Hello! We will be deciding what items will end up in the zine partially based on our top applicants' preferences on their application and what they decide to pitch. For example, if you say you want to do acrylic charm, stickers, prints, and the beach bag for your application, we'll ask you to jot down your ideas for each of those and mods will choose/assign merch based on everyone's proposed pitch ideas. All merch artists will be assigned 2-3 pieces of merch. If we don't get a good applicant or pitch for an item we may not do the item, and generally we will avoid giving an artist all stretch goal items or multiple items with a lot of work. The mod team is also generally going to try to limit the merch line-up to not weigh too much for shipping and not cost too much for customers, so when we do assignments we will be heavily considering these factors and not going crazy approving like 2 beach bags and 4 big standees.

As for what items end up being the stretch goals, we do tend to put items that require a higher production quantities for stretch goals such as enamel pins or washi. We also like to do smaller cheap flat items like stickers/prints as stretch goals that can be added to any order at little cost. So really, anything can end up as a stretch goal but we will be informing the artist of it beforehand and we try not to assign any artist more than one stretch goal. Sorry if this was a bit long-winded, but hopefully you found an answer somewhere in this!