Anonymous Guest · 1y
Hey! So I noticed that a lot of the mods are contributing to the zine as writers, and I know you said in an earlier ask that you need to be really conscious of how many pages are allocated to writers to contribute to the physical zine for financial purposes. Wouldn't it be more courteous to leave more open spaces for qualified writers who apply rather than people on your mod team? /nm /gen
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.
