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Netherworld Post Office

@netherworldpost / netherworldpost.tumblr.com

Formerly Evil Supply Co., Netherworld Post Office creates joyous and spooky stories, comics, zines, and snail mail products about the Netherworld, a utopian setting full of monsters, witches, ghosts, mermaids, and more. Run by Atticus Q. Redghost ("atty" for short, they/them is most convenient, any are fine) and a small board of misfits and nonsense-makers.
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The Netherworld Post Office front end retail website re-re-launch is coming together nicely.

Early 2025 remains the target.

We will be focusing exclusively on faux postage -- similar to our previous offerings, but one size (the larger size).

Back office (client) work ramped up significantly this year. Reducing this to a reasonable level my main goal next year, but it's tricky, for obvious reasons.

The good news is client work becomes publicly releasable work in time -- stories, lore, etc. -- all can be reworked and released for free on our upcoming blog.

(If you have been here since the Evil Supply Co. days you might remember, I released very short stories! Weekly! Often daily! I need to get back into doing that or I'll explode!!)

We will be focusing on faux postage, for the shop, because it can be produced and packed and mailed with the resources we have at hand.

"Will XYZ be coming back?" -- I don't know.

The biggest thing I have learned in the last few years is I overplan. I'm in the process of drawing and redesigning about 50 faux postage stamps, we'll start from there, then take it one adventure at a time.

Thank you

as always

for being here.

mailing list: netherworldpost.com

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vaspider

It's funny when you realize, like, that there are specific genres of music that only exist in your personal world. I just referred to Electric Blue by Icehouse as a "pool song," and then realized that this specific genre as I understand it only exists … like… to my family.

Because those are "songs which were popular in the summer on the East Coast of the US between 1980 and 1988, when we spent pretty much our entire summers at the pool, and before ClearChannel took over, so the songs that were popular in the summers where I grew up are very different from what my wife grew up hearing."

A curse to art snobs the world over whom try taxonomy every thing…

(stirs a root beer float with a cherry lollipop) and a blessing to

those

not

afflicted

by snobbery

I don't understand this response in the context of my post.

I regularly argue with folks whom hold the position there are set, inflexible music genres and types and other forms of classifications.

I do not share their view and enjoy broad and personal classifications.

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vaspider

It's funny when you realize, like, that there are specific genres of music that only exist in your personal world. I just referred to Electric Blue by Icehouse as a "pool song," and then realized that this specific genre as I understand it only exists … like… to my family.

Because those are "songs which were popular in the summer on the East Coast of the US between 1980 and 1988, when we spent pretty much our entire summers at the pool, and before ClearChannel took over, so the songs that were popular in the summers where I grew up are very different from what my wife grew up hearing."

A curse to art snobs the world over whom try taxonomy every thing…

(stirs a root beer float with a cherry lollipop) and a blessing to

those

not

afflicted

by snobbery

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I once more return to my (current) greatest self portrait.

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Today is January 8, 2025 and the reason that is significant is today is the first day of an 75% reduction of my art career (everything external to Netherworld Post).

Both for personal reasons (13 hours of non-stop rambling mix tape about the world of art business)

and artistic reasons (I want to refocus my energy on Netherworld Post).

"You've said that before!" -- I attempted this in 2021 and this time it's a bit more. Hm. Set in stone.

The above is a small pair of painting studies I did last year? Earlier this year? I'm planning on doing a lot of painting this week (13 hours of non-stop rambling mix tape on painting)

It also coincides with me reading the news about Meta shifting (removing?) their fact checking policies -- which doesn't really apply to the Post (we don't do news) but does speak to a larger hammer clang to the eco-system of social media (hi).

I'm going to be spending the next week writing out over due holiday cards (I'm fashionably late in sending vaguely Christmas-y monster cards in January!), painting --

-- and figuring out What To Do with Netherworld Post.

It's either going to become a blog (stories, rambles, essays, comics) and/or I'll reopen the shop... and have a blog (stories, rambles, essays, comics).

Making Stuff is important to me.

Having it available not being behind a pay wall is important to me -- I have benefited my entire life from mythology and stories and art.

It is part of who I am as a person to contribute, in some tiny way, to this fabric.

Tying in the... shift... in social media landscapes, I remind everyone:

If you have a publication (blog, shop, both, whatever) you need a mailing list. Social media platforms are shifting in ways unpredictable and likely unaligned to your goals.

Ours is available at netherworldpost.com

I plan to use it more in 2025.

Cheers everyone.

I hope you make something neat today.

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one of my worst writing sins is abusing my power to create compound words. i cannot write the sentence "The sun shone as bright as honey that afternoon." no. that's boring. "The sun was honey-bright that afternoon" however? yes. that sentence is dope as fuck. i do not care if "honey-bright" is a word in the english dictionary. i do not care if the sentence is grammatically correct. i will not change. i will not correct my erred ways. the laws of the english language are mine.

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Anonymous asked:

what are your thoughts on jon arbuckle?

I understand. You found paradise on Tumblr. You had a good blog, you made some popular posts. The staff protected you and there were courts of law. So you didn't need a friend like me. Now you come and say "Nudity and Nerdery, what are your thoughts on jon arbuckle?" But you don't ask with respect. You don't offer lasagna. You don't even think to call me "Emperor ." You come into my house on a Monday and you ask me my thoughts on jon arbuckle - for free.

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*looks down with a sheepish, embarrassed look*

emperor, may i... may i get your thoughts over a nice slice of lasagna?

Now, anon, you see? Jon Arbuckle comes to me with manners, with respect. He doesn't wish to cause an imposition, instead he asks with humility.

Please, Jon. Enjoy this lasagna with me. Your friendship is always welcome in my house.

You're gonna go far, kid.

Garfield and Friends

Season 3 Episode 8 Segment 1

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hazardscomic

Today: One, we're back to biweekly updates. Two, Fawn argues that there is, in fact, some harm done.

|| buy volume 1 || volume 2 spring 2025 ||

[[ The Hazards of Love  is a webcomic about a nonbinary teen from Queens who gets dragged into a  surreal place called Bright World where humans are classified as “edible” and “inedible.” Now they have to figure out a way to get back home while doing their best to, y’know, avoid death. Updates Tuesdays and Fridays]]

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I should become an art life coach

@topioswords / it's funny because this was a joke but your point holds weight, I spent 2024 closing things out in anticipation to focus nearly exclusively on Netherworld Post

I'm actually having a small party later this month to celebrate it

the problem with joking about opening new ventures is the very real "joke around long enough and you find yourself writing legal paperwork to make it happen"

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