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Muriel Kickstarter is a Go!

Losing my. Mind. But I hope it goes well.

The kits seem popular already so, if those sell out, I will add more!

I have some early bird specials on the kits so please take a look!

Kickstarter

Muriel: An Opossum Ball-Jointed Doll

A 3D printed opossum ball jointed doll with four color options, two face plates, and three sets of eyes--for all of your gremlin needs.

Dear doll artists,

Start making tall 1/4 girls.

All the boys be getting to 45cm and over, but all the girls still stuck at like…fucking 40-41cm. My girls shouldn’t have to be wearing stilettos + platforms to be taller than their men. D;

The opposite of grimdark is hopepunk. Pass it on.

Strawberry Shortcake in Big Apple City but make it Harajuku 🎀🍓🎀

Prints of this drawing are available on my Etsy shop, kaitlynillustrations.etsy.com ♥️

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Comparison with the old Dollzone body.

Oh, I just can't. I printed this boy in 1/4 size and I'm in love. I immediately came up with a name for him. I feel like returning to the hobby I left in 2019. I doubt people will be as interested in him as they are in unusual dolls like my turtles or mice. But I am very pleased with how he turned out. My real MSD doll that looks decent next to the company dolls.

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Muriel Magnet Time

Fresh off the printer are some Muriel head magnets! Cyan and Magenta have been blushed and I plan to do the blushing for Yellow and Key tonight.

These are a reward tier and an add-on in my Kickstarter! (please note the magnet add-on tier does include two magnets like the regular reward tier but doesn't say so in the description; I can't edit it lol).

you will live and you will say the wrong things and make mistakes and people will love you anyways.

This is one of those things where the discourse is just completely broken. Both of these takes are shit and no one is concerned about the actual problem.

Republicans want to bring back incandescents because they just want to trigger the libs and have decided light bulbs are woke.

And the "LEDs are fine" crowd are throwing people with flicker sensitivities under the bus. And, no, you don't have to be "pretty far on the spectrum" to notice a difference. And even if you did... why in the world is this person so dismissive of the millions of autistic folks?

LEDs, for the most part, are superior to incandescent bulbs. Collectively they save people billions of dollars in energy costs and greatly reduce fossil fuel use. You have more options for color and brightness. You can control them with your phone. LEDs are fantastic.

Unfortunately there is a design flaw that makes LEDs hard to use for certain people. Due to AC power, most LEDs have a 60hz refresh rate. Meaning they turn off and on 60 times per second. With incandescents this didn't matter because the filament didn't have time to lose its glow between cycles.

Most people cannot see this flicker in LEDs. But there are millions of people who are sensitive to it and it can cause migraines and discomfort.

The solution is definitely not to go back to incandescents. There are flicker free LEDs and I think with some regulation we could make sure all LEDs are flicker free or at least make sure flicker free bulbs are easy to find and not priced at a premium.

Thankfully there is a group testing bulbs to find the ones that will most likely cause no discomfort. They call themselves the Flicker Alliance and their website has a pretty decent selection of tested and approved bulbs.

So if you feel like your LED bulbs might be causing you distress, that is a good resource to try. I think there is also something you can do to make sure the LED drivers are using DC power, but I haven't really looked into that.

11 days to go!

There are 11 days left for my Muriel Kickstarter! Things have been relatively quiet lately but I have made some more photo mock-ups of the different color options to use for the backer surveys. That way, people can more easily compare the color choices when it's the same edited photo.

I posted an update yesterday with more photos and a picture of the magnets; take a look if you want!