Howdy friends! 🐌 Last night, I dropped January's newsletter off at the post office, so here's a little preview as to what's inside the envelopes. I also added a bunch of Snail Mail Society digital perks that I've begun rolling out! More on those later, but first... coming via snail mail:

• All Snail Mail Society members are getting this month's catmothcrow chronicle, of course. In January's newsletter, I chat about my goals/resolutions/wishes for 2026, and share my ideas for Kansas City transit mascots.
• Snail Sustainers and Stars are also getting access to a playlist I put together called "The Tay-Tay Gateway". Don't wanna wait for the snail mail to arrive? If you've been a member of one of those tiers for a few months, you already know the password to the playlist portal page and can listen to it now! 
• Snail Stars are also getting the first issue of my catmothcrow revists minizine. Each month this year, I'll be revisting a movie I used to love but that I haven't watched in at least 10 years and writing a review zine about my thoughts on that flick now. Do they hold up? Have my tastes in movies evolved? Is nostalgia a trap? 
  Issue one is about the 2003 Club Kid biopic Party Monster. In classic Dayna fashion, the review sorta ends up being like a mini perzine. Make sure to fold it open and flat after you read  — there's more inside!

NEW! Digital Perks

• I've begun recording behind-the-scenes videos and chatty vlogs for SMS members! All tiers can now access a video tour of my home studio and I'll be uploading chatty vlogs for SMS Sustainer and Star members from time-to-time (and the first chats already been posted.)
• Snail Stars will also soon have access to the catmothcrow archives: once or twice a month, I'll be uploading scans of my out-of-print zines. For January, I'll be sharing Subtweets and Affirmations (a zine I published ten years ago!) and Friendship Bracelets for the End Times (an unpublished minizine I made at Zine Club last year.)

On Monday, the catmothcrow shop will reopen (and don't forget - Sustainer and Stars, y'all always get 20% off shop orders!) and I'll be drawing one Snail Mail Society member's name and sending them a free snail hat! Here's a pick of me wearing mine (buttons not included, but I highly recommend putting buttons on your snail cap!)

All of this is to say, that if you've been "on the fence" about becoming a Snail Mail Society member, now's a great time to join. (And if you join before 1/19/26 at, let's say, 12pm CST you'll have your name entered to win the hat!)

And if you're already a member: THANK YOU! Starting the Snail Mail Society has given me the motivation to write more zines and the confidence to really put myself out there and share more of my art and words with the world. Y'all's support means the world to me. 💗

The worlds a fucking mess and talking about my art and zines can feel really fucking frivolous. Like, fascist goons are literally kidnapping folks outta their homes and shooting anyone who stands in their way... and I'm over here doodling snails. It can feel really pointless. But then I remind myself that we all need moments of levity so we don't fall into dispair. Making zines and drawing and writing are those moments for me, and having y'all as an audience gives me the motivation to do and make more.

And sometimes making zines gives me hope, too, even if I haven't figured out yet how to keep pace with how quick shit shifts and changes. I made a zine last year documenting first-hand accounts from the folks emprisoned in the South Florida Detention Facility, and I'm hoping to make more zines like this, zines that spotlight some of the shit that's been happening that either isn't making headlines or that the general public might have already "moved on" from as other atrocities are spotlit by the media. I think its important to document what is going on now, so there's a written record of what happened, to disrupt the lies and whatever narratives the fasc want to craft.

Okay, I have gotten way off topic and super rambly (wouldn't be me if I wasn't rambling!) but yea, that's that. Hopefully this month's catmothcrow chronicle finds its way to you soon if you're in the SMS, and thank you, all of you, for your support and eyeballs!

Oh! And PS: got a suggestion as to what you'd like to see from the Snail Mail Society? Lemme know about it! The idea to share a tour of my home studio came from SMS member Charlie, and I'd love to give y'all more of what you want outta your memberships.