I just put our surveys in for final review by BackerKit, so I hope to be able to send out the smoke test within a couple of days.

We still have about $525 in failed charges. Please check your email, update your cards, and get yourself ready to rock for the surveys. :) I can't chase people so we will mark pledges as cancelled once the surveys go out if your pledge is not paid at that point.

Because of how add-ons work, those of you who added on the Proud to the Bone add-on pin and Single Sticker items during the campaign will see a credit on your pledge amount for those items. Please select those in the add-on stage. This allows us to add in the Glow-In-the-Dark Human Skull, which only comes in one flag (Progress) and to allow a wider selection of stickers as single-sticker add-ons, including those from prior Kickstarters!

The pre-order store is also open now, so if you missed this campaign and still want to get in on the snark, it's ready and waiting!

Hello friends! 

We currently have about $1300 in failed and uncharted (incorrect card information) pledges. I have been the person who forgot to update my card, so I totally get it, but:

Please make sure to update your cards or move funds around as necessary ASAP, because that is... an unsustainable amount of failed pledges, about 14% of the campaign goal, and covering multiple stretch goals.

We do not have the ability or the manpower to chase folx whose pledges don't charge and we did make clear we would be canceling those pledges if they are not paid by the time the project pays out to us, about 2w after project close.

On a happier note, my plan is to get surveys out to y'all next week, if possible. The faster surveys are out and answered, the faster I can order pins, and the faster you get pins! :)

Spider

Hey y'all -

We've seen such a surge in the last 10 hours that I felt like I wanted to reward that. I've adjusted the 4A/10A pin goal down to $9500, so as of now we've unlocked those as add-ons, and the "free 4A/10A pins for 3+ pin backers" is now at $10K, so less than $500 away!

Let's bring this home. :) 

Quick update: the add-ons are live now, including a full set of the mini pins, which includes all 3 metal variants of both pins at a price that's equal to getting one pin free! :]

Exactly what it says on the tin: the alternate metals for the brass pins are unlocked, and we've got 2 pins left to go in the last 15h.

Thank you again for your support, if you don't see this until the campaign is over. 💗

Spider

Hey y'all! 

Yesterday we were within spitting distance of unlocking the next set of pins, as we were at just under $8900. Unfortunately it looks like we had a rash of cancelations overnight, which does happen at the last minute as people's financial situations change, and we're about $300 away from that goal. That's totally doable in the last day, as hopefully everybody who has been thinking about it gets this email and remembers to pledge or add on that add-on they'd been eyeing. ;)

Once the campaign actually closes, we will be working on putting together surveys, and when BackerKit rolls over the information to us & our surveys are approved, we'll smoke test those. I hope to get to those pretty quickly, but I'm running behind where I wanted to be due to the one-two punch of a severe glutening and a Death Cold one right after the other. I'll have a more firm update for you on that, as well as possibilities for unlocking any missed stretch goals in the survey/add-on/web store phase, as soon as possible.

Thank you for supporting this project - this past year has seen some huge changes for us, and I haven't put out a pin project since Historically Queer in 2024. I was a little gunshy about getting back into it, but we brought our whole heart like we usually do, and y'all responded in kind. Our samples are in process and I'm looking forward to sharing pictures and updates with you as soon as we get them as well. 

Solidarity Always,
Spider