I've realized that these 40 rounders will be the only ones that I do for a long time.
Reason being the new plan I have for the fakelites is to completely change the shape of the magazine body.
In Texas they told me to stop at Buc-ee's for gas.
I have been to shrines. I have stood in temples that took two hundred years to build.
I was not prepared for the gas station.
There were one hundred and twenty fuel pumps.
I counted them because I did not believe them.
A man beside me was filling a truck the size of my first apartment, and he was not filling it because it was empty.
He was filling it because he was here, and here is where a man fills things.
Inside was a hall so vast I lost the horizon.
A wall of jerky. A wall of fudge I did not know the country produced.
A brisket sandwich handed to me by a man in a beaver costume.
And I want to be clear, the beaver is not a mascot.
The beaver is a saint.
The people speak of him the way my grandmother spoke of the mountain behind her house.
And the bathrooms.
I had been warned about the bathrooms and I had dismissed the warning as the pride of a loud people.
I was wrong to dismiss it.
The bathrooms are famous across the whole state and they have earned it.
I have slept in worse hotels. I nearly bowed upon entering.
A janitor was polishing the floor with the devotion of a man tending a garden he loved, and when I thanked him he said "welcome in," which I have since learned is what Texas says instead of hello, and also instead of I am glad you exist.
I went in for gas. I was inside for ninety minutes.
I came out with fudge, a shirt printed with a joke I do not fully understand, forty dollars of jerky, and a feeling I can only describe as having been to church.
I did not need any of it.
I needed all of it.
I have walked through the great cathedrals of the old world. I lit no candle there.
I lit no candle at Buc-ee's either.
But I did fill the truck.
And I understand now that in Texas, this is the same thing.
This is IMPORTANT
Are you interested in repro Russian Tarzan Vests?
I intend to roll the first batch out in an Olive color, and the next back out in Flora.
Some new additions to the clearance bin and some price adjustments (decreasing of course) to items currently in the clearance bin.
These items must go!
I hope to finally finish packing orders today. I have 37 left and hopefully you guys will get email notifications.
While im here applying anti fungal ointment to my feet. I have two announcements.
I'm going to be expanding my store to start producing more than just patches but it's going to rely on follower inputs.
I'm going to begin the production of magazines. That will take a while to spool up and I expect it to begin towards the end of 2026.
The fakelites will be phased out in favor of this.
More importantly, I'm going to be reproducing hard to find or basically non existent gear like chest rigs.
I'm mostly focusing on larp gear and soviet shit.
So far things are going well. I hope to be back June the 15th.
There are a lot of new items on the store! Go check them out.
I also will be stopping production of fakelites temporarily. What's been ordered and produced will be delivered.
But I may have something better than Fakelites soon :)