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We’re making a total of 8 merchandise items for the crowdfunding campaign of Wild and Full of Marvels: Queer Fanworks Inspired by Folklore and Fairy Tales. Over the next week, we’ll be revealing all of those as we count down to the launch of our Kickstarter on July 8th!

Today, meet some of our “flat” merch that comes with our lower of two merchandise tiers.

• Donkeyskin Transgender Pride Suncatcher Sticker: our suncatcher sticker, semi-transparent and with a dazzling finish to disperse the light that passes through it, features art by Elias Strunck (Personal Webpage | YouTube) inspired by the fairy tale Donkeyskin and in the colors of the transgender pride flag. 4 in x 5 in/10.2 cm x 12.7 cm. (Printed by Vograce.)
• Merduck Dux Die-Cut Sticker: our newest Dux design by Alessa Riel is a duck to match our front cover: half duck, half fish, all merduck! You can learn more about Dux here. 3 in x 2 in/7.6 cm x 5.1 cm. (Printed by Vograce.)
• Knight and Dragon Two-Sided Bookmark: Jagoda Zirebiec (Tumblr | Twitter) has designed another lovely bookmark for this campaign, this time featuring front and back designs, one side a dragon in shades of blue, the other a knight in golds—and they were bookmark mates! This bookmark will be printed in a lovely high gloss and feature a die-cut corner. 2 in x 8 in/5.1 cm x 20.3 cm. (Printed by Aura Print.)

Follow our pre-launch page on Kickstarter for campaign updates, info, and more – including getting a ping when the campaign goes live!

Find them all in the Duck Prints Press webstore!

• Scholarly Pursuits Front Cover by Liz Lee Illustration
• A Truth Universally Acknowledged Cover Art Postcard by Aceriee
• “Magical Friendship” by May Barros
• “Snow Heart” by Max Jason Peterson
• “I want to be different.” by Jagoda Zirebiec
• [untitled] by swev.art
• “The Riddle” by Shea Sullivan
• “Treasure” by Max Jason Peterson
• “Spark” by May Barros
• “april’s sweet showers” by radicalhoodie
• “Sunset” by Jagoda Zirebiec
• “Samhain” by Aceriee
• “Chrysopoeia” by Zel Howland
• “Ol’ Reliable” by Aaron Kotze
• Scrap Metal Angel Two Postcard Set by Felix Vanasse

We are in the process of planning a series of lined blank journals. Each features public domain artwork by William Morris, with the selection curated by the artist Aceriee, and we intend to put a brief literary quote on each cover.

Which literary quotes?

That’s where you come in! All our backers on Patreon are invited to nominate a quote, and to pair it with a specific cover, should they so wish. For example, by request, we’ll be adding the quote If we walk far enough, we shall sometime come to someplace from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

Is there a cover calling to you? Is there a literary quote you’d love to see us feature? Back our Patreon at any level, and tell us your choice!

Our backers get a say in lots of things! For example, earlier this week, based on their voting, we settled on a theme for our next Queer Fanworks Inspired By… anthology, and Patrons who choose to join our Discord are able to participate in making our recommendation lists, suggesting prompts for our prompt-a-day events May Trope Mayhem and Kinks-Your-Tober, requesting topics for our monthly panels, and more! Become a backer today.

Have you been waiting for a close-up look at the merchandise items not highlighted in our first merchandise spotlight? Well, wait no longer! We’re in the final stretch of this campaign, and we’ve introduced all the contributors, which means it’s time for our final campaign update highlighting our offerings. Check out this merchandise we’re creating as part of our crowdfunding campaign to fund the publishing of Monsterotica: Tales of Unusual Courtship and Coupling!

Art Print of the Front Cover

The cover art created for this book by Siao Bell (Bluesky | Instagram) is too gorgeous to only use as the cover for a book, and so we’re delighted to offer it as a lovely 8.5 in x 11 in/21.5 cm x 28 cm art print brilliant colors with a matte finish. 

Medusa Bookmark

If you love your women snakey, you’ll definitely want our die-cut gorgon/medusa bookmark! The front features artwork by Jagoda Zirebiec (Tumblr | Twitter), and the back has the signatures of the contributors to Monsterotica! The bookmark is approximately 2 in x 7 in/5 cm x 17.75 cm with a die-cut corner, and will be printed on sturdy, glossy paper.

Quirky Monstery Postcard Collection

Xianyu Zhou, creator of our fun and funny Fannish Safety Signs sticker campaign (several of which are available as add-ons to this campaign!) has created these four charming post card designs.

These designs combine into one postcard set, containing four postcards, one of each design! The backs are mail-ready with a postcard template and place for stamp marked. Printing will be matte. Each postcard is 4 in x 6 in/10.2 cm x 15.25 cm.

You can get all this merchandise, plus our monstery campaign dux mascot, by backing the Kickstarter campaign for Monsterotica at the “flat merchandise” level – Backer Level 3. Or, if you just want some of the flat merchandise, you can also add individual copies of each of these merch items to any order than includes physical rewards!

The campaign to pre-order art prints of any of 12 different artworks or get all 12 in a single awesome 2026 calendar has only two days left – it ends at midnight on September 15th! – and it’s a perfect time to introduce our last artist.

Shea Sullivan is a writer, editor, and artist who has contributed this piece, The Riddle, as the artwork featured in the month of November on our calendar. The inspiration behind this piece, according to Shea, is “The Monsterotica anthology description inspired me to think about the love lives of less common mythological creatures.” We’re hoping to offer art prints of this piece as a stretch goal when we launch the Monsterotica crowdfunding campaign!

Get your 2026 calendar before time runs out! You can also order art prints of The Riddle, and other pieces, at that link.

We’re approaching the end of our campaign to fund making art prints and a 2026 calendar featuring queer art by 9 different artists – it’s only got 4 days left, with pre-orders closing on September 15th 2025. Check out the campaign now!

Max Jason Peterson is the third and final artist to have contributed two pieces (along with May Barros and Jagoda Zirebiec). Max’s charming watercolor pieces contribute greatly to the overall queer joy vibe of the art in our calendar!

The piece on the left is entitled Treasure; according to Max, “‘Treasure’ refers to many things in this piece: the treasure of a love that lasts; the treasure that each man is to the other; the wealth of their happiness together through all the years; and the beauty and peace of this setting (in which cats and ducks, sea monsters and sailboats exist in harmony). In this painting, ‘Treasure’ is both a noun and verb, for the men truly treasure each other, their lives, and these experiences. The beings depicted here treasure their friendship and good will for one another as well.” Buy art prints of “Treasure.”

Max chose not to share the inspiration behind his other piece, Snow Heart, but the love and affection radiates from the page. Buy art prints of “Snow Heart.”

This charming artwork – untitled – by swev.art features two merpeople and an adorable rainbow seahorse, and is one of 12 works featured in our 2026 queer art calendar! Art prints of this piece and the others in the project are also available.

Pre-order your 2026 calendar and art prints today! Don’t miss your chance – pre-orders close on September 15th.

swev had this to say about this artwork, by the way: Since this is the May post [originally, this work was posted to our Patreon in May 2025], it seemed obvious that I should paint some mermaids – Mermay has long been an event I’ve enjoyed! I wanted to have two distinctly different merpeople, so one is inspired by a watersnake and the other one more loosely by dragonfish, bettas, and flowers. For the colours, I wanted to incorporate Pride colours in some capacity, so I looked to the lesbian and nonbinary flags for inspiration.

Welcome to our third of nine spotlights featuring the artists contributing to our 2026 calendar of queer art! Art prints of all the works are also being made for you to order, should you wish to. We’ve previously introduced Zel Howland and May Barros.

Today, meet Jagoda Zirebiec, artist behind March and August!

Learn more about the art and pre-order your 2026 calendar and/or art prints on the Duck Prints Press website before September 15!

For March, Jagoda Zirebiec created a piece entitled I want to be different. They said this about the inspiration: Instead of focusing on relationships, I wanted to play around with “self-reflection.” So I came up with a idea of trans character seeing their “ideal” self in a water reflection. Here is a medieval setting, so their ideal is a knight.

Jagoda’s piece Sunset is August in our calendar; while they didn’t opt to speak about their inspiration, that leaves us room to bring our own interpretations to this cowboy duo limned in gold.

Love this art? You can get it for yourself!

• the 2026 calendar of queer art includes both pieces
• pre-order art prints: I want to be different. | Sunset
• digital downloads of I want to be different. are available in our Patreon store! Artworks are added to our Patreon store six months after they are posted for our Patrons, so Sunset won’t be added to the store until November, 2025. You can become a backer at the $10/month or $25/month level and get a digital download immediately, though!

Duck Prints Press, the indie publisher owned by @unforth/Nina Waters, founded by fancreators to help fanartists and fanfiction writers publish their original work, with an emphasis on works featuring LGBTQIA+ characters, needs YOU!

There are two ways for you to help, now through September 30th:

• like and share a version of this post post on the platform(s) of your choice to help us spread the word – and to enter a giveaway for an original copy of the first edition of our debut anthology Add Magic to Taste! (Scroll down for details.) Shareable posts: Tumblr | Pillowfort | Mastodon | Bluesky
• become a Patreon supporter, help an awesome small business, get backer rewards, AND get a merch freebie valued up to $5 US!

To help us maximize the amount of money we can pay to creators, we rely on our Patreon to pay our overhead costs. As things stand, we need to bring in about $750 a month to pay our baseline monthly expenses…and as of now, we’re bringing in about $550 per month. Factoring in our website and other online sales, vending, and crowdfunding campaigns, Duck Prints Press is currently breaking even, but we can’t grow, initiate more projects, pay creators more, expand our offerings, get software and equipment that will help us streamline our processes, and more…without enough money coming in to ensure we make ends meet each month.

That’s where you come in! The more people support us on Patreon, even just at $3/month, the more we’re able to do!

In exchange for monthly support, we offer a bunch of cool rewards to people who choose to back us, with 5 support levels ranging from $3/month to $25/month. All backers get coupons to use in our webstore, access to our Discord, behind-the-scenes blog posts, voting rights on polls that decide anthology themes, and at least one free short story per month. At higher levels, backers get exclusive merchandise, one artwork per month, access to our monthly Duck Prints Press Panel, bonus stories, free selections from our book catalog, extras for supporting our crowdfunding campaigns, and more!

We can reach our goals, and you can get lots of excellent stuff, by backing the Press on Patreon now! AND you’ll get your choice of a freebie if you back during the month of September! (All our current backers will get to claim a freebie too, as a THANK YOU for their long-time support of our work.)

What can you get?

This giveaway is the only way to get access to Patreon-exclusive merchandise usually reserved for Patreon backers who also support our crowdfunding campaigns! Here’s the exclusives we have on offering for this year’s freebies:

You can get any merchandise item we offer on our webstore that costs $5 or less, or you can claim a backer-exclusive reward previously only available to Patrons! The Patreon exclusives that I have leftovers of, listed left to right, top to bottom, are:

• A Truth Universally Acknowledged – this version of this design is only available in this set of 5 note cards with envelopes (art by A. A. Weston)
• The Salt in the Sea – blue iridescent acrylic wave pin (art by planetsandmagic) (only 4 available)
• Pride Dragons – Gilbert Baker Pride Flag and Intersex Inclusive Pride Flag acrylic pins (art by Florilege) (only 5 and 4 of these respectively)
• Hockey Bois – standee of chibi art of the two main characters (art by diminuel) (only 1 available!!)
• Scrap Metal Angel – rainbow feather magnet featuring the same art as the chapter dividers (clip art) (only 4 available)
• He Bears the Cape of Stars/She Wears the Midnight Crown – sun/moon day/night mask die-cut sticker (art by Aceriee)
• Aim For The Heart – musketeer of pierced hearts magnet (art by Aceriee) (only 1 available!!)
• Many Hands – poly pride flag dragon with hologram stars (art by reshipkmn)
• Missed Fortunes – post card of the cover art (art by Jade Hallett)

If none of these are to your taste, on duckprintspress.com we’ve got bookmarks, stickers, key chains, magnets, and more!

All backers, current and new, who back at the $25/month level by the end of September will ALSO get our 2026 Calendar of Queer Art as a freebie! You can learn more about the calendar on our webpage.

Wait, what was that about a giveaway?

Don’t want to be a backer but want to help us spread the word? Have we got a giveaway for you! To encourage people to share this post, we’re offering a free copy of the first edition of our first anthology Add Magic to Taste, which features 20 sweet, fluffy, queer stories set at magical coffee shops, tea houses, and bakeries. There are only three mint, print copies of this book left, and they’re not for sale – this is the rare chance to get one for yourself!

Want to help a small, fan-run, aroace-agender-owned independent business get more support, and maybe win something awesome for your efforts? Then enter the giveaway! You get one entry for liking this post, and one entry per reblog/reskeet/share for up to three reblogs/reskeets/shares! AND you can get additional entries by sharing our posts on different platforms: we’re posting shareable versions of the giveaway on Tumblr, Pillowfort, Bluesky, and Mastodon! (Note: we will NOT give entries for people making their own posts. We love when people make their own posts, but they’re too difficult for us to track for giveaway purposes.)

TL:DR: Duck Prints Press is a growing indie press working with fancreators to publish queer art and fiction. Become a backer on Patreon during September 2025, and get all the backer rewards associated with the backer level you select PLUS a freebie worth up to $5. Help spread the word and get entries to win a fabulous print anthology available nowhere else!

Stuff for us, stuff for you – couldn’t be better! Don’t miss your chance: this event ends September 30th, 2025!

(And don’t forget to sign up for our mailing list so you can hear about our latest projects, merchandise releases, crowdfunding campaigns, publications, coupons, and more!)

Thanks in advance, everyone.

(For all legalese related to this promotional event and giveaway, go to this link! Make sure you check it out.)