Hiya, pudding!

I’ve got a new critter to add to the SDCC 2023 lineup!

I haven’t made a Batman: The Animated Series Harley Quinn in almost 10 years! The last time I made this little Harley was in 2014, and I ended up taking terrible notes, because I could NOT figure out how I got the color changes mapped out the first time around. I gave up and worked it out on the fly. I’d say it turned out pretty well! And I took better notes this time in case I make another in the future.

Find little Harley at SDCC 2023 and she’s yours to keep! Happy hunting!

If you want to join my hunt for crocheted critters at San Diego Comic-Con this year, here’s what you need to know:

1. Follow me on Instagram or twitter for updates on new critters!
2. When the time comes, follow me on twitter to track the drops. I’ll post photo hints on where I’ve dropped a critter for a people to find!
3. Follow the hashtag #CRITTERDROP to filter out my tweets if you want to see the ones pertaining to the drops only.
4. If you find a critter, let me know that you found it! Please check in if you find a critter. Each one is tagged with a card with my contact info, I just ask for two things if you find one: 1) Send me a photo of your new friend, and 2) Let me know where the critter’s new home will be so I can add it to my map! I do this knowing that there’s a potential that anyone could swipe the critter and never get back to me on it, but it doesn’t make it any less disheartening when one goes missing.

Made with love by Gina!

Christmas came early this year! Gina and I have never met in person, but since 2016 we’ve had a tradition where she sends me some critters of her own for me to drop at San Diego Comic-Con on her behalf. This year she sent her collection of cuties early and YOU GUYS THEY’RE SO GOOD.

She always puts so much detail into her pieces, and I’m always so delighted to have them show up at my doorstep each year! Here’s who she sent over, mailed all the way from the Czech Republic:

A little Mystique!

A mini Negative Man!

And a tiny Namor!

Just look at all that detail.

And they’re so much smaller than they look in photos!

If you want to find one of these little guys at SDCC this year, follow the same rules for the rest of my critter drops! Finders, keepers. And unlike my drops, if you don’t snag one of Gina’s critters at SDCC you can still have a chance to get one, because she has an etsy shop! So if you don’t find one of her amazing little pieces, she can make one for you! Give her a follow on Instagram (@disconnected_child) or Twitter (@moon_catcher) while you’re at it too, yeah?

If you’ve never followed my drops before, here’s what you need to know:

1. Follow me on Instagram or twitter for updates on new critters!
2. When the time comes, follow me on twitter to track the drops. I’ll post photo hints on where I’ve dropped a critter for a people to find!
3. Follow the hashtag #CRITTERDROP to filter out my tweets if you want to see the ones pertaining to the drops only.
4. If you find a critter, let me know that you found it! Please check in if you find a critter. Each one is tagged with a card with my contact info, I just ask for two things if you find one: 1) Send me a photo of your new friend, and 2) Let me know where the critter’s new home will be so I can add it to my map! I do this knowing that there’s a potential that anyone could swipe the critter and never get back to me on it, but it doesn’t make it any less disheartening when one goes missing.

A tale of two capes

What do you get when you have two dudes with severe abandonment issues? The leading members of the Justice League ayyyyy!!

Superman and Batman are two of the original critters that I brought with me to San Diego Comic-Con back in 2011, and I’ve included them in my adoption lineup every year since then! I’d say they’ve come a long way from how they looked when I was starting out.

They’ve aged pretty well over the past 12 years if I may say so myself! Find little Batman or Superman at SDCC and they’re yours to keep! Happy hunting!

If you’ve never followed my drops before, here’s what you need to know:

1. Follow me on Instagram or twitter for updates on new critters!
2. When the time comes, follow me on twitter to track the drops. I’ll post photo hints on where I’ve dropped a critter for a people to find!
3. Follow the hashtag #CRITTERDROP to filter out my tweets if you want to see the ones pertaining to the drops only.
4. If you find a critter, let me know that you found it! Please check in if you find a critter. Each one is tagged with a card with my contact info, I just ask for two things if you find one: 1) Send me a photo of your new friend, and 2) Let me know where the critter’s new home will be so I can add it to my map! I do this knowing that there’s a potential that anyone could swipe the critter and never get back to me on it, but it doesn’t make it any less disheartening when one goes missing.

“I’m a freaking Guardian of the Galaxy.”

I watched Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 over the weekend, and I absolutely had to make a little Rocket Raccoon for SDCC!

I’m particularly proud of how this little guy turned out, because I got the head right on the first try! I had to really sit down and map out color changes and patterns on the piece because I was insistent on crocheting Rocket’s face markings directly into the head instead of using felt cutouts. I’m so pleased with how it looked, without having to redo any of it! It’s all about the little victories, yeah?

As for the movie, after being disappointed (and borderline pissed off) by Thor: Love and Thunder and Wakanda Forever, I went into GotG Vol. 3 with low expectations. It ended up being a great send off for the characters we’ve grown to know and love while passing the torch on to the newer crew. Also the first F-bomb in the MCU, ha!

I don’t think anything will match the magic of the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie, but after seeing Thor: Love and Thunder and Wakanda Forever fumble, it was refreshing to see things go back to just plain Marvel fun. Some spoileriffic thoughts below:

Click here for spoilers!

• Cosmo is a good dog, dammit! I’m not familiar with Cosmo from the comics but I loved seeing the goodest girl in the galaxy.
• Rocket’s little group of friends broke my heart. It’s an obvious grab at the heartstrings, but Floor freaking out when Rocket was confronting the High Evolutionary shook me.
• They really ramped up the “gross factor” in this one, which didn’t bother me much, but some viewers didn’t like how heavy-handed it was. It’s uncomfortable and manipulative, but…it’s a Marvel movie? If you’re looking for subtlety and nuance, a Marvel movie ain’t the place to find it.
• That brief reference to Michaelangelo’s Creation of Adam killed me.
• “You’re all just making up stuff that he’s saying, right?” – Gamora saying what we’ve all been thinking for the last nine years.
• I was seriously worried they’d try to rekindle Peter and Gamora’s romance, and I’m so glad it didn’t happen. She’s found a great family dynamic in the Ravagers and I’m loving it.
• After all the “it’s not a trap, it’s a faceoff” jokes we ended up with a literal face off oh my god.
• DRAX THE DAD. Brb gonna go cry now.
• Slightly disturbed that Radiohead, The Flaming Lips, Beastie Boys, and Florence + the Machine are considered “vintage” enough now to be used in a Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Brb gonna go cry even more now and yell at kids to get off my lawn.

At any rate, lil’ Rocket Raccoon will be up for grabs at SDCC 2023! Find him and he’s yours to keep!

If you’ve never followed my drops before, here’s what you need to know:

1. Follow me on Instagram or twitter for updates on new critters!
2. When the time comes, follow me on twitter to track the drops. I’ll post photo hints on where I’ve dropped a critter for a people to find!
3. Follow the hashtag #CRITTERDROP to filter out my tweets if you want to see the ones pertaining to the drops only.
4. If you find a critter, let me know that you found it! Please check in if you find a critter. Each one is tagged with a card with my contact info, I just ask for two things if you find one: 1) Send me a photo of your new friend, and 2) Let me know where the critter’s new home will be so I can add it to my map! I do this knowing that there’s a potential that anyone could swipe the critter and never get back to me on it, but it doesn’t make it any less disheartening when one goes missing.

FÚTBOL IS LIFE!

This blog may have been inactive for a minute, but the SDCC critters certainly are not! If you’re new here, welcome! I’m Cindy, and since 2011 I’ve been crocheting little characters from pop culture and leaving them behind for strangers to find at San Diego Comic-Con (and occasionally on my travels) by leaving clues on twitter! Make yourself comfortable, maybe stay for a while, yeah? Without further ado, here’s the first critter for SDCC 2023!

A little Dani Rojas, with the tulip he wanted to see so badly. Because an entire field would’ve been too overwhelming.

Admittedly I’ve been uninspired with my crocheting for the last few years, especially when so many of my ideas come from the excitement around pop culture. I’ve enjoyed a lot of the MCU spinoff TV shows on Disney+, liked House of the Dragon, but hadn’t seen anything that I was really enthusiastic about over the last few years until Ted Lasso came along. I remember chuckling at the Premiere League ads on NBC sports years ago, and then feeling a huge dose of skepticism when I heard that 8 years later they were turning this one-time gag into a full-blown TV show. And then I was met with even more skepticism when people said it was really, REALLY good. I was so happy to be proven wrong. Who knew that a show that came from a goofy joke about an American football coach coaching “the other” football could have so much humor and heart in it?

To that end, Dani Rojas is here to kick off (pun ABSOLUTELY intended) this year’s SDCC 2023 critterdrop lineup! Find him at SDCC and he’s yours to keep! Just make sure to keep him away from greyhounds and tulip fields.

If you’ve never followed my drops before, here’s what you need to know:

1. Follow me on Instagram or twitter for updates on new critters!
2. When the time comes, follow me on twitter to track the drops, where I’ll post hints on where I’ve dropped them for a lucky finder!
3. Follow the hashtag #CRITTERDROP to filter out my tweets if you want to see the ones pertaining to the drops only.
4. If you find a critter, let me know that you found it! Please check in if you find a critter. Each one is tagged with a card with my contact info, I just ask for two things if you find one: 1) Send me a photo of your new friend, and 2) Let me know where the critter’s new home will be so I can add it to my map! I do this knowing that there’s a potential that anyone could swipe the critter and never get back to me on it, but it doesn’t make it any less disheartening when one goes missing.

SDCC2023 critter season has begun! Let’s get these little guys happy homes!