Nick's June Newsletter

Querbears update | Pupsuit Update & Presale | Rewards Reveal | Shirt Customs

Shop Update! All patreon members can use code: " Puppies! " for 10% off!

We have 3 custom shirts available right now. Due to a convention cancellation the shop will be open until June 10th. After that these will no longer be available as customs. Shop will not reopen until August.

We opted to simplify this design so we could bring he price down for y'all on this one!

We also have this! This is a trans werewolf design I'm particularly proud of. It's made to look like Lino cut and I love the carved look to it. The more detail I tried to add the less I liked it, so I'm happy with the solid black. I will eventually have a post where I talk about my thoughts of the "choppy art renaissance" as a cultural response to ai.

Full disclosure we only have less than 10 of these shirts becaue this was not a color we intended to order. Once they are gone I will not be reprinting this design, it was made solely to help sell these shirts lol:

No competition this is my favorite design we currently have! I'm sad we haven't sold any of them yet, but I understand the custom shirts are more popular. We've actually been hand dip-dying these ourselves which is such a process lol. But We're sticking them up for Anthrocon and so I'm not too bummed since I think they'll do well.

lastly we have support your local puppycule! I didn't anticipate to make this design, but got multiple dms requesting git.!

Pupsuit Update!

All Patreon members will have 24 hour early presale on June 23rd@ 10amAZ. They'll be available on simplenicks.com You will get an email when they go live, they are first come first served. no payment plans. each suit available will be $2000 including free US shipping. June 24th-26th they will be open to the public. after that they will be sent to anthrocon if they are still unsold.

All patterns have been made and bases have been printed! They are a foam-like TPU that's light an flexible and only needs some minimal clean up and I've very pleased with the shape!

I have to digitally create the pattern work for them, and the test patterns seemed to work well! I have a genuine worry that they will all presale before anthrocon, which while would be awesome, will leave me with an empty second table.

In preparation I'm going to keep printing bases, just in case we find ourselves with more time.

Queerbears Update!

We finally received the pre-prototype just to show us the shape of the bear. We were able to send in revisions and hopefully we can get the prototype in hand by Anthrocon, fingers crossed!!

Patreon Rewards Update:

So while tariffs are lighten for the moment and any sane artist would rush to get things manufactured while that's the case, I honestly am just a bit overwhelmed by everything I already have going on. July's theme might be "healing your inner child" or something similar.

But for June I' already announced that we're doing a HUGE sticker event. Not going to lie getting these printed is almost $300 and I'm not likely doing this type of rewards again until next year. ill just thought it's a really good way to get stickers I want made and give y'all so much. We are debating on if we want to swap the "fix your hearts" for the "I know love exists because I exist" design.

Personal life updates:

As most of you know since I've very vocal about it and discussing mental health, I was formally diagnosed with ADHD last month and prescribed my first medication for it. after about a week of migraines and what looked like promising results, I've unfortunately been unable to sleep correctly for a while. I do worry it will impact this month which is already so overwhelmingly busy.

Burnout; generally I don't see myself making regular fursuits for a while. so my tigers and spaniel are the last ones we will have until that changes. If you're interested in any of them, please lmk!

I would really love if the pupsuits genuinely did well and I could make them for the foreseeable future. I've unfortunately lost a lot of passion for standard fursuits but something about the pupsuits is really fun for me. I think it's the limitation. I've always enjoyed closed species for the same reason; having to find interesting ways of standing out within a set guideline has always promoted my most interesting ideas sooner than having everything available to me (very overwhelming).

Quails update: for those who don't know I'm planning on raising quails in my condo/patio. we have a spare bedroom we don't use, and are going to add some extra ventilation and raise quails since they're easy to keep inside. I have to see it as a hobby though, because the time and effort added is immense considering its only replacing the $3 cost to buy a dozen eggs at the store and its a $150 startup cost. If anyones interested in that i ight make a post going over everything :3

Thanks for reading! if you have any questions feel free to let me know!

-Nick