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Most of the conversation that sparked this callout happened on Bluesky, so to fill tumblr in: there are several zines in production using AmaZine’s services, including the BG3 Tarot Deck, a charity zine that has already raised THIRTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS on Kickstarter. AmaZine charges 15-20% gross revenue of every project for their services. That’s thousands of dollars raised for charity that will instead line these people’s pockets. To say nothing of how they’re deliberately overcharging buyers (including contributors!).

Read the document. The grift is breathtaking. Do not purchase any of the zines associated with this company.

⚠️ A Warning About AmaZine ⚠️

If you mod, participate in or buy fanzines, please read the following document. Myself and a lot of people who participate in the zine community think that what AmaZine is doing is exploitative and predatory. We think you deserve to know why.

If you're a contributor, please also make sure to check the document's second tab! You're not alone, and you deserve better.

Regardless of politics and personal opinions on what fanzines are and what they represent for the community, we think zine participants and supporters are entitled to full transparency regarding AmaZine's services, how their money will be used, and what their services mean for contributors.

We also have a lot of doubts about AmaZine's numbers, something is not adding up. Either their claims about being able to source better and cheaper manufacturers are untrue, or they claim money that should belong to contributors in one way or another. Several experienced finance mods have gone over the calculations in this document and confirmed that the estimated production prices I have provided are accurate. If the production prices AmaZine claims are significantly higher, you should demand receipts and supplier quotes.

If you're a moderator who is currently considering using AmaZine for your fanzine, please pay attention to the last segment of the document. Not every zine needs to be a physical zine, and there are ways to use zines for charity without even touching the money. Please consider those avenues!

Thank you for paying attention. Please research fanzine moderators and stay vigilant. Your talents are too precious to be exploited in this way.

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so was mary kirby lying then or is she lying now because either way she lied

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So the John Epler thing. It’s basically that community meme “I can excuse racism but I draw the line at animal cruelty” wrt Harding or Davrin and Assan

Literally that meme verbatim. As my cousin said tonight, “White people will save a damn dog before they’d piss on a black man on fire.”

I have a half-finished rant in the drafts about how Veilguard treats the player like they’re a Complete Fucking Idiot… and the fans earned that contempt. Shit like this is why.

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john epler did not misspeak and he did nothing wrong except say the quiet part out loud about harding and davrin and the fandom lost their goddamn minds looooooooool

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so i finished veilguard.

what did y’all think?

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I remember reading your fic, Holy Sick/Divine Nights a year and a half ago, and to this day, I still can't get over the ending where *that* happens to Dimitri. It's so visceral and poignant in the best possible way. You write them both so well, especially Byleth!

Awwwww thank you! HSDN is still one of my proudest fanfic achievements. And thank you anyway because I totally was kidding while fishing in the chat last night.

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#princeofpegging

So I did a lot of fic on twitter. Twitter sucks for fic! You have to screencap your document files and upload pics! I put up with this because that's where most of FE3H fandom is/was!

Now I'm uploading them to AO3 before tumblr dies. So here's one from the day deuxmoi posted this amazing blind item that is allegedly about Prince William and #princeofpegging trended on twitter. So here's Dimitri getting pegged. A lot. By a variety of people. Check the notes in chapter 1 to find the ships.

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all the tumblr primers like "hey u fkn twitter losers here's how to not shit on the carpet"

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love explaining tumblr to friends who went straight from LJ to twitter. all of the inconvenience of 2011 and none of the tits.

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oh my god i’ll have to redo my entire tumblr to make it look not 2012. and redo my tags. and upload all the shit i wrote on twitter here (or ao3). graphic design is not my passion.

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hello!! Is your friend still taking commissions? I'm currently open :)

they are! i’ve gone ahead and passed along your info. they’ll be in touch.

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apparently i need to dust this baby off soon. even though it's shadowbanned because of the stupid assholes stealing my account and using it to spam (shoutout to @pearwaldorf for trying to tell me but I couldn't reply in messages). so uh... hi?

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bb, I hope you're still checking this, but you should change your password. I think you got hacked

Thank you so much! I just updated the password and deleted that nonsense. Ugh, I’m probably shadowbanned now too.

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In honor of tumblr’s new no-reblog feature, I’m going to revive this semi-dead blog to say that DAD is probably going to be Cyberpunk levels of mess. Nothing I have seen from Bioware these past few years gives me any fucking hope this game won’t be an absolute shitshow.

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is it wrong that part of me wants this? with the shadow broker’s network, i can help you. i can turn this operation into something better.

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it had to be done 😔

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posting your fic on AO3 like