#enamel pin swag

[wittywallflower]

showing off my Denim Jacket Bisexual swag

can’t decide if I should lean into the theme that’s clearly developing, or expand to include other fandoms

#it’s deffo time to start considering patches and acrylic pins tho #this bitch gonna get heavy if I stick much more metal on it #it’s already impossible to wear my purse with this jacket without worrying I am going to scratch the leather or accidentally rip a pin off #good omens #denim jacket bisexual #enamel pin swag

[torpublishinggroup]

The Atlas Complex—the conclusion to Olivie Blake's twisty and intrigue-laden dark academia fantasy comes out early next year, and we're giving away these cool enamel pins to everyone who preorders a copy!

Just upload a copy of your receipt here to enter, and then you'll have a few months and change to prepare yourself for this book to blow your mind.

POWER IS TAKEN

#olivie blake #the atlas complex #little chmura #booklr #book swag #enamel pins

[tutumydear]

New-to-me enamel pin! 💛

This one was by Arisa at Studio Katamalia and I believe it was a limited edition piece from August 2019. Someone saw my Princess Tutu enamel pin ISO list and was kind enough to offer it!

What I love the most is that Tutu’s pendant has been expanded into larger elements of her outfit. Ex. the wings and teardrop jewels. So clever ~

Derpy Duck peeking over the shoulder is cute too, ofc ofc 💛

#princess tutu #anything with Duck on it is swag #princess tutu fanmerch #princess tutu merch #princess tutu enamel pin #someone said these posts are like show n tell? #they are akljhkfgh

[felfiramoondesigns]

Buy one get one 25% off on Grishaverse Second Army Kaleidoscope pins!! (P.S THE SH0P IS BACK 0PEN YAY!)

To celebrate SHADOW & BONE SEASON TWO on March 16th, get a limited time deal on FMD Grishaverse Second Army Kaleidoscope pins! Add 2 pins to your cart & the 2nd pin will be 25% off*

None of these pins will be restocked, get them before they are gone forever!

*Grishaverse Second Army Kaleidoscope pins only. Automatically applied when added to cart. Discount applies to cheapest of the 2 pins. Offer ends March 17th @ 11:59PM GMT

#bookish pin #bookish enamel pins #bookstagram #bookish merch #literary gift #pinsanity #pin collection #fantasy pins #book swag #I love books so much #fantasy book lovers club #fantasy reader #book pin #shadow and bone fandom #leigh bardugo #YA reads #YAreaders #YA book lovers club #grishaverse #the darkling #young adult books #grisha trilogy #like calls to like

[rriotzine]

✨RED RIOT BUNDLE✨ $130

Kiri was so flattered by your excitement to take him home, he begged us to let just a few more of his clones into the wild. Our LE bundle now has 100 available!

Includes a 7" plush, 200+ pg zine, all merch, and is eligible for ALL stretch goals! ❤️

MORE BELOW!

✨ADVENTUROUS SPIRIT✨ $25-$30

Available as an add-on is this stylish laptop bag, available in both 13" and 17" sizes! Take Kiris from the multiverse along with you wherever you go—and what better place to put all of your zine swag?

This item is NOT eligible for stretch goals!

✨UNBREAKABLE✨ $90

A little bit of everything! 200+ page perfect bound zine, digital PDF zine, 2 prints, 2 sticker sheets, 2 die cuts, 2 acrylic charms, 1 frosted acrylic charm, 1 die cut washi tape, 1 enamel pin, 1 phone wallpaper, 1 socials banner, and 1 animated emote!

✨RED GAUNTLET✨ $75

Just want the chonky boys? 3D bundle has your back! Includes the physical & digital zines, 3 charms, a diecut washi tape, enamel pin, and all digital merch. Eligible for all stretch goals!

✨RED COUNTER✨ $60

Looking for something a little more on the stationery side? Our paper bundle contains all the cute Kiris of your dreams. Physical and digital zine included, as well as 2 prints, 2 sticker sheets, 2 diecut stickers, all digital merch, and ALL stretch goals!

✨BOX OF ROCKS✨ $60

Not into reading? No problem! Take all the adorable Kiri swag home and brag about your love for the manliest hero Red Riot! Eligible for all stretch goals!

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Includes 13 incredible fics, 20+ page pieces of page art, 6 comics, and many beautiful Kirishimas. Physical zine and digital zine only. Eligible for stretch goals 1-5!

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Our spicy mini-zine addon includes a 28+ page saddle-stiched magazine with 3 fics, mini articles, recipes, thirsty page art, and more! Mild NSFW only—no full frontals but lots of manly. Not eligible for stretch goals.

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#Kirishima #Kirishima Eijirou #Eijirou Kirishima #BNHA #Boku No Hero Academia #My Hero Academia #MHA #BNHA zines #MHA zines #Eijiro Kirishima #Zine bundles #RIOT zine bundles #RIOT bundles #Kiri zine #Kirishima zine #let's start a RIOT zine #bundle info #preorders open

[echofromtheabyss]

Medium talk is worse than small talk and probably what we're all most afraid of

We all know Small Talk:

hi, how are you, nice weather, how about them (insert sports team here).

Small talk follows algorithms and a kind of ritual pattern. It's the kind of appropriate conversation level for interacting with retail workers in public, and total strangers.

We also all know Big Talk. (I'm only calling it that as the logical inverse implied by Small Talk.) Which is basically where a high degree of familiarity is assumed. A common ND fuckup is conversing in conversational modes that, to many of the general population, are reserved for high familiarity. Either in terms of talking at length about a topic (which I feel is something that was actually more socially acceptable in the past, but has become broadly unacceptable over time; this was NOT really part of a diagnostic category in the 70s) or in terms of overfamiliarity/not being at the right level of social distance from the person for the thing you're talking about.

Most people rely on lots of context cues that inform how they will hear what the other person is saying, and those context cues may not be there for a near-stranger. All they're left with is the most uncharitable possible assumption about your intentions.

So with this in mind, this leaves me with the WORST conversation category, that nobody acknowledges, because we're stuck on Small Talk and Big Talk:

Medium Talk.

You actually need something in common with the other person or something you relate to, to really successfully do Medium Talk. Small talk can be done with total strangers you're never going to see again, and Big Talk can cut past a lot of stuff; I don't need every social belongingness or ideological thing or hobby in common with my family members, or other people in a high-trust relationship with me, to have a meaningful conversation with them.

Medium Talk is actually where a lot of the tripwires and landmines are.

People are making decisions to escalate or de-escalate here, and listening for loyalty indicators. You run the risk of keeping things superficial while missing an actual connectedness bid, or of being overly familiar - or getting too comfortable and offending/scaring the other person before they have any context for processing what you're saying to them.

Medium Talk is when you're moving from the Social Niceties, along the continuum toward Big Talk. You're dipping your toe in the water, moving toward the deep end.

Average to high social skills people will often throw out feelers about escalating the conversation. In the 90s, LGBT people would sometimes drop hints about some or other thing that only other LGBT people would know about, based upon some kind of context cue. There is ultimately some of this same dynamic going on with some forms of nerdy gatekeeping ("name one star war") albeit in a clumsy way.

But people do it all the time.

I think there is a tendency for some people to assume talk is 100% verbal while habitually ignoring the visual and relational context cues that are processed as communication. It's especially hard for people who *can't* process that information, but I think that there are lots of reasons some people end up just not learning to do it.

People often escalate small talk based upon presence of some kind of marker such as a nerdy enamel pin, or a sports jersey. This is what wearing tons of geek swag is actually all about. 70s-80s social skills guides and advice for single people, often advised having/carrying/wearing some kind of "conversation starter."

Once I learned about 70s/80s/90s gay hanky code, I realized that there was a lot of this going on in all kinds of ways and that people scan other people visually for various kinds of context cues for the escalation of small talk.

A big problem is getting too "real" too fast, and people in the Medium Talk Zone will commonly use celebrities, low-stakes fandom stuff, and the like as socially acceptable proxies for discussing their viewpoints while saving face. If you are still in a low trust space, then the problem with just blurting stuff out to another person is that they don't know you well enough to have any context for what you are saying.

Most people are processing a ton of context cues while you are speaking, besides the words you are saying. When still in a low trust zone, you are likely to be taken in bad faith. You saying the same thing that their friend said, is not being heard by their brains as actually the same thing.

Nor is your presentation of the project being heard by the boss as being the same presentation that is being given by the shinier co-worker who steals it from you.

Most people don't just process the information, they process *who is saying it* as a *necessary part* of that information.

And this is where Medium Talk is so dicey.

Small Talk? No problem. Most of us can do it on a good day and most of us do it without realizing how much we do it.

[vaspider]

Psst.

Emet and I just did a total re-inventory of our pin stock after Pride Northwest, and as it turns out, a bunch of things that our system had us marked as sold out of?

We're not, so... pin sale!

Buy 2+ enamel pins with code PINS2 for $2 off/pin or

Buy 5+ enamel pins with code PINS5 for $4 off/pin

(That's $8/pin or 30% off!)

Plus, we ship these out from our shop next business day, so they're perfect if you don't wanna wait for Pride swag that we have to manufacture ... did I mention we put the pins on sale?

This is the biggest discount we've ever offered on our enamel pins, and a lot of varieties have 3 or fewer pins in stock, so if you missed a Kickstarter or really want that glow-in-the-dark skull, now is the time.

#lgbtq #pride #enamel pins #nerdykeppie

[leebrontide]

For Readers

I'm curious about the difference between book swag that authors are excited about vs what readers actually want.

If it's something else, reply in comments!

[goldenwolfen]

Wuffies Enamel Pins and stuff are now open! 🥳 Did you miss out on the Kick*starter? Now you can get your Wuffies swag at a reduced price from retail! Open through Nov 30th so come check it out 👇👇👇 . https://wuffies-pins.pledgebox.com/preorder . #wuffies #wuffiespins #mylittlewuffie #adorable #adorableanimals #cartoonanimals #cartoonwolf #cartoonwolves #werewolf #pins #collectiblepins #enamelpins #kawaii #kawaiicute #kickstarter #preorder #presale

[definitearticle]

Democrats at Portland Pride

So I went to the Portland Pride festival a couple weeks ago. I had a marvelous time despite the mud, but I saw something I need to share here.

At Pride, as with any festival populated by organizations who are there for visibility rather than sales, the big draw to get people into booths is the prize wheel.

Now, most booths at Pride populated their prize wheel with the various kinds of swag they brought, with winnable prizes ranging from a bookmark to a toothbrush to a tote bag to an umbrella to a folding cart, depending on the budget of the organization. Sometimes the wheel was a randomizer for a quiz game, but usually it was an exciting instant prize dispenser.

And then I found the booth for the Democratic Party.

Staffed entirely by enthusiastic old women wearing buttons saying "I'm with her!" and "Vote blue!," the Democratic Party booth also had a prize wheel. However, unlike other wheels, the wedges weren't labeled "pencil," "magnet," or "enamel pin." Nor were they labeled with prompts for questions like "history," "platform," or "LGBTQIA2S+ issues."

Instead, the wheel was labeled with things like "Vote," "Democrats," "Yes we can," and other platitudes which had nothing to do with the prize to be won, nor the next step in the game process.

Intrigued, I spun the wheel. It landed on Vote blue!

"Congratulations," cried the woman in the booth. "You can take your pick of anything on the table!"

On the table was a small pile of candy, mostly made up of the kind of multi-flavored tootsie rolls that no one ever buys, and kids eat only when the rest of the Halloween stash is long gone. The wrappers were damp from the rain, and my fingers felt uncomfortably sticky as I took one out of obligation.

One of my partners spun. It landed on Black Lives Matter.

"Congratulations," the woman exclaimed again. "You can take your pick of anything on the table!"

This happened twice more, with my other partner and her mom. A different result on the wheel every time, and every time the same shitty piece of candy.

As we walked away, I mused: "There is no greater metaphor for voting Democratic than spinning the wheel and hoping for a big payout, only to receive the same disappointing prize regardless of the result."

#vote #still important to vote #the alternative is worse #but we should demand better prizes #democrats #democratic party

[cynthiaandsamus]

(My friend went and got me some swag from some cons they’ve been to recently and it’s pretty awesome XD got a One Piece Ace/Luffy mug and a Nami enamel pin, an Overwatch Mercy Keychain and a Nozomi Tojo Love Live keychain and a sweet custom Samus decal, I love it all and couldn’t wait to show it off XD)

[sunsetpinsandcoins]

The Complete Guide to Custom Die Struck Pins

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In this guide, we'll walk you through the entire process of designing and ordering your own custom die struck pins. You'll learn about different metal options, finishes, and attachment types so you can choose the perfect combination for your needs. We'll show you how to provide the artwork for your design and work with the manufacturer. Finally, we'll share some tips to help make your pin campaign a success so you get the most out of this promotional product.

Die struck pins are a timeless way to spread your message and bring people together. After reading this guide, you'll be well on your way to creating a custom pin that represents your brand and boosts awareness in a fun, memorable way. Let's get started!

What Are Custom Die Struck Pins?

Custom die struck pins, also known as emblematic pins, are pins that are custom made to your exact design specifications. They are struck from a custom engraved die to create a unique pin that represents your organization, team, event or brand.

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Customizable

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Conclusion

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[felfiramoondesigns]

ST0RE CLOSING FRIDAY 24TH FEBRUARY @ 6PM GMT for a couple weeks! >> SHOP FELFIRA MOON DESIGNS <<

I will be spending the weekend with my family and then heading into con prep for my first big con eeekkkk! I will be at ACME COMIC CON SPRING 4th/5th March!​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​ I am aiming to reopen on Sunday March 12th @ 4PM GMT. I'll let you all know if any of this information changes 😊️💜​​​​​​​​

I am super excited and nervous for my first big show! If you are going do drop by to say hi! I would love to meet you guys! I can't bring everything with me so if you are planning on buying anything specific from me, do let me know so I can make sure I have it! (I have around 80 pin designs/variants, I can't fit them all on my current set up lol 😂)​​​​​​​​

#pin badges #small business #enamel pin maker #bookish enamel pins #bookish quotes #read more books #buy more books #bibliophile #pinsanity #book community #book nerds #pin collection​​​​​​​​ #bookstagram #bookish merch #literary gift #so many books so little time #readers of ig #fantasy pins #book swag #I love books so much #readers of instagram #book pin #acme comic con 2023 #books books and more books #book lovers of instagram #book addicts

[erins-xmas-list-2023]

Abducted Cow Blind Bag Enamel Pin

#random #animals

[haunted-skitty-doll]

swag ass jacket with the gay eevees?

YES!! I got these for Christmas off of Etsy and I found the link! They got a bunch more than just these two

#my beautiful mind

[runawayballista]

actually does anyone make a fancy little enamel pin that says "ALL OF MY TESTS COME BACK NORMAL :)" bc thats the only chronic illness Swag i feel the desire to own