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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:

SIGN UP ON OUR PRELAUNCH WAITING LIST TO GET THESE LITTLE GUYS FOR FREE

Our Kickstarter Prelaunch Page:

Sex is not essential. You can live without it. Full stop.

Not having sex isn't shameful or a sign of failure. It also doesn't make anyone boring.

You are not entitled to having sex with anybody and nobody is entitled to having sex with you.

Sex is not what makes someone an adult.

Nobody's worth is defined by how much sex they have or don't have.

Sex is not equally important to everyone.

You can have fulfilling and happy relationships without sex.

You should only have sex on your own terms, not because you feel like you owe it to someone, or because you feel like you'd be incomplete without it.

Know your boundaries around sex and be firm about them. Know how to respect other people's boundaries.

The previous point also applies when it comes to discussing sex. If someone doesn't wanna talk about it or hear about it you have to back down.

By Fyodor Dostoevskij

The Literature Series

Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov

Mitya

God and devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

"Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Book III, ch. 3

Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov

Vanya

All is lawful.

"People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. [...] I think if the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Book V, ch. 4

Alexei Fyodorovich Karamazov

Alyosha

Let us be, first and above all, kind.

"[...] he was simply an early lover of mankind, and if he threw himself into the monastery path, it was only because it alone struck him at the time and presented him, so to speak, with an ideal way out for his soul struggling from the darkness of worldly wickedness towards the light of love."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Book I, ch. 4

Pavel Fyodorovich Smerdyakov

All is permitted.

“I visited Smerdyakov [….] His health was weak […] but his character, his heart—oh, no, he was not at all such a weak man as the prosecution has made him out to be. I especially did not find any timidity in him [….] As for guilelessness, there was nothing of the sort […] I found a terrible mistrustfulness in him, behind a mask of naivety, and a mind capable of contemplating quite a lot.”

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, Book XII, ch. 12

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Here I am, once again. I crawled out from the dark depths of my mind to finally come back here.

Sorry for the long intervals of inactivity, but sometimes my emotional and psychological state doesn't allow me to do much. I hope you all are okay, I hope to bring you some comfort and post some more, for we are living through dark, dark times.

Take this as a more or less skilful attempt to convince you to read The Brothers Karamazov, if you haven't already. For those of you who did read it, I hope you enjoy this post. The most difficult part was probably choosing the right quotes. There were so many beautiful ones.

Feel free to leave a comment. Who's your favourite character from the book and /or what's your fav quote? Let me know, I'm super curious!! Also, if you want to repost the pictures or this post on Pinterest, please tag me, I love it when people enjoy my work.

'Till next time,