Tag: holidays

Spell Check 6

Posted on February 19, 2023 by Grymm

Due to circumstances beyond my control, Voodoo Walrus is on hiatus for a while. I hate and love this fact in equal measure. I hate the circumstances that have led to this happening. I hate having to once more stall a story that has been stalled countless times already. I hate shelving a setting and cast that I love creating. I simply despise not being able to finish things at the pace I want them finished.

However, I do love that it gives me the chance to focus completely on ConQuest and other works for a bit. Up until now I was bopping back and forth. Finish art for a Voodoo Walrus page, rough out a ConQuest page, work on stickers or commissions, finish a ConQuest page, rough out the next Walrus. The goal was to push out one VW and one CQ page every month and I was getting pretty close to that. It was tiring though.

So, executive decision made. Grymm focuses on Art Wizarding until VW making circumstances are right again.

That said, what have I been up to recently? I figured doing a blog entry would be a good one stop shop for that info.

Most of the past month has been spent focused on the ValenTerror sticker design set and working on ConQuest page six. The ValenTerror stickers can actually be seen in all their glory in the Monsternagerie right now! Page six of CQ will hopefully be done and up on the Patreon within a few days and uploaded here shortly thereafter.

Love is in the air. Like a gamma ray burst.

In fact, most of what’s been done recently can be found on my Patreon for all patrons regardless of tier level:

–Finished colors for ConQuest Page Six

-DEEP LORE: The War Witch and Brevyas’ Tears

-PROGRESS VIDEO: Inking CQ and rambling about the Mandela Effect

-CQ CONCEPTS: Drome Tammet Sigil Graphic

-POLL: Next monster sticker pack theme

Wow, when I type it out it I actually feel like I’ve been productive! Neat!

Spell Check 5

Posted on December 25, 2022 by Grymm

I don’t know how to feel about Christmas.

Christmas has always been the default winter holiday in my perception, but it’s also been nearly a decade since it really meant anything to me. Dad’s hospitalization and eventual death are hard welded to the holiday season in my mind. I see the chocolate covered cherries and I’m reminded of how much mom loved them and Christmas itself. It’s been a long time since Christmas didn’t remind me of death.

Working in the grocery industry definitely hasn’t done any positive reinforcements for my feelings on the season either. Capitalism and consumerism are poison. Cartoonishly toxic green and forever corroding everything they touch.

I hate the repetition of 90% of the Christmas songs. I’m disgusted by people who all seem to need to buy and eat the exact same things as everyone else because it’s a holiday tradition. However I do love it when I hear someone talk about how they do something completely off the beaten path from the norm. Something that in no way involves hams or turkeys or shitting yeast rolls.

I don’t want to dislike this time of year and I think the best way to accomplish that is to just disengage from the Christmas system. Focus of the bare bones of what a winter holiday should be. To eat, drink, and generally celebrate life despite the world being cold, grey, and lifeless.

Next year more fires and drinking and screaming at the cold void.