Stranger Things Shirts (Fan Merch/Replicas)

There is no denying that Stranger Things delivers in terms of pop culture nostalgia for every Gen X’er who has ever spent a weekend staying up late, consuming huge amounts of junk food to fuel an hours long campaign in DnD, going to the mall unaccompanied, or just generally hanging out with their small circle of friends while never checking in with parents once except to get a change of clothes, shower, a hot meal, or an advance on their allowance to go and try to beat that high score on Dig Dug at the arcade.

The 80s were a different time of being out of pocket. We didn’t have cell phones or social media or any other ways to get a hold of us except for yelling out the back door, down the street, or calling our friends’ land line phones to tell their parents to send us home. But we usually came home, eventually, and without incident. It’s probably a good thing those ways of contacting us or documenting our childhood adventures hadn’t been invented yet or we would have been grounded until graduation.

Stranger Things takes everything we experienced or felt in the 80s and encapsulates it into an 8-10 hour horror/sci-fi marathon, complete with all the sights, sounds, and bad fashion choices we yearn to have again secretly during our mid-life crises.

And speaking of fashions… It also produces a ton of merch, either fan inspired or replica of what you see in the show, every year. From the subtle to overtly in your face, here are a bunch that you can find over at TeePublic from each season.


Season 1

Hawkins Radio Club



Strange Number 11 by djkopet



Hawkins Middle School A.V. Club by redbaron_ict










Season 2

Palace Arcade





Bitchin’ by Vincent Trinidad Art






Season 3
Hawkins Pool Life Guard





Operation: Child Endangerment By BoggsNicolas





Dustin’s Roast Beef Shirt by Polomaker






Season 4
Murray-Do Karate




Rink-O-Mania






Dustin’s Thinking Shirt by BiggsNicolas






And of course, how could we not sneak this one in…
Hellfire Club replica design

Tabletop RPG Fantasy Art

I've always wanted to try my hand at abstract art, partly from a place of ignorance and partly from a place of existentialism.  The idea that people will actually pay good money (a lot of it) for a painting consisting of a red dot against a black cavass which has some contextual meaning attached baffles me to where I clumsily declare that I can do that and be rich.  The other idea is actual expression of some nonverbalized feeling in my body that applies color, light, and shade to a blank slate.

With digital art, that can be realized in a manner. And while I may not have an artistic bone in my body, some do. So, I am sharing a bunch of designs made by a Redbubble shop called AbstractDreamz.  It deals exclusively with digital abstract art and has been building a catalog of Tabletop Fantasy RPG mazes/maps that can be put on desk mats, phone cases, stickers, cards, and laptop skins/cases.  

While it's not something you would say, put on a shirt, the wall art idea is pretty neat.  The applications could be to host your own RPG Tabletop Game party and build your campaign around their designs. The descriptions are somewhat silly but actually create a narrative for you to imagine what monsters may lay in wait inside the various chambers, or what treasures may be waiting for the brave at the center or in some treasure room.

I can't wait to see if they start adding some other genres beside the standard D&D idea.  The tabletop industry may have been a Wizards of the Coast, TSR, Dungeons & Dragons, etc. staple from the 70s and 80s.  There was even a resurgence of the fantasy RPG games due to Stranger Things a few years back.  But to say all Tabletop RPGs are D&D is a horrible statement. There's military, science fiction, superhero, steampunk, and even real life tabletop RPGs.

Enjoy this selection of maps from AbstractDreamz.

Ruby Dungeon

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Dwarven Ironworks

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Dragon Maze
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Copper Mountain

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