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Betrayed by my own blood.
I’m updating my Patreon tiers! Now if you join at the Triceratops tier or higher you will get a sticker pack in the mail. They are very cool. It would be awesome if any patrons out there who haven’t already could pop on over to Patreon and update their shipping details so I can mail them out!
I completely expected for them to like power points, grabbing the cat’s tail and throwing themselves from heights. I knew about those things. Following a crawling baby around stopping her from repeatedly headbutting every solid object she came across was not something I expected to be doing at all, let alone often.
Big thank you to the friend who put me onto whisks as the best impromptu baby entertainment object.
It’s okay everyone, I’m in therapy, therefore this can be read as socially-acceptable self-deprecating snippet of entertainment and not a poor attempt to muffle the scream for constant validation that bubbles up inside me in ever smaller intervals that I am slowly becoming aware will never, ever be sated.
Show this comic to someone who likes tea. Or chairs.
This isn’t a comic or story.
I’ve used my Lu Repeating pattern skills (reminder that I have a pattern persona called Lu Repeating) to make a new cat pattern of Silence Killed the Dinosaurs style cats. For fun.
Also for my store.
Above is the not-actually a pattern version.
Below is the actually a pattern version.
That’s it. That’s everything. Please go about your day.
You may have noticed that my website looks a little different (if you haven’t, please notice now). Well, I’ve been thinking for a while I should jazz it up, and I was sifting through WordPress themes to see what my options were and think about what I was going to do. I figured, with a chronic illness and a one-year-old in the picture, it would be best to plan meticulously, get everything I needed drawn, written and organised over a few weeks, and then pull it all together quickly and painlessly. Like a professional.
I’m sure you can guess the general direction this is going.
I ruined everything. I accidentally activated a new theme.
And I couldn’t just switch back to my old layout because a) I would have to re-do the aesthetics anyway just like I would on a new layout and b) I had CSSed the crap out of the old one so actually it would take much, much longer to re-do.
The only way out of the mess I had made was through.
I kissed goodbye to my beloved sidebar. I love the old-school blogger vibe, jam-packed with buttons and banners and links and titbits. But the look is dated, probably no one else likes them, and it only shows up on desktop which hardly anyone uses outside of work these days anyway.
We won’t linger on the new WordPress Site Editor [beta]. I do like the concept. It’s versatile. Makes all kinds of cool shit possible. But actually using it is kind of like trying to format anything in Word.
I stayed up past midnight several nights running. I built headers and footers. I re-jigged menus. I vectored logos. I tripled checked everything would not size weird or go to complete shit when viewed on tablets or mobile.
And then I got gastro.
I realised to make all the new site editor elements work the way I wanted to, I would have to go back into each individual post I had ever made—as in, back seven years ago to 2014—and change/add various meta-data elements I had been pretending didn’t exist because life is too hard to learn new things even if they make everything look much more professional.
And I don’t want to have a big, angsty moment here, but it’s really difficult to go look at old work. Like just … really difficult. I avoid it. I avoid it so much it’s the main reason I put off updating my site for so long in the first place.
After a while I became completely desensitised to it, which I guess means it functioned as DIY exposure therapy and maybe I’m emotionally stronger and a better creator having done it or something I don’t know FEELINGS I don’t like feelings especially ones about myself they bother me into the worst flustery run on sentences it’s much more comfortable to draw myself being horribly obliterated.
Back to nice, comfortable catastrophe. There was still heaps to get through and without the emotional distress melting my face off, it was just boring.
In short, the last couple of weeks have been A LOT.
But I did it.
Ta da.
Click around. Make yourself at home.
I know what you’re thinking. Fuck yes that header-logo-banner-whateveritis image is awesome, and you bet your gastro arse you can get it on a mug.
Now, excuse me while I go have a nap.
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Never a dull moment.
Show this comic to someone who leaves a trail of dribble wherever they go. OR someone who is a xenomorph. Dealer’s choice.
Remember, if you love my Silence Killed the Dinosaurs stories and comics, check out my Patreon page or store. You can support my work and get unique rewards for as little as a dollar! Just so you know, I am now using affiliate links to my store. This means that if you follow one of the links from my site and buy something from my store, not only will I get an artist commission for designing it, but I will also get a small affiliate commission for, essentially, marketing it.
As always, follow me for Silence Killed the Dinosaurs updates on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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Cats are impossible.
Could you help me out and tell someone about Silence Killed the Dinosaurs? I’ve been doing this since 2014 and it’s been fun, but it would be great to get more eyes on it. So, tell someone about this comic who naps so hard their feet multiply.
UPDATE: This illustration is available in my store as a print, mug, sweatshirt, and various other things.
Remember, if you love my Silence Killed the Dinosaurs stories and comics, check out my Patreon page or store. You can support my work and get unique rewards! Just so you know, I am now using affiliate links to my store. This means that if you follow one of the links from my site and buy something from my store, not only will I get an artist commission for designing it, but I will also get a small affiliate commission for, essentially, marketing it. This means buying something for my store doesn’t just support me, it EXTRA SUPPORTS ME.
And don’t forget you can follow me for Silence Killed the Dinosaurs updates on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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Lifechanging.
(For real though, I love my glasses and if you have only slightly dodgy vision and are on the fence on whether you should bother with glasses the answer is, yes, you should bother with glasses. I sat on that fence for years and with corrected 20/20 hindsight, it was really, really silly of me).
Remember, if you love my Silence Killed the Dinosaurs stories and comics, check out my Patreon page or store. You can support my work and get unique rewards! Just so you know, I am now using affiliate links to my store. This means that if you follow one of the links from my site and buy something from my store, not only will I get an artist commission for designing it, but I will also get a small affiliate commission for, essentially, marketing it. This means buying something for my store doesn’t just support me, it EXTRA SUPPORTS ME.
And don’t forget you can follow me for Silence Killed the Dinosaurs updates on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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True story. Unrelated, I will not be accepting critiques of this comic at this time.
Remember, if you love my Silence Killed the Dinosaurs stories and comics, check out my Patreon page or store. You can support my work and get unique rewards! Just so you know, I am now using affiliate links to my store. This means that if you follow one of the links from my site and buy something from my store, not only will I get an artist commission for designing it, but I will also get a small affiliate commission for, essentially, marketing it. This means buying something for my store doesn’t just support me, it EXTRA SUPPORTS ME.
And don’t forget you can follow me for Silence Killed the Dinosaurs updates on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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I mean, not right away, but when the crawling starts.
Remember, if you love my Silence Killed the Dinosaurs stories and comics, check out my Patreon page or store. You can support my work and get unique rewards! Just so you know, I am now using affiliate links to my store. This means that if you follow one of the links from my site and buy something from my store, not only will I get an artist commission for designing it, but I will also get a small affiliate commission for, essentially, marketing it. This means buying something for my store doesn’t just support me, it EXTRA SUPPORTS ME.
And don’t forget you can follow me for Silence Killed the Dinosaurs updates on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
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