#club pins

[lackadaisycats]

Lackadaisy Club Pins are back!

These are in stock and shipping now, but limited in number! We just fulfilled the pre-orders and have some pins remaining, so they're get-em-while-you-can items. Find them now in the Iron Circus Store:

Chevron Club Pin

3 of Clubs Pins

(The paws belong to my cat Gigi. She insisted on being part of the photo shoot.)

[kitsunetsuki]

Fred Enke - Club Magazine (1975)

[chibird]

Some capybara puns! The cap-tea-bara and capy-bara are available as next month’s pin and sticker for my positive mail clubs!

Join by March 31! ✿ patreon.com/chibird

[castielsprostate]

reblog to put john winchester in the meat grinder!!!!!!!! mince him!!!!!!!

[finchers-ipad]

I GOT A FIGHT CLUB DVD REVIEW MAGAZINE FROM 2000!!!

[munespice]

Mail time froggies :)

[theeggoman]

cutie patootie babu

[calciumdreams]

inspired by the recent ask: 2 cool guys in a date

[shiftythrifting]

I have several questions.

[gaybreakfast]

Axolotl’s are amphibians even if they never leave the water. Likewise Bi folks are bi, even if they’ve dated only one gender, or nobody at all!

Feel free to post this comic elsewhere (with tagged credit), if it helps make a point to gatekeepers.

Our little metaphor will also be pins!

One day left to reserve them via our pin club on Patreon. Cutoff is March 31st at 11:59PM pacific.

[writing-for-life]

About Love As The Catalyst For Change

Okay, so while I was going through all the panels for March Mania, I also stumbled over these ones again:

And although I’ve read it all a million times and had all these feelings before, I just need to blurt them out:

Love Is What Changes Him

It’s such a central message of The Sandman, but I feel it often gets lost in a million other things. And they’re all important, but so is this one.

Because yes, Dream went with Delirium and found Destruction (and Despair found him btw), and his Destiny was Death. And that whole Desire thing… ‘nuff said. BUT… (major spoilers ahead)

Those panels above are basically the turning point in a nutshell. No, well, the turning point is actually the moment he kisses (and then kills) Orpheus, but those panels are the essence:

He set out with Delirium in hopes to find Thessaly (the pendant Nuala wears here used to be hers, and she gave it to her when she left the Dreaming and him. And I can’t even begin to tell you how I feel about him letting Nuala keep a gift of his ex, who betrays him later by protecting the woman he hurt, and then making it the item that holds the power with which Nuala can call in her boon. One could spin that very far in all sorts of different directions).

But when he comes back after killing Orpheus, it doesn’t really matter anymore. Thessaly was the usual romanticised dream that could never be real. But he finally did find love. For his son. The unconditional kind. The one that doesn’t need anything in return because it just is. And he was loved back, if for a brief moment. But it was real, not a dream. And that love stays real (that’s why it initiates the turn, 3rd act and all that).

I’m reminded again of the words of Frank McConnell in his intro to The Kindly Ones:

“And with [killing Orpheus], Dream has entered time, choice, guilt and regret—has entered the sphere of the human.”

(Side note at this point: With all of this in mind, read Dream Hunters [again], and look at all THREE main characters—that includes the onmyōji, not just the monk and the fox.)

And it would be so easy to say, “Well, love killed him then, what’s the fucking point?” Not just the love for his son, but also the love of a maiden who called in her boon (Nuala), the love of a mother for her child (Lyta), the love of a crone for no one but herself (Thessaly).

But we all know that “change or die” was never an “either or”, because it’s an “and both”. And it’s ultimately love, in all its shapes and forms, four times over, that changed him (while it was also part of the death knell, but that’s a complicated one. In any case, it also led to change: To be(come) a new, better, kinder Dream).

Yes, call me romantic or hopeless (although I think that’s the wrong word in this context, because I feel it’s the opposite), I don’t care.

Because that story is about catharsis. And that means Dream is a vessel for our feelings. And the feelings won’t be the same if we change any of this, for better, for worse. Because truthfully: That story is about me. And you. And you.

About allowing love, of whatever kind (this is very clearly not just about romantic love), to change us. And that ultimately means letting go (of control). Just like he did.

Bleurgh, I’m crying. Catharsis 🤣

[lackadaisycats]

Lackadaisy Club Pins - Pre-Order is Live!

There’s a 3 of Clubs set of three pins, in metallic gold and enamel.

And a large Art Deco chevron club pin, also in metallic gold and enamel.

These pre-orders are available via Iron Circus Comics until May 11th! After that supply may be limited. We’re expecting them to ship in July.

This is part of our effort to fund more Lackadaisy animation!

[kitsunetsuki]

Claire Francis (Club 1975)

[chibird]

Jumbo food puns! 🍞

You can get the bread loaf as an enamel pin if you join the positive pun pin club on Patreon by December 31st! \(^ᗜ^)/

[chaobunnyarts]

May's Tiny Reptile and Mini Amphibian designs: Corn Snake and Hellbender! 🌽🐍

I've been wanting to do a corn snake design for a while for all the corn snake fans out there, and I finally came up with a design that I was happy with (it's heart-shaped!) :)

These designs are available as pins and stickers on my Patreon until the end of the April, and they will ship in May!

[goobersplat]

Various Easter Things

White Rabbit Die-cut Card, Club Penguin Chocolate Bunny Plush, 1989 Chocolate Bunny Pin, Tulip Bunny Easter Card