Because the grind unfortunately never ends, HoloCat (formerly Fantasy Fox Creations) and I are running a cross-collab ready-to-ship little event on here at the end of this month! This will be my half of it:
Yes, that is a freebie PIN for the cross-collab bonus! It is.... another bat. Lol I'm sorry. I actually drew the pattern for this one 4 years ago and it's been clawing at my brain every few months since, it's actually why I made my "party" design moth. I am very limited on molds I can repeat because manufacturer changes have to happen so frequently as quality control varies dramatically over time, so that left either a bat or a snake, and I just made a boatload of snakes already. I say this as though there aren't over 40 bats that have been made now.
This is basically the same as this campaign was, with a few additions:
Monster Girl Riot gacha machines! They are now properly separated into $15 and $20 base-cost spins based on pin complexity. All designs except the recently funded <vampire> in production are included.
Cryptic Compendium pins: he still doesn't have an individual online store set up, so some of his leftover spider and geode pet stock is up for grabs as blind bags! Since we live together, fulfillment is combined.
Snakes are available as standard grade mini pin gacha spins and also mixed into the seconds pin grab bag options!
Early-bird freebie will be a randomized 2-sticker pack of my larger size of stickers ($15 value) per qualifying backer. I would like to do new freebie stickers as achievement goals like I did with this campaign (sweets bat and gingerbread snake stickers), but we'll see how it goes!
I also want to be forthcoming with a couple of things regarding fulfillment timeline:
I will get surveys out as soon as humanly possible for me, but given that the freebie pin and the rest of my pending BK pledges for my pin campaigns have to go out first to the best of my ability, fulfillment will probably be in around 1.5-2 months for anyone who is going to be receiving the cross-collab bonus.
This extension in processing time also gives us the chance to make sure the remaining people who already backed the monster girls and CC's campaigns will receive their pledges first.
My health has gotten even worse since I ran this campaign in the Holiday Market, so I am so slow and really apologize for that. That's also why my online store still isn't properly reopened (for its closing sale... lol).
Because the fulfillment won't be immediate, you're probably wondering why we chose the "ready-to-ship" format... it's so that we don't have to wait 2 weeks after the campaign has already ended to even start production on the freebies, we could start production in the first week it's running! That actually gives a head start on fulfillment in its own way. We could forego fun new freebies but that would be much less exciting and I feel weird now at the thought of not giving extra gifts to my backers after all this time. And, of course, the main point of this campaign is to offload existing stock at discounted prices!
This time, I compiled a little list for transparency regarding what these funds will be going towards! I obviously don't owe anyone this info, but I'm sharing it as a thank you rather than as a feeling of obligation!
Funds from this RTS campaign will directly go to the following:
Paying a programmer for my game in development, once I find one who works in C# (I have been actively looking for one that's anti-AI for a long time)!! this is something that's become a necessity as my health has declined, because with extreme hand pain I can no longer program it myself.
Producing the freebies for this campaign!
Paying for any additional commissioned merch artwork needed for Apocalyptic Dream's (the game) relaunch campaign!
Our cats, 9/10 of whom were rescued within the last 4 years and our matriarch Luna having been with me for 19 years! (10 cats, several of whom still feel food insecure or have chronic health issues from having lived outside, is expensive - you guys and convention customers have helped so much over the years!!)
Helping the other strays we don't have room for...
Medical expenses, such as mobility aids and my hEDS-specialized physical therapy (completely out of pocket)
Bills and other important living expenses
I hope this answers all questions about the upcoming campaign, if you missed the original Gacha Market but wanted to participate, I hope you will consider this next one! 💕 I am truly trying to destash what I have left in stock, so I tried to even surpass the estimated included value I gave for each listing for this Holiday Market campaign and will do so again! Here is the link again to the teaser page!
Thank you for supporting a chronically ill and disabled artist and cat mom!
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MESSAGE TO PREORDER BACKERS FROM HERE:
I posted this update recently to MGR talking about my fulfillment for that project, and it pretty much carries over to the 2nd monster girl pin collection and also this campaign's snakes.
I am at least pleased to say that the remaining snake orders from this preorder store should all be at the PO next week, about half of which are included in these massive collaborative orders mentioned in the linked update above. It took me waaay too long, especially considering those 2nd round of snakes/Cupcake remakes arrived a while back, but as mentioned in that update as well I was sick when they showed up and lost about a week of memory (which included the fact that they arrived), so I digress. I'm just glad to be checking off boxes now finally. THANK YOU for your patience with these last snake orders, seriously.
