Hi there, thank you for your patience.

I (Head Mod Vyn) take responsibility for the radio silence. I have been busy with my IRL job and some things in my personal life, and it's not an excuse; I should have kept a better eye on things. However, as you can see on all of our social media, we posted an extensive update last night with pictures of the merch that has arrived, and an explanation of what is coming next.

Additionally, the mods on this zine have all been a part of other Ace Attorney zines in the past, which have been successfully wrapped up. The mod team is also not the same between all of these zines. I am not on the mod team of the Franmaya zine, so I cannot speak to that, and it has no affiliation with the Lawfully Wedded zine other than sharing some contributors and some mods.

Hi anon,

Mod Elle here!

Firstly, I want to thank you for your interest in the project! It means a lot to us as a team that you're invested enough in Lawfully Wedded to want to ensure we'll be good stewards of its finances and assets. I say "we" because, although I am the designated mod for this aspect of the zine, I'm not making any solo decisions. Everything we do will be discussed as a team and handled as a team; I'm just doing that particular part of the legwork!

In the same vein, though my current experience isn't zine-specific, I am fortunate enough to be working with and connected with successful zine mods—and I'm not afraid to lean on those resources! The experience I do have, while not zine specific, has involved managing project finances and working as the primary contact for printers and manufacturer middlemen. I have performed these tasks both in a professional, paid capacity and on the behalf of charitable organizations I've worked with.

I hope this eases your concerns! I'm very excited to be supporting Vyn on this project. I'm grateful for the opportunity to step into the zine scene, as it were, and I couldn't ask for a better team to start with! That said, in order to allow the mod team to focus on questions geared toward applications (I can't believe we're already at the application stage, ahh!), I encourage you to contact me directly via any of my socials, which are listed on the zine's carrd.

Thank you again for reaching out!

Hi anon; thank you for reaching out!

Comics are absolutely welcome instead of more traditional styles of page art. As for the page limit for those comics, that's a bit more up in the air! We are obviously more limited in print than in in digital, so for that reason, we will probably be able to give longer comic spreads in the NSFW section. We do have a few two-page spreads set aside in the print SFW section, but it's hard to say whether we'd be able to accommodate more than that; it would depend on the interest of other artists in spreads, and how much we can expand our page count. Either way, the mods would be more than willing to work with you on these ideas to help your contribution be the best it can possibly be :)

Thank you again for reaching out!

Hi anon,

Thank you for your question. To begin with, we are already accepting more writers than plenty of zines that do not have as high of a number of writers. With mods and guests, we will have around 10 or 11 writers in the SFW portion of the zine, and that number goes up to 16 or 17 when you include NSFW! That is a very high percentage of writers -- by our estimates now, we think that the zine will end up being divided pretty evenly between writing and art, which is definitely not the norm.

Secondly, our mods are already conscious of this and making allowances for it, including taking NSFW spots instead (since we have a bit more leeway with page count in the NSFW add-on) or being pinch hitters.

Thirdly, this zine is a project we are all running together because we love fandom, and we love to create. For most of us, this most often takes the form of writing. It's a theme that we are all passionate about and that's why we came together to create the zine! In a way, it's a reward to us for doing all of the behind-the-scenes organizing and creating that doesn't show on the outside. (And it's still an effort, so that should say a lot about how much we care about this!)

We hope this answers your question. Feel free to reach out with any further concerns.

Hi anon, thank you so much for reaching out!

You don't sound blunt or rude at al! We actually have already picked our finance, production and shipping mod and have added their information to our info doc and Carrd. They will receive a mod spotlight as well, which will begin to come out as applications open.

Please rest assured that we received applications from several very well-qualified individuals and they provided their experience to us! We are confident that Elle will do an amazing job given her track record of dependable participation in zines and professional background in areas that will be very helpful as a finance, production, and shipping mod.

Again, thank you for contacting us, and feel free to reach out with any more questions should you need further help or clarification!