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Alrighty, I’m gonna start my zine which is gonna be a booklet of any rpg maker game
It is time. Cue the ominous music and fog machines. Send for the crisp packets and dip. Turn on the lights. Then if that doesn’t work turn them off again and then back on. If they’re still being fussy, give the drywall a few good kicks and that should do the trick.
So. The moment you have all been waiting for. Yes that’s right, this is the culmination of all of our hard work and the high point in your life. We’re certain you thought of nothing but this for the past *checks watch* uhhhh however long it’s been.
CONTRIBUTOR APPLICATIONS ARE HERE!
Do you like smallishbeans? If you don’t like smallishbeans… what the heck are you even doing here?? We told you two forms ago to return to your average toast-making and sock-donning activities!! Begone from here, unless you want swamp muck in your shoes and Canadian YouTuber Etho Slab obsessed with you. Just Jeremys here now? Good. We don’t have to extol the virtues of Joel here to convince you to apply, because there are too many to list, and he is always happy to tell you some in any video of his you may watch, so we’ll skip right to the thing at the center of the onion (a metaphor more prominently used as “at the heart of the matter”, but we took it upon ourselves to improve it because we are benevolent leaders): the applications.
If you want to apply but are still reading this instead of applying you are doing the wrong thing.
Great, now it’s just us mods, so we will have our secret mod conversation unbeknownst to everyone else:
Cars are really neat. I like cars. And donkey Jeremy. Did you remember to say your daily prayers to Jeremy? Well duhh of course I did! Shrek shrek eefo shrek Jimmy solidarity shrek shrek we love Ldshadowlady
This would be a lot but is it possible we could do both the eras tour and do you want to tell a story?
First of all, I’m cracking up at the fact that people are using the silly names I came up for the different genres of zine, thank you. To people who are confused, anon is referring to this poll. To answer your question: I was actually just thinking about this! My plan is basically, given that currently the overwhelming majority of people want to do eras tour, that’s probably going to be the winning one, but, if too many people apply (and I’m still figuring out exactly what counts as too many, but the general idea is : more than the number of smp/worlds that Joel has done to art/write about, but that also depends on who wants to do what and a million other things and honestly it might come down to just looking at a number and then evaluating how much anxiety I feel about modding that many people) then rather than telling people no, we can have people who maybe are less interested in doing a piece based on canon work together to make a story! I’ve been doing some brainstorming on how things can work and how to make this zine the best possible experience for as many people as possible, so here is a vague plan for how things will work:
This next part is extremely important zine info!! Please read it!! I’m looking at you, person about to scroll past!! Read!!
-once we know how many people are going to be participating and who those people will be, we’ll try to get everyone together on a discord server so that I can contact everyone with ease. If you don’t have discord and can’t get it for whatever reason, we’ll do our best to allow you to still participate, but you may have less of a say on what sort of piece you’ll be doing. -From there, hopefully with the help of other mods, I’ll send out like a million bajillion polls (important note: I don’t know how discord works. Everything will be chaotic) to figure out what everyone wants to do, how much structure they want for their pieces, if they want to do something more collaborative or individual, etc, etc.
-Then, me and the other mods will get together and try to figure out a game plan for how everything is going to work. This zine is likely going to be very different from other zines people may have done in the past, because I’m hoping that we go in less with a specific vision of what the end product is going to look like and then assign everyone part of it to make, but rather we go in with just the plan of “let’s create something fun and interesting about this shared interest of ours” and the end result will be a chaotic but passionately made scrapbook of art and writing dedicated to this weird little guy on the internet who makes us laugh and smile and inspires us to create. I’m being very vague, so here’s an example of how I’m kinda envisioning the process to work:
okay, we have X amount of people, and Y amount of them want to do a Joel eras tour zine. A bunch of people want to do a piece for this one thing, and none of them said they were against working with others and many said they were for it, so we’ll offer them the option of doing a scarland-artbook style collaboration on this one thing. The remaining eras people mostly said that they weren’t really interested in collabing with anyone, and we’re not seeing any major conflicts on who wants to do what, so they should be set. Z amount of the people remaining want to work on a story together, and many of them expressed that they had an idea for what to write/draw, so we’ll work with them to figure out the general plot, and make sure that it still stays connected to Joel. There are a few people who don’t really know what they want to work on, or would like to know the options before making a decision, so we’ll work with them to find something their interested in contributing to.
Then we’ll have a mod to monitor each group to help them stay on track within the scope of the zine, and it is my hope that things should be very collaborative for those who are interested in that and open to that, and that its an enjoyable experience and an opportunity to meet other people interested in the same thing.
this doesn’t mean that 100% we’ll be able to do both, but (and this is a little bit personal bias cause I’m definitely most interested in do you want to tell a story) if enough people there are interested in that, then we’ll do our best to make it happen!
-mod Dinn
very important official zine stuff for real this time guys please spread this around
we realized we haven’t asked you what you want this zine to be, so here is poll with some different options for things we could do, but this still won’t set things in stone cause we’re aware that we’re working with a relatively small albeit amazing awesome and extremely appreciated audience, but it’ll give us a good idea for what direction you want the zine to go in.
some examples of what we mean for added coherence, please read before voting unless you wanna be like that guy in the Simpsons movie:
an eras tour zine (yes this is a Taylor swift joke shut up if you’re judging us you’re wrong) would be like different pieces dedicated to each, for lack of a better word, “thing” that Joel has done. @/inthelittlezine is a great example of this concept, except the mod has far better organizational skills than we ever could hope to
tourism brochure would be like we pick a specific thing Joel, such as esmp 1 or 2, or x life, or one of his hardcore/survival worlds (I haven’t listed Hermitcraft season 10 cause that’s still in progress but if you guys really really wanna, that too), and make an in universe guide to it expanding upon the lore and characters and builds and stuff. @/scarland-artbook is an amazing example of this, though of course we would be a much smaller scale of a project.
do you wanna tell a story? Or ride our bikes around the halls? We can’t help with the second one, we’re not very sporty people, but this option is both the most difficult and dangerous to the success of the zine, and the one that intrigues me specifically the most. Like, guys, I know I’m polling this, but I’m secretly hoping that this one wins. Like all the hoping. Ever. But I’m not gonna just say yeah let’s do this because if like only three people also wanna this zine will never get made and I will be really, really sad. This option is basically do we wanna take something Joel has done and work together to create an original universe/story based off of it, each contributing a small part of the story in comic or writing form. Unless you’ve been living under a rock and/or this post broke containment sorry if it did I assure I’m usually mostly sane, you probably know where I’m shamelessly stealing taking inspiration from. We heart you @/hotguycomiczine. If we went with this we would obviously create our own universe and storyline, and we’d try to base it off of one of Joel’s characters if possible. Also, if we went with this, we’d start the mod and application process and stuff and once we knew everyone who was going to be in the zine then we’d all get together and start working on the story, and this is the part I’m worried about because if we’re all stumped then I guess the zine is out of luck and I’d be sad. Also even if we did do this, like preemptively temper your expectations I am no where near as good as the legends at hotguycomiczine at organization and promotion and story writing and all that good stuff. However, if you have an idea for a story and want to share, send us an ask cause we might just end up using it.
I think the last two are mostly self explanatory.
please reblog for reach.
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Apply as soon as you can! We would also appreciate some reblogs from you guys as well. Spread the word! Let's give the fandom some girlies this summer!
Our Summer 2025 Zine applications open TOMORROW!
We're so excited to have you all participate! It'll be the same as last time - 3 AUs from Hesokuri Wars to choose from!
See you all tomorrow at 12 AM CDT!
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For those who are considering, this will be a two month long project! Ideally, you can start whenever your idea is approved and ready, and you'll be working all the way until June 20th!
See y'all on April 10th!
The Summer 2025 Zine Applications open in about 4 days!
For those who are considering, this will be a two month long project! Ideally, you can start whenever your idea is approved and ready, and you'll be working all the way until June 20th!
See y'all on April 10th!
Our Summer 2025 Zine's Applications open in about 5 days!
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For those who are considering, this will be a two month long project! Ideally, you can start whenever your idea is approved and ready, and you'll be working all the way until June 20th!
See y'all on April 10th!
Applications for our SUMMER 2025 ZINE Open in less than a week!
This zine's gonna have a bit of a different theme, so look out for that! All information will be on the applications post!
THE SPRING 2025 OSMT FANZINE IS NOW LIVE !
All proceeds will be donated to Medical Aid for Palestine. The minimum amount you can pay is $3, but you're able to donate more! Donations will be made on the 20th of April, and monthly after that.
Thank you all so much for your support! See you all next week for our next season zine's applications!
Tomorrow's the last day to apply to the Osomatsu-San Spring 2025 Fanzine!
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They close on January 20th, around the evening! Get your applications in quick! Links are in the pinned post!
Thank you all for voting!
Based on everyone's feedback, we will set the "Pay what you want" minimum to about $3! Thank you all for voting!
2025 OSMT Fanzine Charity Check!
It's the mod team's hopes and goal to make the OSMT Fanzine a charity zine, meaning ideally it will be purchased and all profits will go toward the chosen charity for that release.
Our current expectations for zine content involve a minimum of 30 unique pieces of art carefully and lovingly submitted by contributors, and will be digital only.
Keep in mind that if it becomes a paid zine, because all profits would be going to a charity, no contributor or moderator will be paid for their time or contribution.
2025 OSMT Fanzine Charity Check!
It's the mod team's hopes and goal to make the OSMT Fanzine a charity zine, meaning ideally it will be purchased and all profits will go toward the chosen charity for that release.
Our current expectations for zine content involve a minimum of 30 unique pieces of art carefully and lovingly submitted by contributors, and will be digital only.
Keep in mind that if it becomes a paid zine, because all profits would be going to a charity, no contributor or moderator will be paid for their time or contribution.
2025 OSMT Fanzine Charity Check!
It's the mod team's hopes and goal to make the OSMT Fanzine a charity zine, meaning ideally it will be purchased and all profits will go toward the chosen charity for that release.
Our current expectations for zine content involve a minimum of 30 unique pieces of art carefully and lovingly submitted by contributors, and will be digital only.
Keep in mind that if it becomes a paid zine, because all profits would be going to a charity, no contributor or moderator will be paid for their time or contribution.
2025 OSMT Fanzine Charity Check!
It's the mod team's hopes and goal to make the OSMT Fanzine a charity zine, meaning ideally it will be purchased and all profits will go toward the chosen charity for that release.
Our current expectations for zine content involve a minimum of 30 unique pieces of art carefully and lovingly submitted by contributors, and will be digital only.
Keep in mind that if it becomes a paid zine, because all profits would be going to a charity, no contributor or moderator will be paid for their time or contribution.
RESULTS ARE IN!
The top 3 choices for OSMT FANZINE SPRING 2025 Zine is...
🎉 FUJIO ROCK, DENKI MYSTERY, AND YOUKAI! 🎉
Thank you all so much for voting! Please make sure to follow our dedicated account @osmtfanzine for any updates of applications!
See you next year!
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Sorry I haven't been as active here, I've been a bit busy and chaotic haha 😅
But yesterday I dropped a full 20 page Adam Warlock zine!!!
Find it 👉✨here✨👈
