Threadless Thread

In my recent piece, Name that Bean!, I mentioned being en fuego creatively and launching a series of Threadless collections on my shop, Prose and Puns. I would, of course, be remiss if I only gave you a rundown of the silly Beans and none of my other (not exactly better, just different) work! I currently have thirty-six designs available on Threadless and only nine are Beans. So, without further ado, let's get to the first and largest of the four other full collections.

SIDEBAR: I have another "collection," but I only have a single design in it right now. It's the one I'm currently working in, red, Black + blue.

Tides of March

This is my charity collection. Of sixteen designs, six see 100% of my proceeds donated to a charitable cause through the Causes platform on Threadless. The other ten, I donate 80%, but had an event called "March Madness" during the March 2025 launch that increased the (theoretical) donations to 100% through the end of the month.

As you might expect from a cause-driven collection, the designs in Tides of March are feisty and political. They range in topic from environmentalism to human rights, democracy advocacy to moral character, with a range of styles to match. Each design is available on an array of apparel, home goods such as duvets and throw pillows, and decor and accessory items like stickers, magnets, and prints.

Bomb Noms

From the largest to the smallest, Bomb Noms only has ten designs. That's because I consider all of Name that Bean to be part of the Bomb Nom collection but—to my knowledge—there's no way to do nested collections on Threadless, no matter how thematically significant. With the addition of the rest of the Beans, this would become my biggest collection.

Now, that just makes sense if you know me personally or are familiar with my work about food. And it would look absolutely terrible because all the Beans look the same and would need to alternate with the other designs, which are not uniform. So, instead, it's my mini collection with but a single, representative Bean.

I want to reiterate, however, that I have a dark, juvenile sense of humor. Among the foodie-themed designs are a deadly mushroom jokingly referred to as a snack and a play on words which declares that "love is pain" is just a mistranslation of "love is bread." Also a 2025 calendar, because it was the year of the danger noodle.

Love, Death & VooDoo

Speaking of my dark sense of humor, it bleeds into that place that makes me a hopeless romantic of the highest order. The type to write a sappy love poem to her husband that makes him cry happy tears the year she writes a goodbye letter to an old friend that wins a top story. As such, my favorite collection is Love, Death & VooDoo for touching all those notes. This collection, like the next, features fourteen designs available on everything from unisex tee shirts to coffee mugs to shower curtains.

Like all my collections, several of the designs in Love, Death & VooDoo appear elsewhere. This includes the aforementioned Lookin' Like a Snack and Lost in Translation that I described in my Bomb Noms breakdown, respectively. But at least one is unique to the collection: Good Times, a tribute to tabletop gaming, New Orleans voodoo, and Mardi Gras culture that brings the concepts together in a fun, literal way.

Existential Threads

Last, and literally not least with another fourteen designs, is my high-brow philosophical humor (or what passes for it in my head). Existential Threads contains several overlapping designs with the ToM, BN, and LDV collections, but my favorite design of the whole batch of thirty six is one of the exclusives in this set.

A reference to a Rorschach test, the simplistic design features a stark black ink blot on a white field with white, typed lettering in the ink that reads "I think, therefore I am depressed." A further pun, the title is Descartes Against Humanity, a reference to the original speaker and the popular raunchy card game.

What's Next?

I've been trying to write every day, but I'm running out of steam on days I work. Tomorrow, I have appointments so I have a block of time to dedicate to an alchemy guide, covering practical applications of the twelve principles. I did the videos on the mantras, so a written guide might be the best start for the more populous of the two.