#spirk zine

[livelongandpinup]

OUR ART SLOTS ARE NEARLY FULL! 

Great googly moogly! It’s been less than a day and Live Long and Pinup already has 17 artists signed up! There are a max of 24 slots available for the print calendar, on a first come, first served basis. 

If you want to contribute calendar art to the Live Long and Pinup reverse bang, get your applications in now! 

BUT MODS, you ask, WHAT IF I’M THE 25th PERSON TO SUBMIT?

The good news is you can still be in the Zine! 

There is so much enthusiasm for this event that it’s going to end in:

2 physical Pinup calendars (one Spock, one Kirk) you can purchase at cost

An AO3 Collection of Pinup art and accompanying stories

An online Zine of Pinup art and accompanying stories

When we started this, half the mods thought gosh, I sure hope we’ll be able to recruit enough artists to fill one whole calendar! The other half said we’d be full in a week. It turns out we’re both wrong. The calendar is going to fill up in less than two days. 

The mod team is PSYCHED! We can’t wait to see so much scrumptious Spirk pinup art! 

WHAT ABOUT WRITERS?

So far we have eight, which is a great start for this Reverse Bang. We’re still very much looking for writers to join the event. The artists are super enthusiastic! You’ll have a blast working with them. As a reminder, the minimum word count is only 2000 and there’s no Max. This is a fun, lighthearted event. Come join us! 

Click here for FAQs and sign-ups for this event!

Click here for the event schedule

NOTE: Event is 18+ only!

[spirk-trek]

Nightvisions Fanzine & Novel | Merle Decker, Signe Landon (1979)

Nightvisions, by Susan K. James and Carol A. Frisbie, is one of the first standalone k/s novels published in a zine. It can be read in full here!

[dog-teeth]

the brooklyn museum has a zine exhibit right now & a little station to make and leave a zine, which i wanted to do even tho i had no ideas.

[serious-goose]

me explaining to someone how spirk shaped media, modern fandom and fan culture

[archersartcorner]

Saw those easy zine instructions goin around… once again just got possessed by the spirit of a 60s housewife and made it K/S themed 😭

[raisins-n-space]

i love going on ebay to look at the first edition copies of killing time (going for auction) only to look at the ‘five other watchers’ and be like ah. there they are… spirk fans in the wild <3

[purpleenma]

Teaser of my three mirror!Spirk illustrations for the Dark Reflections zine.

Coming soon.

[sttermsofservice]

Hello dear people of the Star Trek fandom.

As you might know, several months ago this zine began work on it's second edition. To that end, we posted an interest check as a link to a Google form so we could get an accurate idea of how many people might actually purchase the zine. This is a critical step for us, because we endeavor to run this zine at a net-zero. No one makes any money off of this; not contributors, mods, editors, no one. To be frank, one of our editors spent several thousand dollars of their own money on the first edition because math is Really Hard. This was not an issue, but it's something we want to try and avoid in the future.

That interest check has been open for over a month and has had 29 responses. Honestly, we can't base our numbers off of that and we can't really continue to put in effort if it looks like the zine won't sell.

Below, we're going to put a poll in this post that will run for a week. Please reblog this post if you're in the Trek fandom and please respond. If we don't get a good number of responses on this poll, we are going to have to scrap the project and remain as a one-and-done zine.

Just so you're aware, our last zine was 151 pages and $25 for a physical copy, $15 for the merch, $7 for the PDF, and $35 for both the zine and merch (USD, not including shipping costs). We're working hard to bring those numbers down, especially the shipping costs, but we can't do our calculations without knowing who might be interested. We realize this post is long, but we wanted to be frank with you all. This project will be dead in the water if we don't know you're actually interested.

[pavel-chekov-appreciator]

I love this trope I've noticed in AOS k/s fic where the author will put in one or two lines to mention Uhura and Spock having, usually at some unspecified point in the past, broken up amicably.

And it's always either just a vague "amicable breakup" or, if it is clarified why, it's like. They realized they were looking for different things out of a relationship, or they weren't as compatible as they originally thought, or Spock realized he was gay. Some super normal mundane reason to end a relationship, nothing dramatic. And then it's usually clarified or implied that they stayed really good friends after.

It's so refreshing because I very clearly remember the fandom days of irrationally hating and bashing on the female character who "got in the way" of your gay ship.

[emilinqa]

hiii i put all my star trek art into a digital zine and stuck it on itch. theres finished work, sketches, process stuff, all in one place for your enjoyment. never seen before! hot off the presses! its a few bucks if you want!

[spongynova]

It's always bitter when a zine is cancelled, here is the piece I made for @darkreflections-zine. Sending hugs and thoughts to the team.

[sweet-prroncito]

“Noctunal” Spirk comic for the Star Trek Terms of Service Fanzine!🌌🌈

I briNG TO YOU thIs

Written by the incredibly talented and always epic @marlinspirkhall who let me be the illustrator for their amazing comic idea!

It was lovely working with them. Their ideas never cease to inspire me and I’m very grateful for their trust in my interpretation of the story~✨💕

If you haven’t seen the other works of my fellow artists you should definitely check them out! ✨👀

@sttermsofservice

[spirk-trek]

Organia Fanzine | Merle Decker, 1982

“We used to come here all the time when we were kids,” Jim told him, flopping down on his back on the grass, “because nobody ever bothered us.” Spock followed his lead more gingerly, making sure there were no nettles or honeybees beneath him before he allowed himself to sit.

Curiously, he examined the strange vegetation around them: white filigree Queen Anne’s lace, exotic milkweed pods bursting with silky down, thistles with their soft, shaggy indigo flowers. A yellow butterfly drifted by on effortless wings. For once, Jim knew the variety, he did not. 

Jim reached up and stroked his cheek fondly. “You never stop being a scientist, Spock.”

“The vegetation here is extremely rich,” he muttered, studying the drops of white fluid that seeped from a broken milkweed stem.

“I’ll bet you could spend a lifetime studying it.” Jim took his hand gently and lifted it from the grass to hold it in his own.

The cool, firm touch struck a chord of pleasure within him, and he looked at Jim, an eyebrow raised. “At least a lifetime.”

Jim squeezed his hand. “The hell with Starfleet, then. The hell with the Admiralty, the Lexington, the Outer Rim -- Let’s stay right here.”

Spock’s heart thudded ridiculously, so hard he had to turn his face away, afraid his expression would betray him. “It is warmer here than in San Francisco,” he said irrelevantly.

Jim nodded. “Almost as warm as Vulcan. But you’d have to hibernate in the winter.”

“Actually, I should prefer to stay awake,” Spock answered drily. 

Kirk pulled himself up by Spock’s hand and leaned toward him. “What would you do without your computers?” he asked lightly, trying to sound mock-teasing. But the undertone of sadness in his voice betrayed him.

Spock shook his head ruefully. “My computers. And your command.”

He had not meant to sound bitter, but Kirk’s eyes clouded over, and he was silent for several moments. Finally, he spoke. “I need you, too, you know.”

Spock nodded, looking down at his hand, still holding Kirk’s. “I know.”

“You’re probably going to tell me now that both needs are illogical.”

The words pricked a schoolboy memory somewhere deep in the recesses of Spock’s mind, and a corner of his mouth curved up infinitesimally.

“Why’re you smiling?” Kirk asked, puzzled. Spock looked at him quizzically. Only Jim would read that gesture as a smile.

“You have reminded me of a well-known problem…”

[trektasticzine]

Our fundraiser for Palestine is now live!

Badges and stickers are now for sale on our shop website!

All profits made from these items will be donated to the charity Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), which works to provide urgent medical care to Palestinians suffering under occupation, in Gaza and the West Bank as well as in refugee camps in Lebanon.

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Now we need you! 🫵

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[wildheartzine]

Wild Heart is OUT NOW!

Wild Heart is a free, digital-only, NSFW zine focusing on AOS (kelvinverse) spirk! Download the zine over on itch.io and enjoy the beautiful illustrations and fics done by our talented contributors!

Wild Heart on itch.io!

[yamoksauceforsale]

just got my copy of heirloom by @millionfish and read it all in one go!! CMYK was my fav story but the entire book is beautiful 💜 so many TEXTURESSS

ps pop team epic spirk had me DYING 😂