I got a very special package of Darkness in the mail! This is the much anticipated Tokoyami Fumikage fanzine, and I’m so happy to see the results of everyone’s incredible work
This was a wonderful project that I got to be a part of. I ended up getting in as a craft artist (I snuck my sculpture into the corner; I’ll show you all later) and this was such a great experience.
There’s something really special about having so many Tokoyami fans come together to make this zine a reality, so huge thanks to everyone who participated/supported Revelry in the Dark. And of course this wouldn’t have been possible without the mods of @tokoyamizine Everyone did amazing!
Thanks so much!!!!! I think I can say that everyone in the team thinks the same way as iffondrel (who, by the way, did A Really Hecking Cool Sculpture for us!!) and we love you too!!!!
So I gotta yell about something, and that something is the absolutely stunning @tokoyamizine I just got today.
I’m honestly just… absolutely floored by this project, as a customer and as a fellow zine curator. Their social media presence alone has been a delight the entire time, but what’s really blowing my mind is how perfectthe presentation has been on this project. The amount of above and beyond effort that has gone into this thing is just absolutely incredible. The black bubble mailer? Inspired. The board game? Delightful. I’m honestly very surprised by the amount of stuff I got for the amount of dollars I paid, and it’s all super quality.
What knocked it over the top for me was the formatting of the zine itself, though. I wanna buy the format person a drink. I’ve never really been a fan of fic in zines before this - despite being a fic writer myself. I’ve always preferred the format of ao3 and the ability to give direct feedback to writers - and most fic in zines winds up being a wall of plain text that almost feels like it’s interruptingthe illustrations. (It’s a huge challenge to write a satisfying fic that’s also brief enough to be reasonably put to print - and it’s a tall order to ask of your fic writers, giving them a pretty severe character limit but asking their work to replace five or six illustrators work in terms of space.) But Revelry in the Dark did it right, y’all. They appear to have paired writers with illustrators to make the best use of the medium, and they formatted it in a super visually appealing way. They also had writers do poetryand like what a punchy, in-theme way to maximize the effectiveness of your page space.
Oh did I mention they put games in this b*tch? Because they put games in this b*tch. Games. Plural. Goodgames.
And cosplay too. because why the f*ck not.
Y’all.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
We’ll be trying to get after sales up ASAP, and in the meantime, there’s still our translation packs to finish and that free Tokoyami PDF we’re about to compile!! There’s always something to do and it’s so heartwarming to see the passion we put into spreading the Tokoyami love is absolutely and incredibly worthwhile!♥️♥️♥️
@tokoyamizine This is such a cool zine. I love the layout of it. The art is amazing and the stories are very entertaining, I am enjoying everything so much. Thank you everyone for working so hard and making such an awesome zine.
What some cool photos!!! unf that glowy effect on the cover, such good photography?
Thanks so much for your kind words, everyone’s worked hard on it, and we’re so excited you’re enjoying it!
