Project Update: SURVEYS SENT. PICTURE-HEAVY UPDATE: more pin + shaker (and some pudding) info
** Parts of this update were written weeks ago because of the issues I've been having with my hands; it took me a long time to get the survey out and take pictures of the puddings/shakers because of pain. **
I'm sorry, I know with Pintopia going on this is HORRIBLE timing but it's the best I could do. Hard-ish deadline for this survey is February 9th. On that date, I will mark anything low stock as "hidden" if I'm taking it with me to Katsucon, and you will not be able to select it. Anything purchased during the live campaign/selected before that point is still reserved for you. I will not CHARGE until Feb 13th, unless you are someone who selected the option to be charged upon submission. Shipping will begin in the latter half of February because I will need time to recover after Katsucon to avoid Post-Exertional Malaise. CONTACT ME if you need an extension on payment so that I know to still reserve your items - I don't bite!! (email: [email protected])
I'm sorry, I know with Pintopia going on this is HORRIBLE timing but it's the best I could do. Hard-ish deadline for this survey is February 9th. On that date, I will mark anything low stock as "hidden" if I'm taking it with me to Katsucon, and you will not be able to select it. Anything purchased during the live campaign/selected before that point is still reserved for you. I will not CHARGE until Feb 13th, unless you are someone who selected the option to be charged upon submission. Shipping will begin in the latter half of February because I will need time to recover after Katsucon to avoid Post-Exertional Malaise. CONTACT ME if you need an extension on payment so that I know to still reserve your items - I don't bite!! (email: [email protected])
Pin updates:
Dullahan and Mummy are in my hands:
I haven't graded them all yet, but here are the pros and cons so far.
Pros: for very metal-heavy designs, there are very very few scratches; the pearl details look nice; the glow enamel works well; the polishing seems pretty even (no super blown-out lines); the print work is very clean.
Con (singular con noticed thus far): all of Dullahan appear to have pitting in the black swirly pearl (the smoke). This means there were microbubbles in the enamel when it hardened, a lot of them, and when they were polished the microbubbles became holes. They're not noticeable at arm's length so I'm still considering them to be standards, but this is still an avoidable issue that's quite frustrating, so I apologize for it.
Correct Gorgon as well:
Reminder of Golem and TV Cat:
WIP of remake of Angel with correct pearl effect:
Harpy and Kuchisake-Onna are just waiting on printing:
The 2nd half payment for Harpy and Kuchisake-Onna, which is required for them to ship to me, will have to be raised via this survey. Anyone who chooses to be charged upon submission will have their pledge (sans shipping) applied to that balance, helping me out immensely. Thank you!
Angel, Kuchisake-Onna, and Harpy should ALL be here before I begin shipping end of Feb.
Here are the gacha snakes I funded from the Gacha Marketplace, and their preorder store for individual choice is available here for just a few more days:
Extra Golem stickers are also in the survey:
I don't know what the final of the green bat looks like because they haven't shown me.
I also have the liquid shakers and I applied my art to them already, so I can show you how they look! They're on the survey!
Eye candy:**
All colorways I wanted to make of eye candy exist now! For the konpeito milk-inspired one, all the eyeball and konpeito colors and the decal are random. By the decal, I mean that I digitally airbrushed each "eye candy" logo independently with different pastels so none are exactly the same.
Chewy eye boba:**
Check out the reflections for those eye beads!!
A purple version of the eye boba** is currently wip but didn't get here in time for this survey. It should be in my final online shop opening after Katsucon, and since I'll start shipping late Feb, I added it as a limited add-on but it will be technically a preorder. It looks REALLY cool:
Also, "Mermaid slime jelly pudding" (unfortunately not actually slime, jelly, or pudding - it's a squishy) will also be on surveys:
And I now have a couple colorway options for fangtastic blood pudding so I added that too (even though I opted not to do my vamp as a pin 🥲):
The version with opaque pudding comes with a red ball chain and the version with translucent red comes with red syringe clasps. The art is also glossy (like most of mine) and hand-applied for the red ones, and the orangier ones are printed on.
I am also adding blood ion jelly**
They come with red blood bag clasps.
Lastly I adapted the brain cake and zombie snax art I had before to a zombie snax pudding lid design** also!!
I.... really love the pudding squishies. And I'm allergic to silicone so it makes me extra happy that these are TPR not silicone. I have over 25 pudding lid designs now.
I apply all these transfers by hand (excluding the ones with matte printing) so placement will vary, especially because of my hand pain and tremors, but I'm doing my best and anything super off kilter I hang onto and will sell as B grade someday, I guess at conventions.
All of these things are also on the survey and kinda limited but I did have to order full stock of them, so I really don't expect anything to come close to selling out. So Katsucon will be very monster girl heavy for me lol.
I meant to send out surveys Jan 1st, but so many things just were out of my hands. Ultimately, I'm glad that Mummy, Dullahan, and Mermaid (backers only, see below) arrived before I sent them.
I have made a preorder store with the above listings. Preorder store does NOT include individual listings of girls, however, only gacha spins. Preorder listings for this campaign are NOT charged immediately upon submission, so please let me know if you are purchasing and want to combine shipping with something else that hasn't gone out yet.
**ALL ITEMS WITH THESE ASTERISKS NEXT TO THE NAME ARE GOING TO BE INDEFINITE MERCHANDISE AND ELIGIBLE FOR RESTOCK BASED ON DEMAND, AS THEY ARE CONNECTED TO MY GAME DEV THEMATICALLY. As a reminder, I won't never sell things online again, they will just be items dedicated to my games once all the misc now-considered-limited-edition merchandise has sold out. I will be keeping the midnightsprings.com url but I'm very unlikely to keep the bigcartel. We'll see what happens.
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