🐾 Behind the Swamp - August Update
✨ Swamp progress report: now with more fog, fewer spoons, and actual downloadable hope. ✨
🛒 Our shop is live!
We’ve officially opened the swamp gates at sadswampshop.com and no, not for merch (yet).
We’re starting with what matters most: mental survival.
You can now grab our very first CareCat workbooks, including:
📘 This Swamp is My Home Now - a weirdly comforting welcome guide for emotionally exhausted creatures.
📕 How to Catatonic - a workbook about shutting down, zoning out, and still being worthy.
📗 SwampThreads - our brand-new FREE guide to understanding what’s pulling at your emotional strings (hint: it’s not just the frogs).
🎄 Twinkleton’s Christmas in July workbook drops today, so you can celebrate summer sadness in full glitter mode.
🎥 Episode 1 of Christmas in July is online!
A heatwave. A swamp. A CareCat family gathering that smells faintly of cinnamon and regret.
We’re not saying it’s emotionally healing… but it might be if you squint.
🧠 Big dreams, slow bodies, SwampTime.
We’ve got ideas. Scripts. Swamp maps. Glitter tantrums in the queue.
But as a team of chronically complex humans, we move at the speed of burnt-out snail on existential leave.
So if we vanish briefly?
We’re probably horizontal. Or editing. Or arguing with our joints.
💚 Thanks for being here.
Every comment, share, and swamp-stomp of support helps us keep going, even on the days we’re mostly made of moss and migraine.
Stick around.
More swampness is coming.
And yes, merch too. Eventually. (Probably. Maybe. Frogs permitting.)
The Sarcastic CareCats Team™
🌿Behind the Swamp
🌿What We’re Growing
There’s a lot happening under the moss: our little swamp team is expanding, our skills are growing, and every video we create is better, braver, and more alive than the last.
We’re recording more real swamp soundscapes than ever. From birds gossiping beside old castle walls to what it really sounds like standing twenty feet from a beehive, and of course, late-night frog choirs you’ll only hear if you wander deep enough.
Behind the scenes, we’re also building something bigger: soon, every CareCat™ will have its own AI companion right here on the website (and one day, in our very own app). Until then, we keep experimenting. Adding more instruments, crafting richer music, and pushing our editing magic to make sure the Swamp feels more real, more comforting, and more delightfully strange with every visit.
🌿What is Swampfulness?🌿
Swampfulness is mindfulness with a sarcastic wink. A gentle escape into the Swamp Forest where nothing needs fixing, frogs quietly judge your overthinking, and the moss forgives what you can’t.
Each episode is guided by a different CareCat™ (this time it’s Catatonic) and drifts through original music and ambient swamp sounds, with soft affirmations popping up like unexpected lily pads of hope.
✨ What you’ll find:
• A poetic, comforting entry narrated by a CareCat
• Real swamp sounds & original music composed just for you
• A playful pause for your mind, be as messy or peaceful as you like
Put on your headphones, close your eyes, and let the swamp hold you exactly as you are.
🌍 Behind the Swamp: What We’ve Been Breeding in the Background
While the CareCats rage, dissociate and sparkle on screen. We’ve been quietly building something way bigger (and somehow multilingual) in the background:
✨ The website is now available in English, Dutch, German, French, Spanish, and Italian, because existential absurdity knows no borders.
📖 We launched a Dutch YouTube channel with:
~ Audiobooks without voice-acting (just calm narration)
~ Dutch sleep stories to gently collapse to
~ New episodes of Swampfulness (guided moss meditation, now with 80% less screaming)
💤 Voice-acting stays exclusive to the English channel (for now), but our swamp is officially going global.
🛠️ What’s next?
~ Swamp merch
~ Sleep-friendly episodes for every time zone
~ And possibly a glitter-powered AI frog (we’re working on it, don’t ask)
Stay mossy. Stay mildly concerned.
We’re just getting started.
🎙️Swamp Dispatches
Unfiltered updates from the mossy frontlines.
The Swamp is alive, purring, and ready to overshare.
Here’s where you’ll find breaking news, character drops, behind-the-scenes chaos, and possibly the emotional weather forecast.
We’re not saying it’ll change your life… but maybe it will.
🌿 New chapters, new features, new breakdowns (the fun kind).
Check back often, the frogs are terrible at keeping secrets.
💬 What to Expect from This Page:
Here’s where you’ll find:
~ Major updates (new books, merch drops, cat drama)
~ Behind-the-scenes chaos & creator confessions
~ Callouts for collaborators, voice-actors & volunteers
~ Big, exciting things that make us scream (gently)
🫧 Stay swampy.
✨ Stay strange.
💌 And check back often ~ the moss has a lot to say.