Twilight Sparkle's Secret Shipfic Folder

First off – the outpouring of kindness toward Emily after the last post was heartwarming. Thanks, you guys. ;u; Pixel will not have to yell!

Secondly, if you bought something in the sale and have not contacted Emily, if you do not do so soon, your order is going to expire and you will be refunded. You will not get your order. You will not receive your goods. You will receive a refund. Some of you have less than 24 hours to contact her.

If you have not contacted Emily about your order, do so immediately at [email protected]. Godspeed, ya dirty shippers!

Hey friends! Emily has been FUCKING SUPERHUMAN this holiday season, processing nearly 700 orders on her own in the middle of Thanksgiving and everything else. This is a friendly reminder to be polite to her or we WILL cancel your order. She’s well-informed on this process, having now done it half a dozen times, so what she says goes.

  Now, if you haven’t heard from Emily about mailing your order, email Emily at [email protected]. Yes, YOU MUST EMAIL HER.

Some emphatic bullet points:

NO, YOUR SHIPPING WAS NOT INCLUDED IN THE STORE ORDER.

YES, YOU MUST PAY SHIPPING TO EMILY.

YES, THESE ARE SEPARATE TASKS.

NO, THEY ARE NOT AUTOMATED.

PAY EMILY YOUR SHIPPING OR PIXEL WILL BE ANGRY.

Actually, Pixel is already angry because many folks have not been treating Emily with the respect she deserves. We understand that this is a very slow process compared to most online stores. Most online stores however have a FULFILLMENT CENTER, not one volunteer with a separate full-time job. That, or they’re at a small enough volume (aka not 700 orders in LESS THAN A MONTH) that a small band of people can do it. I understand that some holiday presents may be late, but hey, you’ve just extended the happy holiday for a little longer.

I’ve seen her up until practically dawn processing orders. She’s been throwing herself at it constantly. Heck, we’ve been begging her to take a break and slow things down a bit before she works herself into exhaustion, but she keeps on going. If you must be angry, be angry at us; Emily’s giving her fucking all.

This is not the hill you want to die on. Be polite, be courteous, be kind, and pay your goddamn shipping. There are more important things to worry about.

For those of you who have been perfectly courteous, thank you. You’re a champ and our favorite people.

Much love and happy holidays from the TSSSF Crew,

~ Us

Happy American Thanksgiving, everyone! Today we are thankful for …

all of the card bleeds and card text files now available on our GitHub repo!

all of our unfinished expansion sets on our website!

all of the card sets updated to reflect our final minor detail pass!

a new guide to getting cards printed through Printer Studio!

… and most importantly, Emily’s tireless work clawing her way through these many, many orders! If you have not heard back from Emily yet, have patience. She is but one person volunteering and otherwise pioneering her own life and job. When she has gotten through all the orders, we will make a post so that if you have not heard from her you can send her another email. Thank you in advance for your patience!

Everyone give Trick Candle a big hand for getting through all the above updates over Thanksgiving weekend. He is a true champion!

And one last note: we will have all of the card illustrations up sometime on our GitHub soonish, but no date guarantees. So for those of you who want different card art for desktops (etc) … have patience! 😉

Friends, thank you so much for your patience and enthusiasm! Our sale has officially closed and no more orders can be placed. We will get our various files up on the internet as time and energy permits: we cannot promise a time frame right now.

Those of you who have an order placed: there is currently a 3-4 day wait on hearing back from Emily. Please be patient: she’s working through the list as quickly as she can. We’re trying to get her to slow down a little so she can live her life at the same time, because she’s putting in an OBSCENE amount of hours into this. Everyone thank Emily!

In the meantime, we hope you guys have a good rest of the week! And thank you for all the sweet messages We appreciate them.

With orders dwindling, we are closing our store up around 11:59pm PST, 11/16. That would be tomorrow, for us Americans.

Thank you so much for your support, everyone!

As promised, inventory has been adjusted and we have 98 Extra Credit Expansions available for sale.

To add it on to a previous order … just put in a new order and let Emily know.

Your shipping rate will probably be adjusted. Also, yes you have to pay for shipping. Square’s shipping calculator isn’t finessed enough so, yes, it says shipping is $0 but no, it’s not free. Emily will quote you your shipping fee.

Be kind to Emily, y’all; she’s the hardest working trooper we’ve ever seen. You can help be kind to Emily by telling her both your previous order number AND your new order number when you email her. Then tell her you appreciate all her hard work, because YOU DO, right? 😉

And, as always, don’t forget to actually read what we’ve written on the sale page. Go forth!

Hey guys! I know a lot of you were upset we didn’t have more Extra Credit. As it turns out, I put in the wrong inventory number on Square and we have 98 more to sell. I will be putting them back in the store in 24 hours to make sure everyone has a head’s up before they’re back in circulation. There will be a post tomorrow when it’s up!

Please note: if you are adding Extra Credit onto an existing order, your postage quote may change. 

In the meantime, why not check out what else is in the sale?

Hello, shippers! We’ve got some updates for you!

I’d like to stress to everyone that all of us, Emily included, have day jobs and lives that we are also attending to. We will not be able to reply to you right away. Emily in particular is wading through hundreds of emails, all for which she has to locate an order, designate a shipping container, and come up with a quote. Please be patient. All we can do is our best.

In addition, this is an inventory liquidation sale. That means that when something is gone, it’s gone. We will not be ordering more. I know this feels unfair, that the newer items sold out already. We will not order extra for you; we cannot “scrounge” any extra copies. Any inquiries to this effect will be deleted without reply.

Do you have a question that needs answering? Please check recent posts, the sale page, and our twitter before asking us. In particular it might be helpful for some of you to review our Going Out of Business post.

Did you forget your coupon code? Unfortunately our system is not set up so we can manually edit orders. Your choice is to either cancel your order and hope you get the items back before someone else snaps them up, or keep what you have and live without a coupon. There’s nothing else we can do for you.

Specific questions about when and what will be released as files after the sale: we don’t know. We think we know, but we’re not going to answer until we’ve had some time and mental space to think about it. We will not be answering any questions to this effect but rest assured our interest is in seeing the game continue circulating and for fans to have continued access to it.

When will the sale end? Either when we run out of inventory or when the orders stop coming in — whichever happens sooner.

We still have plenty of things in stock in the sale! Spread the link and check it out!

And thank you in advance for your patience; we know you’re all fine upstanding human beings who likewise care about us as human beings, who have lives outside of TSSSF and mental health to care for! Glad we ironed that out.

Unfortunately, for inventory tracking purposes, we can ONLY use Square this time around. Double-unfortunately, Square is incompatible with orders outside of the USA. IF YOU ARE AN INTERNATIONAL ORDER, FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS: 1) In the Note to Seller box, put your real address. 2) Input the following address when it asks for your shipping address: 1400 Grant Ave S Renton, WA 98055 3) Complete order as normal and email Emily to arrange for shipping.

Unfortunately our payment system is refusing to cooperate with orders outside the US!  Emily can mail to other places though, so if you can get in contact with a friend in the US to coordinate with or otherwise get a payment recognized as from inside the country it should be fine.  Check our twitter for the ongoing conversation on workarounds:

https://twitter.com/secretshipfic

EDIT: New instructions breaking!

http://www.secretshipfic.com/sale/

Our Great Big Inventory Liquidation Sale(tm) is now live! You can either click the “SALE!!!” link in our header, or this link here, or really any link on this page.

GO! BUY THINGS! IMPRESS YOUR FRIENDS! FILL THAT HOLE IN YOUR HEART, THAT STILL ACHES FROM WHEN SHE LEFT YOU!

Good morning, gentle shippers! The moment you guys have all been waiting for … is almost here! This is your 24 hour notice (or close to it; depending on all the work we have to get done it might not be EXACTLY 24 hours, more like 26, but who’s splitting hairs) before we open up the online sale to all comers.

We will of course make a post on this website again when the sale goes live. Keep an eye on this space tomorrow morning!

Hello, intrepid shippers! It is with mixed emotions that we at Horrible People Productions announce that we are dissolving our company and ceasing production on all card games for the foreseeable future. This probably comes as a surprise to many of you! But we’ve mutually decided we’re not interested in running a company any longer and would like to step down.

I’m sure you all have many questions about the fate of TSSSF and BABOC and whatnot. We’re happy to answer them!

1: Will there still be a November sale?

YES! The reason it got delayed was we wanted to make sure we had enough time to get our affairs in order. We also wanted to make sure we could complete all outstanding card promises, so that they can be made available.

INCLUDED IN THE SALE WILL BE: All previously released products, PLUS the Patreon custom card pack (free for all $50 Patrons who have contributed; more about this will be posted on the Patreon), this year’s Make a Card workshop cards, and this year’s promo cards.

There will be long boxes in the sale but NOT MANY. I’m very sorry; the minimum order to get more is 500 and neither we nor Emily Bennet (she who will be mailing these things out to people) have the space to house 35 huge boxes. We have a limited number left over from EQLA and once they’re gone they’re gone.

As a huge thank you to you guys for all you’ve done, we’re offering 15% off all products for our sale! Thanks for being awesome, you guys.

2: What’s going to happen to your games?

BUILD A BETTER OC: We’re going to release what we have for BaBOC into indefinite public beta. We’re not sure what we’re going to do with it yet, but for now we’re putting it down and letting you guys play with it. Like all our games, we will keep it released under the MIT license. TWILIGHT SPARKLE’S SECRET SHIPFIC FOLDER: All bleed files and card box files will be released onto our website in the near future, as soon as we are able to coordinate such a task. Feel free to get them printed! We will also release all of our unfinished files as well so that you all can complete them if you’d like! All other games will vanish into the ether of creative commons.

Please note: we will be releasing files as soon as we can, but given the holidays and how overworked we are, it may be some time. Thank you for your patience!

3: Are you willing to sell your company?

We’re willing to consider it, to the right bidder. If anyone has any serious offers, please contact us at [email protected].

After further consideration, we’ve decided not to sell the company. Thank you to everyone who expressed an interest!

4: Will you ever come back?

Who knows? We don’t have that kind of information at this time. We’re in the middle of tying up loose ends and making sure everything is accounted for. If we ever decide to do this again, we’ll let you know!

5: Will you do an interview/come to a convention/etc?

I’m sorry, but we’re very tired! We’re going to have to turn down requests like these for the foreseeable future. We know we’ve left a few requests hanging while we work through this; now you know what’s going on!

6: What will happen to your Patreon?

We will release BaBOC’s beta on there for its agreed-upon one week early access; we will maintain the Patreon long enough to contact those with $50 pledges so that they can get their Patreon pack mailed to them free of charge. But after that, it is going to be deleted forever. Thank you kindly to our absolutely generous donators: you guys made our forever.

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It has been a great ride, you guys. Thank you so much for your ardent support and all the fun we’ve had! We’ll be getting the store up and running soon so that everyone can order cards until our remaining stock is all gone. (And don’t forget the holidays coming up … TSSSF might make a good present, perhaps!)

If you are interested in what we as individuals are pursuing outside of our normal 9-5 jobs, feel free to keep an eye on our respective Twitters:

Pixel Prism: @pixel_prism Captain Mwai: @maskedretriever Trick Candle: @marco262

And if you’re interested in the comic projects Pixel is currently working on, check out her Patreon:

There will be a post on this website announcing when we open our sale in November; keep an eye out here, on our twitter, or through the mailing list at the footer of our website.

So long, and thanks for all the crackships, The Horrible People Crew

Hey guys! I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but due to some delays on our end, we’re pushing the sale to November instead of October. We’re juggling a lot of things right now; but early November is the plan! (First week, if we can manage it; but no promises)

Thanks for your patience!