Back in Action! (Patreon)

Hi everyone, I'm back! Header image is the Camping Hourlies from a trip to the Sunshine Coast I took back in May. As you know I took a pause for June for health reasons. The hourlies were a bit hard to draw because they underscored just how absolutely drained I was at the beginning of June. 

Even in the absolute best of circumstances -- doing something I like to do with people who are taking care of me and nothing objectively going wrong... I was too miserable to really enjoy it. All of my senses were so keyed up at that point that all I could really feel was discomfort or pain. 

The good news is that I'm feeling a lot better. I did a lot of work with my health team and really focused on resting, getting gentle exercise and eating well. I would say that at the beginning of June I was maybe at 10% capacity, and now I feel like I'm maybe at 80%. I think it will take a lot longer to get closer to 100% but I at least feel more capable of surviving now. 

Now back to the round-up!

Welcome 🎉Sam, 🎉Connor, 🎉Sonjo, 🎉Kyle and 🎉Tailnoms, and thanks for upgrading your pledges 🎉NJGR!

All of our new tiers are now officially in place, so please check on your pledge level and make sure you're at the level you want to keep receiving the rewards you're interested in.

Shenzhen Fast has been updating every week, you know that right? Woo! I wrote a whole website and everything. Glad I still know how to do that. Also here is the link to the Patreon-exclusive making-of in case you missed it :)

When we last left our Patreon (May)...

$2 Quality Testers

Posted two more pages of the Career Zine - one on The Big Questions , and another on finding balance. I am going to double-up on pages this month and this should be wrapping soon!

$7 Lab Techs

You all helped me decide on the bonus print that I made with Riso in a poll, and in this post I broke down a lot more detail about Riso and how these prints are put together. I also wrote a really long post about trying to find the shape of the Solarpunk genre with memes. 

Also remember the Q2 Dropbox link! 

$25 Collaborators

Whoa in Q2 I sent the collaborators two whole-ass books!!!

(Don't Forget to Eat and Shenzhen Fast!) I wanted to kick off this batch-shipment tier off with a bang. Not every quarter will have books in it because they take a long time to write, but the next one will have at least two zines in it! You still have some time to decide on that tier before I send the next shipment.

Hey, Neat

Are you into almost-two-hour long dissections of media by chaotic enby zoomers? Well boy howdy do I have the video for you. I really loved this video called "The Dialectics of Rick and Morty". Is it really dialectics? I'm not really sure, I found the video a bit overwhelming but I love how in depth it was and how the delivery was practically beat poetry. Very impressed. I could not think this deeply about anything at their age 😂

I also really loved this video about 1990s era personal websites , a subject I'm becoming increasingly passionate about as time goes on.

Trash Heroes!

I was a guest on Trash Heroes in June! Surprise! I've been working on this one for awhile. (And for those of you who are really interested in inside baseball... Layne and Alina from Trash Heroes are the ones in my hourlies, and Dan is the "shadow DM" sometimes mentioned in the stream.) I will probably make another brief appearance on the 15th to wrap up my NPC arc :)

Jam IRL

When I started feeling better, I decided to do a hike on a local mountain because we had a mini-heatwave here and I wanted to gain some elevation. Whoops! Still full of snow. Oh well, enjoy this photo of "Mystery Lake".

This rascal Konan is still here with me. She's ready to be adopted now so she is just waiting for the right adopter who is open to a super shy cat to come up :) She'll have a place with me for as long as she needs.

Ok, it's hot I'm going to go lie down. Stay hydrated!!! And thanks so much for sticking around 💜