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Re: The Happy News thread

Postby Bether6074 » Thu Dec 25, 2008 11:33 pm

Thanks so much for doing that for me, Alelou! :D And thanks everyone for the compliments. :)

I'm working tomorrow in Sand Lake Cumberland from noon to 5 if you happen to be around. I still get a little nervous about working in a different store. Hopefully I won't break anything or have forgotten how to make coffee. :?

Think I'll go draw with Emily. :)
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Re: The Happy News thread

Postby Alelou » Fri Dec 26, 2008 1:02 am

Do you want the paper, or did you have plenty of leftovers from the store? I may be able to scoot over around then and say hi, at least if the sore throat that's brewing right now manages to sleep itself away. This is what comes of being up until 1:30am in NJ waiting for your stepdaughter to come back from Midnight Mass while your grandson screams his displeasure for an hour straight. (Which indirectly made my husband really happy because BOTH Grandmas failed to soothe him but he managed to get him off to sleep at last.) We ought to do it officially with coffee or something when you can relax, though. :)

He wasn't screaming the whole time we were down there, though. I got in some very good grandma time. :)
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Re: The Happy News thread

Postby Asso » Thu Jan 01, 2009 10:47 pm

A different week end.
Three days alone with my wife (my unique personal T'Pol :lol: ), walking through the Old Bergamo, in the cold (but alone, she and me! :D )
We leave tomorrow .
I'll see you soon.
Take care, all of you! :wink:
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Re: The Happy News thread

Postby Alelou » Thu Jan 01, 2009 11:10 pm

Enjoy. We know you will. 8)
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Re: The Happy News thread

Postby Asso » Sun Jan 04, 2009 8:06 pm

I have enjoyed.
And now I'm back! :lol:
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Re: The Happy News thread

Postby Aquarius » Sat Jan 10, 2009 3:30 am

Volume One of our zine is finally published!! :D Jeez, I thought I'd never see the day... :faint:

No TnT this year...but I have it on very good authority that'll change for Volume Two.
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Re: The Happy News thread

Postby Alelou » Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:10 am

Show us your front cover!
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Postby Aquarius » Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:15 am

I'll post it on Monday. I don't have the file--that's with our art director, who is out of town for the weekend. The publication itself was printed in Washington...that editor is around so maybe she has a copy she can send me before that. I'm just the evil mastermind in Michigan, lol! :lol:

The cover isn't that elaborate...the publication is called "Shipped First Class," so we made it look like a wooden shipping crate with the title stenciled on it. It came out real cool in print. Our logo is a yin/yang kind of thing, and the back cover features Han and Leia with the yin/yang "tattooed" on Leia's back. (I already put in a request for TnT to be the next featured couple!)
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Re: The Happy News thread

Postby Alelou » Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:25 pm

So is it all different fandoms? You don't find it harder to get an audience when you mix it up?

Although judging from this site a lot of sci fi fans watch everything. But do you guys also read/write across all the fandoms? I'm curious.
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Re: The Happy News thread

Postby Aquarius » Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:42 pm

We're not anticipating any trouble finding a readership. Cheree Cargill did a multifandom zine called Millennium for years. It started out as Star Wars, but after a few issues discovered she was having a hard time getting submissions. About that time her love for Trek got rekindled, and it made sense to her to go multifandom. Having started "active" fandom in Star Wars myself I noticed certain patterns...like a lot of Han/Leia shippers were also into things like Buffy and/or Harry Potter, etc. And amongst the editorial staff of my zine, we love all sorts of things.

So we decided to go multifandom as well, covering sci-fi, horror, and fantasy, with the common thread that all three genres deal in things "otherworldly." What sets us apart from Millennium , which is a gen zine, we've also established the commonality that all our stories are het shipper romance. At many of the media cons, slash seems to dominate, and we've often heard complaints that there's a shortage of het/gen zines out there, so we're hoping those people will like what we've done.

As for your question about writing across fandoms, yeah, for the most part we do. For the last several years I've been writing exclusively Han/Leia, but back in high school I used to ping-pong between Star Wars and Star Trek (Both TOS and TNG) all the time. I also fell in love with Buffy the last couple of years, so I started writing that. The zine also gave me an excuse to rediscover old fandoms/ships I loved (like Buck Rogers in the 25th Century), new favorites (Doctor Who), and some obscure but good ones (Hex). Skye and Seren did a Robin of Sherwood zine for many years...and they've both written lots of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings. Seren's been writing up a storm in Doctor Who lately as well, and Skye writes in an unrelated fandom called Combat. Sue is primarily a writer of Star Wars but she has a Spock story in the zine, too. Laura is our resident artist and she'll basically draw anything you ask her to, especially if it's romantic in nature. In fact I showed her pics from the TnT shower scene and she perked up and said "I can work with that!" :lol: She likey some Trip, I think. :wink:

Our complete table of contents is listed here, under "ordering information" You can see that we've covered lots of types of fandoms, from big and long-enduring, to relatively new, to small and obscure, to "wow, I haven't thought about THAT show in years!" We're hoping that folks will buy the zine to see their favorites, while taking the opportunity to try other fandoms on for size.
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Re: The Happy News thread

Postby Aquarius » Sun Jan 11, 2009 5:04 pm

Alright, while working with my pictures from last night's party, I had a big "DUH!!" moment and realized I could simply photograph the zine covers to show you, instead of waiting for Laura to get home and send me the file that contained the pictures. Not as good, I know, but at least you'll see what front and back look like:

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I was afraid they'd be kinda big so I'm just putting url links instead of direct linking the pic.
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Re: The Happy News thread

Postby Alelou » Sun Jan 11, 2009 6:10 pm

Nice cover!

So the recent tattoo discussion apparently could have expanded to include other fandoms...
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Re: The Happy News thread

Postby Aquarius » Sun Jan 11, 2009 7:47 pm

Alelou wrote:Nice cover!

So the recent tattoo discussion apparently could have expanded to include other fandoms...


LOL! Not necessarily. I really did have my own fic in mind when I asked...and I hadn't imagined a yin/yang symbol at the time. :D

Food for thought when we do the next cover though! :lol:

The illustrations inside are really something, too. There is a Seven of Nine story, and the author's sister did a BEAUTIFUL illustration for it. Laura's got all kinds of amazing things inside too.

We're very proud of it...if you couldn't tell! 8)
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Re: The Happy News thread

Postby enterprikayak » Sat Feb 07, 2009 1:04 am

No happy news in a month??!! C'mon guys! :)

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Soon there will be more videos by me. I used to snip my footage out of other youtubes, but that leads to us only seeing the same 10 scenes over and over again.

I've got some good songs and I plan to find nice, crunchy, fresh footage.
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Re: The Happy News thread

Postby Alelou » Sat Feb 07, 2009 3:41 am

Woo hoo!
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