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Their legs are distressingly useless but their eyes are somehow…worse to me. Anyway. I nearly bought the one with the crow as a hat but bought a pumpkin mug instead 😂

Oh my GOD I'm so sorry this took me THIS LONG to respond to, but look everyone, a little taste of Prowly late in November! :D I especially like the Pilgrim there on the left because if there's one thing we need it's decorative Puritan owls. :D

I probably should pick up a second copy of Prowly for when this one inevitably gets dropped or smashed; he's resin so he's pretty durable but he's already lost the bat on his hat (I still have it, it's just detached) and he's starting to look a little rough around the edges. But perhaps I'll wait until calamity strikes and then go searching for the most appropriately terrifying replacement.

Thank you! 

Due to the State of Everything I’ve been mentally befuckened, so as a “Sorry For The Lack of Updates and Content” apology and a “OK Brain Do The Thing Again” Motivator, I’ve made the older stories available to all patrons, and I’ll be uploading some of the stories already posted to Tumblr, so we can have some content while everything sucks.

oh gosh, thank you so much!! this year it was a bit hard to find the irreverence i need to write the chillad, so. it took, uhhh, a while. but hopefully i’ll be on a faster posting schedule now. 

Will you...will you make that pattern a thing we can buy from you because I would LOVE to be able to do it, it’s absolutely amazing (Or buy the actual cross stitch from you, honestly, I will just Throw Money at you because of this I promise)

Awww you’re far too kind! I bought some thread and am going to start working on it on a trip I’m taking. If all my color choices are sound I can certainly look into releasing it!

grandmistress-of-the-greyhunt reblogged your photo and added: “Working on a cross stitch pattern of a certain Bentley on fire. Pixel...”

Hnnng I’ve been meaning to get into cross stitching and between this and @shitpostsampler I’m definitely going to get into it

Please, *please* faff about with this!! Six Harvests is such an excellent book (my first foray into your original work, I’ve got picking up the rest on my to-do list) and from what you’ve shared this is. An amazing approach. I’m struggling with pandemic-relevant/pandemic-related media rn because it feels so...current? Almost too current. But this is exactly the kind of sideways fantastical realism approach that is just absolutely fascinating, and also your writing is incredible. Good luck!!

I’m so glad you enjoyed Six Harvests! It does feel like the particular blend of surrealism and mythology and real history has....thematic appropriateness for the times we live in. 

Six Harvests is I think a much more mature book than my others, probably because I’m a more mature writer eight years on, but I hope you enjoy the earlier ones as well. If you liked the fantasticity of Six Harvests you’d probably enjoy Nameless or Trace the most of the others. 

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I would read this. I would also love for it to have a bit of a rashoman style, because I definitely feel like people I know have had wildly different experiences and understandings of the events of the last year.

That’s actually kind of where I’m going with it! There’s an introduction to establish what’s going on, and then four “books” covering the four different characters I’m working on. It probably won’t be super precise -- like it won’t be four views of one story, but one story that progresses through the stories of four different people, but that’s a very high-fantasy way to go about things which is how I’m thinking this will probably go.

(dropped this in your ask box since tumblr’s notifs are, uh, less reliable than usual)

i don't. but. WHAT MAKES THIS A HOLIDAY THEMED CARRD

I have noticed that card websites like the one I was shopping on when I found that -- sites aimed at large groups (foundations, companies, etc) where you can buy bulk cards -- often have a small but significant portion of their holiday cards dedicated to the military and first responders. There’s a whole section that’s very clearly meant to be sent out by fire departments, police precincts/unions, and military units. They are surpassed only by cards aimed at doctors and dentists in terms of “themed” cards you can customize for the holidays. 

So the answer is technically “nothing” -- but it’s a card meant to be sent out by a police union or precinct, mostly to police families, which conveys a “we’re cute and harmless and patriotic” message for the holidays. 

dignitywhatdignity

Depending who sent me the covid-snowflake card, I’d probably actually find it pretty funny, in a dark way. This card is just tasteless at best.

Honestly, the second I came up with the covid-snowflake idea I kind of wanted it to be my holiday card. 

bettsplendens

How many of those things have they sold by now? I'd imagine if they worked, at least ONE would have worked by now in a fashion spectacular enough to make the news.

This is in reference to the ouija board and actually that’s what cracks me up about the Tumblr community’s fear of ouija boards. One did make the news -- in 1949. 

There was a satanic-panic style terror reaction to ouija boards after The Exorcist came out in the 70s. In the movie, and the novel the movie is based on, the demon is released into the little girl explicitly because she was playing with a ouija board. This in turn is based on a newspaper account of the exorcism of “Roland Doe” in 1949, where Roland supposedly became possessed when playing with a ouija board. After The Exorcist became a huge hit, two things happened: people became terrified of ouija boards, and people began demanding exorcisms in droves. So to see a resurgence of that weird conservative Christian conflation of “spiritualism” and “demon summoning” on tumblr just made me lol. 

forlorn-kumquat

to me, it doesn't seem that different from having a laugh track in sitcoms

Those are super creepy too! Especially the fact that the actors pause for fake laughter! 

I think part of the creep factor is being unaccustomed to it. We grew up with laugh tracks on sitcoms, whereas we’re used to organic human reactions at sporting events. They serve the same purpose, to cue us for how to react, but we’re just inured to one. 

sarriane

wrestling is sooooo eerie to watch right now. the WWE finally added in LED screens that show live feeds of fans at home, but before they figured that out, it was odd without the atmosphere. i know wrestling relies on theatrics, but it really made clear just how much the crowd is a part of the show, and which wrestlers need the crowd to feed their energy and performance.

Yeah I can see how wrestling in specific would be super eerie, because so much of it is emotionally driven. Like, if someone’s in a match and the crowd is whipping them up and they pick up a chair and just wham the other guy on the head with it, we understand that to be in part spurred by the crowd. If you just see a guy in an empty room get so furious he whaps the other guy with a folding chair, that feels like very personal, emotional violence. Strictly speaking there’s no difference, but the latter feels like maybe someone needs to be in a lot more therapy. 

Given that wrestling is really just a soap opera with a fight-scene framework, I’m kind of surprised WWE didn’t lean hard into quarantine and make it about wrestlers who can’t wrestle, or wrestlers who get into matches because they’ve been quarantined together for six months. Like. Imagine instead of having matches they just put all the wrestlers into a Big Brother style house and filmed that, instead. 

bisexual-nightmare

As someone personally responsible for the company holiday cards (we’re creeping up on 1k and I Hate It) I would *kill* to convince my bosses to spend the extra 300$ and make someone else do that bit

Yeah, this is probably the only year we’ll get to do it, because normally we have people signing the cards -- each of our managers has a small group of people they sign and mail the cards to, and then we do about 700 cards signed by everyone that get mailed to several segments of our donor base. Last year I had to manage the signing of all thousand cards and the addressing/stuffing/stamping as well; I didn’t have to DO the work myself but I had to assign it out to our temps and keep track of how far along we were to make sure it’d all go out on time.