New Stickers: Fanfic Time!

Have you ever felt the need to proclaim that you read or write fan fiction and are not ashamed? Then we’ve got the stickers for you!

It’s been quite the couple of years, hasn’t it? Between one thing and another* we haven’t released a new product since the end of 2019. But the end of 2021 draws nigh**, and we’d like to end the year on a high note celebrating something we both love.

How it came to be:

Terri & Ariela are both big fans of Olivia Dade’s most recent novels, Spoiler Alert and All the Feels. We’re also long time fan fiction readers. During a semi-regular business chat, Terri asked Ariela if we couldn’t do a sort of calligram tribute to the fictional Gods of the Gates series involving fanfic tropes. While Terri’s fanciful idea involving an urn proved highly impractical, Ariela immediately replied with “What about stickers that say ‘Proud Fanfic Writer’ and ‘Proud Fanfic Reader’?” Terri immediately agreed that this would be a smashing idea, and off Ariela went to design them.

Like our Fuck You, Pay Me prints and stickers, these stickers use beautiful lettering and decorative flourishes to announce an unpopular opinion in a Very Classy Way. The stickers are die cut vinyl, and will look great on your fanfic consumption/output device of your choosing.

Pre order your stickers today!

*Those things include a a divorce, a transatlantic move, a global pandemic, and the launch of possibly the world’s snarkiest zine between the two of us.

**Yes, we’re getting this in under the wire. It’s 2021, we’re doing our best.

New Sticker: Explode the Gender Binary

Want to adorn your stuff with a colorful burst and a reminder that humans are wonderfully complicated?

How It Came To Be

This has been a project rattling around in Ariela's mind since February, but it was put on the back burner until the "Penric's Demon" Illuminate First Page project was finished.

We are two straight, cis-gendered women. Neither of us is queer, but both of us feel constricted by traditional gender roles. Ariela is a very femme person with a day job in a traditionally masculine field (tech) who likes to play with power tools. Terri, on the other hand, finds femininity to be performative for her, rather than innate. And both of us are interested in moving beyond the religious role prescribed to us by dint of our sex. People are complicated, far more complicated than a single, simple binary can possibly reflect.

Given the success of Fuck You Pay Me, the first draft read "Fuck the Gender Binary." But eventually we went with "Explode" instead, because that's really what we want to do: break out of the confines, burst out in as many directions and dimensions as possible.

The colors in the center are primarily blue and pink, reflecting the binary that is being exploded, but it gets more and more colorful the further out the burst gets, reflecting the expansion of possibilities, the range of human nature.

The sticker is die cut and measures 3" x 2.38".

New Product Line - Stickers

Do you like the sentiments of some of our prints, but lack the budget or space for wall art? Would you like to emblazon notebooks and laptops with Geek Calligraphy art? Well we have something special for you!

how It Came To Be:

Terri is a big fan of funky stickers. Her planner and laptop are covered with them. Some are horribly punny (every planner MUST have a "Behold My Feminist Agenda" sticker), most are delightfully geeky. 

Someone suggested to us that we might want to turn our delightfully profane Fuck You Pay Me art print into a t-shirt. While we're still working on that, during a meeting with a fellow small artist about t-shirt options Terri stumbled on the idea that it might also make a great sticker. 

We soft launched the Pay Me sticker at Arisia to great success. This inspired Ariela to make our Cordthulhu print into a round sticker. When shown a proof, a friend promptly asked for one for all the laptops in her home. To complete the trio, we re-laid out the art of our wonderful Spoon Dragon. 

All of our stickers cost $5. They ship for free, but they are not tracked unless they are accompanying a larger item.