It’s gonna be okay.

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If you’re subscribed to my art substack you already got this letter from me, but I’m also posting it here just in case you need it:

This is a stressful week for a lot of us and that’s probably why this came out of me when I turned off the world and stopped to draw…

Normally I alway write words on every drawing but I don’t have them for this doodle yet. What I do have though is the knowledge that even though the future is a place we can never see clearly, so many of you hold a light up in the world…so many of you are a light in this world. We may not be able to see what comes ahead but I know that no matter what, I’m here with you…around a flickering candle that will continue to shine. And I know that when my candle goes out you’ll lend me your flame…and vice versa. That’s how hope grows. That’s how kindness spreads.

Thank you for shining in a world that sometimes appears dark. It may seem such a small ember, but it glows like a lighthouse in the world, reminding us that we are so very far from being alone.

I super crazy love you,

~ Jenny

This is what comes of reading more than you talk to actual people.

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A few days ago I admitted on threads that I have been mispronouncing the word “calamity” for my entire life and I only found out that I’d been mispronouncing it when I used it incorrectly on a conference call because of course I did. And then people on threads were like, “Wait, how do you pronounce it?” and I was like, “Lamè, llama, Lamar…cuh-LOM-uh-tee” to explain why I thought it was pronounced that way but then a bunch of people were like, “Wait, have I been pronouncing it wrong my whole life too??” and I felt a little better that I wasn’t the only one fucking it up, but then I realized that quite a few people were thinking that I was giving the corrected pronunciation (rather than explaining why I’d always mispronounced it) and then they thought that they were wrong for rhyming “calamity” with “manatee” even though that’s (apparently) the correct way and so now I think I’ve accidentally convinced a lot of people who were pronouncing it correctly to now mispronounce it and this seems like a very good example of a calamity even though I’m still not entirely sure how to pronounce it.

It’s Halloween Eve…what should I watch?

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Y’all know I am a giant horror aficionado, and so Halloween is my jam. I’ve been watching horror movies all week…just letting my algorithm tell me what to watch next and it has been very hit-or-miss. So if you are also a lover of horror, please chime in on your faves. (Extra credit for psychological thrillers, twists, paranormal, gothic, creepy.)

Here’s what I’ve watched so far in the last week:

Trap (better than expected)

MaXXXine (An okay ending to the trilogy, but everything pales in comparison to the glory that is Pearl)

The Ritual (creepy folk horror…yep)

1922 (Hello, atmosphere)

We’re All Going to the World’s Fair (why is this labeled as “horror”? This was not horror.)

MA (Worth it just for Octavia Spencer)

The Substance (Hailey and I saw this at a haunted movie theater and loved it.)

Late Night with the Devil (thumbs up)

Sissy (is it possible to have “comfort” horror shows? Because this is one of mine.)

The Others (possibly my favorite horror film. I rewatch it every year.)

Outside (A different take on the classic zombie movie. Mildly infuriating.)

Suggestions?

Haunted dollhouse continued…

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It’s almost Halloween so I’m giving an updated video walk-through of my witch’s dollhouse on instagram. I can’t believe I’ve been building it for almost two decades. Feel free to stay awhile. It’s filled with over 100 references to my favorite horror and fantasy books and movies. (Pictures below if you don’t do instagram.)

How many do you recognize?

Honk if you also didn’t know what this meant

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So this morning I was telling Victor that I’d only recently realized that all of those “HONK IF YOU’RE HORNY” bumper stickers that everyone inexplicably had on their car when we were kids were not actually a call for other drivers to indicate they wanted to have sex, and that instead it was to keep people from honking at you when you did something wrong, because if someone wanted to honk angrily at you they probably wouldn’t if you had that sticker because it’s basically like admitting, “Yes I am sexually unfulfilled and want people to know it” and then no one ever honks at you.

And Victor was like, “Duh. Of course that’s what it meant” and then I started to wonder if I was the only person who’d thought the HONK IF YOU’RE HORNY movement was just for pervy swingers to find each other without leaving the car so then I asked two other friends and they were like, “First off, where were you when you saw this bumper sticker? 1982?” and then they admitted that they didn’t know what it meant either and so we looked it up and the internet was like, “HONK IF YOUR HORNY was a jokey play on words because you use a car horn to honk“, and somehow this is even worse because that’s not even funny and basically the whole world was driving around with a lightly sexual dad joke on their car in the 80s?

Anyway, honk if you also didn’t know this because I’m feeling very dumb right now.

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