill comic

I've kind of adopted my cousin into my friend group (gay people and women) as he's a single, cishet man in his 30s and most of his friends are married with kids and can't hang out as much.

So anyway we were out drinking and the started talking about anime ships and without missing a beat he just blurts out "Bleach. Ichigo and Aizen." and we were all like. WHAT.

I have no definitive statistics to back my claims but my theory is that modern fandoms are comprised OVERWHELMINGLY of consumers over creators which is why (positive) feedback and interaction appears to be at an all-time low these days.

Burnout aside (who the hell isn't burnt out nowadays) I've been trying to understand why I just can't find it in me to enjoy drawing as much as I used to even though I'm running to less technical difficulties than I did a few years ago, and it's definitely because of how much quieter it is now.

I have no definitive statistics to back my claims but my theory is that modern fandoms are comprised OVERWHELMINGLY of consumers over creators which is why (positive) feedback and interaction appears to be at an all-time low these days.

I know this is going to sound like ass because I have big followers or whatever but I'm being so serious when I say I got a lot more genuine human interaction out of my art back when I was far less skilled because it happened at a time when people in fandom were more invested in what I had to-

I have no definitive statistics to back my claims but my theory is that modern fandoms are comprised OVERWHELMINGLY of consumers over creators which is why (positive) feedback and interaction appears to be at an all-time low these days.

I've got one of those shitty homemade Mötley Crue haircuts because I was thinking I wanted to look like Kelly Nickels or Kane Roberts and yesterday a girl said she really liked my hair and then she said "haha did you get the inspiration from the chatgpt 80s trend" and I just fucking froze.

Chris only messages me back when I talk to him about men you heard it here first

I just discovered Bad Apple what the fuck dude this SLAPS

Sorry dude I lived under a rock I was too busy tanking my body with booze and chemicals when this shit came out I think.

As much as drawing pisses me off nothing gets my blood going more than the pursuit of improvement and the thrill of experimentation my identity as an artist is that I have no prime and I will evolve until the day I die

Go to rave > hug a bunch of people > exactly 4 people complimented my perfume

Incredible things happening at the Ives store today, someone finally named all the toys on my counter display, pointed to the Reaper and 76 figures and said "my favorite bromance!" and told me "you should play again it's more fun now!" after saying I was a retired player.

I'm counting it as part of good service policy that I didn't, not even light-heartedly, argue with a customer about fucking Overwatch 2 of all things.