Pop Fizzion

09/22/2026

We have some wonderful new additions to our stock! And spooky season is creeping its way on in 👀

09/20/2026

I’ve made posts like this before when business has been slow, and every time I hesitate because I hate feeling like I’m standing here asking people to come spend money. At the same time, people have told me over and over that they would rather know when things are bad than watch me quietly stress myself half to death trying to keep everything afloat, so here we are again.

It’s September 20th.
Pop Fizzion has had three sales this month.
$70 gross.

That screenshot is the actual sales report from the shop and this isn’t just one weird week. The only reason I’ve managed to keep everything paid through August and September is because I did a single pop-up that brought in some money and picked up outside contract IT work. Right now, money I’m earning somewhere else is keeping Pop Fizzion open. That is how bad things have gotten.

I know money is tight for everyone. Mine obviously is too. Bath and body products are not necessities, and I am never going to tell somebody to spend money they don’t have just to keep my business alive. I understand that groceries cost too much, rent costs too much, everything costs too much, and everybody is having to make choices about where their money goes.

At the same time, a physical storefront cannot support itself on three transactions in twenty days. Unfortunately, I am also locked into a two-year lease. The bills for this space do not disappear if nobody walks through the door. They do not disappear if I make less product, shorten hours, or get discouraged enough that I don’t want to come in. I still have to pay for this place. So I’m stuck in a pretty miserable cycle right now, you know?

I make everything myself, and I want the things you buy here to be fresh. I do not want to dump hundreds of dollars and hours of work into manufacturing piles of product just so the shelves look packed if those products are going to sit there for months. Until a few weeks ago, I still had Grinch bath bombs from Christmas 2025 sitting on the shelf.

That means I have been making smaller batches and being much more careful about what I stock. There is still a good selection in the shop, and I’m still making things, but every batch right now is a financial decision. Making more inventory means putting more money into ingredients, packaging, labels, fragrance, labor, and everything else before I know whether anyone is actually going to come in and buy it. Which especially sucks right now, because we’re moving into my favorite part of the entire year.

Spooky season.

This is usually when my brain starts going absolutely wild with ideas for all the spooky stuff I love. I’m also going to Tulsa Pride in October, so I have an event coming up that I should be excitedly preparing for. Instead, I’ve been struggling to find the motivation to even come sit in the shop some days.

It’s hard to get excited about spending hours designing, testing, making, packaging, photographing, labeling, and putting out new products when I’m looking at a sales report telling me almost nobody is coming in to see them.

I’m working on the online side of the business too. The website badly needs an overhaul, and I’m actively rebuilding it. That process is going slower than I would like, partly because money is tight, and partly because I am not willing to solve the problem by filling the site with cheap generative AI work just to get it done faster.
I know that would probably be cheaper. I know it would be faster but I don’t want to do that.

I make things for a living. A huge portion of the people who support this business are artists, writers, makers, fandom people, q***r creators, and other small businesses. Asking people to value the things I create while turning around and using technology built on other people’s creative work without their consent does not sit right with me.

So the website is coming. It is just coming slower than I wish it were.

In the meantime, the physical store is still here and I really do love this place. I love making weird s**t. I love taking a character, a book, a movie, a terrible joke, or some random scent combination rattling around in my head and turning it into an actual product. I love when somebody comes in looking for one thing and ends up wandering around smelling everything for half an hour. I love when somebody picks something up, smells it, immediately gets the reference, and starts laughing.

I still have so much s**t I want to make.

I have spooky products I want to work on.
I have Tulsa Pride to prepare for.
I have a website I’m rebuilding.
I have more ideas than I have time to make.

What I don’t currently have is enough people walking through the door. Right now, Pop Fizzion is not paying for Pop Fizzion. My outside work is and I cannot keep doing that indefinitely.

So if you are one of the people who has been saying, “I really need to stop by there again sometime,” I’m asking you to make sometime soon.

You do not have to spend $50 or $100. Come grab a bath bomb. Grab some soap. Pick up a scrub. Come smell things. See what I’ve been making. Bring a friend who has never been here.

If spending money is not possible right now, I understand. Sharing this post helps. Commenting helps. Tagging somebody who would love the shop helps. Recommending us when someone asks where to find locally made bath and body products helps. Even reminding somebody who used to shop here that we are still around helps. Coming here instead of to the newly opened Bath and Body works DEFINITELY helps.

I’m not saying any of this to guilt anybody.

I’m saying it because there is a pretty big difference between “business has been slow” and “the store has made $70 in twenty days and outside contract work is currently paying its bills.”

People have told me before that they would rather I say something when things get bad instead of quietly drowning behind the counter and letting everybody find out after the fact.
So I’m saying something.
I’m still here.
I still want to make weird s**t.
I would just really like some people on the other side of the door.

09/16/2026

In case any of our followers have any questions about where we stand, it should come as no surprise that we stand ten toes down when saying that what’s happening in Gaza is a genocide.

We unequivocally condemn the actions of the Israeli government and the Israeli military in Gaza. No mincing words or carefully sanitized language designed to make atrocities more palatable. We condemn what is being done to the Palestinian people, and we reject the idea that condemning a government and its military for their actions is somehow inherently antisemitic.

Antisemitism is real and it is dangerous and it deserves to be confronted wherever it appears.

Criticism of the Israeli government is not criticism of Jewish people. Jewish people are not collectively responsible for the actions of the Israeli government, any more than the citizens of any country are personally responsible for every action committed by the government claiming to represent them. Treating Jewish people and the Israeli state as interchangeable does nobody any favors, least of all Jewish people.

And, frankly, nobody who has followed us for any length of time should be surprised that we are saying any of this.

We have always been loud.

Pop culture is inherently political. The stories we tell, the art we consume, the people who get to make it, the people who get represented in it, the histories we preserve, the histories we erase, and the things society decides are acceptable to joke about, censor, celebrate, or condemn are all shaped by the world around us. Pop Fizzion has never pretended otherwise.

Opposing genocide, however, should not be a partisan position.

It should not matter whether you are on the right, the left, or somewhere in the center. It should not matter whether there is an R or a D next to your name. There should not be a political team you have to belong to before you can look at human beings being systematically stripped of safety, homes, food, family, dignity, and life and say that it is wrong.

Genocide does not remain politely contained to the people you personally find sympathetic.

The machinery that makes genocide possible depends on convincing ordinary people that there is some category of human being whose suffering does not count. That there are people who are dangerous enough, foreign enough, undesirable enough, culturally incompatible enough, politically inconvenient enough, or simply different enough that whatever happens to them can be rationalized.

Once you accept that premise, the only remaining argument is over who gets placed in that category.

Maybe today it is someone whose religion you do not share. Someone whose language sounds unfamiliar to you. Someone whose politics you hate. Someone whose culture you do not understand. Someone you have been taught to fear.

History has demonstrated repeatedly that the category of people deemed expendable does not have to stay small.

You do not have to look like someone, sound like them, worship like them, vote like them, or agree with them to recognize what happens when a society becomes comfortable deciding that some human lives are worth less than others.

Palestinian people deserve to live.

They deserve homes. They deserve food and clean water. They deserve medical care. They deserve families that are not torn apart. They deserve childhoods. They deserve old age. They deserve futures. They deserve the basic dignity of having their humanity treated as something inherent rather than something they must prove to the rest of the world.

There is no version of running a small business that requires us to become morally vacant the second something might make a customer uncomfortable.

We make soap. We sell bath bombs. We make ridiculous little things inspired by fandom and pop culture and whatever else catches our attention. None of that requires us to shut off the part of ourselves that gives a s**t about other human beings when we clock in.

If condemning the Israeli government and standing with Palestinian civilians means someone decides they no longer want to shop with us, that is their choice.

We do not have f**k you money like some of the celebrities who have shown the world their pocketbook matters more than Palestinian lives. In fact, we have had maybe 2 sales this month. That doesn't matter. We are not going to soften this to preserve a sale.

Free Palestine. 🍉

08/31/2026

Hello friends!
I seem to have injured my back loading and unloading from our Saturday event. I will be closed today and possibly tomorrow to try and get that fixed. My apologies!

08/29/2026

Today is the day! Come see us at The Last Page Bookstore here until 4pm!

08/27/2026

I'm so excited to be doing this event on Saturday! So many wonderful people are going to be here and I'm doing quite a few literary inspired products 👀

Also my favorite baker The Witching Flour will be there and her cookies and pies and tarts are phenomenal!

Come see us at The Last Page Bookstore you won't regret it!

08/26/2026

Not all of them are painted and finished, but can you guess who/what they're supposed to be yet? 👀

08/09/2026

Ladies, Gents, and Gender-bents: Calling all BOOK NERDS for some help!

We have a book store pop up end of the month. What are YOUR favorite tropes, and what would they look like?

Enemies to Lovers? Found Family? Only One Bed? Morally Gray? Slow Burn? Grumpy/Sunshine? Something else entirely?

Tell me:
📚 Your trope
🎨 What colors it would be
👃 What it would smell like
✨ Any extras: mica, glitter, sprinkles, drizzles, hidden colors, etc.

You can describe it in the comments OR save the blank bath bomb below, color/doodle your design on it, and post it back!

I’m going to pick some of my favorites to actually make for the bookstore popup, so have fun with it. Make them pretty. Make them weird. Make them dramatic. I want to see what your reading habits look like in bath bomb form.

(If you have ideas for bubble bath/bath shots/whipped soaps etc please also give those to me)

Share with your book lover friends and help me make this event successful, please!

08/07/2026

Anyone struggling with feeling like they're "Being lazy" or "should be doing something" please pay attention to this:

The need to be productive is a result of years of conditioning to be compliant to a post capitalist society.

You do not owe productivity every minute of every day.
And you know what?

Bringing yourself happiness is also being productive. You are literally producing happiness and contributing to a member of society (you!). You can't pour from an empty cup. Fill 'er up.

(enjoy this picture from our drive up Mt. Scott a few weeks ago)

07/26/2026

Hello loves! I have 2 more slots if anyone is interested :)

In order to help make rent this month, I’m publicly offering something I haven’t offered since 2019: custom made perfume.

Since then, I’ve only taken private custom requests, and I’ve only done three of them.

When you order, I’ll send you an in-depth questionnaire about your favorite things, aesthetics, fears, comfort places, zodiac signs, memories, dream boards, and the little details that make you feel like you. Then I’ll use your answers to create a personal fragrance that feels like your essence. If you’ve ever wanted a perfume that feels like you, your favorite version of yourself, your inner world, your main character energy, your ghost story, your love letter, your villain era, your softest self, or whatever strange little creature lives in your bones, this is your chance. (And for us role players, you can do it as your character for a signature scent for them, too)

Each order includes a 10ml bottle of your custom perfume (Oil based), a refillable decorative perfume bottle, pipettes for decanting, and a handwritten letter explaining the notes I chose and why.

Your formula can also be kept on file for future refills at a lower cost.

These are $100 each because they take a lot of time, care, and adjusting to get right. I’m only taking a limited number of 4 slots. Payment is due when ordering, and I’ll send the questionnaire after your spot is claimed. Formulations take about 6 weeks to settle into their final composition.

Thank you for helping me keep the shop open and letting me make weird, beautiful, deeply personal things. You can message me to claim a spot. THESE I can ship, so you do not need to be local to me.

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