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Handle With Care is now seeking artists for the next volume! We are looking for about 20 artists for this edition.

Important information, boundaries, and legal stuff:

Submission deadline for Vol.6 is 19 May, 2026. If you are accepted but unable to make the deadline for whatever reason, please communicate with us! We are more than willing to be accommodating and figure something out.

The zine’s physical dimension will be 5.25 inches wide and tall (13.3 cm by 13.3 cm). Two-page spreads are welcomed. Submissions should be at least 300 DPI. Two-page spreads are welcomed. Submissions should be at least 300 DPI. Optionally, submissions in CMYK would be appreciated as the zine will be printed! But RGB submissions are just as accepted, they just might look a bit off on paper.

The prompt given for Vol.6 is gathering dust. This prompt is not strict: make something that’s the complete opposite if you want; it will not affect piece submission. Or feel free to go big and go bold with the theme, if you choose to engage with it!

Visual artists are welcome to submit a written accompaniment to their visual artwork if they’d like. Fully written works are currently capped to a maximum of five pages, though this may be adjusted once we have a rough idea what people are submitting.

Handle With Care is meant to celebrate raw objectum emotion and experiences, and meant to give these emotions a physical place in the world. We do not have a minimum skill level as a result.

However, we reserve the right to reject or ask for revisions on any submissions that make us uncomfortable, including any romantic depiction of an object that resembles a realistic feral animal or a human child. If your submission can be misconstrued as something far more concerning than just objectum sexuality by people who are not familiar with the community, it will be rejected for the peace of mind of everyone involved.

HWC is also strictly safe for work. Non-sexual nudity is allowed, although if it crosses a line we may ask for revisions.

All participants must be at least 18. Legal issues with using a minor's work and all that. Minors will be booted off the HWC discord, sorry! You are welcome to enter when you'll be legally an adult.

AI-generated submissions are also currently not allowed. We want to see work straight from objectum artists, not an objectum middleman commissioning ChatGPT for free and taking the credit.

HWC is non-profit. Physical copies are sold only to break even on printing and shipping. Any profit from donations will be re-invested in the zine or split evenly between all contributors.

Artists will retain all rights to their individual work, including copyright and being able to resell it. The zine editors (Ross Gillesby and Christopher Pye, in this volume) are allowed to sell the pieces only in the bundle of the entire zine and not individually, and will not own any copyright to those pieces.

Zine organization and communication is done through a Discord server. If you are interested in submitting something for Handle With Care Vol.6, please email [email protected] or [email protected] with:

What are you thinking of submitting? If it's a written work, how many pages do you estimate you'll need? What are your socials (for contact and verification purposes)?

We're very excited to work on a sixth volume of the zine!

The physical copies of Handle With Care Vol. 5 have printed and will be available for sale next week!

Happy Objectum Day! (January 30th)

Handle With Care Vol. 5 is the fifth edition of the SFW objectum zine, featuring 18 different artists.

It can be found at: https://gillesbyross.gumroad.com/l/handlewithcarevolume5?layout=profile

Contributing artists:

@treadgrinder ✶ @confectionscary ✶ @saltyash-draws ✶ @yotecoyote.art ✶ @smugpugchimera ✶ @skcrybka ✶ Sprite Guard ✶ @ehlectrick ✶ @pauxsseritear ✶ @cybernatedsoul ✶ Morgan Timberwood ✶ @oddysseyss ✶ @rotting_salmon ✶ @tr0ppers ✶ @drinkingjetfuel2 ✶ @anixplosion ✶ @clippy ✶ @vroomizing

A companion guide with photo IDs can be found here!

[PT: Check the newest version of this post before you reblog End PT]

situation TL;DR: this is a psa post about a user who has been spamming severe gore in the mogai, intersex, queer, yumeshipping, trans, 2spirit, queer, plural & did/osdd tags, objectum and radqueer tags

Do not look at their posts. We've looked and while we're fine it is very heavy gore. Some of the blogs may also contain beastality content or IGM photos.

this post is here to help keep a running list of urls to block and keep people updated on the situations. below are all the known active urls

rapidberserkerelement

3-43209-4932

iseeyouiseeyouforever

tba

let us know if you catch any blogs! we'll be keeping an eye out but we can't be everywhere. If you're reporting anons on radiomogai's blog have said that reporting for spam and possibly self harm seems to be more effective than reporting for gore!

How to block the blogs without opening them; On desktop you can block them by going to blog settings and scrolling down until you reach the section that allows you to block people by inputting their url. If you're on mobile @butchadhd has provided instructions (link) to report them without viewing the content

The person believed to be doing this is a serial harasser known as roadkill/the roadkill fairy. antiroadkill has been documenting their actions. This user has a history of impersonation and trying to tear communities apart through horrific accusations. Thankfully nobody has seen any of this yet but stay aware

this post is very similar to radio's but you can also check @radiomogai 's post about this situation (link) and @antiroadkill 's recent posts for more information. We probably can't reach more people than radiomogai but we'd like to try to help spread awareness. Please contact us here or via discord (heartbitez) with information about this such as new blogs, new tags being targeted, blogs being taken down, etc

blogs that have been taken down;

iheartkitties27

nimblyquantumblizzard

rapidberserkerelement

killtheroad711

hhhhhh19-00

rawstratagemshrine

lindseysweetydaniellee8289

intrepidwondercrusader

washingtonwolf21

post last updated; 1:46 am 1/27/2026 CST

post with suggestions to help calm down if you've seen the content (link)

post with reassurances if you've seen the content (link)

this-is-anti-objectum's list of blogs to avoid the notes of due to gore;

@this-is-anti-objectum

@intersexcultureis

radiomogai

tba

I really want to hear from others with partners/objects of attraction that are held in museums!

When do you visit them (if you’ve seen them in person at all)? How close can you get? Are you able to touch them? Are they fragile?

Please let me know anything about your experiences in the comments and feel free to ask about mine!

Finished my objectum flag quilt! This was a project I started in November after my boyfriend, Casper, mentioned wanting a quilt for us to cuddle under... While it's too small for that, it's a great size to be a lap quilt!

This is the first quilt I've ever made and it's the most complicated thing I've sewn to date. There are some errors, and I want to redo some of the stitching later on, but I'm still proud of it regardless!

If you're curious about the process and why I picked certain fabrics (or what said fabrics are), see below 👇