A while back, I started the process to get my name changed proper.

My sister-in-law is a notary, and while she couldn't handle it for me due to conflict of interest, she did the preliminary research and drafted the contract to save me some time and money down the line. Given the extent to which I wanted to change my name (changing every one of my four given names, and adding another), she saw it necessary to consult with the registrar and check if it was permitted.

The people she spoke to literally had to research prior case law to answer her questions. When she told me this, I said, "so you're saying I'm too transgender for the law," which she didn't disagree with. She later even confirmed that I am likely the first person in my country to do this.

After sharing the story on Bluesky, my friend Melody made a really fun suggestion that led to this piece. It was fun combining me with Chili to achieve this look, especially given how I've been channeling this energy as of late.

Fun fact, you can now also BUY this design on clothing, stickers, and more!

As thanks for giving me the idea, I included Melody in the background of an alternate version, reacting accordingly.

A little while back my friend Plushie offered to pass her old vape box over to me cause I'd been experimenting with vaping CBD to help manage my anxiety. The box's design has the same vibe as an old 80s VCR, which inspired me to design some mods for it.

In case you're not familiar with Betamax (or just Beta), these are designs parodying the logo of a video tape cassette format from back in the day. An earlier design also featured three coloured stripes down the stem of the logographic; which I found very convenient to inject a bit more personal flair by replacing the RGB colours with those of the trans and bungender flags. The idea was to get these printed out in sticker form to attach to the device as branding of the fake retro tech company to complete the look and really make it my own.

Once I'd made the designs back in September and after a lot of deliberation and even more avoidant procrastination, my favourite sticker company had a sale on, so I finally got them ordered in!

I don't yet have the vape that they were intended for, but I've recently gotten over the fear of applying stickers to my belongings so I figured it was a great time to do some more of that. My first target for these very on-brand designs was obvious, and it had to be my laptop.

The only issue was that I was dealing with an extra challenge this time around:

Sticker Alignment.

With these stickers being square-cut, having them applied even slightly off-axis to something I would be looking at for most of my time would have driven me insane. Needless to say, applying them was a bit of a process... and an ordeal.

You can watch a quick little video I took of peeling the sticker off its backing here, if you're into that sort of thing.

I neglected to take a photo of the application process for the sticker on the wrist rest, but it was far more straightforward and you can probably figure out how that went based off of the others.

Unfortunately, the one on the lid took a few tries to apply properly, and the indentation of the existing logo proved to be somewhat of an impossible obstacle when trying to avoid it causing imperfections in the final result. If and when I replace it, I'll try a different technique to fill in the space which will hopefully leave it looking perfectly flush.

Much as I'd like to, I don't think I'll be able to sell these given the hassle of setting up and maintaining a distribution system for an online store. That said, I might be able to add them to my Spreadshirt store as plain white vinyl stickers (no metallic options, sadly!) and maybe even some apparel designs if there's any interest for them.

July was rough for me, but I still got some sketches done in between bigger site art and commissioned work.

I was not doing okay for most of the time due to some major life events, and this resulted from a cute little comic that popped up on my Twitter feed and touched a nerve that was still quite raw from the experience.

Next is another silly thing from Twitter, based off of the "BIG X vs BIG Y" meme that was making the rounds at the time. It was a good excuse to draw something fun and cute for my good friends Wolfie and Ru at the same time, especially given, well, them.

I could've probably exaggerated the sizes a bit more but, eh.

Last but not least: wahs.

Plushie and I kept tossing back and forth a screencap I'd taken and captioned of one of the fuzzy dumbasses from the hundreds of videos we shared with each other, and figured it made a good base for a sticker for her as a little gift.

I also practiced trying to capture their iconic and adorable empty-headed vibes, with somewhat mixed success.

Lotsa fluffy padded snofoxes in this batch, along with a silly sticker.

Don't think there's really much else to say, if I'm entirely honest. Enjoy!

At long last, I got around to making a halfway-usable stickerpack! I also went to the added effort to make a little template to show them off elsewhere since I plan on taking commissions of them in future.

Many of these were salvaged from refsheets! Working in vectors on CSP meant that I could scale them up to my heart's content, saving me heaps of time from having to redraw everything from scratch. All those in the lower rows (except for grumpy Soul Choco) were made from scratch somewhat recently.

If you're wondering where I got the idea for the "Hold Up" and "BOI" stickers for Ruby, here's some context.

If you like, you can add this stickerpack on Telegram here. I plan on making more soon enough.