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 Julyto fund this endeavor!
In addition to these 5 designs I wish to be able to crowdfund enough to be able to also manufacture the following pins and identities:
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:
A collection of Pride themed Coat of Arms Enamel Pins. Rally your friends, choose your crest and celebrate with PRIDE.
All of the Prehistoric Pride guys in one collective post to celebrate pride month. Choose your fighter and have an awesome time :D
More suggestions are always welcome, I sadly was not able to cover everyone, but I will do more of these in the future!
I am going to add more and more to the collection as I get them done :D
If you would like to support my silly little dinosaur art, then you can buy any of these Prideaurs as stickers from my Etsy shop, which I just set up recently. I am pretty new to this entire business side of art things, but I am trying my best :D so a like or a reblog would go a long way. Thank you guys so much for all your kind words and support!
On this episode of Huntr/x Twitter: The nefarious Mira has captured the beguiled Rumi in her lair (her bed)! Will the dauntless Zoey be able to save her? Find out on this episode of:
Huntr/x Twitter!
Oh. Kind of an anti-climax there.
But wait. What’s this?
A new plan, eh?
No, it couldn’t be!
She’s using an anonymous account to incite the wrath of Terrifying Zoerumi, in hopes that they will fall into her trap (her arms) again!
Indeed, my friend, it seems like our (former) villain might not realize just how powerful Terrifying Zoerumi is.
And clearly, she was unprepared.
Ah, but she wins in the end anyways. How exactly did it go, though?
Christ.
Well. All’s well that ends well, I suppose. And look!
consider: zoey acting bratty at a press event all day and pissing off rumi and mira…at one point she calls another idol “unnie” and plays it off as her “still getting confused sometimes bc im not from here :p” even though shes been in korea for over half a decade…rumi and mira seething, foaming at the mouth…and when they get home they “need to remind her who her real unnies are”….
rumi goes on some survivalist competition show and people are mega confused bc its not even a celebrity competition show, it’s a normal one that is notable for just how brutal it can get for its competitors. they get almost nothing to start off with, and are expected to do everything on their own, with a camera feed on them almost all the time. the goal is just to outlast your competitors. you can tap out at any time, and if production feels it’s necessary (which it sometimes does) it will essentially forcibly med evac you.
everyone is questioning how this nepo baby pop princess is gonna be able to make it past the first day, with several people tuned in just hoping to see her crash out early on
but rumis been raised with a lot of survival knowledge. she knows how to start a fire, hunt, fish (with and without a pole), preserve food, make a cooking spit, etc
by the end of day 1, shes the only one with shelter. and its a good shelter too, one that people got to watch her build in real time. its sturdy, and warm, and somehow, inexplicably, made of WOOD. she actually built a little hut.
shes got enough preserved food to get her through several months ready by the time any other people have built proper shelter
millions of people watch as the queen of kpop gets through this competition effortlessly. no one can quite fully believe what theyre watching but they cant look away, and they have no choice but to start to believe
almost a month in, all but one other person is left. the weather has been a nightmare for the other contestants. people who were doubting rumi at the start are now her honest to god fans.
the last one other than rumi is cold and pale, shivering and struggling to make a proper fire. his food is dwindling. he’s not looking too hot, and people are pretty sure that if he doesnt just give up outright in the next day or so, hes gonna be med evaced
rumi looks just fine, health wise.
but shes clearly sullen. her health has stayed steady this whole time, but her mood has been nosediving over the course of the last few weeks
“its weird,” she says to the camera at one point, while chewing on a piece of jerky she made herself, “if i was doing this a decade ago, i would probably have been in good spirits right about now. i didnt have many people in my life who i could consider close to me. this isolation would’ve meant nothing to me.
“but since then, ive met mira and zoey. two people who i couldnt imagine my life without. whose souls feel so tethered to my own.” her voice grows rough. “these past few weeks have been agony without them. i havent even been able to hear their voices. look at their faces. my only solace is that my dreams are full of the two of them, and my mind has cataloged every detail about them to the most minute of them all, so their voices are closer to echoes in my brain than imitations, and their faces appear to me as vividly as if they were in front of me.”
she stares at the jerky in her hand. “i cant wait to go home to them. i wont quit, even though it kills me being away from them any longer.” she turns her attention back to the camera, and points at it, knowing her girls are watching her in that very moment. there are tears in her eyes. “just you wait, mira and zoey, im gonna win this whole thing, and when i do, we’ll never be apart ever again!” her lip wobbles, and the tears begin to spill. “i love you girls so much!”
(back home, mira and zoey clutch each other, sobbing as they watch her, “WE LOVE YOU TOO!”)
luckily, it only takes another day for rumi to win the show. her picture is shown next to those of the former winners at the end of the last episode, and the contrast between their end of show appearances (tired, malnourished, pale) and hers (well rested, full, flushed) is almost terrifying.
her speech to her girls goes viral online, as do the images and videos of her being picked up from the airport by mira and zoey in big, sobbing hugs
Imagine being in that competition, you can't watch the show, you only know what's going on if you see it in person or hear about it from someone. It's three days in, you're already close to tapping out, but probably closer to a med evac. You still don't have proper shelter. You haven't been able to build a fire. You've been doing your best to only eat stuff that's edible raw, but it's still a miracle you haven't gotten food poisoning.
Then a fucking kpop star comes up to you, her hair still seems freshly dyed, her health is fine, and she's just like "hey, you seem like you're having trouble. Do you want some shelter for tonight?" And you're confused but you figure this isn't an intense enough show for someone to fucking hansel and gretel you, so sure.
It's a log cabin. It's a whole ass log cabin. She has freshly baked bread, toothpaste, soap, and a fucking sword. HOW DID SHE MAKE A SWORD HERE‽‽‽
*sips my curuba and elderflower redbull and takes a bite of my crispy buffalo chicken wrap* im home from work bitches
POLYTRIX STEVEN UNIVERSE AU TIME
(i havent nailed down exactly what gem they would each be bc i was at work when i started formulating this yknow.)
all three of the girls are members of the rebellion who all join around the same time. they’re not high ranking members but they are notable for being a squad that sticks together.
mira is some kind of jasper or something equivalent! she’s strong and durable, but deep down she is desperate for love. before joining the rebellion she was a member of blue diamonds court. she started to resent homeworld after being abandoned on a mission to some planet and left there for years, alone and forgotten. it was only by chance that another group of gems happened to find her there and bring her back. once back at homeworld she began to act out during subsequent missions and get in more and more trouble, until finally she was deemed too unruly and was destined to be shattered. luckily mira escaped before they could get her, and she left for earth to join the rebellion.
zoey is a gem whose purpose is scouting out planets to study them and determine the viability of making kindergartens on. she was a member of yellow diamonds court. she was quickly deemed defective, as her species of gem is often quiet and clinical, while she is nothing of the sort. they would send her to planets to scout them out, and she would return with a lot of information about the planets (more, in fact, than any other gems of her kind) but it was never the information they wanted. eventually they started to send her off on wild goose chases, on planets that were already scouted, to find out specific things about them, just because they thought it was funny to see her scramble to find the information. eventually they decided to send her to earth, thinking that shed be killed by the rebellion upon arrival, but instead, they took her in.
rumi is…different. she was sent to join the rebellion as a spy. shes a higher ranking member of white diamonds court, and is told to shapeshift into an amethyst to blend into the crowd more seamlessly, as her gem type is well known for their sneakiness and ruthlessness, often used as assassins. but the thing is, she was already sympathetic to the rebellion, so she uses this as an opportunity to escape white diamonds control and join
they meet as three wary individuals. mira harbors a deep distrust for gems in general, but especially jaspers and amethysts. zoey has never been taken seriously by the people around her so shes afraid to try and help. rumi is afraid of others finding out about what she was originally sent there for, so she wants to keep to herself.
and then zoey gets chosen to go on a scouting mission. because while the information she would gather isn’t necessarily useful for the war effort, it does matter to the crystal gems, because they love the earth, and zoey’s information is all about how beautiful the planets she visits are
but she cant go alone, so two guards are sent with her
three guesses as to who those two are
anyways its a tense mission at first. mira keeps glaring at rumi, who is sweating trying not to seem suspicious, and zoey keeps starting to talk about stuff shes seeing and compare it to stuff shes seen on other planets, but then stopping
but then they get to where theyre going and god, its beautiful. and it makes them all think about what they joined they rebellion for, and they start talking about themselves, and they start genuinely liking each other. rumis awkwardness becomes endearing to the others, and miras gruffness becomes sweet as she keeps protecting them from things she deems dangerous (including a small frog and some dragonflies), and zoey’s ramblings are enrapturing to listen to
when they come back, not only do they have a fuckton of information about the area they were scouting, they’re practically attached at the hip
and so they do more missions over the course of several dozens of years, getting closer and closer and closer
they spend all of their time together, barely talk to other gems outside of one another, cradle each other’s gems when they get poofed until they come back, and then rib on each others new forms when come out
(one time zoey styled herself after a turtle they saw just before the turtle bit her so hard she poofed. mira told her she looked ridiculous, but rumi pretended the entire time she had that form that she liked it. they both, admittedly, sighed in relief the next time she poofed and came back looking much better)
it was only a matter of time before two of them ended up fusing
its zoey and mira, after mira jumps in and pushes zoey out of the way from some falling debris. they dont even register its happened at first, until they (she) looks over and sees rumi staring, mouth agape at them (her)
they fall apart a few seconds later, but its eye opening for all three of them. because it felt incredible to be fused together for zoey and mira, and rumi thought their fusion was maybe the most gorgeous thing shes ever seen.
they start fusing more often (although they arent interested in being a permafusion) and they offer to fuse with rumi both one on one and as a trio (because its become increasingly clear what they all are to each other), but rumi cant fuse with them because then theyll know what she was originally sent here for, and she just has to wait for the rebellion to win, before she can finally be free to be with them and they can fuse all they want
but then things change.
the gem directly in charge of monitoring rumi was kinda hands off about the whole thing, so rumi never really had to bother sending any progress reports that she absolutely would be faking.
but suddenly, out of nowhere, homeworld starts contacting her again. turns out her supervisor? yeah, she got shattered for, whaddya know, being lazy as fuck. and now rumi has a new supervisor (maybe jinu?) who is far more interested in her progress as a spy. but rumi hasn’t bothered keeping up the pretense for so long that she’s out of practice even being referred to by her real gem type, and she fumbles her way through a fake progress report
they get suspicious, bc of course they do. they send a squad of gems (guess who) who are similar to rumi in their function, whose job it is to hunt her down and figure out what shes up to, as well as do what she couldnt. they go in disguise as well, but the trio immediately spot them. no one will listen to them when they say the squad is acting suspicious, so they have to investigate them themselves.
meanwhile rumis freaking out, bc now her past is coming to haunt her, and she’s terrified all over again that theyll find out the truth. and ofc mira and zoey are like “oh *the type of gem rumi actually is* are so duplicitous and awful theyre gonna ruin everything” and it makes her even more terrified to tell them the truth.
but jinu finds her. however, he doesnt call her out right away, and he doesnt try to bring her back. shes confused at first, but hes pissed at homeworld too. not enough to join the rebellion, but enough to agree to not help the diamond loyalists if they attack.
but ofc, things play out not entirely dissimilar to the film. jinu does reveal to everyone that rumi isnt who she says she is, and that shes a spy by making her change back to her original form, and zoey and mira find out at the worst possible time.
they confront her. “why did you change into a different gem?” zoey asks warily.
“its not what you think! i swear! im not-im not like them!”
“but youre one of them arent you?” mira says angrily. “let me guess, you never wanted to fuse with us because you thought it was disgusting, and you couldnt wait to tell homeworld all about how those two defective gems fused together all the time?”
“no! of course not! i-i was trying to help, so that we could stop homeworld, so we could finally be together, fuse together! jinu said-“
“youre working with jinu?”
“no! well, yes but-but i was using him to-“
“i knew it. i knew it was too good to be true.” mira says despondently, bc of course she thought she could finally trust other gems but ofc she cant, she never really could, all they ever do is lie to you and abandon you and treat you like shit
rumi tries to beg them to listen, but as they do in the movie, they hold their weapons at her. first mira, standing in front of zoey, then zoey herself, feeling she has no choice
rumi runs. the weapons fall. what have they done.
mira cant look zoey in the eye. she can barely look at herself. “what are we gonna do?” zoey asks, but
“there is no we anymore zoey. maybe there never was.” and then mira leaves too. its the most alone theyve felt in literal hundreds of years.
and then homeworld attacks
theyre all split up, and desperate to get to one another and terrified of something happening to one another. rumi comes back, in her real form, and zoey and mira find her, and despite it all theyre so happy to find each other and they love each other so much-
they fuse, all three of them, for the first time, and theyre practically unstoppable.
they save the day, at least in the part of the world that gets attacked, and they kill the saja boys, and zoey and mira finally get a good look at rumis true form once theyve unfused and
“you know its so unfair that youre even more beautiful like this” zoey says
“shes right. you really are more beautiful when youre being your true self.” mira says
and then they spend the rest of their lives together
(yes that includes corruption era crystal gems 😔 if you want you can imagine a trio of three different types of feral gem monsters who are deeply protective of one another. also then they get bubbled together when theyre taken out bc the remaining cgs realize who they are and how attached to one another they were, and know they would wanna be together.
the first thing they do after getting uncorrupted is tackle one another. they then fuse, and stay fused for longer than they ever have before the corruption)
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