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💌 Sketch by @summers-art and render by @superemeralds 💌 Lets see what's in the cards for me ♡ @sthzinecenter @soniceventzone @zine-scene @zinefeed @anizines @zineapps @all-zine-apps

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Hey there, Summer! So, to sate my anxiety about tumblr's recent mass layoffs, I'm working on following folks I follow here over on bluesky as well. Do you have an account there that I can follow should the worst come to pass? Thanks!

Haaai! I've been thinking about getting a bluesky, but like a lot of things I forget to actually do something about it lol. It might be good to get on that sooner or later but I can't promise when, I'll post a link to it here though when I do make an account 🫶✨

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I finally got a new and working tablet wahey!! Time to draw a bunch of blorbos to get started again

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Only 3 Days Left to Apply!

Apps close Midnight UTC on April 6th! Let your hearts guide you as we shape our destinies! 💘

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💌 Theme & Content Info

💌 Sketch by @summers-art render by @starzdeath 💌 Let's see what's in the cards for me ♡ @sthzinecenter @soniceventzone @zine-scene @zinefeed @anizines @zineapps @all-zine-apps @open-zines

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💌 Interested in what our themes are all about? Lets have a look at them!

Future with You: an Amy Rose fanzine is themed around tarot cards and the four seasons. Each of the fortune card suits is linked with a season: 💥New Year Fortune, ⚡Spring Lightning, 🔥Summer Fire, 💧Autumn Water, and 💫Winter Rings. Each suit also has a Hero and Dark reading.

💌 Theme & Content Info

🎨 Artist App 📝 Writer App 🎀 Misc App Apps close Midnight UTC on April 6th!

⇃ Explore each theme further under the cut! ⇂

💥 New Year Fortune (Act 1 & 2)

Act 1 - Lunar New Year (Jan 29th) A half-chapter opening the zine with themes of community celebration and bringing good luck for the future.

Act 2 - Solar New Year (Dec 31st) A half-chapter closing the zine with themes of personal celebration and leaving behind the past.

⚡ Spring Lightning

Flashes of inspiration for a bold decision.

The light of truth zipping through the air, reaching others with lightning speed! But its power can be dangerous and destructive too.

🌕 Hero Greater insight, giving you a moment of inspiration, and getting right to the point.

🌑 Dark Warnings of being too rash or not taking other people's feelings into account.

🔥 Summer Fire

Fiery passion and a burning desire to act.

Warmth and light energize you to follow your heart and do great things. The fire that burns brightest, burns briefest. When kept poorly it can burn out of control.

🌕 Hero Encourages your ambitions and helps you make your plans before taking action.

🌑 Dark Warnings of being reckless. Ask yourself if you really know what you're trying to do.

💧 Autumn Water

Our hopes, our dreams, our emotions, ebbing and flowing like the sea.

If adrift in your relationships, find guidance and chart a course. Realize your dreams in their reflective waters. But don't dive too deep!

🌕 Hero Insights into your relationships, or trying to make some sense of your wildest dreams.

🌑 Dark Warnings of getting lost in your fantasies. Listen to that little voice in your heart!

💫 Winter Rings

The golden earthly things of fortunes and personal well-being.

Reflections of your health, your career, or your partner. But being too self-centered can lead to greedy, selfish decisions.

🌕 Hero A bright shining career, health, and personal well-being.

🌑 Dark Warnings of greed, selfish decisions, or ignoring your health.

💌 Promo art by @superemeralds, @summers-art & @firbetmakes 💌 Let's see what's in the cards for me ♡ @sthzinecenter @soniceventzone @zine-scene @zinefeed @anizines @zineapps @all-zine-apps @open-zines

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washing machine heart seems so perfect for them honestly

🎵Song #8 Washing Machine Heart by Mitski 🎵[Full playlist]

EHEHEHE THANK YOU! I knew I wanted a Mitski song on there and I'm so glad I found this one because yessss, to me it is just *chef kiss* for them. It also has a rly nice transition to #9 Supermassive Black Hole, absolutely love the beat of Washing machine heart getting all distorted in the end of the song and how it flows so well into the electrical guitar riff and rock drumbeat from Supermassive black hole with it's darker tone, HEHE very happy with that one 🫶🩷

Story wise it's a fun transition too. Like at this point they are kind of assumed to be an item, going steady or whatever people call it these days. But like the prev song, #7 Do you think we'll last forever? the seeds of "something aint right here 🤔🙁" is planted with a hint of that obsession and whirlwind of emotions. Then here there is a lot of things to unpack with Metals jealousy over Sonic and that whole identity crisis, which only gets worse in the upcoming songs.

Like, for this relationship to truly work there is a lot of issues that has to be grappled with but uh oh we haven't had the time to unpack all of that yet, so ermm... oops!!! 😅don't worry about it 💔

LYRICAL BREAK DOWN BELOW 👇

Toss your dirty shoes in my washing machine heart Baby, bang it up inside

I've never fucking used a washing machine to clean shoes, is that like an American thing or something... idk. But it clearly reads to me like a metaphor about ones past/baggage and to just dump it onto your new partner like- Yea? Those muddy dirty shoes she's worn for so long? The shoes she's spent running around and chasing after Sonic for all those years? Toss those shoes into your washing machine heart??? I mean sure- if you insist 🩷

Also obligatory pointing at the machine lyrics for the robot. Low hanging fruit for analyzing but I have to point it out each time bc it is never not relevant. Metals chest is suppose to be a jet engine but like... it doesn't look too far off from a washing machine drum... have you heard those things as the program is close to finishing?? All the ones I've used in communal shared spaces always sounds like they are about to take off into the space. They might as well be jet engines

I'm not wearing my usual lipstick I thought maybe we would kiss tonight

The transgirl Metal agenda and propaganda continues. Congratulations on the gender girlie I'm so happy for you 🏳️‍⚧️

Idk how you use lipstick without a mouth but I believe in you. I also do prefer a more butch lesbian Metal so lipstick wouldn't be apart of her gender presentation there either buuut, I love all Metals including the femme ones. And even with my own HC I don't see it as out of the picture to present more femme at the start of a transitioning journey as part of experimenting with it before finding what feels the best :] peace and love ✌️

Baby will you kiss me already and Toss your dirty shoes in my washing machine heart? Baby, bang it up inside

Damn girl, eager are we? Doesn't even care if it hurts or gets damaged in the process haha, what is self preservation anyway? This def makes me think about the previous song and how the obsession takes root. It would be fun to break down that one as well esp with lines like: "(Do you think we'll last forever?) / No pressure though, you just tell me, "Yes" or "No"" and "Tell me that you want me 'cause I got to admit / If you're with someone else, I don't think I could exist" like OKAY!!! This is, completely fine. Very healthy mindset. 10/10 no notes 👍 (JOKE)

Baby, though I've closed my eyes I know who you pretend I am I know who you pretend I am

OOP, there it is. The line that makes my brain and heart go 💥💥💥

MAN, punches the wall, I don't think Amy would ever purposefully ""replace"" Sonic with Metal Sonic. Can you even call it a rebound if I don't think she was ever really dating him to begin with, LMAO. I do think it is hilarious to pair her up with most of his rivals though like, dang Sonic look who stole your girl cause you didn't give her a chance, serves u right 😘💅

But more seriously tho I think she obviously values her friendship with Sonic a lot and wouldn't try and get back at him or use someone else to get over her crush on him. NOT INTENTIONALLY AT LEAST- (aint that a fun internal feeling of shame/guilt to be plagued with) but I can't blame Metal for having that anxiety, especially not when you are programmed to literally think you are that guy and people just decided to see your inferior copy as the real one who is so easily adored and loved and a hero like... wtf..... so fucked up (I love it) 💔

Do mi ti Why not me? Why not me?

SCREAMING. CRYING. THROWING UP- 😭😭😭OGHGOHGOH

IT IS YOU METAL!! YOU DESERVE TO BE LOVED TOO FOR WHO YOU ARE- A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT AND SEPARATE INDIVIDUAL FROM WHAT THAT EVIL EGG INSTALLED IN YOU TO THINK YOU ARE, AUUGHGH 💥💔💥💔💥

I need Amy to shake this hunk of junk around and tell her over and over again that she loves Metal and not Sonic. And I need Metal to actually BELIEVE IT when she says that. Sniffs, sobs, this is fine. It's fine....... I am okay......................... (turns to dust) 💨

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Woo!! Here are my zine previews for @furhirepress !! The zine is looking great, the shop is open all February - go check it out! All profits will be donated to the United Palestinian Appeal 🐰🍉

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Not on the playlist or even on Spotify but A Step Away from Xenoblade 3 for good Angsty Metamy song

I put this ask in my draft to "remind myself" to listen to this song and well, guess what happened. Anyway, 1 and a half week later I finally did listen to it. IT'S VERY GOOD, VERY ANGSTY, I LOVE THAT

fav part of the lyrics:

I knew my faults, but I pretended I didn't know I fear I'm not the kind of man you know I see you smile pretending еverything is all right But that made me feel morе in misery

Wow!! I love pain, misery, agony even. I love you break up era, at least that's what I'm reading this song as. Then again, some of the lyrics sounds like one of them is dead and I am reminded that robots probably "live" longer than mobians as long as they have the right tools and shit and now I can make myself even more miserable with evil thoughts in my head. We love to see it 🫶🥲

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Didya see it? @chaosquillcollection released OUR would adventure that you can get for free over on the itch.io page so go check it out!!

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*whispers* Psst...About very niche pair/ship...What about Metaze (Metal Sonic/Blaze) ;3

Well, as you already know I am a fan of the polycule

Metaze on it's own I haven't looked into as much - WHICH I SHOULD - I think they could be cool and scary girlfriends together. As a princess I think Blaze should have a murder robot ready to kill on her command, that's so romantic 🩷

Ok not to derail myself but I immediately thought of an AU of Metal and Amy being trusted knights for princess/queen?? Blaze where Metal is just a 🤏 tiiiny bit too eager to do murder at first sign of conflict. Amy has to be the heart of the team to convince them to uh, maybe not do that? But it's fine, until it isn't. When the evil programming sways a bit too hard and Blaze herself has to put a stop to it and they fight and Metal can have a "I'm glad it's you, it had to be you" at the tip of her blade like oUGHHH ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 Toxic doomed yuri 🩷🫶

Idk if this is what you wanted to hear, to any wholesome metaze enjoyers I'm sorry I only know how to deliver pain and agony

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Ok, but the real question is what about rouge x egg pawn? My only evidence for this is that mission in sonic generations where rouge can distract egg pawns with her attractiveness. I just think it'd be funny

LMAO now this is a crackship I can get behind. Doomed from the start but who am I but a lover of that kinda shit, poor egg pawn she is just using you girl!!! Don't fall for it!! Though it would have probably worked on me too so I can't judge

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🌏OUR World Adventure is here! The long awaited sequel to Sonic World Adventure🚀

🌍 A digital zine all about Sonic OCs, their lives, culture and world building

🌎This project has brought together 35 artists and writers to create 100 pages worth of content during 2024 and we’re excited to share it all with you!

🚂Featured in this zine are:

🎫 60+ original art pieces  🎫 15 illustrated written pieces 🎫 4 delicious recipes 🎫 A psd base megapack OC Maker! 🎫 A DIY printable board game!

Download it over at itch.io and check out our other free Sonic zines!

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Honestly I’m more of a Gemerl x Omega kinda guy.

THAT'S ANOTHER GOOD ONE, though I've barely seen anything for these guys except for like, the Born to fail zine... but I see it, I see the vision. They would be R4R (robot 4 robot)

I'm such a fake fan for not having played the handheld games oughghgh, I do not know enough about Gemerl I need to do my homework and EDUCATE MYSELF 🙇

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the ship is often called omegaze (because omega ze, their names fit too well together)

Thank you anon!!

I THOUGHT THAT WAS THE CASE, it just fits really well but then tumblr app on my phone didn't suggest it as a tag (I guess because it isn't popular enough??) so I got unsure 👉👈

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Another preview for @chaosquillcollection! I made spotart for @benjaminrydersnest story Rippling Prospects feat. their awesome oc Marnie :D Follow the itch.io/ for updates on when the zine releases!

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I know you are a metal x amy shipper, so I wanted to hear your thoughts on omega x blaze

Huh, what gave it away?? 😳 /silly

Heheh, I've seen the Archie comic panels that I think sparked that ship. It's fun! Omega being impressed with Blazes' destructive capabilities 🔥💥 I think they need to hang out more, tbh I think I just want to see more of Blaze in general. Give her more mainline appearances Sega pls I'm begging you 🙏

I've never dug that deep into the ship so I'm not sure what other people do with it, but if I'm just spitballing how I would write for it I think Omega would be the one to be drawn to her first bc of the firepower as mentioned. Blaze then getting flustered every time someone geniunely compliments her is also cute, stoic front but a softie under it y'know. Also getting to know each other more like working on missions together would show that Omega is just rly funny, I have never seen anyone fail to write for Omega idk what it is but whatever he says is just gold. Maybe it's just the astute observations he makes and unshakeable confidence, I think making Blaze laugh would give an angel their wings. Ain't that why we like to ship her with other funny Lil guys (ex: Silver, Sonic, Amy) Also, I can see them having a Sonadow thing with being rivals when taking out badniks, yes, keep count. Let Blaze have fun even when doing serious work 💜

I do love a romance between a girl and her robot friend, obviously, but I wonder if Omega would be interested in romance?? Maybe not in the traditional sense, which I don't think Blaze would feel a strong need for either, tbh so like... idk what I would label them as. Could be romantic, platonic, something outside or between that, idk maaan. But I think they have potential as a fun dynamic!!

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Me and the bestie Yeen did a collab with a comic and social media vignettes for our zine piece on @chaosquillcollection 💙 Our guys Ham & Rook are out doing their usual shenanigans feat. reactions from my oc April and @clawcakes Lyre! Follow the itch.io/ for updates on when the zine releases!