Current Post On Trae’s Blog:
It's hard to tell how vulnerable to be on the internet anymore. How safe it it to be so exposed. Twenty years ago I'd just pour anything I was feeling into this space. While I filtered things for other people's privacy, I never filtered my own feelings.
But I stopped at some point, and this turned into a place where I just promoted my projects and gave generic, general updates. It meant I posted less and less, and I know I'm trying to turn that around. When you make stuff like comics and books and try to talk about them and promote them online, there's a pressure to be positive constantly. Like when you're actively trying to provide paths for escapism for people, a lot of people get unhappy when you drag reality into things.
But things are stressful.
Sometimes we're just holding ourselves together with tape and string, and hoping no one notices. Besides the massively important Wisconsin Supreme Court election on Tuesday (vote Crawford by the way), the outside world isn't the only pressure. My grandmother is going into hospice, and that brings its own set of stuff. I've got a family of people who are all concerned about everyone else's well being, and not enough people taking care of themselves.
And, like, for the record, I am fine. I will be fine. We have a lot of fighting to do, and I have no intention of giving up. But, like, shit is stressful, y'know? And I think it's important to acknowledge that stress. I write these things not because I need support, but to acknowledge that they exist. To say "sometimes things are hard and we're all human."
Because we are.
And me move forward as best we can.
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MAGfest 2013 memories.
There was an Animazement (2007 I think?) where this happened TWICE.
I remember this….i was so mad cause i had just fell asleep like 2hours before it went off and i just happen to get a room at the main hotel…..everyone was getting dressed and i was like fuck it got my comp bag and headed out in PJs xDD they made us get in lines and i felt like i was in school for fire drills and drug raids/searches again. So mad T^T
Multiple Otakon flashbacks…
Hey look it’s Perry. *Epic Phineas and Ferb reference*
so with out clothes on apparently max is stick thin…
We’ve actually seen it before. Without clothes ALL of the characters look like stick figures.
I believe Trae you also stated that they are just stick figure reps of real people so they aren’t really stick figures but just stick representations of real people.
We have ti to use our own imagination to to interpret them as people.
Well yes. I was talking about how they look in the art. Max and Veronica would look more like this in reality http://www.trhonline.com/uncon-reimagined/veronicaandmax.png
Mysticon a coupe of years ago.
I was at that Mysticon! XD
As an attendee and staff member of MFF staff for 9 years I feel your pain. 4 of the last 9 years I think? Though for the last 2 at least I hadn’t gone to bed…..yet
Leastwise nobody’s playing S&M games on the sprinkler vis the Great Flood at Disclave… (One of this year’s Kazoo Award categories was convention mis-accomodations. I had absolutely no trouble whatsoever finding six songs, each about a different convention for the ballot. I could have likely found three times that number if I’d needed to.
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I was in a hotel (not at a con) where this happened. Someone had been holding some sort of candle lit ritual in his room and it got out of hand. Fire doors shut and everything. We didn’t have to evacuate though, so we had that.
Furfright, MFF, etc, etc. It’s a tradition! …a shitty, shitty tradition.