I just got my printer from the mail collection office today :)

I'll be starting off with only a small amount of copies so be prepared! I won't be opening preorders until I've finished burning and packaging all the CDs. I'm still waiting for the blank discs to arrive.

I'm contemplating doing a 15% off flash sale for all commissions because I'm in dire need of more money, is anyone interested if I do?

I'm worried that this method isn't going to change much because in all honesty, I suck at marketing but I want to know if demand is waiting. I've been struggling financially lately due to college stuff and I think I wanna grow some balls and make my own money instead of asking mommy again because I'm nearing becoming a grown ass adult this year.

I mean, somebody's gotta start somewhere lol

EDIT: You know what, I've decided, the sale will happen in mid-February probably. I hope this isn't gonna be a marketing flunk :')

Offensive shit, dark humor, gross depictions of gore, all that jazz. The humor you hear from sites like The Hard Times and other punk websites that have this "not giving a fuck attitude" but they're punk so they actually do in fact give a fuck and are willing to stop when it's genuinely harmful or unconsented.

People act like Newgrounds becoming "Politically Correct" (I use this term with care because to be honest, it's misused by a lot of actual bigots as well nowadays) is a good thing, but to me, it feels like it's lost what originally made it fun to explore back in the day. Sure, it's gained life with a completely different demographic of people, but I grew up with the original demographic. I just like seeing communities where in humor, nothing is sacred, but nobody's being actively harmed. A way to blow off steam or cope with trauma through harmless edgy fun.

It's like seeing your favorite rapper go from making offensive, social commentary filled, disrepectful gang rap to mainstream, radio friendly party trap. It's not bad or worse in an objective sense, but it has you feeling depressed as fuck clinging onto the past. You accept and respect the rapper for asserting his creative freedom and shifts, even feel happy for him about that , but you can't help but feel a little bummed about it knowing he's not the same.

I digress, I just wish I could find another community of likeminded people who don't mind getting as gross and unkempt in terms of humor while understanding it's just fiction, it's just for blowing off steam and not genuinely targeted to any specific persons and with no intent to harm. If anyone reading this has some reccomendations for safe communities of this type, I'd be interested in joining.

I know it's weird hearing this from a person like me of all things, the kind of person you'd expect to be your "average sjw tumblr user" in the eyes of dark humor posers who act edgy not because they genuinely care about the philosophy of using art and words to explore the gutters of humanity without causing real harm, but because they wanna seem cool and strong (retards.)

You know, non-white, has a cutesy aesthetic, survivor of lots of fucked up trauma I will not mention here, biological female, diagnosed autistic, pro-lgbtq+, advocate for gender egalitarianism, all that knick paddy wack bullshit. But I've never touched tumblr in my life and have come to surprise some of those edgy posers with how 3-dimensional dark comedy can actually be if you truly pay attention.

People act like any media that's dark in themes, even offensive is horrible, and worthy of a cancel or even a death sentence, but coming from a girl with literal RSD (I overreact to a lot), I think that's a HUGE overreaction. To me, dark humor depends on the creator and how it's executed.

I can't trust an scummy asshole like Sh*dman because he's genuinely a fucked up piece of dogshit and that's putting it lightly considering he's a member of the kind of people who had traumatized me as a child (You know what it is). What he draws is often not that funny. It just comes off like he's genuinely gooning off of that shit, of which is confirmed he is.

But other artists such as myself and a lot of my friends are none of that. We create and draw offensive shit, but not genuinely because we fetishize it or find it fun, but to sort of explore and criticize the complexity of the human capability to create such issues. I draw art of my trauma, but in a form that sexualizes the male perpetrator, in a bet of reclaiming. It's my own way of saying "fuck you" to the oppressive gender roles I have been forced to suffer the consequences of, by sexualizing the men who want ME to be the sexy one. Like "No, creep, you do it. I'm not entertaining you, you're the one forcing me to fuck you so you could at least try to make yourself sexually appealing to me if you want it so bad". That is an example in my case. It's basically why I don't feel horny when I draw men in such a way but just calm, accomplished and even euphoric. In a way I can't explain. Like a weight has been lifted off of me.

I don't know if you know, but a lot of the subject matter that dark humor touches upon is almost always man-made. Sexism, racism, anger-driven violence, all that shit is man-made. If humans didn't have the emotional or cognitive capacity that differentiates us from wild animals, we'd just be killing for survival with no genuine emotional reasoning for it. So to conserve energy in dire times especially, if we saw no need to kill, we wouldn't kill at all.

That's kind of a philosophy I see in dark humor, which is why I find it so beautiful and participate in it. Freely exploring and exposing the pure lack of reasoning for how humans think and work to the point such fucked up behaviors spark within us as a species.

TLDR: Dark humor go brrrr (No I'm not summarizing it for you, son. Go do your homework lol)

I'm studying at a college right now, but I'm not allowed to bring my guitar, so album production will be delayed. But every two weeks, I'll be returning to my home all the way on the other side of the state, so I will be able to work on the songs bit by bit. There will be a 2 week long vacation after 5 months, so I'll be able to work more on the album there. But yes, that being said, the album's production will be heavily delayed ;~;

WIP

This fella will be in the second album's booklet along with many other fellas.

I love drawing wacky-looking fellas :)

Btw check out my first album :)

LISTEN HERE: https://recordu.lnk.to/nJ9gNB

BUY HERE: https://yumekawahanachi.neocities.org/shop/hanachi-zip

It's finally finished and all products are up for everyone to see! You can view the shop here! It functions more as a detailed product roundup or an online portal to the product listings on another site but that's intended because I plan on selling my merch through multiple different print-on-demand services in the future.

There is the basic logo designs as expected of a musician, but I decided to go the extra mile and make some custom illustrated "fine art" designs too! Will be adding some more in the future! Just need to think of what about...

Please let me know if you notice any inconsistencies in the website though, staring at a wall of code while calculating pixel sizes for 3 hours straight is really focus draining. I manually coded everything in HTML, CSS and JS, so expect there to be some mistakes. I really want to be able to fix them as soon as I notice them so please feel free to help me out!

Btw check out my album, it's the reason this merch store exists in the first place :)

LISTEN HERE: https://recordu.lnk.to/nJ9gNB

BUY HERE: https://yumekawahanachi.neocities.org/shop/hanachi-zip

I don't wanna sound pretentious but is it just me or is this site really full of seriously down bad people nowadays? Like don't get me wrong, I love me some hardcore porn but it just seems like this site is getting treated more like a serious porn site than an art and humor site nowadays. I guess we can blame the tumblr exodus for that.

Like, it's gotten to the point that half of the community becomes viscerally bitter or angry when they come across a work that isn't actually porn but just a troll or meme that starts off like porn. Like bro, how are you so down bad you can't even take a joke? I mean I can recognize a good ol' disgusting joke while I'm even cooking my bacon, how can't you?

I remember back in the day exploring this site, there was porn but majority wasn't serious porn. Just sexual shock humor with explicit imagery. I don't mind all the serious porn, but I feel like the audience of this site becoming more people looking to jack off instead of appreciate some good funny bullshit kinda feels dystopian. I like that sort of humor, can we please have more of that?

Don't get the wrong idea though. :')

I'm not really that into the whole profits part of POD, I just want to make sure my enjoyers have something to support me with, and maybe even something to strut their niche music status with. Even if the royalties are low, I don't mind as long as they can get a cute keychain :)

I mean, I got 1$ for selling a 20$ tshirt with my logo on it but that's understandable because I get to sell my merch all at no cost! So it just makes sense, because the company needs the funding to make the products somehow :P

Also keychains and notebooks are coming soon to my catalog! Just need to think of designs...

I'm working on a section of my website shop for merch. It'll be manufactured by Teepublic though, but my shop site will function as a shopmap and a hub for extra info that can help ease buyer experience :)

Haha.. help I've been coding for the past 2 hours.

Btw check out my album :)

LISTEN HERE: https://recordu.lnk.to/nJ9gNB

BUY HERE: https://yumekawahanachi.neocities.org/shop/hanachi-zip

If you'd like to support me through all this, I'd appreciate if you stream the album here or even buy the album with extra content here.

To the people who wanted to use my music in reels and stories on Instagram, I regret to inform you... this.

Yeah, you read that right. Instagram won't let me use my own music in my own stories and reels, and won't pay me royalties for the music I PAID to get published on there, all because fuck all. No reason... I appreciate the staff member at Record Union for being kind enough to guide my hand through this issue as it'd been a week with no presence of my album on Instagram, which is why I asked.