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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��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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THANK YOU RAFFLE 2023

Thanks so much for being here and supporting me this year! This raffle is for a free bust up or chibi commission of a character or OC of your choice.

To enter:

Leave a comment

Likes and reblogs appreciated, but optional.

I will be numbering comments in order they are left on this post. At the end of the raffle period I will be using a random number generator to pick a winner from the comments.

Raffle ends on November 30th, 2023.

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Hey all! Long time no see/talk/write/anything. I miss the fandom and all of you. I was thinking of trying to get back into it. What do you guys think?

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Just a friendly PSA to be kind to content creators.

They pour themselves into the art and stories they create. It costs you nothing to hit the back button. It costs you nothing to say nothing. But your unsolicited criticism could cost fandom something really beautiful.

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Holy fucking gorgeous!!! Thank you so much, @beej88 !! This is the most beautiful art I've ever seen!! Like, seriously, I'm crying. I can't even.. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I love being your beta. It is truly one of my favorite things to do!

Today is beta appreciation day!! I write, art, but I never do it alone. I always have my beautiful beta to proofread, give me advice, and cheerlead me to the very end of all my work.

So this is my gift to you @ninjettetwitch for @betaappreciation.

You are strength and courage personified.

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This seller has stolen SOOOO much fanart!! They have made 170 books! You can't report an actual seller on Amazon but I went to customer service and talked with them and this is what they said:

"Thank you for contacting us. If you believe that their work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, please submit a written notice to us. We have an online form available to submit copyright infringement notices for content appearing on the Amazon.com site. You can find it by following this link:

https://www.amazon.com/report/infringement

For more information regarding submitting a notice of copyright infringement by letter or email, please see the link below:

http://amzn.to/1PV0fVY "

PLEASE, guys. Go through the books. Look at the art. Then report the infringement with whatever evidence you have! Any links to the original works will work great! If we want this seller taken down so they stop making money off us, the fastest way to do it is if we all start reporting them for stealing our art. (And by our, I mean you guys because I can't art worth shit. But I LOVE all of yours and will always stand up for you!)

Lets make sure they can't make any more money off the art they've already stolen!

SIGNAL BOOSTING this coloring book that has STOLEN ART from @nari20 and possibly other fan artists in our fandom and is now selling them for a profit.

Please report this to Amazon as copyright infringement and ask them not to sell it.

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Hi Fellow Moonies!!

This year, Monday February 28th is our annual Beta Appreciation Day!!

For anyone who may not know, Betas are magical and work so, so, so hard behind the scenes to help us bring our stories to life. They stay up with us, support us, give us positive feedback on what we write, and help us polish it further, help us with our confidence, provide a shoulder to cry on when we hit a brick wall, help us get around that wall, and so much more. Betas deserve so much love and appreciation for everything they do for us, and we would be lost without them. 

tl;dr - Betas are the best cheerleaders and deserve all the love and support. Please join me and the rest of the Sailor Moon fandom on February 28th in showering our Betas with our love and appreciation. This isn’t just limited to someone betaing fanfics. You can show your appreciation for anyone that helped you with your creative process for fanart or something else. If you have a beta (or just read a lot of fic that has been beta’d), take this opportunity to tell a beta how much you appreciate them and all that they do for our fandom!! 

Keep reading

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For all my artist friends!

Attention all Sailor Moon Artists!

I know many of you explicitly post your art with the ask that it be reblogged and not reposted. I discovered this profile on facebook with tons of reposted art, including my own, with no credit given. I recognize some of the art from artists I follow on here, but there is too much to post it all. If this is something that bothers you as an artist, I would recommend visiting this page and reporting the posts with your stolen art. 

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063496029197

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How gorgeous is this Usa Mamo art!

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So umm I have been taking an art class this summer and we had to draw our "dream room" from one point perspective... fully shaded in B&W... so I choose to draw Mamoru's ganken 😅... IDK why. And then I got carried away and decided to turn his table into a study table for Usagi, the inner, and Chiibs... with designated seats and everything 🤣.

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So pretty!

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UsaMamo Week 2021 is nigh!

July 25-31

Day 1: Frenemies

Day 2: Home

Day 3: Crisis

Day 4: Children and/or Pets

Day 5: Free day or AU

Day 6: The end of the world

Day 7: Hugs

This year we have daily themes (thanks to various suggestions from a few fandom tumblr users!) and an optional “first sentence” prompt list (coming soon!) you can use in conjunction with or as inspiration for any of your creations!

As always, it’s all voluntary and flexible - do one, do some, do all- it’s up to you! Fic, art, essays, moodboards, etc.

Just tag me and use #usamamoweek2021 so I can compile everything in daily posts!

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God, they are so beautiful!

Beside each other! Because I unintentionally drew them facing each other!! ♥️

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I love him so much!! 😍😍😍😍