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The best place to follow me is my website via RSS.

The best way to contact me is via email (hey at kiriska.com).

You can also get monthlyish updates from my mailing list.


What's RSS?

- Here is a long post I wrote: Freedom From Algorithms: How to Use a Feed Reader.

- Here's another post I wrote about why creators should have and maintain their own RSS-compatible websites.

- Here's a much shorter explanation of RSS and why you should use it by Nicky Case.


RSS Options

- Full Kiriska.com RSS

- Art Only RSS

- Blog Only RSS

- You can also get ridiculously granular and only subscribe to certain categories of things on the site; I elaborate a bit in here.


I have long been a proponent of RSS and a return to a more decentralised Internet, but I finally moved my Sketchblog from Tumblr to my website earlier this year in an effort to demonstrate more of what I preach. I've also been on a slow wean off social media for several years. And let's be real, I haven't been consistent about posting to DA since like 2012 anyway.


Quitting entirely seems dramatic and perhaps unnecessary, and I'm sure I'll still occasionally throw something up here. For now, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Tumblr are going to be the only third party sites I plan to continue updating on a regular basis, but these are half-automated posts and I am very bad at checking DMs or messages on any of those sites.


I also don't actually check the feeds on any of those sites anymore. I've been following Tumblogs via RSS instead for years, but otherwise my intake of others' art has been diminished site since largely abandoning social media. If you have a site that has an RSS feed, lemme know! Our revolution is quiet, but it's ours.

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Hi, friends, long time no journal. :O As you may know, I reserve most of my chatter for Twitter these days, but I wanted to share this cool zine I contributed to! Preorders are open now and you can see more information about the zine here.



Here's a preview for my piece in the zine!



Other than that, I'm working on some holiday stuff because I love holiday stuff... how's everyone else doing?
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WOW HI

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WOW HI IT HAS BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE I HAVE WRITTEN IN HERE. :C Sorry about that. I have no real excuse, but since the last time I wrote, these things have happened:
  • I moved across town; I live in a teeny studio now and it is pretty nice
  • Everfree NW happened (con report is here! tl;dr IT WAS AWESOME)
  • KuroNekoCon happened (con report is here! tl;dr it was pretty nice!)
  • I got (and am) really, absurdly into the swimming anime
  • Attack on Titan is pretty awesome too but drawing 3DM gear kills me
  • I adopted kittens! They are both boys AND I NAMED THEM LELOUCH LULU AND RIN BECAUSE WEEABOO 4 LYFE.
(It isn't hard to guess who's who, I hope.)

There are a coupla more kitty pictures on TwitterThere are a lot of dumb Free! doodles on Tumblr. (And some Attack on Titan doodles too.) I've been dragging my feet pretty badly with the A-Kon report, but I'm really hoping to at least get a draft done before my next con...

In two weeks is RAINFURREST and I will be there with torikat in the Dealer's Den (map and stuff!). I haven't done a furry con since FWA way back in 2010, so I'm pretty excited! If anyone's going and wants to commission something for at-con pick-up, lemme know! I'll have more commission options than usual at the con, but I'm expecting to fill up pretty fast on what I'll be able to finish over the course of the con itself, so if I can get an early start on anything, that'd be cool. O:

After Rainfurrest, I just have Jet City Comic Show in Tacoma in November and then IKKiCON in Austin after Christmas, and that's it for 2013.

ANYWAY HOW ARE YOU GUYS.


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Hello and thanks to everyone who stopped by at Comicpalooza or A-kon! There were lots of familiar faces (even if I didn't recognize all of you immediately) and lots of awesome new people as well! They were both pretty swell weekends even if I oscillated between being really wired and really out of it for most of A-kon. Saturday night and Sunday morning were especially rough, so I'm sorry if I wasn't especially responsive to anyone during that time. x_x I've never almost fallen asleep at the table from sheer exhaustion.

The con report for Comicpalooza will hopefully be done soon. I really want to finish it and A-kon's report before my next convention, but we'll see how that goes...there are a lot of things I want to say about both shows, but it's gearing up to be a pretty hectic month for me. D;

My lease is up at the end of June, so I'll be apartment hunting and if all goes well, I'll be moved BEFORE the end of June because Everfree NW is the first weekend of July and I'd like to...not still be in the process of moving then. 8D There are a lot of pony things I want to draw for the con, but it's anyone's guess if I'll be able to finish any of it. <_<

After that, I'll be at Kuronekocon in Spokane, WA, and we'll see if I end up making it to Kumoricon over Labor Day weekend.

How are you all doing?


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Everybody's somewhere for Memorial Day weekend



Despite pretty awesome guests, Comicpalooza is the small fry amidst the Memorial Day weekend conventions. Fanime, Anime Boston, Anime North, Animazement, and Phoenix Comic Con are all that weekend. BUT if you're in Houston and you'll be there at this small fry, then you can come find me. 8D (Click to enlarge)



Annnnnd of course, the weekend after I'll be at A-kon in Dallas. I WILL BE SOMEWHERE THERE. COME FIND ME. AND BRING ME COFFEE.


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A Touch of Magic zine by Kiriska, journal

WOW HI by Kiriska, journal

June State of Affairs by Kiriska, journal

Comicpalooza + A-kon by Kiriska, journal

A-kon hotelspace? Also: AnC review by Kiriska, journal