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

@trysdyn @pandora_parrot I wonder if it's something to do with Pokemon's mechanism for discovering nearby players even when they're not on WiFi. A couple of my friends who didn't know each other but were sitting near each other yesterday saw each others' names pop up on local WiFi even though neither was connected to a network.

@aredridel I mean, mastodon is pretty good for that

@porsupah who even writes like that

@Hi_cial https://youtu.be/i6d1Ez0CNtg

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

@porsupah I get the impression it’s pretty similar for everyone at this end of the expo hall. But most of the folks I know are on this end and the only person I know on the other end is someone I 1) don’t want to talk to and 2) wouldn’t trust to tell the truth anyway, so I have no way to properly assess it.

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.