hey!!! whats up??!!!!!! i'll tell you what's up... A NEW MERCH DESIGN BABEY!!!!!! as well as several others that i forgot to advertise but who cares about those?? the full piece will be up on my actual birthday but for now i've decided to give yall early access to some sick new t-shirts to celebrate 20 years of slug love! the design is available in two color variants: black print on a white shirt, and white print on a black shirt. pick your favorite and rep the freak shit! and here's to many more years of it!!

and remember you can find even more cool shit on both my Teezr store and my website!

I know at this point I really only use my blog to complain. I want to make it clear that my goal isn’t to make anybody feel bad for me. My family is in a real rough patch right now and we don’t know what to do. The best thing I can think of is to call on my followers for support.

Here’s the rundown of what’s happening: Last Thursday evening, the main power box to our house burst completely leaving us with only one room in the entire house with enough electricity to keep us cool. We were at major risk of both heat stroke and electrical fires. The landlords of our trailer park did not send out an actual electrician until Friday night who shut off our power for safety reasons leaving us forced to stay in a hotel until further notice. We’ve been going through a massive rut ever since then. While I’m doubtful we’ll reach our goals given my small follower count, every little bit helps and I would greatly appreciate if you would donate. More information on our situation is in the GoFundMe linked below.

https://gofund.me/b700d41e

If you can’t donate, please share. We could use all the help we can get right now.

I'm very sorry for the serious post right now and for grieving so publicly. I have never once mentioned my pets on this account, let alone shared any images or stories about the life recently lost. You all will have no attachment to him. But the wounds are still fresh, and I want to share the love for this precious angel now that he's no longer with us. Content warning for mentions of animal cruelty.

Captain Jonas (or simply Jonas, or CJ) was my outdoors cat. We had taken him in roughly a year ago after his previous owners, our neighbors, moved out and left him behind. We quickly bonded to him. He knew that home was our front porch, that he would get breakfast and dinner in his little house every day, and that he had a family who loved him more than anything. We desperately wanted to bring him inside with us, but we were hesitant to because our dogs and other two cats didn't like him. Despite being outside for his whole short life, Jonas always greeted us with his sweet little meows every time we came home. He would sleep on his favorite lawn chair and walk with us in the garden. He loved to sit on our laps. He went crazy for butt scratches and belly rubs. He would roll in the grass to let us know he wanted attention. He knew that he was safe with our family. He was our baby, and he knew it. He had all of us wrapped around his little tuxedo colored paw.

Jonas suddenly went missing a week ago. We had hoped he was simply hiding under the house to stay cool in the Oklahoma summer heat. We were worried, but none of us were expecting the worst. However, this morning, while walking our dogs, my mom found him curled up behind the air conditioner. Some cruel motherfucker in our neighborhood shot him point blank through the head with an arrow, she said. We don't know who, when, or why somebody would do this to an innocent animal who wanted nothing more than to snuggle with every new person he met. It was clearly intentional, and had clearly been there for several days. He was still alive when they found him - But there was no other option that we had to continue giving him a happy, fulfilling life. The arrow had gone through his brain, according to the vet. If he was kept alive, he would only continue to suffer. He had to be put to sleep. I was at work when they found him and never got to say goodbye. I hate myself for it. But I plan to keep his ashes in my bedroom as a reminder.

Jonas was young. Only around 3 or 4 years old. He was healthy, and loving. He did nothing to deserve dying so cruelly at the hands of such a monster. We did everything we could for him, even in his final moments. He was one of the best cats I have ever known. Though his time with us was short, his legacy lives on in our hearts and minds. His life is proof that animals, cats in particular, love us just as much as we love them. Our house feels so empty without him trotting up to us when we pull into the driveway. He was special. I already miss him more than words can describe.

Goodbye, Jonas. I'm so sorry we couldn't save you. I love you.

i'm proud to announce that i am now an approved artists on Teezr! Teezr is a print-on-demand marketplace made by and for emerging artists. they offer competitive payouts compared to other print-on-demand art services and all artists are verified to ensure the catalog only contains original, human-created designs. my first ever clothing design, "BUGBRAIN", is now available for purchase on my Teezr store!

https://tee-zr.com/store/slugjuice/

hey, its me again! im gonna try to keep this brief? and im not gonna yap and make fun of myself like normal, if sincerity bothers you what are you even doing here. go touch grass or something not everything needs to be drowned in layers of irony. anyways heres some real shit: im getting back in that rut of not feeling confident in my art, not really enjoying the process at all, stuff like that. theres a lot of stuff i either have no intention of posting or i just straight up didnt finish because i hate it so much. i have a specific direction i want my art to go, but its kinda hard to achieve that when you cant even get the motivation to draw the most basic shit. to be clear the direction i want my art to go is i want to make more surreal cute-horror type shit. surrealism is literally my top favorite type of art of all time. so my art's probably gonna start taking on a slightly different style from here on out, hope you stick around for it, if not thats fine too. but all that to say im probably gonna be offline even more than i already am. i think being online sort of makes me feel less inspired and less motivated? i get stuck in that shitty endless loop of doomscrolling and getting influenced by art that doesnt even interest me just bc thats what the AlGoRiThM wants. and ik with newgrounds that isnt exactly an issue but theres also like the issue that i feel like im not allowed to be vulnerable in my art even though thats literally why i make art to begin with. i'd say for the most part, what you see of me is pretty accurate to my IRL personality. but my public presence is WAY different from how i act in private bc theres simply some stuff i dont want to express to people i dont know. the me you see is still me, just filtered. that said, though, there is still a lot of vulnerable shit in my art. obviously the occasional vent art and ive been making some kink shit lately that i wanna start sharing on here. and i think the only way i can really feel comfortable making art is if i feel like i can express those thoughts and emotions and shit that dont entirely align with peoples' idea of me based on my public profiles. i think i have a right to share more intimate parts of who i am while still having a right to privacy and not feeling obligated to share every single little aspect of my mental health struggles to strangers. so yeah on top of the shift in style there might be a bit more kink and vent art sprinkled in. and "ohhh didnt you already post vent art???" but im gonna be so real that was during an even longer phase of this whole I Fucking Hate My Art moment and half of that shit was just made for the aesthetic and i made up some random nonsense to go along with it so people would think i gave a shit. i was like recently 19 and now im going on 20 next month which is genuinely insane to think about and ive learned a lot about myself, my art process, that kinda shit. honestly i always feel like i gotta apologize for shit like this and ig making this post isnt any exception but, whatever. on the bright side of all of this i finally managed to land a new part time job, so i wont be as financially in the gutter anymore! that will mean even less frequent posting than usual. but i think forcing myself to actually get up and be a functioning member of society for a few hours will be healthy for me. i may be a cog in the machine of capitalism but at least its an avenue for me to start focusing even harder on all my IRL health bullshit. also its at a store thats like 3 minutes away from my house so i get to buy frozen soup dumplings whenever i want. so uh yeah peace ig

https://ko-fi.com/maniczombiedreamgirl/commissions

im not gonna yap about my financial situation yall already KNOW my ass is in the gutter. you should give me money so i can draw your fursona or maybe you ksising your favorite character. i will draw ALMOST anything. get your ass in here

yo, what's up? im gonna let yall in on a little secret: i've actually been having a lot of trouble feeling proud of my art for a while. even though i left social media i still got this little asshole in the back of my mind telling me i have to post constantly and rush out all the art i make. ironically tho the complete lack of motivation means that as im shitting these drawings out, im also only spending like, 5 minutes on them at a time, so it takes forever to get them done. so, there's very few pieces i've made lately that i actually can say i enjoy (since around mid 2024 but especially early 2025 is when i started feeling extra terrible about my art). without getting too whiny about it here, even with me significantly slowing down how much i post, it doesnt feel like enough to bring back the passion i once had for art. its not the subject matter or even the quality of the art itself, its 100% the mindset i have when i go into making art thats been draining me and making it really hard for me to actually enjoy anything i create. like, theres just so much in my gallery that i would've deleted by now if i weren't preserving all my art online because i hate it so much entirely on the basis that i have no idea what the hell was going on in my mind when i shat it out just for the sake of having something to post that week. SO HERES WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO ABOUT IT, OKAY? instead of complaining and whining like a little bitch baby about how art doesn't feel fun anymore, i'm gonna just, stop posting stuff the moment its finished. instead i'll draw throughout the week, and on either friday or the weekend idfk yet, i'll post a small dump of whatever i finished that i think is worth sharing. i've had ideas of what direction i want my art to go in but shitting stuff out with no passion is not gonna get me there. so its all gonna stay private and personal unless i think it deserves to be posted. so yes posting will be just as if not More infrequent than before but i think that what DOES get posted will be a whole fuckton better than what you've been seeing from me so far this year. ive already somewhat been doing this and i think its working like i think my last 2 pieces are a massive jump up from what ive been posting. so we're gonna go even harder into it. not only will i only be posting the stuff i actually WANT people to see but i think it will just generally start to show more in my art that im having fun and making stuff that actually speaks to me and all that pretentious junk. cuz i think you can definitely tell just by Looking At It when i couldnt give less of a shit about making art. and i do NOT wanna keep being a whiner about it i wanna actually do something to fix the issue. so thats what im doing. yay! i dont know if anyone cares but i care so fuck off

New Roadkill update up now on the website and tomorrow here on Newgrounds!

https://slugjuice.com/

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HEY!!! i know i don't have the largest following, but if you're a fan of my webcomic, Roadkill, and want one of these stupid guys to be real and huggable, vote in this poll and tell me who you'd buy as a plush!

https://strawpoll.com/kjn1D2aKeyQ

i think this is something we could really make happen. so lets do it!!!!!!