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LAST CHANCE TO JOIN: MAY 6TH!

I still haven't heard back from a few people who were accepted into the zine! If you're one of them, please respond by Monday so we can finalize our participants list! After this point, if we haven't heard from you, we will assume you're no longer interested.

Again, DM me if you never received a reply and I can check if you were accepted!

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ALL REPLIES SENT!

Sorry it took so long folks (of course I'd get sick this week) but if you applied for the zine, you should now have an email from srmthghd@gmail.com letting you know the results!

Please check your spam folders if you can't locate it. If you've looked everywhere and still can't find it, please DM me with the name/email you applied with and I can look it up for you. :)

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Still at Work...

Just letting you guys know I'm still in the process of getting emails out! I will post again when I have gotten them all out so people know to contact me if they still haven't heard back. Hang tight! :D

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APPS CLOSED! Update! :D

Hello everyone! Applications have been closed for a few days and I'm super excited to say we received a jaw-dropping 67 applications!

Over the weekend, myself and a team of "core mods" I invited to help advise a little while back will sort through these and pick our participants! Everyone should receive an email sometime Monday/Tuesday-ish with the results - make sure to check your spam folder - and everyone accepted will receive invites to the zine's Discord so we can get to work!

I am SUPER excited with how many talented creators showed interest and can't wait to get started! Thank you, everyone! :D

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IT'S THE FINAL WEEKEND (plus Monday) FOR APPLICATIONS! Apply here! Get your apps in by 11:59pm EST on Monday!

If you're having any issues applying at this point, please shoot me an ask before the deadline, at the least. If I have an ask at least I'm willing to work with people even a little after the deadline to solve any confusion/technical issues. :)

What happens after apps are closed?

I will spend the next week looking through applications with some awesome advisors to decide who is getting a spot, and everyone should know by the end of the day on April 21st. You'll receive a message at the email you sent us regardless of if you're accepted or not. If accepted, you'll get a Discord invite link and we'll all get to work!

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How will someone know if they're chosen? Will they get an email or sent a message here? (Is that why an email was asked)?

Emails will be sent to the provided addresses, yes! I'll also let people know when I've sent everything out so people check their spam if they have to. You should receive something even if you're not picked. ^^

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There's a little under two weeks left to apply (or poke your equally talented friends to reply) for the Shuggazine! Apply here!

We've already received a hearty pile of apps and I'm getting really excited to sort through the final application pile and choose our team!

If you still have any questions, be sure to shoot this blog an ask ASAP!

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Hey guys, I'm sorry this took so incredibly long. TBH this is part of why I made the timeline so much longer than most digital zines - I know my executive functioning can be a bit of a mess, especially when getting things started. Applications will be accepted until April 15th, so you have about a month to express your interest in participating!

I want to stress there's no "trick questions" or anything of the sort here - we will be considering mod and layout applications without experience. Everyone has to start somewhere after all!

PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST THIS APP! I'd love to see some new faces on this project. ^^ Here's a graphic you can use around the internet, if you like!

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Title idea: The Shuggazine

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Holy Shuggazine

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At last, some details!

(A while back on @srmthg we had a zine interest check, and it remains open for any additional suggestions/feedback about what you'd like the zine to be (you can also shoot this blog an ask) but I don't plan on doing a second interest check. If enough people feel this is a mistake, there's still time to do one, but as it stands I don't see the point. I will continue to accept feedback and take it into account moving forward!)

By the way, my name is @netbug009 and I'm your friendly head mod for this project! This will be my first time running a zine, but I've been helping run projects in this fandom for 18 years!

The Format

SRMTHG Zine (cooler name tbd) will be a free PDF zine scheduled to release on September 18th, 2024, AKA the 20th anniversary of the series' first episode!

I know a lot of folks (myself included) like to have nice, shiny, hard copies of zines, and I hope to get the zine onto a publishing on demand site such as Lulu to let people buy them at-print-cost if they'd like, but a free digital edition will be the first priority. Since this zine is a celebration of the anniversary of a relatively small fandom, I want as many people to be able to access and enjoy it as possible! Plus, this is my first time running a zine, so I think it's smart to keep it simple. This also lets us worry less about page counts - if a lot of cool people contribute cool stuff, a PDF can be a chonk as we want!

The Content

The zine will include both fanart and fan fiction (and maybe even a few QR codes to some other digital goodies like AMVs and fanmixes if there's enough contributor interest!)

Light shipping will be allowed, with a few exceptions - no adult x child and no monkey x human ships will be allowed. (This was THE overwhelming request in the interest check and is not open for debate.)

We're going for a general vibe and love the idea of getting copies into the hands of voice actors/staff, which should give you a rough idea of the type of content we're going for - if it's too creepy/fetishy to hand to Ciro at a convention, it's too creepy/fetishy for the book. (That said, Monkey Team is a very silly and weird show with a love for classic horror tropes so I hope people don't let that limit their imaginations too much if they wanna do something spoopy!)

NO AI WORK WILL BE USED OR ACCEPTED IN THE CREATION OF THIS ZINE. I hope that'd be a given but just to be 100% clear, no.

The (Rough) Timeline

March 2024 - Contributor Applications Open!

April 22nd - Zine members selected and invited to Discord

May 1st - Zine members finalized

June 1st - Zine check-in 1

July 1st - Zine check-in 2

August 1st - Zine pieces due!

September 1st - Zine layout finalization due!

September 18th - ZINE RELEASED!

You might notice this is a pretty long timeline for a zine and we're starting pretty early; because this fandom is fairly small and this is a big occasion, I want to provide extra time so that as many people can hear about the project and participate as possible.

If you're looking for something to do until contributor apps open, SIGNAL BOOST, SIGNAL BOOST, SIGNAL BOOST! Reblog, post to Twitter, tell your friends, get the word out so this can be the biggest celebration it possibly can! If you make any graphics in your quest to help get the word out, PLEASE tag this blog so they can be shared!

Aaaand that's the basics! Again, feel free to send an ask with any additional questions. If you're considering applying in January, it's never too early to start sketching/considering ideas!

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Gonna find a silly PFP so this blog looks less spammy here in a second. Interest check and a full timeline will drop sometime in early October! The goal is to release the zine on Monkey Team's 20th anniversary next year. I know starting things up a solid year early is a bit odd, but this will be my first time running a zine and I also want to give news of the zine a bit more time to get around to potential talent since this a relatively small fandom.

Help this project hit the ground running by signal boosting, and more info will be shared soon! - Mod Netbug