We are officially one day away from Midnight Festival 2's launch and the rest Dark Carnival event's great showing! There's a magnificent selection of projects featured in this event, so we've included a link to a few of our favorites down below at the end of this update, be sure to check them out! <3

Now before we get into our competition poll, here's a quick update/reminder of what we will be featuring during this project :3

We plan to unlock each of our pins in 12 milestones in the order seen below. Each milestone will feature a standard 1.5" dual-prong hard enamel pin designed after Yokai within Japanese Mythology, accompanied with it will be a mini 0.75" single-prong hard enamel pin designed from festival foods and snacks :>
If we unlock all 12 milestones, we have some additional stretch-goals being worked on behind the scenes, fingers crossed we'll get to share that with you all!

Each of the following treasures will be available to backers with the unlocking of our first milestone, some will be included in higher tier pledge levels, but all will be available through add-ons :>

Firstly we'd like to thank each and every one of the artists who shared with us their works! Tokii and I had a marvelous time looking at all of the talent among the members of our supporters :>

I had unfortunately gotten some of my wires crossed last update when it came to timeline shenanigans, I thought there was a little more time than there actually was, so if you're seeing this announcement we are no longer taking submissions for this competition. I apologize for any inconvenience.

Now, let's show of your art for the competition!

Tabby's Link: digitallyfanged.com

There was so much more that these artists sent to us, and all of them were a sweet treat for they eyes! We've narrowed it down to one piece from each artist, and now it's your turn to decide the winners! you can do so in this poll here! :3

Now as alluded to earlier, there are a menagerie of awesome talent being showcased in the Dark Carnival, we are so grateful to have this opportunity to display our work beside theirs! Here's a few in particular that we are super stoked to see launch!

As big fans of all things extraordinary, Tokii and I are super excited to see our friend Abysmal Kaiju showing of such a eyebrow-raising collection of mystique! Kaiju is a talented artist with lots of experience making pins, we're proud to have backed them in the past and would highly suggest their work to you as well! :>

If you have a love for the creepies and chained pins Royarach has more than what you wanted! their use of chains in the designs they've shown is jaw-droppingly cool! Their use of soft enamel allows them to be very creative with their line art, and their hard enamel bear pin comes in two pieces connected by chain - almost allowing them to juggle in real time! :0

Steakjoke has been a personal friend of Tokii and I for years, and we are super excited to be partnering up with them for their very first crowdfunding campaign! Now, biases aside, we are so excited to see a campaign featuring the legendary Fae - a criminally underdone theme in our opinion! Be sure to show Steakjoke some love as they start their pin making journey! (coughcough and you also get two free stickers for backing both of us coughcough) :3

When I was younger I had a marvelous bug collection, and while that collection has long since disappeared my memories of it as well as my love for dragons hasn't begun to leave my mind! Snapling brings both interests of mine to the table with their elaborately clever Taxidermy Dragons campaign! From butterfly and river dragons to wings and eggs it is awesome how well executed Snapling's ideas are, and I for one am so excited to see them launch >:D

With one of us having a lengthy history with sleep paralysis demons and other night terrors, the themes of this campaign send a shiver up our spines! Rainy Day's design work for their Endless Chase pin is mesmerizing! and their Funnel Cake pin is unfortunately good enough to eat! ^u^

We'd like to take a moment to thank you all again for the love and patronage you have shown to our team and for our work. We're excited to revisit our roots with you all during the Midnight Festival 2 campaign, but we want to reiterate that we could not have gotten here without the overwhelming support you guys have for us.
We'll continue to show our gratitude for this love by pouring our hearts into every project we do. Thank you <3

Stay adventurous,
- Jacob & Tokii