Richard

If you haven't yet, both Skyjo and Wingspan are great fun!

You ought to go and follow her instagram.com/kyoti_art btw! ;)

A reflective, shiny A5-sized package with lots of custom packaging decals lying on a doormat

A 'My Neighbor Totoro' sticker sheet, a Totoro bookmark, a few Soot stickers and a thank you card laid out on a wooden table

First order of my wife's art business kyoti.art arrived at its destination today!

It's amazing to see people be so excited about receiving their order. A whole different rush!

Es ist schön zu wissen, dass meine Kammerumlage zumindest an technisch kompetente Menschen geht..

🙃

I am both super glad for you and also so jealous at the same time. God I wish I could've just gone for a hike this morning 🤭

honored to see kitsune tails among such good company!

get more info about kitsune tails at kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails

Bologna is a fabulous city to be in! I hope you enjoy JSDay and the delicious food. 😁

Just remembered my very first programming experience.

NFS: Hot Pursuit 2 stored all its car models with .ini files in a cars/ folder.

This INI files had things like acceleration rate and max speed defined per vehicle.

You could just edit them. I won every race 😤

Today in: video games I’m horrifically late for: Shadow of the Erdtree! Fucking FINALLY.

Found mine! Behold! 🥳

My drawings and designs, inspired by Ocarina of Time.

Not sure on how old I was. 🤔

They're in two different booklets, and the item drawing style is more advanced in one of them. About 6 is my best estimate, as this would coincide with when I first got to play the game.

Pictures on stage are officially professional!

Also this may be yet another failed attempt, but since I've spent a lot of time recently promoting my wife's art business (btw, go buy stickers from https://kyoti.art) maybe I can also be a bit more active again on socials myself.

Hah, I notice that too. Although it happens less when I speak in my native language. Maybe because I'm more conscious of my word choice in German. 🤔

Anyone ever have this thing where your brain is like 3 paragraphs ahead of the words that are coming out of your mouth and then you stumble over your words like an idiot?

It's been happening /a lot/ recently. 🙃

A panoramic view of Vienna Comic Con's Artist Alley full of people

My wife is starting an art business! 🎨 A story of how you can just do things.

In November last year Jowi and I went to @ViennaComicCon on a date. We wanted to see the nerd scene of Austria in one place

We also found the "Artist Alley" where people sell their arts & crafts ✨

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If you want to hear more or see where the story goes, go follow my wife and buy her stickers:

kyoti.art/millenialmon
kyotiart.etsy.com
instagram.com/kyoti_art

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Unironically pizza. I was the only kid in the entire neighborhood that /detested/ pizza.

Thankfully I came to my senses around age 13. 😌

If you want to hear more or see where the story goes, go follow my wife and buy her stickers:

kyoti.art/millenialmon
kyotiart.etsy.com
instagram.com/kyoti_art

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Jowi in the Button Festival booth showing a peace sign and smiling extremely happily

In the end we managed to generate a whopping 728 EUR from our first effort! 💵

So I'd like to take this as a story. If you have something you want to do, just go and do it. As @levelsio
has said: You Can Just Do Things.

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Me and Jowi behind our fully set up and decorated booth at Button Festival

The big day came and we set up a stand at Button Festival!

We were surrounded by so many other lovely artists who welcomed us with open arms ❤️

It was an absolute blast to see people react to the stickers, to chat with them, to just have a good time for two days

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An undecorated store booth built out of modular panels covered in white mesh

A lot of long production days and nights followed. Even the day before the event we were still figuring out a prototype for our booth design at 11pm. 😁

Turns out there are great modular boxes you can buy and configure in literally whatever way you want.

We were ready! 😬

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A panoramic view of Button Festival showing people playing video games on couches and socializing

Well, luckily our city happens to have a gaming festival of its own called Button Festival!

Jowi immediately applied for a table and even made a whole presentation for the application..

And she got in! Woo! 🎉 So in the beginning of March, we would go and sell things!

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A collection of Oddish stickers laid out in a 3-by-4 grid. The sticker say "Broke but free"

Between January and the beginning of March she produced a total of 1,800 stickers, bookmarks, art prints, pins and keychains.

All of them designed by Jowi and handmade from material you can buy at any stationery shop.

But how to sell that stuff?

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A Cricut plotter and an Epson inkjet in their packagings on a makeshift workshop table

I decided to get her an inkjet printer for Christmas and Jowi bought herself a Cricut plotter with her bonus.

Along with some sticker paper, laminating foil and some other misc supplies she now had everything to start producing!

And boy, did she ever produce a lot 🤭

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Jowi proudly presenting her first design. An axolotl saying "Ich will nicht mehr" (I don't want to anymore)

Jowi was immediately inspired!

You can just sell stickers and fanart? 👀 That sounded fun to her. When we got home, she immediately started drawing.

Then she decided she wants to do /everything/ by herself. Art, cutting, laminating, the whole nine yards.

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A panoramic view of Vienna Comic Con's Artist Alley full of people

My wife is starting an art business! 🎨 A story of how you can just do things.

In November last year Jowi and I went to @ViennaComicCon on a date. We wanted to see the nerd scene of Austria in one place

We also found the "Artist Alley" where people sell their arts & crafts ✨

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Thank you! And that is true! Benefits to everything 🤭

Dankö!

The glue on the back side of the duct tape that holds together the internet becomes thinner every day 🤭

I now officially disqualify for any sort of youth discount whatsoever in Austria. I'm afraid my age is finally catching up to me.

Nevertheless, happy 28 to me! 🥳