Traci Shepard @tashepard@witches.town
Ace of Hearts, Queen of Spiders. Illustrator/cartoonist. Trans (she/her). Mostly blather about film, horror, zoos and songs about monsters having parties.
Chandler, AZ, USA
"Since his death ten years ago, Kurt Vonnegut has granted precious few interviews."
Got a free kinder egg and surprised to find it is some kind of bizarre ovular Dunkaroo and not just a chocolate egg with a toy inside.
Clip Studio has developed a fun habit of crashing while saving so leaving me with a real moment of Schrodinger's Lost Progress
I mean, I could only Learn More from here, I'd be hard-pressed to Learn Less.
I have tomorrow off with no particular pressing concerns for once, so I am writing down a list of ten things I need to get done or at least knock a chunk out of and will aim to check at least five of them by the end of the night.
I did this entire D&D character commission and I didn't even sneak in a single The Adventure Zone reference :c
I could just call it The Cloverfield Index and launch it unannounced one night and get some traffic in before everyone realizes it's terrible :/
Okay, does this play: Clawbook.
Like a handbook, but for monsters. Because they have claws.
I love when anything with tiered speed controls uses the turtle-rabbit-cheetah iconography.
Stop glorifying abusive relationships. 😐
there's a whole section of gay people who think RuPaul's Drag Race is trans culture
let that sink in
Not quite as far back on Short Cuts as I thought, as I definitely remember this piece on the black detective who infiltrated the Klan via phone correspondence.
LRB if this Laurie Reeves guy knows so much about electronic mail then why doesn't he even have an email address 🤔
what even is email
I wish I enjoyed/was skilled at coloring anywhere near as much as any other step of this process.
WoW rambles, Peacecraft Afficher plus
I usually call it my favorite podcast, but I haven't listened to Short Cuts in about a year because I just kept putting it off for a better time to listen and the episodes just kept building up and now I'm pulling the trigger on a backlog of 25 episodes to catch up on.
(Which, realistically, is only gonna take me a couple days to burn through.)
An ongoing issue: when I'm behind on an illustration, I will overcompensate for the lateness by trying to make it a more detailed drawing, and the extra details only lead to it taking more time to finish.
B-b-b-bennu and Wadjet