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It’s finally time! The 2nd volume of Great At Zine, with around 30 unique art pieces, 6 stories, and 3 poems, is now available for pre-orders! You can order it here: https://greatatzine.bigcartel.com

We have various bundles we’ll be showing off under the read more, along w/ stretch goals!  We’ll be selling till August 29th, so about a full month! The Tea Party add on will ship in September, and we’re hoping to send everything else in October or November, so it’ll be a perfect Christmas gift!  Once those ship we’ll be sending the money to @jelloapocalypse​ to help out the future of the series! 

Can’t get physical stuff due to where you live? The Online Partyroom is another way you can enjoy the full zine and if you can’t get that then get the Tea Party add-on instead! It has 3 unique art pieces and a little story we’ll be sharing snippets of later.

Our final option is Carnival Prize, for those who want more than 1 of @zelebirbo​ ’s beautiful pin or only it!

And finally we have our stretch goals! When we hit these we’ll reveal the designs of them. Add-on only sales don’t count towards these, but the digital bundles will to help out!

We hope y'all will be able to enjoy it. - Mod Plush Sylvie

Hello EE fans! Sorry for the silence, both mods were in the storm area that hit this week. But we’ve been busy making this zine even better than the last: and that starts with this little update!

First, we’re approaching 2nd check-in! Everything is looking gorgeous so far, we can’t wait for you guys to see it all in the zine.

Second, we’re running a special poll. One of our pieces of merch is a cute lil teddy pin, but that’s not the only special thing bout it! Two of our stretch goals involve this - and the 1st is what you guys get to choose. A 2nd special palette for it. Vote here to decide which one will be the second palette!

And finally we’re going to be doing a weekly game! This will just be for fun, for all of us to just blow off some steam. Each week will have a theme, and to play all you have to do is make something if you want to - art, poems, stories, anything goes! Just keep it pg and tag us once you do. We’ll post the 1st week’s 1st example right after this.

That’s all for now, thanks for sticking with us fellow fans!

- Mod Plush Sylvie

Hi there long time no see! Apologies for being silent for so long but we have good news, neutral news, and more!

1st: Emails have been sent out! Check your email to see if you got in.

2nd: Due to confusion caused by our poor wording we didn’t get writers due to them believing that the contributor app was only for artists. So we reopened apps for them here! They’ll be open till January 15th so get your applications in soon!

3rd: Results of the merch questionnaire! The numbers are under the cut along with our final bullet point: The pros and cons of Printing.

Charms: 20 votes 

Enamel Pins: 14 votes 

Die Cuts Stickers: 14 votes 

Stickersheet: 13 votes 

Pins: 11 votes 

Postcards: 10 votes 

Washi Tape: 5 votes 

Bookmark: 4 votes 

Polaroids: 3 votes 

As you can see charms, Pins, stickers, and postcards are the most popular so we’ll be focusing on those! We might to a less popular one as a stretch goal, but for now when we discuss things it’ll probably be these!

Finally printing: For quite awhile I ran through every pro and con about this…  but then Mod Vacay Gio reminded me of something… we could just do both. Yes that removes a bit of money from the pool, but the price uptick that comes with buying a physical helps cover that. So here’s what we’re thinking: We’ll still sell the digital PDF that you can either print and bind at home or go somewhere to do so or if you can’t get something like you can buy the physical and we’ll send that to you. The version you buy however willhave a disclaimer though that it’s not for resale and only for personal use. We want you guys to have the final say though so you can vote hereif we do it or just go digital. If you still want to see the pro/con list I can post it later.

That’s all for now! See you guys again soon and thank you for joining us!

- Mod Plush Sylvie

Hello again and welcome to this week’s Q&A!

What is a Pinch Hitter?

A pinch hitter is someone who’s called in later down the line if they don’t get in the 1st round and someone has to leave! You’ll have less time to work on your piece, but we’ll try our best to help you get to the goal! 

I’d like to add a recipe/craft/something written to my art piece. Is that ok?

We’d like to see how long said recipe/craft/whatever is, but we wouldn’t mind it! If you get in we can discuss this more and work out how it’d work.

What do you want from writers as examples? Do you have like a vacation exaple I can look @? What should I lnk also

We’d like to see things that have your style of writing in it, and if they fit the size of the zine’s stories that’d be nice! I ask for a max of 5k in one example piece tho. We want to see good strong characterization since you’ll be focusing on the characters in the stories! And as an example here’sa story I wrote last year of the characters celebrating the holidays, which can fall under the Vacation theme.

For poems we’d like to see a strong sense of knowing how they work - the beat of the poems, their rhythm, their rhymes. I want you to make my mind bounce as I read your piece! Unlike this one I don’t really have a single example to show - poetry is a pretty unique type of writing - but I’d love to see you’re able to create a poem that can be concise and able to tell it’s tale.

You can link things like google docs, your ao3, or a Tumblr tag section of your stories/poems.

Thank you for your questions! My computer had some issues so I have to remake some stuff but if they get messed up again I’ll be doing the pro and con of printing Thursday morning w/o as many visuals and then announce the results of the merch poll. Remember you can apply here!

- Mod Plush Sylvie

Original audio from Epithet Erased, episode 2, “Bear Trap”.

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