Good evening, gang! 

God, I hate that. I wanted to be writing this at noon, but, life happened.

Anyways, it's that time: after several weeks of indentured zoomer servitude, Jackass movies, and tearing my hair out, we have everything graded.

We separated the B-grade boys from the A-grade men over the course of several weeks. To say it was a discouraging, frustrating process would be an understatement.

I have almost 4GB of photos and videos from grading that I'll be using to request remakes for many designs. I'm hoping, long term, I can fix this issue. Until I can figure out what's behind this massive increase in issues, I am pivoting my 2 current projects to different factories.

The good news, is, for the most part, we got out safely. We have enough A-grade pins to fulfill most ordered pins. Like with CRITTER CRIMES, however, we are going to have some inventory issues for after sales. There are some designs that will be slim on the HUSTLE.

If you want them, be prepared to snipe these guys the second inventory happens. They will have less than 10 A-grade units available:

C3 pins should be up for $10 A, $7.50 B, on the HUSTLE some time in late Summer or Fall. I will likely have discounted B-grade assortments like for CRIMES pins. I'll figure out the price on those eventually.

Now, while we're in the clear for most designs, there are two designs that are being held back for full defective runs. The Axolotl and Lioness coins are missing fills.

Affected backers should have received an e-mail this morning about this. I pulled every Axolotl and Lioness order out of the fulfillment bins, and I'm waiting on your response to see how you'd like this sorted. There's options for substitutes, partial compensation, and holding off shipping until I can get replacements.

Your last day to respond about this is September 1st. After that, you are leaving things up to fate. And, by fate, I mean my assistants, who will assign you a random B-grade pin based on your name, email, and vibes. Nobody wants that.

Or, if you do, like, at least respond and tell me.

Another slow-burn headache to keep in mind, is Europe just fucked up packaging regulations - again. We're watching this closely, but, it may affect European backers and how they get their items. I don't have any good reading to send people on this, just yet, but it's worth keeping an eye on. We are still waiting on European and THE HYENA FAMILY combined shipping.

Local pickup - read this! If you're one of my Western New York miscreants, your best option right now will be a September 12th event. I will not be at a late August event due to other personal arrangements on the same date. Contact me if you will be here and want your pins then.

Other than that, we're kind of in the same boat we've been for a bit. I'm going to go start pulling orders. Shipping notifications received last week, as well as today, will be going to the post office tomorrow.

Domestic C3 backers, expect your stuff to start moving this week. Thanks for being here!

Anyways, you seen this mess yet? We're $150 away from the crusty little white dogs. Neat. Look at that.