Midnight Springs
CREATOR
4 months ago
Project Update: Thank you so much!!
Hi everyone!! Thank you!!!!!
I'm actually really blown away. Getting sappy/personal for a sec: my health is really poor. Doing conventions has been taking major tolls on me, and every one makes my health baseline seemingly permanently incrementally worse (Post-Exertional Malaise from CFS/ME). Sometimes the difference is really small, sometimes it's really noticeable and I have to sleep 12+hrs daily for weeks after. My carpal and cubital tunnel wombo combo has also gotten much much worse.
This is also the reason I'm having to close down my online shop at the end of this year-beginning of 2026, because I'd always had more consistent sales at in-person events than online by a dramatic amount and can no longer manage both - but this really turned that expectation on its head!! 2025 has been rough and my convention average from it dropped pretty significantly to way less than 1k net revenue per show (keeping in mind travel, food, and lodging expenses but not even new merch). I understand some of the reasons why (looking at the economy and the causes of it!) but it's tough. This genuinely is a huge blessing - I didn't have to travel and make myself sick for it!! - and I'm really, really, really grateful. Seriously and truly. I like traveling to new places to meet the people and try the food but it's unfortunately unsustainable. I'm actually very lucky that I can stop the majority of my work due to poor health because I know unfortunately many people have to just keep working themselves to the bone and that's not fair either.
But backing away from the serious atmosphere:
If we manage to hit (and stay at) 3k, I'll add another freebie! It'll be another small flat thing so that it won't impact the volume of what is going into mystery boxes/bags by weight or volume. So either a small sticker sheet, or large-ish single sticker. A mini print would require cardboard stabilization in a mailer, and that adds considerable weight and volume so it would cut into your purchase which I don't want!
Thank you for shopping small this holiday season!!! Our cats and I really thank you!!! Have a great weekend! (Also if you're in upstate-ish NY consider visiting Fantasy Fox Creations at Saratoga Comic Con this weekend! 💜)
I'm actually really blown away. Getting sappy/personal for a sec: my health is really poor. Doing conventions has been taking major tolls on me, and every one makes my health baseline seemingly permanently incrementally worse (Post-Exertional Malaise from CFS/ME). Sometimes the difference is really small, sometimes it's really noticeable and I have to sleep 12+hrs daily for weeks after. My carpal and cubital tunnel wombo combo has also gotten much much worse.
This is also the reason I'm having to close down my online shop at the end of this year-beginning of 2026, because I'd always had more consistent sales at in-person events than online by a dramatic amount and can no longer manage both - but this really turned that expectation on its head!! 2025 has been rough and my convention average from it dropped pretty significantly to way less than 1k net revenue per show (keeping in mind travel, food, and lodging expenses but not even new merch). I understand some of the reasons why (looking at the economy and the causes of it!) but it's tough. This genuinely is a huge blessing - I didn't have to travel and make myself sick for it!! - and I'm really, really, really grateful. Seriously and truly. I like traveling to new places to meet the people and try the food but it's unfortunately unsustainable. I'm actually very lucky that I can stop the majority of my work due to poor health because I know unfortunately many people have to just keep working themselves to the bone and that's not fair either.
But backing away from the serious atmosphere:
If we manage to hit (and stay at) 3k, I'll add another freebie! It'll be another small flat thing so that it won't impact the volume of what is going into mystery boxes/bags by weight or volume. So either a small sticker sheet, or large-ish single sticker. A mini print would require cardboard stabilization in a mailer, and that adds considerable weight and volume so it would cut into your purchase which I don't want!
Thank you for shopping small this holiday season!!! Our cats and I really thank you!!! Have a great weekend! (Also if you're in upstate-ish NY consider visiting Fantasy Fox Creations at Saratoga Comic Con this weekend! 💜)
(The purple motion light's actually very dim but cameras are crazy about uv spectrum lighting!)
PS: I have an update from staff about charges. You will be charged right away but Stripe's processing time is still 2-14 days, so we don't actually know as creators when we'll get your initial funds or survey (shipping) funds. We'll be as speedy as possible though! If you'd like to see more of these ready-to-ship events on BK please let staff know!
PPS: The double-email issue before was a BK glitch and not from creators ourselves. It's now been resolved internally!
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