Under a week, we have already unlocked so many cool things, thanks to you!
🏳️🌈 Bandana Accessories
The next stretch goal will unlock Bandana Accessories! For $5-7 each, you can accessorize your Pocket Friend if you want to show off more than one identity!
Here is a preview of 7 out of the 12 bandanas designs that will be made. We will also include MLM, Gender Queer, AroAce, PolyAm, and Disability designs! We want to offer more stretch goals to offer more designs as well, yay!
We have produced two bandanas before for Pocket Friends, which you can see below!
🏳️🌈 Sponsor Tiers?
A few backers reached out to us about the possibility of sponsoring plush or bandana designs for certain identities. We are currently crunching numbers with our manufacturer but we think it is a great idea! With manufacturing goods, artists need to meet a certain minimum order quantity (MOQ) in order to get something produced. Plush toys require a high MOQ for us, for example, but since we have such a great relationship with our manufacturer, they will allow us to offer much lower a MOQ (10-25 units) for a few designs.
What do you think? Let us know!
🏳️🌈 Discuss With Us on Discord!
We have a small and friendly community over on Discord where you can get faster updates, talk to other backers, and more!! Everyone is super sweet!
Thank you all so much again for supporting this campaign and making it SO AMAZING!!! We are all so so so grateful!! Since we are nearly at $40,000 for the next stretch goal, we decided to share the voted designs early.. so check them out below!!
Don't see the flag you voted for? Never fear! Another stretch goal is in the works to get more plush made with even more identities!!
A huge thank to our mentors over at GayBreakfast for being incredible and helping us with these designs! We are so grateful for their wisdom! Gaybreakfast is known for thir amazing inclusive enamel pins! Also.. they did our guest pins!!!!
The next plush toy designs will be MLM, Gender Queer, AroAce, Polyamorous, and Disability Pride!
🏳️🌈 Bandanas
I am currently working on the designs for the next goal.. bandanas! They will be representing each of the unlocked designs. With each unlocked plush design, we will make a matching bandana design as well!
🏳️🌈 Discuss With Us on Discord!
We have a small and friendly community over on Discord where you can get faster updates, talk to other backers, and more!! Everyone is super sweet!
You all voted and now a new kitten variant is unlocked. So pretty and magical! Im going away for this upcoming weekend and when I get back I'll be designing the book stacks/cover winner and then well figure out what the next pin/magnet knickknack will be. Right now, bookshelf dragon is winning!!! Also, if we hit 300 backers I'll also give all backers a digital tattoo design sheet and permission to get the designs tattooed on you from your chosen artist. -Stina Now It's time to unlock the next item!!!!
"Swords & Socrates" was just one of many great things which came out of our chat.
Keep an eye out for more cool livestreams during the campaign: On Thursday, July 10th at 7pm EST you can join David, Oliver, and a few special guests for a panel discussion of Robert E. Howard's "Beyond the Black River", a classic Sword & Sorcery tale that has more than a few parallels with SOMETIME LOFTY TOWERS!
We're also working hard to set up at least one other cool livestream that we'll announce later...
DON'T FORGET: Backers aren't charged until the end of the campaign, and you won't be charged for shipping until about a month before fulfillment.
There is no better time to get this book than during the crowdfund!
Did you know this book is being traditionally printed? Yup! This allows us to truly produce the book we want to make right down to choosing a type of paper we feel is closest to what you'd find in classic Sword & Sorcery paperbacks from the 60's and 70's, and it's what lets us offer cool stretch goals like spray color edges.
It also lets us pay the author better!
This gets a tad technical but....because royalties are a percentage of the profit on each book, it's better for everybody if we do trad print because once the print run is paid for, each book starts at 100% sticker cost before you start making deductions.
Thus the author royalties are calculated from a higher net profit per book, putting more in their pocket! It also helps increase Brackenbury Books' odds of surviving to keep hiring authors & artists while making more great books for y'all to enjoy.
With POD you're always starting making deductions at less than 100% because there is no print run to pay off - you're paying Amazon or whoever a chunk right off the bat for every copy's printing for all eternity.
So yes, the more we can do traditional printing the better!
In the classic S&S paperback style, the edges of the books pages will be painted a single, vibrant color. Backers will get to choose which color in a special poll!
Thank you all so much for the INCREDIBLE first day! We are so thankful for all of your support and are really looking forward to getting these friends into production for all of you!
🏳️🌈 Stretch Goals Unlocked
Within the first 24 hours, we have already unlocked THREE stretch goals!! Thank you all so much for your support!!!
🏳️🌈 Next Goal: MORE PLUSH!
Our next goal is introducing five (5) more representations to the Pocket Pride plush series! Many of you already suggested so many identities over at the original post and we have already logged them into a graph to see which ones to make next.
At the moment, the MLM and GenderQueer flags are guanteed!
Feel free to suggest other flags below if you havent commented already on the original post. We will do our best to represent as many identities as possible through more stretch goals, so don't worry! The pace of the campaign is already doing amazing (thanks to you!!!) so we are confident we can add even more plush!
Comment below to suggest what flags/ identities you want to see made into a Pocket Pride plush!
🏳️🌈 Discuss With Us on Discord!
We have a small and friendly community over on Discord where you can get faster updates, talk to other backers, and more!! Everyone is super sweet!
We're so excited to bring Ember to life and we can't wait for you to bring them home. As promised, we have a new plush friend to share with you. So without further ado, introducing Penny!
Penny the Platypus is an adorable 6" tall, super fluffy, and comes with a metallic plush penny (to bring you good luck!) that fits in a secret pouch. We've added Penny as our latest stretch goal to unwrap. You can read more about our plush on the main Story page.
New Pledge Level Added 🎁
Choose one of our 3D dyed metal frames and have your custom phrase printed as a cross-stitch pin! You'll receive ten (10) pins with your custom design to share as you please. Questions? Want more than 10 pins? Shoot us an email at [email protected]!
New Add-Ons 🏳️🌈
Thanks to your input from the last poll, we've added some Pride Flag Nutcrackers pins to the Add-ons! Choose your nutcracker variant in the post-campaign survey. Vote on additional variants to be unlocked in the poll below. If you have more than one choice, make sure to leave it in the comments of the poll.
You can also find some new holiday goodies including mini glitter candy cane pins (great for board fillers or adding a little holiday flair to your collar!) and glitter bauble pins which double as ornaments. Check them out in the Add-onssection!
To those just stopping by while browsing, and to the awesome folks who have already backed the project at launch - hello and THANK YOU!
We're excited to bring you all these awesome pins! As of campaign launch, all FIVE of the chromatic dragons are available for backing, but the metallic dragons are available as stretch goals, and will become available to back as they're funded. Your support is extremely appreciated, if we do smash through the $1k goal, there are even more rewards on the back-burner as incentive, and hopefully some goodies to all you generous folks already pitching in to make this happen 💪
If you have any questions about the project as-is or are experiencing any holdups while backing, feel free to drop a comment below, or email us at [email protected]!
