#I'm the main artist for it and the whole team's put their best efforts So i can't wai to share iut with you guys ;;;

[leithsin]

Am I allowed to be sappy on the main? Because I'm going to be sappy on the main. I was browsing the Karmaland tag when I found your post about the animatic you made for the election arcs, and I clicked on your profile, because if you were still somewhat active I wanted to drop an anon ask giving you a compliment (your animatic was absolutely incredible, after all), only to be slapped in the face with your pinned Purgatory art. And that's when I had to stop myself to stare. Really stop and just stare, because I felt like I was looking at something that deserved that moment of silence.

I'm from a very, very homogeneous region, where its defining feature is its high Scandinavian population and its high school football team. Your animatic was my first introduction into Karmaland, and really into non-English content creation as a whole. I spent a good hour scrolling through the comments on your video with my laptop's translation on, and your video playing in the background, and just taking it all in. It's genuinely something incredible. Your color choice, the way you formatted the video, the song; everything about it was amazing. You were able to condense such a complicated and complex series of events down into something a larger audience could really get into, without losing what made Karmaland what it was. And that's something absolutely incredible. You're what got me into the series, and while my Spanish might still be the most accented thing on this side of the Prime Meridian, I'm making an effort. Because I wanted to connect with that community. That community that I learned about from your animatic, as sheltered and as strange as it may sound.

So I came to your Tumblr page, because I wanted to tell you that animatic was genuinely on the wall of fame in terms of artistic expression I had seen.

And I find your Purgatory art.

Honestly, you've gotten unbelievably better. I don't even know what to say at this point, because when I saw your QSMP art I had to stop and stare, the same way I did your Karmaland animatic. I can still see you're the same artist that you were a year ago, when you first posted 'I can decide', but you've grown an absolutely insane amount. Your composition, color choice, and your handle on the way that bodies work are all insane. Heck, I remember stumbling across your SunnySideUp art a month or so back and thinking about how genuinely awesome it was-because it was awesome, truly.

You're an inspiration, and while you don't know me, the art you've made has shifted something in my worldview.

You're an absolutely incredible, admirable artist, and you deserve to know that.

Parasocial with a tumblr artist? Me? Ha, never *sweats nervously*

That's really it. Gracias por todo y I hope this ask finds you well, and it isn't too awkward, rambly, or flat out weird.

Hihi, I'm sorry for the late reply, but your message totally caught me off guard - in the best way possible! - Like...I found myself reading it at random times of the day while I was working and I was surprised every time

I once read that people express emotions better in their native language, and since you're talking about the Karmaland animatic and how it inspired you to try and learn a bit of Spanish, and also of the QSMP, I feel compelled to write my reply in my native language...well, maybe a bit of spanglish here and there, but hey, that's just how I express myself!

I'll also put a translation between parentheses , so feel free to take this as a fun opportunity to practice—or not, up to you!

DUDE-

Siento que acabo de recibir un premio, no te voy a mentir me asusté porque pensé que era algo malo cuando vi mucho texto! PERO- Siento que es el mensaje mas bonito que he recibido, empezar a dibujar a los 12 años desemboco en que ahora recibiera este mensaje y me hace muy feliz!! De verdad te agradezco que te tomaras el tiempo de escribirme AAAA (I feel like I just won an award, I'm not gonna lie, I got scared because I thought it was something bad when I saw a wall of text! BUT- I feel like it's the nicest message I've ever received. Starting drawing at 12 years old led to receiving this message now, and it makes me really happy. I genuinely appreciate you taking the time to write to me)

Cuando empecé el animatic de Karmaland, sabia que las de personas que me seguían en ese momento en youtube estaban alli por el masochism tango. La mayoria probablemente no conocia mucho de un server en español que nada que ver con ese, asi que tuve la intención de seguir un orden cronológico de la historia, un simbolismo en cuanto colores, cuidado con la caracterizacion de personajes para que fueran distinguibles, etc...para que las personas que no tuvieran ningún contexto sobre Karmaland, tambien pudieran entender algo al relacionar las imagenes y las líricas. No sé que en que tanta medida lo logré, pero me hace feliz ver que algunos de los comentarios principales que hay en el video es gente en inglés intentando entender el lore asi como tú! (When I started the Karmaland animatic I knew that the people following me at that time on YouTube were there for the Masochism tango animatic. Many wouldn't know much about a server in spanish unrelated to that one, so I did intend to follow a chronological order of the story, try to incorporate symbolism in terms of colors, take care with character design to make them distinguishable, etc...This was so that people who didn't have any context about Karmaland could still understand something by relating the images to the lyrics. I'm not sure to what extent I achieved this? but it makes me happy to see that some of the main comments on the video are from English-speaking people trying to understand the lore just like you!)

De verdad es tan bonito ver a alguien como tú hacer el esfuerzo extra de aprender sobre una nueva cultura sobre la que no sabes nada, usar el traductor, intentar entrar a una comunidad diferente- y que mi animatic fuera la causa de ello me llena de muchisimo orgullo- Y MEJOR AUN, VINISTE A TUMBLR A DECIRME, QUE TERNURITA AAA (It's truly heartwarming to see someone make the extra effort to learn about a new culture you know nothing about, using the translator, trying to join the community- and that my animatic was the cause of it? fills me with so much pride - AND EVEN BETTER, YOU CAME TO TUMBLR TO TELL ME, HOW ADORABLE AAA)

I can't decided el animatic es mi bebecito, que decirte, ese mes de trabajo? worth it, lo haría otra vez, y quizas me tomaria unos días mas porque a veces lo veo y hay unos frames que me quedó MMM, QUE PASO AQUI LEITH, PINCHE FLOJA (I can't decid the animatic is my baby you know? That month of work? Worth it. I'd do it again, and maybe I'd take a few more days because sometimes I look at it and there are some frames that make me go mmm, what happened here Leith? you lazy fuck)

El arte del purgatorio y lo que le gustó a la gente me sorprendió muchisimo! Lo use para experimentar con escalas en blanco y negro, y lo hice en un lienzo pequeñito, y BOOM, mi pinche dibujo mas reblogueado. Yo y mi mala suerte porque esta todo chiquito JAJAJA Pero es un dibujo que me gusta muchisimo, pude juntar un poquito de mi carrera de diseño gráfico con la ilustración porque originalmente nada tenia fondo, solo estaban en un fondo blanco! (The Purgatory art and how much people liked it surprised me so much! I used it to experiment with scales in black and white so I did it on a tiny canvas, and BOOM, my darn drawing got the most reblogs I've ever had for a drawing. Me and my bad luck because everything's so tiny LOL But it's a drawing that I like a lot, I got the chance to combine a bit of my graphic design career with illustration. Originally the drawing didn't have a background or anything, just a white canvas!)

No sé si llegaré a hacer algun animatic el QSMP, a pesar de que lo veo de vez en cuando en eventos importantes, estoy muy perdida en terminos de lore, la vida me tiene un poco agarrada del cuello y es dificil mantenerse al tanto con todo! que no pasaba con Karmaland porque es un server chiquito. PERO si llegó a hacer uno en algun momento, espero tambien puedas verlo! (I'm not sure if I'll ever make an animatic for QSMP. Even though I catch glimpses of it at important events I'm pretty lost in terms of lore. Life has me a bit overwhelmed, and it's hard to keep up with everything! It wasn't like this with Karmaland because it's a smaller server. BUT if I do end up making one at some point I hope you'll watch it too!)

Me pone contenta saber que las composiciones o las elecciones de color, o incluso cositas como la postura del cuerpo, que pienso que son cosas que la gente pasaría por alto, son notadas no solo por ti, sino por muchas personas, de verdad es muy alentador! Ya le tome screenshot a este ask y me lo voy a poner cada que me sienta desmotivada B) (It makes me happy to know that compositions, color choices, or even little things like body posture which I think people might overlook, are noticed not only by you but by many others. It's really encouraging! I've already taken a screenshot of this ask and I'm going to keep it for whenever I feel demotivated B) )

¡¡MUCHAS GRACIAS!! Perdón si te escribí mucho, pero siento que tu respuesta lo merecia! No te preocupes por ser parasocial querido anon, TKM mucho, me hiciste el día, la semana y el mes y te deseo todo lo mejor! Te aseguro que le harías el día a cualquier artista con un mensaje como ese y hoy fue mi día de suerte! :D

(MUCHAS GRACIAS! Sorry if I wrote too much, but I felt like your response deserved it! Don't worry about being parasocial, dear anon, TKM mucho, you made my day, week, and month, and I wish you all the best! I assure you that any artist would be delighted with a message like that and today was my lucky day :D)

#ask #THE BEST ASK

[animeraider]

I get a lot of flack from anti-vaxxers, anti-maskers, and other fuckwits about my words on the COVID-19 Pandemic and in particular the response to it in the US. I pull no punches about it, I believe firmly that the previous administration and ANYONE who enables them and their policies are complicit in the deaths of all of these people. They belong in prison.

I'm not going to fucking apologize for believing that. The fault for all of this belongs directly in the laps of the Republican Party. If you believe otherwise, you're WRONG. I can bring the receipts.

I've been pretty isolated during all of this. I went into lockdown on March 11, 2020 and I'm technically still there. I now work from home, and even though I've been fully vaccinated for two months now I still go out masked. I may never eat at a buffet again. Sorry Sizzler, but I've learned how to make your cheese bread.

I ripped a tendon in my left knee in May of 2020. I had to go to the hospital, but I was out in a few hours with crutches. I would joke with people that I'm now out of hinged joints to break.

But in July my cough returned with an attitude, and I picked up an infection. Not Covid, but it all made me pretty sick. So that you understand, I have what's called "Chronic Cough Syndrome". I've had it since I was 8. No one knows the cause or the cure. Believe me, we've looked. I just start coughing, and after a few months, I stop. It can be treated but I just have to live with it until someone comes up with something we haven't tried before.

Doctors have gotten into fistfights over whether or not I have Asthma. I don't, but sometimes Asthma medications work for a bit. To be honest, I've had this for so long that sometimes I don't even notice when I cough. It's just part of the wonder of being me.

I took the Pandemic seriously. I stayed home, I socially distanced, I got real familiar with teams, bluejeans, and zoom. I did a LOT of cooking. Started making bread. Watched the country fall apart at the seams and commented on it from my own little pocket of safety. I contributed a new song to a fund-raising effort for nurses. I did my part to stay safe, but my cough had other ideas.

Anyway, this time my coughing got pretty severe and I finally agreed to go to the hospital. As stated above, turns out I had picked up an infection. Combine that with my cough and I showed all of the symptoms of a severe case of COVID-19.

I'd been careful, but the hospital staff were all very cross with me. If I had COVID, I just exposed all of them, and the main nurse who tended to me had already been quarantined that same month for a different exposure. When the test came back negative the tension in the emergency ward calmed down immensely and everyone treated me kindly and professionally - I was a patient with something they knew what to do with and didn't bring plague into their house.

I spent 4 days in the hospital but the worst part, scariest part, was the wait to move from the Emergency Room to a private room. I came to the hospital in the late afternoon. I finally got my bed nearly 12 hours later, a good 8 hours after my test for COVID had come back negative.

I needed to be hospitalized, and needed a bed, and there weren't any. I had to wait for someone to either be discharged or to die.

I got my bed at 4 in the morning. Someone had died. Musical chairs was played and I was finally moved out of the Emergency Room.

It's really hard to understand how sobering that is without experiencing it. Many years ago, before we even knew about AIDS, I had the honor of donating blood and seeing it get used in a surgery mere minutes later. I became a regular blood donor at that moment - I felt so happy and alive that my blood had been used to save a life mere minutes after I had donated it (I'm O Negative) that I became a life-long believer. I donated every time I was eligible from that moment forward until a blood infection disqualified me from ever donating again 20 years later.

This was just the opposite. The guy with a cough and a treatable infection had to wait for someone on a ventilator to stop breathing. Someone with COVID died so that I could get a bed. They never knew this had happened, and I never learned who they were. Some random person died so that I could get better.

Try sleeping after that realization hits you. I couldn't. I barely slept the entire time I was there.

Despite the fact that I wasn't in the "COVID Ward" I got to see the effects first-hand. The newly disinfected bed and room I had was previously occupied by someone moved up to the Covid Ward. They in turn had moved up there after a ventilator was taken away from a patient who died. Staff rotated through different wards on different shifts. My first nurse was rotated into the Covid Ward. My next day nurse had just rotated out. I have never in my life seen a group of people look so haunted by their day to day lives.

A well-liked member of their staff was on a ventilator. So was a priest who worked in the hospital. I had never seen in person a "Code Blue". There were six of them my first day. There is also a "Code Black". It's much worse.

My wife and daughters weren't allowed to visit me. When your daily soundtrack is nothing but medical staff talking about the good and the bad, terrible television and the moaning/screaming of your new neighbors getting that visit from family is a huge stress relief. It wasn't available this time. I didn't see my family again until I was discharged. There was no outside world.

I admit that being in hospital during all of this, even though I myself didn't have COVID, shook me. When you're in hospital mostly what you deal with is yourself and your own condition, and getting the hell out of there as soon as you can. This time I was not only aware of the people around me, their conditions, their suffering and their recoveries, but I was also aware that a whole section of the building was dedicated to people who were going to die, and that the people who were treating me were also treating them.

This was as close as I got to the Pandemic. When I got home I fucking STAYED THERE. I went to the grocery store and the pharmacy and that was it. That was life for MONTHS.

Our grocery store was fantastic - they enforced social distancing and masks with gusto. They cleaned EVERYTHING. It had been a 24 hour store but converted to shorter hours so that the down time could be spent cleaning. Aisles were made one-way.

The first time I saw someone in the parking lot without a mask I have to admit that I lost it. I screamed at them (a white couple about my age), "PUT YOUR FUCKING MASKS ON YOU FUCKING MORONS!" Understand, I'm a fairly large man with a deep voice and have been a professional singer for decades and have played sax even longer. I'm loud and imposing. Everyone within 50 feet turned and stared at the couple. Okay, me first then the couple.

It's possible they didn't speak English. They exchanged a few words in Russian to each other and then masked up.

I've been known to let my temper show. I try not to because I know it's there and I know it's terrible. I've worked for decades to keep it in check and I just let it all out, screaming at a couple of rando Karens 20 feet away from anyone else who hadn't put their masks on yet. I had to acknowledge that this affected me profoundly. I'm dealing with that.

I've lost friends to COVID. One of my neighbors spent almost 3 months on a ventilator and survived it. Some of my friends have lost family. It hurts. It all hurts. It has changed me.

Some of you have noticed that I've been pretty productive in 2021 in terms of music, after not releasing material for over a decade. This whole experience has changed me, changed my perspective. I was already an angry liberal but I'm far angrier and much more liberal now than I was. The album I worked on forever essentially no longer exists. The person I am now couldn't make that album. I am excising demons and allowing the new to come in and take its place.

And you know what, so far, I'm okay. I'm still here. I intend to stay. In fact, what I intend to be the first song from my next album in its own way deals with the fact that I don't understand depression - I've never experienced it.

But I have to admit that I'm grateful to have family and friends in my life who accept me as I am, who provide unconditional love and support and I hope I do for them. I have the occasional doubt that I'm as good a friend/family member as I can be. I can be an ass sometimes.

(A couple of my long-time friends have just done spit-takes. "Sometimes????")

Because the scariest thing about what we've all been through - what I've been through - is that we have changed so much that I'm not sure that the people who know me best would be my friends if they met me as the person I am now. I am changed.

And the odds are pretty good that you have too. This is something we're all going to need to deal with, or we're lost.

Please, don't be lost.

And because it still needs doing, because the pandemic is still going strong as ever among the anti-vaxxers, the science deniers and the Republicans, please support our nurses. Here's the album I'm on that is still to this day, long after falling off the charts, raising money for them:

#Spotify

[sally-mun]

Ever met a celebrity or anybody famous? The most famous person I've met was a former pro boxer, by the name of Ray 'Boom-Boom' Mancini at a charity dinner at the banquet center I worked at 4 years ago. Nicest man you'd ever meet and he even sent me a signed autograph picture in the mail. I'm a Star Trek fan and I'd love to meet the cast of TNG, but autographs and conventions are so expensive. Of course there's the chance you could catch one of them on a bad day and get the brunt of it

If we’re including conventions, then yeah I’ve met several famous people before. I’ve met and gotten autographs and/or selfies from voice actors and screen actors, and I’ve occasionally met some artists too! Outside of that, though, I can’t really say I have. Even my best and most extensive meeting was still at a convention. You could even argue that Mario Marathon was kind of a convention in a sense, albeit a super limited one!

I wasn’t sure if I should include a list or not, so as a compromise I’m going to do so below a cut!

Voice Actors:

Sonny Strait (voice of Krillin) -- Got to spend basically an entire day with him! Unexpectedly encountered him at a convention waaaay way back in the day and he just kind of adopted me and the other handful of fans that were hanging around. He gave us all free DBZ CCG t-shirts, let us sit in the DBZ hummer, and signed anything we put in front of him!

Christopher Sabat (voice of Vegeta) -- I brought him a set of cookies made to look like dragon balls, and brought my favorite Vegeta card that I’d been saving for something like 17 years or so on the off-chance I could ever get it signed. He was so moved and impressed that he gave me two other autographs for free~

Todd Haberkorn (voice of Jaco) -- This was the same convention where I got to meet Chris Sabat, and I also brought him a box of cookies. He was so excited that he dug into them right then and there, and then when signing my card he even wrote “Thanks for the galactic cookies!”

Chuck Huber (voice of Android 17/Hiei) -- I’ve gotten autographs from him a couple of times for different characters. One of the items I got signed was one of the original Hiei action figures back when Yu Yu Hakusho first debuted in the US. He was impressed that I had it at all, let alone that it was in the box. (Amusingly, the only reason I did was because I had one previous to it that was out of the box on display and whose sword had broken. I got a new one intending to replace it, but just never opened it.)

Chris Rager (voice of Mr. Satan) -- SUCH a nice guy! We had a nice little chat and I offered him some dragon ball cookies I’d been handing out that day. He signed my trading card and took a selfie with me! I caught him at a panel where he told some absolutely amazing behind-the-scenes stories that I still tell to other people to this day.

Chris Cason (voice of Tien) -- Not much to say about this encounter, I didn’t get to say much more than a hello and thank you before he had to go. I’d missed the official signing session and just happened to catch him after a panel.

Team Four Star -- I catch these guys every opportunity I can manage, and every time I bring them some DBZ-themed treat. I refer to myself as “Snack Girl” when I come to get autographs, and at my last encounter Lanipator mentioned that I looked familiar when I came to the table, so I guess I’m making an impact! I have several stories concerning these guys, way too many to list here.

Little Kuriboh (YGOA voice of Merik, DBZA voice of Freeza) -- Amusingly I met him the time I was at a convention in my Piccolo costume, and that ended up being a whole conversation by itself. It then immediately turned into a conversation about Fallout because someone had brought him some New Vegas playing cards, lol. He was enamored with the trading card I had brought him to sign, and we had a discussion about a fund raiser he’d hosted to raise money for disaster relief where I’d won one of the auctions he’d held.

Kevin Conroy (voice of Batman) -- I found out very late that he was going to be in town, like maybe a week or two before, and dropped EVERYTHING to be able to meet him. When I was in line for an autograph I was so worked up that I kept getting light headed and having heart palpitations. By the time I actually made it to the table I was so starstruck that I could barely say anything. I’m pretty sure I said “I can’t believe you’re here” (??? wtf past-me) and something about him being so talented. He thanked me and didn’t really say much. I had also paid for a photo with him, and in the photo you can see my hand gripping the side of my leg REALLY tightly because I had a very strong instinct to hug him and I WAS NOT ABOUT TO BE THAT FANGIRL.

Charles Martinet (voice of most of the Mario cast) -- Holy shit, this man is playful! He was an absolute delight to talk to, and even just to watch with other people while I was in line. He was very open to whatever sorts of fan requests each person had and was just so warm and gracious with each person that came up. I mostly just wanted to shake his hand and tell him that Mario games basically set me up for the person I grew up to be today. The thing that amused me the most is that if you had him autograph one of the prints at the table, which had all the Mario characters on it, he’d do the voices of each character while doodling little word balloons for them~

Screen Actors:

John Barrowman (Captain Jack Harkness in Doctor Who/Torchwood) -- This was one of the first times I’d gone to a convention specifically to meet an actor. He was a lot of fun and did his best to be chatty, but his handlers were kind of hurrying people along. He was especially tickled by my name (I guess he doesn’t sign too many autographs made out to “Leda”), and he even signed a second item that we happened to have for free!

Cary Elwes (Wesley in The Princess Bride, among other things) -- This was another one of those moments where the weight of just WHO I was meeting got to me and I completely lost my voice. I think I said something about having grown up watching Princess Bride ever since I was a little kid?? I honestly don’t remember what I said, it’s kind of a blur. All I know is that I was so struck by the moment that I didn’t even remember to say that I also love him in the Saw movies.

Billy Boyd (Pippin in Lord of the Rings) -- Not a lot I can say about this one because it was a very fast-paced, conveyor belt sort of affair. We exchanged greetings and he thanked us very much for coming out to see him, and we all agreed that Pippin is totes the best hobbit.

Robin Lord Taylor (Penguin in Gotham) -- One of my favorite interactions meeting a celebrity, for sure! He was actually really interested in knowing about -me-, which completely threw me off-guard. He wanted to know where I was from and what I did for a living, and when I said I was a manager at Spencer’s he got really excited and squeaked “I LOVE Spencer’s!” While he was signing my doll I explained that Penguin is by far my family’s favorite character in Gotham and that we had a joke where, anytime the show switches back to him, we say “Meanwhile, with the REAL main character...” He got a big kick out of that~

Khary Payton (King Ezekiel in The Walking Dead) -- So I don’t watch a huge amount of Walking Dead, but I watch enough that I wanted to come along when my mom went to go get an autograph from him for my brother. He’s definitely the friendliest celebrity I’ve encountered -- so much so that he wouldn’t stay behind the table! He spent the entire time in FRONT of the table so he could hug every single person that came to see him! It was a nice strong hug, too, and he was just so welcoming and pleasant. I told him that, if I had to choose one of the communities in The Walking Dead, I’d absolutely choose The Kingdom. He threw his hands up to his sides and said dramatically, “You will always have a place in my kingdom!”

Penn & Teller -- This year my mom took me on a surprise trip to Las Vegas, and while we were there we got to see Penn & Teller perform, which has always been a dream of mine! After the show they came out into the lobby and they did autographs and selfies with anyone that wanted one, and I got to meet them each. It was a little disarming hearing Teller talk, and Penn was as funny as ever because he’d loudly comment whenever someone’s phone wasn’t working. During this trip I also had my Boris plushie as my “traveling doll” and asked if they’d take pictures with him as well, which they both obliged. Teller seemed particularly amused by Boris.

James Rolfe (the Angry Video Game Nerd) -- So I actually have kind of a long history with him, which originated with me contacting the show to donate a fairly odd peripheral accessory. I given a green light and provided an address, and since I was going to be mailing him anyway, I basically just got a big box and threw in any video game related stuff that I didn’t want anymore and didn’t feel like putting the effort into selling. It ended up being a HUGE box, so much so that I included an inventory list to make sure he didn’t accidentally throw something away. To my surprise he actually mailed me back an autographed AVGN print thanking me for the donations! I thought that’d be the end of it, but he’s actually since featured that peripheral several times on the show, and even included an Easter egg that I asked for twice! This year I got to meet him at Too Many Games and introduced myself as the one that sent the item in. He mentioned that they had a lot of fun messing with it.

Mario Marathon team -- I’m known as one of the regulars since I’ve been around since the first year, and a couple of years ago I was actually invited to the marathon itself as a player! It’s definitely one of the most amazing experiences of my life, and I only wish I could do it all over again! Everyone was just... wonderful~ I was there for several days so there’s obviously way too many stories to tell, but at least in this case you can always go watch the videos on Twitch.

Artists:

Steven Butler -- This was particularly amusing because I was the one that caught him by surprise. I happened to be making my way through the Artist Alley when I realized he was there, and since no one was at the table at the time I went over to talk to him. We had an awesomely long chat about his work (I was going through a sample book on the table) and his time drawing for the Sonic comics. He tried to bring it up as a talking point, and I told him “I know, I own some of your pages!” which REALLY threw him for a loop! He showed me some art for a new Sonic-style story he’s been working on, and I completely fell in love with a character that was clearly inspired by Sally (and I’m not just assuming, he confirmed as much). I then started talking about @fini-mun and how it’s only a shame he couldn’t meet Deebs too, and was talking about Deebs’ history with art and almost getting recruited to be in the Archie art stable as well and how they now do art streams. He was particularly interested in the streams, and I was like “Oh yeah, that’s actually why they aren’t here now, they have a stream today!” so he gave me a free print to pass along to Deebs as a show of interest and support!

Veronica Vera (from the Not Enough Rings comic) -- This was another chance encounter in Artist Alley. I was just kind of poking around to see everyone’s work, and I realized I recognized the comic she was selling. I commented that I loved that comic, and she said she was selling hardcover copies of the entire series. I love the comic and I wanted to show my support, so I bought a book and she signed the inside cover! Unfortunately Oliver Bareham wasn’t there at the time, so no autograph from him. Maybe one day if I’m incredibly lucky, I suppose.

Rich Koslowski -- This was at one of my very first conventions ever. He was an inker of the Sonic comics at the time, and I was only.... 12, I think? I mostly was just excited to be meeting someone that works on Sonic stuff, and I can’t remember much about the encounter aside from just babbling about liking Sonic. I remember him being very kind.

And unfortunately... Ken Penders --  This was at the same convention I just mentioned with Koslowski. As stated above I was only 12, and I was just excited to meet someone who works on Sonic stuff. I believe I was there because of a post on Archie’s Sonic website. Anyway what strikes me as the most surprising about this encounter is how -normal- it all was, at least as far as I remember it. I’ve heard some horror stories of Penders being horrible to fans at conventions, but at least way back at this time (like 1997 or so), he was passing for a normal human. He didn’t say anything mean to me (that I noticed), and he actually gave me some free Sonic loot, which I can’t imagine him ever doing nowadays. I still have the comic book he signed, and I legit consider burning it on a regular basis.

OKAY this ended up way longer that I thought it would. I think even -I- forgot how many people I’ve met before. If I think of anyone else I’ll add it to the list later!

#sheesh this took me like an hour #magnumthecreator001

[popmusicu]

you owe me 1$ for every (k-pop) song you didn't know about before this post

i think that one of my most favorite things to do on my free time is listen to music, and even tho i have tons of different songs on my spotify it's probably the k-pop singers who take most of the space, not only because i've been a fan for many (many) years, but also because i usually get bored of listening to the same ten songs over and over again so i usually go around other people's playlist or the ones that spotify itself makes and recommends to you to try and find something new. lucky it's always a successful search! that's how i met most of my currently fave artists :)

not only i like the feeling of listening and liking new songs, but also the happiness that brings me recommend some to other people and knowing they, at least, gave them a try. so here i am today, with a pretty small list of songs i think you should listen to if you are a k-pop enjoyer (and even if you aren't, ofc!). most if not all of them are b-side tracks, which means not the ones that have a music video and the artist doesn't promote. sometimes the b-sides are even better than the title tracks.

there isn't some sort of pattern for this but i am, in fact, a girl group enjoyer so... sorry in advance?

starting off pretty strong with one of my favorites songs and groups: dreamnote! if someone knows about them i'll be veeery surprised. sadly, they aren't very popular but i'll do anything for them to stop being nugus. i think this is one of their best songs so far, the vocals are out of this world (shout out to their main vocalist, lara!) and everything is just too good for this to be so underrated.

i would also recommend their lastest song called GHOST that has a more "dark", "haunting" concept, if you wanna check them out ♡.

you may or may not have heard of elris. their most popular song is called Pow Pow! and, once again, they aren't very popular but have some pretty good songs! like the one i'm bringing to you today from their last album. even tho, groups like this one that aren't /that/ popular don't tend to have lots of comebacks, i believe is worth it to check them out.

i've obsessed with this song lately. purple kiss! another one of the not-so-popular team. they have not one, but (i believe) two ex produce48 contestants and gosh all seven of them have incredible voices! if you decide to check them out i promise they won't disappoint, they never do.

fun fact: they're under RBW, just like mamamoo!

my most favorite soloist of all times. i'm 75% sure people have heard of him because he was a produce x 101 contestant and actually debuted in the group X1 (that does not longer exist). that was the time when he started to gain lots of fan which i'm very happy for, but if you don't know him, let me introduce him to you: han seungwoo from victon! he has released only two mini albums and is currently serving his country. despite that, he put a lot of effort and emotions in his songs so i definitely recommend his whole discography (not biased i swear) and also if you do like him, check his group out: victon! their songs have lots of different colors so i'm sure you would find something of your liking.

also listen to: i just want love by him ~

weeekly has been gaining a lot of fans lately (fun fact: they are from the same entertainment as victon and apink) so you may have heard of them. i absolutely love them and their cute, school-like concept even tho is very common in k-pop, but who cares. they are cute and have some great vocalists and dancer, so please give them an opportunity! tag me, their debut song, is also one of my favorites.

day6 have too many songs i would like to recommend 😭 if you have the time i recommend you listen to their whole discography, the production is just amazing.

and because that was mucho texto, i'll just link some other songs i think you should give an opportunity to, enjoy! ♡

metronome (weki meki) // be myself (gugudan) // love so sweet (cherry bullet) // from now on (chungha) // scar (dreamcatcher) // lost in the dream (monsta x) // weather (fromis_9) // girls (nature)

just click on the name and it will take you to them (spotify)

aracelly venegas

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