The Golden Ticket
Five tickets. Each one is good for a 4x5 portrait, drawn by me, of a part of you. Notes are read from 1 October through Cyber Monday, 30 November 2026. These are the terms.
Who runs this
The Golden Ticket is run by Magpie of the Likely Accident Foundry (the Etsy shop LikelyAccidents). It is not sponsored, endorsed or run by Linktree, Etsy, TikTok, Instagram or any other company.
No purchase necessary
You do not have to buy anything to take part. A purchase does not improve your chance of receiving a ticket, and no purchase is ever required to receive one.
Who can take part
Anyone 18 or older, anywhere this is lawful. Void where prohibited or restricted by law.
How to take part
Send a note saying why you want a part of yourself drawn by me. You can send it through this form, in the note of an order from my Etsy shop, or as a message to me on Etsy, TikTok or Instagram. Every route is read the same and counts the same. One note per person is enough; a second note does not count twice.
How I choose
This is not a drawing and nothing is picked at random. I read every note and judge it on three things: how honest it is, how specific it is about the part of you that wants drawing, and whether I can see that part clearly enough to draw it. The notes that do those three things best are the ones chosen. Order of arrival, how much you have spent and how many followers you have play no part. My choice is final.
What a ticket is
Five tickets exist in all. The tickets are misprints of my own drawings, yellow and blue and glitchy, which is why they are golden. Each can be exchanged for one 4x5 inch portrait of one of the holder's own interior parts, drawn by hand by me. What the portrait looks like is my decision. The ticket comes in the envelope with the portrait, and both are the holder's to keep. A ticket has no cash value, cannot be sold or swapped for anything else, and belongs only to the person it was given to. Approximate value of each portrait: 150 US dollars.
When
Notes are accepted from 1 October 2026 through 30 November 2026, ending at 11:59 pm Pacific time on the 30th of November. Notes that arrive after that are not considered. The five are chosen on 1 December 2026 from the notes received in that time. When all five portraits have gone out, I will say so publicly.
If you are chosen
You are not told. I draw your portrait from your note and mail it, with its Golden Ticket, to the mailing address you gave (for an Etsy order, the address on the order), at my cost. Its arrival is the announcement. There is nothing to send back and nothing to redeem. I am aiming to have every portrait with its person by 25 December 2026. This is an aim and not a promise: the post decides the exact day, and addresses outside the United States may take longer.
What I may share
I may show the finished portrait publicly, as my own work, and say what first name or made up name it was drawn for. I will not publish your note, your address or anything else you tell me unless you say I can.
Your information
What you send is read by me and used only to run this. Your mailing address is used to post a portrait and its ticket and for nothing else; your email only to reach you about a portrait; your TikTok username only so I can find you. The addresses of everyone not chosen are deleted once the fifth portrait has been posted. I do not add you to any mailing list, and I do not sell or hand your information to anyone.
Taxes and the like
Any tax owed on receiving a portrait is the responsibility of the person who receives it.
The rest
I am not responsible for notes that never reach me, for lost mail once a portrait has been posted, or for anything outside my control. By sending a note you agree to these terms. I may change them; the version shown here on the day you send your note is the one that applies to you.