Spiffynize

Hello everyone!

Last year I started designing a series of Coat of Arms, themed in the spirit of Pride Month and using different mythological creatures as heraldic animals. I now aim to turn these designs into wearable pins and will be running a Kickstarter in July to fund this endeavor! I have found a very trustworthy local manufacturer, who has already shown the quality of their craftsmanship with the first batch of test pins I received, just look at the detail they were able to produce!

Since I try to support local manufacturers, which produce pins with fair wages and are more ethical than outside of Europe, the pins are more expensive to create than through the usual pipeline via Asia.

I therefore seek to crowdfund the expenses since they would be more than I can afford. If you are interested and look forward to support this little endeavor, please follow the link below to sign up for a mailing list. People who signed up on the email list and pledged during the campaign will receive an exclusive sticker set by the end of a successful launch consisting of the following designs:

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The deep love and respect it shows specifically for black culture and black communities. (Mane Attraction's hair. Literally the best)

No Anthro Boobs. None of the ladies were struck with the standard "We gotta give them human sexual dimorphism" shtick

Completely coed sport teams. I cannot express how fucking powerful that is in 2026

The backgrounds feel like an actual living city/settlement. Not the crisp clean theme-park Zootopia wonderland stuff, actually lived in and incredibly detailed to my peasant eye.

No romance. Solid platonic cross gender relationships built on respect and comradery

It's so good and I really wish it became the same level of hit as K-Pop Demon Hunters. It won't because it's a completely different genre of movie but holy cow. As someone who has next to no interest in sports this movie is a gem. Beautiful to look at, solid story, incredible set up and pay off. I wish it could crush zootopia like a fucking bug, it's so much better than zootopia one (I haven't and don't want to see the sequel I don't care).

Seriously, don't read this if you haven't watched the movie, you only get flabbergasted if you go in blind. I also suggest watching it with friends, it's going to be such an Experience, trust.

last summer i watched Everything Everywhere All at Once, and i think it permanently rewired my brain, not in like the fandom glup shitto way (only a little) but in the way that i can no longer see the world normally. just. The Scene. If you know, you know.

"When I choose to see the good side of things, I'm not being naive. It is strategic and necessary. It's how I learned to survive through everything. I know you see yourself as a fighter. Well, I see myself as one too. This is how I fight"

That whole conversation and just the whole movie flipped my worldview on its head. I've definitely considered myself a nihilist, pessimist maybe from the people who got sick of my negativity. I dont know where exactly i picked it up from, maybe from life dealing me a bad hand all the time, maybe from staying on the internet for this long put the idea in my head that nothing matters. It messed me up for a while, probably fucked up some close bonds i'll never get back and took precious time i spent fucking brooding over this pointless nonsense because so what if nothing matters? why get all bent out of shape over things you cant even fathom to control? theres so much beauty out there in the parts of the world that do matter, and you should spend as much time as you can with that beauty.

I also love that Joy stops her monologue and her creepy ass walk towards Evelyn to be like "You're still hung up about me liking girls and the tattoo? are you fucking kidding me?

I related so fucking hard to Joy and I just. wow. I feel like the creators of it dug their claws into my head riffled around for a minute and then came back with the movie and were like 'here :D' Joy is me and I am Joy and god I wish I had a girlfriend too.

I also love that they stopped to acknowledge that yeah, Evelyn figured out her shit but everything was still pretty terrible for Joy and that didn't fix anything. I just loved everything about those scenes where Joy and Evelyn are talking. Also the rock scene.

Specifically about how its portrayal of Joy and Evelyn and the many parallels, but the one that got me now was how theyre both overwhelmed by the infinite possibilities of what they could be, but in different ways

Joy felt overwhelmed because amongst all the things she could be, she cant be herself, which is what she wants the most. In the end of the movie she realizes her mother truly loves her, not for her potential, but for who she is

A few months ago I watched Everything Everywhere All At Once, after having seen piles of tumblr posts/memes with The Quote from it (“In another life, I would have really liked... just doing laundry... and taxes with you.”).

And when I got to the line, it struck me how little any of the uses I’d seen of it got at what it was really about! It was far more powerful in the movie! Because, here’s the thing, it is NOT saying “I would enjoy a quiet boring life with you.” In the movie, the main character’s laudromat is on the edge of financial failure, she is being audited on her taxes which is going to push the business over the edge at best, her family life is absolutely falling apart, and she’s also, well, a total jerk. In the multiple-universes premise of the show, she is actually told that she is the most unsuccessful version of herself to exist in any universe. In the universe where the quote is said, she and her alt-universe husband are both superstars.

It’s not saying “I wish we could have a quiet life.” It’s not even saying “I would choose a simple, mundane life with you over anything else.” It’s saying “I would choose a life that completely sucks and where I am with you over any other life without you.”

That’s so much more meaningful.

I will always… always… want to be here with you.