KikiDoodle & Purrmaids

Oooh, i might need to pick up some things from you, too!

The skeleton of KikiDoodle's booth with carpet and walls, but no artwork up, yet.

Naked booth! It's always fun seeing it in this stage. I get to Seattle an extra day early for ECCC prep since I do the entire setup solo.

She knows Carl doesn't know enough to correct her

Unreliable, always, but my head cannon is that she THINKS everything she says about cat shows is correct, but she's relying on her own unreliable memory from before she became sapient.

It just becomes an info dump with a lot of irreverent info!

And if you ever need extra copies of some pages I can give you files. They give away a free .pdf of it if anyone asks :)

Im going to manifest that we run into one another at a PNW convention and he reveals who he is only after I rant for 3 whole minutes about cat shows and thoroughly embarras myself. I have no face memory, so I'd have no idea who I was talking to.

It's how I have all my best conversations.

Even V, who has only attended a couple of shows with me brought that statement up to go "that really couldn't happen, right?"

Anyway, great books. Very fun.

If it makes you want to do cat show stuff, TICA is a bit more newcomer friendly. Plus they hired me to draw a coloring book which was nifty.

I decided on unreliable narrator when Princess Donut makes a quip about a show persian who knocked up a sphynx at a cat show. So many things would have to go chaotically wrong with a LOT of very bad decisions for that to even remotely have a chance to happen. It wouldn't. But it's a funny statement.

He said "pet shows" and I kinda wonder if he meant... cat AND dog shows.

My reason for that is that I attend local cat shows and .... there just isn't really good money with cat shows. And they are infrequent. I'd love to talk to him one day because I would LOVE to know that history 😹

They said they did pet portraits at pet shows, so I kinda think that they attended DOG shows, and after writing the book had a cat show person suggest edits to correct certain language, but they just went "😬 close enough..." on most of it, and I would have done the same. Its Too Opaque.

Also, CFA and TICA (cat show clubs within the US) have entirely different scoring systems.
GC is significantly more impressive in CFA, and I had to look that up, because I have SGC and QGC TICA cats (3 and 4 steps above GC).

You don't need to look any of that up.
Opaque, like I said.

Having knowledge of an extremely niche subject that is both well known (everyone knows pet shows are a thing) and yet extremely opaque unless you're IN it, means you just gotta interpret folk's INTENT rather than attempt to correct anything that feels "wrong"

I've been reading Dungeon Crawler Carl with V, and it's GREAT.

My only issue is a very personal one... I understand how cat shows and show cats work, now. I can tell when a writer mixes up dog shows with cat shows or when terminology is gobbeldy gook.

I've decided Donut is an unreliable narrator.

I am very not ready

Beautiful baby!! I have my own <3

Artwork depicting 10 different types of orange cats. There is text that says "Seek & find" Second line has an unchecked box followed by "One braincell"

Artwork depicting 10 different types of tortie cats, from a tortie point, to a torbie, to a calico and standard tortie. There is text that says "tortitude"

Two new prints that I'll have with me at ECCC! Companion pieces to my "Anatomy of a Void" 👀
#artpost

💞💞 i love a red point! My first heart cat was one

Torbies are magical like that!

I thank V for the idea for the text 😹

She's such a pretty torbie!

Artwork depicting 10 different types of orange cats. There is text that says "Seek & find" Second line has an unchecked box followed by "One braincell"

Artwork depicting 10 different types of tortie cats, from a tortie point, to a torbie, to a calico and standard tortie. There is text that says "tortitude"

Two new prints that I'll have with me at ECCC! Companion pieces to my "Anatomy of a Void" 👀
#artpost

We just don't want them burning their paws!

A tiny calico cornish rex is perched on top of a stove behind a pile of cat blocking spikes. She seems very cozy. The little shit.

Dawni is ungovernable.
#cats

All the other cats stay off the counters for the most part. Dawni LOVES the kitchen counter. Im considering bringing in a tall cat tree or building platforms so there are cat safe places to perch in the kitchen. Maybe a summer task.

She just passes through the impassable like a tiny goat on a cliffside.

The .15 fee adds up for small items!
For a $1 swipe total fees reach 17%! That's also why many artists won't take cards for purchases under $5.

Shouldn't be on tips.

So, if I sell a $100 item square takes a one time fee (probably around $.15 cents) + the 2.6% fee on the total sale ($2.60) and if they use an international credit card an additional 1.5% ($1.50).
So $4.24 in fees for one sale.

I think she considers the spikes an obstacle course, only.

A tiny calico cornish rex is perched on top of a stove behind a pile of cat blocking spikes. She seems very cozy. The little shit.

Dawni is ungovernable.
#cats