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Literary Critters || Enamel Pin Collection

Created by Kage Davies

A collection of enamel pins based on animal characters from books.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

☆ 48(ish) Hour Update ☆ Fully Funded! And More ~
3 months ago – Fri, Jun 19, 2026 at 12:36:55 PM

Hey ~

Sorry for the super late update! I've had a hell of a migraine since we went live.

We funded in under 24 hours! As always, I'm super grateful to everyone who jumped in to support us :).

We are actually nearly at our final unlock, so I have some previews for what comes next.

Our £4500 unlock is;



Sunshine (U-4987) from 'There is no Antimemetics Division'. I know its not one hundred percent on theme, but I really loved this book and its pretty close. This is going to be a 1.5" mini pin, and it will be in the mini pin options pool. Its going to be stained glass with printed details; the light yellow background and the orange middle will both be stained glass effect. The white highlights and the dark orange details will be printed. The metal will be gold, and there will be a single post in the middle.

To say too much about Sunshine would be to give spoilers on a book that is way better if you go in 'blind'. Its a good book, very SCP vibe (for a reason, lmao). I was never into SCPs, I didn't know anything about it before hand, but I had a good time. If existential horror is your vibe, I do recommend this one.

Our £5000 unlock will be going back to the roots of the project, we have Thowra from the Silver Brumby series. He's not done yet, but hopefully I'll have him up in the next day or three :). He'll be in the standard size. Anything we don't fund through the main campaign will be up in the add-on store for extended post campaign stretch goals.

We also have a quicksand pin coming up. This is the super rough draft I put together to check the concept worked;


Based on the Animals of Farthing Wood logo. This was my absolute favourite thing as a kid, I'm gonna do a spotlight when this pin design is done. Right now I'm just tweaking the silhouette to suit my style more, and redoing the wreath so its not just 1:1 from the original artist's work. This is going to be 2-2.5" depending on the manufacturer's recommendations, and it will be black nickel plated. We're hoping to have tiny leaves and blue colourshift quicksand in the back. This quicksand pin is going into the add-on store when its done (there will be a new update) and you'll have to add it to your order individually if you'd like one :). I don't usually show much concept work so... Please go gently T_T.

After that it entirely depends where we are! The next book on the roster after the Silver Brumby is Tailchaser's Song, but I haven't decided who to do. We'll see if we get that far :).

Thank you again everyone for your support so far. Lets see how it goes!

☆ Series Spotlight ☆ Redwall
3 months ago – Mon, Jun 15, 2026 at 10:06:46 PM

Hey ~

Wow time has really gotten away from me. Last preview before we launch tomorrow is;



Martin the Warrior. I went for a faux stained glass effect, because the sections are going to be too small for actual resin sadly. I looked up a bunch of abbey stained glass windows for inspiration. Also more of a Mouse Guard art style, I'm really not one for anthro characters a lot of the time but I love the Mouse Guard kind of vibe. 

This is a standard size pin, unlocks at our tier six stretch goal. It will be 2" hard enamel, with one screen printed detail on the ear, and two posts. We're going with black nickel for the stained glass look.

I might catch some heat here but... I wasn't the biggest fan of the Redwall books. I did read a whole bunch of them (ironically, not Martin the Warrior though!). I always hated the idea that your 'goodness' could be defined by something you couldn't control, the different species were all 'good' or 'bad'. I guess I was a bad kid and it got to me a bit. There was one book in particular about them trying to raise a weasel at the abbey and well. It made me very sad.

Tell you what though, as a really fussy eater it did make me want to try a whole bunch of new foods. 

Right now this is the highest funding goal, but if we go higher then I will work on new designs until the end of the campaign. And I'll do the last two series spotlights as we go, too :).

Hope to see you all tomorrow!

☆ Collaboration Announcement ☆
3 months ago – Sat, Jun 13, 2026 at 06:39:01 PM

Hey ~

Realised I forgot to post the update!



We are collaborating with Mothmen Taxonomy by Cosmic Nightfell. Back both projects to get a free selective holo sticker from each project :). 

In keeping with our theme, our sticker is the Slake Mothman, based on the creature from Perdido Street Station. Another book that I both recommend and recommend you read the content warnings first. I did cute-ify it a bit, but definitely made the most of the fact we're doing stickers and not pins for this one. We're probably going for 3" size, matte finish and holo effect at different levels on the wings to make it look like the pattern is moving.

Make sure you check out our partner project, their pins are looking super cute!




☆ Series Spotlight ☆ Dungeon Crawler Carl
3 months ago – Fri, Jun 12, 2026 at 01:59:09 PM

Hey ~

Alright next up is DCC. Behold Donut and Mongo;



At 2.5", this is a large size pin design. It will not be in the standard pin selection pool, so make sure that you choose a pledge tier that includes a large size pin, or pick it up separately from the add-on store. It will be hard enamel with gold plating, and several screen print layers (mostly on the feathers and Donut herself, plus some shading). This pin is unlocking at the initial funding goal. Right now this is the only large size pin in this campaign, but that might change. They do take a lot of time.

Whew. This might be the most complicated design I've ever done. Mongo's colouring is based on the lilac-breasted roller; mostly I just looked for birds with both green and pink feathers and went for a colour combo I could work with. I don't think the book specified beyond that. And yes... I know the gear isn't 100% on point. There was no way I could do scale or chain mail at this size.

We do also have a standard size DCC pin;



I'm gonna be real with you here - its an incredibly tepid spoiler and if you care much about spoilers, its just going to make you want to read the book more. Its going to be a 2" standard size, hard enamel with screen print and gold plating. It will be in the standard pin selections, and unlocks at tier 5.

I highly recommend this series but dear lord check the content warnings first. Actually I kind of recommend checking the content warnings for future books as well, nothing worse than getting three books into a series and then finding a deal breaker. Someone said describing the plot is like listening to a toddler make up a story on the spot and they're not wrong, but it somehow turns into a scathing commentary on late stage capitalism, violent protest and reality media that is incredibly relevant right now. Also it made me cry and nothing does that these days.

Anyway I know its not quite in line with nostalgic media but I cannot tell you how many Donut requests I've had in the last few weeks so here we are ~

Next up I really gotta show you guys our collab partner. Stay tuned!

☆ Series Spotlight ☆ The Deptford Mice
3 months ago – Wed, Jun 03, 2026 at 05:43:29 PM

Hey all ~

Just under two weeks left to go! By a tiny smidge, our first standard size unlock will be;

Jupiter, from the Deptford Mice. Only one design from this series; based on the cover of 'the Dark portal', because I didn't really want to do anthro style characters. This is a 2" design, with gold plating and (lots) of screen printed layers.

Someone tell me how the heck these books were ever cleared as a children's series, my goodness. Robin Jarvis simultaneously terrified me off horror and started a lifelong fascination. The books scared me so much but I had to know what happened. They are glorious. I do recommend them, and his Witches of Whitby series, but do check the content warnings; even for kids' books there is so much in there. True horror content, not just the kind of thing that goes hand in hand with reading books about animals doing animal things.

Anyone else know these ones? I wasn't sure if it was a very UK series but it did win the poll so, curious minds need to know.