Tales of humour, whimsy and courgettes
“I gotta take my mind off the road,” sighed Spectre. “I can’t stop looking up it.”
“I was thinking about taking a job working on the road,” sighed Sprite.
“What job are you after?” asked Spectre.
“A street cleaner,” replied Sprite. “I’m told there’s not much training involved. You just pick stuff up as you go along.”
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“Hey, Spectre,” said Sprite. “I bought a stick of deodorant the other day.”
“Why?” asked Spectre. “You don’t sweat.”
“I just wanted to see if it made me smell nicer,” sighed Sprite. “I followed the instructions, ‘remove the lid and push up bottom.”
“Well credit where it’s due,” replied Spectre, “Your farts have smelt lovely this week.”
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It’s a month of Virgo! Our lady Virgo has now arrived on Threadless and for this week, she’ll have $3 off.
You can nobble both Virgo tees here: littlefears.threadless.com
And of course, she’s got a £3 discount on Etsy too. littlefears.etsy.com
Happy murder month, my strange and stabby Virgo friends!
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“I think,” said Turtle, “he’s trying to fill today’s story panel.”
“Or he wants to give people a little lift,” replied Crabs. “What did he write again?”
Turtle picked up the .png file. “Dear readers. You’re awesome, gorgeous, smart, witty and fabulous. I love y’all. Also, your arse looks nice in everything you wear.”
“You’re all wrong,” chimed in Jelly, applying some lipstick. “He’s deffo trying to get laid.”
Or I just wanted to say you’re all awesome and have lovely arses. Imagine how much better the world would be if we stopped ascribing motivations to other people.
Hey, Tumblr, I’m looking at you again!
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You all know by now I plan things well in advance of doing them. The current Black Sands series runs until October, where there’s a series of one-off daily stories. Then I have Inktober. After that, I don’t know.
I’m still adamant I’m not going to use the 1,000 or so tales I already had written. The extended singular story of Brass barely worked once. I do not want to try that again.
I’m also conscious of my paper usage. I’m currently working on a set of pixel-art characters to drop in alongside scanned ink characters. So I still get to use ink characters on photos, but I’m not drawing hundreds of the same character. It would give my work more consistency and variation as I’m able to bring in new elements. As I’d been using independent graphics, it would allow me to get some basic animations in the video. Even a side-scrolling perspective shift would be visually more appealing than a static pic.
So the series after Inktober will hopefully follow the pixel art, Etta, shown above, alongside a hand-drawn sea-devil. It’ll only be thirty stories long but will be good practice for mixing different styles.
Hey, another thing we’ve been working on this month. One of the strangely popular things I did was a course on Skillshare for turning hand-drawn doodles into digital graphics (linky: skl.sh/2G40lMs ). I wrote a series of follow up courses covering subjects like poster design and turning photos into logos. As with almost everything I create, I’ll upload them free for everyone for five days on release before setting them to Premium on Skillshare. If you sign up to them when they’re free, they’re free forever.
I figure the first (well, next) one I should publish is a beginners guide to GIMP. It’s a 40-minute long free class that’ll give you a tour of all the main tools in the free image editing program, GIMP. That one will be free to everyone forever. No premium subscription will ever be required for that course.
You can download GIMP for Windows, Mac and Linux here (link: gimp.org/ ) and the first course should land next week.
Content creator hat on.
Hey, subscribe, follow, mew quietly at me on social media and you’ll hear about each course as they come out and you’ll be able to nobble them all while they’re free.
Content creator hat off, cleans hands.
Man, why does it still feel dirty doing that? Eh, let’s get a lil dirtier.
If you love the Fears, the puns, the groans and tiny terrors and you have any spare change, there’s a whole bunch of ways to support me and keep the stories coming.
You can buy a tee on Threadless, for which I get $5 per sale. You can buy me a cuppa over on Ko-Fi. Want to support me monthly? Hit me up on Patreon for as little as $1 a month. I also have an Etsy store and a book series on Amazon.
If you don’t have any pennies to spare, that’s perfectly fine. Drop me a comment below and tell me how much pain I inflict on your households with my puns. Let me know how much damage I’ve done to your vocal cords, groaning at my punchlines. Keep me informed as to how much your friends and family whine when you relay one of my stories to them. The groans of “oh god, make him stop,” are like music to my ears.
Cheers, gang! You’re all awesome.
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“It’s gotta be hard owning a pub on the road to the afterlife,” observed Fuen. “Knowing most of the people that drop in here you’ll likely never see again.”
“That’s not always a bad thing,” sighed Reala. “I’m eager to see the entire 2019 political landscape walk up the road.”
The trio looked laughed and looked outside. They saw three-dozen sprites walking up the road. “That’s not good,” remarked Fuen.
Reala rang the bell for last orders. Pavlov jumped up from his seat, crying out “shit, I forgot to feed the dog.”
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“You and Lucy were an item once, right?” asked Reala.
“They were an item for years,” chimed in Fuen. “Didn’t she ask you out after buying you a bottle of lemonade?”
“That’s right,” laughed Yuffie. “She Schwepped me off my feet.”
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Fuen’s had a little too much coffee and with the jitters, she’s doing the java jive! Boing!
I’ve always been asked for a coffee version of the Drink Tea tee. But ‘Drink Coffee’ reads frickin’ awful. But man, when I’ve had too much coffee to drink, I do the java jive!
So, Fuen, coffee edition. Please do enjoy! (Linky: littlefears.threadless.com )
Alsoooooo, I left Leo the Lioness on sale both on Threadless and my Etsy store last week. I’ll be taking them both off sale and putting the price back up tomorrow. If you’d like the Etsy print or Threadless tee, grab them tonight. (Etsy link: etsy.com/uk/shop/LittleFears )
Cheers!
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“Have you noticed Lucy doesn’t murder everyone she meets anymore?” pondered Yuffie.
“I did think she was getting more selective,” added Fuen. “She lets innocents live and goes for villains, now.”
“She’s maturing. Just before she left, she passed her driving test,” remarked Yuffie. “I’ll get her something cheap to run around in when she comes home.”
“Like a pair of trainers from the 99p store?” asked Fuen.
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“I had an inventor stop in for a pint a few weeks back,” said Reala.
“Oh, aye,” replied Fuen. “Did she invent anything we might have heard of?”
“The cold air balloon,” said Reala. “It never really took off.”
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Little Fears 