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Join HERE! We can’t wait to have you!
Please note that this server does not allow content or events that allow incest and paedophilia.
Please note that stretch goals must now be purchased separately.
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Today's the last day to apply for the Harlivy zine!
We are looking for writers, artists, and merch artists to join our heist!
Better Heroes is a fanmade zine dedicated to the Justice Society of America. We are looking for contributors to help make this zine as spectacular as the team it's representing!
Better Heroes will be a digital zine, with a later physical release. We're hoping the physical release can be bundled with potential merchandise, but that will be dependent on applications and on fundraising.
Any proceeds that exceed our production costs will go directly to aid for Gazans and for Palestine. We are currently weighing different charities, and intend to be as transparent as possible if and when we reach our funding goal. We're hoping we can raise enough with your help!
Will you join us?
Read on for guidelines that will help with your contributor application. And if you have any questions, drop an ask! We're happy to talk to you.
Writers: obviously fanfiction, but ALSO, if you have an original essay (personal or academic) or a nonfictional historical piece, we are more than happy to consider it
Artists: we're looking for cover artists, splashpage artists, artists to be paired with writers, and general. splashpage and pairing might end up more hand in hand, but that is tbd!
MERCHANDISE Artists: we are CONSIDERING, based on the interest check, making merchandise to go with the physical zine, including but not limited to stickers, pins, charms, and prints. For the integrity of the zine, please do NOT submit any merchandise ideas for THIS zine. if we move forward with merchandise, we will work with you. this is NOT the same as applying to be a zine artist, but you can apply for both! however, if you apply and are selected for both, please understand artist and merchandise artist as 2 separate jobs.
Pinch Hitters: if a contributor defaults up to 1 month before the turn-in date, a pinch hitters will be tapped. this means a pinch hitter could have anywhere from several months (if the contributor defaults early in the process) to only one month. if you are chosen to contribute AND you want to opt in to pinch hitting, there is a VERY small chance you will be asked to do both - we'd like to include as many creators as possible.
Additional Information: We are heavily considering offering a smaller zine-within-a-zine of NSFW content. this zine is not automatically included with the regular one, and buyers will have to opt in. you are welcome to apply for only sfw contributions, only nsfw contributions, or sfw AND nsfw contributions. if there is a want for additional merch to go with the nsfw zine, or a want for an nsfw-only package, we will consider it based on finances. NSFW proceeds will be bundled into our charitable donations.
Batman is a costumed crime-fighter created in 1939. Since then, there has been ever-evolving discussion about what "crime", "fighting", and "crime-fighting" entail—and what all that means for Batman's relationship to his local police.
Batman makes friends, makes enemies, and becomes a middle-aged father of 3, 4, 5+ kids—and the discussion carries over to this large and debatably colorful cast.
Now we pit these fictional characters against each other in a poll tournament, to determine which among them is "a cop" in spirit.
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The double-elimination tournament brackets are planned to be posted at the beginning of April, soon followed by the polls.
Apologies for being very late doing this this year, did a poll for whether I should and it's at 100% yes at the moment, I did not place in any tags though.
Anyway here is a prompt suggestions/nominations form for anyone who might be interested: LINK
Hellow may I ask for a boost
We are live! for anyone wanting to join, pick up your cards on the form!
LEGACIES: a Batgirl zine has come to a close. While it technically wrapped up in November, there were severe personal complications before the holidays that resulted in the late conclusion of this project, so I apologize immensely to anyone who might have been waiting on another round of leftovers that I had not already touched base with.
For those of you who I have not already spoken to via email this month: this is Kye's mother, and I am finalizing things on my daughter's behalf as she has not been fit for the responsibility. I apologize wholeheartedly for the delay and unfair communication issues this has resulted in.
With that, the project is a wrap. It has been a long one, for which we cannot apologize enough, or thank you for your patience and sticking with it, and ultimately supporting this project and its showcase of the Batgirls.
Please remember to give all the writers and artists involved love on the pieces they have posted, and the incredible work they put into this. It would not exist without them, and they worked hard not only through the project itself, but through several months of a difficult wrap-up process wherein they were forcibly left to wait without updates as well. Please send them your kind words on their pieces, as you have done through the project's email or direct messages throughout its run.
Thank you for your time, and for your support.
S.
First off, we apologize for the repeated stretches of radio silence. That was completely outside of our control.
Earlier in 2023, both mods Michi and Ari left the project (Ari in March, and Michi in April) due to a combination of personal reasons and utter frustration at the lack of communication between them and head mod Kye. Pings on discord, DMs, messages would go unanswered for weeks, and there was little that Michi and Ari could do for the zine, as the only thing left to do was ship items— a responsibility that fell to Kye. Both Ari and Michi offered multiple times to take over shipping, but were assured that Kye could handle it and would have help with mailing items out to customers.
June 12th, contributors received an update from Kye that 98% of orders had been shipped- minus 5 that were pending address changes- for a total of 230 shipped bundles. We were told that socials would be updated to reflect the status of shipping, but nothing was ever posted. Likewise, contributors were informed that their compensatory bundles would be packed and shipped the following weekend. That did not happen at that time. Between June 15, 2023 and September 12, 2023, no one was able to contact Kye.
Contributors set a deadline for Kye to respond before we shared this letter with all of you advising refunds. They showed up with one hour to spare, coming in with excuses and promises of maintaining communication and honesty. Leftover sales opened, contributors received their bundles, and we assumed everything would finish out without any other issues.
That was not the case.
Kye proceeded to disappear again, and we have not had any communication with them since October. We attempted to reach out multiple times both in the discord server and through DMs to try and get answers, to no avail.
This morning, we finally decided we were going to post the letter for full transparency. I had shared the google drive link in the server, about to post, when I got the notification that Kye's mother had shared the above post.
There's no way that was a coincidence.
Some contributors have finally started to receive their payouts, as this was a for-profit zine. Kye's mother sent all contributors an email with what their share would be and the finances breakdown. The Google sheet was only shared with contributors, but I have a copy downloaded myself if anyone wants to see numbers. I also have the digital PDF and bundles if anyone wants those, since sales were so touch and go. Please DM me and I'm happy to share. We were going to be giving them out for free with the original letter anyway.
We are so incredibly sorry for how this all went down. As a mod myself on numerous other projects, this is not how zines are supposed to go.
We appreciate all of the support we've received thus far, and thank you for sticking with us. We hope you'll support the contributors (lists and links are on the Legacies page) in their other endeavors, and most of all, we hope you don't run into a zine this messy again.
Please do not reach out to Mods Michi or Ari, as they have been parted from the zine for over a year. They had nothing to do with this.
To anyone wanting to partner with @lunaresolis, I highly advise you read this message.
Thank you for reading and understanding.
Sincerely,
The Legacies Contributors
🌿Apps Close in 30 Days!♦️
Hey ya'll, ready to paint the town red? Make sure to apply as a writer, artist, or merch artist if you want to be part of the heist!
Contributor applications for Symphony: A Joey Wilson Zine are now open!
Symphony is a SFW charity zine centered around the DC hero Jericho, aka Joey Wilson. All proceeds will be going towards CommunicationFIRST, a charity run by and for those with verbal and vocal disabilities.
Applications will be closing Feburary 13th. We hope to see you apply!
♦️Contributor Apps are Open!🌿
Applications for the Harlivy Zine are open! Until 2/28, you can join in the fun and apply to be one of our contributors!
We are looking for artists, merch artists, and writers!
If you could also spread the word around, that would be fantastic! Thank you!
Just remembered character weeks exist and went a followed a bunch of the accounts so i can read all the cool fanfics in a few months 🤭
and it made me want to start one.. what if we did like trans batfam week guys. i need more trans fics and i'm willing to organize a whole thing just so that in a few months, i have a bunch of fresh fics about my fav superheros being trans!!
if this gets 100 reblogs, i'll do it. i will make trans batfam week a thing to the best of my ability
