Kelci D Crawford

Yesterday was my birthday!

I spent the whole thing offline, which is why you haven’t heard from me for a bit.

There were so many good parts to the day that I can’t tell which was the best one!

Well, there was the cake Marc got me: a Dairy Queen ice cream cake with my cartoon face on it (he asked the lady to copy the picture from my business card), and he knows I love my fun initialisms, like DFTBA (Don’t Forget To Be Awesome), so he added DFYAL (Don’t Forget You Are Loved).

It was offbeat, but it’s also one of the sweetest presents I ever got! (I got the first slice. I ate the portion with my right arm in an effort to subconsciously encourage my broken right wrist to heal faster).

Marc also got me knee pads, elbow pads, wrist pads and a helmet, just in case I ever pick up roller skating again.

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And he also gifted me a new wrist wrap! It’s like the back wrap I have already, but for the wrist, so that when the cast comes off, I can have extra support when I draw and write.

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Yesterday was also the first time I ever watched BBC’s Sherlock. Holy shit I had no idea what I was missing! That show is SO good!

And after that Marc and the family and I got together to play board games like the Evil Baby Orphanage.

It was the first time we ever played the Evil Baby Orphanage, and the rules were a little weird and complicated. It took some explaining and talking out loud to figure out what was going on. But we eventually did, and the game was pretty fun. And surprisingly quick! We finished the first (and only) round in fifteen minutes.

The basic premise of the game is that you adopt Evil Babies (like baby Joseph Stalin or baby Hannibal) from the Time Stream and raise them in your Evil Baby Orphanage. Each player has one, and the goal of the game is to accrue a set number of Mischief Points (in our game, we defaulted to 8). Mischief Points are the points your evil babies are worth. But you have to keep your evil babies happy or else they might do something awful, like bully a baby from your orphanage into another orphanage, making you lose points. Whoever can get to 8 Mischief Points wins the game!

But mom and Rob (her boyfriend) weren’t interested in any complicated board or card games, so we changed to Apples to Apples, then Clue.

It was still a fun day though.

Thank you to all my friends who wished me happy birthday yesterday! You are all awesome!

That’s all for today. Thank you for your support!

Please excuse my absence yesterday. I was taking a day-long break from the internet so I could get some writing done and exercise my broken wrist (it’s doing much better now! I can now pick up teacups and write for two hours before stopping, and I can open doors again).

Today’s post is going to be different. Usually I blog about comics, my art, inspiration, etc.

But I wanted to share these sex ed channels with you for many reasons, which I will detail in a minute.

I love good sex education. I especially love those kinds of shows with a sense of humor that’s not insufferable to sit through. Sex is a hard topic to take seriously, but there are times when some sex educators try to make jokes to lighten it up and it just makes it even worse.

Thankfully I found two channels that not only share sex knowledge, but also make it fun and hilarious.

First is the MidWest Teen Sex Show.

Image courtesy of this link.

This was the first ever channel I watched about teen sex education. They have their own website, especially since many of their videos don’t seem to appear on YouTube.

They have since stopped updating, but the videos they did share were both semi-educational and entertaining.

They cover topics from condom use to fetishes, orgasms and the older boyfriend.

I would start with those four videos first, though the orgasm video is highly recommended for the skit involving Detective Boobowski trying to find the criminal Orgasm (it’s hilarious).

The other highly recommended channel in my arsenal is the YouTube channel Sexplanations.

Image courtesy of this link.

This channel is run by Dr. Doe, clinical sexologist and HUGE Firefly fan (she references the show often, especially in her video about How To Get The Sex You Want).

Of course she discusses the obvious topics, like orgasms and both female and male anatomy, but she also does things like interview an intersex person, answer questions about lesbianism, and even provide a rough A to Z of sexual terms.

Dr. Doe’s channel is relatively new and is still updating, so you should subscribe!

She also has a Tumblr, so you should follow her there, too.

“So,” you’re probably wondering, “Why did you make a post about sex ed videos? Sex is weird.”

First, it’s only weird if you think it’s weird.

Second, not only do I enjoy these on an entertainment and intellectual level, but I enjoy what they stand for, which is sex education and healthier living for teens and young adults.

Too often I see awful headlines about how another school has adopted an abstinence-only form of sex education, and too often I meet people who don’t know what’s going on with their own bodies.

(Like, one of my friends was roommates with a girl who thought periods were her baby bleeding out once a month. Hearing that makes me want to slap her parents in the face for teaching her that. This and other awful stories are what I witness from real people in the real world.)

Another thing, too, is that I am aware that a lot of you reading this are either young adults or teenagers, and some of you have not been adequately prepared in this sense. I don’t want to finger-point and say your lack of knowledge is someone else’s fault, because that’s probably already going on.

I would rather be constructive and point you in the right direction so that you can learn about your body and yourself in a constructive, but entertaining, way.

Because having knowledge can make you safe and help you enjoy the experience more.

Thank you for your support, and for remembering to be awesome!

In the last blog post, I mentioned that Marc and I witnessed a black out at Wal-Mart, but I was unable to share the video.

Well now I can!

And in a more official announcement…

In Her Wildest Dreams and Validation Print are now available as prints on pre-order. If you order either of these prints before September 1st (their official launch date), you’ll get your poster autographed by myself and Christian! It’s really cool.

And don’t forget to like Validation’s Facebook Page or My Page to keep up with the latest news from us.

Thank you for your support, and for remembering to be awesome!

Here’s a couple of awesome news announcements:

First, you can now pre-order prints of Validation artwork over at my Storenvy! They officially launch next week, but get your pre-order in and you can get it autographed!

You can pre-order either of the two prints below now (click the images to be taken to an order page):

Also, Validation got a feature in the Daily Xtra! They even add that it’s “what happens when the internet gets it right” and calls it “fresh and witty.” But why am I still blabbing about it? Go read the article!

So this evening Marc and I went to Wal-Mart to pick up a few things after work, when the power unexpectedly went out. I took video of it, but for reasons unknown, the internet gods have bequeathed that the video must not be posted tonight.

So here are some pictures of Marc eating a chicken pipe:

It’s like Colonel Sanders meets Sherlock.

Thank you for your support, and for remembering to be awesome!

Back in May, I finished a sketchbook, and made several videos out of it.

Today, I’d like to share them all here, so you don’t have to spend forever trying to find them.

I’ll put them in sequential order as well. Tada!

Altogether, it’ll take about twenty to thirty minutes to watch all of them, but of course you can pick and choose which videos you’d like to watch. But I hope you enjoy the sketches shown.

Thank you for your support, and for remembering to be awesome!