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Welcome to Lavender's and Carnation's, an MCYT Pride Month Zine!

This is a zine dedicated to and honoring the queer CC's who have made an impact on this fandom and their fans! It'll feature art, fanfic, and stories about how openly queer CC's have helped people accept/become more comfortable in their identities! (Which, by the way- you don't have to be signed up for the zine to share your story! Anyone can submit one!)

So, how exactly is this zine going to work?

Lavender and Carnation's will feature art and writing like most zines, but it has a special addition to the usual- you can submit your own stories without having to be an official contributor!

Have a CC who helped you become more comfortable with your identity? A CC's character who's impacted you via their story, or has helped you through a rough time in your life? Share your story (anon or not) and you can have it featured in the zine, interspersed with art of that CC's characters and stories!

Okay, this sounds awesome! But wait, how do I apply? What's the criteria for a CC getting nominated for this event? What's the schedule?

Great questions! Here's a basic run-down of the event (along with links to fully explain it)

Applications

There are four roles you can apply for within this event;

Mod

Mod's will help manage the discord server, answer questions, and offer any assistance you may need while creating your piece!

Cover Artist

Cover artists will either be able to apply for the zine cover (which will be a full page spread all the CC's featured in the zine), or as a CC cover artist (which will be a full page spread of all of a CC's character's/relevant side characters)

The applications are open for two zine cover artists, and one artist per however many CC's end up in the zine.

Artist

Non-cover artists will be creating half/quarter page illustrations to be featured along side submitted stories! These drawings can feature the CC themself, a character they portray (alone or with friends!)

If applicable, they can also apply to do a full page drawing of a canon queer relationship with a CC's character in it. (This will only include relationships that are explicitly stated to be romantic/queerplatonic. Examples of this are Milo and Scott from Witchcraft SMP and Aismey and Guqqie from Area Unknown.)

Writer

Writer's can apply to create a piece of writing exploring/featuring a canonical queer character’s identity/relationships. This can feature headcanons for other characters, but please avoid gender-bending for ships (ie, making a M/F ship M/M or a F/F ship M/M!) or changing the canon identity of the CC’s character!

(More information for contributors and mods)

CC Nominations

CC's are nominated based on what the community wants! A Google form with be posted on January 25th where you can nominate your favourite CC's to be featured in this zine. If your CC gets 10 nominations, they'll be considered for the zine!

After that, if enough people sign on to create for your CC, they'll be featured on the zine!

(CC Nomination Requirements)

Event Schedule

The event officially begins on January 12th with an interest check!

CC Nominations and Mod applications open on January 25th and end on February 5th.

The discord server opens on February 8th, followed by Contributor applications opening on February 10th and closing on February 23rd.

Story submissions will be open from February 10th till March 10th!

(How do I submit my personal stories?)

(Official event schedule)

If you've made it this far, please reblog this post so that people who would be interested are able to see it! Thank you for your time, and I'm really excited to see this zine through!

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Hey! I noticed it’s past the invite deadline, and I was wondering if the project was still on? I don’t mind waiting. but I’d love for it to still be continued! Thank you guys ^^

Hi! Yes, sorry about that- Invites have been sent out! Again, not everyone has joined the server, but invites have all been sent out! Please check your inbox/friend requests on discord and accept the invite from pearlescent_poppies :)

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Obligatory, 'have all the invites been sent out?' message, lol.

(also, thanks to all the mods working hard on this even with complications happening. You guys are great and I'm excited to see the end result (whether or not I'm one of the artists))

They're being sent out (actually) this time! They should be all sent out by the 20th, so please have your discord friend requests open and accept the request from cottoncandy_roses!

(And thank you! It's been stressful, but we're committed to seeing this project through :])

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Deck of Life official timeline!

December 20th - All assigments and discord invites should be sent, please accept the friend request from cottoncandy_roses so we can do that!

- Working Period: Three Months -

Each check in has a one week period to fill it out, since this is a busy season for people!

Check in 1: January 10th - 17th

Check in 2: Feb. 10th - 17th

Check in 3 : March. 10th - 17th

Assignments due March 17th, and the zine will be posted on the 21st!

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Hello! We've reconvened with our team, and this project is finally actually underway! We're so sorry about the hiccups, some stuff came up in both the mod's lives and the one managing the discord side of the event had to step down, but we're excited to finally have things underway!

Please accept the friend request from cottoncandy_roses on discord as they're now the person organizing the discord side of the project.

The schedule is being reworked to accommodate the new mod, and will be posted on Friday! Thank you for following us through this project, we're aware it's started rough but we will do our best to keep it much more organized as we move forward :)

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Hello! As you may have noticed, we've been having some issues lately. Because of that, a few of our mods have stepped down due to stress. We're switching our team a bit, and because of that the server may take a few days to be set up-

Please be patient with us while we navigate this. Thank you for your support, and this project still will be happening!

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Heyo, just checking cause I haven’t received any indication of acceptance or denial. There are probably plenty of people who’d like to know if they’ve been rejected or just caught up in logistics!!!

Hi!! Apologies for the slow responses- we've decided today that once we manage to get in contact with everyone we'll announce it! Organizing a bunch of people on discord can be difficult so it's taking a bit longer than expected. If you see this, please accept the friend request from valeriecore!

Again, once all artists have been contacted, we'll announce it. Thank you for your patience with us- we're very excited to see this project through!

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Hello! I haven’t received any indicator of acceptance/denial, does silence mean I haven’t been accepted, or are you guys just running behind? Thank you!

We're having some issues contacting people (and the mod running this account is not the mod running the discord) so it's likely some people who have been accepted haven't been notified! If you haven't, please check your discord and if you've received one, accept the discord friend request from valeriecore!

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Hello! Due to holidays and the admin who runs this account being busy, we won't be able to answer any asks tomorrow! You can still send them, but please be patient with us since we're busy :D

(They'll get answered day after tomorrow!)

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Hi! I’m the anon who asked if discords were mandatory (you can find that here), and I was wondering how I (and possibly other people) would be contacted about acceptance? You said discord invites would be sent to all accepted artists, so would I receive an email/tumblr dm instead? Thank you so much, and I’m so excited to see this project develop ^^

Ah, sorry about the confusion! While primarily we will be sending discord invites, if you gave us something else to contact you with (email, Tumblr, etc) we'll be using that!

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Applications have closed! If you were chosen, we will reach out to you sometime between the 25th-30th of November with an assignment and more information regarding the event! Thank you so much for applying and we are incredibly excited to have this project underway :D

Applications for Deck Of Life have opened! More information will be given once artists are selected. The timeline for the project is below the cut!

As a quick recap on what the project is-

‘this project will gather 50 artists in the life series fandom together to create a deck of cards! (note: this will only be for digital download.) it will include all 5 seasons, third, last, double, limited and secret life!’ - mod vi

Info on the timeline -

Sign ups open Oct. 26

Sign ups close Nov. 20th

Discord invites sent out Nov. 25th (please have your friend requests/dms open!)

Assignments sent out from (TBD)

- Working Period: Three Months -

Each check in has a one week period to fill out the check in, since this is a busy season for people!

Check in 1: Dec. 10th - 17th

Check in 2: Jan. 10th - 17th

Check in 3 : Feb. 10th - 17th

Assignments due Feb 17th

It’ll be assembled and posted Feb 21st!

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Heya, I haven't received any indication of being accepted/rejected. Is everything going according to plan? When will I be contacted to know if I'm in the project or not?

Yes! Apologies for the late response, but artists will be contacted on the 25th of November since the applications deadline has been extended. Apologies for any confusion!!

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Applications have been extended till the 20th! We still need artists, so if you're interested, please apply! We're very excited to begin this project :)

Applications for Deck Of Life have opened! More information will be given once artists are selected. The timeline for the project is below the cut!

As a quick recap on what the project is-

‘this project will gather 50 artists in the life series fandom together to create a deck of cards! (note: this will only be for digital download.) it will include all 5 seasons, third, last, double, limited and secret life!’ - mod vi

Info on the timeline -

Sign ups open Oct. 26

Sign ups close Nov. 9th

Discord invites sent out Nov. 10th (please have your friend requests/dms open!)

Assignments sent out from Nov.13 - Nov.16

- Working Period: Three Months -

Each check in has a one week period to fill out the check in, since this is a busy season for people!

Check in 1: Dec. 10th - 17th

Check in 2: Jan. 10th - 17th

Check in 3 : Feb. 10th - 17th

Assignments due Feb 17th

It’ll be assembled and posted Feb 21st!

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Is it okay to submit a portfolio through Google drive and if so is there a limit to how many pieces we can include in it ?

We’re fine with that! We’d prefer 2-3 pieces if possible :)

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When specifying what characters/scene/season we'd want to do, can we pick the same character for all 3 and just have different seasons/scenes ?

Yep! As long as you're not just putting the same character and scene over and over anything goes :) (Also, details regarding the piece will be hashed out more once artists are selected :D)

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hiii! for the form im sharing my portfolio on social media instead of uploading, but it says uploading is required!!

This is now resolved! Thank you for letting us know :)

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will there be a set date for when all artist participating have to finish their cards? Asking cause I want to apply, but university is kicking my ass so I have to preplan a lot if I want to get it done.

Yes! We posted the timeline underneath the cut on the applications. All assignments are due Feb. 17th (extensions can be discussed if needed) with three check ins between now and then.