#destiel zine

[chaoticdean]

It's nice to see you in round 2 of the destiel zine 💜

Thank you!! I’m so stoked to be a part of it ❤️

[mrcowboydeanwinchester]

☀️ My Grief Came To Me In Sunlight - 13x01 destiel zine ☀️

inspired by the gorgeous light and jackle's insane acting in 13x01, here is a dean pov zine about the first day after cas' death. i've used fragments from two of my previous poems From Every Tree and Ducks out on the lake; prayers unanswered. widower arc you make me feel insane forever

transcript of the zine below:

My Grief Came To Me In Sunlight

I saw many things

the day after your

death.

The sky was such an

honest blue.

There was a family of ducks out on the lake

behind the pyre.

No wind, but the water

never stopped moving;

It was shimmering in the sun,

tipsy, beautiful.

I closed my eyes shut praying for you to come back,

and the sun pressed in, 

lit the skin of my eyelids golden.

The sunlight,

the honest blue sky,

the shimmering lake,

the beauty,

the grief.

Let it come.

[vesuviu]

hi friends! i'm making a zine and i need your guys help! just fill in this form with... well, whatever the fuck you want! the world is yours!! please share so more people can participate!!

[fluffsnake]

hehehe I can't WAIT for you guys to see what we've all been cooking for @destielzine 👀✨

[kjosi]

Hook, Line, and Sinker // Link to Ao3

Fandom: Supernatural (~2k words) Relationships: Castiel & Benny Lafitte & Dean Winchester; Benny Lafitte & Dean Winchester Additional Tags: Purgatory; Wraith; Hallucinations; Psychological Horror; Sirens; Pre-Season/Series 08; Canon-Typical Violence; Ambiguous/Open Ending Rating: T Summary: In Purgatory, sleep is for the weak; trust is for the weaker. If you want the truth, well... your friend could be your reaper. Written for "Hunting & Haunting - A Supernatural fanzine" by @horrornaturalevent! Also fits as a follow up to this ficlet, but does reads as a standalone piece. Part of a series.

For so long, Dean Winchester has been running on fumes. 

Relentless, simmering anger fueling his actions like an engine in overdrive, unwilling to be stalled by desperation or fear. 

This doesn’t change when he crashes headfirst into Purgatory, and is met with a terrifying, winding landscape of monsters and death—a place left Godless and forgotten. Not dissimilar to Earth.

Read on Ao3

[klayr-de-gall]

Survival Run - an Endverse Zine

Finally, the Endverse Zine has arrived! It contains the entire 31 days of my EndverseTober, plus three other Endverse Artworks I have done!

Comes as a Bundle with an A4 Poster and two A6 Prints, as a stand-alone, or as a digital download!

Worldwide shipping! Preorder is open till November 30!

Find The Zine on my BIGCARTEL SHOP

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[kajaono]

I had a long week (and I have to work again tomorrow) but I finally managed to open @winchester-reload s package and look at her artbook 🥺😍

It is so stunning! I am so glad it arrived safe here in Germany!

You know I am sucker for fan zines and art books, and I have to admit this here is probably one of the best I always bought. Totally worth the prize and the wait. I am in love.

Destiel is with my so long. It was supernatural and destiel art on Deviantart that introduced me into fandom. Supernatural was the first show I streamed online. The first show that spoke to me on many queer levels.

And not matter how the show ended, no matter what the CW is doing now, the show will always have a special place in my heart

Additional video in the reblogs because tumblr hates me…

[outofthecavern]

You know what would be fun? A destiel fanzine that’s has art of course, but the writing is all poetry

@wigglebox talking about misha’s book and then Alma posting a poem a few days ago and the stories, made me think of the idea

[osakanone]

UPDATE: The Destiel/Supernats aren't taking this well -- explaining my reasoning for the history I gave, and why Destiel is not the big bitch of shipping that it thinks it is

An update to THIS:

"This is just a marketing thing, Gundam is a giant robot show, only men watch it!"

Gundam's fandom is silent majoratively feminine:

"But its not gay, its about giant robots!"

Gundam is very gay. The entire climax of the first story is a riff of Yukio Mishima lmao

The climax of the Amuro/Char arc of Universal Century Gundam (expounding from first Gundam circa 1979), Char's Counterattack is somewhat on the history of Japanese disillusion with liberalism which notably climaxed with the life and history of Yukio Mishima.

You know. THAT Yukio Mishima.

The one who wrote FORBIDDEN COLOURS.

It was so gay that the fanfiction inspired by it became its own damn anime:

And that's just Charmuro, let alone Charma or a billion other ships just in OG Gundam alone.

We've got This is before we get to Guin Sard Lineford and Yamagi Glimerton (both verrrrry gay), Tieria Erde (a genderqueer trans-coded character who transcends gender entirely in their arc) and a bunch of others.

Gundam was always gay.

"I don't see the numbers"

"That doesn't seem like much, Supernat is at least 2x this"

Sooooo the amount of content you do see isn't representative of how much even got written, given FFN had a huge content purge.

First, let's start with the relative proportion of users: If we're analysing the concept of fandom, we first have to look at who had access to the internet in the first place to publish works.

Yeah that's a pretty sizable difference.

Wing's fandom actually exploded in 2000, but got capped VERY early, distributing itself to fansites when FFN fragmented and collapsed.

Why?

Content purges!

"Isn't there some sort of online archive of this stuff?"

Sure, if you wanna dig through tons and tons of Angelfire and Geocities pages which have mostly disappeared. Otherwise, no! There is no archive of this stuff?

"Why?"

They've since rolled back on this but it means there's a massive amount of lost media out there, including the discussions on it and thus there's an entire history you didn't get to experience.

Its actually very difficult to reach people who've been involved, since it was so long ago that very few people remember, and a sizable proportion of that population have actually died.

"But what about SF fandoms? We have ancient records of stuff like Spirk!"

See unlike physical media like zines, when a server goes offline or there's a data-loss, or something like that there is no surviving copy of the thing in question.

The net result is we have this weird hole where content just vanished, and its now considered lost media. The work of many artists, designers, writers, even videos of events are just lost media because we didn't have the archival mentality adults develop.

You're not gonna hear about all the X-Files stuff or Frasier fanfictions or GW stuff because of these purges and the lack of physical media. FFN users were teens, not adults with resources like US/EU/JP SF fans, who had archival tendencies due to their long history.

So there is this supermassive black-hole in the history of fanfiction running between 1998, and 2008 and some of the only evidence of it are worksafe works and fansites which the owners have long since forgotten about because folks moved on. Moving on is a normal part of fandom.

So to those of you just saying "supernatural is losing to a pair of dumb anime girls" or "urgh this is just a trend tumblr will get over it and go back to supernatural"...

Uhhhhh no they won't, actually?

Supernat's fans mostly seem to be waspy Americans. Gundam is kind of a global phenomenon, one which has traditionally had a silent majority female audience, a vocal minority male audience -- and every time that majority has spoken up, its coincided with a content purge, or a TOS change that mysteriously biases American derived fiction over Japanese derived fiction.

Funny that.

tl;dr:

NATURE IS HEALING

[destielzine]

🌟 PREORDERS FOR ENDINGS: A DESTIEL FIX IT ZINE VOL II ARE OFFICIALLY OPEN 🌟

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Shares are really appreciated!! 💙💚

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[lol-jackles]

A general question about IPs and characters--I know there are protections for fandom writers to use characters in their fics on forums like AO3. What I always believed, however, was that this could be done in the archive mainly because they weren't profiting off of the show or writer's IP. Lately I've seen quite a few Destiel writers printing and selling bound copies of their books. Some don't even change the character names or cover art featuring the actors. Is this now legal? What changed?

It's not legal. I'm guessing those selling bound copies of their Destiel fanfics are sold in such small numbers that it doesn't warrant the time and money to go after them. At its height, there were only 8000 Destiel shippers (when I wanted to annoy Destiel shippers I point out it was the same number of active Ku Klux Klan members in the U.S). Nowadays the number of shippers is less than half.

Back in the day before the internet, fanfictions were compiled into "fanzines" and sold at conventions or mailed to fans. Officially, the writers were not paid and fanzines were sold at a price to cover production expenses and postage. But you and I know that those fanzines were sold at above the expense cost into the "for profit" zone where part of the proceeds go back to the creators. Zine libraries exist in a few places to preserve these hardcopies.

Last I checked the cost of a professionally looking bound soft cover book was around $30 for a 100 page book. I highly doubt the Destiel writers are making a handome profit unless they're opting for the fanzine production value.

Fanzines of yesteryears and today

[mrcowboydeanwinchester]

Ducks out on the lake; prayer unanswered

another 13x01 poem. i was rewatching the episode and couldn't get over the beauty of the surroundings; the movement of the water and the family of ducks in the background of a shot of the pyre. the sunlight and saturation of this episode haunts its grief and i can't stop writing about it

transcript under cut!

Ducks out on the lake; prayer unasnwered

There are ducks out on the lake.

Behind the pyre,

behind the smell of gasoline on wood

they are a family silhouetted on the water.

Everything is still:

there is no wind to fake breath

in your stiff lungs under the cream sheet

but the water is always moving;

in the sun it is shimmering, tipsy,

blue and glistening into the sky

as the sun sends long shadows

over the purpleing hills on the horizon.

I want you to say sorry for leaving.

I closed my eyes shut praying for you to come back

and the sun pressed in,

lit the skin of my eyelids golden.

I strike the match to burn your body

and there are ducks out on the lake,

everything living.

[deandraws]

By far, the most anticipated freebie for the Duos and Ships 2 kickstarter is the Destiel zine! >>>LINK<<< This zine is NOT FOR SALE. It's only obtainable as a freebie when you pledge for either a tier between 10-30, OR the "No pins, just the goodies" tier. There's just 4 days left on kickstarter. So hit that link above asap! After we wrap, they're gone forever!

[abi-cosmos]

Abi’s weekly Destiel fanfic retreat!

Fic recs: lowest hits

This week I went deep-diving into the lowest hits, and took a chance on some older stuff that hasn’t been tagged or talked about.  

Because the first one was 30k words, I didn’t get around to reading much more, but I’ll be back next week with others!

Then Shall He Reward Everyone According to His Works (Matthew 16:27) by Orithain and Rina9294.  Explicit. 30030 words. Originally published in a 2011 zine and set in a season 4-5 canon divergence, this is truly a relic (and not in a bad way!) of the time. There’s a note that indicates it may have had editing before it was published to ao3 in 2015, but what I enjoyed about this fic was that Dean is very circa S1-3, but with Castiel (eg. flirty and wanting to bone the hot angel who will only visit him in his dreams). There’s not a lot of tags to help you decide if this fic is for you, but it contains: temporary major character death, in a very Supernatural way. A few jokes/comments that have aged as well as some of the jokes in early SPN. Explicit sexual content. 

Set Yourself on Fire by trinityofone. Explicit. 2279 words. This is surprisingly sad and got me in the feels. Endverse!Cas is using his last moments to visit Dean in his sleep. 

Writing prompts!

Feeling bored and uninspired? Have some one word prompts:

Coffee. Thunderstorm. Yellow.

As always, HYDRATE because water is super important, feel free to message me with any fics you find, or writing you do, and take care of yourselves. 

[klayr-de-gall]

EIGHT COLORS Zine

After some delaying for different reasons, it's finally time to reveal the new Zine! It includes all 31 Artworks of the Pridekisses Series, and has a whooping 54 pages!

There are a lot of different options and bundles to get, and you can Mix and Match to get all the goodies you want!

FIND THE LINK TO BIGCARTEL HERE!

Preorder will be open till the end of August!

[enochianribs]

Alright, actually (since I have more of an audience here than on the sideblog, I will post the brain storming here) who would be interested in participating in a "horror-themed" zine intended to be released this October?

I would be looking for folks to

help organize it

edit + put it together

creators (mainly artists and writers of any kind)

betas / sensitivity readers

This would be for supernatural, but not exclusively destiel, meaning it could include any number of characters/ships* (*minus you know which ones).

If you are interested, please reply to this post!