#answering questions with the frog

[butchfairyzine]

Butch Fairy Zine: Answering questions

What art style are we looking for? What is the estimated timeline? Will you get paid? we answer them here!

We will be answering more questions and posting them in the days leading up to the artist application form opening. So if you have questions, use our inbox, or you can fill in our interest form and leave them at the bottom. And if you have queries for the frog, you can leave them there too. He is very busy, so keep that in mind.

Find the interest form here.

Our Artist Application form will open on the 12th of January 2024.

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What type of artists are you looking for? And are you after a specific style or a range of styles?

We are looking for artists who can create pieces with fully rendered fairies and a background within the specified schedule. These can be digital artworks that are flat colour artworks, paintings, a mixture, or another style entirely.

We will also accept mixed media and traditional artworks, but they will need to be scanned at a minimum of 300dpi.

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When you sign up for an artist position, are there any requirements to be a part of the team?

E-mail communication is required (discord is optional).

You must have a PayPal account to receive payment.

You must be able to communicate comfortably in English.

You must be 18 or older at the time of signing the contract by the 16th of February.

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For artists accepted into the zine what would be the timeline for completing and submitting artwork?

Our current schedule for the artists requires concept ideas to be submitted by Feb 16th, and the final version by May 16th! Progress check-ins will be on Feb 29th, March 21st, and April 11th.

(In the image there is also a table including this information as well as the final submissions date being May 16th)

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When the zine is for sale, where would the profits go to (charity, zine admin, etc.)?

We are aiming to hold pre-orders in June/July of 2024, with a flat fee paid to all contributors and additional proceeds split between contributors and mods.

Our priority is to make sure each contributor is paid fairly for their work. If sales do well enough, 20% will be used for future books and projects, and 80% split between taxes and fees, production costs, contributors and shipping costs.

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Is this physical or digital and will there be prints of the art available? Got any merch ideas planned to go along with the zine?

Both physical and digital! Our goal is to make a 210 x 148 mm (A5) perfect-bound soft cover book.

We also plan to add some paper merch, including prints of some of the art from the book. Additional merch ideas include stickers, sticker sheets and bookmarks.

[thatsbelievable]

[markscherz]

Prepare for the worst frog question you've ever received :(

Why do frogs pee when they make their escapes? They've soared high over my head, raining pee down on me (and in one case, my ice cream). They've leaped into the water at astonishing speeds, with the aid of projectile peeing. They've paced themselves and done one thousand short hops, peeing the entire way for emphasis.

But none of them have ever told me why... no matter how politely I've asked. Wise and powerful Tumblr frog guy, why do they do it?

Frogs are actually employed by the local firefighting service to help prevent wildfires. Every time they get scared, they release the flame retardant.

[beatcroc]

i already wrote up a whole essaypost about the dynamic for these two but it's funnier to summarize it like this. also it's the only way youre gonna see anything resembling fp getting closure abt any of this :^) [x]

[amphibianaday]

could I use ur life changing firefrog art as icons for firefox on my computer (so for personal use)? it would improve my quality of life tenfold i think

hell yes i actually made them transparrent for this very reason

also here they are again so you (or others who wanna do this) don't have to go searching

[daily-hanamura]

I kind of wished that the persona 4 cast wasn’t stuck in a narrative where the main theme is ‘always accept the role thrust upon you and if you don’t like it, just force yourself to like it’. Yukiko actively wants to leave Inaba and create her own life, but is portrayed negatively when doing so, with her character arc involving her accepting the role thrust upon her. Don’t get me started on Naoto. I know you’re the Yosuke guy, and was wondering what are your thoughts on this when applied to Yosuke?

I want you to know that being called "the Yosuke guy" is now my greatest achievement you've made my day everyday for the last week

I do agree with you, and I think it was one of my initial issues with P4 where, for a game whose entire narrative is about being true to yourself, it sure falls back into that tired sense of social conformation a lot. It's grating, right, because it feels like what they really mean to say is "be yourself! but not too much and not in a way that makes other people unhappy and make sure you're still living up to other peoples expectations because that's the real reason why you're unhappy with yourself, you haven't accepted who we want you to be (which is the real you that we've decided) etcetc" and it just undercuts the emotional impact of their self-acceptance (see also kanji and rise). (dw I know P5 also kind of has the same problem, and I can go into a whole thing about the limits of transformative narratives written by capitalist corporations but i wont. today-)

I think with Yosuke though, it's really interesting because his character arc is more so tied to his relationship with Inaba as a place, rather than his fundamental self-perceptions. It's established early on that Yosuke hated the town for various reasons; he's a city boy who wants excitement and connection, but most of the town hates him so he's shit out of luck and it gives him little reason to like the town back. As the game progresses, he starts to like the town -- "it's not about where you are, but who you're with", so it's his friendships (and having people who accept him for who he is) that makes the place meaningful for him. And, at the end of the day, Yosuke did get what he wanted - excitement and connection.

But he's not tied to Inaba.

In P4AU, it's revealed that Yosuke's struggling to figure out what he wants to do in life, but by the end of it he tells Yu that he wants to leave the town and go to college with Yu in the city, and that he wants to see the world and experience more things for himself. It fascinates me because it very strongly implies that Yosuke's arc isn't complete as we're very expressly told that he's still developing. It stands in contrast to the other characters who have effectively been fixed into some role or position (Yukiko as an inn manager, Rise as an idol), and unlike them, Yosuke hasn't been permanently relegated to the things that he starts off hating. He hasn't been written to stay in Inaba or even to continue working at Junes after graduation, instead he gets the opportunity to try things. imo this makes his arc more situational (and therefore layered) - Yosuke's perspective on his circumstance matures, but who he is as a person doesn't have to change, and he's not forced to make a trade-off with the wishes he had at the start.

This might be because Yosuke is Atlus' favourite character of the contrast between Yosuke's city background and the rest of the Inaba folk. There's a guy in the school who talks about how most people who finish high school in Inaba just go on to get jobs, and very few actually leave for college and beyond. It's something deeply realistic and reflective of human geography IRL, because that's very common in small communities. A fear of the outside world because of how isolated they are (and Inaba kind of is - remember how Yosuke said they barely had cell connectivity up until recently) means they tend to look inwards instead of out, so there isn't as strong an awareness of what else there is out there and a belief that your options are basically just that (it also makes it all the more impressive that they have surprisingly well-traveled teachers). Yosuke, on the other hand, is very much connected to the internet and the outside world, and he also tends to think about the things that he's missing out on more tangibly.

It makes for a very interesting parallel with Yukiko, who had grown up in Inaba all her life and also expresses that same interest in wanting to go out and see the world. Yukiko's idea about the kind of options that she has is weirdly limited for someone who is supposed to be at the top of her class. When you meet her at the bookstore, she talks about getting a job license so she could leave town, and her first thought was interior decorator (do you even need a license for that? it's not a chartered profession unlike an architect or interior designer, but things might work differently in japan). And maybe she does have a genuine interest in it so I'm talking shit, but it also feels like it's a job that she's aware of only because of the ryokan. As far as I could tell, we don't actually see her express any interest in, say, furniture themes or colour swatches and fabric textures in the way Kanji very clearly does. Her world view, like everyone else, is bounded by the reach of her experience, but because Inaba is so small and cloistered it impedes her ability to imagine beyond that. Even when she's thinking of leaving, her options are still limited to her experiences at the inn. I'm still really salty about how she decided to stay at the ryokan in the end, because something much more satisfying in my opinion would have been for her to get the opportunity to try different things elsewhere in the world, and if she decided that the ryokan was the right thing for her, then, well, fine, I guess? Or some cliche like exploring other inns elsewhere so she could bring that knowledge home. Especially since she had the support of her family and the inn staff, it makes her narrative feel more like an acceptance of her lot in life, rather than a genuine realisation that yeah, this was what she wanted, which was what the game wanted us to think, except it's not convincing. Instead, it just feels like a weird stagnation because her initial wish of wanting to see the world beyond the ryokan was not satisfied.

But hey, guess who does!

Yosuke gets to learn how to make the best of a situation, but ultimately, he's not beholden to it. He - and his writers - understand that he's not done growing, so he doesn't fix himself to a role that he doesn't like. AND IT'S GOOD. I just wish everyone else got that opportunity.

[ask-the-totally-real-peppino]

Has EG ever taken a bath?

(Eg has never had a bath with like the intention to clean herself, and she probably never will! Using soaps will wash off her protective layer of mucus, and it will not have an impact on her smell - She will still stink, ghdsjksdf. Her smell is a result of her diet, not a matter of personal hygiene (she grooms herself frequently, thank you very much!!!)

She is certainly not hydrophobic, tho! She loves swimming, sitting in puddles, and standing out in the rain

[kagender]

hello!! Could you tell us a bit about the community tadpole pool? How does it work? Do parents drop off the wee ones for awhile or is it like a group creche being raised together? I imagine you'd have to watch for a lot of baby fights...

SORRY THIS TOOK A BIT dramamine knocked me tf out

[changeling-rin]

Hi! Anontie here! Just wanted to ask, if the Links got an animal mascot, what would it be and would it jump in to “protect” them at times

For some reason - and I have no idea why my brain went here - my first and immediate response was, "Well they've got a frog, of course."

I cannot justify this. I don't understand why their mascot would be a frog. All I know is that it makes sense in my own head and I am physically unable to put the reason why it makes sense into words.

That said, of course the frog jumps to protect them. It's made for jumping! The protecting part is a bit less doable but that's not stopping this frog from trying!

[fabianvalencia561]

*give splatter a frog with a strawberry*

Splatter: ....... Thanks........ it's....... cute........

[butchfairyzine]

What content is allowed?

Will artists be able to draw fairies from mythology and folklore? How about non-european inspiration? Will there be nsfw art in this zine? What type of writing will be included?

Apps open on the January 12th , 10 am AEDT, (Jan 11, 6pm EST for the US). And will close on the 19th of January, or once we reach 500 applications.

[shima-draws]

Your liveblog of One Piece made my day. Also you mentioned Keroro in the tags and now my day is even better.

Hehe glad you're having as much fun as I am!!

GOD KERORO...still one of my favorite series ever. It will always hold a special place in my heart since it was middle school me's special interest and continues to be one of the best instant serotonin shots directly into my brain. I will love Keroro until the day I die

[markscherz]

what's your take on pacman/ornate horned frogs?

Okay so Ceratophrys themselves are pretty great (all round frogs are good frogs), but have you heard of PROceratophrys?

[source]

Some species are just like Ceratophrys, but with eighteen times the eyebrow.

Like, honestly?

[source]

Whose idea was this?

Interestingly, even though they're called PROceratophrys, they're not even in the same family (Odontophrynidae versus Ceratophryidae), and are separated by over 60 million years. Proceratophrys are more closely related to bufonid toads and hylid tree frogs than they are to Ceratophryidae!

Sometimes taxonomy is just dumb that way.

[shitpostingkats]

WAIT, have you seen the new upgraded form for Firewall Dragon? I don't want to tell much in case you haven't because MAN, I love the references that card does!

I don't actually play the card game. I watch the anime and run in circles with people that do play the card game. Not only is this great fun, but it also means my only non-anime exposure to Firewall Dragon has been TCG players collectively sucking their teeth and wincing whenever I try to bring it up.

[amphibianaday]

Have you drawn any animal crossing frogs? I forget

here's all i could find/remember

first "animal crossing" frog i drew was this guy for day 169, i guess he's my animal crossing villager oc, jeremiah for day 230, lily for day 346, prince for day 617, and froggy chair (which obviously counts) for day 253 and day 732

[not-souleaterpost]

Maybe a weird question, but what do people imagine Eruka's age was supposed to be in the story? Her messing with Medusa and not just staying the fuck away seems to me she must be not that old for a witch lol