fluffy ✨🍑✨ @fluffy@queer.party

So in summary, cats are terrible, but also amazing.

how did I end up with a bran flake stuck in my belly button

also note to self I need to make some Marceline art, I love her and also a lot of people have asked if I have any art of her to sell. (I’ve done a few sketches but nothing I felt was worth turning into a print.)

Like sales aside, there’s so many cosplayers I want to ask to photograph but they never even get in my “cone of detection” such that I can do so.

And when it’s Undertale cosplayers I’d assume they’d be into my big pile of Undertale fanart, too...

(And same for Adventure Time, like dangit Marceline I have pictures of your girlfriend)

Being in this corner makes me so freaking invisible though. Prominent placement that everyone overlooks because everyone turns their head in anticipation of where they’re going. I see so many people weave back and forth and check every single table *except* mine, just because they’re preparing to turn.

Apparently this is a very common problem and it’s exactly what I was afraid of.

There’s a lot more foot traffic today so I’m a lot more hopeful for today. People are still in window shopping mode but that’s normal for this time of day.

I hope things pick up for my neighbors though, they’re from Port Townsend and they’re barely making enough to cover their travel costs.

Okay actually according to Square's report I'm not *too* far behind at least making up my table fee. So hopefully tomorrow will pick up some, and I'll at least make my table fee back.

@InspectorCaracal https://twitter.com/KlatuBaradaNiko/status/1194176547956985856

Fortunately the most expensive item (the pins) are a thing that I can sell on Etsy and there’s also a few local shops that might be interested in selling them too.

Seriously though even friends who normally do pretty well at cons aren’t doing so well at this one. It just hurts a bit extra for me because this was my first time getting in (after years of trying) and then I had to put down a lot of money to actually get my non-comic stuff made, while my friends are all able to amortize that and carry their extra inventory forward from prior years.

But yeah basically I’m nowhere close to breaking even, much less turning a profit. This isn’t helping my impostor syndrome. Or maybe I really am an impostor.

Anyway hopefully sales pick up in the next hour, or all the two-day badge people who said they’d come back for my stuff make good on it tomorrow.

On the plus side my fibro seemed to get under control more or less. Hopefully the flare stays subsided tomorrow. Especially when I need to haul all this crap home.

I’ve had a lot of people come by and say they love my work but very few people actually buying anything. It’s almost the end of the first day and I’ve only made about $50, and the table cost $210. This also isn’t counting how much it cost to make my stuff, which I don’t really have any other opportunities to sell.

Folks are saying this is primarily because GGC happened to be the same weekend as Kumoricon this year.

Love to have a flare going on while I need to be friendly and attentive

Me: I need to get up earlier than usual because of GeekGirlCon, can you work with me on this?

My brain: [wakes up at 5:45 AM after a mere 6 hours of sleep, refuses to fall back to sleep]

Me: no not like that

tomorrow I have to get up at a normal time so I can spend 8 hours making smalltalk with an onslaught of random people while also trying to process their transactions wherein they buy things from me

I just realized I'm LARPing a holiday retail worker

ok time to try to stop freaking out about GeekGirlCon by getting high and catching up on Bob's Burgers and The Good Place

Dang there’s some pretty great sponsor swag out this year. Hopefully I’ll be able to get some or have someone get some of it for me.