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LEGACIES: a Batgirl zine

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An unofficial zine focused on the Batgirl legacy: featuring Barbara Gordon, Cassandra Cain, Stephanie Brown and more! Currently: Leftovers!
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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.

  • All remaining physical leftovers were shipped out at the end of October, and have been safely delivered by mid-November at the latest, as far as tracking and communication with customers indicates.
  • Digital Bundles were emailed out at the start of November, so if you have not received it, check spam, junk or promotions folders for your goods.
  • If you have had issues receiving either of the above, do not hesitate to reach out at batgirlszine@gmail.com with questions.

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.

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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.

  • All remaining physical leftovers were shipped out at the end of October, and have been safely delivered by mid-November at the latest, as far as tracking and communication with customers indicates.
  • Digital Bundles were emailed out at the start of November, so if you have not received it, check spam, junk or promotions folders for your goods.
  • If you have had issues receiving either of the above, do not hesitate to reach out at batgirlszine@gmail.com with questions.

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.

Hey y'all! The contributors would like to give you all some full transparency.

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

A more thorough transparency from the project's contributors than I am able to give at this time. It has been a difficult few months for our family, and I apologize for the resulting negligence and lack of responsibility this led to. Please ensure to read through it, and support the contributors in their future endeavours.

S

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🦇 — IT’S TIME! LEFTOVERS ARE OPEN ✨

Missed the bat signal the first time around? Have no fear: LEGACIES: a Batgirl zine leftover sales are finally here!

🛒 GET YOUR COPY HERE 📅 Open from September 20 to October 20!

We have a LIMITED number of bundles, as well as individual merch, books & our incredible digital package available. Please check it out if you haven't, or spread the word if you've seen us before!

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Anonymous asked:

Hi! I love the zine, and would have loved a full bundle but only found it after preorders closed. Do you know if there will be leftover sales, and if so, when they might be and if bundles will be available? Thank you! :)

Hi there!

Leftover sales are scheduled to go live today (likely early afternoon EST), and there'll be an announcement post once they are! It'll run until October 20th, or until things sell out!

There will be only a few book bundles available, but there'll be merch bundles and and everything else individually!

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Small update today: Address change emails went out this morning, so keep an eye out if needed! It’s almost last call, folks.

🦇 Books: full order in progress, covers done & pages/binding ongoing 🦇 Postcards: all done and picked up from book printer 🦇 Foil Prints: arrived safe and sound!

Photos of our super prints below the cut!

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Hi batfans! Mod Kye with a big update featuring photos of our book, all our acrylics, and our pins!

Let me start by thanking everyone immensely for their patience as we work through our unexpected extended production period. I know it hasn’t been easy, and I’m really sorry for how much my health issues have set us back. We’re in the home stretch. With production about to wrap up, I’ll be sending out an address change reminder in the next week or two, just in case anyone has moved during this time!

Photos and videos below the cut:

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Heya batfans!

We’re pleased to announce that our book PDF has made it successfully through contributor edits and will soon be off to the printers!

Our shipping/head mod Kye (and our selected printer) is unfortunately recovering from Covid, but as soon as they’re feeling better we will be resuming production, full-steam ahead! Thanks, as always for your grace and patience- we know the final product will be well worth the wait!

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Hi everyone, Ari here with a long overdue update.

Let me start with apologizing for the radio silence. This team usually prides ourselves on being open and communicative when it comes to production delays and we, frankly, have failed in that department. I’ll do my best to update you all in the following post:

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Hi everyone, Ari here with a long overdue update.

Let me start with apologizing for the radio silence. This team usually prides ourselves on being open and communicative when it comes to production delays and we, frankly, have failed in that department. I’ll do my best to update you all in the following post:

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Hey there batfans! 

Mod Ari here with a small production update!

Our mod team collectively has been hit with a combination of illness and computer issues as of late, and we’ve unfortunately had to make the difficult decision to push our shipping schedule back to October.

As of the writing of this update, we’ve ordered and received everything but our books and we’re looking forward to sharing with you once they arrive! 

We appreciate your understanding of this small delay and hope you’re still as excited for the zine as we are!!

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hi! if we missed pre-orders for this zine, will there be other opportunities for purchase?

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Hi there! There absolutely will :)

Our current production schedule has us shipping out by the start of September. Once all original orders have been sent out, we'll announce a date for leftover sales of remaining stock so that folks who missed the first round are able to pick up our project!

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🦇 — PRODUCTION UPDATES ✨

Hi Batfans, it's finally time! As merch has started arriving at Mod Kye's house, we wanted to start a production master list for photos and updates! We’ll be keeping this one pinned, and updating it with links to individual preview posts as things arrive!

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Thank you so much for acknowledging Bette in the zine! It means a lot to me as a Bette fan. I love her to pieces and DC is hellbent on burying her. So thank you!

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It's our absolute pleasure! The most important of the Batgirl Legacy, to us, is ensuring that all parts of that legacy are respected!! She's an awesome character and it's a shame DC doesn't use her more!

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🦇 — AND THAT'S A WRAP! ✨

Pre-orders are now CLOSED! Thank you SO so much for an absolutely incredible journey!! We've blown away by everyone's love and support, and we're flipping the light off at a whopping 236 orders!

LEGACIES is now officially in production! Stay tuned 🦇

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