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A simple caution sign with a yellow background, black text, a black border, and black art. Text reads CAUTION SLIPPERY WHEN WET. Accompanying art shows three tentacles emerging from waves.

A simple caution sign with a yellow background, black text, a black border, and black art. Text reads CAUTION ONE-NIGHT STAND. Artwork shows a two-drawer night stand with a lamp atop it.

A simple caution sign with a yellow background, black text, a black border, and black art. Text reads CAUTION SLOW BURN. Beside this is artwork of a jar candle burning.

With only five days left in our Fannish Safety Sign sticker Kickstarter campaign (it ends May 22nd at 1 p.m. Eastern!), we’re winding down our posts focusing on the many designs created for the campaign. Today, meet the last three CAUTION signs we haven’t shared yet – but CAUTION – PUNS! For the campaign, we’ll be making these stickers as 4.2 in x 3 in (10.66 cm x 7.6 cm) glossy vinyl stickers.

There’s no time like the present to check out our campaign and back!

You can see all the other CAUTION designs, and most of the other 37 stickers in the campaign, by visiting the Fannish Safety Sign tag on our blog.

It’s a true delight to share that we’ve hit the second stretch goal for our Fannish Safety Signs sticker Kickstarter Campaign. Now, all backers whose backing includes one or more full sets will get a digital rights-free blank template of their chosen set(s), to use however they wish! Also exciting, now we can share our third stretch goal. It’s at $6,500 – so we’re still about $1,300 from it as I write this; reaching it will be tough but with y’all’s help to spread the word, I think we may do it.

For this stretch goal, we unveil two additional designs that we’ll make as 3 in x 3 in (7.6 cm x 7.6 cm) stickers on a glossy, shiny hologram base sticker. All backers, regardless of level, will be able to claim one of these two stickers as a freebie – which they get is up to them! We did a mock-up; the exact colors and shiny will vary depending on placement on the paper, but we hope they get the idea across…

Two sticker designs in the diamond shape of warning signs. One has text that reads "WRITER AT WORK," the other "ARTIST AT WORK." They have multihued shiny-looking backgrounds.

Help us spread the word to reach our third stretch goal, and check out our Kickstarter Campaign to see all the fun fannish stickers we’re offering – and become a backer! With your help, we can unlock this bonus for everyone!

A simple caution sign with a yellow background, black text, a black border, and black art. Text reads CAUTION TO-BE-READ TOWERS. There's simple artwork of books in three tall stacks.

A simple caution sign with a yellow background, black text, a black border, and black art. Text reads CAUTION SHELF NEARING CAPACITY. There's artwork of a three-shelf bookcase with the shelves full of books.

A black and white sign. Text reads "Be alert for NEW BOOKS." It shows artwork of three books in a stack.

For those who know that buying books, having books, and reading books are three different hobbies, we offer these three stickers perfect for book lovers as part of our Fannish Safety Sign sticker Kickstarter campaign.

We’re only $125 from our next stretch goal, with 8 days left in our campaign, so we hope you’ll check the project out and help us spread our fandom stickers far and wide.

You can check out close-ups of many of the campaign stickers by visiting the Fannish Safety Sign tag on our blog.

A simple caution sign with a yellow background, black text, a black border, and black art. Text reads CAUTION MUTUAL PINING. There is simple art of a stand of three pine trees beside it.

A simple caution sign with a yellow background, black text, a black border, and black art. Text reads CAUTION FAKE DATING. Simple art shows two hands clasped as if they've just shaken on a deal.

A simple caution sign with a yellow background, black text, a black border, and black art. Text reads CAUTION ENEMIES TO LOVERS. Art shows to swords, crossed near the tip, with a heart hovering in the resulting triangle.

For today’s Fannish Safety Sign highlights, we’re grouping three CAUTION signs featuring three of our favorite relationship dynamics. Which is your favorite?

These designs are part of our Fannish Safety Sign Stickers Kickstarter Campaign. They are among 16 CAUTION-style stickers, all of which will be vinyl, glossy, and waterproof! Final measurements will be 4.2 in x 3 in (10.66 cm x 7.6 cm).

You can see all the teasers we’ve done by visiting our website.

You can become a backer today through May 22nd by visiting our Kickstarter!

A black and white sign. Text reads "Be alert for NEW BLORBOS." It shows a simple figure popping out of a box.

A black and white sign. Text reads "Be alert for REDEMPTION ARCS." It shows a person holding a U-Turn sign.

A black and white sign. Text reads "Be alert for HANAHAKI DISEASE." It shows a person, from the side, spitting out two flowers.

A black and white sign. Text reads "Be alert for LITTLE GOOBERS." It shows a round creature with big wide-open eyes and a few tentacles and other appendages sticking out.

Our crowdfunding campaign to create Fannish Safety Sign stickers launched on May 8th, and we’ve already funded and hit our first stretch goal, and we’re halfway to our second stretch goal! Now that things are well underway, we’re going to resume our posts highlighting specific designs. Today? We return to the character theme we first visited last week when we introduced the Unreliable Narrator and Poor Little Meow-Meow designs. These four designs, we find a new favorite guy (gender neutral), and then we put them in A Situation! These glossy vinyl stickers are 3 in x 4.5 in (7.6 cm x 11.4 cm).

You can see more close-ups of our Fannish Safety Sign sticker designs on WordPress!

Get these and any of our 33 (!!) other stickers by visiting our Kickstarter campaign page now!

Don’t miss out – this campaign ends on May 22nd at 1 p.m. Eastern time.

A banner with text and images over a simple brick-like background. It's entitled "Fannish Safety Signs: sticker pack by Duck Prints Press." A small banner beside this says, "funded in under 6 hours." At the top of the graphic are two "caution tape" style graphics in yellow and black: one reads "angst beyond this point" the other "caution dead dove do not eat." Two black and white graphics on the left are shown. One says "be alert for idiots in love" and includes two simple figure silhouettes with question marks over their heads passing a heart between them; the other shows a person sinking into a hole with text that reads "be alert for plot holes." At the bottom are two yellow and black caution signs; one reads "there's only one bed" with a picture of a neatly made bed; the other reads "caution enemies to lovers" and features two crossed swords with a heart over their tips. Lastly, there's a blue and white graphic with a list of five items, each illustrated, and text at the bottom reads "the required focus aids above must be prepared before a fanfic-reading session"; the five aids are "preferred website," "suitable timeslot," "cozy blanket," "imminent schedule," and "comfort blorbos."

Absolutely delighted to share that the first 24 hours of our Fannish Safety Signs Kickstarter campaign, to raise funds to create 37 different fandom-themed warning and safety stickers, have passed, and we smashed our initial goal in under 6 hours! We’re now only $300 from our first stretch goal at $4,000, and we have more stretch goals in the works – we’ll announce the next after we reach this one.

When we hit $4,000, every single backer will receive their chosen stickers, and will also receive the designs they’ve selected as digital files for personal use!

Don’t wait – this campaign will end on May 22nd. Become a backer today!

We are over the moon to share that our Fannish Safety Sign Sticker Campaign is now up and running on Kickstarter!! Made with all of creator’s Xianyu Zhou’s fandom love and whimsy, these fun 37 stickers offer warnings and alerts for fannish tropes, character archetypes, memes, and more that one should be on the lookout for. From “Be Alert for Idiots in Love” to “Caution: Dead Dove Do Not Eat,” if you love fandom, you’re sure to find a sticker here that’s perfect for you! Get one sticker, get all 37, mix and match and customize your order however you’d like – the possibilities are endless.

Visit our campaign page now!

Or scroll on to see ALL THE DESIGNS!

All BE ALERT FOR… Stickers:

A mosaic of 17 similar but non-identical graphics in black and white with simple graphics. Text on each varies from a basic "Be Alert For..." format, and each has art to go with the theme. The 17 are: Be Alert for Cats, featuring a cat silhouette; Be Alert for Dogs, featuring a dog silhouette; Be Alert for Hanahaki Disease, featuring a figure spitting out two flowers; Be Alert for Idiots in love, featuring two people with question marks over their head passing a heart between them; Be Alert for Knives featuring a knife; Be Alert for Little Goobers featuring a little alienish blob with big staring eyes and tendrils coming from it; Be Alert for New Blorbos featuring a figure emerging from a box; Be Alert For New Books featuring a stack of three books; Be Alert for Plot Bunnies featuring an open book with a bunny leaping across it; Be Alert for Plot Holes featuring a person sinking into a black hole with an exclamation point over their head; Be Alert for Poor Little Meow-Meows featuring a person with devil horns who is crying; Be Alert for Porn With Plot featuring two figures, one standing, one sitting crosslegged in a chair; Be Alert for Porn Without Plot, featuring two figures, one atop the other in a bed, mostly covered by a blanket; Be Alert for Redemption Arcs featuring a figuring holding a U Turn sign; Be Alert for Submission Deadlines, featuring a stack of papers with a timer over it; Be Alert for Transmigration Risks featuring a person falling into a book; and Be Alert for Unreliable Narrators, featuring a smirking figuring surrounded by text bubbles.

All CAUTION Stickers:

A mosaic of 16 similar but non-identical CAUTION stickers in yellow and black. Each design features the word CAUTION, text, and an image that matches the text. The sixteen designs are: Caution Angst, with a bandaged anatomical heart; Caution Dead Dover: Do Not Eat featuring a bird lying on its side, with an x for an eye, with a fork and knife on either side of it; Caution Enemies to Lovers with two swords crossed, a heart over them; Caution Fake Dating, showing two hands clasped in a handshake; Caution Fluff featuring a fluffy sheep; Caution Mutual Pining with a stand of three pine trees; Caution OMG They are Roommates featuring two figures sitting side by side on a couch; Caution One-Night Stand beside a nightstand with a lamp on it; Caution Shelf Nearing Capacity showing a full bookshelf; Caution Slippery When Wet with three tentacles emerging from waves; Caution Slow Burn beside a lit candle; Caution There's Only One Bed with a neatly made bed; Caution To-Be-Read Towers with three big stacks of books; Caution Whump, featuring a person with their arm in a sling, their leg bandaged, and a crutch; Caution WIP Longer than Expected featuring a document page so long it's folded back on itself three times; and Caution Work in Progress showing a stack of papers with a partially filled progress bar over it.

All THE REQUIRED FOCUS AIDS MUST BE PREPARED… Stickers:

And lastly, our Caution Tape Sticker Sheet:

Ready to back now that you’ve seen a sticker you’ve gotta have? Here’s that Kickstarter link one more time!

And! People who back our Patreon at the $10/month or $25/month level will get one additional sticker as a freebie/bonus when they also back the Kickstarter campaign!

A black and white sign. Text reads "Be alert for PORN WITH PLOT." Artwork shows two people, one standing holding a hand out, the other sitting, legs crossed, in a chair, with a heart near their head.

A black and white sign. Text reads "Be alert for PORN WITHOUT PLOT." In the middle is a picture of a bed shown from the side; two people, mostly covered by a blanket, lie one atop the other on the bed. There's a heart above their heads and movement lines around the lower parts of the blanket.

Today’s reveal, we revel in the duality of PWP – Porn WITH Plot, AND Porn WITHOUT Plot (No “Plot? What Plot?”, sorry)! Be alert, because the crowdfunding campaign for these and our 35 other Fannish Safety Signs stickers will launch tomorrow, May 8th. The BE ALERT FOR style stickers will be vinyl, glossy, and 3 in x 4.5 in (7.6 cm x 11.4 cm)!

See all the thus-far revealed designs on WordPress!

Follow our Kickstarter Pre-Launch Page!

A simple caution sign with a yellow background, black text, a black border, and black art. Text reads CAUTION ANGST. Beside this is an image of an anatomical heart with bandages wrapped around it.

A simple caution sign with a yellow background, black text, a black border, and black art. Text reads CAUTION FLUFF. Beside this is an image of a sheep silhouette.

A simple caution sign with a yellow background, black text, a black border, and black art. Text reads CAUTION WHUMP. Beside this is an silhouette of a basic person shape with their arm in a sling, a leg in bandages, and a crutch under one arm.

I don’t know about y’all but one of my favorite things about fandom is that we have our own genres. Our Fannish Safety Sign sticker crowdfunding Kickstarter celebrates that with these three genre stickers! The CAUTION stickers for this campaign will be 4.2 in x 3 in (10.66 cm x 7.6 cm) vinyl stickers, waterproof, with a nice glossy finish!

You can see all the released teasers on our website blog!

Follow our Kickstarter pre-launch page; the campaign launches in 2 days!!

A black and white sign. Text reads "Be alert for UNRELIABLE NARRATORS." In the middle is an image of a basic figure's silhouette, expressionless except for a leering smile, with four blank speech bubbles around their head.

A black and white sign. Text reads "Be alert for POOR LITTLE MEOW-MEOWS." There is an image of a standing figure with their hands raised to their face, tears coming from their eyes; they have devil horns on their head.

Today’s teaser for our upcoming sticker campaign Fannish Safety Signs, we’re revealing the designs for two of our favorite character archetypes that we’re always on the alert for – unreliable narrators and poor little meow-meows. For this campaign, we’re making these two designs and 35 others into high-grade glossy vinyl stickers. The “Be Alert For” designs will be 3 in x 4.5 in (7.6 cm x 11.4 cm)!

You can see the other revealed designs on our WordPress blog!

Get your own Fannish Safety Signs stickers when our Kickstarter goes live in just a few days (follow the pre-launch page now)!

A collection of caution tapes, each with different text: Angst Beyond This Point; Major Character Death Beyond This Point; Caution Dead Dove: Do Not Eat; and Warning Slow Burn.

We’ve been sharing many of the designs for our upcoming Fannish Safety Sign sticker crowdfunding campaign (you can see all the revealed designs here!). Today, check out our sticker sheet! This sheet measures 8 in x 5.63 in (20.3 cm x 14.3 cm), and features seven different long, thin yellow-and-black caution tape stickers! Great for journaling, decorating your laptop or water bottle, and more.

Follow our pre-launch page and get your own sticker sheet when we launch!

A blue and white sign with a list of five items, each with a small illustration. The five are: beverage; ergonomic support; background noise; suitable strategy; involuntary distraction. Text at the bottom reads "the required focus aids above must be prepared before a writing session."

A blue and white sign with a list of five items, each with a small illustration. The five are: preferred website; suitable timeslot; cozy blanket; imminent schedule; and comfort blorbos. Text at the bottom reads: the required focus aids above must be prepared before a fanfic-reading session.

A blue and white sign with a list of five items, each with a small illustration. The five are: color palette; reference materials; pen; ...pen; are you sure you have your pen?. Text at the bottom reads, "The required focus aids above must be prepared before a drawing session.

The third style of sticker we’ll be offering for our Fannish Safety Sign Sticker crowdfunding Kickstarter are these blue and white “The Required Focus Aids Above MUST BE PREPARED!” signs. Perfect for artists, authors, and fanfiction readers who love a splash of silly, these stickers will be 4 in x 6 in (10.2 cm x 15.25 cm), in glossy vinyl. Great for laptops, notebooks, tablets, and other surfaces!

Check out the other revealed designs by visiting our blog!

Follow our Kickstarter pre-launch page to be notified when this campaign launches on May 8th!

A simple caution sign with a yellow background, black text, a black border, and black art. Text reads CAUTION OMG THEY ARE ROOMMATES." The silhouettes of two people sitting side by side on a couch accompany this text.

A simple caution sign with a yellow background, black text, a black border, and black art. Text reads CAUTION THERE'S ONLY ONE BED." Artwork if a simple, neatly made bed accompanies the text.

Today, we share two more designs for our upcoming Fannish Safety Signs sticker crowdfunding campaign. I’m very excited to share that our campaign has been approved by Kickstarter, so we’ll be good to go for launch, and we’ll be continuing our design reveals over the day to come. When I was considering which of Xianyu’s designs to share next, I thought, what better than pairing up two of fandoms’ favorite tropes? The stickers we make of the CAUTION designs will be 4.2 in x 3 in (10.66 cm x 7.6 cm) glossy vinyl stickers.

Check out the Fannish Safety Sign tag on our WordPress blog to see more teasers!

Want to buy a Fannish Safety Sign sticker? Follow our Kickstarter pre-launch page to get notified when they’re up for sale!

A black and white sign. Text reads "Be alert for CATS." There is a silhouette of a cat standing in the middle.

After a busy weekend, I’m back with more design releases for our forthcoming Fannish Safety Sign Stickers crowdfunding campaign! Xianyu Zhou has made an awesome seventeen styles of the Be Alert For… design. We’ll be making these as glossy waterproof vinyl stickers, 3 in x 4.5 in (7.6 cm x 11.4 cm). Whether it’s a cat jumping on our lap when we’re trying to art, or a dog demanding a walk during the sixth hour of our marathon of a new obsession, pets are a long-beloved part of many people’s fandom experience – so be alert!

You can check out the Fannish Safety Sign tag on our WordPress blog to see more teasers!

See a sticker you’ve gotta have? Follow our Kickstarter pre-launch page to make sure you hear when the campaign goes live on May 8th!

A simple caution sign with a yellow background, black text, a black border, and black art. Text reads CAUTION DEAD DOVE: DO NOT EAT. Artwork shows a bird lying on its side with an x where it's eye would be; there's a knife to its right and a fork to its left.

Yesterday, we announced our forthcoming Kickstarter campaign, launching May 8th, featuring 37 different fun designs for stickers of fannish safety signs. Over the coming days, we’ll be revealing each of the 37 designs! The CAUTION-style stickers, such as this “dead dove: do not eat” sign, will be 4.2 in x 3 in (10.66 cm x 7.6 cm), glossy vinyl stickers great for water bottles, laptops, car bumpers, or any other sticker-suitable surface you’d care to apply it too!

Follow our Kickstarter campaign pre-launch page to be notified when this campaign goes live!

Join us on the social media platform(s) of your choice to watch our design reveals!

Don’t want to wait? All backers of our Patreon get to see ALL the designs right now!

A banner with text and images over a simple brick-like background. It's entitled "Fannish Safety Signs: sticker pack by Duck Prints Press." At the top of the graphic are two "caution tape" style graphics in yellow and black: one reads "angst beyond this point" the other "caution dead dove do not eat." Two black and white graphics on the left are shown. One says "be alert for idiots in love" and includes two simple figure silhouettes with question marks over their heads passing a heart between them; the other shows a person sinking into a hole with text that reads "be alert for plot holes." At the bottom are two yellow and black caution signs; one reads "there's only one bed" with a picture of a neatly made bed; the other reads "caution enemies to lovers" and features two crossed swords with a heart over their tips. Lastly, there's a blue and white graphic with a list of five items, each illustrated, and text at the bottom reads "the required focus aids above must be prepared before a fanfic-reading session"; the five aids are "preferred website," "suitable timeslot," "cozy blanket," "imminent schedule," and "comfort blorbos."

Duck Prints Press is thrilled to announce our next Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign, for a collection of Fannish Safety Signs developed and created by Xianyu Zhou! We’re offering a whopping 37 different sticker designs in four different styles. The campaign will be launching on Thursday, May 8th, and running for 2 weeks with a goal of $2,800.

Already see something you gotta have? Follow our pre-launch page on Kickstarter to make sure you’re the first to know when we launch!

Want to see more? We’ll be revealing new designs (almost) every day between now and campaign launch, so follow us on the social media platform of your choice to make sure you don’t miss a thing!

Duck Prints Press is planning two merchandise/art campaigns for the first half of 2025, and we’d love your help! Which project interests you most? What types of merchandise would you like us to make? Do you think you’d buy them? Fill out the survey linked above and share your opinions with us.

Wondering what the projects are? Read on!

Project 1: Fannish warning signs

Four side-by-side graphics, all bright yellow with black text and entitled CAUTION. The upper left image reads "character is soaking wet and pathetic," the upper right says "Fake Dating," the lower left "There's only one bed," and the lower right "Character is the embodiment of sunshine and puppies." All have simple artwork related to the text.

These fun signs, designed by Xianyu Zhou, are most likely to be made as stickers. Xianyu has designed several different styles and has lots more ideas. You can check out a bunch more samples and tell us your own ideas for other signs by taking the survey here.

Project 2: Pride Dragons

Artwork by Flore Picard depicting three cute chibi dragons piled atop each other. They are in the colors of the genderfluid pride flag, the genderqueer pride flag, and the agender pride flag.

Artist Flore Picard has done many series of these adorable cat-like dragons in the colors of various Pride Flags. Now, they are looking to work with Duck Prints Press to do a set of dragons focused on flags for identities seen more rarely, in colors often not included in other sets of Pride flag inspired merchandise. Which flags are we considering? Check out the full list by taking the survey!

Getting input from y’all is one of the surest ways to make sure that what we’re planning aligns with what people are interested in, so we’d love to hear from you.