Reader Merchandise Poll #2 - Or, What Goes On The Merch?

the elderwood academy has a cute little spell book keychain to hold tiny things like tiny dice… and they absolutely collab!

a lot of your keychain ideas could be done using a bit of resin, actually, i think i might be able to pull off the moonlight potion if i can find a specific ingrident, you shake it and the liquid moves and glows… I have ideas.

the symbols could be more resin, or glas things…

I love the bookmark ideas…

the stickers i just attempted, lessons were learned, some of those fonts are better drawn/printed…

I am out of spoons at the moment and dont rememeber where my cricut pens are anyways, so my attempts at that will have to wait.

I will ask blue to help me upload what i got done, i think yall will like the concept, even though I really really really need to change some things…



I learned some lessons, but have fun

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Ideas for coasters:
I read someone say magical cirkles, but I don’t know if anybody said just glyphs yet, I would imagine these glyph-coasters to either be a solid coaster with the glyph printed on it, or to be yust the glyph, like, my uncle has coasters of stick figures thate are just 2d rubber ‘cutouts’ of the stickfigures, il post a picture if i can find one. These could be in various different colours.

another idea would be a large platter, with a magical circle design, wherein the sub circles would be the size of coasters, and drawn on the coasters, i imagine the platter would have inlays in the places where the subcircle-coasters would sit, so that they won’t be moving about all the time. The fun thing with this is that because of the way magical ‘circles’ work, the platter, and coaster could be all kinds of shapes and sizes, thay could be uniform, eg a pentagonal platter and pentagonal coasters, or the could differ, eg a octagonal platter with some coasters being hexagonal, some being square, and some triangular.

if you are buying on demand instead of in bulk, then it could be an idea to design a ful set of, (i can’t really find the English words that fully translate what i’m trying to bring across, so I’ll explain it instead, with some examples. You see, in dutch we have this activity called borrelen, which means to get together, usally before dinner, either on a special occasion, when friends or familly are over, or to make an ordinary, or worse, day a bit better, and have something to drink, like wine, beer, other alchohol, or soda, with some snacks, like crisps, ‘‘borrel’’-nuts (which are peanuts enchased in a hard shell (kinda like M%M’s) but with instead of chocholate, a salty, kinda bbq tasting shell, and cheese on toast. ) borrelware, consisting of some snackbowls of different sizes (2 large, 3 or 4 medium, and 7 or so small, descending in size starting from the diameter of a teacup, going all the way down to the size of the circle you van create by touching your thumb to your pinky finger), a plate for cheeses (like ‘brie’, ‘fleur rouge’, ‘blauwschimmelkaas’, or ‘camembert’), a cheese knife or three, coasters as mentioned before, and maybe glasses, though most people do have those at home. Though something like glasses with a little bit of a thicker bottom, to house some lights that can shine up through their contents. maybe even wirelessly charged by the coasters (which would then need (replacable) batteries) to make them only light up when on the magical circle that is the coaster. And last but not least a platter (possibly a pentagon, because the first word in the description of 5-cornered shapes’s meaning in magic is Man) with magic lines and text to form a magical spell that imbues the drinks and foodstufs in the sub-circles with joy, and a feeling of prosperity, which light up when a couple of the sub-circles are filled.

Ideas for mugs:
mugs with multiple quotes, or a single quote repeated in the form of a raven, or siobhan, or the shadow-familiar, or multiple.

a set of coffee (and tea) plates and mugs/cups with the mugs having magical circles meant to prolong the effects of magic cast on its contents, and the plates either aving a magical circle for imbueing something with a spell of wakefullnes and/or energeticness or drowsines, or flu-begone, etc.
it would be quite cool if these magic circles also get activated (lit up) by placing the mug on the plate.

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For those of you who want vials of moonlight sizzle and the vial of darkness…

Someone explained to me how to make a prototype, hopefully y’all will get some pictures tomorrow, at least of the moonlight sizzle

Does anybody know which color it’s suppose to be? I’ve always pictured a pale blue, but I could be wrong

She’d also borrowed one of the big pots from the kitchen and used it in place of her cauldron to create a gigantic batch of the potion of moonlight sizzle, which she’d put in squat little jars that glowed ever-so-faintly blue.
When shaken, the potion roiled with contained bubbles and let off a soft but bright glow that mimicked the light of a full moon and was powerful enough to illuminate a small room on its own.

So it’s a faint pale blue when not shaken, but the color when it lights up seems open to interpretation. Moonlight is actually, objectively, warmer in color than daylight, but viewing things in lower light environments tends to make people perceive it as bluer (the Purkinje effect).

Sooo, do you mimick that with a cooler blue light or a slightly warm white? Seems open to interpretation.

Edit: Okay, so the light moonlight sizzle produces is explicitly referred to as blue:

He picked up a potion of moonlight sizzle and shook it, watching the cold light spill past his fingers.

They were using a dying bottle of moonlight sizzle for light, because there was no window.
In the blue-tinted gloom within, an old woman huddled in the corner, staring at nothing—Newton’s “Grams.”

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Thank you, I just got the delivery, but need a nap.

I’m using glow in the dark mica powders, so mine will be less like glow slicks, but still shake up give more light if properly

… Need nap, brain no work

So vials made, the two in the center have been recently shook, the rest has settled.

The 4 with silver circles on top have added details to see how it looks

I will do a glow test when I go back into a dark environment.

Shaking the vials makes the powder shimmer through the vial, it’s very pretty, I’ll see about posting a good video somewhere like my website …

This is my first attempt at making something like this, so it’s not perfect

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Personally, an image I’d like to see is derived from the… gremling scene? Basically, a raven protecting the injured mother spite & her newly hatched children – the great Raven Queen defending children & the helpless! [Maybe add other animal figures helping in the background, a stag hiding among them?]

The image could be applied to many formats, but think I’d like a statuette form – something not too frail I could display on a coffee table or whatnot that the little ones in my family can’t break easily.

This might be a bit edgy, but i think it would be cool to have Siobhan with her shadow familiar, from when she was getting people out from the Pendragon prison. Shadow familiar upside down above her, and her saying “My eyes see nothing but a fortune of dust.”
Can just put the familiar to the side but still upside down on mugs, probably bookmarks and covers that don’t fit it all too?

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Everyone can order a LIVE pet Raven. The ravens are raised from eggs hatched of by Azalea herself.

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Thank you everyone for the suggestions! We have a lot going on behind the scenes, just not as quickly as we would like.

We were working on this, but the first shipment was crows. Whoops. Then my cat discovered the cages of ravens, and, well, it went poorly. Maybe we can outsource it. :joy::rofl:

(This is 100% a joke, no corvids were harmed. I’m not even sure it’s legal to own Ravens in my country.)

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Just FYI, owning crows and ravens is illegal in the USA.

One of the reasons is that hand-raised crows need to migrate, and will not survive living on their own. There’s basically a 0% survival rate, and they don’t die in nice ways.

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Don’t worry. We were joking.

Raven stuffies are not out of the question, though, if we could find something affordable and cute, because it would have to be a bulk buy.

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Also, Fish and Wildlife Service’s we site on the same topic: Raven Conflict Management | U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

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Omg, you should look into tentacle kitty! They are planning their Halloween stuff and I. An absolutely see some silly collab with y’all haha and maybe they can tell you how they make their plushies cause omg I love my Wyrms

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I’m hoping there will be stickers available. My Kindle needs to be dressed up.

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I have redone the quote page I made for sticker paper with the quotes written on it.

However, since I’m currently out of label paper it means I have to use mats and I’m to lazy right now to draw samples.

But learning different ways to use my circuit has been really fun!

O.o
I… I have an idea…

But in a raven shape? There has to be a pattern already, or I might have to learn something close enough to modify.

Shuttle tatting is normally used for lace or small stuff.

However it would be an expensive item cause it’s SEVERAL hours cry even when I’m doing it “quickly” it’s hours.

I met some really good artist at dragonflight

One of them has an art style with backgrounds that I think would just fit this book series.

I pointed her in this direction, I don’t know if it will work. Hopefully :joy:

I took forever picking prints cause so good not fair

My poor wallet … Blue didn’t tell me until like Wed

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I don’t think they are gonna make it

But look at the corvid little! Ahhh

I love these plush

Better option offered

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The kickstart is live and this is what they ended up going with for the bird option. If you look up tentaclekitty you should be able to find it. It’s cute plushes

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Would you also consider the thirteen pointed star pattern on merch? I think it would look cool

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