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@chirasul got some some rad little travel watercolor palettes for my birthday so i had to inaugurate them with a little painting of Karine, chirasul's cool ass bug lady

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please make a big announcement when your zine comes out I'd love love love to get it

I definitely will! I'd really like to get it done before the end of the year but it is just a side project I'm picking away at outside of my full-time job so it'll be ready when it's ready.

at some point I really should try and get a gauge of how many people want to buy a physical copy before I pay to get a bunch printed off or buy the materials to do it myself. I'm averse to doing a pre-order or crowdfunding thing because I'm terrified of ending up in a situation where a bunch of people give me money for a thing and then for some reason out of my control I can't get the thing to them, so I will probably just end up paying everything upfront myself to get them made and then pray I didn't overestimate interest.

(also if I do go for getting the zines professionally printed I'm open for hot tips on any good indie print shops in the portland area or just the PNW in general)

in any case though there will at the very least be some kind of pay what you want pdf situation

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hiya! I hope you're having a great day, i know i am because i just got my sticker order! :D Thank you so much, they're awesome as always! i have to say im very in love with this little pal and would love to know more about them if you have anything to share! If not it's totally cool if theyre just a fun one-off character, but i just wanted to show my appreciation!

that's Karine! she is the character of @chirasul / @coelary and good news for you there's a ton of Karine lore and art and animations and even a graphic novel that features her heavily!

(also just to be clear I do not make a habit of selling stickers of my fanart for other people's characters. in this instance I made a couple sheets of karine stickers because i thought she'd look good as one, which she does, and gave a stack to chirasul and also handed some out to friends but still had a few left over so I snuck them into some mystery sticker packs as easter eggs)

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Can't stop taking unflattering pictures of this grody little man

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Do the monks draw illuminated manuscripts? I'm trying to think of a letter to turn the long gharial into.

oh absolutely. lots of rude marginalia too.

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Obsessed with Worm Sausage,

Pls have Cat Pic as a thank you!

you're not the only one!

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I sent Brother Ignatz to two people today (because I love him) and it was a bright spot in my very long day. Thought you might like to hear one of the ways your art brings joy.

everyone loves Brother Ignatz The Perfect Beatific Creature Of Absolute Innocence And Humility And Humblest Servitude

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hello! I wasn't fully awake yet just now and didn't see you ordered the liquidation sale sticker packs in different sizes, so I got 4×5 instead of one bigger pack. I don't want to cancel the order or anything like that, but I was curious about my odds of getting 20 different things. no worries if the odds are slim to none, I'm just curious!

You're good! I always make an effort to avoid dupes when putting together sticker packs

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I don't actually know what time zone's midnight this ends but it's probably really soon if anyone's still planning on ordering a pile of stickers for cheap

✨BIGASS STICKER SALE TIME✨

Hello! The last couple months have been really expensive for a variety of reasons and I'd really like to recoup some of that, so it's time for another sale! use code BUG50 for 50% of on my ko-fi shop. sale lasts until the end of August. Clicking that link should apply the sale automatically.

Also I really need to offload a bunch of stickers that aren't necessarily misprints but are the wrong lamination or the wrong size or are of designs I'm going to be retiring during a big overhaul I'm planning in a week or two, so I've also added a liquidation mystery pack.

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Educate yourselves.

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if anyone's curious i've found that highly granulating watercolors are great for this kind of velvety texture. i'm currently using a combination of daniel smith tube watercolors and some pans of dried watercolors from this etsy shop. it's a good thing i prefer a very limited palette because nice granulating watercolors are so expensive

Brother Herbert's harvest

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worm sausage

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Brother Herbert's harvest

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give the shrew his stew or he'll chew on the pew

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Brother Mo

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THE BUGS ARE BACK BABY

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Hello! I love collecting stickers and I love your art and I'd love to get some, but before I purchase any wanted to double check if it was currently possible to ship to the United States- I'm not sure offhand where you're shipping from and recently have seen orders to the US cause a lot of issues for people's stores, so I wanted to double check before trying to order so I didn't accidentally place something that was a hassle to fulfill!! Thank you!

definitely smart to be asking these kinda questions right now! I'm shipping from within the US so you're in the clear. all of my stickers are sent out in regular stamped envelopes so shipping is usually pretty cheap. however, most orders of over ~15 stickers I'll usually split into a couple envelopes because if the envelope gets too thick it'll count as a regular package and shipping costs go way up.

international stamps are $1.70 which is still pretty reasonable, though if anyone outside the US puts in a large order that needs to be split, it would be appreciated to toss me a couple extra dollars to cover the additional postage!