The good news is the zine is just about ready for test printing, and we'll have received all our remaining merch by the time we have the zines printed, so we think late fall or early winter is a reliable ETA for when shipping will begin. We hope you look forward to it!! (3/3)

Switching to an international printing service will add a bit more to shipping time, but the switch still keeps us in a similar cost range to Mixam and the mods ultimately decided it's worth it to help ensure we don't run into any unpredictable or expensive issues! (2/3)

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We want to emphasize that we plan to make more frequent updates no matter what from here on! Our desire to try and have more details ready first has led to time slipping away. We appreciate everyone's patience and support as always! 💖💚🖤🤍

Hi! We're terribly sorry for the lack of updates here, most of our merch has been ordered but we've had a few hang-ups over the summer regarding some manus and other irl issues. We're planning on reconciling with a formal update very very soon, thank you for reaching out! 💚

Payment issues have been resolved! Digital sales are up again and will stay that way 💚

Thank you again @pinkcultgirl.bsky.social for the grateful Hina!

Regarding stretch goals: While we didn't quite get to 100 physical orders, we sold a whopping 30 full bundles accounting for the vast majority of our earnings!!
We really want to repay this generosity with something nice if we can, so stay tuned while we work out what we can do!

Organizations that track local fundraisers can be found on our resources page, which we try to keep up to date!
thriversideresources.carrd.co/

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Pre-order here! thriversidezine.bigcartel.com

Komachi is from our wooden charm by @marlowememo.bsky.social, who also brought us the new stretch goal charm!