Hello everyone! We’re delighted to announce that applications are now open for
Our Side Zine: Ace Week 2021 Digital!
Creation weeks will be July 26th to September 27th.
What Is Our Side Zine
Our Side Zine is a zine series focusing on elevating LGBTQIA+ voices in the GOOD OMENS fandom in order to tell our stories through fandom.
Most of our zines have a specific focus, such as Coming Out, Trans Day of Visibility, Nonbinary People’s Day, among others. Our goal is always to showcase queer joy.
Our Side Ace Week 2021 Edition: Info & Guidelines
RELEASE DATE: Monday 18 October, 2021
What is this OUR SIDE ZINE edition about?
The final week of October marks ACE WEEK (formerly known as Asexual Awareness Week). Ace Week has been growing ever since it was established in 2010, and seeks to raise awareness of asexuality and highlight the progress of the community. Ace Week 2021 is here to showcase all of that joy from members of the community and allies in the GOOD OMENS fandom. (We prioritize working with community members.)
Who’s organizing this zine?
The team for Our Side Ace Week is: Caspian (CaspianTheGeek), Buckie (MovesLikeBucky), and Badger (IneffableBadger).
Will this zine be printed or digital?
Like our PRIDE edition in June, this one is a digital-only zine. We will have the full zine available for download (NSFW and SFW contributions) and a separate SFW-only digital download with the mature and explicit content removed.
Will this be FREE?
This edition is indeed FREE. We will encourage people to donate to a charity TBD, but it will not be required to download.
What is the schedule for the zine?
Contributors will have from until September 27, 2021 to create and submit finished pieces. There will be several check-ins. Release Day: October 18, 2021.
What are the requirements for contributing?
Because we will feature NSFW art and fic, all contributors must be 18 years of age or older by the time applications close. This is the second edition in our line-up where we are specifically opening applications to our Allies. The A in LGBTQIA+ still stands for the ace, aro, and agender members of our community and preference will be given to ace contributors.
Works for the zine must be new. The exclusivity period for this Zine runs until Monday 15 November 2021. After which point, the creators may post the work on their own accounts and pages as they wish. We will make an AO3 Collection as well.
Basic zine guidelines?
Visual Art - May be any medium—including appropriately themed cosplay, photography, and 1 or 2-page comics—that tells a visual story fitting the ASEXUALITY theme.
Written Art - SFW or NSFW that tells a story fitting the ASEXUALITY theme. We prefer stories that are focused on queer joy, but understand that more difficult subjects may be mentioned in passing. 500 - 2000 words preferred.
Characters may be in or appear to be in any or no pairing, using any pronouns, and presenting or perceived as any gender. (Ex. "Ineffable Wives" can present masculine; "Ineffable Husbands" can present feminine; etc. Clothing, genitalia, and secondary sex characteristics do not equal gender.)
New content only, please.
No Contributions may feature:
- Physical violence/Graphic depictions of violence (sport-related activity acceptable)
- Major character death (temporary discorporation acceptable)
- Sexual violence (including both noncon and dubcon)
- Abuse (including emotional abuse)
- Underage and grooming
- Slurs and bigotry
- Drug or alcohol abuse (canon-typical drinking/smoking acceptable)
- Eating disorders
- Suicide and self-harm
- AUs (alternate universe) **
- Crossover with other fandoms
* - While the world has a lot of ugliness, the general desire with any edition of OUR SIDE ZINE is to create a place focused mainly on LGBTQIA+ Joy. Even if a piece has some hard topics, it should ultimately be about or end on a note of hopefulness.
There are places for working through harder topics with stories and art, but OSZ: Ace Week cannot be that place. Your mods thank you for understanding their needs for this edition.
** - With mod approval only on AUs (such as Human AUs).
Once again, hit up this link to apply! Applications close on Monday 12 July 2021 11:59pm EST.
