#preoders open

[serenashinart]

Preview of my piece for Complementary: a yoonmin zine ☆

» Preorders are open! «

[jeanne-de-valois]

It's always a good time to make new friends.

The Hundredth Voice is an all-ages graphic novel about a haunted music school and a terrible curse, and it’s available on Halloween through Dark Horse comics!

You can preorder it HERE wherever books are sold!

[highrepubliczine]

✨ Contributor Preview ✨

Our next contributor preview is @groovygrayvy ! Their stunning piece features several of our favorite young Jedi: Burryaga, Bell Zettifar, Vernestra Rwoh, Reath Silas, Keeve Trennis, Farzala, Ram Jomaram, and Lula Talisola!

A postcard-sized print of this artwork will be automatically included in all Storm and Tempest Bundles, thanks to us unlocking our first stretch goal.

We are still 35 physical orders away from unlocking our next stretch goal, which will allow us to upgrade the foil on the charms in the Tempest Bundle!

Preorders for Starlight will only run until October 13, so order your copy today!

✨Preorder your copy here!✨

[soapyakships]

What prsk zines have you participated/know about?

there isnt many prsk zine unfortunately but the ones that i'm aware of that should be completed by now is that one general project sekai zine (called Untitled i think), a prsk travel zine, a prsk fashion zine (i bought this one), and a prsk vocaloid song zine (i also bought this one). The ones that are ongoing is an anhane zine that just closed applications as well as a ruitoya zine, a ruikasa zine thats finished preorders, an akitoya zine thats still has preorders open (BUY IT NOW!!), and an emukasa zine that just opened applications! the only one i participated in is the akitoya zine

[ladzwriting]

The fourth blurb comes from @aninkwellofnectar, author of When The Stars Alight and its sequel, We Will Devour the Night, which came out just this weekend:

“THE CRADLE OF ETERNAL NIGHT encapsulates both the beauty and terror of sapphic love at its purest. Two wayward souls forcing love to bloom in the most inhospitable of conditions, under a bleak and unyielding darkness that seems hopeless to penetrate. Ladz keeps you on tenterhooks wondering how Hanka and Basia could possibly prevail through this brutal landscape before delivering you to the sweet promise of a romantic end.”

I love Cammie's world-building and especially the way magic can't be separated from the romantic and interpersonal tension between Laila and Darius her trilogy, in The Essence of the Equinox

My f/f romantasy horror comes out October 22 $0.99 eBook preorder for Sapphic September

goodreads | preorder

[crystalromana]

Gay marriage Aquired.

[bluegiragi]

For the pre-orders are they always going to be available then orders will be sent out in batches overtime? Or are the preorders somewhat temporary?

My current plan is to have preoders open for two whole days so that hopefully everyone has enough time to get their orders in. I'll then close the store again and work through that batch. The pre-orders will help guide me on what would be a more reasonable amount of merch to stock in the future, and I'll intentionally order more than what's been pre-ordered so that after the hype has died down a little and I've made significant progress in getting through the preorders, I can reopen the store and use the surplus for general sale.

Thank you for all your patience btw guys...It's my first time doing something like this on my own, and it's been a real learning experience so far 😅

[jestarcana]

You know how it is when you feather fall down into the Underdark in the arms of your rival.

Here are the back & front pieces for the notebook I designed for Happily Ever After (@fantasyakeshuakezine), unlocked as a stretch goal for select bundles! Thanks everyone for the support so far!!

Preoders are open until March 22 🏰💕

[haemonart]

I'm so excited to open preoders for these Glow in the Dark Keychains!! I really hope you'll like them as much as I do!

Link to order them >> SHOP

Shares are really appreciated!!

[aycief]

[ID: six product photos. the first shows die-cut stickers of a Blueberry Sweet Salted Cream Alcremie on a stack of blueberry pancakes. the second is a double-sided keychain of an Archen and Tirtouga, with the back side showing their shiny colours. the third is a double-sided acrylic standee of Fuuto-kun from Kamen Rider W with a spinning head. the fourth is a keychain of Molly, Phoenica, and Trixie from Epithet Erased with a holographic star finish. the fifth is a keychain of Morty from Pokemon HGSS with his Gengar behind him. the last image shows two 3d delivery van keychains with an acrylic charm of Momoi Tarou from Donbrothers inside; one is styled after his Shirokuma uniform while the other is in his Shirousagi uniform. /END ID]

Shop Update (link) ! largely featuring leftovers from merch i designed for zines in the past, as well as leftovers from the Momoi delivery van preorders, and the B-grade samples of the Fuuto-kun spinning acrylic standee ! preoders for the adjusted second printing of Fuuto-kun standee will be open through the month of January, so keep an eye out !

[katsuki-nikiforov]

😭 they are so damn beautiful that i think i would open preoder for them with Yuuri cards as extra gift

[ineffablehusbandscentral]

Key Charms Preorder

Key Charms concept, link to the preoder form is in my blog description, so take a look if you're interested :)

Preorder Open until the 30.04.

[yumeka-sxf]

I would have included this scan with my recent miscellaneous collab scans post, but I decided it deserves its own post, not just because it's one of the loveliest official Twiyor illustrations I've seen, but also because the story of how I got it is...interesting 😅

This image is from the chara fine graph (which is basically a framed picture) that was included as a preorder bonus for buying the complete season 2 blu-ray set from a shop called Rakuten Books (together with badge pins of the same designs). I briefly mentioned it back in October of last year when season 2 was airing, along with preoder bonuses from other shops like Animate and Amazon. I only wanted to get this one though, so as per my usual process of trying to secure rare SxF goods, I made a note to myself to keep an eye out for when it released. Rakuten, which I believe is the main company for Rakuten Books, has their own proxy buying service, and as the season 2 blu-rays were released, I saw them appearing there. But as noted on their main site, the condition for them to send you the chara fine graph is that you must preorder all of the three season 2 blu-ray discs from them. Once you buy the third one, if they know that you've already bought the others, then they'll send you the preorder bonuses along with it.

I was concerned that if I bought the discs via proxy, they wouldn't know that I bought all three and would cancel my order at the end! I would be devastated if that happened after waiting months and spending all that money on the complete set. I knew people would sell the chara fine graph second-hand as soon as it released, so I decided to wait until then and try to find it on Mercari.

So the months went by and eventually I found out that the final blu-ray volume of season 2 would release on April 17th, 2024. I made a mental note to check Mercari for it then, but unfortunately something else released around that same time...CODE: White in the US, which had its first screening on April 18th. Admittingly, I got distracted by the CODE: White release and had seen it twice by the following weekend. I did do some preliminary searching for the chara fine graph, but not with my usual refined search terms. It wasn't until the 21st that I finally sat down and really started searching for it. And while I did find a few listings, they had already been sold.

I was hopeful that more people would sell it, since it had only been less than a week since release. But I guess I underestimated how popular this chara fine graph was because, after the initial five listings I saw that were sold within the span of a few days, none appeared after. I had, like, ten Mercari tabs open on my browser with different search terms that I refreshed many times a day, but nothing was showing up. I would groan whenever I'd see the preorder bonuses for the other shops like Animate and Amazon pop up, but not Rakuten Books. I did finally see one new listing of someone selling just the badge pins, but that was sold within a few minutes, which made me even more nervous. I would also be nervous getting up in the morning since I didn't want to see that a new listing was posted and sold while I was sleeping! Thankfully I work from home so it wasn't too much of an inconvenience for me to refresh the Mercari tabs on my personal computer whenever I had a minute. But as the days went by and I didn't see any new listings, I started getting mad at myself that if I had only started seriously searching for it right on release day, I would have had at least five chances to get it and could have saved myself this hassle. I even sent a message to Rakuten Books via their online form, asking (in Japanese) if they could somehow sell it to me and ship internationally, etc. But their response was pretty much what I expected...a polite "no."

But then, on the evening of May 4th, I found a new listing and immediately bought it! What should have been a red flag though is that the person was selling it for $30 (with the badge pins included), while everyone else had been selling it from around $80-$100. The title they gave to the item was weird too; they simply called it "Spy Family" instead of "Spy Family Chara Fine Graph" or "Spy Family Rakuten Books Bonus" or something descriptive like that. But the seller had a decent rating so I didn't think there was a problem. After I got the email from Buyee (my proxy service) that they successfully bought the item, I thought I was all set. I closed out all my search tabs and went to bed feeling satisfied.

However, when I got up the next morning, my heart sank when I saw that about an hour after I had gone to bed, Buyee sent me another email saying that they refunded and cancelled my order! The reason they gave was "due to the convenience of the seller" 😫

But what was most frustrating about this is that, when I checked the searches again, I saw that the same seller had relisted the item, with a higher price and more descriptive title, and it had been sold already. What probably happened is that the seller realized they made a mistake with the title and price of the listing and wanted to change it, which Mercari apparently allows them to do even after it had already been sold and paid for!

I was furious with Mercari for allowing this. The least they could do in a situation like this is give the original buyer, like, one day to buy the item again with the increased price before the seller is allowed to relist it again. I wanted to write to the seller and/or Mercari, but I wasn't able to make a Mercari account since it's restricted to Japan. I was also internally yelling at myself that if I had just started searching for it within a day or two of release instead of procrastinating, I could have avoided all this. So it was back to square one, but I wasn't going to give up! I opened up more search tabs with even more refined search terms. I also expanded to other proxy-supported shops like Surugaya and Yahoo Japan Auction. I even got my mom to help me, since she's often up in the middle of the night and can check in case anything is listed during that time while I'm asleep. I downloaded the Buyee app too so I could check listings even if I was away from my computer. With all this, I was hopeful I'd be able to buy it again, though it was more of a question of "when" than "if." With second-hand collectibles, you never know when they could pop up...I could find a new listing the next day, or not for a year or two. But I just kept up the searching, and finally, after another month went by, on June 3rd (June 4th in Japan, so technically Twiyor day 😁) I finally found it again...on Yahoo Japan Auction of all places!

I had never bought via auction before so I was a bit nervous I'd get outbid or something. But I immediately clicked the "pay buyout price option" (which was only a few dollars more than the original price) and, thankfully, a short while later Buyee informed me that I successfully won the auction! But after what happened before, I was still paranoid that it could get canceled for whatever reason. But that didn't happen, and after waiting for shipping, it finally came~

I always like to add a "lessons learned" in these situations, so I'd say the lesson here is don't be blasé or procrastinate when it comes to something you really want. And of course, being persistent pays off more than not!

[highrepubliczine]

✨ Contributor Preview ✨

Our next contributor preview is @weetlebeetle! Their lovely piece features Lula Talisola and Zeen Mrala!

Preorders for Starlight will run through October 13, and we are on our way to reaching our second stretch goal!

✨Preorder your copy here!✨

[fleshgardens]

photos don't do it justice, but I'm really happy with the test print! I'll probably adjust the colors just a tiny bit but then it will be perfect

I'm waiting for confirmation about the prices for a few print sizes, I also have to figure out postage fees, especially for the larger prints. Also packaging options and costs. I wanna make sure they're packaged well and will reach everyone in perfect condition. After all that I'll finally be able to open the preoders! Thank you all for your patience ✦

[ladzwriting]

October 22nd, 2024

THE CRADLE OF ETERNAL NIGHT illus. by @pompoison

$0.99 ebook for Sapphic September