Thank you all SO MUCH again for all the love and support since we launched! I'm having a great time working on this project thanks to all of you!
With that said, it's finally time to reveal the FINAL pin design -- the Backer Voted pin! Drumroll please... your winner is the Progress Pride Flag!
By an INCREDIBLY close margin once again, yeesh! Y'all almost had a SECOND tie!
As a cherry on top, though, I have the design ready for you all NOW! Here it is!
I do have one more exciting announcement -- I will be vending at a VIRTUAL con this weekend that all of you are welcome to attend for FREE! It takes place on Discord via the Spots application -- for more information, you can check out THIS TikTok. It's so cool and I'm excited to be part of a really cool emerging option for artists to get their stuff in front of folks!
Here's a sneak peak at my booth:
I hope to see you all there! I'll also be streaming on Twitch from 1-5pm CST!
So, it doesn’t look like we are going to reach the mini paw pin stretch goals, so I have removed them from the campaign.
But that’s okay, because we are so close to unlocking the last of our lions! 🦁 Because we hit 100 backers today I added a Free Mystery Sticker goal to celebrate that achievement!
All backers will receive a Mystery Vinyl Sticker of one of our unlocked Lion designs! 🏳️🌈
Thank you so much for being here! I hope you have a wonderful week!
I'm glad to announce that all 16 pins have been funded!
At current pace it doesn't look like I will be able to add any more flags to the base campaign. I do still intend to add the aforementioned flags to be unlocked via pre-orders, so we will have to see then what can get funded or not. I will share those designs as I finish them! If I don't get to them before the campaign is over you will see them in another announcement of when they are up for order.
I wanted to let you know that I have added new stretch goals to the campaign!
For the polls, I was looking for specific numbers to be able to make variants or new designs of. There were 4 that had enough interest for a variant and the disability flag had enough interest for a new design.
I hope you like them!
All new designs including the disability pin are all standard pins, so they’ll be additional options you can choose from if they fund.
Unless something major happens, I’ll probably won’t update much again until after the campaign ends next week. In the meantime, I’ll be working on getting the survey up and ready to go!
Once again, thanks so much for voting in the poll! It ended up being a REAL nailbiter... so much so, we ended IN A TIE!
Because of that, I'm going to do ONE MORE poll to decided our FINAL winner! This poll is between the Progress and Queer pride flags! Both are excellent choices, so I'm excited to see what y'all's final verdict is! I will be announcing the winner on Wednesday!
Now, with that said, I also have a reveal for a few new designs from our wonderful sponsors! I showed off the Poly design in the last update, and let you all know the disability flag was on the way. We got two more sponsors over the weekend as well! So, we now have Poly, Disability, Genderfluid and Omnisexual flags avaliable!
We've still got til the 26th for this campaign, so I'm excited to see just how much we're able to grow the campaign over the following weeks! It really means the world to me to be able to get so much support on this!
On a more personal note, I thought I'd talk about my own journey wtih gender and sexuality, alongside my husband. Since you're supporting us, I thought it would be good to let you all know about our own experiences!
I grew up in a very conservative town, and it wasn't until I moved out I was able to come to terms with being Bi (despite there being rumors about it in high school, which I denied because "I have a boyfriend!" LOL). My gender journey also started during high school, and while I once felt closely aligned with genderfluid, nowadays Demigirl is what really hits home for me. Most of the time, you'll see me call myself a cis woman (as I am AFAB), but I've always had a hard time connecting with womanhood in the traditional sense. I don't use the label often, but it's nice to have a word to better explain myself.
My husband VERY recently found the label that makes the most sense for him gender wise, which is Agender! This wasn't at all a shock to me -- he's always been a bit of an enigma gender wise, lol. We have frequently joked that his gender is "whatever fits the current bit". I'm planning on snagging some pins from other campaigns for him to celebrate, and if I have the opportunity, I may add it here (and if not, it's on the shortlist for a sequel campaign!)
If any of you are comfortable sharing, I'd love to hear about your own journeys here in the comments!
That's all from me for now. I hope you all had a great weekend, and I'll talk to you soon!
Hello Everyone, after getting a bunch of comments, I've added 8 more pride colorations! If you have one you really want, please let me know, as I may add more later too! :)
I am here to share the winners of the poll for the 2 new isopod pins!
The new pins are.... Disability & Queer!! Disability won by a landslide, like it wasn't even close. I'm so glad everyone likes it so much! Queer and Poly (heart) were tied in the poll but including comments, Queer ended up pulling through!
I feel sad knowing poly will get left out so here's what I'm gonna do. At $2k funding we'll unlock BOTH Poly flags and a bonus 3rd if there's interest! I want as many people to feel represented as possible.
So increase your pledges, or pledge if you haven't so we can get even more little rolly pollys made! Kai
We're already most of the way through the stretch goals for this campaign, so I've updated them to add more!
Additional Stretch Goals
I decided that I wanted to make sure folks could get the critters they want, regardless of the semi-arbitrary flag colors I assigned to each one, so at $5,000 a rainbow colorway will unlock for ALL critter pins.
I've also created a survey to decide what critter/colorway combinations to add next. Backerkit polls aren't robust enough for the number of options this campaign needs, so I set this up as an anonymous Google Form. Whatever combinations we don't get to during the main campaign will be added as post-campaign stretch goals during the pledge manager and pre-order store (they'll come to life if a minimum order number is met). Please go crazy with your responses and tell me ALL the combinations you'd be interested in seeing - the more data the better!
Pledge Level and Add-on Updates
I've created a new sticker set that includes the six new rainbow flag colored critters. The new stickers will also be available for individual purchase, but I am not able to update the Sticker Set add-on items or pledge tiers to include them this late in the campaign (sorry). I've also created an add-on for the Love Bugs mini pin, in case anyone missed it during the Early-Bird period or wants an extra!
There's also a new pledge tier! The Critter Collector tier includes seven pins, which means you could get the rainbow garden spider and all the new rainbow critters if they unlock. If you've already pledged, changing tiers won't impact Early-Bird or Returning backer incentives.
Thank you all for your support and input. I'm excited to see where this campaign can go from here!
