well the end of october kind of fell into a toilet.
i had another ghost story outlined, plus i wanted to do another halloween media post, but i ended up scrambling trying to raise donations to cover rent money. and that luckily went well! very thankful to my very giving friends and to people on the internet who helped out. but yeah, i had zero bandwidth left for anything else because my brain wants to shut down when stressed.
now what do i do with this blog now that halloween is over? here are my current thoughts:
1) i think i wanna keep doing the ghost story thing, even without the excuse of halloween. it's fun practice, and i'd like to give myself time to come up with ideas that are maybe a little more than "what if someone had something bad happen to them? the end."
2) more media recommendations. i like experiencing and studying all kinds of art, and telling people about things they might like is a compulsion of mine. but i am also quite slow-brained and all my verbal recommendations usually come out as "hey! this movie seems like something you'd really like. why? um... uh. cuz it. good." so having a written outlet may be better for me. this month i'm doing what i call "prestige november" after a month of nonstop horror movies. basically a bunch of vegetables to make up for all the candy. maybe i'll post about that.
3) DRAWING. i have become more and more afraid of drawing over this last year in particular, which is an issue considering it is my only marketable talent (though how marketable or talented i am is HIGHLY questionable). so i need to get myself to do ANYTHING. ideally gag comics since that's basically all i'm good for (again, questionable), but literally anything that gets my ass in gear would be good. we'll see.
4) other longform things. i dunno. i'm just enjoying having this little space to do things without thinking about if anybody sees it or how much numbers etc. i've been thinking about writing a thing about the art of the board-driven cartoon, why it will always be my favorite job to have, my process, so on. but it may make me too sad to think about too hard considering i've been out of work for nearly three years.
i usually switch to doing capital letters if a post gets too long but i'm lazy so sorry that this is hard to read. anyway, see ya soon maybe.