Half profit/half charity OP fanzine focused on the Heart Pirates crew and their platonic bond 💛💙
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Anonymous Pirate · 9mo
Hiya! Could we have a production update? Please and thank you!
Hello there,
Our most sincere apologies for the lack of updates and answers.
Please be reassured, production is going well, our socials (Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram) just got updated with more details and pictures, please check them out !
Regarding the shipping, we would rather wait to receive the zine book samples before confirming the new shipping date.
Thank you for your kindness and patience ; we will be doing better for the future updates.
Anonymous Pirate · 8mo
Is there any update on the zine?
Hello there,
Our most sincere apologies for the lack of updates and answers.
Please be reassured, production is going well, our socials (Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram) just got updated with more details and pictures, please check them out !
Regarding the shipping, we would rather wait to receive the zine book samples before confirming the new shipping date.
Thank you for your kindness and patience ; we will be doing better for the future updates.
Anonymous Pirate · 11mo
Happy holiday season to you all, and hope you’re dealing with he pressure better than the current Polar Tang! Speaking of which, are there any production updates, or is it a matter of waiting for the items to be returned from the printers? Thank you for your hard work on this.
Hello, thank you for your kind words and happy holiday season to you too ! Apologies for the late answer. We did receive more production updates from our manufacturers, as well as our shipping mod starting receiving some of the merch items shipped to her home, but the holiday season has been a bit busy ; we will update our production thread as soon as possible !!
Have a good day !
Anonymous Pirate · 1y
hello! any production updates? how's everything coming along?
Hello ! We've just received some samples pictures of the merch from our manufacturer, so we're gonna start our production thread on socials this weekend to share how everything is going so far !
Anonymous Pirate · 1y
This is a really dumb question, but I just wanted to be sure. The zine bundles say "1 Physical Zine : 6x9", Perfect bound, 100# Matte Finish paper ", does the 100# mean there's around 100 pages or does it represent something else like the quality of the paper? If that's not the page length, around how many pages is this zine? Sorry for the dumb question, appreciate all the hard work!
Hello, thank you for your interest in the zine ! No question is dumb !
The 100# indeed refers to a specific feature of the paper used for the physical book !
The zine will have more than 120 pages of content, and it's you're interested by our digital-only AU addon, it will featured 70+ pages.
Thank you for your kind words and support !
Anonymous Pirate · 1y
I know it’s really early and it’s a bit of an odd ask, but after preorders are made and you start shipping the zine, from where are they going to be sent from? Because if it’s somewhere other than the US or UK I’m probably not going to be able to order a physical zine, and I want to know if I should bother to save up or not. Thanks!
Hello, thank you for you interest in the zine !
This is not odd at all ! We will be shipping the zines and merch from the US.
Anonymous Pirate · 1y
If there is reasonable suspicion that there is a contributor using AI for their writing, how should it be reported? Or it AI usage to some degree allowed in the zine??
Hello ! As stated in our guidelines, the use of AI is strictly prohibited. Our Writing Mods have checked the current works from our writers, and don't think that any contributor used AI for their works within the zine. However, to be cautious, we would like to hear more about your suspicions ; please feel free to reach out to us through Twitter or Tumblr dms !
Anonymous Pirate · 1y
will there be aftersales? it's not included in the card's schedule
Hello, thank you for your interest in the zine !
It is still too early for us to determine if there will be aftersales for HeartBeats, as it depends on many factors ! But we will be making an announcement on all our social medias if aftersales are going to happen !
Anonymous Pirate · 1y
Bouncing off of that last question, I would also like to know how the overall selection process was done for merch artists and page artists. Everyone chosen I know will do a fantastic job, but I’m seeing lots of people who did not get accepted who have loads of experience and amazing content. I’m just curious on what exactly you were looking for as I can feel lots of disappointment all around. Hoping this can help give clarification and maybe some ideas for the next time people apply to a zine 🙂
Hello, thank you for your message !
We understand the disappointment and frustration that come from a rejection, and are very sorry to cause these feelings.
Please keep in mind that a rejection from a fanzine does not define your value in any way. We are certainly aware of all the amazingly talented applicants we had to reject, and trust us, we are sharing the frustration of not responding favourably to them.
Although we certainly wish we could accept everyone, please keep in mind that zines projects are limited by the production costs, as well as the load of work that the mod team can tolerate to voluntarily work on alongside their irl jobs.
And with a total of 219 applications, large majority of them being artists, we unfortunately had to reject a lots of creators that we're absolutely certain would have done a wonderful job and be a great addition to the project, which is why the team even had to take a few more days to take the final decisions between some of them... it was not easy for sure !
In general, just like the writers, all criteria points that were used in reviewing are available in our guidelines ;
Anatomy, composition and backgrounds were the decisive ones in most cases, and additionally for the merch, the lack of examples diversity, the lack of "dynamism" (as in the poses or composition of the merch being a little too simple, or just not what we were looking for), and creativity in general.
In the other hand, some have been rejected because, although their artstyle was super unique and interesting, it wouldn't translate well with the mood and vibes we were looking for for this project in particular, for example the dark/gore-focused ones (we do highly encourage them to apply to others projects that we know might be looking for this exact style).
Finally, some applicants portfolio/samples links were not working, and even though the team always took the time to make the extra step of consulting their social medias instead, it automatically put them in the bottom of our choices.
The same goes for the applicants that did not follow our guidelines (especially the background part).
As you were asking for ideas, if it can be of any help, here is what we could suggest for an artist zine portfolio:
- Being very mindful of following the guidelines, as it can result in an automatic rejection in some projects
- At least one piece with a fully detailed background.
- At least one piece showing characters interactions.
- At least one piece featuring a full-body character.
- At least one piece showing perspective & composition skills.
Many or all of these can very well be featured in the same piece.
Additionally :
- The more pieces with a background, even less detailed, the better
- Any piece that you think might fit the thematic of a zine is worth adding (for example, if you're applying for a ship zine and have ship pieces of any kind, not necessarily the one featured, you should add it. For an horror project, add your dark/angst works, etc.)
- Refrain from adding pieces that are too old and/or that were drawn in an artstyle that is not relevant anymore to your current style
- For merch artist, final merch product pictures are appreciated. If you're comfortable creating prints, add some of your illustrations works.
Please note that we are not professionals, and what a project team is looking for can differ from one to another, but we believe this should be a good start for lots of fanzines.
We hope we could help !
Anonymous Pirate · 1y
Congrats on selecting your team, always a tough job! I was curious about the process for selecting the writers. It was always going to be tough with so few positions available. Two of the selected writers have extensive Hearts writing experience, which is great, and another has some. All writers are very good writers, but some don't seem to have much by the way of Hearts fiction publicly. I know that good writing trumps experience, but was writers having experience writing Hearts fiction only a small factor in selecting writers, even though it was stipulated that writers should be able to write the Hearts in a variety of scenarios? I know that not all the artists are known for being Hearts artists, either. However, the writer selection process didn't seem as transparent. Even so, I know it's a super tough job, and that all writers love their craft, so I wish them and the zine the best, but would be interested in the ultimate deciding factors/selection criteria for the writers. Thank you.
Hello, thank you for your interest in the zine and your supportive words !
As stated in our guidelines "Heart Pirates and/or One Piece works are appreciated but not required" for any role.
Regarding the writers, just like the artists, the only criterias that had been taken into account in the mod team reviews are the technical abilities, such as :
- Telling an engaging and complete story within a limited word count
- General writing skills (correct grammar, spelling, use of English vocabulary, punctuation...)
- A good sense of characterizarion, pacing, dialogue and narration
- The ability to emotionally involve the reader
+ The respect of the wordcounts and samples rules stated in the guidelines.
Whether the samples were Heart Pirates related or not did not affect the reviews.
Anonymous Pirate · 1y
Out of curiosity, how many applications did you receive?
Hello ! We received a total of 219 applications all roles taken together.
Anonymous Pirate · 1y
I know they’re not closed yet, but do you know the timeframe for when we’ll hear back about the contributor applications?
Hello ! The emails results for the contributor applications will be sent on March 5th !
Best of luck with your application 💛💙
Anonymous Pirate · 1y
What is the mod team thinking might be an approximate word count for the modern AU add on for writers?
Hello, thank you for your interest in the zine !
For the digital modern AU add on, we are thinking of allowing writers to create either 1 fic between 1,5k and 3k words, or 2 fics with a total of 1,5k to 3k words for both (so from 750 to 1,5k per piece), choice up to them.
We might allow more words, but it will depend on the applications.
Anonymous Pirate · 1y
Hello! I have a question about your finance/production mod. Can you tell us more about her experience? I only see her ao3 linked with no mention of the zines she's worked on, despite mentioning that she has some experience in this with other zines.
Hello, thank you for your interest in the zine !
Our Finance & Production mod Mai has indeed quite the experience !
You will find below a list of some of her roles in previous zines from the One Piece community ;
Completed projects :
- One Piece Halloween Zine (@OPHalloweenZine - Finance mod)
- OP Supernovas Zine (@OPsupernovas - Finance mod)
- One Piece Pinup Zine (@pinopzine - Finance mod)
- Romance Dawn Zine (@romancedawnzine - Head & Finance mod)
- Yamabro's Journal (@yamabroopzine - Finance mod)
Current projects that are at least on preorder stage :
- Loving Ace Zine (@LovingAceZine - Finance mod)
- What lurks beneath (@ophorrorzine - Finance mod)
- Märchenstunde (@StrawHeartZine - Finance mod)
- OP Luffy Zine (@opluffyzine - Finance & Production mod)
And this is only a small part !
Anonymous Pirate · 2y
So does that mean the 7 writers will all be in the main zine, with some also participating in the digital modern au, or will only SOME of those 7 writers participate in the main zine, with some participating exclusively on the digital add-on?
Hello, thank you for your interest in the zine !
It means that all the 7 writers will be featured in the main zine for sure, and only if they want, they can also create a piece for the digital add on too !