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Donation to Organization For Transformative Works 

We are happy to officially announce that all proceeds from the project have been donated to Organization for Transformative Works (parent of Archive of Our Own)!

The Mod team at DOMZ is grateful to be able to donate this sum and help AO3 continue its journey to provide a safe space for all fandoms.

Thank you to all contributors, supporters, and everyone that has ever been involved in this project. This donation would have not been made possible without all of you!

With that, this is the official end of the Drops of Moonlight Zine Project.

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Final Budget Transparency

Hello everyone!

With the formal end of our project, below we are sharing our budget publicly.

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This has been a long time coming, but I received my two sets of @dropsofmoonlightzine bundles earlier this month (one set is for me, the second is for a friend)! It hasn’t been an easy journey, as the project starting during the pandemic and was beset by delays caused by major world events, but I’m happy to have contributed to this project and plan to post my pieces for this project in the coming days. Thank you to the organizers and my fellow contributors for your dedication and patience! 🙏

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I forgot to post this last week but my copy of @dropsofmoonlightzine arrived last week! These books are beautiful and full of amazing fanwork. Seriously, these books are thick! I didn't expect them to be this big! They were crafted with a lot of love and the entire Drops of Moonlight team did an amazing job. It's been a long 3 years but I'm glad I got to see everything come together in the end. <3

For those of you who have the ebook version, I hope you enjoyed reading my fic contribution, The Woman in White. It was my first proper Sailor Moon fic (before that, I had only done Sailor Moon AU-style fics in other fandoms) and I had a lot of fun writing it. I plan on posting it online at some point in the near future. But there are some additional tweaks I'd like to make before I do that!

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My Drops of Moonlight order is here!!! I can't get over how huge the zines are (they really oughta be called artbooks, they're so thick!) and how much stuff was included in the full bundle!

Thank you so much @dropsofmoonlightzine for putting this all together! I know y'all ran into a lot of issues that were out of your control which caused the zine release to be delayed, but you did such a great job!

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The Zine shipping shop is now closed. If you pre-reserved a bundle and didn’t have a chance to pay for shipping while the shop was open, please email us at dropsofmoonlightzine@gmail.com to let us know by October 1st and someone will be in touch about organizing a later shipping payment in October.

If your package has been shipped and is returned to us, someone will be in touch with you. Unfortunately, we are unable to help if your package is experiencing delays related to shipping or customs.

ZINEの送料ショップはクローズいたしました。オープン中に注文ができなかった場合、10月1日までにメールをいただければ、後日配送手配をさせていただきます(10月中を予定しています)。

発送済みの荷物が発送元に返送されてしまった場合は、こちらからご連絡いたします。 発送や税関等で配送が遅延している場合は、こちらでは対応いたしかねますのでご了承ください。

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Drops of Moonlight: A 30th Anniversary Sailor Moon Fanzine Unboxing

My copy of @dropsofmoonlightzine finally arrived! I'm so mad at myself for not getting both editions, but I didn't have the money. Instead I opted for the bundle with all of the extra goodies! I'm especially excited to look through the activity book. As the only one who contributed anything related to polyamory, I'm genuinely proud to be a part of this project, my very first fanzine.

Thank you @brownsugarheartattack, @daikon1, @floraone, @kakyuuu, @nari20, @ninjettetwitch, and @queenrisa14 for putting up with the giant headache that the zine became over the years. I'm sorry that life and the world got in the way. The zine is beautiful and I truly appreciate that you all powered through and delivered on this massive project. Thank you and here's to another 30 years!

(Please ignore the wonky pictures. I'm not the best photographer. Plus my phone kept trying to "improve" things.)

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The shipping shop officially closes August 31st. Don’t miss your chance to get your bundle!

シッピングショップは8月31日で正式に終了します。この機会をお見逃しなく！キャンセルされたブースのご注文については、発送ショップの閉店後にご連絡いたします。

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My @dropsofmoonlightzine box arrived and what a treasure it contained!! I’m seriously in awe of the incredible labor of love this project must have been for the mods. What an amazing gift you’ve given us! It’s not often one can see their fan work in print, let alone in the company of so much wonderful talent 💖

Thank you @brownsugarheartattack, @daikon1, @floraone, @kakyuuu, @nari20, @ninjettetwitch, and @queenrisa14 - “you will forever be immortal. You will be the shiniest star shining in the sky for eternity.”

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The shipping shop is open! Check your email for details about how to pay for your shipping and get your bundle. If you reserved a bundle but didn’t receive an email from us, be sure to check your spam folder! If you still didn’t get anything due to Dark Kingdom shenanigans, try emailing us at dropsofmoonlightzine@gmail.com - a handful of supporter emails are bouncing, and we have no other way to get in touch with you!

シッピングショップがオープンしました！送料の支払い方法とバンドル受け取り方法の詳細については、Eメールをチェックしてください。予約したのにメールが届かない場合は、迷惑メールフォルダをご確認ください！キャンセルされたブースのご注文については、発送ショップの閉店後にご連絡いたします。

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We’ve officially shipped our first 100 bundles!! To celebrate, we’re encouraging everyone to share photos and tag #DoMZUnboxing when your bundle arrives!! Supporters, remember to pay for your bundle's shipping before the shop closes on 8/31!

最初の100人目までのオーダーが発送されました！100人目突破記念として、ZINEが届いたら是非#DoMZUnboxingをつけて写真や動画をシェアしてくださいね！ まだチェックされていない方へ、送料ショップは8/31までオープンしています！

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Shipping Shop is Now Open!

The shipping shop is officially open!! Please check your email for details about how to pay for shipping and receive your pre-reserved bundle. 

NOTE: The shipping shop is ONLY to pay for shipping for pre-reserved bundles, and is not open to the public. We will be in touch with our canceled Booth orders after the shipping shop closes.  If you reserved a bundle but didn’t receive an email from us, be sure to check your spam folder! 

発送ショップが正式にオープンしました 送料の支払い方法と事前予約バンドル受け取り方法についての詳細は、Eメールをご確認ください。

注意：シッピングショップは、予約されたバンドルの送料を支払うためのものであり、一般には公開されていません。キャンセルされたブースのご注文については、発送ショップの閉店後にご連絡いたします。予約したのにメールが届かない場合は、迷惑メールフォルダをご確認ください！ 

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EBOOKS ARE LIVE!!

🚨🚨🚨 The eBooks are live!! Supporters and Contributors, please check your email for download links to all three Drops of Moonlight eBook variants. We hope to bring you good news about the physical bundles soon.

🚨🚨🚨 eBooksが配信開始しました！サポーターの皆様、寄稿者の皆様、『Drops of Moonlight』eBook全3種のダウンロードリンクをメールでご確認ください。物理的なバンドルについては、近日中に良いニュースをお届けしたいと思います。

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Happy Holidays everyone!

We hope you are doing well! First, thank you so much for your continued support of the Drops of Moonlight Zine Charity Project. Although the project has gone on for much longer than planned due to multiple hiccups that we have faced, we are still committed to have the physical and digital bundles distributed to those who have pre-ordered them. Once the hiccups listed below are resolved, we will be reaching out to those (contributors and supporters) who pre-ordered a bundle to collect shipping and handling, and ship everything out! With that, included below is a summary list of previous updates re: the current Murphy's Law poo that is holding the project up:

We're still missing 2/5th of the shipment of the printed volume. Production had been in delay because of the paper crisis and they arrived in increments slowly batch by batch. We bought from a small family-run vendor and they glue the covers by hand. We've been getting them in smaller batches, and two batches have yet to arrive. They don't ever update us re:status, but they have been consistent.

Our sticker order was lost in the mail. We're fighting with FedEx on whose fault this is. We have had to pay double customs to have it re-enter its country of origin and make the trip again, which is ongoing, and are trying to get reimbursed by FedEx, which is a lengthy process.

The coloring books arrived late and with faulty covers, and after much discussion with the company, it appears that the fault was entirely our own. One of our mods is paying for 400 new covers out of their own pocket and will fix them by hand.

Our local washi vendor pulled out and went bankrupt and radio silent. This was a huge problem both for budget and for getting a new one. We have one finally lined up, production has begun.

Booth has refunded part of our orders because it took too long, meaning our funds have further shrunk. We're in talks with Booth to save the rest. It's in Japanese so only one mod could handle it, and this is not the easiest.

The domain for our website was paid for two years and that was the time and funding allotted in the budget. These two years are up. We didn't notice that for the longest while, and then when we did, things like Booth happened, and we decided against renewing the domain so late in the game. We plan to ship the orders with Shopify and the portion of Booth orders that have not yet been refunded.

A few mods we won't name are on extended hiatus for critical life events that we won't call out for privacy, and because this project has gone on for much longer than anyone on the team has anticipated or consented to/planned for. This means the rest of the work is falling on fewer shoulders. Tasks and responsibilities have subsequently changed amongst the mod team since 2020; for instance, we don't have a mod in charge of communications right now and haven't had one in a while, which you do clearly notice.

We make all decisions together as a team, which makes us democratic and also slow. We react to things only together but it means we wait out mod meetings across four time zones for nodding off on all decisions.

Everything else is ready, layouted, translated, linked to, hosted online, printed, lined up, and arrived. Once everything else lines up/arrives, we will be reaching out to those who pre-ordered a physical bundle to collect shipping and handling, and then ship them out.

We realize that the timing of everything has not been ideal. We did not realize we bit off more than we could chew when we took this project on… and none of us Mods plan to take on anything like this ever again as all of us are doing this on our own time. We thank you for your continued support and wish you all a safe holiday season!

Love,

The Drops of Moonlight Zine Mod Team

Happy Holidays!

皆さまお元気でお過ごしでしょうか。まず初めに、いつも「月の雫」チャリティー・プロジェクトをご支援いただきありがとうございます。このプロジェクトは、さまざまな不運が重なったことにより予定よりかなり長引いていますが、ご予約いただいた皆様に、ZINEバンドルとデジタルバンドルをお届けすることをお約束します。下記の問題が解決した時点で、バンドル版を予約してくださった方々（寄稿者の皆さま、サポーターの方々）に連絡を取りZINEたちを発送する予定です。下記に記すのはこれまでこのプロジェクトの妨げとなってしまったことがらに関する過去のアップデートの要約です：

印刷会社より全量の2/5の出荷を未だ受け取っていません。製紙危機のために生産が遅れ、製本されたZINEが少量ずつ到着しています。今回購入したのは家族経営の小さな印刷会社で、彼らは手作業で表紙を糊付けしています。ZINEは少量のロットで納品されており、あと2つのバッチの到着を待っている状況です。

付録のシールで完成品の紛失がありました。国際輸送中に行方がわからなくなってしまったため、現在輸送会社のFedexと責任の所在を明らかにしようとしています。原産国から再度入国させるために関税を二重に支払う必要があり予算にも影響を与えるものでしたが、皆さまへ発送するためこれらの対応は現在も進行中です。

塗り絵の納品が遅れ、また表紙に欠陥がありました。印刷会社と確認した結果、どうやら私たちの責任であることが判明したため、モデレーターのひとりが、自腹で400冊分の新しい表紙を購入し、手作業で表紙を付け直している最中です。

マスキングテープを発注した地元の業者は倒産し、音信不通となりました。新しい業者に再発注する必要があり予算的にも大きな問題でしたが、ようやく1社が決まり、生産が始まりました。

発送まで期間が空きすぎたため、BOOTHで注文の一部がキャンセルとなりました。予約してくださった皆さまには申し訳ありませんでした。まだ残っている注文に関してはキャンセル期限延長をBOOTHと交渉中です。日本語対応可能なモデレーターがひとりで対応にあたっています。

私たちのウェブサイトはドメイン料が2年間支払われており、それが予算上割り当てられた時間と資金でしたが、この2年間が終了しました。そのことに長い間気づかず、気づいたときにはブースのようなことが起きていて、ドメインの更新はすべきではないと判断しました。Shopifyでの注文と、Boothでの注文のうちまだ返金されていない分については必ず発送する予定です。

このプロジェクトは、主催チームの誰もが予想し、同意し、計画したよりもはるかに長く続いています。モデレーターの何人かは私生活での緊急を要する事態によりプロジェクトを離れる必要があり、残りの仕事は少ない肩の上に乗っています。例えば、しばらくコミュニケーション担当のモデレーターが不在であることにお気づきの方も多いと思います。

私たちはチームとしてすべての決定を下すので、民主的であると同時に時間が掛かります。私たちは共に物事に対処しますが、それは4つのタイムゾーンにまたがって主催ミーティングを開催し、すべての決定でそれぞれが同意する必要があることを意味しています。

それ以外のすべてについては、準備を進め、レイアウトし、翻訳し、リンクを貼り、オンラインでホストし、印刷し、並べ、到着しています。すべての材料が揃い／到着し次第、ZINEバンドルを予約注文してくれた人たちに連絡を取り順次発送していく予定です。

すべてが理想的なタイミングではなかったことはもちろん承知しています。このプロジェクトを発足したとき、自分たちが扱い切れる以上のものを発案したことに気づいていませんでした。皆さまにはご心配をお掛けし本当に申し訳なく思っています。皆さまの変わらぬご支援に、心から、感謝いたします。

愛をこめて、

月の雫ZINE　主催チーム

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🌸 Hi all you wonderful supporters and fandom friends!!

It’s been a few months since our last update, and we wanted to keep everyone in the loop with where we’re at with the Zine.

We’ve been able to order and have received most of the merchandise but unfortunately faced an unexpected setback with one of our vendors. This has delayed our ability to move into the process of collecting shipping fees until we resolve the issue. We also ran into several hiccups with Booth due to production delays, and are trying to resolve the multiple issues that arose from this production delay. We’re not entirely sure yet how long it will take, but we will share it once we are ready to collect shipping fees and move into the shipping phase. 

There’s literally tons of merchandise that’s waiting in one of our Mods living rooms… she wants them gone as much as you wish to receive them! Your Zine will arrive safely, it’s just a matter of time as we are working hard to get the Zine out to you as quickly as possible while also balancing our own lives. Recently, we’ve come across life-changing events (going through unplanned surgeries, temporarily relocating to another country, taking care of family issues, and no longer working from home). We do apologize for the delay and ask that you continue to be patient with us, as we are all volunteers doing this for charity and love for Sailor Moon. Thank you for your patience and your continued faith in this Project.

🌸 サポーターの皆さま、ファンダムの皆さま、こんにちは！

前回の更新から数ヶ月が経ちましたので、ZINEの制作状況について皆さんにお知らせしたいと思います。

ほとんどの商品の注文を終え完成品を受け取ることができましたが、残念ながらベンダー一社と予期せぬ事態に直面しました。このため、問題が解決するまでは次のプロセスに移行することができません。またBOOTHでも発送の遅れによりいくつかの問題が発生しており、複数の問題を同時に解決しようとしています。現時点では解決までどれくらい時間がかかるか確実なことは言えませんが、次の段階に移行する準備が整いましたら、皆さまにお知らせします。

現在主催メンバーのリビングルームには、文字通り足の踏み場もないほどの大量の商品が届いており、注文者の皆さまの元へ届けるために待機しています。主催メンバーも皆さまと同様にさまざまなライフイベント（予定外の手術、一時的な海外転勤、家族の問題、在宅勤務の廃止など）に直面していますが、皆生活と両立させながら、できるだけ早くZINEを皆さんにお届けするため尽力しています。私たちは皆、セーラームーンへの愛とチャリティーのために活動しているボランティアです。遅れをお詫びするとともに、もうしばらくお待ちいただきますようお願いいたします。

プロジェクトへのご理解と長期にわたるご協力に感謝いたします。🌸

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JANUARY 2023 UPDATE ||| 2023年1月更新

We have some amazing news… after a lot of problems with our vendors and the paper (as you've been aware of), we’ve finally placed the orders for all of our merchandise (including pins and the physical zine). The time for the printing process will vary between items, but once we receive all of the merchandise, we will begin reaching out to contributors and supporters via email to pay for the shipping and the handling so that we can ship the bundles out to you. At this time, we do not have an estimate for the shipping and handling as prices can fluctuate and are individual to shipping destination. Please be sure to lookout for the shipment communication in the future. Thank you.

皆様にはベンダー変更とそれに起因する生産の遅れについてご心配をお掛けしておりましたが、このたび、印刷会社へ全ての商品の発注が完了しました。印刷工程にかかる時間はアイテムによって異なりますが、全ての商品を印刷会社から受け取り次第、購入いただいた皆様にメールでお知らせする予定です。また送料と手数料のお支払いに関する内容も合わせてご連絡いたします（現時点では各地への送料および手数料に関して個別に見積もりを出すことはしておりませんので、ご了承ください）。それでは出荷のお知らせまでもうしばらくお待ちいただければと思います。

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TICK TOCK!!⏳️⏰️🕛

The contributor shop closes in less than 2 hours! Please check your email on how to place your order!

コントリビューターショップはあと2時間足らずで終了です。ご注文方法はメールをご確認ください!!