#dr writer zine

[danggirlronpa]

Do you have any wlw fanfic recommendations? Like, favorite fanfics that really explores the relationships/character, could be angsty, could be fluffy, could be toxic doomed yuri, could be any catagory of fics! Not just limited to couples, could be polycules too. You don't have to answer if you don't want to too btw! I just thought it would be interesting to see what your favorites were & I'm always looking for more wlw fics! <3

Anon, I truly do wish I had some recs to give you. But a funny story about looking for F/F fics,

[nevermind-zine]

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[lazywitchling]

Alright, here we go. My review for The Dabbler's Guide to Witchcraft by Fire Lyte

Final rating: ??/10 - it broke my numbers system.

TL;DR - I like the book. I'm angry at the author. It's great for new practitioners. If you're going to get it, please get it from the Spiral House Shop, get Alex Wrekk's two witchcraft zines to go with it, and go look at/reblog/contribute to the original Dabbler's Week project.

(Also I think this is the longest review I've written yet. I'm sorry.)

This book is very good. I'm mad about that. The author is an excellent writer. I'm mad about that. I want to dislike this book but I can't, and I'm mad about that.

So let's get into the breakdown of why.

First up, a housekeeping thing: "Fire Lyte" is a pen name that I don't believe the author uses anymore, so I will be referring to him as Don Martin, the name he is using on his current projects. I know he's on TikTok, formerly of Inciting a Riot podcast, now of Head on Fire podcast.

Second, some links relevant to the review-which-is-actually-just-a-rant:

The breakdown of things I found that were taken uncredited from Tumblr

I COULD be making this up and reading it in bad faith, but this bit about 'heteronormative marriage' has my alarm bells ringing

Why I hate the title of this book

The original Dabbler's Week project links

Anyway.

I picked this book up specifically because of the title. It's been 3 years since it was published, so it took me a while, but I remember looking at that title when it was first out and thinking "Hey... the timing of this... did this person just wholesale lift the 'Dabbler' idea from Tumblr?"

The answer is: Yes, probably!

(He also summarized the Malachite Dick post from February 2020, but he actually credited Tumblr along with relevant usernames, so that's good and also made me laugh.)

But... yeah. The fact that he's crediting Tumblr from something that specifically happened in February 2020, when the original Dabbler's Week was from late January 2020 and seems to have inspired his whole book? Don, would it have killed you to mention ANYTHING about that project and the people involved?

He's very big on talking about following trails of information, listening to podcasts, listening to the podcasts of people talked about on those podcasts, reading books talked about on those podcast, and so on. But if he doesn't start off by saying "Dabbler's Week was a project issued by asksecularwitch on Tumblr", then how is anyone supposed to follow THAT chain of information, hmm? If his whole advice on finding good witchcraft resources is to follow the chain of people who are sharing information from each other, but he makes no mention of where he got the whole idea for his book, then what?

Side rant: I'm real tired of how Tumblr information is simultaneously treated as too shitty to ever bother reading or mentioning, but good enough to screenshot, repost on other sites, recite word-for-word on tiktok, and apparently write a book about.

ANYWAY. I'm angry about it. I'm gonna be angry about it. Here, please look at these links to the shenanigans that began the original Dabbler's Week, because Don certainly won't tell you about this part.

Anyway.

Some bad things:

I mean, the plagiarism. I keep hesitating to use the word 'plagiarism', because to me that seems like wholesale lifting entire works and slapping your name on them, when all Don did was fail to credit a few Tumblr users he quoted. But then again, if I did that on a research paper in college, it would be called plagiarism, so.

This book is in fact not a great guide for 'dabblers'. The point of Dabbler's Week was that if someone didn't know if they wanted to commit to witchcraft but wanted to fuck around with casting some spells for a week to try it out, there were week-long guides on things someone could do to try that. This book is not for fucking around with magic, it's for people who are already sure that they want to make this a thing in their lives. It handles some heavier topics (e.g. vetting mentors and not getting sucked into a cult) that are very very important for someone who is BEGINNING, but may be too much for someone who just says one day "lol I think I'll cast a spell for fun". A far more accurate title would have been "The Beginner's Guide to Witchcraft", but then he'd lose that punchy and marketable and googleable term 'dabbler'. (Yes, I'm going to be petty about this.)

"Wow Jes, it sounds like you really hated this book."

NO I DIDN'T, AND I'M SO MAD ABOUT THAT!

Some good things:

The author has a writing style that I enjoyed very much. This is a personal preference, but I like when books are either written so that the author is fully invisible (Bree Landwalker's books do this wonderfully), or the author is fully visible, like they're sitting at the table having a conversation with you (Kelly-Ann Maddox's 'Rebel Witch' comes to mind, as does Alex Wrekk's 'Brainscan 33: DIY Witchery'). Don Martin is the table conversation kind. That makes this book very easy to read, while also getting information across in an easily-understood sort of way.

This book fills a very necessary gap in modern witching books. It talks about the online community of witches, and a lot of the pitfalls that have come along with the bonuses of having so much witchcraft available at our social-media connected fingertips.

He gets very in depth with things like cultural appropriation. That's something that you can find in a lot of modern witch books, but Don actually spends the time breaking the concept down and explaining WHY it's harmful, HOW it affects people, and quotes people from the affected minority groups. I have seen the appropriation topic come up in a lot of the witch books I've read, but Don is the one who has covered the topic the best, imo.

He spends time on topics that I myself would have been dismissive of. The example that comes to mind is the chapter 'Can I Make Sh*t Up?' My knee jerk reaction was "Yes, you can make your own spells, you don't need to get someone else's permission. Next question." But Don goes through the full breakdown of yes you can make up your own spells, yes you can make your own correspondences, but no that doesn't mean you can just throw a water soluble crystal in your water bottle because you think it's good for cleansing.

Actually on that topic, he covers a lot of the why not just the what. It's not just 'appropriation is bad', it's 'and here's why'. It's not just 'research your herbs', it's 'here's some examples of things that can and have gone wrong.'

SPELL CANVASES! There are 11 'spell canvases' in this book, and they're pretty much all just kids/teens science experiments (e.g. dissolving an egg shell in vinegar, lighting a tea bag on fire so it flies, and using food dye to color a white flower). He does not give intentions for these spells, but gives a spell technique and then some examples of how you could apply your own purpose/intention to it as needed. It's actually pretty smart, and now I wish there was more stuff like this.

He actually explains what UPG means. Man, 'UPG' is one of those things that I keep seeing as a 'I don't know what that means and I'm to afraid to ask' blog post. When someone pops into the witchy social media circles, we can throw the term 'UPG' around as if everyone knows what it means, and forget to actually explain that it's Unverified Personal Gnosis and what that means. Don's got us covered. Good on you, Don.

The one throwaway line about why you don't have to buy fancy witch things. Tucked away in chapter 12 is this almost nothing-sentence mentioning why you shouldn't be "going broke hoping to buy your way into 'effective' magic" (pg. 161). I have seen, reblogged, probably written posts about 'No you don't need the fancy tools! You can just use whatever! But you CAN buy them if you want, you just don't NEED them.' And we've all seen those around, right? But damn, if Don didn't just get to the heart of it. You can't buy your way into skill. YES, Don, THAT!! THANK YOU.

Alright. I'm running out of words. This isn't a review, it's a rant. Holy shit. Let me shut up with a TL;DR

Almost without doubt, Don liked Tumblr's idea enough to write a book about it, but failed to give credit. But he's an excellent writer and covers a lot of topics that are not often written about in printed books, and to get those blogosphere-ideas onto bookshelves is invaluable. This is a good book for beginners starting out in witchcraft, but not for dabblers who just want to screw around with some spells. Do the pros outweigh the cons? Is it ethical to buy a book when the author gets royalties but the bloggers he got the idea from do not? I don't know. I can't tell you that. You'll have to weigh all this against your own moral compass and decide for yourself. My recommendation is that if you're going to buy it, please buy it from the Spiral House Shop, because if Don Martin's going to get paid for this book, Alex Wrekk should too. Buy Alex's zines. Reblog Sec's posts. Links are up at the top.

[that-creature-thing]

Woot! I can share my piece for @vaporexzines Dr. I Love You fanzine! I had a blast working on this and participating! It was really cool getting to chill with other artists and writers over our mutual love of Ratchet! He's so dear to me ☺️

Please please please go check out the zine! It's packed full of wonderful art and fanfics!!!

[coldflashevents]

Is this blog abandoned? There hasn't been a single event all year so I was wondering

Hey anon! It's not abandoned! I have to hold my hands up, I totally dropped the ball on events this year—it's been an extremely busy year for me, so I just didn't have the time or energy to organize anything :( BUT I'm hoping to have a much more chilled-out (pun intended) 2024, so I will do my very best to get some events going. The last few events have been pretty quiet but I feel like maybe the coldflash fandom has been sliiightly more active these past few months, so maybe we'll get a bit more traction next year :D

I'm hoping to do something special this year as we're coming up on 10 years since season 1 aired :O so I'd really love to do something coldflashy to commemorate it! In my heart of hearts I'd love to put together an anniversary zine of some sort, maybe to release on the anniversary of one of the airdates of one of the coldflash eps, like going rogue, maybe rogue air (though i think that'd probably be in 2025 haha)—I've never done something like that before so I have no idea where to even start but I'd love to figure it out, so everyone let me know if you all think that'd be fun!

I am of course open to other suggestions. I know a few people asked about a potential Big Bang last year, which I'd loooove to do, I'm just a bit worried about the logistics since I feel like we might be a bit short on artists in relation to the number of writers who are still kicking around 😅 but we'll see what we can figure out! I'll probably send out another of the interest check questionnaires in Jan to see how everyone's feeling/what people would be interested in.

So tl;dr, not abandoned, hoping to do more with this blog in 2024!

[proflaytonbigbang]

just curious who’s running this project! sounds like a cool idea and if i share it wanna know who to properly credit the idea to

The main person behind the account (and the one who's been answering all questions so far) is myself, Mimca! Hi!

About my modding experience, my first "big" experience as a moderator was for the French forum Nuzlocke France, dedicated to the Pokémon Nuzlocke Challenge, since 2014. From 2015 to 2021, every odd year I've been organizing an event called a Communitylocke. Basically, my job was to create a balanced, fair and easy-to-approach set of rules for participants, answer the participants' questions, and match-up participants when necessary. I've also helped create various timed events on several Pokémon roleplay forums, notably creating the scenarios and collaborating with the mod team in place to fit said scenarios into their setting. I've participated in my first zine as a writer in 2020, and became a Social Media Mod for one in 2021 (if you're interested, you can read all about my previous experience on my Carrd). After a few years, I wanted to go back to "my roots" and organize a more casual event, one that everyone could join — and it just so happened that Level-5 announced a certain New World of Steam, so, here I am! (This all sounded awfully corporate, but TL;DR: I've been modding fan events before, and I'll do my best to lead this new event to completion!)

As a Professor Layton fan, I've been a fan of the good British gentleman since the original release of Curious Village in Europe! I instantly fell in love with the characters and the setting of St Mystere. I've immediately preordered Diabolical Box (got the little Luke phone strap that came with it, he's been protecting my keys with vicious puzzles ever since!) and preordered every new Layton game since. My favorite game is Last Specter, and I'm a proud Mystery Journey defender. Ernest Greeves's got my heart.

Of course, I don't intend to lead this Big Bang all on my own, which is why the Interest Check will also double as Mod Applications! If we have enough interest (and I've got no doubt, with all the positive feedback we've got so far!), then I'll need some help to make the Big Bang a reality for all Layton fans out there! 🤎

[transformers-mosaic]

Transformers: Mosaic #587 - "My Little Transformers"

Originally posted on March 10th, 2011

Story, Art - Matt Marshall

deviantART | Seibertron | TFW2005

wada sez: In addition to being a longtime Transformers fan, Matt Marshall made something of a name for himself as a fanfiction writer in the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fandom; his most notable work, “The Star In Yellow”, was released a year after this strip. Marshall clearly somewhat struggled to find enough Transformers to make the crossover work; we see Beast Wars Neo Mach Kick (a horse), Beast Machines Battle Unicorn, and Beast Machines Silverbolt (it’s long been theorised that his toy was originally intended to be a griffin, so he’s depicted here as a griffon, using his more show-accurate Beast Wars Returns colors). Also coincidentally, Battle Unicorn served as the basis for one of the better-known unproduced BotCon exclusive figure pitches, Twilight Sparkle Prime. Much of the artwork here is drawn directly from the cartoon, and most of the ponies appear to be generic; I’ve tagged the identifiable ones. I’m surprised that Marshall didn’t go for the low-hanging Unicron/unicorn joke, but that may well have informed his inclusion here in the first place. Dr. Hooves is a multiversal incarnation of the Doctor and I am tagging him accordingly. Marshall’s remastered version of this strip from his Tales From The Matrix Keeper zine is included below.

[lovetransaction]

@nameslikeguns tagged me!

1. Are you named after anyone? Not at all. I'm not even sure where my mother got my name (which is Marissa btw) because nobody else in the family is named like that and it's not even popular in the West Indies.

2. When was the last time you cried? One of the mutuals -- I cannot recall who right now -- referred to the second Brahms movie as "Brahms: The Boy 2: More Boy" and I told my sister that when she mentioned the movie earlier tonight and we both laughed so hard we got weepy

3. Do you have kids? I do not and I never will!!

4. What sports do you play/have played? Zero.

5. Do you use sarcasm? I used to be sarcastic nonstop. It was the nineties. Then I realized that my brand was particularly nasty because I was subconsciously imitating my mother, and now I'm not like that anymore.

6. What's the first thing you notice about people? Whether they meet my eyes. I engage in freakishly unsettling eye contact. In university the professors would either seek me out in the classroom because I was guaranteed to be staring attentively right at them, or they'd avoid me because idk I might steal their soul. When I worked as a purchaser for a film school I nearly made one supplier cry because I looked directly and unwaveringly at him after asking questions.

7. What's your eye color? Dark brown. (I was wearing grey fashion contacts when I made the supplier cry)

8. Scary movies or happy endings? Boo pretentious answer but whatever serves the narrative and the characters and the emotional arc.

9. Any talents? A few. I'm a decent singer and writer.

10. Where were you born? Eastern Canada.

11. What are your hobbies? Video games, writing, obsessing over foodways, watching tons of movies/tv, art blogging (I'm not an artist myself but I love it)

12. Do you have any pets? One black cat who's very grim and small (she weighs 8 lbs) named Meera.

13. How tall are you? Five foot two. If this fandom was Grey's Anatomy, I'd be Dr. Bailey.

14. Favorite subject in school? In high school, English Lit and Drama. In post-secondary it was Women's & Gender Studies and Poli Sci with a focus on critical race theory.

15. Dream job? I did (volunteer) copy editing/reviewing for an online women-run zine for comics & pop culture and that was pretty enjoyable. I'd like to do that as a paid job.

I went out for Japanese BBQ tonight and I'm sated and sleepy so I will tag everyone who sees this and hasn't done it yet! <3

[inkpopzine]

forgive me for having to ask, will artists/writers be judged or denied based on problematic works unrelated to the creation of the zine, and if so, what kind of content would be unacceptable for the mods?

We may check out the social media channels of people joining our zine to look for problematic content, and especially look closely if they have a NSFW account as we don't condone things like noncon/dubcon and pedophilia. Not only because it doesn't align with our views, but also because minors will be in the zine and should not be exposed to art(ists) condoning these things.

Additionally your main account that you share for the zine and on the Discord server should not be NSFW, no matter the content.

tl;dr Artists and writers condoning pedophilia or SA will not be accepted into our zine.

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

Hello, I noticed that your part mental health fanzine as well. If wondering who I’m am, I’m the one drawing Teruteru for the zine. Just wanted say your opinion on Teruteru is valid he not for everyone and that’s okay.

As fan of his I enjoyed his design and I having fun writing my own interpretation of him in a fanfic. I just he has a lot miss potential as character mostly he joke character so he not taken seriously by the writer, which is a shame. (He even as his fav I’m aware he not best written character or well handle by the writer, he honestly all over the place.)

Anyway as long as respect fans for favourite characters and don’t bash/harass others for they favs or call bad people for liking them your good in my book. Also if want talk about Ryoma sometimes that also be great only if you like too, also you art is very lovely and your zine piece of Gonta is very sweet.

Ps the reason I’m anonymous is because I know Teruteru a touchy subject and people can little passionate about it. So I do it for my own safety. ^^’

Hi!! Yeah of course I don’t hate anyone who explores his character or likes him. I’ve talked about it before but I genuinely think he had some missed potential with how he was reacting to the killing game through complete denial- a reaction not in any of the other games and it’s a shame a lot of his other aspects are handled so poorly.

I got another ask about this but his design is also pretty cute, it’s a shame that the dr writers think there is a need for a character to be a creep to be “funny” when it literally never is.

I adore ryoma and I’m totally down to talk about him at any time!! Thanks for the compliment :) I thought your piece looked very sweet as well, and your art style is so cute!

[r-rook-studio]

Cross posted from the R. Rook Studio blog.

So over the course of July, I’ve gotten material from me (yay!), Noora Rose, and Bendi Barrett, and forwarded all of that over to Jared Sinclair, the official editor of Roseville Beach (and really, all of Rose Island). I don’t brag much about my own skills, but I get to work with some of the most thoughtful and skilled people in tabletop RPGs. Jared wrapped up his developmental comments on this first round of documents late last week, so we’re ready to start making some previews.

Dim All the Lights (Announcement List | Kickstarter Pre-launch) is coming together, and to celebrate, we’re making some early-release zines!

Dim All the Lights 1: New Characters on Roseville Beach

While I call Dim All the Lights a “Mystery Book,” it includes new tools and toys for players as well as GMs. The first of these is a set of origin stories:

The Veteran has spent most of their adult life hunting monsters and studying the occult in the employ of the wealthy and powerful. Now you’ve come here to Roseville Beach to use your skills to keep a community safe. You’ve forgotten more than most people will ever know. Each session, you choose a background and during the session pick three skills you want to use as you need them. You also have a Go Bag from which you can make your own new Supply Checks for equipment others wouldn’t thave access to.

The Changeling was once a normal kid in the terrestrial world but were taken away to another. You’ve since grown up and returned, only to discover someone else has been living your life. Your time among non-humans has give you a deep understanding of what others are thinking and taught you a few supernatural tricks (that are more routine but easier than working magic with sorcery and words of power).

The Rose Island Regular has a job like everyone else, but they’ve had more Rose Island jobs than almost anyone else. Instead of a separate set of skills and backgrounds, the Regular takes a current job and two former jobs. They’ve also got a reputation around town, and know a lot of Roseville Beach gossip.

The Mainland Renegade came out to Roseville Beach for a short getaway. It was supposed to be a few days. And then you stayed. The Renegade is a slightly more mature version of The Fresh Face from the core book, and was inspired by Mary Ann Singleton from Maupin’s Tales of the City.

The book also includes a few more jobs around Roseville Beach (like fire fighter, drag king/queen, and bookstore clerk) and Rose Island (like an admin for the park department), and the option of being self-employed as a band member, writer, swim coach, or repairperson.

Dim All the Lights 2: Entities of Roseville Beach

Inspired by The X Files, SCP, and The Magus Archives, Noora Rose wrote five new “Entities of Roseville Beach.” Moonlight on Roseville Beach doesn’t have opponent, antagonist, creature, NPC, or monster stats: If you can figure out how to hurt something, it has up to 3 hit points. Instead, Noora took things in a new direction and focused instead on the entity’s victims and the evidence they leave behind.

Noora, who wrote the strange events generator of Moonlight on Roseville Beach, where ever die roll is a small, eerie fragment of a horrifying story, tackled this section, and I spoke after reading an early draft of her work back in June, but now Noora’s expanded the section, adding more detail and some GM notes.

Instead of focusing on the entities, Noora focuses on their victims, looking at what witnesses saw and what the victims recorded in their own journals and logs. Her work not only introduces the entities but creates clues and player handouts. I’ve mocked up a couple of layouts here.

Here, Dr. Jo Norris is logging her observations on a mysterious sea slug that she’ll soon learn can take the form of anything it’s near.

Here, we take a look at the diary of Nicole Wolf, a young woman who went missing after starting to date a singer named whose waterlogged diary was found at the beach.

Noora also added a bunch of GM notes on using the entities, and I've created a short mystery generator using the entities in Roseville Beach.

[t-wanderer]

Do you do any writing or game design

I do! Thank you for asking!

I published a short story and a very small amount of poetry when I was in college.

I wrote my first play on a dare and was simply flabbergasted when it got performed by a local theater. During covid, a friend and I decided to produce a musical. We did fundraising and hired voice actors and then eventually put the whole thing online. You can still find it, just search for Vacant Arcadia anywhere you get your podcasts. It was my first full length play, but I wrote all of the dialogue and half of the songs. I got to work with some absolutely incredible people.

After that we entered a short film into a festival, and one of my actors from that film had a dream to write a lesbian space opera. Last year we took that play on the road. Tithonia: A Lesbian Space Opera, we played a few fringe festivals, won a few awards. Honestly the most fun I've ever had. Again, I am incredibly lucky to be able to work with such amazing and talented people.

Our theatre, Skysail, is on instagram. (skysailtheatre)

As far as game design goes, I've been making campaign settings for my personal ttrpgs for decades. I've written dialogue for a few game mods, nothing major. I've got a lot of designs, but nothing I've released. This year I started programming in unity, so that might change soon.

I've got a lot of projects in the works, including a bizarre web series I plan to release later this year. I make queer art and collage zines. I'm writing fanfiction of the I Ching.

tl/dr: I love this question, thank you for asking it. It's always hard not to infodump when someone asks you about your projects. My business cards say, Artist, Writer and Game Designer. I'm not famous and I haven't made a ton of money, but I love what I do and I'm never going to stop. <3

[notachaconne]

So on Friday I went to this fascinating lecture which puts the "THANK YOU FOR MY PORNOGRAPHY" scene in a historical context which I think makes it more interesting.

Dr Wickstead is a senior lecturer in Museum and Gallery Studies at Kingston University, an archaeologist and forensic scientist. You can see her research listed here.

If you're interested in the history of prohibited publications as material culture, I suggest you download the preprint of her article on which the lecture was based, which you can at the bottom of the university page. I think a lot of it would be interesting to fan writers, illustrators, and binders as a history to compare and contrast with the history of fanfiction, and especially zines. An important contrast being that although the Soho Typescripts were handmade, they were also very much a commercial and profitable illegal business.

Some points that intrigued me:

the parts about the history of Soho bookshops, their physical division of space into front and back rooms, and how you could only buy illegal books if you were a certain kind of customer who had built a relationship of trust with the bookseller. (The article adds more information: women, for example, were not allowed in the shops at all. The footnotes refer to a Monty Python sketch satirising the negotiation process).

the deep, and repeatedly prosecuted, involvement of the police

the tagging system,

the notable rarity of depictions of male homosexuality in any of the surviving material despite there being a well-established tag for it (this might be explained by the previous point, especially as there was apparently no objection to depictions of minor girls)

the lending system

the story about a small number of Soho Typescripts being smuggled into the collection of the British Library, possibly without the knowledge of the trustees, and a much larger collection ending up at the Kinsey Institute in Indiana (where the article hopes it might be studied).

Dr. Wickstead brought some examples - now rare and valuable, and protected by plastic sleeves - with her, and handed them round. One of them had a cover design which made it look like a palimpsest, with a drawing printed partly over a perpendicular text. There's more in the article about the production process, but they were typed, mimeographed, stapled, and bound with a strip of cloth along the spine and greyish-brown paper covers with or without stencilled designs. They were about A5 size, and very flexible in the hand.

Anyway: the point of Aziraphale supposedly running a bookshop in Soho is that he does collect and, to some extent, deal in, various sorts of forbidden publications. And Gabe clearly knows this and is attempting, cluelessly, to cooperate with the cover. Even if he is deeply, deeply confused about what any of it means.

The talk was organised by the Museum of Sex Objects, which exhibits at the Horse Hospital until 29th September 2022.

[sakuraogamizine]

Hi, I'm really interested in applying, but I have a lot of questions, sorry! Firstly, these posts frequently mention a carrd, but I can't find a link to it anywhere (maybe I'm just not looking in the right places haha). Secondly, I'm pretty inexperienced in terms of zines, I've been part of projects like this before but they were always through a larger organization, is that okay? Thirdly, I'm not sure what kind of content you want submitted for the zine (like there being a theme besides Sakura). And lastly, how big of a project do you think this would be? (In terms of mods, artists, writers, etc.) Sorry to bother you, but this project looks really cool and I'd love to contribute!

Hello, and thank you for your question!

It appears our carrd wasn't linked right on our tumblr, and that issue has just been fixed! Our carrd's http should now be properly shown in our bio. If you have any further problems with this link, please do let us know! We're always on the look-out for ways to make our content more easily accessible.

Regarding your second question, yes! We encourage all to apply, whether this may be your first or one hundredth zine! Zine inexperience is perfectly fine, as long as you're able to learn and adhere by our deadlines. We'll do our hardest to make this project a good learning experience for any possible DR fans that want to make their way into the zine scene.

In terms of our project size, we are currently looking at taking on 20-25 artists, 5 merch artists, and 5-7 writers, all totals spanning over our main and side zine. Our current mod team size is around 10, so many capable hands are on board and ready to boost our contributors in whatever they may need in this project.

We're always thrilled to see the excitement about our zine, and it means so much that so many people have taken interest in bringing Sakura Ogami content to book and merch form. Thank you for reaching out! If you have any more questions, feel free to submit an ask or DM us privately on any of our socials! ♡

[drv3giftexchangeclub]

Welcome to the Club!

Welcome to the DRV3 Gift Exchange Club! This is a semi-private club for working on projects and collaborative events related to Danganronpa, with an emphasis on DRV3. It's also where you can hang out with other participants of the DRV3 gift exchanges hosted on this blog.

For info on the DRV3 gift exchange, click here: [LINK]

- - HOW DO I JOIN? - -

In order to keep the club relatively small, the only way to join is by invitation through participating in the DRV3 gift exchange. You will receive an email with the discord link after your matching form has been processed.

- - WHAT KIND OF PROJECTS DO YOU DO? - -

The biggest event on the server is the DRV3 gift exchange, but collaboration projects, event projects, and small scale exchanges also occur. The server is mainly a place to hang out and create fanworks together!

- - WHERE CAN I SEE PAST PROJECTS? - -

In general, you can see all exchange projects under the [#DRV3giftexchange] tag. For specific past exchanges, check out the following tags:

•[#Winter2022] •[#Summer2023]

Other projects done by the server can be found under the [#club projects] tag. For specific past projects, check out the following tags:

•[#DRV3valentinescollab]: A collaborative free digital zine featuring 111 three-way collaborations (sketch, line art, colouring) between artists on the server.

•[#Halloween Big Bang]: A mini bigbang where artists and writers collaborated to create halloween or horror themed pieces.

•[#DRV3valentinescollab2]: Year two of the collaborative, free digital zine, featuring 32 three-way collaborations between the artists on the server.

- - THE MODS - -

Head admin: Pluto (@g0nta-g0kuhara) (He/they). I run this blog, am head admin on the discord server, and manage the DRv3 gift exchange! You can find me on my dr sideblog where I post my art, reblog lots, and post a good amount about Gonta.

Mod: Toxic (@toxicpineapple) (she/they). Hi! You can just think of me as Pluto’s attack dog /j. I am always lurking and ready for a good time. You might also know me as ToxicPineapple on AO3 where I upload my silly little fics, most of them V3.

[halloffamezine]

How many apps will you be accepting? I’m excited for this zine but I’m not a very popular artist so I’m nervous about my chances owo;;

Hi there!

Thank you for applying! We can't wait to see your portfolio.

We are looking for roughly 30 page artists, 10 merch artists, and 13 writers. Those numbers are flexible though, considering how many applications we received.

When looking at applications, we are purely grading based on technique and feel of given samples and portfolios. We are not looking at any sort of follower count, and we are not requiring previous zine experience. We've even had a lot of applicants from other fandoms apply, and as stated in the application guidelines, we are not limiting our selection to those who have published Pokemon art.

TL;DR - don't stress about not being a "popular" artist. :)

~Mod Panda