August Brown 🏳️‍⚧️

@skullamity.bsky.social

Dad, queer, he/him. Illustrator & graphic designer. Artist & co-author at endcomic.com! 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

it's that time of year again! (I lock myself in the upstairs bathroom, shoveling the contents of an entire costco container of cherries into my mouth at top speed while my equally feral child is attempting to break down the door because he had the same idea and I beat him to it)

I worked on a cover for a kids' novel about sorcery this spring, and it's finally been revealed! The title translates to "The Day I Failed My Sorcery Exam". Written by Jean-Philippe Morasse.

An illustration in purple hues. A teen girl is staring at a mirror, but the person staring back at her isn't her; the mirror is broken into pieces that fall off.

The previous batch of comic pages took forever even outside of Parsnip's medical emergency, so I'm super relieved that I cut this next bath down form 8 to 4 and I'm already inking them! The batch after it is going to be the remaining 4 pages, and I hope I speed through those ones, too. 😭

Me telling Shay that Parsnip was aggressively licking my arm from about 6am to 7am before he went to sleep: My kid, waking from a dead sleep in the adjacent room, door closed: WHAT NUMBER DID YOU JUST SAY? me: from 6 to 7? those are real times & the order of those numbers my kid: ANGUISHED SCREAM

I have comics I need to be finishing up colouring but also I am currently making a giant pasta salad for lunches for the week, and then I am making strawberry ice cream that needs to chill in the next hour or 2 if I want it to be ready for after dinner. Too much to do & not enough time to do it in!

I love the farmer's market so much! $10 for 3lbs of garlic scapes, and now I have made two giant jars of pesto and put the last lb of scapes into the freezer, pre-chopped, to use for more pesto or maybe a stirfry in the near future. We are doing subs for dinner tonight, it's gonna be so delicious!

Parsnip is home from the vet for now! The anti-nausea meds they gave him smell like sour cherries and Ham is afraid of him because he smells weird. They hydrated him via IV, and our job now is to get him eating. If he won't, we go back in for an emergency slot appointment tomorrow.

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August Brown 🏳️‍⚧️@skullamity.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hey, I'm a trans man married to a trans woman and we have a trans kid! We do not, currently, have any money! This guy decided to kick off pride month by suddenly getting very sick. Expecting a huge vet bill, and I NEED him to be OKAY. Ignore my deadname on PayPal. www.paypal.me/skullamity

the most perfect gremlin I've ever met

It took the entire day, but I am currently moving the final psd folder to my desktop so it can be moved to the new drive. It's 78gb of older wallpapers, so this one is going to take A While, but I can at least relax while I do it. Tomorrow I'll be amalgamating it with the stuff from the other drive.

August Brown 🏳️‍⚧️@skullamity.bsky.social · 3mo ago

OKAY! SO: My last week and a half has been BAD. Parsnip managed to yeet my main external drive off my desk and onto the floor and the back popped off of it. It looked fine, the back of the casing popped right back on, no visible damage. But it was NOT fine. Not looking for advice, just ranting!

OKAY! SO: My last week and a half has been BAD. Parsnip managed to yeet my main external drive off my desk and onto the floor and the back popped off of it. It looked fine, the back of the casing popped right back on, no visible damage. But it was NOT fine. Not looking for advice, just ranting!