#guest spot

[mogielnik]

darlings! This year I’m visiting Paris as well and my bookings are still open 🥀 come, say hi and get an unique engraving tattoo ⚔️ bookings via message or via form

[animenostalgia]

In celebration of Akira Toriyama's birthday (April 5th), Kanzenshuu released a new podcast episode where many creators & fans shared personal stories of gratitude for Toriyama and his creations. I was honored to be asked to participate, along with many other amazing people. Thank you, Toriyama-sensei. We miss you!

[hebblog]

FIRST GUEST SPOT!  I just spent the last week at DFA Tattoos in Montreal, and could not have asked for a more amazing experience!  I went in nervous as hell, not knowing what to expect, but mostly scared that I was going to fuck it all up. I’ve always been an anxious person in new work (and travel) settings, so my ADHD was fully flaring up and every negative thought was destroying me...until I walked in the door :)  All of the artists went above and beyond to make me feel welcome, the space was beautiful, the neighbourhood was fun, we had time at the start/finish of the week to do some city exploration and I got to do some really gnarly tattoos! Everything one could hope for in a guest spot.  This really nice couple (not even from MTL) came specifically to play my “get what you get” card game and share their must-see spots. I got to tattoo some of my closest friends that live out there (and then catch up over beers afterwards). I was able to learn about some different setups and equipment in the shop. But most importantly I was able to make some real connections with MULTIPLE shops and a ton of artists, solidifying that I’ll definitely be going back to work out there in the future. I really feel like Montreal is going to play a key role in my tattooing growth.  Sure, I didn’t get to do an insane amount of tattoos and make all the money, but it wasn’t about that for me. Each time I enter into a “first” in this job, I go in with the mindset of learning/trying/experiencing something new to add to my utility belt. The fact that the next time I go out I have THREE possible shops to work at alone is more than any amount of money. But for those that care; I averaged x2 tats a day, and made enough to pay for my share of the housing for the week (+shop rent).  This also feels like a “universe moment” as I’m currently in the midst of packing up my gear to move into a new shop here at home, and am feeling all those same anxious feelings again.

If you’re ever in MTL go checkout DFA, they’re the real deal and I’ll never be able to express enough love for everyone I was able to hangout with! 

[michaelvarrati]

Check it out! I did a guest spot on Horror Queers where I talked with fabulous hosts Trace and Joe all about THE LAST OF SHEILA! Here’s their official blurb: 

Give us a glass of water and a couple of lesbians because we're joining two iconic queens Anthony Perkins (yes, that one) and Stephen Sondheim (yes, that one) for an evening of games, bitchery and murder in 1973's The Last of Sheila! Joining us for the conversation is the co-host of the Midnight Mass Podcast: Michael Varrati!

We go all in on this complex murder mystery/Hollywood satire filled with a cast of pretty reprehensible characters (in the words of our guest: it's a problematic scenario populated by problematic people) while admiring the sheer audacity of Perkins and Sondheim's clever script.

Plus: hot Ian McShane, Angela Lansbury tea, Raquel Felch, a "little child molester" who technically wins the movie, and a surprising fact about Joel Schumacher!

[keekeejames]

I’ll be in Mexico City this September 15-18th

Contact me on instagram to book - keekee3.0

[angela-yuriko-smith]

Don't Cry Over Spilled Ink

I just released episode 8 and I'm booked until mid-July. Guests have included petsitters, poets, professors and everyone in between.

For reasons I don’t wish to disclose, I changed the name of my YouTube podcast from Spilling the Ink to Exercise Your Writes. It doesn’t matter why I changed it… the thing that impressed me is how easy it was to change it—thanks to technology. The new write up says that I don’t believe in boring people exist, and this is true. Everyone I have ever met has had something interesting to share. I’ve…

[your-hotdog-husband]

This is the most normal 9/9 dal-e CRaiYON set I've ever made or seen, ever.

[sun-e-chips]

Waterpark au Sun and Moon now in color!!!

I still need to finish their ref sheets for art-fight but I’m so so happy to finally have them colored!

Moon’s platings are colored and textured to mimic wood grains, over that he is “painted” with varying tones of blues and teals.

Sun’s platings resemble painted Aztec stone with vibrant cool and warm colors, some of the “stone” remains bare.

Up close, guests can see that both animatronics designs have intentional weathering to really sell their imagined materials.

[seiwas]

thinking about pro-hero kiri with preschool teacher!reader 🥺

[coolsvilleprincess]

Everybody give it up for more cleaned up sketches!! This time it's characters that I have simply been thinking about recently that are not the main gang, yes I did get distracted while cleaning up my Shaphne sketches, yes this is the result now I must return to the caves to finish them.

[animenostalgia]

Hi friends! If you love Gunbuster, I have a treat for you: I was a guest on the most recent episode of Giant Robot FM, which starts their new series on talking about each episode of the original Gunbuster! So enjoy nearly 3 hours of us talking about ep 1 of Gunbuster, with side-tangents on Aim for the Ace!, The Witch From Mercury, and saphic vibes. Happy pride!

[hebblog]

Montreal p.3

[rocketmoment]

two doodles/drawings made on roblox recently :]

[see-arcane]

I wish for something Dracula as sort of post-apocalypse. Maybe killing him did not stop the infestation, maybe it emboldened other vampires and you have now 100 Ruthvens in his wake having turf wars, maybe his visit awakened legendary dormant ancient evils, maybe it inspired ambitious lords of the dying british/european aristocracy wanting to copycat him and make devil pacts and training in the mountains. And the survivors who experienced it all first hand dealing with it.

Honestly, it stuns me how little has been done with the 'Dracula technically leaving an open spot at the top of the vampire food chain' possibilities. I think Castlevania kind of touches on it, but overall there's just a whole lot of nothing going on in Dracula-adjacent media about it.

Though I will hand the other public domain vampires a pass because, to be honest, I think Count Dracula was the only vampire in literature who was ever concerned about Taking Over the World. Everyone else in the undead scene is just sort of doing the smart thing and. You know. Chilling.

Lord Ruthven wasn't out to conscript others. Dude went out of his way to kill his victims with knives and drink the red runoff, as if to explicitly avoid making other vampires.

Carmilla was out there romancing and drinking girls like an undead Casanova. The vampire who turned her first when she was Countess Mircalla might have been different! But we never find out who that vampire was; we just know about Millie and the growing list of broken/siphoned hearts left in her wake.

Clarimonde, the dead woman in love~, was so bad at making another vampire. Comically, tragically bad at it. All she could bring herself to do was construct a fantasy dreamscape to live in with her human priest crush while taking literally only a single pinprick's worth of blood from him to keep herself going. This, when the priest in question openly declared SHE COULD HAVE HIS ENTIRE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM if she wanted it!

Varney the Vampire was and remains just...terrible at being a vampire. In general.

Countess Dolingen and her undead village, along with Gorcha and the Vourdalak village, both seem to have the whole 'conscript everyone around me/all those I love' angle handled. Except neither group ever ever expands past the borders of their territory. Maybe it's a rule? Maybe they just ran out of people they felt like drinking? Either way, they stopped caring about collecting others and just tucked themselves in their graves to doze once their respective villages were turned.

In short, for somebody to take over Dracula's ~King of the Vampires~ role, we'd actually need an OC to step in. All the actual classic literary vampires, many of whom were kicking well before Dracula appeared on the scene, just are not interested in the undead tyrant game.

(Probably why Dracula had to go around recruiting in the first place. None of the other vampires returned his letters or carrier pigeons for centuries. No, they don't want to join his pyramid scheme vampiric onslaught campaign, thanks. Too busy minding their business and/or dealing with personal drama. Please lose their address.)

[cerealmonster15]

images that bring me peace. u simply dont understand. !!!!

[talesfromthecrypts]

Everybody talking about Walton Goggins this and that but nothing about how Criminal Minds tied him to a bed to exorcize him? Why not?

Google images gave me nothing so I had to take matters into my own hands and go get the episode myself.

We just don't tie men to the bed and exorcise them like we used to