Four Days Left - Final Push & Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market!
over 7 years ago – Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 08:21:24 PM

1400% funded and 4 days to go - yes!

We're about $1600 from our next Mystery Pin unlock, which is completely achievable. Making it to eighteen options would completely blow my mind, but we can do it. :D 

On Saturday, we'll be at the August Trenton Punk Rock Flea Market at Neshaminy Creek Brewing Company from noon-7PM! Come visit with us and scope out some of our newest patches as well as checking out 100+ other vendors. 

Once we close the campaign in 4 days, we'll detail our next steps and where we'll go from here, but for now: share the campaign on social media, toss the link at your friends, write it on a slip of paper and toss it over your neighbor's transom. We'd love to release our last Mystery Pin: let's make it happen! 

GenCon & Stretch Goal!
over 7 years ago – Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 01:08:00 PM

We did it! 

I got in the car this morning to roll out to GenCon & saw we had pushed over our $8k stretch goal, which means I get to post our next Mystery Pin: 

 By exceedingly popular request, the original Gilbert Baker flag is now one of our pin choices. We're super excited to be able to offer this one,  and thrilled with how it came out. 

Our next stretch goal, with one more Mystery Pin, is at 10K. Can we make that in the next 10 days? 

I know y'all. We totally can. 

Solidarity, 

Steve & Mandy

I Can See The Stretch Goal From Up Here!
over 7 years ago – Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 12:41:16 PM

17 days to go, and we're less than $400 from our next stretch goal -- the next Mystery Pin Unlock. 

We'll be headed to GenCon next week, so if you want to say hi, come by the ConTessa registration table. Steve will be running Adventure League games with ConTessa, and Mandy will be helping run the reg table. You can also find Mandy at Making Gaming Spaces Inclusive & Accessible with Shoshana Kessock & Maury Brown on Friday August 3rd at noon in Lucas Oil Room 10!

If you run into us, we'll have Kickstarter postcards for handing out, if you feel like spreading the love far and wide (and keeping one for yourself):

 Mandy will have their laptop with them at GenCon, so if we hit stretch goals during the con, they'll be able to update with the new images once we do. (Expect slight delays, what with it being GenCon and all.) 

Thank you again for everything that you do, everything you have done. At this point we are donating at least half a dozen pins through the Get One Give One backer option (remember, if you Get One Give One, we pay your domestic shipping, so if you are only getting one pin, here's your chance to give a kid a symbol of their identity for $7). We will be adding Give One options at checkout, so if you're buying multiple pins already, you'll be able to add on a Give One. 

Solidarity now & forever,

Mandy & Steve

Twenty Days to Go!
over 7 years ago – Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 05:05:46 PM

Twenty days to go, and we're just over a thousand dollars away from our next stretch goal. I have the proof for the next Mystery Pin in my hands -- it just came back from the pin company today. As soon as we hit $8K, I get to unveil it and add it to the choices! 

We've gotten a lot of positive feedback on the idea of adding a tote bag, either as a stretch goal or as an add-on at checkout. We'll take a more serious look at this idea once we unlock the next stretch goal. 

The backing card went in for proofs today, and I should have those back later this week. Once the proofs come back, I'll share them in our next update.

Thank you for sharing on social media -- the vast majority of our pledges have come from Tumblr, Facebook & Twitter. Please keep sharing and help us hit this next goal. It's completely doable in the time we have left.

You're all the greatest. 

Updates, Proofs, and a Correction
over 7 years ago – Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 04:45:02 PM

First: Thank you, thank you, thank you! We're six days in, and funded at 1100%.

No, that's not a typo. One thousand one hundred percent. 

Okay, first of all: wow? Second of all: thank you again! 

Our next stretch goal, at $8000, will unlock the next voted-upon pin. We've seen votes for the Gilbert Baker Pride flag, for the Polyamory flag, and a couple of others as well. There are proofs in for the next Mystery Unlock -- the survey gave us enough information to show that our backers had strong feelings on what should be next -- and we're waiting to get those back so that we will have a proof ready to release when we hit our next goal.

Next, we will be setting up checkout such that those of you who are purchasing more than one pin to buy Give One (or more than one!) pins as add-ons at checkout. That this was one of the most-requested items makes my heart so happy. Y'all are the greatest. 

I want to thank one of our backers for catching an error in one of the proofs as well. The pinky on the Genderfluid pin should be black, not white, to accurately reflect the Genderfluid flag. We've sent back to our pin maker for updated proofs. 

Speaking of proofs... we have proofs in for the first set of Mystery Unlock pins! 

 Agender, Queer, Demisexual, and Bear Pride pins!

Once we get to our next stretch goal, we'll start discussing what to aim for past this -- and I know we can. Thank you for sharing, for talking up this project. We could not have done this without you. It's beautiful and humbling to be able to bring this project to y'all.

Thank you.