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fablepaint · 2 hours

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Another post came out on BackerKit yesterday with information about the pins that were sold last spring, and again no word on what's up with the pins that were sold on BackerKit. Is everything okay with them?

We've been trying to get those previous pins delivered since last summer. The ramifications of the pandemic and the shuffling of work spaces must've affecting more factories than we thought cuz the things that are normally straightforward in merch production ran into a kajillion snarls we had to (sometimes literally) manually untangle to get our products into customers' hands.

Basically, think up every nightmare scenario that could happen to a pin and apply it to those chevrons. It's been the cause of many sleepless nights as Tracy, Spike, and I tugged at the ropes as hard as we could. What should've taken 3 months max turned into 9 months of hell.

As for the BK pins, we were informed there was a new production process that would make them look better, but it required totally reconfiguring the files we had into something better suited.

It's been a bit overwhelming getting a studio off the ground like this, and there's nobody who wants those things out the door more than us (It's one less thing to worry about). We've been trying to get appropriate help with the tasks, but sometimes getting assistance from one person can turn into needing help from another two, and so on and so forth.

You end up having to pick and choose where the majority of your focus goes when each task eats up at least 10% of your time, and there's more than 10 things to do in a day (including eating and sleeping). And that's while delegating as much as you can.

One of these days we'll have folks who can take those tasks on all on their own without it requiring a full week of individual focus. But that'll take time to manifest.

TLDR: we're working on it, we haven't forgotten, but we are extremely exhausted.

#lackadaisy #answer #question

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fablepaint · 5 hours

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Hello, how are you? I wanted to ask you a question. It's for an assignment. Will Rocky have any platonic relationship throughout the comic or series???

I don't know that Rocky is platonic about anything

#lackadaisy #nebulous sarcasm #though his definition of “romantic” is more in the English class sense

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fablepaint · 1 day

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The great thing about the 3 of club pins is you can have one for your pin board, one for cosplay, and one to give away to a friend!

Lackadaisy Club Pins are back!

These are in stock and shipping now, but limited in number! We just fulfilled the pre-orders and have some pins remaining, so they're get-em-while-you-can items. Find them now in the Iron Circus Store:

Chevron Club Pin

3 of Clubs Pins

(The paws belong to my cat Gigi. She insisted on being part of the photo shoot.)

#lackadaisy

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fablepaint · 1 day

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Seriously, asking your local library to stock a book is a GREAT way to support authors. Libraries purchase multiple copies of books and the more popular, the more copies they purchase. They also have to restock sometimes (book gets damaged or taken, gotta replace) so they are great customers. AND it gets the book in the hands of people who might not otherwise know about it or be able to afford it. So a great service to communities, writers, and folks looking for inspiration.

can’t currently afford the print copy of the fabulous @lackadaisycats work?

maybe your local library will buy it in the meantime! hand for scale.

reading a hard copy of what I found years ago on the internet is cool in its own right, but the over 20 pages of bonus content are what’s really tempting.

note about the back cover: this is what was facing out as I carried the book in my arm out of the library and into the streets. certainly didn’t make me look like a psycho I’m sure.

#libraries are cool #lackadaisy

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fablepaint · 3 days

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How come you guys decided to steer away from an electro swing soundtrack for Lackadaisy? I love electro swing but I'm sure whatever's cooking is going to be fantastic!

Rocky was getting pretty out of breath with the wubdub and beat drops. Doing all of those by mouth is harsh on the lungs, donchya know?

#nebulous sarcasm #lackadaisy #if it was up to him #it would be all kazoo based

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fablepaint · 5 days

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We need like “unclench your jaw” posts but for eye strain. Like

Go look at something 20ft away for 20 seconds.

#health #advice

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fablepaint · 6 days

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happy 420! have a smoking story

Can't deny a weed dog their weed!

True story when me and Malcolm went to share a joint after a long day at Further Confusion. This fella comes up in a very specific kind of fursuit and I just couldn't say no to their request.

(traditional inks with just a little color touchup)

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fablepaint · 7 days

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I've been interested in animal training since i was a kid. And with Dirac, I have an opportunity to learn from a pro. She came over yesterday and we went over a few exercises for us to practice together.

Helpful for keeping shoots fun for D and giving him tools to tell me "no. im bored/anxious, im done". And getting guidance on how to best socialize him so noises and strangers are no biggie.

Here he is learning to come towards a beeping sound. It took him no time at all for him learn that beep meant "treat here!!" despite the scary loud.

#life #dirac #cat #training #animal training #video

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fablepaint · 11 days

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Hi! Is the book on the making of the pilot, which was one of the campaign goals, still in production? Will there be similar books about the making of the first and following seasons?

It's in progress! You can ask @clinticalthinkr about it, he's the one writing it. He interviewed the cast and crew and is doing the write up, and we'll be arranging it with images. But it's supposed to be more than production art. It's also about the hell of trying to make a cartoon the same instant lockdowns started in 2020, and how we coped during.

It's just taken a while cuz we didn't quite expect THIS MUCH to happen. It seemed there was constantly more to go in the book! We had to set a cut off point eventually.

#lackadaisy #question #answer

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fablepaint · 12 days

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gooood shit in here.

If you're curious what Season One is going to be bouncing off of, here's a chance to pick up a book!

The Lackadaisy Volume 1 Hardcover Book is up for pre-order and shipping soon!

Find it here on Amazon

Find it here on Bookshop.org

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BackerKit backers - our distributor is preparing to start shipping all of your books! (Although Volume 1 is scheduled for broad release soon, you will be getting Volume 2 and the Essentials art book well ahead of them being available to anyone else.)

#lackadaisy

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fablepaint · 13 days

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Little man gets a lesson in literature

#dirac #cornish rex #lackadaisy #book #cat #feline #video

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fablepaint · 19 days

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i dont post pics of my caiques much because of the way people treat exotics as commodities online (and i detest the association) but for those who like them...

all three are doing great, enjoying fruit and sunshine every day.

#life #photo #caique #parrot #enzo #niko #isaac

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fablepaint · 20 days

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online communities are so strange because people slip away so easily. you can be on here for years, folding people you've never met into the fabric of your daily life, and then they disappear, leaving only ghost posts scattered across tumblr behind. or their blog stays dormant, for weeks, months, years, until you're only still following them because you remember that they love sunflowers or they were kind to you when they didn't have to be or the last thing they posted was sad and raw and you still worry about them sometimes.

and sometimes they come back when you least expect it, years later, even, and there's this sudden rush of relief like there you are, there you are, even though you barely knew each other.

there's a strange kind of love to it. i don't know you and i want to hold your hand across miles and time zones and oceans. i can still see the imprint of you in this community you left. you don't anyone will notice or care when you're gone, but we notice and we care and we wish you well.

i hope you're all okay out there. i hope the sun is shining on your face and you are breathing deeply. i miss you.

#shout out to my childhood buds from anubite lands!#yes i remember you and had so much fun #hope you are doing well

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fablepaint · 20 days

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the plagiarism machine can pump out more work than me, sure, but that's just extreme inefficiency if it takes a thousand more attempts to get something i can do in three (three examples, one approved, refined, done).

clients deal with choice paralysis too. I get to decisions faster and with precision. And i can do it with less water, energy, and carbon wasted in only slightly more time and slightly more money than paying for each prompt and sorting them gets you.

And i can figure out what my client wants without having to receive unique training on what a finger looks like or how a circle completes its arc if it goes behind an object (already figured out object permanence...at infancy).

Raw output doesnt matter. If it did, I'd be making bank now already. Decision making, planning, and executing that plan is my job. All things computers are shit at. Because they're just a tool.

im not threatened. im annoyed. im annoyed i have to educate people yet again on their own psychology. and undo all the doompilling over this naked con artistry every time i talk to a layman or student. im annoyed that CEOs lack that education and so make work difficult by preemptively firing people, and they don't deal with the consequences of the mad scramble to undo yet another bogus decision by the guy in charge who still doesnt know how their business works. and im annoyed by showboats on youtube riding the wave for clicks and using their visible authority to boost this crap (either thru doomsaying or hype) instead of educating their audiences.

I'm annoyed that computer science education, which should be part of public education from 1st grade onward just like math, PART of math really, is so neglected that we have a population which falls for these scams because they think computers are magic. That advancement in programming and computing power is an inherent law instead of the result of human effort and research.

and im annoyed because the ways in which I, the artist, could actually use and integrate computer learning into my workflow are neglected. propreitary. and increasingly so because any serious convo about computer tools is gonna be set back soooo far thanks to hucksters.

i LIKE computer science. i think algorithmic learning is neat. There's merit in some of these tools for assisting with content moderation and tracking visual trends or advanced image search. But con men are selling hallucinations as dreams made real to the uneducated and arrogant to fleece them of their remaining cash.

please get interested in these topics, accounting and computers, to save yourself some future headache. There's actual nerds happy to talk about them in detail everywhere. Dont fall for this. If anyone is selling you a FEELING, be suspicious.