I've currently got more than 50% of orders out. I posted last month about my health issues, and lately I've been really wondering if what I was "acutely" ill with in April was actually a newish covid variant, considering how WINDED I am all the time now. It's bad. 🫠 I already have POTS, and had mild asthma, but now it's just hard to exist without wheezing. So I'm having to seriously pace myself, and I'm getting a portable EKG I was wearing for 2 weeks taken off in roughly 13 hrs. With this, my hEDS, and my ADHD, I'm also constantly getting injured like a bad slapstick comedy (did you know it's possible to simultaneously jam your toe under and bang your forehead on the edge of an open door while trying to pivot around it?), and every time something like that happens I'm out of commission for a day or 2 so I'm trying to really race against the incidental self-sabotage.

That being said, I'm finally starting to get back to an existable baseline post-Colossalcon, and the remakes have mostly been looked through, so I've been packing things again. As a reminder, most pledges are being bundled with Chocolat Chaud's, Cryptic Compendium's, or both - and shipping costs have skyrocketed so retroactive excess shipping fee refunds for people who paid it multiple times unfortunately won't be very high, if any... 

Since a lot of people also backed MGR2 and Geode Pets, and some even asked to bundle my snake preorders with them, some pledges going out are actually up to 6 orders per package and way more than I realized are actually 30+ total pins. You all are amazing, it's crazy and really heartwarming (albeit exhausting in current context) packing for like 4 hours and I'll only have half a dozen orders done, because each one has dozens of combined pins plus Chocolat Chaud's that were already packed. 🤯 Like, I'm really just blown away!!  There are a lot of smaller orders too, which my stamina really thanks those backers for, but I'm just so shocked and grateful. I'm very sorry that they piled up like this, but it did give me a new perspective that I wouldn't have necessarily had if I wasn't fulfilling so much at once. I am so, so thankful.

Cryptic Compendium is also really not doing well right now but has been carding things too, and just got done sorting all the remakes and the frogs for Geode Pets. There are no longer any external barriers - "just" time and energy - to getting those orders with all 4 of our campaigns (+ some snakes) + Ghostly Gallery pins finally packed. He cards his stuff, I card mine, and I do the final checking and packing everything together, including the freebies like the backed-all-5-campaign pins. If I somehow missed something in yours, please let me know at [email protected] as soon as you've received it. 

I'm rapidly trying to get everything out; you've all waited waaaay too long to receive these pins, and I also feel a lot of anxiety about these girls and some of the snake preorders still being pending. I have a ready-to-ship campaign that's a sequel, I guess, to the "gacha market" that will go live at the end of this month...but I will try my best to get my current pending orders below 40 across all 3 things (MGR 1, MGR 2, snake preorders) before that goes live. I'll post about it properly this weekend. 

Thank you so, so much for your patience, seriously!