Hey everyone, final reminder that I'll be closing the surveys and preorder store on feb 9th, tomorrow, by essentially marking everything as hidden that I have low stock on, really limiting options for add-ons. There are still currently 9 unsubmitted surveys.

If you answered the survey but didn't hit submit because you're thinking it will auto-charge - that was just something done by BK for the holiday market so we could get our stuff out faster, I really do need you to submit once you've made your choices. If you just don't want to pay yet on the 13th or can't, that's seriously no big deal, just email me at [email protected] about it. But I really do need you to hit submit or I won't be able to reserve what you picked via survey (live campaign picks are already reserved).

The pins that will remain available to claim on survey after Feb 9th deadline are K-O, Harpy, Demon, and Mermaid. For grab bags, seconds pins of the monster girls and seconds pins of the minis will remain up on survey and preorder store. No gacha spins of any kind will remain up.

Then on the 11th, a 48hr notice will go out about locking orders, and on the 13th you will be locked and charged (if you didn't opt to be charged already). 

Since I have to bring the girls to Katsucon so I have the best chance of it being worth the expenses out the wazoo I had to put into this, this was the fairest way I came up with to do so:

Machine 1 ($15/spin):
• Ghoul
• Shinigami
• Zombie
• Rin
• Dullahan
• Mummy

(15/e, 3 for 42, 5 for 70, 10 for 130)*

Machine 2 ($20/spin):
• TV Cat
• Gorgon
• Demon
• Golem
• Necromancer
• Spider witch

(20/e, 3 for 55, 5 for 90, 10 for 165)*

*still subject to change because I haven't printed those machine graphics yet. Ope

I made a slight change and swapped which machine Necro is in because I looked back at production costs.

$16/pin CHOICE: Mermaid, Angel v1, Elfling v1

Angel's remake is otw to me now (though unlikely to arrive by the time we leave Weds ...), and Elfling's remakes won't ship until next month ... but backers won't be receiving the ones I am bringing to the con, because the remakes will BETTER reflect the art and the price point, as well as almost-certainly be much higher quality overall. At the same time, because the first batches of those pins were so overwhelmingly awful, the ones that are actually passable as "standard grade" (but have the wrong colors/enamel type for the design itself) are currently immovable unless I bring them to this convention.

Since they'll be out on display, people can see how they currently look - which isn't like how they were advertised to all of you, which is why I'm making sure to fix it - and make an informed decision on whether they want them like that or not. I feel that's fair and also doesn't rip any of you off that are still waiting.

This brings me back again to submitting your surveys: I am using those counts to make sure your pins are absolutely 100% safe!!! I've reserved everything currently picked/unshipped across all campaigns' designs, +5-10 per design, but there are dramatically different quality levels per design (for example, I'm having all of Baphomet remade from the 1st because only 8 of her didn't have something majorly wrong in some form, and her eyes also didn't glow like I paid for. Nothing that extreme here since Angel was remade thank goodness!). Some of the puddings are also pretty limited per design.

Thank you! 

Hey everyone, just a reminder that I'll be closing the surveys and preorder store on feb 9th by essentially marking everything as hidden that I have low stock on, really limiting options for add-ons. There are still currently 10 unanswered surveys.  

The pins that will remain available to claim on survey after Feb 9th deadline are K-O, Harpy, Demon, and Mermaid. For grab bags, seconds pins of the monster girls and seconds pins of the minis will remain up on survey and preorder store. No gacha spins of any kind will remain up.

The general add-ons remaining left to claim after feb 9th deadline on survey and preorder store are konpeito milk and both types eye boba. Bandages also. No puddings or stickers as I can't be sure how well they'll do or not. No septums as I don't know how well they'll do either, I sold out pretty much entirely of the 16G ones I brought the last time I went to Katsucon, but this time I have almost entirely different designs in stock so 🤷‍♀️ 

Thank you to the early payers, as I was able to pay that 2nd half for Harpy and K-O just as they were finishing up, they should ship to me tomorrow. I paid extra for fedex rather than UPS this time so they MAY reach me before I leave for katsucon next weds night but it's unlikely.

Because of all this uncertainty (which has nothing to do with those who chose to wait for the 13th,  as you have every right to, and everything to do with my manus all taking so long across both collections!!), I have to wait last-minute to order my signage for my machines, as I don't know yet what will be in them, and it's really stressing me out. I'm currently about halfway thru grading the part 2 pins to be sure that everything claimed + 10 extra for good measure are being left at home. Your claims will not be oversold. The deadline of the 9th for claiming extras ensures this. 

Thanks everyone!!

** Parts of this update were written weeks ago because of the issues I've been having with my hands; it took me a long time to get the survey out and take pictures of the puddings/shakers because of pain. **

I'm sorry, I know with Pintopia going on this is HORRIBLE timing but it's the best I could do. Hard-ish deadline for this survey is February 9th. On that date, I will mark anything low stock as "hidden" if I'm taking it with me to Katsucon, and you will not be able to select it. Anything purchased during the live campaign/selected before that point is still reserved for you. I will not CHARGE until Feb 13th, unless you are someone who selected the option to be charged upon submission. Shipping will begin in the latter half of February because I will need time to recover after Katsucon to avoid Post-Exertional Malaise.  CONTACT ME if you need an extension on payment so that I know to still reserve your items - I don't bite!! (email: [email protected]) 

I haven't graded them all yet, but here are the pros and cons so far.

Pros: for very metal-heavy designs, there are very very few scratches; the pearl details look nice; the glow enamel works well; the polishing seems pretty even (no super blown-out lines); the print work is very clean.
Con (singular con noticed thus far): all of Dullahan appear to have pitting in the black swirly pearl (the smoke). This means there were microbubbles in the enamel when it hardened, a lot of them, and when they were polished the microbubbles became holes. They're not noticeable at arm's length so I'm still considering them to be standards, but this is still an avoidable issue that's quite frustrating, so I apologize for it. 

Correct Gorgon as well:


Reminder of Golem and TV Cat:

WIP of remake of Angel with correct pearl effect:


Harpy and Kuchisake-Onna are just waiting on printing: 

Angel, Kuchisake-Onna, and Harpy should ALL be here before I begin shipping end of Feb.

Here are the gacha snakes I funded from the Gacha Marketplace, and their preorder store for individual choice is available here for just a few more days:


Extra Golem stickers are also in the survey:


I don't know what the final of the green bat looks like because they haven't shown me.

Eye candy:**

All colorways I wanted to make of eye candy exist now! For the konpeito milk-inspired one, all the eyeball and konpeito colors and the decal are random. By the decal, I mean that I digitally airbrushed each "eye candy" logo independently with different pastels so none are exactly the same.

Chewy eye boba:**
 

Check out the reflections for those eye beads!!

A purple version of the eye boba** is currently wip but didn't get here in time for this survey. It should be in my final online shop opening after Katsucon, and since I'll start shipping late Feb, I added it as a limited add-on but it will be technically a preorder. It looks REALLY cool:



Also, "Mermaid slime jelly pudding" (unfortunately not actually slime, jelly, or pudding - it's a squishy) will also be on surveys:

And I now have a couple colorway options for fangtastic blood pudding so I added that too (even though I opted not to do my vamp as a pin 🥲): 

 
The version with opaque pudding comes with a red ball chain and the version with translucent red comes with red syringe clasps. The art is also glossy (like most of mine) and hand-applied for the red ones, and the orangier ones are printed on.

I am also adding blood ion jelly**

They come with red blood bag clasps.

Lastly I adapted the brain cake and zombie  snax art I had before to a zombie snax pudding lid design** also!!



I.... really love the pudding squishies. And I'm allergic to silicone so it makes me extra happy that these are TPR not silicone. I have over 25 pudding lid designs now.

I apply all these transfers by hand (excluding the ones with matte printing) so placement will vary, especially because of my hand pain and tremors, but I'm doing my best and anything super off kilter I hang onto and will sell as B grade someday, I guess at conventions.

All of these things are also on the survey and kinda limited but I did have to order full stock of them, so I really don't expect anything to come close to selling out. So Katsucon will be very monster girl heavy for me lol.

I meant to send out surveys Jan 1st, but so many things just were out of my hands. Ultimately, I'm glad that Mummy, Dullahan, and Mermaid (backers only, see below) arrived before I sent them.

I have made a preorder store with the above listings. Preorder store does NOT include individual listings of girls, however, only gacha spins. Preorder listings for this campaign are NOT charged immediately upon submission, so please let me know if you are purchasing and want to combine shipping with something else that hasn't gone out yet.

**ALL ITEMS WITH THESE ASTERISKS NEXT TO THE NAME ARE GOING TO BE INDEFINITE MERCHANDISE AND ELIGIBLE FOR RESTOCK BASED ON DEMAND, AS THEY ARE CONNECTED TO MY GAME DEV THEMATICALLY. As a reminder, I won't never sell things online again, they will just be items dedicated to my games once all the misc now-considered-limited-edition merchandise has sold out. I will be keeping the midnightsprings.com url but I'm very unlikely to keep the bigcartel. We'll see what happens.

However, since they made me send all the seconds pins back too I now have to re-sort through them...and they double-bagged them AGAIN even though I explicitly asked them not to.

Honestly, for fulfillment for her I think I'll just sort as I go because this is too much. 🥴



Her eyebrows were really important because of her vertical brow piercings.

However, I sent them 12 Golem back to "fix" and they only returned 11 and are insisting I only sent 11, so now I'm just arbitrarily out $6 and have 1 less of her.

I have these now too, they JUST arrived!!

It's not very visible in this lighting, but the sparkle in the smoke and the armwarmers/sleeves on Dullahan IS visible in person and they look amazing!! Especially the smoke.

Mummy's shadows on her veiny hands look very good, really subtle but they stand out in person like I wanted.

I am actively counting them because I JUST got them but ran to edit this update, which was only drafted with the Demon info, so that I could show you them. I hope they're great and will grade them as quickly as I can.

I also need to mention that Mermaid hasn't shipped to me yet because her printing wasn't done right, the skin (which looks amazing!) is much darker than intended because of the various steps in the production process, so when they printed the shadows on her skin they turned out WAY too pale and instead look like uncanny highlights. They didnt sample her, they did all 100 that way without running it by me so they are now printing back over them with a new color we decided on. This manufacturer hateeesss me now. 😬 the feeling is pretty mutual, how hard is communication...I mean, really... when she does finally ship she should be here within 3 business days since they use FedEx.

Working on survey now!! Will have big update post when sent out!

Thank you for your patience!!!!

PS: Assuming everyone will be done in time (including Kuchisake-Onna and Harpy, whose molds just finished being made last week), I will have a $15 spin GACHA machine at Katsucon and a $20 GACHA machine. So, you guys all got them at a discount, some very hefty.

$15 machine: Angel, Ghoul, Baphomet, Shinigami, Zombie, Rin, Dullahan, Mummy, Kuchisake-Onna, Necromancer, Harpy
$20 machine: Elfling, TV Cat, Gorgon, Golem, Demon, Mermaid, Spider Witch

I will have 8 gacha machines at Katsucon...I'm very overwhelmed and questioning my decisions.

Hope to maybe see some of you there! 

Thanks for your patience!!