My favorite story to come out of the internet lately: For those of you who don’t know, for April Fool’s Day, Reddit launched this massive collaborative art project where you can place one pixel every five minutes on this massive canvas, so in order to do anything meaningful you have to work together collectively to make pixel art.
/r/YumeNikki decided to put the sprite of Madotsuki onto the canvas. Because of a lack of space, they decided to put it on the yellow stripe of the Swedish flag.
/r/Sweden, despite having no idea who Madotsuki is, absolutely fell in love with her, and have taken it upon themselves to fiercely defend her from any vandals. They even drew Pippi Longstocking next to her holding her hand. They’ve also made several visits to Yume Nikki’s sub and left friendly posts.
So that’s how a small community for a relatively unknown Japanese video game became best friends with the entire country of Sweden.
This will ship after TCAF (May 12-13th) if print costs are successfully met with preorder! This ISN’T the smaller collection, but a full month’s worth plus sketches signed and delivered to you!
If you’re looking to get the smaller pdf copy of Pippis, free for home printing, that’s here on Gumroad: https://gumroad.com/l/wHvVL
Not enough preorders to print before TCAF, but ordering will remain open until print costs are met!
“Pippi Longstocking was my girl. I loved her strength — not just her physical power, but the idea that she wouldn’t allow her voice to be diminished by anyone. She’s independent, clever and adventurous — and she’s clearly a good person, someone who always does right by her friends. What I loved most was that she was a girl, and she was a little different, and she was still the most powerful character in those books.”
That morning Pippi was busy making pepparkakor – a kind of Swedish cookie. She had made an enormous amount of dough and rolled it out on the kitchen floor. “Because,” said Pippi to her little monkey, “what earthly use is a baking board when one plans to make at least five hundred cookies?“ And there she lay on the floor, cutting out cookie hearts for dear life.
