The Midē´wiwin. This is the “official” society for the mide, or the shaman. It’s Ojibwe in origin, but the religion has been spreading so that it even touches the coasts where my own people were originally from.

They’re supposedly secretive. I’ve seen public lodge pages and drum circles you can pay to go to.

The teachings are sacred. That’s ( Read more... )

Language studies, music, and telling stories are my mundane focuses. I used to act as well, but in life you sometimes have to choose. I’d act again if the chance came, but for now I concentrate on things I can reach.

I was taking a Montauk language class. Good people. Montauk is classed as Algonquian-Y, which means it’s got similarities with ( Read more... )

Agh Now that I have the blog built and I’m ready to go, all the fanciful paragraphs I’d thought up have flown away like so many scattered flutterbies. Where do I go from here?

Well, let me start by telling you who I am. I’m Spearcarrier - I recently started going by Spearcarrier’s Ghostfox for various reasons but Spearcarrier by itself will do ( Read more... )

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Does someone want to tell me why it’s 0300 hours and I’ve been trying to sleep for hours? And why is it that just when I finally DO fall asleep, the damn dog has to go potty - and the person who has potty duty won’t roll out of bed? Leaving me, the ( Read more... )

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The Heavenly Bride took another knock back today as the ad system that’s been on it for years, Project Wonderful, delisted one of the ad boxes. They do that automatically when a website hasn’t had enough activity - which I think is effing stupid personally ( Read more... )

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I was tickled yesterday when a long-time reader asked me straight up if I was willing to do stick figures, because I use them for comics on occasion as filler art. To be specific, they wanted to know if I could bring Akashik back using stick figures. Please ( Read more... )

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I am back from OMG con yesterday around 1700 hours. Today I’m still exhausted. My feet still hurt. And it’s time to return to the mundane world of commissions, clients, and computer screens.

I broke even on hotel and table costs, but not on how much it took ( Read more... )

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This morning I’m uploading all of the nifty things I recorded and can share from Arch Anime Con (last weekend) on my Youtube channel.

I’m also importing them over to the Patreon sticker club.  These will be free posts.

I’m not sure what all I can say about ( Read more... )

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I got a pleasant surprise yesterday. My name came up on the waiting list at OMG Con, and they invited me to have a table.

I barely tried with my entry, and I was just talking to someone earlier that they’d never let me in. So I was reallllly surprised. I ( Read more... )