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Book 14 Kickstarter update: EXERMACISES SARAH MAGNET tier unlocked!

by David M Willis on April 14, 2025 at 10:21 am
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The Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter is at $41,752! And you know what that means: absolutely nothing!!!! But we’re surprise-revealing the EXERMACISES SARAH magnet anyway!

Pledge at the EXERMACISES SARAH MAGNET tier to get just Sarah (plus the free Dorothy magnet), or go all-in at one of the COMPLETE MAGNET POWER tiers and consider her and all other unlocked magnets automatically yours! Want more than just one magnet but less than the whole roster? We got PICK THREE and PICK FIVE MAGNETS tiers available for you folks.\

Still unlocking at $45K: PAJAMAS DINA MAGNET tier! And some more after that, probably!

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Book 14 Kickstarter $40K stretch goal unlocked: HALLOWEEN BILLIE and HALLOWEEN RUTH magnets!

by David M Willis on April 12, 2025 at 10:04 am
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The Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter has passed $40K, which means: Double magnet unlocking! The HALLOWEEN BILLIE and HALLOWEEN RUTH magnet tiers are now available! Or get both of them (plus the free DOROTHY magnet) by pledging to the HALLOWEEN BILLIE AND RUTH magnet tier! And, of course, if you went all-in on a COMPLETE MAGNET POWER tier, consider them added to your pile.

Don’t want the whole run, but want a choice of three magnets? Of five magnets? Then the PICK THREE and PICK FIVE magnet tiers are there for you.

Scheduled next is the PAJAMAS DINA magnet at $45k! Plus, you know, sudden surprise magnets may occur. (well, a surprise if you don’t recognize distinctive silhouettes) And even more TBA!

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Book 14 Kickstarter update: Surprise #DRANKS JOYCE MAGNET tier reveal!

by David M Willis on April 8, 2025 at 10:09 am
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It’s morning of the second day of the Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter!  Let’s juice things up with a SUDDEN MAGNET REVEAL: #Dranks Joyce!

Pledge at the #DRANKS JOYCE MAGNET tier to get just Joyce (plus the free Dorothy magnet), or go all-in at one of the COMPLETE MAGNET POWER tiers and consider her automatically yours along with every other new magnet revealed by the end of this campaign!

Up next: HALLOWEEN BILLIE and HALLOWEEN RUTH unlock at $40K, and also some other magnets are waiting in the wings.

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Book 14 Kickstarter update: FREE DOROTHY MAGNETS unlocked!

by David M Willis on April 7, 2025 at 10:54 pm
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As the Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter completes its first day, we’ve hit a second stretch goal: FREE DOROTHY MAGNETS for everyone!!! (who pledges for something I snail-mail to you) Pledge for a book, there’ll be a Dorothy magnet in there, no extra charge! Pledge for anything that’s not just PDFs, that’s a free Dorothy magnet! Pretty rad.

The $30K stretch goal spot used to belong to the perennial “extend weekend comic strip updates for another year” thing, but…. look, my buffer’s out a whole-ass year. 365 days. The stretch goal of “I’ll keep updating 7 days a week instead of 5” is just kind of ridiculous on the face of it. So out it went! And I skooshed up the Free Magnet stretch goal to take its usual spot.

Next up: HALLOWEEN BILLIE and HALLOWEEN RUTH magnets at $40K, with probably a surprise magnet reveal along the way, to keep us on our toes.

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Book 14 Kickstarter FUNDED! And DRESS CARLA MAGNET unlocked!

by David M Willis on April 7, 2025 at 1:49 pm
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The Dumbing of Age Book 14 Kickstarter has funded AND cleared the first stretch goal: The DRESS CARLA MAGNET tier is now unlocked. To get the Carla magnet, select that tier for your pledge, or go all-in for COMPLETE MAGNET POWER and consider her added to your growing bounty!

Next up: FREE DOROTHY MAGNETS unlock for EVERYBODY at $30k!  Plus there’s bound to be a few other surprises dropping along the way.

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today in #9chickweedlane i learned we have to be shown children learning and relearning what sex is, for Reasons, even though they already clearly know and have prepared nuanced questions about it! also that Gran must hate, if she's still alive, how Old Juliette is the same but with gray hair
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hey, FANTASTIC FOUR got an Eisner nomination for best ongoing series!! I think this news is... really great! Fantastic even :0
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btw if you're one of those rando bluesky weirdos who doesn't know me but sees me in the wild being sarcastic and don't know i'm being sarcastic because you haven't taken like 30 seconds to, like, maybe look at my user profile or something, keep walking, you're not going to score internet points here
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It's not a new argument, of course, but Chesterton dismissed it effectively in 1908. "You will hear everlastingly... this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The fact is, of course, that the rich man is bribed; he has been bribed already. That is why he is a rich man."
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